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Name: cerie Age: 38 Contact: Timezone: est Other Character(s): n/a - also apping Imriel de la Courcel |
Name: Christine Chapel Door: DOOR PASS - SUBMISSIVE Canon: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Canon Point: Episode 2x10 Age: 30s Appearance: Platinum blond hair, blue eyes, thin History: here CR AU (Optional): n/a Personality: Passionate: Whether it comes to her work or her friends, Christine Chapel is passionate about what she does. There's nothing she loves more than practicing medicine on the Enterprise and nothing is too small or too mundane for her to throw 110% into. This passion makes it so that she thinks outside the box more than once when there's a medical mystery to be solved and any scrap of knowledge she's picked up during her time in Starfleet is something important to be used later, no matter how obscure it might be. She pursues more esoteric academia with the same passion, working hard to get a special fellowship to study ancient medicine with a Vulcan science fellowship and, when she's rejected, to apply to another fellowship to help realize that dream despite the setback. It's this passion that also makes her care deeply for people and empathize with them, something any great nurse or doctor needs. When Spock has issues with his fiancee, T'Pring, Chapel is the first to give him advice on how to relate to her and see things from her perspective in hopes that her friend will find happiness. When her patients are afraid, she comforts them whether they speak her language or not (and sometimes those universal translators fail) and she isn't afraid to put her foot down for their own good. Self-Sabotaging: The other side of Chapel's deep empathy is her desire to keep from getting too attached to anything. If things get too close to her, if people want more than just a friendship, she will shoot it down rather than try to make it work. She's done this on several occasions - there's mention of a woman on Argelius II where the fling ended in "phaser fire" over a misunderstanding and another relationship with Lt. Devers from USS Skylark that Chapel was initially excited about because it was casual and ends with her calling him "boring" and breaking it off because he wanted to be more serious. Her most serious relationship seems to be with Spock, where her feelings develop while he's still engaged to T'Pring and only grow after she fakes being in love with him for a ruse. They date for a while but when things are too serious, Chapel breaks things off even though she cares deeply for him because it's too intense for her. All of these breakups are initiated by Chapel, even the ones she's particularly attached to, and it can be inferred she has a fear of long-term commitment to one person even if that person truly makes her happy (especially in the case of Devers and Spock). Reckless: Chapel is shown to be reckless, putting herself into situations on the ground where she might be more useful on the Enterprise as medical care for a returning field team. These reckless situations result in her getting hurt and, in one particular case, nearly dying. This recklessness is borne of her field experience during the Klingon War, emboldening her to put herself into front-line combat because she thinks she can "handle it" and while she's never defied direct orders, she hasn't used good judgment in every situation either. When Marie Batel is infected by Gorn eggs, she brings her aboard the Enterprise despite Batel's own wishes and the safety risk instead of standing up to Pike and protecting the crew from potential danger. She says she doesn't intend on giving up, again, in spite of the risk (she says she'll put up a shield but the Gorn are known to be a vicious and quickly reproducing species able to ravage through a ship in days.) In another incident, she agrees with M'Benga's plan to send a signal from a false flag Federation ship to the Enterprise to blow it up instead of trying to figure out a more rational plan and, instead, nearly kills herself in spite of accomplishing the goal. Projection: In several instances with Spock, Chapel projects a weakness of her own - expressing her emotions fully to someone else and exposing her heart. When he gets angry, she tells him that it's "good to get angry" and when he taps into his human side, she almost always encourages this behavior. This is in ways detrimental to Spock because he is in the midst of an engagement with T'Pring, who has very conservative Vulcan parents, and her parents expect him to act like a Vulcan more than a human. While there is a situation where Spock gets turned fully human and Chapel risks herself to get him changed back, she does clearly push him to be more human and open with his emotions several times even when it is not necessarily the best thing for him to do at the moment. It's exactly the thing she needs to do for herself to overcome her fear of intimacy but she hasn't quite figured that out yet. Powers and Abilities: Chapel is a skilled nurse with some knowledge of "ancient medicine" which would be the equivalent of our 21st century medicine. Inventory: Samples: |