Character Profile: Shu'la Alsari

Shu'la Alsari

Age: 46
Date of Birth: Friday, October 28th, 1960
Gender: Female
Occupation: Undercover FBI Agent (in most of the stories)
Gets paid: as much as $117,000/year by 2006
Lives in: Washington, DC
Born in: Kabul, Afghanistan
Languages: can speak one or both of the Afghan languages (Dari or Pashto), English, and has learned some Arabic
Relationship status: dating Karim Golshan
IQ: ??
MBTI type: INTJ

Physical Description
Height: 5'6"
Weight: ~ 150-160 lbs
Hair: Dark brown
         She has long, somewhat wavy hair, which she usually wears back in a ponytail or a braid.
Eyes: Brown
Skin: Olive
Dress style: She wears about a size 10 but because she is a little short, pants are often a little too long for her. For work, (when she isn't undercover) she usually wears a black suit with a skirt, white shirt.
Outside of work she usually wears jeans or shorts and a t-shirt, whatever is comfortable. The clothes she wears aren't out of style, but she doesn't dress like a high school kid.
When she dresses up to go out she usually a skirts or nice pants. She likes wearing high heels, and even though they make it harder for her to walk, she still wears them a little too often.

She walks with an obvious limp, due to the pain and damage to her right sciatic nerve from the bombing in 2001 where she was injured. She is in constant pain that ranges from very mild to debilitating, depending on the day. She has recurring problems with one or a few of the intervertebral discs in her back, once causing cauda equina syndrome. Simple things such as sleeping in the wrong position, bending over, twisting her body to look behind her, or lifting heavy things incorrectly can bring on the excruciating pain that leaves her almost unable to move. However, over the years she has had to deal with this, she has learned to cope with and even ignore most of the pain, most of the time.

Personality
(Copied from typelogic.com)
Projects an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence, which can sometimes be mistaken for arrogance.
Perfectionist, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest.
apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms.
possess the unusual trait combination of imagination and reliability.
both perfectionism and disregard for authority may come into play, as INTJs can be unsparing of both themselves and the others on the project. Anyone considered to be "slacking," including superiors, will lose their respect -- and will generally be made aware of this
have a gift for seizing opportunities which others might not even notice.
Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel. While they are capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and are willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that make them so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead them in interpersonal situations.
many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation
extremely private people, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes them easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense.
Probably the strongest INTJ assets in the interpersonal area are their intuitive abilities and their willingness to "work at" a relationship. Although as Ts they do not always have the kind of natural empathy that many Fs do, the Intuitive function can often act as a good substitute by synthesizing the probable meanings behind such things as tone of voice, turn of phrase, and facial expression. This ability can then be honed and directed by consistent, repeated efforts to understand and support those they care about, and those relationships which ultimately do become established with an INTJ tend to be characterized by their robustness, stability, and good communications.
(This is part of why she can be such a good undercover agent ... she has learned how to read people ...)