Sydney Bristow
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[edit] The Mun
- Name: Aubrey
- Contact
- Email: toofarfromgrace@gmail.com
- Gchat: toofarfromgrace@gmail.com
- AIM: allfireburns
- LJ: http://allfireburns.livejournal.com
[edit] The Character
- Name: Sydney Bristow
- Age/Birthdate: 26 / April 17, 1975
- Species: Human (Wanderer)
- Type: The Rift made her unable to lie. Literally, the words will not come out of her mouth. And sometimes if she tries to lie, the truth comes out. Usually it's a truth she'd rather not tell.
- Journal: http://mademeaweapon.livejournal.com/
[edit] Appearance
[edit] Personality
[edit] History
Sydney is the daughter of two spies, CIA/SD-6 agent Jack Bristow, and KGB agent Irina Derevko (known at the time as Laura Bristow), so it's really no wonder she became what she is. It's genetic. Not that Sydney knew that - as far as she knew, her mother was a literature professor, and her father sold airplane parts. When she was six, her mother died in a car crash, and she was temporarily left in the care of Arvin and Emily Sloane. Even after her father returned, he was a wreck of a man, hardly ever around, and their relationship was... strained. Unbeknownst to her, her father subjected her to a training program called Project Christmas, hardwiring her with the abilities of a potential spy.
When she was in college, she was approached by a man who said he worked for the CIA. He offered her a job, and after some hesitation, she agreed to join them, working first as an office assistant, and then training as an agent for SD-6, a black ops division of the CIA. When her father tried to get her to quit her job at the bank (the bank actually being a cover for SD-6, as all terrorist organizations live in banks), they argued, and it drove a wedge between them, leaving the two of them estranged ever since.
Years later, her boyfriend, Danny Hecht, proposed to her. She accepted, and then told him what she really did. When SD-6 discovered this, they had him killed, and after losing trust in her, decided to have her killed as well. Her father rescued her and informed her that SD-6 was not a division of the CIA as she believed, but one of the terrorist organizations she believed she had been fighting. Sydney traveled to Taipei in order to retrieve an artifact and win back Arvin Sloane's trust, but while there, fell through the Rift and into Chicago.
[edit] Beyond the Rift
Sydney arrived in Chicago drugged, half-conscious, and missing a few teeth (Taipei has interesting torturers). Marshall Flinkman found her on the street - and of all the people to find her in a strange alternate reality, one of her favorite coworkers was actually probably the best possible option, even if he was from several years in the future. That night, her best friend, Will Tippin, literally fell in her lap, because apparently the universe wants Sydney to be happy.
However, she also ran into Julian Sark and Michael Vaughn, one of whom worked with her and one of whom loved her in the future. This instilled in her a deep hatred of people knowing all about her when she's never met them, but what are you going to do? She was stabbed trying to stop a girl who happened to be a psychic weapon, because no matter how hard Sydney tries to have a normal life, it just can't happen. The stabbing prompted her to get a marriage license with Will Tippin - just in case of emergency or anything. Really.
Sark talked Sydney into a mission to kill an assassin, along with himself and April. When she later offered to help him break April out of a psychopath's torture pit, he turned her down, only to find her and break all over her before insisting she throw him in prison. That was weird. And just when things started to settle down, her father fell through the Rift. Because things can never be simple for Sydney.
She and April were kidnapped by McKenas Cole - one more person who knew her when she has never met him. The goal was to get at Sark, so he would join The Organization, but that plan backfired for Cole when Sark came to rescue them with a pair of spies and a shotgun. A few explosions, acid sprinklers, and an epic multilingual argument later, they escaped, and Sydney decided someone in the universe really had it out for her. On the bright side, she finally got to punch someone for screwing her over with timelines.
