Dana Scully

Name:	Dana Scully
Occupation:	FBI agent
Title/Rank:	Special Agent
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Dana Scully is a main character on the FOX television show The X-Files. Her partner is Fox Mulder.

Dana Katherine Scully was born on February 23, 1964, and has three siblings: Charles, William Jr., and Melissa (murdered during the course of the show). She comes from a Navy family; both William Sr. and Jr. are seen in uniform. She is a practicing Roman Catholic, and wears a gold cross at her throat.

Scully is a pathologist by training, and often performs autopsies in the course of her work with Mulder. She has a medical degree (prerequisite for pathology) and a bachelor's degree in physics. She often acts as a logician and brake on the wild speculation of her partner, demanding that his theories conform to evidence and reason. One early line for which she is famous goes as follows: "Nothing happens in contradiction to nature; only in contradiction to what we know of it."

Agent Scully is very short and wears high heels almost all the time.

Fannish engagement with the character

OBSSE, the Order of the Blessed Saint Scully the Enigmatic, was a society formed specifically to appreciate this character, as was the Scullyfic mailing list.

Another group, SWILS, challenged their self-defined sexualities, being Straight Women In Love With Scully.

Fanon about the character

Agent Scully's hair always smells like strawberries.

Scully-centric Fanfiction

Much Scully-centric fiction can be found at the ScullySlash archive, which features "fanfiction, slash stories focused on Dana Scully, a gallery of images of Dana Scully, email lists to discuss and post fiction about...that's right, Dana Scully."

Notable Scully stories include:

• The Sin-Eater, by Jane Mortimer

Scully-centric art

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Scully-centric vids

• Not Only Human by Laura Shapiro and Killa
• Fall in the Light - Gwyneth
• Have You Seen Me Lately by Lyle