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2003-09-30 22:50OOC
Name we know you (the player) as: FalconPlurk and/or Discord contact: waryfalcon on both
May mods who do not have you on one or the other add you?: N/A
Triggers?: None at this time
IC
Basic Info
Character name: SkisanCharacter age: 57
Appearance: Skisan has curly black hair framing his face when he isn’t using the traditional haircut and lately has sported scruff as well. He also has a light/medium neutral skin tone and deep blue eyes. He has a hooked nose and sharp cheekbones along with his angled eyebrows and pointed ears. He is 6’ tall and while overall thin, he has a bit of a paunch. His blood is copper rather than iron based so there are subtle green undertones to his skin.
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Age of the Canon they are from: When is Star Trek not ongoing? But 2015 was the Legacy of Romulus update.
Relationships with any canon characters:
- N/A - He has had, at most, passing interactions with any canon character and was not particularly memorable in those interactions.
- Æn'kae - (But like a slightly AU one because -waves a hand vaguely at Star Trek-) - A Romulan/Vulcan hybrid who was taken in by the orphanage he helped run. He took him in as his ward when the orphange dissolved when Æn'kae was about sixteen. He plans to be a veterinarian, but made a detour into working with the Republic after Skisan's arrest.
- Kivea - A Romulan martial artist who helped with the orphanage. When everyone went their seperate ways, she tried to convince Skisan to go back to Vulcan, but he declined, and they parted ways with a fight he had not anticipated. She recently got back in contact with him and they've picked up talking over subspace.
- Major Lhihath - A member of the Tal Shiar who was behind the betrayal and arrest of Skisan and other 'enemies of the state' who had settled in Romulan colonies. As very few of his captives had any real intell, he was known to experiment on them and use them for labor.
- Ujehk - A Klingon poet and targ breeder who had the misfortune of running into the Major at a trade colony and got captured while defending someone from arrest. He was celled with Skisan.
History and Personality
Personality: Skisan is passionate, though he subscribes strongly to logic, he also sees it as pairing with that passion rather than replacing it. All of that to say, visibly he comes across as very restrained, and the emotions he allows aren’t worn on his sleeve. But they do show through his actions and commitment to causes. He cares deeply about people and if it comes down to it, he will defy convention to provide what people he cares about may need. He mixes idealism and realism, leaning faintly more to the former than the latter and will expect the best from people and offer his best in return. Like most Vulcans he is a vegetarian, but he's enough of a realist that he won't feel guilt if that's not an option.History:
Skisan was born on Vulcan in 2351 and grew up in the capital city with an older and younger sister. The Vulcan education system is rigorous and in addition to training for his mental abilities, he spent a lot of his childhood learning bout varying subjects. He was hard pressed to pick one that stood out as he was adequate at most, but he was not an exceptional student by any means. In his free time he explored with his sehlat, Pasol and played logic games with the other children. The most he excelled at anything was in playing music. He had an ear for writing and playing music, and his harp went with him almost any where. His parents had logically concluded he would pursue music as a career, and he quite agreed. He had multiple music institutes that had expressed interest in his preliminary application.
By the time he finished his education on Vulcan, something else caught his interest though. Vulcan had not responded gracefully to learn that their ambassador had gone rogue to start a movement on Romulus. For the most part, they chose to pointedly ignore it. Because when it came up, debates went in both directions. Skisan could hardly avoid overhearing some, when he had jobs lined up playing music at events. And the entire idea of the movement pulled at him. So he learned who to talk to and decided to offer his help. In 2370, when he was meant to go to the music institute on Trill, he went to Romulus instead. He settled in one of the cities, joining a chapter of the movement amidst other like-minded Vulcans and Romulans.
When there, he learned that the Romulans still had the same style harp, a fact he took advantage of, as his skill with the instrument did not make him stand out as Vulcan. Because of this skill, he was able to entertain at events and be the ears for his chapter of the movement. He rarely was never assigned to act on what he learned, but he had not missed that time when a senator who seemed to be a particular threat was found to be a traitor and arrested by the Tal Shiar. This was part of how the Romulan people operated, it might have been ruthless, but he could see the logic in it.
He remained with the movement after it went above ground. Then, and only then was he able to have a much delayed conversation with his parents at his decisions. Where they had been logical and thought-out, his parents were willing to acknowledge, but they pointed out icily where they had been impulsive, but he had simply been too absorbed to admit it. Overall, the conversation leaned towards accusatory, particularly when he expressed his plans to remain rather than picking his life back up or pursuing music.
He didn't regret the choice, he started taking advantage his education to tutor Romulan children. He still was tasked with keeping an ear on going-ons within the Star Empire, just in case the politicial situation turned for the worse. This was what the situation was like when word began to spread of the supernova that would catch up the Eisn system, it was only a matter of time. The Star Empire kept this from the people at large as long as they could, but started the process for evacuation, starting with the affluent, of course.
That was when the founder of the reunification movement came up with a plan to stop the disaster. Skisan hoped it would work, but he could not trust it, and he certainly did not trust the remaining factions of the Star Empire to work together to help the kids. So he put his head together with other Vulcans and Romulans from the movement and with Romulans he was working with as a tutor. Together they came up with the plan to start an orphanage, picking a moon trade colony near the borders of Romulan space, the Fvuras Enelia to set it up. They made certain that none of the children they had been working with remained behind, working to convince their families to come along at least for the first leg of their evacuation, by any means they could think of. As some were traditional or skeptical of the scope of the disaster, sometimes they had to find angles to lean on, and lean they did, not caring if the people never trusted them again so long as they left.
What they set up was intended to be a mixture of boarding school and orphanage. When the situation grew increasingly dire, they hired freighters to help with evacuations, most of whom were willing to work for little to no profit, and there were even a couple pirate ships that helped escort them, stopping others from taking advantage of the disaster to capture whole freighters full of people. Mostly they tried to convince whole families to come, but some did what Skisan suspected he would have done at that point if he hadn't already left to help set up a contingency plan. They stayed behind and sent their children ahead. If they could evacuate later, they would.
The time around The Loss was forever burned into Skisan's mind, both before and immediately after the twin worlds destruction. While Spock had succeeded in preventing the supernova from overtaking any of the colony worlds, something that could have wiped the Romulan race out entirely, he was lost in stopping in, and many blamed him(and by extension, all Vulcans) for failing to save the twin worlds. He was stressed himself, and all the anger and pain meant he shielded his emotions off more than he had before in his life. In the time that followed, most families left to go to colony worlds with only two remaining to help out, more focused on what they were doing than the fact that half the teachers were Vulcan.
All of their planning meant the orphanage fell into place, children from Romulus and Remus were brought to them. Not just by the ships they had hired, but by smaller rescue ships. In addition to teaching and housing them, the group researched where any members of children with known families had ended up and contacted them, cutting the amount of students down in half within the first few months. Some took longer to contact, others had been the children of bond servants or had no known families at alll and these formed the core group that remained.
Skisan taught music as well as meditation for any student that was interested in the latter. He got roped into helping with martial arts as well by the Romulan teach, Kivea, since he was the most acquianted with the Vulcan style. She was very frank for a Romulan and she and Skisan spent a great deal of time together when not working with the children. She couldn't carry a tune, but she could keep a beat, which worked out just fine, and Skisan found new materical to write for the first time since leaving Vulcan.
The orphanage ran smoothly, with some kids adopted each year, while preference was given to Romulans adopting them, they did not turn down adopters who showed a willingness to accept their cultuire. To say it ran smoothly, was not to say there were no bumps, each kid had problems that required creative solutions, and sometimes the teachers had to put their heads together to work them out. But Æn'kae in particular latched onto Skisan from a young age, showing up for meditation without fail. So when he demonstrated (by bringing a predator that should have eaten him) home one night, Skisan took up the responsibility of both correcting it. He continued to demonstrate signs of empathy. While Romulans could have minor mental abilities, it was a bit much naturally for that alone.
When he learned the boy was half Vulcan, he'd considered keeping it from the boy and prioritizing finding him a new home, because he was very much so Romulan, even with the mixed upbringing his entire life, and Skisan was certain he would have trouble accepting it. But Kivea, a Romulan, convinced him, a Vulcan, to be honest. (He may have hidden his amusement at the situation from everyone else, but she didn't miss it and was far too pleased with herself.) At least the blow was somewhat lessened by Skisan having Pasol brought from Vulcan, the aging Sehlat was only too pleased to become a companion to the young boy.
Within the next few years, most of the rest of the children were adopted, including when a group of Remans showed up and applied to adopt all the remaining Reman children. By 2400, there were more teachers left than students, and all of them were teens. So after a meeting, and factoring the growing Tal Shiar activity, they decided to part ways, each teen taken in as ward by one or more of the Romulan teachers, with the exception of Æn'kae who Skisan took in.
Kivea tried to convince Skisan to take Æn'kae and go back to Vulcan, or to any world within the Federation, but he declined, pointing out the boy's interest in animals and the Wildlife Reserve on Linees and that losing the Romulan part of his culture was all too likely and would do a great deal of harm to his ward. She kept pushing, citing Tal Shiar activity, even offering to come along. But when he didn't budge on it, she left, swearing under her breath about pompous know-it-all Vulcans. The argument confused him, as a wildlife reserve was hardly a likely target, even if a tutor and musician was likely to be a target.
He probably should have taken her more seriously. He didn't realize it at first. Æn'kae thrived in their new home and made the first close friend he'd seen, a young man named Nukhar who's mom worked at the Reserve. There was no world more suited for his ward. Until 2406 when he received an encrypted warning from Kivea to get out right away. The Tal Shiar was arresting any foreigner with what they considered to be a criminal background, no matter how trivial. And yes, he qualified and Æn'kae would too by association. Perhaps it was the last part that got his attention, or perhaps it was her contacting him after 6 years, and not even daring do so on an open channel.
He convinced Æn'kae they had to leave, Nukhar helping out by offering to come along as well. They left quickly, but Skisan's shuttle was not equipped to escape the Tal Shiar ambush, arranged by the very colony they had left. Major Lhihath hailed and listed the charges, "Working as a Foreign agent to sow sedition in the Romulan Star Empire." So Skisan took the only logical choice. He stopped the shuttle and turned himself in on the condition the Tal Shiar let the two innocents on the shuttle leave. He had been around Romulans too long to not anticipate a betrayal, but he counted on Nukhar to take advantage of the distraction he caused to get away. And he caused a distraction, using every fighting technique he knew the moment he was beamed over, buying Nukhar every second he could to warp away.
His time in captivity was a blur, sometimes he was forced into labor, sometimes he was subjected to tests, and in the aftermath of each he was a wreck, menatlly, emotionally. By the time he was rescued, his ability to modulate emotions had been damaged severely. But a rescue did come. Æn'kae had found allies in the Romulan Republic and they had arranged the raid in an effort to take out Major Lhihath. While the Major escaped, all his prisoners were rescued, Skisan included.
He helped out the Republic in the time following by teaching any children who needed it, first on the flotilla and then in the startup of a settlement on Mol'Rihan, New Romulus. He got what treatment he could, and it restored much of his former control, but the stronger emotions remained under the surface, raging. After having a panic attack while in the quarters with his ward, he determined he couldn't wait any longer to go back to Vulcan. If he'd had that same attack in a room with children, it could have ended in a very preventable disaster. So he returned to Vulcan for the first time in his adult life, getting the treatment he needed in a facility there. He had made one determination though, after all his time with Romulans. Logic was meant to be a companion to emotions, not a replacement, and he was pretty sure that was what Surak had originally intended. He needed to regain his ability to modulate extreme emotions, but not the automatic tendency to supress them.
Additional Info
Please list and explain the three worst (morally) things your character has ever done:- Provided intell that was used to frame a senator, which with the Tal Shiar meant a sentence of torture and death.
- Ignored his decaying emotional state because he wanted to help and in so doing he endangered the people he was trying to help.
- Completely ignored a warning from a friend, placing himself and his ward in danger.
- Started an orphanage to help children who were seperated from their families or who lost them entirely.
- Surrendered to Tal Shiar to keep his ward safe.
- Joined a cause he believed in, even though doing so took him lightyears away from home and put him at risk.
- Joined a cause he believed even though doing so uprooted his life.
- Helped frame a senator with the Tal Shiar
- Started an orphanage to help children who were seperated from their families or who lost them entirely.
- Completely ignored a warning from a friend, placing himself and his ward in danger.
- Surrendered to Tal Shiar to keep his ward safe.
- Ignored his decaying emotional state and in so doing he endangered others.
Do you consider your character a hero, an anti-hero, a good aligned side kick, a bystander, a victim, a fence sitter, a mercenary, an evil aligned side kick, a villain, or something else? Why?: He is a hero, not in the traditional sense. He's not been involved in many fights, but he has bettered a lot of lives.
Do you think your character should start on the Isle or in Auradon? Why?: Some day I will manage to flesh out a character for the Isle, Skisan is not that character, I'm afraid. (He would willingly go for the sake of the kids there if given a choice, which honestly just furthers that point.)
Which of those two would you prefer your character to start in?: We all know the Isle won't work. But I gotta try XD
Are you still interested in having this character in this game at this time if that preference is not met?: Look, I already know he's gonna end up in Auradon and that's just fine.
Powers and Abilities: Limited Telepathy, his range is short and he isn't the most powerful telepath, but he has a great deal of training and control to back it up. He can instigate mindmelds and manipulate shared mindscapes. He is very unlikely to share anything with anyone unless he fully intends to. He can faintly pick up what is broadcast to him, but even that he shields enough he wouldn't be influenced by it. As a Vulcan he has heightened senses and is physically stronger and faster than human standard. He's not particularly athletic by Vulcan standards, but he is at least 2-2.5x on both.
What clothing/items did your character arrive with?: Clothing: He has Vulcan robes in a tan color and a blue overrobe, both have accent embroidery. - Items: His Vulcan harp in a case, a PADD with music, his own included
Optional- What do you have to keep in mind when playing this character?: While he was actively undergoing treatment for damage done when he was arrested, his emotional control still has some cracks, so while he is calm the vast majority of the time, there is a small chance of that control breaking, and Vulcanoids are physically incredibly strong with very powerful base emotions which means this would... not go well.
What mod candy, if any, does your character bring?: I can't think of anything really.
What else do you think the mods should know about your character or their canon?: Star Trek is weirder than any of us remember. Like. Fffff.
Any questions?: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen sha'vokh?