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OOC INFORMATION
Player: Emily
Age: 24
Personal Journal: iluvroadrunner6
Contact Info: AIM – iluvroadrunner6, iluvroadrunner6@gmail.com
Other Characters: Bela Talbot – Supernatural, Stefan Salvatore – The Vampire Diaries

IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Neal Caffrey
Age: 30
Canon: White Collar
Canon Point: The end of free 316: Judgment Day
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Orientation: Neal is hopelessly heterosexual. All of his canon intimate relationships have been female, and he is frequently stated as having a weakness for beautiful women, so when it came down to it, he would like a wife.

History: Here is a link to a wiki page.
Appearance: Neal is a very attractive man. Like … ridiculously so. He’s 5’ 11” with a slim build, dark hair, bright blue eyes and a very nice smile. He usually dresses well, in classic designer suits, with a hat to match on top.

Personality:

Neal Caffrey, at face value, is an exercise in contradictions. He’s a conman with a heart of gold, educated but unmatriculated (and yes that is now a word), impulsive but calculating. So much of what he does may seem selfish and out for himself, but most of the time he does it for other people. He’s done a lot of growth over the course of his two years working with Peter, and at his core, Neal is witty, charming, and cautiously friendly. He knows how to use people and get them to do what he wants, but he’s also capable of being the best of friends, putting you before himself and having your back when your neck is on the line. He’s intelligent enough to try and play the rules, and most of the time does his best to do just that, but he’s got good intentions if nothing else.

At his core, Neal is about people. He understands the nuances of the way society works and the way humans read behavior. His attention to detail is not only what makes him an excellent forger but also an excellent conman, allowing him to blend into any situation by knowing the little details that will make it seem genuine. He’s willing to work hard, to put the effort in to make things perfect, rather than taking the blunt approach. There’s an elegance to his work that stems from his need to get all the details right, and it’s the reason why he can do what he does and minimize the people that get hurt in the process. In fact, a lot of what he does is for people, proving that it’s not just about how he influences them, but also how they influence him.

He starts out wanting to become a cop to live up to the memory of his dead hero of a father, and then runs in the opposite direction when he learns that wasn’t the truth, that he is the son of a dirty cop, and that his mother had lied to him. To an extent, he still has a respect for the law itself, and the spirit of the law, but not so much the letter of it. He sees the law as a line to work around, and the rules more as guidelines, and he tries to be a good person in his own way. While he is a conman who regularly breaks the law, he’s an art thief and in a sense, chose a victimless crime. He stole from people who could afford to lose, he doesn’t aim to physically harm anyone—he doesn’t even like to use a gun. He doesn’t want to hurt people, and in fact, he probably wouldn’t have made the moves as a conman that he did if it wasn’t for two people: Mozzie and Kate Moreau.

Mozzie is Neal’s best friend, and probably the second person that Neal is the most loyal to (the first being Peter). Mozzie and Neal are two people cut from the same cloth, which you wouldn’t really consider when looking at the two of them, but they both have the same kind of intentions. The only difference being that Mozzie is the one who’s usually looking for the big score. He’s the one who truly wants to subvert the law, while Neal enjoys the rush of the con. In the sense, they’re the perfect team, and they work well off each other—Neal is the smile and Mozzie is the brain. In the same vein, however, this also makes Mozzie the devil on his shoulder. He tries to get Neal to return to the life that he wants them to live, tries to sell him on the romance of it, which is one of Neal’s weaknesses. Mozzie is the one person who could sway Neal back to the darkside again, but at the same time respects Neal’s desire for his building a life and finding a family, something they both aspire to.

Aside from being charming as sin, Neal is a romantic, if that wasn’t inherently obvious by his appreciation of poetry and art. He has a thing for grand romantic gestures, and ninety-five percent of the time it’s the thing that gets him into trouble. Ninety-nine percent of the time, those gestures were the result of a woman named Kate Moreau. Kate was Neal’s first love, the woman he couldn’t save and one of the few people he’s willing to do anything for, even escape prison when he has months left on his sentence. Trying to save Kate led to a lot of reckless behavior on Neal’s part, and he made his name as a thief trying to win her back. When it came to protecting her, it could almost be said that Neal had tunnel vision, where she was the only thing that mattered, and since her death, Neal has been trying to figure out who he was outside of her. That was what really allowed him to grow and ground himself as a person. He could realign the center of his world to focus on more than one person, and see that being on the run wasn’t entirely worth it if you were going to be alone. That was really what allowed him to let Peter show him the benefits of settling down and building a life on more than just romance and that’s when Neal really begins to change.

Peter becomes the new cardinal North, so to speak, in Neal’s life. He’s the person that Neal looks to for approval, and one of the few law enforcement officials that Neal actually trusts. He is a father figure to Neal, almost in replacement of the one that Neal lost, and it’s because of that relationship that Neal can still find a way to appreciate the law, even if his real father didn’t respect it. He loves Peter’s love of the law, and his life is the one that Neal wants. He sees how happy Peter is with Elizabeth, and it’s the ideal that he wants his world to become. It has a stability to it that Neal never had with Kate or any of his other relationships. His expectations of people, and the pedestals that he place them on always seem to exceed who they actually are, but Peter is the one person who hasn’t let him down yet, and for that reason, Neal trusts him more than he would anyone else. Peter is truly honest, and while Neal knows that he’ll never be him—the rush of the con is still a large part of his life—it’s something that he can try to balance as best he can to make himself a better person. It won’t stop him from pushing those lines, however. He’s a bit like a child who’s starting to push his boundaries, trying to see how far Peter will let him go, and while Peter is always quick to reign him back in at first, there’s an extent to which he trusts Neal, which is also something Neal has never had, and has no reason to believe he deserves. Peter gives it to him, however, and he wants to continue to have it, so he does the best he can to stay in his good graces.

At the point in which Neal will be arriving in Holly Heights, Neal would have been inches from freedom, only to have it taken away from him. Agent Kramer, who was convinced that Neal would never be anything more than a criminal, planned to take him to DC, away from the family and life that Neal had built for himself, and keep him on his anklet permanently. Neal did everything he could to make sure that didn’t happen. While he didn’t know whether or not his sentence would be commuted, he knew that he would always have a place with Peter, which is what he wanted more than anything else. He had no intention of running, but when Peter gives him the go ahead, he trusts that, and prepares to leave everything he knows behind. It’s not the easiest decision he’s ever made, and while he could stay and tough things out, it would most likely involve going back to prison, and with Peter’s consent he ends up leaving his life behind anyway. It’s not an easy decision to make, but it’s what he needs to do to survive, and in the end, Neal can be counted on to do just that.

Abilites: Neal is a conman and a thief. He knows how to break into just about anything, can con you out of your last dime, and is a pretty proficient forger, if he does say so himself. Which he won’t. Well … he won’t use words.

Other: I apologize in advance for anything he may steal. Or to anyone he may snob at.

SAMPLES
First Person: Journal post sample from paradisa.

Third Person:

Neal closes his eyes on the plane, and when he opens them, he’s on someone’s front lawn.

It’s disorienting, if nothing else. Going from thirty thousand feet on his way to Cape Verdi, and suddenly finding himself in a neighborhood out of Leave it to Beaver is dizzying, and he doesn’t get up right away because of it. For a moment he thinks that he must be dreaming, but he can’t think for the life of him why he would be dreaming of this. This isn’t something he’s allowed to have anymore.

Not that he ever truly wanted it in the first place. He has always wanted some kind of adventure, legal or not. At first he got that thrill from the con, from working right under the FBI’s nose and having Kate to run with. Then he learned how to do it from within the FBI, while Peter gave him something to hold on to. He’s giving up everything for Neal right now, and where’s Neal?

Neal is sitting in the middle of suburbia.

He pushes up to his feet after a moment, turning slowly in place just to take everything in. There’s no Mozzie, no plane, no sign of anything that even remotely resembled New York. He doesn’t remember being hit on the head, and he doesn’t think he’s dreaming. Right now, he just needs to figure out what’s going on, and how he can move on. Standing still for too long means the FBI coming down on his head, and Peter didn’t just let him go for him to get caught so easily. In fact, it would be embarrassing if it did.

He adjusts his jacket, straightens his tie, and makes his way to the front door of the nearest house. There’s a package attacked to the door with his name on it, and he takes it, but he doesn’t open it right way. He’d rather talk to someone first, if anything. He just hopes that someone will answer the door.

OTHER
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