OOC: AU History - Big City/Modern
At first glance, Nyota Uhura might seem like any other attractive, bright young woman making her way in The City. A recent graduate of City University, Nyota has always had a talent for languages - her fascination with linguistics and etymology, as well as her skill with translation, put her at the top of her class in the Ancient and Classical Languages department. After graduating last spring, Nyota was offered a job at The City's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology translating and analyzing ancient documents. Sometimes she spends all day in the curatorial labs, absorbed in Babylonian tablets or Egyptian papyrii, but often on her lunch breaks she gives visitors free tours - otherwise the job would get a bit lonely for someone as social as her. She loves her job, and is grateful for it, but there is another side of Nyota that few of her colleagues know about.
Nyota has always loved to sing. Her grandmother, who was a somewhat well-known jazz singer in the 1930's, always encouraged Nyota to pursue this passion. But her parents and teachers preferred to cultivate her academic talents, and always pushed music to the side as a mere flight-of-fancy. But Nyota has never been the kind of girl you can stifle. And this is why, several nights a week, she can be found performing in some of the city's hottest nightclubs. Very few of her friends know about this other life of hers (Hikaru Sulu, whom she knows from school, is one of the few she trusts with her pseudo-secret) - she'd prefer her fellow academics not have some excuse to take her less seriously, or regard her as some sort of oddity. And besides, she does it for the music, not the fame. So she separates these two halves of herself. When evening comes, her tight, professional ponytail is let down, her eyes are accented by smoky shadow, and her business attire is traded for vintage dresses and large sparkling earrings. The people who come to see her perform (she has a small but loyal following) know her only by her last name. To them she is just Uhura.
Nyota has always loved to sing. Her grandmother, who was a somewhat well-known jazz singer in the 1930's, always encouraged Nyota to pursue this passion. But her parents and teachers preferred to cultivate her academic talents, and always pushed music to the side as a mere flight-of-fancy. But Nyota has never been the kind of girl you can stifle. And this is why, several nights a week, she can be found performing in some of the city's hottest nightclubs. Very few of her friends know about this other life of hers (Hikaru Sulu, whom she knows from school, is one of the few she trusts with her pseudo-secret) - she'd prefer her fellow academics not have some excuse to take her less seriously, or regard her as some sort of oddity. And besides, she does it for the music, not the fame. So she separates these two halves of herself. When evening comes, her tight, professional ponytail is let down, her eyes are accented by smoky shadow, and her business attire is traded for vintage dresses and large sparkling earrings. The people who come to see her perform (she has a small but loyal following) know her only by her last name. To them she is just Uhura.