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Character Name: Sara Sidle
Series: C.S.I. Las Vegas
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Species: Human
Sexuality: Heterosexual

Appearance: Sara stands at about 5'8" and is Caucasian with brown hair and brown eyes. Her hair is about shoulder length, and is shown in the TV show as both curly and straight, depending on how much time she had before she went in for her shift at the lab. Sara has three marks that are easy to identify. She has a gap between her two front teeth, a tattoo of a stylized sun on her left foot, and a scar running along her left arm. This scar was created when she was trapped under a car by Natalie, the Miniature Killer. She had to pull her arm out from being pinned under the roof of a flipped car and a rock, slicing her arm open, and breaking the bone in the process. Clothing-wise, she's normally found in professional looking attire, probably black slacks and a blouse, along with sensible dress shoes. Also, she always wears a gun belt that has her police firearm, CSI identification badge, and a small pouch, normally filled with evidence collecting equipment. If she's out in the field, she wears a blue LVPD Crime Scene Investigator vest over her normal clothing. In the labs running tests, she wears a blue lab coat over her clothes, in case of spills or accidents (which rarely happen in Vegas).



Personality: It can be said that Sara Sidle has two different personalities. The personality that people see depends on how long she has known them, and also if she is dealing with them as a friend/coworker or as a person she met while working a case. Her first personality seems cold, this is the side that someone first sees when they meet her. Because of her family life when she was a child, she grew up being cold to other people. She's not very comfortable dealing with people she doesn't know well. But, if she's meeting someone as a witness/suspect in a case she is working, this personality shows up because Sara wants to distance herself emotionally from the case.

Her second personality shows when Sara is with people that she knows or when she's working with victims of cases, most specifically when she's working with women or children. Sara becomes a nicer person overall, becoming motherly when she is working with kids, especially those who are in the same situation that she had been when she was a child. Although, she still remains distant to her friends and coworkers, but she doesn't snap or seem as bitchy to them as she did when she didn't know them as well.



Abilities: Sara is a typical human, no superhuman abilities to speak of. She is incredibly smart, having graduated high in her high school class at the age of 16. She went to Harvard, then to Berkeley. Her degrees are mainly in science; the only canon fact about this being that her Bachelor's from Harvard is in Physics. She has some talents though, mostly things that have been developed in her job as a CSI. She is great at noticing details, has a knack for working with science equipment and running lab work, and also is great at figuring out puzzles/thinking outside of the box to solve them. She is also certified to carry a firearm, and normally carries a police firearm while she works.



Weaknesses: Sara's main weakness is dealing with people. Sara has never been good at this. When she was a child, she didn't get along with her school mates because she was an 'all or nothing' girl and didn't work or play well with others. She's a loner as an adult, and it takes a lot for people to get to know her and gain her trust, thus becoming one of her friends and getting to see the Sara underneath her harsh mask. She has developed slight claustrophobia, coming from being trapped underneath a flooding car in the desert outside of Vegas overnight. Both of these also contribute to major trust issues, and a self-described tendency to be 'self-destructive'. She also doesn't deal well with saliva, in one episode she has to smile while working with some in order to control her gag reflex.



Manhattanite or outsider? Outsider



History: Sara was born in San Francisco, and lived for years with her biological family (Mother and Father). In 1984, when Sara was 13, Sara's mother killed her father because he was abusive to her and Sara. It is debated in fandom if Sara witnessed this or not, it has never been addressed in the series at all. After this, she was moved around in foster care, but still managed to graduate high in her class at the age of 16 (two years younger than normal). She received a scholarship to Harvard (earning a Bachelor's of Science in Physics), and then went to Berkeley. In San Francisco, she worked at the coroner's office, and was able to audit lectures, which is where she first met Gil Grissom (the Las Vegas Crime Lab supervisor), who was to become her boss, and later her fiancé. A few years later, she was called by Grissom to go to Las Vegas in order to be an outside person to investigate one of the CSI's there, Warrick Brown (Season 1). For the next seven years, she worked at the crime lab. It seems that for each year she worked at the labs, there was something unlucky that happened to her. In her second year, she was advised by Grissom that she was becoming too involved in her job, and that she should find outside sources of entertainment, not just Forensics Textbooks and police scanner that she owns. This led to her relationship with a paramedic named Hank in her third year, which ended when she discovered that he had been seeing her while in another, very serious, relationship. During this same year she and another worker (Greg Sanders) at the lab were caught in an explosion that made her realize that life could be shorter than she originally realized. For the next two years, her life started looking like it was taking a downward turn. She was pulled over and given a DUI, although it was never charged, but put her in a bad situation with Grissom, considering that he was called and partially helped to cover up what had happened. She got into an argument with two of her superiors, Catherine Willows and Conrad Ecklie (the head of the entire lab), which ended up with her being suspended for a period of time. It was during this period of time that Sara began to bond with Grissom, telling him her family history, and admitting that she has a problem with authority. For the next two years, Sara and Grissom form a relationship, which they successfully hid from the rest of the team until she was kidnapped by the Miniature Killer, and left trapped under a car in the desert to die. She became depressed after this, and in her last year in Vegas became overwhelmed by the cases she was working on. Grissom had proposed to her, and she had accepted, but she decided to leave Vegas for a time in order to deal with her 'demons' and face her past. She left a note for Grissom, saying that she would always love him, and explaining why she was leaving.

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