User:Nolen Hobart

	About me

Hello! I'm Isaac, simming under Writer ID A240001NH3, and I've been a member of SB118 since January 2023. I'm a proud father and annoying husband in Southern California who, by day, is something of a corporate muckety-muck. I'm proud to write for Nolen Hobart who currently serves as Engineer aboard the USS Arrow. Please send me all the dad jokes.

	Characters

My PC is Nolen Hobart, as I write this a Lieutenant (Junior Grade) serving aboard the USS Arrow as its Engineer, pinch hitting from time to time as Operations. Nolen is half-Betazoid, but he's never actually received formal training or guidance for his considerable empathic reading abilities. This means he has trouble shutting people out, and this is compounded by his memory of the echoes of his mother's trauma, suffered during the Dominion occupation of Betazed during the Dominion War. When interacting with Nolen, keep in mind a few points:

- He likes most everybody.

- He hates being around most everybody.

It's nothing personal, but for Nolen, foreign emotions feel intrusive. He is working to manage his abilities and cope with being around others, but it is especially trying in large groups. One crutch he has learned to rely on, however, is alcohol. For him, it seems to "numb" his paracortex and reduce or eliminate his empathic abilities altogether.