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PART 1 - Out of Character
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PART 2.a - In Character Non-WH13/Eureka Canon Characters
Full Name: Ziva David
Nicknames: Zee-vah (DiNozzo thing)
DOB/Age: November 12, 1982
Birthplace: Be’er Sheva, Negev desert, Israel
Gender: Female
Sexuality: I would say bisexual… The show leans heterosexual, but there were mumblings when she first arrived of previous relationships with women.
Species: Human
Fandom: NCIS
Journal: 4letters4ninja
PB: Cote de Pablo
Canon Point: Post return to Israel

Appearance: Ziva’s a tall, olive skinned woman, with long curly black hair. It’s normally seen pulled back in a clip or worn up, sometimes tucked up into a hat at crime scenes, to keep it out of her face for work at NCIS. She’s fairly fit, and is very athletic. As for attire, she’s normally seen in business casual clothing in the office, with sensible shoes, because once she’s out in the field, who knows how much running she’s going to be doing. When she’s out at a crime scene, she’s in a hat and jacket that has NCIS on it, designating her as an agent for the organization. She always wears a David’s Star necklace, even when she was kidnapped by Somalian pirates and kept prisoner for months. There aren’t many times when she’s seen without it. She has some scars, mostly from her time as a prisoner in Somalia, because the terrorists keeping her there tortured her, trying to get information about Mossad and NCIS.

History: Ziva David was an agent for one of the teams of NCIS, under Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Originally, she was added to the team as a liaison for the Israeli agency, Mossad. She was sent to NCIS following Caitlin Todd's murder by Ari Haswari, her half brother. They shared the same father, the Director of Mossad himself. Originally, she was sent to NCIS as his control officer, and to try to keep NCIS from killing him because she believed in his innocence of Agent Todd's murder. Soon though, she discovers that he's not innocent, and ends up killing him after he corners Gibbs, after this incident, she was assigned to Gibbs' team.

Before coming to NCIS, Ziva grew up in Israel, with her father. She's Jewish, and while this is not heavily touched on during the TV series, she is seen keeping kosher, and wearing a Star of David. Ziva has been a part of Mossad for most of her life, she was already part of the organization when her sister was killed in a suicide bombing, and this was after her (assumed two year) period of service in the Israeli army. She claims that she volunteered for Mossad, and that she was not recruited to the organization.

Some of the most memorable cases for Ziva while working for NCIS include the one when she first arrives. She is Ari’s control officer, and comes to visit the team to try and keep them from killing Ari, convince that he didn’t do anything wrong, and was actually in contact with him during the duration of her stay that first episode. In the end, she realizes what really happened, and was the one who killed him, while Gibbs took the fall so that she won’t be persecuted by her family.

She once went undercover with Tony DiNozzo, her partner in NCIS. They went undercover as two assassins who had been killed, in order to find out what they had been keeping from other assassins. Another memorable moment with Tony found them trapped in a shipping container along with crates of supposed explosives and counterfeit money. They lead Gibbs and McGee to their location by using the money to create a trail out of the vents of the container.

She also was involved in a case where she began to realize what hurt love could create, falling in love with a man who was dying due to radiation poisoning while they were trying to figure out who was poisoning him. She actually knew him from when she went running, he was a person who she saw every day, but never noticed until then. Now, she misses him daily as she continues to run the same path, wearing the bright orange hat that he gave to her before he passed away.

The one that left the biggest mark was the death of Jenny, the Director of NCIS. Ziva and Tony had been assigned to be her bodyguards, and Jenny had told them to take the day off while she went to face down some people she had been after in Europe. Ziva wanted to get Tony to go and check on the Director, but had finally given up after a few phone calls with Jenny, telling her to stop worrying. But her worry was warranted, as the next time they saw her, she was dead, falling during a shoot out with a group of people.

After earning her spot in Gibbs's team, and the respect of her colleagues, Ziva worked there for years, before after the former Director's death, she was sent back to Israel for a period of time. She was actually sent back to help discover a mole that was located within NCIS. After the mole was discovered, she was sent back to NCIS. But, the original mole was not the right person, and they were able to discover the correct person, and secure NCIS again. She’s worked various cases with the team since then. After the death of a Mossad agent in America, at the hands of her partner, Ziva ends up back in Israel, working for Mossad. She’s sent to infiltrate a terrorist cell, and is captured and tortured by the members of the cell. She refuses to discuss what happened even in psych evaluations and therapy.

After a period of time (the series doesn’t reveal this) Tony, McGee, and Gibbs show up to rescue her, seemingly thinking that she is dead, as Tony wants to get revenge for her death. After returning back to the United States, she becomes a probationary field agent, as she is not an American citizen. She continues her work with NCIS, all while studying for her citizenship exam. She soon becomes a citizen of the U.S. and still works as an agent for NCIS, becoming a full agent. Up until then, she had been a probationary (Probie) agent.

The next year, Eli David (Ziva’s father), the director of Israeli Mossad visits the US during a conference, and Ziva is with the team who is designated to keep him from being assassinated by Palestinian terrorists. They don’t succeed, and before he leaves, it’s shown that he makes peace with Ziva after the incident with the terrorist cell in Somalia. The next year, she discovers that her boyfriend, Ray, is a CIA liaison to NCIS (and secret, she wasn’t supposed to find out), and begins to doubt their relationship due to catching him in a lie. He ended up proposing to her, but she declined after finding out he had killed someone involved in a case they were working on.

She ends up trapped in an elevator with Tony after a terrorist attack on the Navy Yard. They manage to get out of the elevator and proceed to try to rebuild their lives, taking down the terrorist (Harper Dearing) who had bombed the Navy Yard. They managed to find him and terminated him with ‘extreme prejudice’ on orders of the President.

Eli returns to Washington, saying he’s there to work on healing their relationship. It ends up he is also there to work with a semi-powerful Iranian to try to help start peas in the Middle East. This plan is discovered, and while at Shabbat dinner at the Director’s home, an assassin arrives at the home, opening fire on the house and murdering her father and the Director’s wife. Before that, she had admitted to her father there may not be a chance to mend their relationship, as she discovered he had murdered someone a few days prior during his visit. Even though she said this, when she sees that her father is dead, she breaks down sobbing and praying a Hebrew prayer over the body.

At this point, Ziva’s main focus is revenge for her father’s death. She’s formally banned from working on the investigation, but gets involved anyway. They find out that it was someone Ziva had known since childhood, Ilan Bodnar, who killed her father, and becomes fixated on her revenge. After she realizes it was him, he attempts to kill her, but she manages to leave Tony’s apartment (where she was staying) before Bodnar can get there.

She returns to Israel to bury her father, and complete her mourning process. It’s at this time that she has (what she referred to as) a moment of weakness and sleeps with a friend, and Israeli operative, Adam Eshel. She returns to the US and to NCIS, continuing to look cool, calm, and collected, while on the inside (and with McGee’s help) is tracking Bodnar’s movements. She tracks him to Rome (which was a farce) then Berlin, where she travels with Tony to chase after him. They catch his brother instead, finding out Bodnar never left the US, and his brother was picking up uncut diamonds to fund Bodnar’s disappearance.

After they return, Bodnar attempts to kill both Tony and Ziva by hitting their car with his SUV. She attempts to kill him, although injured, but fails. Gibbs ends up defying an order from the Department of Defense and gets his entire team involved in the search for Bodnar, although trying to keep Ziva and Vance out of it. Ziva doesn’t go for it, ends up following a lead when the others are in a meeting, and tracks Bodnar to a South African ship in port.

She ends up in a hand to hand fight with him near the top of the ship, which was self defense actually. (At one point, he had a chain around her neck and was trying to choke her.) This was mostly because Bodnar used the fact that Ziva wouldn’t shoot him, and unarmed man, in the back, and led her outside. One Gibbs, McGee and DiNozzo realize that Ziva’s gone, they find the ship and arrive just as she manages to throw him overboard onto the dock, killing him. (She’s kinda scary like that.) She goes back to the Navy Yard to tell Vance: “It’s over.”

All of this ‘under the radar’ and unauthorized work ends up putting Gibbs’ team in hot water, including Ziva. She’s interrogated by a DoD lawyer who ends up arresting Gibbs for concealing evidence and obstruction of justice. When trying to find information to help Gibbs (something he told them not to do) they find out the CIA was using NCIS’ chase of Bodnar to cover up they killed the Iranian that Eli David was meeting with before he was murdered. The investigation into Gibbs expanded, calling into question the entirety of NCIS. Ziva, along with Tony and McGee, end up resigning from NCIS, turning in their badges to Vance, and taking responsibility for what happened.

Ziva ends up going back to Israel after she resigns at NCIS, and due to attacks that happen in Washington, has to go underground. Tony goes after her (he was originally going to anyway) and tracks her down, following her hints and trail of bloodshed from the attackers coming after her. After catching up with her there, he tries to convince her to come back to the U.S. with him, but she refuses, wanting to stay in Israel to work on changing herself to ‘End this for him’, meaning Gibbs.

Personality: Ziva, at first, comes across as a very cold woman. But this is due to her Mossad training. To her, trusting someone is bad because you begin to let your guard down around them after that. But after making it past that wall, people begin to see that Ziva’s a good person, even though she’s cold. She’ll tease her friends, and is willing to help them to the point of risking her life for someone, especially her teammates in NCIS. She’s fairly serious, being forced to grow up so quickly when she was living in Israel, during her training for Mossad, and other of her life’s circumstances. (What do you expect from the daughter of the head of Mossad, growing up in a country in conflict.) But even then, if someone makes it past her walls, she’s funny, and a fun person to be around. And she’s not afraid of men, never has been, never will be. She grew up around them, trained with them, and works with them every day. She tends to think in survival techniques, always worried about making it to the next day, although now as a naturalized citizen of the United States, there’s a little less worrying going on. There have also been times where Gibbs has pulled her off cases because he was worried about the suspect, not Ziva.

She has no problems with getting physical with someone, or fighting in any form. When she’s introduced, the story ends with her killing her half brother to protect Gibbs. You become her friend, you earn her protection.

Special facts/special abilities about your character: Most of the fandom calls Ziva a ninja. Why? Because she’s trained in multiple forms of fighting, from guns, to knives, to martial arts, even paperclips. She was trained as a Mossad agent, and while they don’t provide details on what this entails, you can see what she can do on the job, or off. She arrived in NCIS as a Mossad assassin, charged to keep an eye on her brother Ari, but ended up killing him in the end. She can speak ten different languages, seven of them fluently, three of them only the basics. She has no qualms over ‘fighting to the death’, as shown by the fact that she’s willing to kill family members, and can kill without much guilt. She walks almost silently, being able to sneak up on most people, including most of the NCIS agents she works with. She’s not afraid of using whatever advantage she can find to get herself into situation she wants to be in, and out of those she doesn’t want to be in anymore.

What is arriving with your character? Not much, really, her clothes and the knives that she carries in her boots. She doesn’t carry a gun anymore because of no longer working for NCIS nor Mossad. She also has her cell phone, and her laptop.

PART 3 - Writing Samples

1. First Person Writing Sample:
[Ziva’s voice is that fake calm of someone carefully controlling her panic with years of training. She fiddles with the Farnsworth for a few minutes before the video stabilizes.]

What is the phrase from that movie? ‘I do not think we are in Kansas anymore’? I am sure I am not in Israel anymore… Is there someone out there who can help me out and tell me where I am and what is going on?

Especially if I am in the United States somewhere, I have people here who may want to know I am around. And, anyone know why I cannot seem to get a signal on my phone? It was working just fine before I…arrived… here.

2. Third Person Writing Sample:
Sample from Revanance, a former game: http://revenance-rpg.dreamwidth.org/41569.html
Sample from Revanance, a former game: http://revenance-rpg.dreamwidth.org/36165.html


3. First or Third person Sample:
Ziva sat in her room in the B&B, running her fingers through her still damp ponytail, trying to figure out if there was any of that purple stuff still in it. Finding none, she tried to get her phone to connect again, but kept getting a no signal error on her screen. She had been told she was in South Dakota after all, maybe there just wasn’t signal out here… or that purple stuff had done something to it. Shrugging, she tossed it to the side before opening her laptop, seeing if that still worked. It turned on, but couldn’t find anything to connect to…which didn’t surprise her at this point.

Opening a word document, she started making a list of things she knew so far, including everything she had been told at the place she arrived in. Her paranoid nature made her type the document in Hebrew, along with password protecting it just in case her computer ended up in strange hands. She didn’t trust that whoever did…whatever this was… was incredibly trustworthy in the end. They had explained everything, but explained nothing at the same time when she first arrived.

And really, South Dakota wasn’t the closest place to home, nor the first place she would choose to end up in if she’d decided to come home on her own. She closed her laptop and stuck it beneath the mattress, before flopping backwards to stare at the ceiling. She couldn’t get in touch with anyone from NCIS, considering the phone wasn’t working. She’d have to wait until she ran into someone who would tell her more and possibly finding a place with a WiFi network somewhere. For now, she’d at least try to relax, she could interrogate someone later.

PART 4 - Disclaimers
Was this character held for you? No.
Can this character be canon-punctured? Yes.

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