Paul Duncan was born into a very abusive home. By the time he was seven he was placed into a foster care home he didn't much care for. He was in and out of foster homes, homeless shelters and juvie all throughout his adolescence. By the time he turned 19 he had made a reputation of winning fights and pickpocketing so well that you never even knew it was happening. He caught the eye of the most notorious gang in the city and was quickly learning the ropes to become a criminal mastermind. He was well-suited for this lifestyle, with his mischievous personality and compulsion to theft. As he climbed the criminal ladder he found new ways to hurt others including voodoo! Eventually he even became a criminal Boss. Life was good and all was well...that is until the fire nation attacked. 

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War broke out in the Sim world and being that he was young and fit, Paul was drafted. At first it wasn't so bad; he was the strongest, fastest, most cunning of everyone in boot camp. He figured this would be a piece of cake, after all, he had been in several gang wars before...but an actual war proved very different. Not only did his workout and fighting style change, but also his perception. He managed to make some real friends, and after seeing the pain and suffering of the innocents in the war, he determined that he was no better than the evil men they were fighting. How many times had he watched people cry or scream because of his actions or those of his gang? How was he so unempathetic before? I mean, he wasn't really hurting anyone right? Stealing isn't the same as murder. But...it does cause the victims pain....maybe he really was a bad guy. As he looked at himself in the mirror, he realized that with all this extra exercise his body had changed, it had become stronger, better. And if the outdside of his body can change, then why couldn't he change the inside too? Why not make his personality better? So he returned all of the objects he had stolen and got rid of the "gifts" his old gang boss had given him. Well, all but one; he figured it would be a good idea to keep one momento of his past to remind him NOT to become that person again. Paul became a model soldier, won many medals, and helped to win the war!

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He was asked to remain in the military and train the new recruits, but he thought his time would be better served as a detective. He wanted to help stop the people that were doing the things he used to do. He learned quickly that knowing the people in the city and having a good reputation goes a long way in helping to solve crimes. Unfortunately for him that wasn't going to be easy. It was easy to make friends in the military because they were the only people around and they were all experiencing the same situation. But civilians have different situations, different ideals, and many of them didn't need his friendship. He would have to make a concentrated effort at being nice. This got easier with time, and soon enough he developed a good reputation around town. Even so, it was hard to let go of the past. He once walked a criminal right out the front door of the prison, pretending the charges had been dropped. Little did the other detectives know that criminal was once a member of Paul's gang.

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But overall he really took to the detective lifestyle; turns out some of those scoping and running skills from his bad days were very useful for stake outs and chasing. He was catching bad guys left and right, feeling great about it, and he was even awarded the Seal of Solidarity and Strength. One day he caught one of his past gang members in the middle of a heist. It was the youngest member he ever recruited to his gang once he became a boss. He couldn't turn him in, but he couldn't let him roam free either; at least, not until he'd had a chance to try to reform him. Paul locked him up in a cell with minor charges, where he could keep an eye on him, but also protect him from the law. It was from this criminal that Paul learned of a diamond heist about to occur. He went to the location, stopped the heist, and caught the bad guys. For this amazing feat Paul was officially named Chief of the department!

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As chief he created a diamond task force to fight off diamond thieves, but it soon became clear to him that the best person for that job was in fact himself. After all, he used to be one! He decided to give up his prestigious chief position to become a secret agent. But first, he released his (now reformed) criminal from his cell with a reminder that if he ever saw him engaging in crime again, next time he wouldn't show mercy. He began his career by browsing intelligence websites and going on stake-outs. But it seemed no matter how hard he tried, the criminals were always one step ahead of him. HIM! The GANG BOSS, the MILITARY MARVEL, the CHIEF!!! How?!?! Paul realized that to stop these criminals the lines between Good and Evil would have to blur. He used his new detective skills to kindly enter homes of potential suspects, then used his old voodoo skills to tranquilize them. While they slept he would gather DNA samples and search the home for suspicious objects to take home and analyze. He thought, "It's alright, I'll analyze the object and sneak it back to their house tomorrow. They'll never know it was gone!"

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Eventually he narrowed his suspect pool to five people, but wondered how he could keep an on each of them consistently? Then he remembered an old story his war buddies used to tell, about a scientific base somewhere in Strangerville with some peculiar plants. The soldiers in that story used hyper-inhanced "bugs" to spy on people, and Paul wondered if there might be any left over. He traveled to Strangerville and spoke with the local authority (local nutjob is more like it), and managed to acquire some of these special bugs himself. Using his old pickpocketing skills he bugged his prime suspects and listened for any clues. Paul heard something about a secret invention book and thought perhaps the bad guys had found a device to get past lasers. But to his dismay the book was written by a crazy person who just rambled on about space ships. After many days of listening and spying at last Paul found the leader and captured him.

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With the help of some intense interrogation Paul learned, to his great surprise, that all of that space ship invention stuff was real! The criminals had found a way to build a rocket ship and use it for interstellar smuggling! He only had two choices: give up now or become an astronaut. Paul never was the type to give up, so he started on the path to learning all there was to know about outerspace. And you what? He really enjoyed it. He loved to gaze at the night sky and would point out constellations to anyone that crossed his path, no matter how annoying that might be. He learned the conventional way of making rockets and studied Crystal Vu's Top Secret Inventions book for further insight, like the importance of drinking a Space Energy Drink before space travel to ensure your body can handle the trip. In no time at all he was traveling through the cosmos capturing bad guys and locking them up!

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The years passed on and Paul could not help but feel a great sense of accomplishment. But with it came a great sense of lonliness. He had friends, but none really knew his past. If he were to reveal his bad boy days to his current cop friends, they may very well lock him up for it! And he had never been in love before because the demands of the job never allowed him the time. He longed for some kind of a deeper relationship, but had no idea how to acquire one. One day, as he floated through the cosmos he came across a planet he'd never seen before. Hoping to find some new crystals for his collection he landed on the surface. As the door to his capsule opened he was met by an alien! And not just some blob in an aquarium, but a human-like alien that could walk and talk to him. The alien immediately told him things about himself that no one could've possibly known, unless of course they could read minds. Afraid and embarrassed by his past, he asked the alien what it wanted of him. To his surprise the alien held out a beautiful alien crystal and handed it to Paul. "It's for your collection", the alien said. Clearly this alien was unbothered by his evil past and was unconcerned about his trespassing on this planet. And with that, Paul thought that perhaps this might be the start of that deep relationship he'd been longing for.