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PART 1 - Out of Character
NAME: Rob
AGE (must be 18 or older): 18+
E-MAIL: camebefore at gmail dot com
AIM: None
PLURK: camebefore
TIME ZONE: PST
PREFERRED METHOD OF CONTACT: Plurk


PART 2.a - In Character Non-WH13/Eureka Canon Characters (Skip/delete if not applicable)
Full Name: Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Nicknames: Gibbs, Boss, Gibbs second 'b' is for 'bastard', Gunny, the Great White (meaning shark, thanks Tony), Egotistical son of a bitch (Vance).
DOB/Age: 53 years old, born November 10 1958 (bit of trivia is that the char shares the same birthday as that of the Marine Corp)
Birthplace: Stillwater, PA
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Been married four times.
Species: Human
Fandom: NCIS
Journal: rule23
PB: Mark Harmon
Canon Point: Season 12, post Episode 11 (Check)

Appearance: Gibbs is not a man that catches the eye like a handsome man like Tony DiNozzo would. That said, there is something about him that draws the eye to him. With white hair and blue eyes, there's a brand of intensity to him when he focuses on a person. Most often he's wearing his NCIS uniform or a hoodie, generally with USMC on it. Black or red are his usual colors. Everything that he wears is jokingly said to come from Sears although he does say at one point that if it can't be bought from Sears, it wasn't worth having. Although he was referring to wood working tools not clothing, the quip is made that it explains his clothes. The only times he says he'll wear a suit is funerals, wedding and court dates. For work, it's usually dark pants, white long sleeve shirt and a black coat.

History: (oh lord really. Going to just hit the major points here. Bear in mind maybe fifty percent of this is known to other NCIS characters.)

Short and sweet, Gibbs was born in Stillwater, Pennsylvania. His mother died young, killing herself while suffering from a very painful terminal disease. His father ran a small store there in the town. Childhood wasn't easy for him, often getting into fights there, some of which his father broke up. After the death of his mother, the gulf between them widened further with Gibbs blaming his father for multiple parts of it all from him seeing other women to him being responsible for her death.

At eighteen, he joined the Marine Corp, meeting his soon-to-be wife, Shannon, at the train depot out of town. It was from her that he began Gibbs' Rules although a few are seen to be general Marine rules. Only Rule 1 has two entries. Said rules dictate much of what he does for the rest of his life from the seven/eight due to lawyers to the most important, Rule 51, sometimes you're wrong. Rule 23 is 'Never mess with a Marine's coffee if you want to live'. The structure that these rules gives Gibbs, as well as their emotional tie to Shannon, the sort of stability in a way that the Corps did with their rules.

Nothing good ever lasts for long, and Gibbs' wife (Shannon) and daughter (Kelly) are murdered. Shannon had witnessed the killing of a Marine and was willing to testify against the killer, a man in the Reynosa drug cartel, Pedr Hernandez. While they're in a van, a sniper kills the federal agent driving the vehicle, ending with the car accident that leaves Shannon and Kelly dead. Kelly was eight years old at the time. Gibbs was deployed at the time but learns of all this when he returns from Mike Franks. It is then that Gibbs leaves for Mexico where he murders Hernandez in turn via a long range sniper shot. It's something of a bitter circle when Hernandez's two children later come back against Gibbs for their own revenge.

Gibbs leaves the Marine Corp (which could be a section in and of itself) after killing Hernandez, joining NIS at Franks' urging which evolves in time to NCIS. In time, he's promoted and outlives/outlasts various Directors. His own team is what he builds slowly, letting those he doesn't quite click with (such as Stan Burris) to go on to other things while purposely dragging in others such as Tony. He knows talent when he sees it and holds onto ones like McGee or Ziva when they come into his circle despite their pasts or possible motives.

Because this is a twelve season show and still rolling strong as well as the connections to NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans, there is a lot more I'm just not mentioning such Tobias marrying one of Gibbs' ex-wives who then cleaned him out of money too or that Gibbs is the godfather of Tobias' kid. Most of it is a walking spoiler and other parts just don't get mentioned all that much. It isn't until season six that anyone finds out that Gibbs' father is even still alive. What little I've touched on here are the major parts that make up the man before the series starts and a little bit into it. Personality is more telling about him than History since it can take a season to find out why he likes bourbon over wine or that one of his ex-wives calls him repeatedly on their anniversary until he seals his cellphone in a jar of paint thinner.

Personality:

DiNozzo: Yeah. Ducky? Why would Gibbs rip his hard line out and dunk his cell phone in a jar of paint thinner?
Dr Mallard: Oh, dear.
DiNozzo: What?
Dr Mallard: Oh, I should have realized the time of year. It's his anniversary.
DiNozzo: Which marriage?
Dr Mallard: Well, the last one, of course.
DiNozzo: Ducky. I'm not following.
Dr Mallard: Every year, ex-wife number three gets drunk on their anniversary and calls him repeatedly.
DiNozzo: Why doesn't he, ah, change his number?
Dr Mallard: No idea. In case you haven't noticed, Gibbs is a man of more questions than answers.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs is a man that many try to understand but few do. Even those who have been married to him claim that they go beneath the surface. One states that she thinks she fell in love more with the idea of him than the man himself. It's unsurprising since people who worked with him day in and day out didn't know that his first wife had been murdered or that he had ever had a child.

After serving in the Marines and retiring, Gibbs takes a dim view of anyone who disgraces the uniform. Being a Marine was something he had wanted from a young age, built up in his mind. To find someone pissing all over that offends him on a deeper level. The same is true of crooked police officers, fellow NCIS agents or anyone else that others look up to for protection or help.

The same can be said when children are involved. Having lost his only child at a young age, Gibbs takes unkindly to anyone harming or threatening a child. When it comes to any of them falling into NCIS custody or protection, Gibbs is often seen acting fatherly or comforting to them in a way few would expect out of a man nicknamed 'The Great White'. In one case where a child's Marine father is killed before completing a treehouse, Gibbs himself shows up the day of the funeral to finish it. If a child is involved, Gibbs will go to any length to do what is best, even if it isn't best for him.

This extends to those he considers his pseudo-children, meaning his team. The one this demonstrates most clearly with is Abby. When things go wrong and the team is in danger, it is always her that he goes most overboard with, including getting a detachment of Marines to guard her at one point by calling in favors. Needless to say, she was not happy. At various points, he fills in as a father figure to his other team members, most strongly Anthony and Timothy McGee. This may be unsurprising with both of them men considering the issues they have with their fathers failing them (in their eyes) or not being part of their lives.

Ziva is the slowest one coming around although she does in her own way despite shooting her own brother to death to save Gibbs' life. In time, especially when others fail her, Gibbs is a quiet stable presence in her life to the point that she is the one who reaches him in 'Hiatus' when his memory was lost. He returns this in 'Shalom' when he returns from Mexico to help her. Once he accepts her and considers her part of his team, he goes to extraordinary lengths to save her or avenge her. When word arrives that she has been killed in Somalia, Gibbs plans to destroy their camp in retaliation. Only when she is discovered to be alive do they mount a rescue mission with Gibbs shooting her would-be killed long distance. He meets them as they escape saying, “Let's go home”. This is where she is cemented firmly as one of their own.

Technology is the enemy so far as Gibbs is concerned. When his home is ransacked, he rights his black and white television and turns it on to check if it is working. He says it is when a Western comes on, commenting further that it is even playing the same show he saw last time. More than once, his choice of ancient flip-phones is commented on as being out of date. More than a few meet their deaths when they annoy him in trash cans, cups of coffee or jars of substances best left unidentified. Tony DiNozzo keeps a drawer full of them for when Gibbs destroys or breaks one.

Speaking of what Tony keeps a drawer of...

Gibbs has been given loads of awards from military citations to community ones. He never goes t a single ceremony, sending Tony instead. In the bottom right hand of Tony's desk is a drawer full of ribbons, metals and plaques with Gibbs' name on them. He never says why he keeps them instead of throwing them away as Gibbs tells him to. Only once does Gibbs get into that drawer, showing that he knows of it, to give his silver star to a Marine the military wronged.

In the end, Gibbs isn't an easy person to know or understand. He prefers it that way. There's too much in him that has been torn up and bruised to bother with most people no matter how much he kicks his people into being out in the world. Just because if failed him or he failed it doesn't mean they should be recluses like he is.

Special facts/special abilities about your character: The character was once described by a series creator as a man who was a terrible judge of women but loved his coffee. Has an infamous attraction to redheads. After having served two tours of duty in the Gulf while part of the Marines as a sniper and scout, Gibbs has more than average proficiency with guns (short and long distance) as well as boxing, tracking and survival. It isn't known at this point how many languages Gibbs speaks with fluency, only 'many', but in series he has been showing speaking Russian, Japanese and some Spanish. Given where he was stationed around the world in the Marine Corp and with NIS/NCIS, it isn't surprising how many he picked up. How, when or why he learned American Sign Language is never explained although he does use it often with Abby who has deaf adopted parents. Gibbs is a surprising master of woodworking, although he never uses electric tools. Everything is handmade from his boats to the toys he brings to Toys For Tots at Christmas.

What is arriving with your character? Wallet, clothing, NCIS bulletproof vest, SIG-Sauer P232, SIG-Sauer P228, Smith & Wesson Model 37 and two clips of ammo for each. While the second SIG and the S&W are his main weapons, he does carry the third at times, and the point he's coming from, he has all of them. Even the cellphone is making it which will annoy him. At least he'll have his backpack which carries the ammo as well as his USMC hoodie, jeans, blah blah civvie clothes.

PART 4 - Disclaimers
Was this character held for you? Yep
Can this character be canon-punctured? Would rather he not be, but if he must be, go for it.