🗽 looks like that’s RAFAEL BARBA reporting for duty. they’re originally from SOUTH BRONX, NEW YORK, so i wonder if working as an ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY for THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE ever gets old. anyway, i heard that they’re ADAMANT but also kind of ABRASIVE, which is why i guess they always remind me of PATTERNED SOCKS, THE KNOWING SMILE OF BEING RIGHT, A GLASS OF SCOTCH AT THE END OF THE DAY.
here’s my second born! y’all know him, some hate him, who knows? all i really know is that he’s a dick and i love him! if you aren’t familiar or wld like more info on him, read on to get a lowdown of rafael barba, assistant district attorney for manhattan & certified jerk™! like to plot or come @ me on discord!
bio!
rafael was raised catholic into a cuban-american household with a caring mother, loving grandmother, a father which he still resents to this day.
back in those early days, he had two best friends. they loved running around the south bronx, los tres mosqueteros del bronx.
that he was always a smartass is known. he’s always been the mouth, too smart for his own good , too quick on the reply. he always had an answer for everything , always spoke like he had a point to prove.
overachiever is putting it lightly. control freak, maybe closer. all he knows is that being smart has always been easy to him.
all that ease led him to being accepted into harvard. full ride. and with that mouth on him, was it ever a surprise that he wanted to be a lawyer?
for a while after law school , he found work in a private firm. pushed papers. looked over cases. helped others with their own lucrative work.
after that , he tries his luck at being an assistant district attorney. and that, that’s what he’s good at , putting offenders on trial. first , it’s brooklyn.
he’s vicious , and his bosses know that. he’s relentless , knowledgeable , a dog with a bone , shark smelling blood. he’s good at his job.
a major scandal breaks , a few years into his brooklyn stint. government officials , district attorneys , almost all of manhattan’s most prominent figures , gone in a flash. swept up in the tide of something that started with mahattan’s little special victims unit.
if anything , rafael prides himself on recognizing opportunities and open doors where others see scandal and tragedy.
he requests a lateral transfer. moves to manhattan without a second thought.
from there... the story tells itself. (except for the part where he resigned. obviously.)
Stephanie Beatriz, 32, cis female, she/her. 🗽 looks like that’s AVA BURNS reporting for duty. they’re originally from QUEENS, NYC, so i wonder if working as a DETECTIVE for SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT ever gets old. anyway, i heard that they’re UNDAUNTED but also kind of HOT-HEADED, which is why i guess they always remind me of TIGHT LEATHER JACKETS, WAR STORIES OVER WHISKEY AND CIGARETTES, and A HARD EXPRESSION BROKEN ONLY BY THE PRESENCE OF A DOG
HELLO! I am sara and i got REALLY carried away because i had like 8 hours of boring meetings today. please feel free to ask me for a TLDR! Come plot! I love my girl and i love some ANGST!!
tws: death, assault, war, ptsd
YOUNG & LOVED
Matías and Mariana Burns were high school sweethearts from Queens. they didn’t move far once they married fresh out of high school, to a nice house in Richmond Hill. from there, Mariana worked to become a nurse, and Matías went straight into the academy. they were an eager young couple, but it wasn’t long until their first child came around-- a surprise, but one they took in stride.
Ava was rambunctious, and always wanted to be like her father. she took various martial arts classes growing up, played soccer for a time, her energy never seemed to fade.
Her mother worked as an ER nurse, and her father became a truly prized member of the NYPD, so selflessness and hard work are hard-wired in her system.
Ava is the oldest of three, her sister and her sibling mean everything to her, and she took it upon herself to make sure they were okay through everything. with two busy parents, she never questioned helping out as she got older.
WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED
When she was 15, Ava's life flipped on end. What started as a normal day at school turned into the worst day of her life when she was pulled out of US History and told her mother had been the victim of a hit and run in Manhattan. she was killed instantly, and Ava felt her world fracture before her.
things were hard after that. once she got back to school, she was acting out. she took the shift in the household hard, and though she stepped up even further for her siblings, instability was setting in. an anger formed in ava she wasn’t familiar with. sure, she was always tough, but after that she closed off.
one day, the same day Ava and Matías had a particularly bad fight, ava hit a breaking point and proclaimed she was leaving. Matías never expected everything to go so badly, even sent a friend on patrol to go follow her. he knew she ended up at a party with friends, called the patrol off, and figured she’d be back in the morning. they had a similar temper, and she’d even sent him a text later to tell him she’d be home.
he was called to the 16th precinct at 3:30am to find his 17 year old daughter in an interview room, borrowing a hoodie and sweatpants with tears dry and fresh staining her face.
the party got wild, and Ava and her friends weren't trying to get too wild. ava wanted to just get out of the house for a few hours. none of them expected to be followed outside the frat house and cornered, but they were. two high school girls cornered by 5 frat boys wasn't going to end well in any of the girls' minds. Ava's years of self defense took over, but it wasn’t enough.
the two men that Ava actually ended up hurting in the struggle went on to press charges for their broken noses, but the truth came out in the DNA. The men took a plea and it never followed them past their community service and fine. Ava didn't recover so easily.
Matías struggled to make sure Ava got the help she needed. she was resistant to therapy and often skipped it. she got more aggressive and outspoken in school. her grades dropped. she graduated, but barely.
FINDING A PURPOSE
By the time Ava graduated from high school, depression was deep and responsibilities of being the oldest sibling of three was setting in. College seemed like a far off dream between her family. Ava running into a recruiter outside her neighborhood boxing gym was pure chance, but it changed everything.
When Ava told her father she wanted to join the Marines, he struggled. On one hand, he saw a fire in Ava that he hadn't seen for a couple years now, and he wanted more than anything for that fire to stay. on the other more obvious hand, the idea of his first daughter going to war was terrifying. It was Aarav's sergeant that finally convinced him. A veteran himself, he saw a lot of similar emotions in young Ava. she shipped off for bootcamp during the first week of September, just a few months fresh out of high school.
In the Marines, Ava excelled. the structure helped her thrive, and her drive was exemplary. from the start, she made it clear she was never someone to be messed with. It brought back confidence she'd lost since her mother’s death and her assault, and she clung to it as she once again became sure of herself.
In 2006, Ava Burns was deployed to Afghanistan to the front lines. she served overseas for 6 years with outstanding performance. her fellow troops called her a tank as she never backed down from running into situations if she knew she could help. Ava was a good soldier. her family was proud, and would welcome her home warmly each time she came.
NOT JUST A SOLDIER
In 2012, Ava and three others from her unit were captured by enemy forces after a roadside bomb caught them off guard.
They were held hostage for two months. during this time, it was everything they could do to stay alive and there for one another. They were physically beat and hounded for answers about the operations of the US armed forces. The three soldiers gave up nothing. All three were rescued.
When rescued, Ava's leg was broken and she was flown home for the recovery. It didn't take long for symptoms of PTSD to set in. This time, though still a little weary, she accepted therapy easier. after all, if being a prisoner of war for two months didn't constitute a little therapy, what did?
things got more frustrating though, and Ava could not hide the symptoms. her higher ups noticed, and Ava was offered an honorable discharge and a purple heart. She was told she would not return to active duty, and taking the leave now would save potential catastrophe on the battlefield. begrudgingly, mostly after her siblings and father talked her into it, Ava accepted. they say once a Marine, always a Marine. Ava doesn’t always feel that too much.
HOME ANEW
Ava's next steps happened quietly. she didn't even share with her family once she decided, simply shared it one day about a month after she was cleared to walk again with no crutches. with her coffee in hand, she announced simply: "First day at the academy today. Exciting, huh pops?"
Matías, was beyond thrilled.
Just like the army, Ava excelled once more, and she stuck out from the crowd in more ways than just her name.
By that point, Matías was a lieutenant at a precinct in Queens and known throughout the NYPD for support for community initiatives, but Ava was firm: never give her special treatment because of her father. she didn't need it, and if she found it was the case, she'd refuse it.
Working as a beat cop seemed like the perfect balance for Ava. She was known in Richmond Hill certainly, and there were many neighbors that welcomed her as a cop warmly. With the slowly growing strife regarding police, people wanted cops they could trust. Ava was one, and prided herself in it. It also offered her the action she'd come to excel at in the Marines.
Fast forward four years, and Ava is hungry. It's never been a secret that Ava's fire made her advance, and after months of weighing, she decided: Ava Burns wanted to be an SVU detective. After her experience, it seemed right deep in her core.
Now, Ava has been an SVU detective for six months. She's constantly searching for ways to excel, but it's harder work as a detective. Now, she's working on balancing her impulsive nature with a more thoughtful process.
WANTED CONNECTIONS
Partner -- TAKEN by BEATRIZ GARCIA
Veterans: I imagine Ava has (occasionally) gone to support groups, as well as just made some friends that served in the past and get it. I’m open to various dynamics, only requirement is your character was a solider at one point or another. Bonus points if they served together!! OR if they were one of the people ava was held hostage with! gimme dat good good angst
Old Partner: Ava was a beat cop for four years, so she’d have had at least one partner! Open to dynamics, lengths, stories, anything!
Serious Ex: This was a relationship that Ava was very serious with, and they maybe even toyed with the idea of marriage. Unfortunately, this would have happened while Ava was recovering from her discharge 6/7 years ago and she was in no place for a healthy relationship.
Flings: Ava is a bisexual queen and copes with things physically. she likes sex a lot and doesn’t put that much seriousness into one night stands. Open for various dynamics, come at me!
Mentor: I’m very very open to the dynamic, I have so many possible ideas. Someone ava’s known since she was little? someone that promised her dad theyd look out for her? her old/current partner? SO MANY POSSIBILITIES!! please just give ava guidance she needs it. so bad.
Childhood friends: Ava’s mom worked at a hospital and her dad was NYPD so I’d absolutely love some people from Ava’s childhood stemming from those!! also any other Queens kids would be cool!
adria arjona, 32, cis female, she/her. 🗽 looks like that’s BEATRIZ GARCÍA reporting for duty. they’re originally from SAN JUAN , PUERTO RICO , so i wonder if working as a DETECTIVE for THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT ever gets old. anyway , i heard that they’re EMPATHETIC but also kind of INDECISIVE , which is why i guess they always remind me of THE SMELL OF COFFEE IN THE MORNING , RAMEN NOODLE CUPS , OVERSIZED SWEATSHIRTS.
hello !! it’s your friendly neighborhood dumbass , lara / admin l !! i’m so excited to plot and write with you ALL so i’ll try to keep this short , but informative. like this post or send me a message if and we’ll get to plotting !!
→ 𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪.
( tw: very brief & vague mention of attempted sexual assault )
beatriz was born in san juan , puerto rico , the youngest of two siblings. her older brother is riker’s c.o. eddie garcía ( l&o: svu , s15e06 — yes i rewatched the episode today and decided to make some changes based on the fact that eddie and bea have the same last name and are both puerto rican ) , but they weren’t raised together.
the reason for that being that bea was not planned , about 15 years younger than eddie , and their mother , carmen garcía , didn’t have the money to raise two kids.
bea’s father , guillermo sandoval ( not eddie’s father ) , was an old flame of carmen’s she reunited with during a holiday visit to puerto rico. when he learned of her pregnancy , he jumped at the opportunity to raise their child. he loved the idea of having a baby girl ( despite not being exactly ready for one , but more on that later ). so carmen went back to puerto rico , gave birth , and once she recovered enough to travel , went back to new york.
bea stayed with guillermo , who quicklly realized he wasn’t really fit to raise his daughter , so she was passed on to her grandmother , carmen’s mother.
guille didn’t exactly ghost , though. he was around , but he wasn’t so much a father as he was someone who would pick her up once every couple of weeks to take her to the park or get ice cream.
when bea was around ten , her grandmother passed away. bea had two options: she could stay in puerto rico and live with her dad , or she could make the move to the bronx , now that her older brother was out of the house , had his own job , and helping their mom.
her parents let her choose , so she went with the latter.
she didn’t really know her mother and brother , so it took some time getting used to , but it was clear they all loved each other very much.
she and eddie don’t care about the fact that they don’t share a father ; that’s irrelevant to them. they’re siblings , simple as that , and they both use their mother’s last name.
eddie was very protective of his little sister , so bea grew up a bit on the sheltered side. this definitely made her a little naive , but that’s something that changed with time.
she had a lot of interests growing up , none of which really stuck. she would pick up hobbies , only to get bored shortly after. the only one she really maintained ( enough to consider making a career out of it ) was ballet.
all through middle school and high school , beatriz spent all her free time in the dance studio. the garcías didn’t have a lot of money , so bea helped around the studio in exchange for classes. she tutored kids at her school so she could pay for slippers , leotards , tights.
truth be told , she was never more than an okay dancer. she was good , just not great. not outstanding. kind of average. still , she loved it.
and then one day , she didn’t. just like every other hobby and obsession picked up in the past , eventually she lost interest.
she knew she wasn’t talented enough to “ make it ” as a ballerina , so why bother ? she stopped going to classes , donated her pointe shoes , and focused instead on graduating and going to college.
she was smart , always had been. she’d always been bookish ; whenever she wasn’t at the dance studio ( before giving up ballet , that is ) , she was at the library.
when college acceptance letters started rolling around , bea earned herself a full scholarship to hudson university.
she started out as an english major , but of course. she struggled to find something that truly called to her. she then changed her major to journalism. when she wasn’t so sure about that , she audited a few business courses. then she switched over to psychology.
like many of her classmates , she developed a little crush on one of her professors. he was young , he was hip , he rolled his eyes when he talked about freud. it was a completely harmless crush.
and then he asked her out on a date. he didn’t phrase it like that , but they both knew. and while she knew she should’ve said no , bea accepted. but then things took a turn she didn’t agree with , he got a little handsier than she was comfortable with , and before things got out of hand , she got herself out of there.
refusing to see herself as a victim , she didn’t do anything about it. didn’t report it , didn’t press charges , didn’t even tell anyone about what happened ( ‘ nothing even happened ’ , she would rationalize over and over again ).
needless to say , she dropped that course and changed her major once more. this was the last time.
criminal justice was a last-ditch effort to actually earn a degree. surprisingly , it worked out. she wasn’t sure it was her calling at first , but as she got herself through the police academy and her first few years as a cop , she started to feel like maybe this was what she was always meant to do.
once she made detective , she requested to be placed in the special victims unit right away. there wasn’t much thought put into the decision , it was more of a gut feeling. over time , she’s been learning to trust those more and more.
she’s been at svu for about three years now , learning that sometimes a “ calling ” isn’t so much a call , but more like a letter that gets lost in the mail and finally reaches you a few years later.
→ 𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪.
some more facts about bea !!
she’s a libra !
she loves dogs , and would like every single dog in the world to know that she would absolutely die for them.
she has a bulldog named bustelo , he’s a rescue.
she can’t live without coffee , but she’ll avoid instant coffee whenever she can. she prefers to make it herself , so she usually brings a thermos into work.
she can make some fantastic coffee , but can’t cook to save her life. lives on takeout and ramen noodles.
loves big , oversized sweatshirts. as soon as she gets home from a long day at work, the first thing she does is strip down and slip into a nice , comfy , familiar sweatshirt.
she's not very good at following advice. but she’s also a libra , so she’s the kind of person who’ll ask for your opinion on something , pretend to actually consider it , go ahead with whatever she was thinking of doing in the first place , and then pretend to be shocked when her actions have consequences.
she can definitely be a little pretentious. definitely romanticizes things a lot.
kind of a hopeless romantic with commitment issues.
despite how dark and grim reality of her work , she’s a generally hopeful person. she still has faith in humanity.
big bisexual disaster.
here’s her pinterest board !!
→ 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤.
let me preface this by saying i am open to absolutely anything. so what i’m listing here aren’t really wanted connections i’d like to fill , but just ideas to get the ball rolling ? and then we can do whatever we want with that. go wild.
friends !
childhood friends ! other kids who grew up in the bronx !
police academy buddies !
coworkers ! obviously , there’s already a few of these , but i’d love to talk dynamics ! maybe they get along great , maybe not so great , maybe they’re always butting heads , have different approaches when it comes to investigating , the possibilities are endless !
adelaide kane, 28, cisfemale, she/her. 🗽 looks like that’s ISABELLA CROSS reporting for duty. they’re originally from WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, so i wonder if working as a DETECTIVE for THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT ever gets old. anyway, i heard that they’re RESOURCEFUL but also kind of SHORT-TEMPERED, which is why i guess they always remind me of PLAID FLANNEL SHIRTS, ASSORTMENT OF DIRTY YETI CUPS, SMUDGED EYELINER.
[TW: death, mentions of sexual assault]
Born Isabella Raelynn Cross one humid, October night in Wilmington, North Carolina to Eleanor Cross. All Isabella knows about her dad is that he wasn’t ready to be a dad, but something always told her that he either didn’t know she existed or he really was that big of an asshole that he just didn’t want to stick around. It was fine with Izzy, however, because Eleanor was a devoted, caring mother who was often more her best friend than her parent. It was the two of them against the world.
Isabella had always excelled in academics (something she suspects she inherited from her father, as her mother had never really expressed any interest in college or furthering education) and preferred to study instead of going to tailgates by ILM Airport. She graduated high school at age 15 and enrolled in UNCW. On her way home from freshman orientation, their car was T-boned by a truck that missed the red light and hit the driver’s side. Eleanor was pronounced dead on arrival, but Isabella had walked away with a concussion, injured neck, and bruised ribs. Her grandparents had wanted nothing to do with Eleanor when she told them she was pregnant and her sister Marilyn took in Isabella after the funeral and moved her to New York City.
It was NYU that had Isabella throwing herself even further into her schoolwork, anything to get her mind off the soul-crushing grief she experienced on a constant basis. She had never considered becoming a police officer until a graduation party gone wrong had her witnessing a sexual assault about to take place. She witnessed someone drugging a sorority girl and she called the police. In doing so, she inadvertently exposed a cycle of cover-ups from the university and it resulted in the expulsion of an entire fraternity. Isabella realized she could actually help people instead of watching the world burn around her. She could stop feeling powerless and make a change for some good to occur.
She joined the New York Police Academy once her undergrad degree was finished and graduated on time. Isabella joined SVU just last year once she passed her detective’s exam.
Personality:
Isabella’s a very dedicated, headstrong young woman who tends to leap before she thinks things through. Everything’s very all or nothing with her and grey areas tend to not exist in her eyes. If a cop is dirty, the bad outweighs the good they’ve done. She also possesses a sharp tongue that gets her in trouble more often than not. Victim and her name will never go in the same sentence, as far as she’s concerned.
Possible connections:
Co-workers: Isabella’s got a black and white, type A personality that can rub some people the wrong way (if your muse hates her, I get it lmao) but she’s loyal to a fault and would back any of them if they needed it.
Cop who recruited her in college: Likely the cop who worked the case she was a witness for. Isabella still trusts them and keeps in contact regularly.
Exes: This girl’s door swings every way you can think of and gender likely never makes a difference to her. She was very likely a lousy girlfriend bc workaholic™
Love interests: For someone who acts so cool at work, she does not know how to act like a human around someone she has a crush on??? Can be unrequited, can be plotted out, who knows???
casey deidrick, 31, cis male, he/him. 🗽 looks like that’s JASON STANDISH reporting for duty. they’re originally from PORTLAND, OR, so i wonder if working as a DETECTIVE for THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT ever gets old. anyway, i heard that they’re BRAVE but also kind of RECKLESS, which is why i guess they always remind me of WHITE DOG HAIR ON BLACK CLOTHES, TAQUITOS, and 80′S ROCK MUSIC ( tori, 24, she/her, est )
aesthetic: late nights, taquitos, netflix and chill, 80s classic rock, saying he’s only going to have one beer and ending up doing shots and taking an uber home, cheeseburgers, dog hair all over everything.
introducing... julián antonio ❝ jules ❞ valdez santiago.
🗽 looks like that’s JULIÁN VALDEZ reporting for duty. they’re originally from BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, so i wonder if working as a TECHNICIAN for the TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE RESPONSE UNIT (TARU) ever gets old. anyway, i heard that they’re ATTENTIVE but also kind of ALOOF, which is why i guess they always remind me of THE GLOW OF A COMPUTER SCREEN, DARK CLOTHES, NIGHTS WITH TOO LITTLE SLEEP.
( it’s ya boi skelly / admin s here with my first bio! i’m so super excited to plot and rp with all of you!!! below the cut i got jules’ bio and some wanted connects, too, so please drop a like on this post or hit me up on discord to plot!! )
bio!
julián was born to two wonderful mothers in brooklyn, where the three of them lived for all of julián’s childhood, albeit moving around the neighborhood a few times.
his childhood was normal, or so he thought. two loving parents, public school, he had friends... but still, the two mothers thing somehow gave people ammunition for bullying him. and he was bullied, for a while and well into middle and high school. though, julián developed thick skin for it all. had to, when he realized his own truths in life.
his mothers were both successful in their own right. son of a public relations consultant and a graphic designer, julián grew up with an appreciation of both appearances and aesthetics. his mother, a graphic designer, worked with computers and was really the gateway for julián’s subsequent knack for computers.
by age twelve, thanks to his proximity with computers, he’s already familiar with most technological things. he had to be, in order to outsmart his moms when it came time to use the family computer, to override passwords and locks. to hide browsing history.
still, these were childish offenses. julián was definitely instilled with a strong sense of right and wrong as a child... but, as it turned out, not with a very good radar in the gray areas of it all.
this comes to a head once julián becomes a hacker in his spare time when he’s 15 and gifted his first personal computer.
after that slippery slope into testing his limits and finding ways to get into secure locations.
he falls in with the right crowd on the wrong side of the law. his friends are punks, just like julián is. they’re hackers, too --- but more than that, they’re hacktivists, using their skills to right wrongs in the world.
after a while of running with the crowd, of making them his new family, despite his loving one at home, it becomes a slipperier slope.
at first, it’s all for fun. then small rights in the world, outing big companies’ records.
then comes the stealing. the redistribution of wealth. the taking for their own gain. the world becomes twisted. julián knows well enough to know that it isn’t right.
and it all ends, as good and bad things do. only, julián is the one who drops the dime on his own crew. he rats them out. but --- it’s only the organizers. the big wigs in their group. it goes sideways. falls flat when he gets arrested, too.
only, in interrogation, they know about him. they know julián was the one who told on them. so, they offer him an out, a job. a job he can’t refuse, a job he doesn’t mind taking. one with TARU.
for a while, they keep an eye on him. make sure he’s on their team.
and jules is, of course, always on the side of doing good. but every now and again, he feels the calling to the other side. feels the need to skirt around the laws, get places where he shouldn’t be.
and lately? lately, that call’s been getting louder. slope’s been getting slipperier.
only time will tell about julián, now.
pinterest here.
wanted connections!
hacktivist friends: i have a connect for this on the main but pls! this could be so interesting, given julián’s complicated history with his hacktivist group! could be older members who left when things were getting bad with the group or members who were there with jules while things escalated --- and they could know about julián’s deception or not! see, that’s fun
brooklyn pals: julián has lived his entire life in new york but only in brooklyn until he was 18. so this person would’ve known him in elementary school... middle school... high school.... and it would’ve been a kind of whiplash to now see him working for the nypd, i think. fun times!
gonna be putting this on the main as proper wanted connect but the cop who saved him: this is a connection for the cop who offered him a way out of the charges he was facing when he was in his early 20s. would’ve been 10ish years ago so they’d be 40ish now but that’s literally all the criteria.
non-tech friend: i just think it’d be cute if jules had a friend who doesn’t know a lot about computers but needs to learn because the world is becoming more tech-heavy. so this would basically be someone he’s tutoring in computers, kind of? helping them check their email, use their phone, even turn on their computer. all of that stuff! in return, they can help get julián off the internet for more than two hours at a time smh.
other than that, hookups, exes, flings, etc.: julián is gay, no way around it. he’s known most his life and was never really in the closet about it because... he had two moms! he didn’t really need to hide! also, he’s lived his entire life in new york, first 18 years in brooklyn and last 13 years in manhattan. he’s sure to have had a flurry of flings in that time and i’m open to literally... Anything. angst, fluff, missed connections.. ongoing flings is also an option. just gimme things!
friends!: self explanatory! jules is a private person but once he warms up to you, he’s unshakable. kind of like a cat in his affections as a friend!
okay that’s it for now pls plot with me a.k.a. like this or message me on discord !!!!
peter scanavino, 37, cis male, he/him. 🗽 looks like that’s DOMINICK “SONNY” CARISI JR reporting for duty. they’re originally from STATEN ISLAND , NEW YORK , so i wonder if working as a DETECTIVE for THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT ever gets old. anyway, i heard that they’re OBSERVANT but also kind of ARGUMENTATIVE , which is why i guess they always remind me of MAKING TOO MUCH PASTA BUT EATING IT ANYWAY , THREE-PIECE SUITS , DOG-EARED BOOKS.
here he is ! the kid whose made the rounds most of nypd’s special victims units , mostly likely to end a business call with “ i love you ” , the one who runs like a baby giraffe , sonny !
→ 𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪.
dominick carisi jr was born into a big italian family in staten island , new york.
he’s the youngest of four , meaning he’s still his ma’s baby. even if he’s in his 30s.
from a young age , all he wanted was to be good. plain and simple. he wanted to do as he was told , to be nice , to be liked.
coming from a traditional , roman catholic household , to him , the epitome of goodness was the church. like all the boys in his extended family , he was an altar boy. for a while , he wanted to become a priest.
as a kid, he just wanted to have a lot of friends. he tried so hard. so hard that he ended up just kind of pushing people away , because he was a little over - eager. so his best friend was really his mom , who’d do anything to protect her son from any sort of heartbreak.
he was always a bit of a pushover. he was lanky , awkward , and eager to please. which meant that those kids who were bigger and stronger than him could take advantage of him easily.
on one occasion , he was bullied and pushed out of a window by another kid , and he didn’t do anything about it. he never told anyone ( and he regrets it to this day ).
high school came and went , he made a few friends , but none particularly close. he was generally liked , but over all just kind of average.
the dream of becoming a priest had died long ago , he wanted to be good , but priesthood came at much to high a cost. so what was another way he could help people around him ? be a friendly presence , protect his community ?
he decided to become a cop. he got his criminal justice degree , and joined the nypd.
he started as a patrol officer in staten island. he fumbled his way up to detective. homicide. he was dealing with some of the most gruesome crimes possible ( or so he thought at the time ). and yeah , they were horrible. but some cases just hit him harder. some cases just stuck with him , haunted him , shook him to his very core.
he realized he could do more to help. to do good.
so he transferred to staten island svu , but that still wasn’t enough. he’d always get frustrated when they investigated a case , handed it over to the a.d.a. , but then for some reason or another , justice wasn’t served. whenever a a perp he knew was guilty was acquitted , he felt helpless.
the solution ? become a lawyer. he started going to law school at night , using all that knowledge to become a better cop.
he didn’t last long in staten island svu , just about two months. he was never the most tactful , he was still a little too rough. he was a good detective , extremely observant , often picking up on details his colleagues missed. but working homicide meant he rarely got to work with live victims. victims who were often traumatized , who could be easily triggered , who needed a gentle hand guiding them through the process of an investigation.
sonny wasn’t really that person , and no one had the patience to work with him until he became that person. so they passed him along to brooklyn svu , where he worked for almost a month. that wasn’t a great fit either , so they chucked him over to queens svu , where he only lasted a week.
then , he made it to manhattan svu , where he started out a little rough , but that was the place where he finally reined in his impulses , learned how to be gentler.
he passed the bar exam in 2016 , and for a moment , he considered leaving svu to pursue a law career , become a prosecutor. but he felt like he could do more as a detective. so for the time being , he’s just a cop with more knowledge of the law than the average detective.
i’m pretty sure i’ve mentioned most of what’s on his wiki page , but just in case here !!
→ 𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪.
that’s it , that’s all you need to know about him.
in all seriousness , all sonny really wants , is to do good. to be good. he wants to help people , he wants to be liked and loved.
that desire to be liked makes him a little pushy sometimes. he wants to help , but doesn’t realize when his help isn’t really wanted.
he tends to offer a lot of unsolicited advice , and is too oblivious sometimes to realize when it’s not really appreciated.
believes people are good at heart. and still struggles to wrap his head around some of the horrible crimes he’s witnessed.
he’s still a good catholic boy. he prays regularly , goes to mass , confesses his sins. he knows the catholic church is far from perfect , but what he believes in is greater than the church as an institution.
very much a momma’s boy. even though he lives in manhattan now , he still travels to visit his mom several times a week , and they talk on the phone every day.
he’s a great cook. he loves to cook big meals for all his friends , and shows up to work with baked goods on a regular basis.
he’s an avid reader. loves classic literature , and will reread his favorite books often.
big bisexual disaster !
loves memes !
sagittarius !
his pinterest board is over here !!
→ 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤.
anything , honestly.
coworkers , obviously. give me people who are sick and tired of sonny throwing around legalese and showing off his new fordham law knowledge. attorneys who just wish he would shut the fuck up.
friends , enemies , frenemies. he’ll make them lunch and pass on sage advice from momma carisi.
exes ! flings ! sonny has a tendency to fall hard and fast for people , and maybe read too much into a fling that was never meant to be more than just that. so he’s very open to flings.
lucy liu, 44, cis female, she/her. 🗽 looks like that’s ALEXANDRA CABOT reporting for duty. they’re originally from NEW YORK CITY , NEW YORK , so i wonder if working as a ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY for THE MANHATTAN DA’S OFFICE ever gets old. anyway , i heard that they’re PERSUASIVE but also kind of UNCOMPROMISING , which is why i guess they always remind me of WINE GLASSES STAINED WITH RED LIPSTICK , THE SOUND OF HIGH HEELS HURRYING ALONG MARBLE FLOORS , THE SWEET SMELL OF JUSTICE.
back at it again with my second kid , alex cabot ! i promise i’ll keep this one shorter than the last one. i swear.
→ 𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪.
alexandra cabot was born into a very privileged household. her parents doted on her , and were there to support her in whatever she wanted to do.
the cabots were an old money family , comfortably settled in upstate new york. money was never an issue for young alex.
her parents instilled in her an unwavering self-respect ( that grew to the point of arrogance ) , that was intimidating to her peers. growing up , alex didn’t have a lot of friends , but that didn’t bother her too much.
she focused all her energy into excelling at school. she strived to be the best. not the best she could be , simply the best.
having a lot of time on her hands , she joined as many extracurriculars as she could ( those always looked great on college applications , too ). national honor society , model united nations , debate team , chinese club , environmental club , gay-straight alliance ( she always knew she wasn’t straight ) , mock trial team , student government ( despite not being the most popular , she was persuasive enough to convince her classmates to vote her class president her final three years of high school ). she was an editor for her school newspaper , played the clarinet in the school band , she even joined the chess club.
when the time came to apply for college , there wasn’t a doubt in alex’s mind that she would get into harvard. and she did. she graduated at the top of her class ( and had all the right connections , not that she had to use them in this case ) , so she knew getting in would be a breeze.
she was a history major before acing the lsat and getting into harvard law ( that was always the end goal ).
getting into law school was the easy part. getting through it , not so much.
the pressure of always being on top and exceeding everyone’s expectations ( mainly her own ) was too much to handle , and alex was prone to bouts of anxiety and nights without sleep. once she was officially diagnosed with anxiety and insomnia , she was prescribed with the medication to handle it.
after she graduated , she moved back to new york , where she worked as a law clerk while preparing to take the bar. once she passed it , she worked for a private firm , building up her resume. it was fine , but the stakes weren’t high enough. so she pursued a job in the district’s attorney’s office.
she had all the right connections , sure. her uncle was a judge and her godmother an assistant district attorney , but once she got to work , she made it her mission to prove to everyone that she wasn’t there because she knew the right people , but because she deserved it. shortly after becoming and a.d.a. , she was assigned to the special victim’s unit.
she was still relatively green , but what she lacked in experience , she made up for in spunk. she was bold to the point of insolence , which earned her a few enemies.
you can read about alex’s years since becoming an a.d.a. here ( but ignore anything related to conviction. i haven’t seen conviction , and therefore will not acknowledge it ).
however, if you want a brief summary : she was shot , faked her death , spent some time in witsec , came back , put her “ murderer ” in jail , went back to work , took a leave of absence to prosecute sex crimes in war-torn areas , and then returned to the da’s office.
afer a particularly devastating loss in the courtroom , alex retired from the da’s office and joined a secret organization that helped battered women get away from their husbands. she was frustrated with the inefficiency of the criminal justice system , and wanted to do more.
still , it wasn’t enough. alex realized that she could do more if she went back into the courtroom. keeping her less-than-legal work a secret , she went back to the da’s office , back to her old job. this time even more dauntless than before.
she knows the system is flawed , which is why she’s not above bending the law in cases where she considers it necessary to protect victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. all for the greater good.
→ 𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪.
first thing’s first : alexandra cabot is a lesbian and i will fight anyone who says otherwise.
she’s a gemini.
contrary to popular belief , she’s not an emotionless , ice queen bitch. she feels very intensely , she’s just very skilled at keeping those feelings contained , hidden behind a stoic mask. when she explodes , however , watch out.
she has a strong moral compass , but her views have strayed from the black-and-white vision of the world she had in her younger years. same thing goes for her strict code of legal ethics. she’s realized that some things are more important than upholding the law to the letter.
she’s always had a taste for the finer things. classical music , expensive clothes , fine wine. her favorite type of therapy is retail therapy.
is intensely competitive. if that wasn’t obvious from the everything about her. her competitive streak got her to where she is , but it’s also cost her friends in the past.
staunch feminist , obviously.
her pinterest board is here !
→ 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤.
once more , super open here !
give me friends , childhood friends , college friends !
give me coworkers she can’t stand , attorneys she always clashes with , attorneys that she’s always on the same page as , that actually understand that the law isn’t always just , but try their best to uphold actual justice.
exes ! she’s not great at relationships , her work always comes first. still , give me college flings , workplace romances that died before they even really started , some dude she went out with once because “ ok maybe i’m bi ” but then realized she’s absolutely a lesbian , some will-they-or-won’t-they relationship , someone she went on a date with once , meant to call back , but never really got around to , so now they just avoid the topic altogether , anything !
