{"id":1143,"date":"2017-06-17T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2017-06-21T22:19:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T02:19:20","slug":"character-portrait-sten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/character-portrait-sten\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Portrait: Sten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Full Name:<\/strong><\/em> Sten Ander<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sten-cartoonized-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1147\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sten-cartoonized-2-e1497573851694-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sten-cartoonized-2-e1497573851694-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sten-cartoonized-2-e1497573851694.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Occupation:<\/strong><\/em> Seattle Vice Squad Police Detective<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gender:<\/strong><\/em> Male<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sexual Orientation:<\/strong><\/em> Hetero<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hair:<\/strong> <\/em>Brown<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Eyes:<\/strong> <\/em>Brown<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Height:<\/strong> <\/em>6&#8242; 1&#8243;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Weight: <\/strong><\/em>190\u00a0lbs<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hobbies:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Smoking, drinking, mind games<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Background:<\/em><\/strong> Sten spent a chunk of his youth in Eastern Europe, then moved to the United States at some point&#8230;beyond that, he won&#8217;t say. He met Val\u00a0when they served in\u00a0the Army together,\u00a0and they had a brief\u00a0yet intense sexual relationship. After the Army, he joined the Seattle police force and worked his way up to detective on the Vice Squad. He occasionally helps Val with her cases, though not before antagonizing her and playing a few mind games at her expense.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Beneath the Surface:<\/strong><\/em> Underneath Sten&#8217;s laidback asshole demeanor\u00a0is an intelligence and purpose he rarely shows to people. He never does anything without a reason, though what his ultimate goals are is anybody&#8217;s guess. Sometimes he helps Val, and sometimes he tries to kill her. Who&#8217;s side he&#8217;s on at any moment is a mystery.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Appears in:<\/strong> Vengeance, Retribution, Reckoning<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full Name: Sten Ander Occupation: Seattle Vice Squad Police Detective Gender: Male Sexual Orientation: Hetero Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Height: 6&#8242; 1&#8243; Weight: 190\u00a0lbs Hobbies:\u00a0Smoking, drinking, mind games Background: Sten spent a chunk of his youth in Eastern Europe, then moved to the United States at some point&#8230;beyond that, he won&#8217;t say. He met Val\u00a0when &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/character-portrait-sten\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Character Portrait: Sten&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,219,243,240,218],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reckoning","tag-retribution","tag-sten-ander","tag-valentine-shepherd-series","tag-vengeance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Vyi8-ir","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}