NCIS profile: Leah DiNozzo

Profile for: Agent Leah Maria DiNozzo

Gender: Female
Race: Italian
Age: 33
Birth date: May 7th 1977
Nickname: LayLay (childhood nickname from Tony)
Astrological Sign: Taurus
Height: 5'8
Beliefs/Religion: Roman Catholic
Blood Type: AB positive

Basic Description: Leah is a woman of Italian decent with medium brown hair and has her bangs cut to cover over her left eye in an emo-like style. Like her cousin she has pale green eyes and can seem to be quite juvenile sometimes but she is far more mature.


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Current Information
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>family background: For ten years she lived with her parents who had both worked with Tony's parents. When they both died in a car accident, she moved in with her uncle where she had met Tony and since then they have been pretty close. Aside from her uncle and Tony, she was quite distant from the rest of her family.

>birth place: Leah was born in Italy on one of her parent's business trips but was moved to Maryland a week after she was born.

>history, background: After she moved in with the other DiNozzos, her grades dropped from all A's to almost failing for a few years until she finally knocked some sense into herself and brought them back up just in time for High School. In High school she was rarely picked on because of the fact she had nearly killed a senior who was fixing to try to woo her into bed, so her high school years weren't nearly as great as it could have been. She had a few friends who went to the University of Ohio with her but she split ways with them after she graduated and became a cop in Washington, D.C.

>Education: University of Ohio with degrees in Criminal Justice and Psychology

>home: Leah lives in a small two bedroom apartment in down  town D.C

>pets: She doesn't like cats and her landlord doesn't allow dogs.

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Physical Description
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>hair style + colour: Medium brown, emo style cut that she picked up from her twelve year old kid

>eyes: pale green

>body: Lean with muscle definition

>skin colour: A medium tan

>physical condition: Good, but her can easily get sprained after injuring it so many times.

>distinguishing marks (dimples, moles, scars, tattoos, birthmarks, etc.): A black and red tribal tattoo on her lower back

>clothing: It depends on the time of the year. During the spring and summer she wears lighter colored clothing including tank tops and jeans and during the Winter and fall, darker colored (mostly brown and black) tops with sweaters.

>jewelry (or glasses, braces etc): Necklaces vary from day to day. Sometimes crosses, sometimes pearls, sometimes just little charms she is given.

>possessions (i.e. tools, weapons, instruments): A boot knife, a forty five caliber that she carries around, a nine millimeter hidden under her kitchen island, and a twenty two caliber glock in her night stand. (may or may not have gotten those names right)

>make up: She hardly wears any makeup except flashy eye shadow and mascara.


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Personality
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>personality (i.e. Are they a daredevil or cautious?
Do they act the same alone as when with someone?): Leah is generally a calm, intelligent smart ass who at times CAN act quite juvenile. As far was being a dare devil goes, she goes the extra step to get something done and MOST the time follows through, but often times she can let little problems manifest into something larger; clouding her judgment until it is resolved. In addition, she can also be quite flirtatious but not nearly as much as Tony is.

>vernacular (way of speaking): Educated with a twinge of street mixed in there. She will use slang words as well as proper terms, depending on the situation.

>psychological condition: Normal, however somewhat scarred by losing her parents, a couple cops from her squad a few years back, and other various close deaths. She tries not to show it, but similar situations bring back memories. No known conditions.

>aptitude: Close counter combat, marksmanship, code cracking, and writing

>social and other pressure, problems: Leah doesn't like to be put in situations where she thinks she will hurt another person's feelings greatly.

>relationships (with who and what kind, i.e. the main character):
Tony-Leah and Tony have a brother/sister relationship. Their personalities are almost identical because of the years they spent together, however despite being imprinted on by Tony, anybody who knew her personality could tell they were different. Even so, they can work easily together but their views on certain things differ greatly.  
Ziva-She can't decide whether or not she can trust Ziva. Sure, she is Tony's girlfriend, but just something about her makes her think she can't trust her. Despite this, Leah tries her hardest to get to know her.
Gibbs-Leah isn't too fond of him and she is sure Gibbs isn't too fond of her either. Of course went she is not obeying his orders, she will probably argue on his values from time to time but she doesn't mean to be disrespectful. Gibbs knows this and tries not to make too much of it.    
Abby-Her and Abby don't exactly get along. Actually, not at all. When Leah was a cop, there was cross jurisdiction and she had to work with NCIS. While working, she had unintentionally ignored (and forgotten) about Abby during the case. Also the fact that she sometimes back talks Gibbs isn't helping their relationship at all.
Ducky-Leah respects Ducky, therefore he returns the respect. Unlike Gibbs, she doesn't get snarky as she knows that if she was to die in the field he would probably operate on her, nobody wants an enemy to do.
Jimmy-Leah doesn't care for him and vice versa
McGee-Though at times the two don't get along, she is willing to back McGee up when Tony and Ziva are ganging up on him. For that, McGee is grateful.

>beliefs, superstition, moral value: Leah believes in God (being Roman Catholic) and believes in black cats being bad luck

>positive characteristics: Flirtatious, good attitude towards her work, good sense of humor

>negative characteristics: Her mood switches from one to another when she is focused and she doesn't see the fine line dividing her and her bosses, causing her smart-ass side to show.

>accent: Unlike Tony, one can actually notice her Italian accent, but only when she is mad.

>habit: She annoyingly taps the end of her pencil on her keyboard (or anything close to her that is hard) when she is thinking

>fears: Jeopardizing the lives of her fellow agents

>goals: Leah does not have a set goal in life, but if it had to be one it would be to eventually publish a book.

>greatest hope: That what she does for a living HELPS the world instead of the other way around

>greatest strength: Observation

>greatest weakness: Connecting to those who were close with the victims

>Soft spot: Seeing somebody upset at her

>worst nightmare: Watching somebody die, but to her it would be a reoccurring nightmare

>how do they face problems: She keeps the problem to herself if it is small but if it is great she will tell only one person to help her work it out

>hobbies: Writing, shooting at the range, running

>occupation/class: NCIS Special Agent Major Case Squad

>theme song: Second chance-Shinedown

-attitude-

>most at ease when: At home, watching TV

>most ill at ease when: At gun point

>priorities: Her work and for now, nothing else

>philosophies: For now, Gibbs' rules

>how they feel about themselves: Iffy-iffy. She has a lot of self esteem but she always thinks she can do better

>what do they consider their best physical characteristic: Body

>the worst one: Hair

- likes and dislikes-

>favourite colour: Dark blue

>least favourite colour: Pink

>favourite food: Pizza

>least favourite food: Califlour

>favourite word or quote: As far as words go, Hell. As far as quotes go, she doesn't have a set favorite.

>favourite book, movie: The Lion King

>favourite music: Alternative/Classical Rock and R&B

>least favourite music: Classical, country

>favourite musical artist: Bon Jovi

>favourite flower: Lilies

>favourite animal: Golden Eagle

>favourite scent: Lavender

>favourite season: Summer

>favourite gemstone: Diamond

>favourite expletive: Hell

>favourite clothing: Jeans

>least favourite clothing: Skirts

>most treasured/prized possession (important or emotional value): A geode that her father gave her the night of the crash

>most treasured memory: When investigating her first case (a homicide) she had been taken hostage and her first partner Paul Ramirez saved her, telling her he would always be there for her if something was to happen.   

>past failure they would be embarrassed to admit: undecided

>biggest regret: Letting her ex husband Andy have full custody of her daughter Bryce because of "work".

>biggest accomplishment: undecided

>darkest secret: After Ramirez was killed on a case, she had obsessed over the guy, putting a bullet in the back of his head even though he had begged to her that he was sorry and that he would turn himself in. Eventually the case went cold as she knew how to cover up a killing in cold blood.
>likes: Writing, night clubs, looking up at the night sky after a case

>dislikes: People who can't see what's going on in the world and those who think they can get away with murder just because it could be "justified" (mostly because of her dark secret)

-other-

>if granted one wish what would it be? She WOULD say stop people from killing each other unjustly, but then she wouldn't have a job and during this recession…

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Abilities and skills
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>inabilities: Anything dealing with math or science

>physical: Running long distances

>magical: N/a

>other: Leah knows all the basics they teach you at NCIS plus she took various classes on how to defend herself.  

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Leah DiNozzo has killed ten people in her life. Often times it was because she was put in situations where the only possible best case scenerio dealt with killing off the threat, but after her first partner Paul Ramirez was shot in the heart by some drug dealer suspected of murder, she sought revenge. Taking a gun from a case that was long closed, she pulled some strings to find the dealer and without thinking shot the man in the heart four times. After that she carefully made it look like it was a gang shooting and tossed the gun in a landfill miles away.

After that she made it final that she would never fall for a partner again, although history repeated itself a few years after with her new partner Alex Anderson. Scared of the past repeating itself, she ended it and requested a new partner, which this time was finally one of her own gender.

Leah has a twelve year old daughter who lives with her father in Raleigh, North Carolina and they continue to visit each other every major holiday and summer. Nobody but those her in old department and Tony know about this portion of her life.

Overall, the years she spent with Tony influenced her greatly. Everything from taste in movies to their occastionally childish personality indicated that they were (and still are) close. Even though the two stopped visiting each other weekly since Tony joined NCIS, they still call or text when they have a chance so Leah knows much about those he works with.

Her and Tony have a brother/sister relationship, but even so the two rarely ever mentioned each other to their co-workers or even to their closest friends. Before they had prefered it if they didn't reveal their "weaknesses" in the work place but now that Leah joined NCIS it doesnt really matter as much.