| Giselle Muldoon | |
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| Portrayed By | Yvonne Strahovski |
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| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | July 28, 1980 |
| Age | 28 |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Aliases | Muldoon, "G" |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, IL, USA |
| Current Location | New York City, NY, USA |
| Occupation | Terrorist, Company Associate |
| Known Relatives | James Muldoon (father), Hyacinthe Muldoon (mother) |
| Significant Other | None |
| Known Abilities | None |
| First Appearance | Prelude To A Kiss |
After the war began, Giselle joined the ranks of terroristic humans without a second thought. The difference between her and others is that unlike many others, she chooses to cling to the Company and what it once stood for. Though she operates loosely and cannot really be in contact with what is left of its body because she is a wanted woman, she still considers herself to be a part of its shattered ranks.
Past History
Giselle Muldoon spent the first eight years of her childhood happily, the only child of a well-off businessman and his wife. The family owned a pleasant residential apartment in Chicago’s north side, and so Giselle didn’t understand why they had to move north to a backwards, tiny Wisconsinite town of barely one thousand people—something that would have drastic consequences later. Little Giselle threw tantrums and cried, and her father’s soothing explanations of why they had moved fell on deaf ears. She began exercising her frustration and homesickness on her schoolmates, partly because “but they talk stupid, daddy.” The violence distended from the playground, where it had begun, into driveways and yards: taller and meaner than most children her age, Giselle found it simple to send girls and boys running to the teachers in tears.
When one of these teachers angrily informed Giselle’s parents, she was given a strict talking to that nearly left her in tears herself, but at the end she was promised a gift from her father—one she would enjoy more than any other (and, as was the thought at the time, keep her occupied and out of the streets). True to his word, the next morning James Muldoon showed Giselle her first taste of firearms. Once he had had time to teach her basic handling, safety habits, and essential rules and guidelines for hunting, he took with her to hunt white-tailed deer one cool fall morning. Though they didn’t down anything that day, Giselle returned to their house wide-eyed, and James allowed her to accompany him in the days thereafter until the season was over. She received a double-barreled 410 shotgun as a present at age ten, soon after allowed to put the shells in herself, and after that to carry it without leaving it open for safety.
Despite her parents’ honest intent, the bullying didn’t stop at school, because at some point it had transformed from frustration management into leisurely enjoyment. As Giselle grew older, it escalated into a juvenile criminal record, mostly for such things as shoplifting, DUIs, and vandalism—the last of which the mild-mannered residents of Ahnapee were hardly used to hearing about, much less seeing in malicious messages on their car windshields. Even her math instructor, who taught the only academic class Giselle was ever any good at, told her with exasperation that if she didn’t shape up, she’d become no better than a barmaid after high school.
Prophetic words, for that is exactly what happened. Continually putting off the thought of college in the years following graduation, she took up mixing drinks, cleaning shot glasses, and listening to idle counter gossip at a dingy bar off Highway 39. To defend herself from inevitable advances from drunken barguests, she asked a male friend to teach her fistfighting, stopping only when she was able to successfully drum her teacher into submission. In this way, she often found herself sucked into bar brawls voluntarily just as often as involuntarily.
So it was that one day, she found herself in the empty lot behind the bar, entangled with a Evolved man— though she wasn’t aware of that fact at the time. In panic and sporting a throbbing nose, the man did what seemed like logical self-defense: he cryokinetically encased Giselle’s arms and legs in icy wedges. As her wrists froze to the bone, the blonde clumsily managed to work her fingers before they immobilized entirely, putting the man out with a shot to the chest that involved far more luck than skill given her physical state. As an agent from the Company exploded out of the woodwork, too late to do anything more than bag the body, a delirious Giselle asked in a whisper what had taken him so long.
It took a long time for Giselle to recover, and not just physically. Her first question, predictably, had to do with obtaining frostbite in July. She was filled in with the truth and the importance of the matter, and the agent, who revealed that he’d been tracking Mr. Ice Hands for the past few days, found himself amusedly impressed by how the situation had been handled. He offered Giselle a chance to join him in the work, for the Company always looked for extra bodies worthy of accomplishing its dirty work. She accepted.
She had been living in New York for several years, where her whole life came to revolve around the Company: grueling sessions of physical and aim-training, assignments, even her current boyfriend.
If only it was that simple now.
Relationships
Friends/Good
- Vasili Babenkov: Partner, in more than one sense. After a savage fallout in their relationship, one that involved whether humans siding with the Evolved should be killed alongside them, Giselle left her lover a year into the war. Recently, she unintentionally ran into him again to realize that she had, in fact, missed him more than she thought (it is still love-hate). Now they blow things up together and bicker like they used to.
Acquaintances/Neutral
- To come!
Enemies/Bad
- Felix Ivanov: Things haven't improved between fed and Agent, especially now that she's wanted by the law. Also, she shot him in the arm. Bet he isn't down with that.
- Claudine Salonga: Giselle never really liked Claudine since being partnered with her by the Company for a stretch of two weeks. Though they aren't technically enemies, the attempted use of terrakinetic powers against her and Vasili has greatly increased the dislike in Giselle's mind.