OOC INFORMATION

Name: sel.
Contact Information: iothe
Personal Journal: belief
Age: 20 years-old.
Characters Played: irene adler & natasha romanova.
Who Referred you: uhh, myself? julya, i guess!

IN-CHARACTER INFORMATION

Name: Nyota Uhura.
Fandom: Star Trek (Reboot).
Age: Estimated early 20s. Exact age unknown.
Canon Point: Post-Star Trek: Into Darkness.
Original Universe or Alternate Universe? OU.

Personality:

To be perfectly honest, Nyota Uhura is a ball of sass, kick ass, intelligence, emotion and linguistics rolled up into one and stuck into body. A really nice body.

Extremely professional when on the bridge and dealing with unknown superior officers, Uhura tends to act very differently when around the bridge of the Enterprise. She's not afraid to stand up for what she believes to be right, especially when it is a reading at her station or comforting a crew member in need (even when he happens to be your superior officer, commander and former professor, and there happens to be a tryst going on in the elevator, let's be real here, that was not ok by the Starfleet regulations). Uhura also has a keen understanding that when acting in a professional capacity, regardless of personal feelings or relationships, it's important to continue acting admirably. Even when your superior officer and boyfriend-thing is in a volcano facing certain death and you can't do anything about it.

She's a go-getter. If she wants something, she'll stop at nothing to achieve it - this quality assisted her in the academy as she pursued one of the hardest specialties, xenolinguistics, and in her professional life as she rises through the ranks of Starfleet. It also assists her in her personal life, however, and romantically through her pursuance of Spock and refusal to give up despite their difference in rank and the complications that may arise due to his being Vulcan and her being human. Even when a situation seems most grim, Nyota refuses to give up due to her belief in herself and her confidence that she won't fail - she resembles her Captain in that way.

She's not above using sarcasm as a device to cut men down to size, however, on several occasions, regardless of rank. On the Enterprise, her sarcasm and humanism is arguably her best weapon against the situations that they face on a day to day basis.

Her compassion, though often veiled by her sarcasm, It is her confrontation with Spock about his facing death seemingly emotionlessly that forces Kirk to evaluate his own confrontations with death; her comforting of Spock after the loss of Vulcan that shows allows him to embrace his human side and morn his mother before going back to the chaos of the ship. She also is able to convince Spock to allow Khan to live, for the benefit of saving the Captain from death -- anyone else might have been unable to reach him given his anger.

Unfortunately, Nyota is often emotional to a fault, allowing her anger to get the best of her in situations where a clear head might be the best - fighting with Spock during their descent to Chronos might not have been the best choice and may have even hindered their noticing a following Klingon ship. Additionally, her temper is one of her worst faults and puts her at a definite disadvantage to someone who can manage to keep theirs; she doesn't think as clearly when angry and it doesn't take overly much to set her off, if you know what buttons to press. If you're being polite, you can call her 'passionate'; if not, she's 'hot-tempered' and 'mercurial'.

Nyota is highly intelligent; straight out of the academy, she's assigned to the Farragut Enterprise upon her first mission and given the rank of lieutenant, then raised to head communications officer. Her intelligence may make her seem aloof, but is an asset when traveling through space and serves the Enterprise well; she's not so much a genius as she is well-trained and to the normal person, she might just appear to be a normal woman.

Background:

One and two.

Other Notables:

Inventory:

☌ a six pack of pabst blue ribbon
☌ sanctum approved communication device
☌ 3 pieces of empanadas
☌ a targ
☌ undergarments
☌ sanctum approved vehicle
☌ livingston, the fish from picard's aquarium

SAMPLES

NETWORK SAMPLE:

here @ the test drive meme

LOG SAMPLE:

It was a surreal feeling, watching the person you loved fall in love with someone else. Like dancing in slow motion, each of them revolving in slow circles around one another; slowly, with each orbit, Spock moved ever further out of her reach and into Jim's arms, further away from where she could reach him and draw him back. Did they even remember her? Sometimes she thought that they were too wrapped up in each other to even recall that there was a third person in this dance, a third party who was being irrevocably shattered.

Shattered, but not broken. Five years would be made too long if she allowed this to break her.

Sometimes, though. Sometimes, she needed a doctor. That was where Dr. McCoy came in, wrapping her in bandages and keeping her safe when she thought her entire body would fly apart into little tiny shards of the person that she thought she was. And sometimes, she was ok and he wasn't and she could handle that - she could help. She was a strong person and there wasn't anything wrong with needing another person.

But today? Today she was not ok, and she knew the moment he stepped in the bathroom, she didn't have a way to hide it. Standing under the hot spray of the shower, hugging herself, she'd had an epiphany of sorts.

No matter how many times that Spock slid into bed with her and held her as she slept, no matter how many times he came home to her; he was never coming back. He was already gone.

Turning large, red-rimmed eyes on McCoy, Nyota took a deep, shuddering breath.

"I..."

And that was as far as she got, before a ragged sob threatened to escape and she clamped her mouth closed, instead hitting the button to open the shower, wordlessly inviting him in.