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Lady Heather: CSI
(Anonymous)
2009-02-24 09:56 am UTC (link)
I may just be insane. But hell, let me think about it.

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[info]elarion
2009-02-27 12:03 am UTC (link)
I don't do anon because I'm too lazy, man.

Okay, hopefully this doesn't get too wordy. I've played/am in theory still playing Lady Heather, and it really depends on where you're grabbing her from.

Generally, uh. She's diabetic! That's kind of important. I've always had her being very active with her advertising (if she still owns the Fetish Club / her website) in a classy way -- expensive business dinners and professional consultations, that sort of thing, even if a lot of her business probably comes from word-of-mouth. Speaking of the Club -- she is obviously pretty stringent a Madam (if you want to use that term) and likes to keep her girls in check to the best of her ability. Heather is straightforward and not easily embarrassed. She has an excruciatingly annoying habit of observing things about people that they're not comfortable with her knowing.

Pre-Pirates of the Third Reich Lady Heather is ambitious and still very much maintaining her independence as far as being a Dominatrix and running her own business. She's painfully proud of her daughter and it's obvious that Zoe is very important to her -- she talks to Willows about it, after all, and they've barely met. Right now her relationship with Grissom is tense and sexually charged -- he's attracted to her views on sex and she's attracted to (probably) his attention to detail and the fact that they both view people in situations that's most often not condoned by 'mainstream' society. That puts them both in a weirdly powerful position that also opens up the doors to all sorts of treasured knowledge. Once you get past Slaves of Las Vegas and Grissom doubts her innocence during an investigation that leads to her club, their relationship suffers and it suffers hard. She trusted Grissom to understand her as a person and by suspecting her, he fails. He fails like a failboat.

At some point between Lady Heather's Box and Pirates, Heather's relationship with Zoe deteriorates something awful. Zoe slept with her psychiatrist and the guy got her pregnant -- Lady Heather is unbelievably pissed off and gets his license revoked. I like to think she's most upset about this because the psychiatrist was in an extremely sensitive position much like she is, and instead of showing professional restraint (as she's probably had to do in the past) he gave in to his emotions and did something really fucking stupid. Of course, this all sort of blows up in her face after Zoe's death and she gets desperate to see any part of her daughter that might be left. It's one thing to be fighting with your child, but once she's dead -- well, you can't really talk to her.

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Wtf, why is this so long.
[info]elarion
2009-02-27 12:03 am UTC (link)
Zoe's death really gives us a window into how Heather works: she sleeps with the man she thinks is Zoe's killer in order to get a DNA sample (although it turns out to be his twin) and she's willing to go to any lengths to punish this man to her satisfaction. I mean, come on. She straps him to the front of her vehicle and whips him -- she's so incensed and infuriated that even she loses control until Grissom brings up safe words with her and tells her to STOP. On a side note, Grissom seems to get forgiven for his previous indiscretions by proving that he DID in fact understand her.

The Good, the Bad, and the Dominatrix -- definitely shows us how devoted Heather is to her family. Even though Zoe is dead and she hates Allison's (Zoe's daughter) father, she wants to take care of the girl. To her dismay, Allison's father wouldn't allow her to see the girl and she went so far as to sue him for custody (obviously not a fit guardian, considering what he'd done to Zoe in the first place). She even sells her Club despite it bringing her great personal and monetary gain. Eventually she gets desperate enough to allow someone else to kill her for money to give the kid a good future -- and at this point Grissom finally steps in and coerces Allison's father (somehow!) to let Heather see the girl. She's pleased as punch, naturally, and her sweetness on Grissom develops even further.

Season 9 Lady Heather -- psychologist and therapist. Ironic, no, that she is doing something similar to Allison's father now, right? But not really, because she's terribly good at reading people. It fits her. She's able to pick up that something's wrong with Grissom right away when he comes to see her and she spends the night comforting him accordingly.

In a way that's really personal canon in that it isn't at all, Lady Heather loves Grissom ... but one assumes that he's confided in her about Sara and if she's doing anything with him it's mentoring him on how to be a more loving man for Sara's benefit regardless of how she might feel for him. I've always seen their interactions as intense but easy -- she knows what she wants, but she also knows Grissom's boundaries and tendencies well enough that she isn't going to push him further than she knows he can go.

WORD VOMIT, SORRY.

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