Bio: Christine Chapel

Jun 29, 2011 13:14

Name: Christine Chapel
Fandom: Star Trek
Canon point: Post-movie (XI)



{| christine chapel. |}

"turn your head and cough."

age/dob: 21; 2237
affiliation: Starfleet
occupation: Head Nurse of USS Enterprise
sexual orientation: straight
misc/other:

This Christine is from the rebooted Star Trek movie (XI), and is from an alternate reality. Therefore, she differs greatly from the Nurse Chapel from the original series. The reason I've changed Christine's history and moved away from the canon character is twofold. First, the rebooted movie takes place in 2258. In the original series, Chapel didn't even join Starfleet until after 2261, yet she was called by name in the reboot. Therefore, her history had to change. The second reason is because this rebooted version is an alternate time line. Whatever the characters' lives might have been were changed when the Romulans changed history. It is also noted by the older, original Spock, that the crew had already lived their lives in his time, therefore original Christine already existed, and lived, while this alternate version has a slightly differing background, motivations, etc.

{| personality. |}

Christine has a no nonsense attitude. Usually if she has a problem with something or someone, she is not afraid to state so, unless the situation involves her superior officers. In cases such as those, she will be less blunt unless she knows the officer well enough to know they would not reprimand her for being candid. She has an air of being carefree and will let few things bother her, unless it's an important issue to her, such as an injured or ill person refusing medical treatment. She also has a caring bedside manner, unless the person is too much of a whiner, in which case Christine will be less than sympathetic.

Christine tends to depend on herself for things, not wanting to rely on others. This stems from childhood, when her parents grew tired of attending all her ballet recitals and eventually stopped coming to them altogether. Not letting herself rely on others means there's no opportunity for them to let her down, as well as the fact that her accomplishments are hers alone. As the Head Nurse of the Enterprise, Christine still carries that drive to succeed and prove herself to be the best. Her career is the most important thing to her, and she throws herself into her work. She controls the inner workings of the medical bay, from stocking and reordering their inventory, to doing physicals and treating minor injuries, to assisting in surgeries, to assigning duties to her nursing staff, to making the rounds. Despite the loner nature she adopted in her teens, she has to begrudgingly issue duty rosters to her fellow nurses and therefore has adapted to interact with them. She's become more open with them, even a little bit trusting, but if Christine had the time and resources, she would gladly be in control of everything in the medical bay herself. She is already very serious and dedicated to her work for her age.

That doesn't mean she doesn't know how to relax and have fun though. In her personal life, Christine likes to party and enjoy herself, as long as the people she's partying with don't make asses out of themselves. She can be flirty, and is sexually active, though at this point in her life, she doesn't want to be involved in a romantic relationship. She says it's because she wants to focus on her career, and while that's true, it also goes back to her trust issues and not wanting to rely on those who she assumes will let her down.

At times, she second guesses her decision to push aside romance in favor of her career, worrying about her future and if she'll have romance then, or if not, if pushing it aside during her younger years was worth it. But then her insecurities rise, and she reminds herself that she can only depend on herself. It could be said that she's afraid of love, but she hides behind the mantra that she's focusing on her career. Yet she's still very young, despite her maturity when it comes to work, and things may change as she discovers more about herself personally, and realizes there could be more to life than just work and friends.

pet peeves:whiners, lazy people
favorites: praise, a job well done, science, ballet
habits/ticks: pet names, throwing in French words

{| appearance. |}

Christine is 5'6" and slim with blond hair and blue eyes. She has no identifiable marks or scars. When on duty, she often wears her hair up in a bun, twist, or ponytail, though she's been known to braid it as well. Off duty she'll usually wear it down, and curl it too. At times she'll experiment with changing her look, just for something different. Mainly she does this through dying her hair, but once she gets tired of it, which she always does, it goes back to blond. She usually wears jewelry and makeup on duty, and puts on more if she's going to a bar or party. Her uniform of choice is the short sleeved dress in science blue (because it shows off her dancer's legs), whereas the rest of her nurses wear the white and gray uniform dresses. Call it a perk of being Head Nurse.

pb: Candice Accola

{| history. |}

Christine was born in 2237 in New Orleans, LA on Earth to Lauren and Patterson Chapel. From a young age she had a great interest in ballet, and took lessons for twelve years. She had plans of making it as a professional ballerina, an incredibly hard profession to break into, and so from her early childhood to throughout her teens, Christine showed an intense drive to go after what she wanted. She had other interests, of course, but ballet was her one true love.

As her parents lost interest in her extracurricular activities and showed less support, that made Christine all the more determined to get them to pay attention. She strove for excellence in everything she did, from school, to ballet, to sports she joined, to having the perfect boyfriend to bring home to her parents. But high school boys are far from perfect, and when she realized she couldn't mold them to be what she wanted, she decided she was better off without them. As her teens progressed and she slowly became aware that her parents just didn't share or really support her interests, she came to the conclusion that she couldn't depend on them, or on anyone else, for anything. This shaped her to be a bit of a loner, but also gave her an intense drive to prove herself to be capable all on her own.

She had interests besides ballet, however, such as softball, volleyball, singing, cooking, and science. Though she aced every class she took, her favorites were those that dealt with science, specifically biology. She never pictured herself as anything other than a ballerina though, and so she didn't consider at that point that she could do anything in the field of science.

That changed at age sixteen. Ever since puberty hit, she and her fellow ballerinas were constantly pressured to lose weight. For years she went along with the desires of her coach, which she figured must be her desires too, as she wanted to be the best ballerina possible. Christine was constantly hungry and very unhealthy. From her extensive knowledge of human biology, she knew she wasn't healthy. The weight loss affected her mood, making her depressed, and even caused her to black out several times. This was a turning point in her life, as she tried to justify how something that hurt her so much could still make her happy.

She struggled on, trying to justify how it would be worth it in the end, when she had made it as a professional ballerina. Her plans after high school ended were to get into Juilliard, which would help launch her into her career, but one day that all changed. With her mood constantly fluctuating between depression and anger, a comment from her ballet coach hinting that she might make it into Juilliard if only she lost a bit more weight infuriated Christine so much that she quit her lessons right there and then and walked out of the studio. After that, her anger sustained her for awhile, but then she had her doubts, as people often do, and wondered if she should apologize and ask to return. But she weighed the pros and cons and decided her health wasn't worth it. It nearly broke her heart, but she gave up on being a professional ballerina.

After giving up the possibility of a future career in ballet, she turned to her next love, science, specifically biology. As is Christine's nature, she had to throw herself into something else, so that she could excel in it. She began narrowing down the field until she found something on which she wanted to focus on and study obsessively. She chose medicine, and her determined drive was perfect for the field, where steady hands and snap decisions meant the difference between life and death.

Her senior year, a Starfleet recruiter came to her school to urge students to consider joining. Christine was not much interested until she happened to notice a pamphlet with information regarding Starfleet Medical. She fell in love with the idea, and her practical side noted that one couldn't beat free when it came to their education. As graduation approached, she decided on nursing for her concentration, with a five year mission afterward. Once that was accomplished, she would reevaluate herself and determine whether she wanted to continue with her education to become a doctor and stay in Starfleet. I take this ambition from Original Christine, who did obtain her Doctorate by 2271.

On graduating in 2255 she joined Starfleet's Medical Academy. Christine was ambitious and wanted to be assigned to the new flagship Starfleet was building in Iowa. Nothing but the best ship with the newest technology aboard would do for her. She even had plans of becoming Head Nurse, though she knew whoever was already assigned Head Nurse would have to transfer or retire first.

In 2258, she and her fellow cadets at the Academy were called to answer a distress call from Vulcan, as most of the Fleet was engaged too far away to answer the call. She was assigned to her first choice ship, the newly built USS Enterprise, which was going out on its maiden voyage. Upon arriving above Vulcan a bit later than her fellow starships after a delay, the Enterprise found itself to be the only surviving ship, and was promptly attacked by a rogue Romulan ship, which had just destroyed the others. Christine was knocked around in the attack, but not injured, and she quickly got her bearings, assisting in healing the wounded. Once the Romulans were defeated, the Enterprise returned to Earth and Christine finished her classes in time to depart on the repaired ship for her five year mission. As the previous Head Nurse had been killed in the attack above Vulcan, Christine was promoted to Head Nurse, based on her actions and how she kept a cool head and directed her fellow nurses during the attack.

{| misc. |}

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{| ooc. |}

name: Megan
age: 28
timezone: EST (GMT -5)
aim: withoutastar

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