Ilakai Blake

Faith Blake, an infant Brekkian/Betazoid hybrid, is the daughter to Lt. Commander Sky Blake and adoptive daughter to Lieutenant Sabor. Faith stays with her parents, like a baby should.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personality

• Faith is quite a playful child. She enjoys having lots of attention, especially cuddles with her mother.

• Like any infant, Faith is a heavy sleeper. Like most Brekkian children and their mothers, Faith usually sleeps with Sky, and is quite capable of sleeping through the night unless something's wrong.

• Faith is at the development stage where just about anything is interesting. She especially likes colours and textures, and seems to like triangles more than any other shape. She usually crawls to the toy she wants and is quite capable of rolling onto her stomach to explore the floor or the bed.

• Has begun to speak, but is only capable of 'clearly' saying "man-ye" (Seritonian for 'mother', but Faith is yet to put the 'n' in the word) and "sa-mekh" (Golic for 'father', although, she is unable to pronounce it with the 'k'). Both words are from the languages of her parents.

Manner

• Habits: Unknown
• Religion/Spiritual Devotion: Sky plans on raising her in the Norssian religion, but will be accepting of anything Faith wishes to do later on in life.

Hobbies and Pastimes

• Playing and Discovering
  • As Faith is a baby, she enjoys lots of play and discovering time. She loves play time with Sky, and since being taken to day-care due to Sky's position on the starship, she discovers a heap of things there. She especially likes playing with shapes and feeling textures of skin, carpet and clothing. For some reason, she perfers to play with block triangles . . . not that that's a problem at all.

Dislikes

• Sleeping away from her mother
  • Faith shows the typical behaviour of a Brekkian child - she is either uncomfortable or scared of sleeping away from Sky. She can sleep during the day without her, but when the lights go off, Faith goes off. It's very unusual, and will be difficult to change in the future and also complicates Sky's relationships, but Sky loves being with Faith just as much as Faith loves being with her.

Family

Mother

Sky Blake, 27 years old.

Is the child of Lt. Commander Sky Blake, the Chief of Security and Second Officer aboard the USS Avandar. Faith is basically a 'copy' of Sky, as she has no father, but due to the difference between Faith's upbringing, and Sky's own upbringing, it's reasonable to believe that Faith will most likely be very different from her mother. Although Sky admits that Faith was indeed an 'accident', she believes that it was her best mistake. Sky is yet to miss any of Faith's development milestones.

As Faith is half Brekkian, the infant feels uncomfortable when away from her mother in extensive periods of time. So much so, that Faith is unable to sleep when her mother is not around. It is unknown why, exactly, but Sky claims that many Brekkian children have the same problem. Something to do with Brekkians evolving from some sort of pack animal.

Father

Is the adoptive child of Lieutenant Sabor. While she is not biologically his, Sabor treats her as if she's his own, regardless of his OCD and germophobia. He looks after her when her mother is unable to, and plays with her whenever he can.

Biologically, Faith does not have a father. It was originally believed that she was conceived between her mother and Alixis Ozera, but new evidence (the fact that Ozera is unable to conceive) proved that this wasn't the case. Doctor Ba'Eli, Sky's doctor at the time, had a theory that the Camarian sun's radiation, with the help of a virus that the USS Mercury 'contracted', made Sky's natural reproductive cycle change somewhat, and somehow caused the fertilization of one of her eggs.

Godfather

• Hannibal Tiberious Parker
  • Parker was asked to be Faith's godfather by Sky soon after Faith was born. Parker, when he is around Sky, acts like her father. He is very protective of both mother and child. Many of the Embassy crew was under the impression that Faith was Parker's daughter - this is incorrect, as Faith was conceived before the physical relationship between Sky and Parker developed.

Godmother

• Hannah Martinez
  • There for Sky's pregnancy and Faith's birth, Hannah was there for much of Faith's newborn life. Hannah is Sky's best friend - her first one on the Ronin after having a love/hate relationship with her - and Sky trusts her with her life. Should anything happen to Sky, Faith is to be taken straight to Hannah, regardless of the distance between them. Faith knows Hannah quite well, and Hannah knows Faith. Sky considers her as Faith's second mother.

Others

• Angelo Valentino
  • Although not actually related to her, Valentino has been a main part of Faith's life. She took an immediate liking to the Marine, and simply did not care when he almost left Sky's home at the Embassy with Faith accidently when he came to "visit". Valentino cares about Faith as if she was his own child.

Personal History

Born on the USS Thunder during a red alert, Faith was placed in her mothers arms just as the red alert subsided. Many officers were under the impression that Faith's birth was "jump-started" by a rough landing, but it was later found that it was just pre-term labor. She was born one month early, but still perfectly healthy, regardless on everything she went through in her mother's womb.

When her mother was taken off of maternity leave, Lila, her grandmother, took care of her, as did Hannah when Sky was busy with something else. But, eventually, Sky would start taking her to work in her sling.

Soon, StarFleet gave Sky an offer to take the Chief of Security position on the USS Avandar, and now that Sky reflects on it, she's glad that she did, mainly for Faith's wellfare. The Embassy, shortly after Sky's unannounced leaving, was attacked by Klingons. As communications where down, there was no confirmation as to how they were doing.

When Sky and Faith arrived on the Avandar, Faith was taken to the ship's day care facility, as Sky needed to get to work straight away. Since then, Sky has decided that she will spend the day there when she's working, as she will learn quicker and will be involved with other races.

PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

Education

Unknown as of yet. Faith spends most of the day in child-care, so learns as much as her development allows.

SIMS

None Currently.