Donna Hanscum

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Donna Hanscum: 1982 - 2001

Donna is the daughter of an engineer and real estate agent. She is believed to have a good childhood with little trauma or difficulty. When Donna was in high school, her father was hired by STAR Labs, which saw the Hanscum family moved to a nice suburban neighborhood of Central City.

Donna adjusted to the move well. She made new friends quickly and was a member of her high school's cheer team. After high school, Donna went to college briefly but ended up dropping out after a single semester to mourn the death of her mother who was killed in a senseless mugging.

### Donna Hanscum: 2001 - 2003

Devastated by the loss of her mother, Donna floated around aimlessly for a while. She took various jobs but was fired from most due to her depressive lethargy. While working as a gas station attendant, Donna was snapped out of her funk by an attempted robbery at gunpoint.

Equating the robber to the mugger that killed her mother, Donna released all her anger and rage. She threw the money in the air rather than hand it over and while the crook was caught off-guard by this random act, Donna dove over the counter and wrestled the criminal to the ground — screaming wildly as she beat him into submission. When the concussed assailant was incapacitated, Donna somehow managed to call the authorities. Until they arrived, she held the robber's own weapon on him - talking herself out of pulling the trigger the whole time.

### Donna Hanscum: 2003 - Present

Donna soon began a relationship with the uniformerd cop that responded to her robbery - a young Eddie Thawne. So impressed with her takedown and feeling sympathetic to the death of her mother, Eddie began to investigate the mugging on his own time - that is, when he wasn't romancing Donna. Donna's interest in Eddie would lead her to joining law enforcement — first as a secretary in the evidence room but eventually she applied to the police academy herself.

When Eddie found the mugger that killed Donna's mother and brought him in, Donna was still in the academy. The collar brought media attention to both Eddie and Donna. Eddie managed to get himself a detective's shield from his work while the cadet got noticed by the mayor's office and the local sheriff for her on-air personality.

Upon graduation, Donna was invited to go to work for the sheriff's office. While she still did patrol work, much of her duties would involve speaking to the press. She soon learned that the current sheriff was popular for his blunt honesty and colorful language, but that rarely translated well on camera for a public figure. Though Donna was nervous about representing the police in a official capacity on camera, she embraced the challenge and did well.

While her professional life was running smooth, Donna's personal life was getting away from her. Swept up in their work, Donna and Eddie's relationship became rocky as they rarely saw one another. Trying to show each other they were both commited to the relationship, the pair decided to take a weekend flight out of town. The two came back married, but the only thing that changed was Donna's last name. The were busy as ever and rarely spoke.

Eventually, in 2011, the two filed a divorce. While Eddie poured himself into a bottle, Donna chose to pour herself into the job. However, Donna began coping with her increased stress by eating a lot of doughnuts from the break room.

In 2014, while at a weekend spa resort, Donna met a cop from across the river — Jody Mills. The two hit it off so well that when Jody explained she was running for sheriff, Donna decided she would do the same. The two gals bonded over their mutual hopes to improve their community's law enforcement paradigm. Donna and Jody even campaigned together a platform of bringing the two sister cities together against crime. Against all odds, the two lady cops won both elections, cementing their friendship and bringing added stability between the two cities.

## Personality

Donna is known to be happy and very cheerful person. She is known in her community for her quickly personality shining through through during media interviews. However, Donna does have certain insecurities. Donna is self-concious of her weight and regularly engages in intense exercise so she can maintain her habit of consuming doughnuts and sugary snacks as a way to cope with stress. Donna hides her workouts from most (mostly because she thinks she looks like an absolute klutz). Donna is also noticeably timid in the presence of her ex and is very hesitant about getting another relationship.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Police Training:** Donna is a skilled law enforcement officer.
	+ ***Interrogation:*** Donna is a skilled interrogator.
	+ ***Investigation:*** Donna is a highly skilled investigator, well-versed in police procedure, investigative methods, and competent in basic forensic science.
	+ ***Marksmanship:*** Donna is skilled markswoman, with exceptional aim and familiarity with a number of firearms.
	+ ***Martial Arts:*** Donna is a capable martial artist, familiar with a number of restraint techniques, grappling maneuvers, pressure points, and joint holds. She is also trained in a number of basic and advanced hand and leg strikes.
	+ ***Vehicle Operation:*** Donna is trained in advanced driving techniques, including pursuit and takedown maneuvers.
* **Athetics:** Due to her intense workout routine Donna is deceptively strong and coordinated.

### Weaknesses

* **Nervous:** Donna can become nervous when stressed. If her nerves gets to her, she becomes klumsy and awkward. Her munching down on sugary snacks is a good indication that she is stressing-out.
* **Vice — Gluttony:** Donna engages in stress-eating of sugary snacks - particularly doughnuts. She knows a cop eating doughnuts is cliché and embraces it.
* **Vice — Vanity:** Donna is self-concious about her appearance. She spends a lot of time preparing what she looks like every morning and engages in intense exercise to keep her weight in check.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Occult:** 1 — Paltry / Below Average
* **Weaponry:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
	+ **TOTAL:** 25
	+ **RANKING:** Minimal Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* (*Submiited by Vibe*)
	+ Donna grew up hunting wild game with her father. She likes to hunt still, but rarely finds the time. Rumor is you'll never see her smile as pronounced as when she's got a shotgun in-hand.
	+ Donna's personal vehicle is a large black truck with the licence plate "D-Train".
	+ Her favorite foods include cookie dough milkshakes and powdered doughnuts. Though she is also a burger aficionado and claims to know where all the best places to eat in Central City and Keystone City are to be found.
	+ Often uses folksy surrogate words in place of profanity. These include "fudge", "darn", "stuff you", H-E-double hockey sticks" "up poop's creek", and others.
	+ Donna loves puns and cutesy rhymes, like "it's all tater tots and lemon drops" - what does that even mean?
	+ She wears glasses for reading.
	+ Donna has an aversion to costumed criminals and crimefighters. She is not afraid of them, she just can't look at them with a straight face. Dude, she laughed at my googles. My googles are awesome.
	+ Donna often replies to compliments by brushing them off with "I do what I do".
	+ Donna's mother was Canadian. Likely due to her mother's influence, Donna speak with a rather Canadian effect.
	+ When out of uniform, Donna avoids wearing blue — other than blue jeans.

### Notes

* Donna Hanscum is a character from the *Supernatural* TV series.
* Her appearance is based on the actress Briana Buckmaster, who portrayed her in the show.
* Her parents might be a nod to Lars and Molock Hanscum, two supervillains using the alias Starfinger.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Donna Hanscum

1. ↑ Network Files: Donna Hanscum