Detective Kelly Taylor

Name: Avalanche
Character Name: Kelly Taylor
Character Face: Christina Perri
Age/DOB: 45
Martial Status: Single and ready to mingle!
Job/Occupation: Homicide Detective
House/Apartment: Apartment
Personal:
Kelly is bright, up-beat, and cheerful most of the times and she's a great friend. She's open minded and not too quick to jump to conclusions. She learned young that she wanted to go in to Law Enforcement and she loved reading when she was a kid.. She can be blunt and straight to the point, but when it gets to a general overview of things, she can be quite the contrast when it comes to comparing her to her half-brother, who just so happens to also work with NYPD.

Kelly was raised mostly by her father, James Dauphin, and wasn't really aware of her mother's existence except for a few pictures she rarely came across in her Chicago home with her father. Despite struggling with not having Kelly's mother around, not that her birth had been intended by either parent, James did his best to be the father young Kelly deserved. He helped her grow up strong with a bit of a no-nonsense streak that reminded James very much of the girl's mother and her half-brother. It wouldn't be until many years later that Kelly would learn of her brother though, as the two were kept rather separate, each growing up with their own lives and own parents. At the time, Kelly was too young to care or understand why she was without a mother when most kids had a mother to look to, especially when they were a girl.

But Kelly didn't have dreams of staying in Chicago. She was happy, don't get it wrong, but her heart took her elsewhere the older she got. Something that she couldn't explain drove her to Manhattan and James let her go with the knowledge that she would be a strong young woman. So at 18 years of age, Kelly up and moved to Manhattan, where she quickly joined the Academy to join NYPD. Not too long afterwards, she was working Homicide in the 12th Street Precinct. Those days, though, she went by what she had always known as her name: Kelly Dauphin, Detective Kelly Dauphin. By now, she'd accumulated a good many tattoos, as art was another passion of hers and she doesn't quite care for people who judge her based on her tattoos. She just thinks of them as a part of her, which truthfully, they are.

It wasn't until she was kidnapped by a rather strange suspect and held hostage that the truth finally hit her and her half-brother head on.

Faced with a shocking truth and a team that wanted to know why they hadn't known, the siblings excused themselves out of the questioning eyes of team mates to talk it out, and DNA testing, plus extensive sibling-to-sibling chats revealed that they shared a similar childhood and passion for justice and both had to swallow a hard truth that Kelly's birth was quite the accident. But they didn't judge each other, instead putting the differences and the past behind them and moving on towards what always waited: the future.

It wasn't too long afterwards that the siblings really started to hang out with each other, on and off the job. Two months later, and Kelly proudly had her name changed to fit that of her brother's. She has never specified that "half-brother" was a more adequate term, as neither her nor Mac, only a few years older than herself, have ever felt in necessary nor important. The two just "clicked" after they started to work things out, and they haven't really looked back since.

Welcome to the team, Detective Taylor

*Smirks* Yup, my little sis took to the justice system as well. Good to have her, though.

Glad she's on our team, partner

Yeah. She's amazing.

Just like her big bro

Awwwww, that's so sweet! Both of you!! And he's right, Mac, and don't you be forgetting it or I'll have to slap the cuffs on you!!

Lol Kelly

Oh boy, here we go again!!

No kidding lol

Yeah, she always does this to me.

Oh dear lol

Yeah...keeps me on my toes! Haha...but she's good at it, so I can't say a thing.

Haha that's good

Yeah. Just got back from seeing Bad Grandpa with my mom...boy was that ever funny as hell!

I'm glad u had fun

Oh yeah. Was weird, but hilarious.

Lol

Yup. Laughed our asses off.

And so the bad streak of my brother is revealed! *Smirks* Joking, joking! Lmao!