Chase Valaine: Difference between revisions

* '''Personality''': A young, boisterous man with large aspirations, larger apparent self-confidence, and he’s more concerned with his next love conquest than his daily duties.  While not entirely hopeless and his work is mostly satisfactory, he is often late, forgetful, or clumsy on the job.  His capability for engineering is undoubtedly high, but his ability to finish a project without getting distracted is a big hurdle.  His record is littered with minor infractions, mostly from frustrated senior officers who couldn’t corral his less-than-disciplined nature and his penchant for unapproved body modifications.  His record doesn’t seem to bother him that much, though he doesn’t purposefully try to get on his crews bad side.  Despite his somewhat tough appearance, and socially domineering attitude, he is perfectly friendly, even overly sociable... though he doesn't come off as too trustworthy.  His self confidence in the face of his failures can come off as equally endearing and frustrating to those around him.  When he isn’t socializing, working, or playing music… and sometimes even when he is… he is always listening to at least one running data feed.  His need to know all current information is nearly an addiction, and his technophilia (love for advanced technology) has no known limit.  

* '''Quarters''': Not a mess, but never perfectly clean.  His laundry is always clean but never folded.  He doesn’t keep sentimental objects like photos, making his room appear a bit bland.

* '''Religion/Spiritual Devotion''': Not in the slightest. Has a religious history he keeps rather tight lipped about.

* '''Likes''': Varieties of all kinds of music, especially trance, techno, and punk.  Cats and tribbles.  Being around people, especially boisterous people like himself.  Drinking and games of chance.  An information addict, constantly desires a source of data or noise.  A good mystery/conspiracy, good liars, and genuinely honest people.

* '''Dislikes''': Silence, waffles, an information vacuum, being alone, deep/dark water, hypocrites, and bad liars.  Chase is genuinely fearful (phobic) of deep/dark water and can’t swim at all.  He jokes about sharks bothering him, but the fear is more about the water and/or drowning than it is about waterborne predation.

* '''Ambitions and Goals''': Unknown and fluid.  He appears to be an "in the now" person with difficulty in long term planning.

* '''Disappointments''': Letting his guard down and allowing a few certain officers to learn of his youth raised in a religious cult of hermits in the California mountains.  He fiercely guards his personal information concerning his life pre-adoption at age 10.

* '''Temperament''': Normally, Chase is tempermental and harsh, rarely one to mince words or avoid saying something blunt.  Even still, he is usually in a good mood, and it's extremely difficult to get on his bad side or phase him emotionally.  Should someone manage to genuinely get on his nerves, pity those who do.

* '''Mental problems (complexes and phobias)''': Some have commented as to his apparent (yet undiagnosed and well-camouflaged) sociopathic tendencies.  He spends a great deal of his free time searching for his next intimate encounter, accepting it regardless of its source.  A counselor might wonder why he is so profusely tattooed and pierced and surgically altered (against Starfleet uniform policy), as well as his lacking of apparent moral compass.