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Character Name: Ziva David
Series: Navy NCIS
Gender: Female
Age: mid 30s we’ll say
Species: Human
Sexuality: Heterosexual

Appearance: Ziva’s a tall, dark skinned woman, with long curly black hair. It’s normally seen pulled back in a clip or an updo, 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.

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. 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 everyday. She tends to think in survival techniques, always worried about making it to the next day. There have also been times where Gibbs has pulled her off cases because he was worried about the suspect, not Ziva.

Abilities: In short…there’s a reason people call her a ninja…
Ziva was trained at Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency before she arrived to work for NCIS. She’s trained in all forms of martial arts, to use a variety of different weapons (including paperclips…she can kill someone eighteen different ways with one), and can speak ten different languages (seven fluently, three of them she knows only the basics). She also has no qualms over ‘fighting to the death,’ having shot her half-brother already, in defense of Jethro Gibbs. (I consider that an ability because not many people are like that). She is also an expert at using her body as a weapon…along with everything that entails. And, she walks almost silently, being able to sneak up on people, just like a ninja. She’s not afraid of using every advantage to get herself into situations she wants to be in, and out of those she doesn’t.

Weaknesses: Besides being a human being, capable of being injured by many solid objects, guns, knives, and everything else thrown at her way…Ziva doesn’t often think before she acts, mostly going on her gut when it has to deal with her friends. Even though she has the tactical knowledge and experience, she sometimes forgets this to help her team. Fire first, think later. And English idioms. She has a tendency to get them wrong a times. Some of the most memorable “I’m going to take a bat nap” and “Porcu-pig, no porcu-swine”

Manhattanite or outsider? Outsider. DC area.

History: Ziva David is an agent for one of the teams of NCIS, under Leroy Jethro Gibbs. She's an acting liaison for Mossad, and was added to the team to serve that purpose. 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 everyday, 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.

Ziva arrives in Manhattan the morning after her Christmas, after spending most of the night watching Christmas movies and celebrating with the teammates she knows she may not see again for a while.

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