User:Natal Jorem

Natal Jorem

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Stats

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Full Name: Natal Jorem

Birth date: 235207.18 (July 18, 2352)

Age: 34

Birth Place: Hedrikspool Province, Bajor

Gender: Female

Species: Bajoran

Appearance

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Hair Color: Brown

Hair Length: Shoulder-length

Eye Color: Blue

Skin Tone: Fair

Height: 5’5”

Weight: 120 lbs

Build: Average, Slender

Birthmarks, Scars: None

Tattoos/Body Modifications: None

Face: Oblong

Eyes: Round

Mouth: Upper lip is thinner than the bottom lip

Nose: Roman nose

Handedness: Left

Manner

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Quarters: (Living Room) A Bajoran shrine is placed along one wall. On one of the longer walls hangs Fly, Birdy!, Divine Ark, and The Healing Prayer—three paintings by Earth’s Russian artist, Maria Skrebtsova. There’s also a couch and endtable, a desk, and a table with two chairs. Books and a few artifacts are scattered throughout the room. (Bedroom) The bed is decorated with two silk pillows and a silk hanging headboard. On top of her dresser is an incense burner, another artifact, and a holo of her son, Ryak.

Favorite Room: Bedroom

Carriage: Relaxed, unless irritated

Mannerisms: Jorem’s nose twitches and brow wrinkles when she’s irritated. She also blows out her breath in exasperation.

Physical Limitations: As with all Bajorans, a puncture in the lower ventricle of Jorem’s heart will cause instantaneous death.

Temperament: Can be defensive at times, especially around other Bajorans, but is otherwise pleasant

Voice: At times irritable and abrupt

Taste in Clothing and Shoes (when off duty): Jorem’s all for the comfort of loose–fitting pants and tunics, as well as, the convenience of easy-to-slip-on sandals. She does, however, like to dress up every now and then.

Habits: She is addicted to chocolate.

Religion/Spiritual Devotion: Jorem follows The Way of the Prophets. She does struggle with her faith.

Personality

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Hobbies and Past-times

Reading, listening to music, crocheting, and solving puzzles, such as Sudoku

Likes and Dislikes

Jorem abhors prejudice, especially the prejudice some Bajorans have for their own people.

Ambitions and Goals

Jorem hopes to one day to be reunited with her family.

Personal Achievements and Disappointments Jorem is proud to be a member of StarFleet; but her greatest achievement is being a mother. Her disappointment is that she is estranged from her mother, father, and sister.

Family

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Spouse

Marital Status: Single

Children

Jorem has a 17-year-old son, Ryak, born in 236902.25, at the end of the Occupation. Ryak is half Bajoran and half Cardassian.

Parents

Mother: Natal Kylar, born in 2330, three years into the Occupation

Father: Natal Megal, born in 2328, the first year of the Occupation

Siblings

Sister: Natal Jessa, born in 2363, 35 years into the Occupation. As a child, she had developed Orkett’s disease, which was later cured via a bone marrow transplant.

Personal History

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From time immemorial, Natal Jorem, dreamed of stars. Understandable, considering that she and her parents, Kylar and Megal, were forced by Cardassians to work in a mine located in Hedrikspool Province, Bajor, a very harsh place to live. Natal viewed the stars as the Prophets’ promise to her that she would not live forever buried deep within the ground.

Like most Bajorans, the Natal family endured abuses—beatings, starvation, illnesses, and the like. Yet, the elder Natals found joy in raising their daughter according to the Bajoran culture, customs, and religion. They were proud of their bright, shining star and thought that nothing, not even the dream of a free Bajor, could eclipse their delight in her. Eleven years later, Kylar and Megal’s joy was indeed eclipsed when the Prophets blessed them with another daughter, whom they named Jessa.

Jessa was special. Everyone who met her fell in love with her. She made the grumpiest people smile, the saddest laugh, and the most desperate find hope. But that hope was lost when Jessa, six years old, was diagnosed with Orkette’s disease. The Natals brought Jessa to several folk healers. All of which came to the same conclusion, Jessa would die without a bone marrow transplant. The transplant was quite difficult to come by when one belonged to a vanquished people and a doctor with the knowledge and skills could not be found.

Jessa’s disease took the heart out of the Natal family; they drifted apart out of fear and grief. Desperate to save her family, seventeen-year-old Jorem did something she would never have done before, she became a comfort woman to the Cardassian Gul in charge of the settlement in which she lived. She hoped that in exchange for her services the Gul would provide Jessa with a bone marrow transplant. The Gul had made several advances before, but Jorem, with a heightened sense of integrity and morality, always refused. Jessa’s disease changed everything for Jorem.

The Gul, ecstatic over his conquest, yet prideful, wanted to punish Jorem for refusing him in the beginning. He decided to show off his prize to one and all, Bajoran and Cardassian. Jorem’s shame became very public. To the Cardassians, Jorem was a source of amusement and scorn. The Bajorans named her as collaborator, and as such, shunned her. To Kylar and Megal, Jorem became a blight to their existence. They disinherited her. And the Gul never provided Jessa with the bone marrow transplant.

Ironically, Jorem could have avoided all the pain and humiliation of being a comfort woman if she had only waited. A few months after Jessa’s diagnosis, the Bajoran resistance fighters finally freed Bajor from Cardassian tyranny. In 2369, the Cardassians were forced to flee. Kylar and Megal found a doctor to perform the transplant; Jessa lived.

Jorem, while happy that Jessa was alive and that Bajor was freed, could not celebrate. She found out that she was pregnant. Not wanting to keep this constant reminder of her shame, Jorem gave up her baby and left the settlement.

A few weeks later, feeling as though she had made the worst mistake ever, Jorem returned to the settlement to get her baby back. There, she found that her son had been taken to Tozhat Resettlement Center, in Tozhat Province, an orphanage formerly run by Cardassians. Jorem found transport where and when she could and walked when she couldn’t. The journey took weeks because the Cardassians had sabotaged many of the transporters between Hedrikspool and Tozhat. Once Jorem got Ryak, her son, back, she supported the two of them by finding odd jobs. She eventually went to medical school. Upon graduation, Jorem took a job as a doctor at a prison. Still dreaming of stars, however, Jorem took a chance and applied to Starfleet.

Professional History

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Date Graduated from Academy: 238606.

Current Rank: Ensign

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