Alora DeVeau
Template:AloraDeVeau Alora DeVeau is a human macrobiologist assigned to the USS Mercury as a science officer
Biographic Information
- Full Name: Alora DeVeau
- Species: Human
- Date of Birth: 2367.07.10
- Age: 34
- Place of Birth: Earth, Terra whatever you wanna call it.
- Gender: Female
Professional History
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Appearance
- Height: 5 feet 6 inches
- Hair: Green
- Eye Colour: Brown with red highlights
Personality and History
Family
- Spouse: Nope.
- Children: Impossible
- Parents:
- Father: Étienne DeVeau (Deceased)
- Mother: Grace DeVeau
Appearance
Alora stands just over average height for a woman, though barely. Wavy brown hair holds traces of red highlights and is usually kept at a length just past her shoulders. Large green eyes peer out from beneath thick eyelashes and full lips tend to settle upward in an almost natural half smile. Her voice is somewhere between an alto and a soprano, and her singing voice has a wide range.
Not too skinny not too heavy, she has nice curves that come out when she wears nicer clothing, but she doesn't generally wear anything fancy unless she has to. Her tastes tend to go more casual, but she does like colours, particularly jewel tones.
Personality
Alora tends to be a pretty informal, down to earth person. She's formal when she has to be, particularly when dealing with higher ranked officers, but most of the time she's just...well, her. She loves children and board games, tends to be rather naive and sometimes seems far too innocent for her age. She likes jokes but is bad at making them most of the time. Alora usually tries to look for the best in people and has a mild temper, though she does her best to keep it under control. She also sometimes lacks confidence. When she is sure about something, though, she'll focus on it particularly hard, often times shutting out things around her until she's come to a conclusion or discovered something. She's not particularly brave, but she'll never abandon her post or her friends and she doesn't like to give up easily.
History
Alora doesn't consider herself particularly special. She's just a person. She was born the youngest child of a French businessman and an American citizen. They met in Virginia while her mother was attending the opera and the two struck up a conversation during intermission.
A singer herself, Grace Martin had always aspired to perform on stage, but had been told by a former teacher that while her voice was good enough for teaching, it was not good enough for performance. This judgment stamped out any hopes she might have had.
Two years after their meeting, Etienne proposed and Grace accepted. A year later they had their first child then moved to Atlanta. Alora was the fifth and only girl. She and each of her siblings inherited some sort of musical talent, but Alora was the only one whose voice shone out from the others. Her mother gave her lessons from the time she was seven and encouraged her to get involved in theatre. She performed as one of the daughters in the opera "Werther" when she was just five years old. Besides singing lessons, she enjoyed piano and guitar lessons as well.
When Alora was ten, her father's business expanded its presence in the nation state of Japan and appointed her father as the head. The family packed up and moved halfway around the world to a strange and wondrous place.
Grace had hoped that Alora would use her talent to continue her studies in the musical arts. While Alora never stopped her lessons, she had other passions as well, and didn't see herself as a professional performer. Science was one such passion, particularly botany an zoology. After taking exams for secondary school, Alora was accepted to the Ishikawa School of Science and Technology, first in its class in Japan.
It was there that Alora discovered Aikido. She stumbled upon a group practising one day after school. She had been looking for the Karate group, but after witnessing that class she decided to study Aikido. Currently she is a third degree blackbelt.
As her years of secondary school began to come to a close, Alora had to decide what to do with herself. More and more she began to pay attention to the Federation. Finally, she applied to the academy and was accepted.
It was challenging. Alora wasn't a genius, but she was smart. She graduated in the top three percent of her class - but a very large part of that was due to her diligence, hard work, and unwillingness to give up. That, and lack of sleep, especially since she specialised in Botany and Zoology with a minor in languages. Summer break? What was that? She kept busy outside of the academy too with her music and her Aikido which left little time for other pursuits beyond those.
She managed to survive graduation and has found herself posted to a starship and is excited to begin her career in the federation.
NPC Listing · USS Mercury Crew Manifest · Crew History
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