Cara Maria
Ensign Cara Maria is currently the counsellor aboard the USS Wallace and Deep Space 17, having finished training.
Note: This page is very much a work in process and probably will always be so, afterall, people change.
Stats
- Full Name: Cara Maria, formerly Cara Maria-Mil until she disowned her father.
- Race: Half Terran, half Betazoid Hybrid
- Date of Birth: 235809.14
- Place of Birth: Zaragoza
- Age: 23
- Gender: Female
- Telepathic status: E4
Appearance
- Height: 5' 4"
- Weight: 45 Kg
- Hair Color: Black
- Length of Hair: Mid shoulder-blades, prefers to wear in a ponytail though.
- Eye Color: Black
- Skin Tone: Tanned
- Birthmarks, Scars: One large scar slanting across her upper back, medium one on upper right arm, medium down back of right leg and multiple small scars from beatings elsewhere.
- Tattoos/Body Modifications: Pierced ears, usually wears small studs with some kind of stone.
- Build: Slight, flexible, lighter than she looks and less fragile.
- Face: Oval, quite small (like the rest of her)
- Eyes: Comparatively large and spaced normally, longish eyelashes.
- Mouth: Delicate lips.
- Arms: Elegant.
- Legs: Elegant (she's a dancer).
- Carriage: Walks softly but quickly. Quite often walks/runs as if she were a shadow or cat (unintentionally), with easy strides that carry her quite fast.
- Poses: stands with hands loosely clasped in front or behind at most times, her movements are quick and alert, as if spooked quite a lot of the time.
- Taste in Clothing (when off duty): Loose clothes, usually cloth trousers-shirts in single colours.
- Shoes: Prefers trainers.
- Voice: Quiet and soft, but light.
- Handedness: Right
Manor
- Quarters: A picture of her mother and herself, a small portable music player from Betazed (formerly her mother's) that can sense rudimentary thoughts and plays appropriate songs to fit. However the AI personality seems to have been implanted with a sadistic sense of humour, playing some songs at exactly the wrong moment, creating awkward situations at points, it's thought this is what caused Maria Alenaas to give it to her daughter.
There is also a communications terminal (the music player sits next to this on the desk) and a resonable size couch with a small table next to it in the main quarters which she's separated from the bedroom area with a screen. The room itself has a large realatively empty space in the centre in which she can dance and stretch to remain limber.
- Favorite Room: None in particular, though likes to be in any reasonably open space.
- Mannerisms: Apologises quite a lot. Tends to fiddle with the end of her ponytail when nervous and rarely laughs outright, usually smiling instead, though she uses many different types of smile.
- Physical Limitations: Physically weaker than most crewmembers, but flexible and agile, preferring speed over strength.
- Temperment: Quiet and submissive but intelligent. Shy introvert. Tries not to be too extreme in her own emotions, especially anger. Extremely patient.
- Habits: Tends to sink into the shadows a lot but will help anyone in any way she can, wakes up very fast and alert as soon as she does.
- Religion/Spiritual Devotion: None.
Personality
Quiet but cheerful, also intelligent and has a tendancy to come up with strange ideas that work. However she has quite a low confidence and can be very nervous around men due to her father until she gets to trust them. At present has little control over her empathy and needs more extensive training in it.
She will always try to help people even if she dislikes them and usually keeps a calm head in hectic or dangerous situations, in effect cutting herself off from her own emotions. She also tries and usually succeeds in not getting angry at people. However she is likely to shrink away if someone shouts at her.
Hobbies and Pastimes
- Dancing, preferably to Betazed music, but other music also.
- Reading romance/psycology books.
- Challenging herself.
Likes and Dislikes
- Likes
- Music
- Dancing
- Reading
- Listening to people
- Helping others
- Challenges
- Dislikes
- Being shouted at.
- Unneccessary violence.
- Being forced into something she doesn't agree with.
- Being in the spotlight.
Ambitions and Goals
She wants to become the best counsellor she can be and help as many as she can. This came from when she completely lost control of her empathic abilities and a vulcan counsellor helped her to regain control and teach her some rudimentry empathic control.
Personal Achievements and Disappointments
The major achievement so far in her life was graduating from the Starfleet academy as she doubted her ability to either get in or get out, despite her common sense telling her she did fine in the final exam. She was also pleased at her exam results from school, as she had passed with nearly all A's and A*'s. However she celebrated these quietly and celebrated her father being imprisoned even more quietly.
Family
A single child with Beatazoid mother and terran father in an arranged marriage. Her father was aggressive and bad-tempered when drunk, and got so increasingly often since he lost his job and gained a very low-level one. After a particularly nasty incident he was arrested and imprisoned, the marriage dissolved.
Spouse
- Marital Status: Single
Children
None
Parents
Mother was Maria Alenaas from Betazoid, she was betrothed by her parents (mainly her mother Josephine Alenaas) to Anton Mil. She was also a victim of Anton's abuse as she was a betazoid, though she was reasonably pretty. She taught Cara about Betazoid culture and was about to organise a teacher for her empathic abilities when she was discovered and forced to cancel arrangements. She only accepted the marriage as it would take her away from her scheming mother who continually makes plans to have a web of contacts spread throughout the galaxy, her final aim being to have her own spy network and therefore a higher position in Betazoid culture.
Anton Mil was Cara's father and a spaniard from Zaragoza on earth. He had xenophobia and was forced to marry someone alien, not his ideal choice but his parents are fiercer than him and he grudingly admitted as the money from the drowry was waved at him. In return he didn't treat them too badly at first until he lost his job three years before Cara entered the academy, steadily getting worse since until a few weeks before the entrance exams for Starfleet.
Personal History
Currently Cara's history has been normal for any girl raised on earth with the exception of her father and the final incident concerning him which left her with a partial nervousness around men and the larger scars on her body. Due to her tendancy to listen when people tell her information she did quite well in al of her subjects, though languages were never her strong point.
Timeline
- 235909.14: Born in Zaragoza, Earth.
- 237705.06: Told her father she wanted to join Starfleet, was beaten severely and nearly raped by him. He was arrested. The full incident can be found at Confession of a counsellor. Warning, contains violence and attempted rape. She then spent a year with her mum moving to Marseilles and recovering before going for the examinations again.
- 237806.01:Took Starfleet entrance exams and passed.
- 238301.15:Graduated from the academy.
Professional History
- Date Graduated from Academy: 238301.15
- Current Rank: Ensign
- Current Assignment: Counsellor on the Wallace (settling in!)
- Duty Post: Counsellor
StarFleet Assessments and Records
Enrolled at the academy in 2379 and graduated in 2383, having majored in psycology and physics.
Promotion History
Ensign (238301.15 - present)
Posting
- Counsellor, USS Wallace (238301.19 - present)
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Cadet (237806.01 - 238301.15)
Postings
- Cadet, Starfleet Acadamy, Marseilles, Earth (237806.01-238301.03)
- Cadet, final exam, Starbase 118 (238301.03-238301.15)
Working Areas
Counsellor's office, quarters and wherever people happen to be.
Subordinates
N/A
SIM Archive
Training sims and Wallace sims may turn up here shortly. Confession of a counsellor- The major incident with her father.