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starfleetashell) wrote2021-09-04 07:55 pm
starfleetashell) wrote2021-09-04 07:55 pm
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OOC INFORMATION
Name: Rin
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Age: 30
Other Characters: Miles Edgeworth, Deon Wilson, Floofty Fizzlebean
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Beckett Mariner
Age: late 20s
Canon: Star Trek: Lower Decks
Canon Point: s2e7, "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie"
Character Information: Mariner @ Memory Alpha
Personality:
In all seriousness:
Ensign Beckett Mariner is the most-demerited officer in Starfleet. She's been promoted and demoted so many times it'd make a normal person's head spin. Not because she's incompetent, but rather because she resists moving up the rank ladder so much that she self-sabotages to keep herself from gaining responsibility she doesn't want. She was the top of her class in Starfleet Academy, and everyone thought she'd be the first from their year to reach the rank of Captain. Her perennial Ensign-hood is baffling and disappointing to her former classmates, who think she's throwing her life - and career - away. People think she's immature for her antics, but she's perfectly happy being a perennial Ensign while she figures her life out. The Cerritos is her fifth ship, and she was stationed on Deep Space Nine as well; she's no fresh-out-of-the-Academy newbie. Captain Will Riker (you know, the famous one) was even her mentor.
When Boimler calls her "Starfleet royalty" after finding out that her mother is the captain of their ship and that her father is an admiral, she hisses at him to shut up and threatens him to try and keep it quiet. She's a Starfleet brat, true, but she doesn't want any special treatment because of who her parents are. (She has a different last name, which obscures their connection.) When that information comes out, everyone on the ship sucks up to her, trying to give her the special treatment she feared. It gets to the point where she tries to transfer ships to get to one where nobody knows about her connections.
She's extremely calm and levelheaded in crisis situations, cracking jokes and being the source of morale, and trying to keep her other crewmates calm too. Her pain tolerance is so high that when she crash-lands and gets injured, she claims her injured arm is "just a fracture" and snaps the bone back into place, much to Boimler's dismay. She's very proud of her scars and views them as trophies of her Starfleet life, unlike many other officers who prefer to have their scars healed over by Starfleet Medical. She claims that she is always right due to her experience, and she knows all sorts of weird and obscure things about alien societies, including customs and languages. She's dated murderous aliens just to make her mom mad. Once she even defused a barfight by paying for the next five rounds...with a wallet she stole from someone else.
People tend to think of her as a badass fuck-the-rules person. When confronted about this, the implication being that she doesn't care about any rules and is entirely lackadaisical, she angrily says that she'd never break rules that would put her friends in danger, and that she only breaks "dumb rules" that keep her from being able to do her job. One example of the latter is that she procured advanced farm equipment for some aliens that they needed and wouldn't be able to get without going through Starfleet bureaucracy. She does her job and she does it well, but she doesn't mind breaking protocol to do it. In fact, she loves doing that.
Mariner is generally tight-lipped about her past aside from that she's served on five ships. She actually spreads rumors about herself that she's some kind of creepy black-ops agent to cultivate an air of mystique and mystery around herself, and the rumor is at least partially true, since she has done "off-the-books grey-ops stuff" with a Klingon general. She's able to get in good with a criminal element pretty easily due to her generally chaotic nature, but won't hesitate to strand them on alien planets if she needs to. Other tidbits about her past include that she was once trapped in a sentient cave for a week ("that's a dark place that knows things") and was once in a Klingon prison where she had to fight a yeti for her shoes.
She tries not to get close to people because every time she makes friends, they get transferred or killed, which is why she is so affected by Boimler's decision to take the promotion to the Titan and slip away in the middle of her shift without telling her. She acts like she doesn't care until she blows up at him for leaving without saying goodbye and for not apologizing about abandoning her. She even holds a grudge after that when he continues to bring up his time on the Titan, because of how abandoned she felt. There's a clear implication that she thinks he'd rather be having adventures there instead of being with his friends on the Cerritos, and she takes it very personally because of the very few friends she has.
Her friends mean everything to her. Once she trusts you, you're in #MarinerGang for life, whether you want to be or not (to which Boimler can attest, because she decided to be his mentor without consulting him). She'll take a phaser blast - or a trip to the brig - for you. She takes her "badass" reputation seriously, but is willing to sacrifice it to make a friend feel better about themselves. When Boimler thought that he wasn't cut out for Starfleet, she made an obvious "mistake" that he was able to pick up on and succeed where she "failed", because the alternative was Boimler being so dejected that he was going to quit. She even drove herself half-crazy trying to protect Boimler from the girlfriend she thought was a murderous alien, because she'd seen a friend get eaten by one before and didn't want that to happen again.
Trying to get Mariner to do something she doesn't want to do is like trying to drink a Klingon under the table. You can't do it! (...except she did. Okay, other people can't do it!) Even when Captain Freeman and Commander Ransom tried to get her to transfer of her own accord by giving her the worst tasks on the ship, she knew what they were up to and was determined not to let them win. She figured out how to make the tasks fun, even "Klingon prison stuff" like scraping carbon off the ship's carbon filters by betting on who could finish it first. When that didn't work, they tried to get her to quit by promoting her to Lieutenant and putting her on Captain Freeman's senior staff, but she was so stubborn that she stuck it out until she was able to get herself demoted by making fun of an Admiral in front of the Captain, embarrassing her and forcing her to demote Mariner again. She's going to get what she wants, no matter what. Watch out, Ryslig.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
- Clever
- Combative
- Anti-authoritarian
- Protective
- Loyal
- Resourceful
- Confident
- Stubborn
- Pragmatic
- Brave
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION?
Fits, please!
Opt-Outs:
- Lich
- Waldgeist
- Goblin
- Slime
- Vampire
- Naga
Roleplay Sample: September/October 2021 TDM
Name: Rin
Contact:
Age: 30
Other Characters: Miles Edgeworth, Deon Wilson, Floofty Fizzlebean
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Beckett Mariner
Age: late 20s
Canon: Star Trek: Lower Decks
Canon Point: s2e7, "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie"
Character Information: Mariner @ Memory Alpha
Personality:
Boimler: Beckett Mariner...how do I begin to explain Beckett Mariner?
Fletcher: Mariner is flawless.
Tendi: She has the cool new tricorder with the purple stripe.
Jet: I hear the Sequoia's insured for 10,000 bars of latinum.
Ransom: I hear she plays in anbo-jyutsu tournaments...in Japan.
Shaxs: Her favorite holonovel is Crisis Point.
Rutherford: One time she met Will Riker on a starbase...
Dr. T'Ana: ...and he hooked her up with contraband.
Jennifer: One time she punched me in the face...it was awesome.
In all seriousness:
Ensign Beckett Mariner is the most-demerited officer in Starfleet. She's been promoted and demoted so many times it'd make a normal person's head spin. Not because she's incompetent, but rather because she resists moving up the rank ladder so much that she self-sabotages to keep herself from gaining responsibility she doesn't want. She was the top of her class in Starfleet Academy, and everyone thought she'd be the first from their year to reach the rank of Captain. Her perennial Ensign-hood is baffling and disappointing to her former classmates, who think she's throwing her life - and career - away. People think she's immature for her antics, but she's perfectly happy being a perennial Ensign while she figures her life out. The Cerritos is her fifth ship, and she was stationed on Deep Space Nine as well; she's no fresh-out-of-the-Academy newbie. Captain Will Riker (you know, the famous one) was even her mentor.
When Boimler calls her "Starfleet royalty" after finding out that her mother is the captain of their ship and that her father is an admiral, she hisses at him to shut up and threatens him to try and keep it quiet. She's a Starfleet brat, true, but she doesn't want any special treatment because of who her parents are. (She has a different last name, which obscures their connection.) When that information comes out, everyone on the ship sucks up to her, trying to give her the special treatment she feared. It gets to the point where she tries to transfer ships to get to one where nobody knows about her connections.
She's extremely calm and levelheaded in crisis situations, cracking jokes and being the source of morale, and trying to keep her other crewmates calm too. Her pain tolerance is so high that when she crash-lands and gets injured, she claims her injured arm is "just a fracture" and snaps the bone back into place, much to Boimler's dismay. She's very proud of her scars and views them as trophies of her Starfleet life, unlike many other officers who prefer to have their scars healed over by Starfleet Medical. She claims that she is always right due to her experience, and she knows all sorts of weird and obscure things about alien societies, including customs and languages. She's dated murderous aliens just to make her mom mad. Once she even defused a barfight by paying for the next five rounds...with a wallet she stole from someone else.
People tend to think of her as a badass fuck-the-rules person. When confronted about this, the implication being that she doesn't care about any rules and is entirely lackadaisical, she angrily says that she'd never break rules that would put her friends in danger, and that she only breaks "dumb rules" that keep her from being able to do her job. One example of the latter is that she procured advanced farm equipment for some aliens that they needed and wouldn't be able to get without going through Starfleet bureaucracy. She does her job and she does it well, but she doesn't mind breaking protocol to do it. In fact, she loves doing that.
Mariner is generally tight-lipped about her past aside from that she's served on five ships. She actually spreads rumors about herself that she's some kind of creepy black-ops agent to cultivate an air of mystique and mystery around herself, and the rumor is at least partially true, since she has done "off-the-books grey-ops stuff" with a Klingon general. She's able to get in good with a criminal element pretty easily due to her generally chaotic nature, but won't hesitate to strand them on alien planets if she needs to. Other tidbits about her past include that she was once trapped in a sentient cave for a week ("that's a dark place that knows things") and was once in a Klingon prison where she had to fight a yeti for her shoes.
She tries not to get close to people because every time she makes friends, they get transferred or killed, which is why she is so affected by Boimler's decision to take the promotion to the Titan and slip away in the middle of her shift without telling her. She acts like she doesn't care until she blows up at him for leaving without saying goodbye and for not apologizing about abandoning her. She even holds a grudge after that when he continues to bring up his time on the Titan, because of how abandoned she felt. There's a clear implication that she thinks he'd rather be having adventures there instead of being with his friends on the Cerritos, and she takes it very personally because of the very few friends she has.
Her friends mean everything to her. Once she trusts you, you're in #MarinerGang for life, whether you want to be or not (to which Boimler can attest, because she decided to be his mentor without consulting him). She'll take a phaser blast - or a trip to the brig - for you. She takes her "badass" reputation seriously, but is willing to sacrifice it to make a friend feel better about themselves. When Boimler thought that he wasn't cut out for Starfleet, she made an obvious "mistake" that he was able to pick up on and succeed where she "failed", because the alternative was Boimler being so dejected that he was going to quit. She even drove herself half-crazy trying to protect Boimler from the girlfriend she thought was a murderous alien, because she'd seen a friend get eaten by one before and didn't want that to happen again.
Trying to get Mariner to do something she doesn't want to do is like trying to drink a Klingon under the table. You can't do it! (...except she did. Okay, other people can't do it!) Even when Captain Freeman and Commander Ransom tried to get her to transfer of her own accord by giving her the worst tasks on the ship, she knew what they were up to and was determined not to let them win. She figured out how to make the tasks fun, even "Klingon prison stuff" like scraping carbon off the ship's carbon filters by betting on who could finish it first. When that didn't work, they tried to get her to quit by promoting her to Lieutenant and putting her on Captain Freeman's senior staff, but she was so stubborn that she stuck it out until she was able to get herself demoted by making fun of an Admiral in front of the Captain, embarrassing her and forcing her to demote Mariner again. She's going to get what she wants, no matter what. Watch out, Ryslig.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
- Clever
- Combative
- Anti-authoritarian
- Protective
- Loyal
- Resourceful
- Confident
- Stubborn
- Pragmatic
- Brave
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION?
Fits, please!
Opt-Outs:
- Lich
- Waldgeist
- Goblin
- Slime
- Vampire
- Naga
Roleplay Sample: September/October 2021 TDM