Christine Murphy (Dead Marked)

Christine "Chris" Murphy is a main character in Part One of Dead Marked. Chris is one of the police officers who live in Lorham City, one of the more developed and well known cities of America. Growing up she was a very care free and typical teenager, constantly going to parties and having fun with her friends instead of working towards her future, which went on until she was the age of 21. With the tragic and sudden death of her sister Chris was forced to stop her usual activities and "grow up" so that she was later able to gain legal status as guardian for her nephew. This in the end turned out to be a good change in her life, despite it being caused by the sad death of her sister, as she was able to become a police officer, a job she had wanted ever since she was a little girl, a couple of years after the tragedy and was able to get her life completely under control. Now Chris works as one of main people who is trying their best to keep Lorham City running and under control while the rest of the country falls victim to the infection.

Personality
Christine can be described as a quite the mixed person. Typically when hanging out with her friends or her nephew, Chris can be a care free and fun woman who can commonly act as if she is still in her teenage years when she finds the time to do such. She is also extremely nice and always supportive to those she feels deserve her friendship and are not assholes. Sometimes her supportiveness can get to the point that she is overworked with either her job or coming to people's aid outside of work but she is always still there for a good laugh as if she never gets tired. However at other times Chris can also be serious and focused on her duty, showing that despite her sometimes teenager like personality that she is aware that she is a fully grown woman, even to the point that she is now one of the more smartest and professional officers in the police force. Often being seen as someone to look up to even to those who are older and have been an officer longer than her. Chris also has a very strong attitude, the kind that people would not want to dare test, which only usually comes out if she is being protective over someone who is close to her, has become frustrated or is dealing with someone she doesn't like.

History

 * -|Background = Christine, unlike most people who live in Lorham City, didn't have the best of starts in her life. Her mother was a well known prostitute and drinker who had already had a child before she got pregnant with Chris. However Christine didn't get the chance to ever know her mother as the day she was born, her mother decided to abandon her two sisters and run away to the other side of the country, the two sisters being left in the city's orphanage. Fortuantly for Chris, her older sister Emily was willing to look after her and as Chris got older and older she continued to help her through life and learn all the things that she would need to know while also making sure to keep it that the two of them were not seperated by officials as they grew older.

Although as Christine got to her teenage years, a now adult Emily, with her own son, found it more challenging to take care of her younger sister as Chris quickly began to take on a care free lifestyle and was constantly going to parties and getting into trouble which Emily would have to bail her out of. This life would then lead to the two sisters getting into arguements and seperating from eachother, the family bond not being as strong as it was when they were younger. This would go on until Emily tragically died in a stand off with a well known criminal that was holding some city resident's hostage. When Chris heard of this, she was completely distraught and had huge trouble coming to terms with the news while also seperating herself from her friends in an attempt to get her life sorted out and her life sober. Fortuantly for both Chris and her nephew Jamie, she was able to indeed do just that and gain legal guardianship of Jamie.

After managing to do this and getting ownership of the Murphy household, Chris quickly found her life changing drastically due to the fact she needed to take care of her nephew as well as make sure her life remained stable. However everything would quickly turn out the better for Chris as she would not only be able to provide the two of them with a good decent life as well as soon have a strong bond with her nephew but also managed to become a police officer, which had been her dream job ever since she looked up to her old sister. Now Christine has a better more stable life than she ever did before and is able to enjoy every moment of it, whether it be moments spent with Jamie or whether they are moments spent with her friends, in and out of work, while also even being able to let hair down and be the casual care free fun woman she used to be when she was younger sometimes as well, knowing she owes this new life to her sister who she still greatly misses even seven years after the tragedy.
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Killed Victims
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Relationships

 * -|Jamie Murphy = At first Christine didn't have much of a relationship with her nephew. From the day that he was born, Chris was always too busy with her own life and going out with friends on care free parties. However despite this Chris still loved her nephew and would sometimes babysit him when her sister couldn't find anyone else to look after him. Although Jamie would still barely get to interact with his aunt and it wasn't until he was the age of 11 and his mother died tragically that he would get to be with his aunt more as she was able to become his legal guardian after she sorted some of her life out. From this point onwards, for the next seven years, the two of them managed to develop a strong bond with eachother and were soon loving eachother like a proper family. Now its a daily thing for them to tease eachother while clearly showing off a strong family bond between the two of them.
 * -|Emily Murphy = Christine had a mixed but still extremely strong relationship with her sister and was beyond devastated when she learned of Emily's tragic death. Emily had always been there to do her best to guide Chris through her early life ever since the younger sister was born despite Chris gaining a rebellious and care free attitude later in her teenager years which often caused arguements between the pair and leave Emily constantly bailing Chris out of trouble. Despite this, Chris was very grateful for her older sister taking her into her life, teaching her the important and non important things in life as well as looking after her and also constantly looked up to Emily as a role model, Chris's wish to become a police officer came from seeing Emily deal justice and become a famous officer. Later when Emily did indeed die, Chris decided to honor her recently deceased sister and forced herself to sober up so she can then take care of her sister's son. Emily's death is what led Chris to become the better woman that she is today and seven years after the tragedy, Chris still misses her sister dearly.

Trivia
Christine is one of the bisexual characters in Dead Marked.

Christine was originally going to be the sister of Jamie and then it was changed to being his mother. Finally it was settled on her being his aunt to have something different from the usual.

Christine's personality is confirmed to purposly having been made slightly similiar to "Aunt Cass" from Big Hero 6 in terms of supportiveness and how she can be extremely nice. The other parts of her personality however were decided on there own.