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Name: Froda
Livejournal Username: froda_baggins
E-mail: frodabaggins@gmail.com
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Current Characters at Luceti: Nymphadora Tonks-Lupin auror_dora
Character
Name: Lieutenant Nyota Uhura
Fandom: Star Trek XI
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Time Period: post-movie, stardate 2258
Wing Color: black-and-white striped
History: Uhura @ Memory Alpha and for completionist purposes Prime!verse Uhura since I do take some minor canonical facts/background info from the prime-verse Uhura.
Personality: Uhura is passionate, smart, confident in her abilities and ambitious. She's a perfectionist by nature and accepts nothing less from herself than the absolute best. She has a dry, sarcastic sense of humor that she often uses as a defense mechanism. She's outgoing and lively, but she rarely shares information about herself. It can take a while to earn her trust enough that she will confide in someone, but she is an incredibly loyal and caring friend to those who have earned her trust and friendship. Her main interest has always been language - she grew up bilingual in English and Swahili, and went into the xenolinguistics program at Starfleet Academy. Alongside that, she has a love of music - she's an accomplished singer and was Vice President of the Chorale Ensemble at the Academy. She's always particularly liked Vulcan music and poetry - the structural logic combines with deep underlying emotion that she finds very moving.
Strengths: Uhura's primary strength is language - not only is she exceptional (practically a prodigy) at learning new languages, but she is gifted with the ability to tactfully negotiate her way out of many situations, when she chooses. She is proficient in 83% of Federation-recognized languages and dialects, and fluent in several of them. In short, she has a way with words.
Physically, she's not very imposing, but she was a decent sprinter in school.
Emotionally, while Uhura tends to keep things close to the chest, she is unendingly loyal to those who have earned her trust. She's also quite good at reading people - picking up on how they may be feeling and saying whatever they need to hear. It's part of what makes her a good negotiator - she can use this to her advantage, but she usually chooses to help people she cares about - she has a relatively strong caretaker streak that shows itself when a loved one is hurting in some way.
Weaknesses: Physically, Uhura isn't much of a fighter. She knows basic self-defence but her talents generally lie elsewhere. She is often stubborn to a fault, and her perfectionism leads to sometimes being too hard on herself. She is slow to trust, and she's been known to use her sarcastic sense of humor as a defense mechanism, to keep people at a distance. She can be condescending to people she considers beneath her, as in her first reaction to James Kirk - sometimes she's too aware of how smart she is, and it can lead her to underestimate others, or not take them seriously when she ought to.
Samples
First Person: [Uhura has clearly figured out the basics of the little book in her hands. Her voice, when she speaks, is calm and collected, though someone who knows her well may sense a certain amount of tension underlying the words. Her speech sounds a bit rehearsed.]
My name is Lieutenant Uhura. I am Chief Communications Officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise. I am requesting a meeting with whomever is responsible for bringing me here. If I am allowed to make contact with my ship, I'm sure my captain will be prepared to negotiate reasonable terms for my release and return. Please be aware that further genetic tampering, or hostilities against any member of Starfleet will be considered a violation of Federation law.
I'm sure we can come to some kind of peaceable agreement.
I thought we were going to Alpha Centauri...
Third Person: Uhura was carefully examining the book in her hands. One would think her first interest would be the wings that had apparently sprouted out of her back since the last time she was conscious, but she'd quickly realized that she would need someone else to take a look at those - McCoy, if she could find him. Spock would tell her exactly what the odds were of that - infinitesimally small, no doubt, but a girl had to have some hope. But the book, the book she could poke and prod at will.
Uhura had never owned a book, a real book made of paper. It had been a couple of centuries since books went out of use completely. She knew about them, of course, and had seen a few, but she'd never held one, or used one at all. She had the sudden urge to say, "Fascinating," as she examined the object, but she quelled it.
Clearly, though, the book was something more - upon opening, the pages were largely blank, though flipping through them revealed what seemed to be handwritten entries. Some sort of communication device, maybe? The writing appeared as if by magic, or more likely some kind of primitive technology. Though, why anyone would want a primitive communication device disguised as an old-fashioned Earth book was beyond her. Still, it seemed to be the only option available to her - even her uniform had at some point been switched out for, well. She wasn't sure what it was, and she definitely wasn't going to think about who might've gone about dressing her in it.
When she started hearing voices speaking from the pages, she seemed to make up her mind very quickly. At least there wasn't anyone around to give her strange looks for speaking into an open book.
Name: Froda
Livejournal Username: froda_baggins
E-mail: frodabaggins@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: frodabaggins03 / N/A
Current Characters at Luceti: Nymphadora Tonks-Lupin auror_dora
Character
Name: Lieutenant Nyota Uhura
Fandom: Star Trek XI
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Time Period: post-movie, stardate 2258
Wing Color: black-and-white striped
History: Uhura @ Memory Alpha and for completionist purposes Prime!verse Uhura since I do take some minor canonical facts/background info from the prime-verse Uhura.
Personality: Uhura is passionate, smart, confident in her abilities and ambitious. She's a perfectionist by nature and accepts nothing less from herself than the absolute best. She has a dry, sarcastic sense of humor that she often uses as a defense mechanism. She's outgoing and lively, but she rarely shares information about herself. It can take a while to earn her trust enough that she will confide in someone, but she is an incredibly loyal and caring friend to those who have earned her trust and friendship. Her main interest has always been language - she grew up bilingual in English and Swahili, and went into the xenolinguistics program at Starfleet Academy. Alongside that, she has a love of music - she's an accomplished singer and was Vice President of the Chorale Ensemble at the Academy. She's always particularly liked Vulcan music and poetry - the structural logic combines with deep underlying emotion that she finds very moving.
Strengths: Uhura's primary strength is language - not only is she exceptional (practically a prodigy) at learning new languages, but she is gifted with the ability to tactfully negotiate her way out of many situations, when she chooses. She is proficient in 83% of Federation-recognized languages and dialects, and fluent in several of them. In short, she has a way with words.
Physically, she's not very imposing, but she was a decent sprinter in school.
Emotionally, while Uhura tends to keep things close to the chest, she is unendingly loyal to those who have earned her trust. She's also quite good at reading people - picking up on how they may be feeling and saying whatever they need to hear. It's part of what makes her a good negotiator - she can use this to her advantage, but she usually chooses to help people she cares about - she has a relatively strong caretaker streak that shows itself when a loved one is hurting in some way.
Weaknesses: Physically, Uhura isn't much of a fighter. She knows basic self-defence but her talents generally lie elsewhere. She is often stubborn to a fault, and her perfectionism leads to sometimes being too hard on herself. She is slow to trust, and she's been known to use her sarcastic sense of humor as a defense mechanism, to keep people at a distance. She can be condescending to people she considers beneath her, as in her first reaction to James Kirk - sometimes she's too aware of how smart she is, and it can lead her to underestimate others, or not take them seriously when she ought to.
Samples
First Person: [Uhura has clearly figured out the basics of the little book in her hands. Her voice, when she speaks, is calm and collected, though someone who knows her well may sense a certain amount of tension underlying the words. Her speech sounds a bit rehearsed.]
My name is Lieutenant Uhura. I am Chief Communications Officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise. I am requesting a meeting with whomever is responsible for bringing me here. If I am allowed to make contact with my ship, I'm sure my captain will be prepared to negotiate reasonable terms for my release and return. Please be aware that further genetic tampering, or hostilities against any member of Starfleet will be considered a violation of Federation law.
I'm sure we can come to some kind of peaceable agreement.
I thought we were going to Alpha Centauri...
Third Person: Uhura was carefully examining the book in her hands. One would think her first interest would be the wings that had apparently sprouted out of her back since the last time she was conscious, but she'd quickly realized that she would need someone else to take a look at those - McCoy, if she could find him. Spock would tell her exactly what the odds were of that - infinitesimally small, no doubt, but a girl had to have some hope. But the book, the book she could poke and prod at will.
Uhura had never owned a book, a real book made of paper. It had been a couple of centuries since books went out of use completely. She knew about them, of course, and had seen a few, but she'd never held one, or used one at all. She had the sudden urge to say, "Fascinating," as she examined the object, but she quelled it.
Clearly, though, the book was something more - upon opening, the pages were largely blank, though flipping through them revealed what seemed to be handwritten entries. Some sort of communication device, maybe? The writing appeared as if by magic, or more likely some kind of primitive technology. Though, why anyone would want a primitive communication device disguised as an old-fashioned Earth book was beyond her. Still, it seemed to be the only option available to her - even her uniform had at some point been switched out for, well. She wasn't sure what it was, and she definitely wasn't going to think about who might've gone about dressing her in it.
When she started hearing voices speaking from the pages, she seemed to make up her mind very quickly. At least there wasn't anyone around to give her strange looks for speaking into an open book.