Kevin Breeman

Background (OOC)

Kevin Breeman is my flagship character. He was first advanced into this game in January of 2009 when I felt a need to explore the use of collective narrative gaming (which I now understand is called simming) as a means of personal entertainment. I had tried video games and found them lacking.

For more detail please see my Memory Book Article

Summary

Vital Statistics

• Name: Breeman, Kevin
• Species: Human
• Date of Birth: Stardate 235810.27
• Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada
• Gender: Male
• Age: 27
• Hair Colour: Cinnamon
• Eye Colour: Hazel
• Height: 1.8m
• Telepathic Status: No telepathic ability

Family Statistics

• Parents: Born to Jan Breeman, Alvin Breeman
• Siblings: 1 brother
• Marital Status: Single
• Children: None

Chronological History

1. 235810.27 - Born in Toronto, Canada
2. 237103.12 - Competes in Northern BC Winter Games Phenomenological Representation Tournement
3. 237809.02 - Attends liberal arts college pursuant to a computer science degree
4. 238002.02 - Formally reprimanded by college dean for labeling certain hypothetical metaphysical beings un-creative in a speech
5. 238109.10 - Enters Starfleet Academy
6. 238601.11 - Completes starfleet training and moves on to training cruise
7. 238501.19 - Completes training cruise and is stationed on the USS Independence-A as an engineering officer

Professional History

1. 238603.03 - deciphers harmonic encryption algorithm used for storing Science Station 7623 transwarp experimental logs
2. 238605.12 - Promoted to lieutenant juniour grade
3. 238607.04 - Made acting chief of engineering in lieu of injury of Ethan Brice
4. 238609.30 - Made Chief of Science

Details

Introduction

A rather quirky and verbose human, Kevin has always been very imaginative and philosophical. This has been both a curse and a blessing in that he can find less than obvious solutions to problems, but often at the expense of the common sense that most other people take for granted.

From an early age Kevin was fascinated with computers and with programming.

Childhood

Throughout much of his childhood Kevin was interested in astronomy. He liked reading about planetary geology and about the stars. He was enamored with simple machines and pulleys and he liked reading about the ancient automobiles that had been used on Terra during the 20th and 21st centuries.

He spent a great deal of time alone and absorbed in himself to the point that many saw him as strange and eccentric. Unfortunately he was often teased in high school, which led him to be even less prone to social interaction.

Hobbies

• Reading
• Thinking
• Developing software
• Inventing programming languages
• Inventing fictional civilizations

Mannerisms

Kevin's most salient idiosyncratic behaviour is his tendency to pace when thinking or when trying to solve a problem. This is not just any pacing back and forth but a vigourous walk back and forth.

Kevin hates smalltalk and finds it difficult to understand why people would be interested in such things as the weather or the current status of sports teams. As a result, he often drifts into his own thoughts when people talk about anything not related to engineering or the sciences. Of late, however, Kevin has learned to become more interested in other people's small talk as a kind of mechanism to shore up interpersonal relations.

Psychological Profile

Introduction

This profile has been compiled from research both into the characterization of Kevin Breeman by means of his narrative voice and also by means of IC sources like the Federation's psychology database.

Profile

An excessively cerebral and inwardly-directed personality has left Kevin somewhat impoverished emotionally, as was discovered on stardate 238609.16.

Kevin finds it difficult to cope with combat situations. He finds that the emotion of these situations overwhelms him. When asked about this once Kevin commented that perhaps it was a byproduct of his rather quick mind. A mind that can think fast and intensely can also feel the same way, he reasoned.

Unfortunately a refusal to cry in public hampered the ability to get over things faster after a mission to retake the USS Phoenix from its Ixvapyan captors. Work to get Kevin comfortable with public emoting began with a counselling session aboard the USS Independence-A on stardate 238609.16 and he now feels more comfortable with it. His extensive use of metaphor as a means of promoting personal emotional health has helped in this matter.

Kevin's adolescent fear of interacting socially has had a curious effect on Kevin in his adult life. He often sees meeting new people as akin to a first contact situation. This, in his own words, has given him an alien sense of newness when he gets to know someone else. For him, he is not just meeting someone new but getting to know a completely new sentient life form.

He tends to make extensive use of positive self talk, employing a host of personalities to motivate himself.

Schooling

During his highschool days, Kevin fell in love with computer programming and decided to work as a programmer the rest of his life. The craft of programming seemed at the time to be a great companion in a world of people making fun of and taunting him.

Kevin attended a small liberal arts college / university for his computer science undergraduate degree. His primary focus there was the application of computers to solve mathematical problems and the application of computers to create fictional realities.

Shortly before graduating, Kevin decided that a life on Earth working as a computer programmer didn't sound as appealing to him as a life exploring. So he applied to and was accepted into Starfleet Academy.

Reputation at the Academy

During his academy days Kevin was well-known for his programming ability. He would, on his spare time, develop programs to augment the entertainment facilities of whichever dorm he happened to be staying in. Attempts by security officers to bar him from accessing the systems tended to result in his hacking around their precautions. Nevertheless, the faculty of the academy did not consider Kevin's security violations serious enough to warrant his dismissal. They also saw his creativity as potentially valuable in the future officer.

Kevin always carried with him a colony of nanites in a container. He saw them as a kind of swiss army knife. With the unintentional evolution of the Smileys, Kevin had to rethink this idea and so he allowed both B and 8 serve as that swiss army knife, though Kevin tended to frown on their roaming his current assigned ship without his supervision. On stardate 238609.23 he sent them to the Daystrom Institute fearing their inability to serve as starfleet officers like the rest of the crew who were actually authorized to perform the kinds of repairs that the smileys loved doing.

Unorthodox Problem Solving

During his final cadet cruise, Kevin was able to demonstrate the success of Cadet Koloth's appending of long-range sensor data onto the internal sensor inputs by recourse to graph theoretic topological homeomorphisms.

Course Work and Studies

Starfleet Academy

First Year

Creative writing

Religious Views

Summary

Religious/spiritual views: Mysticism based on Judeo-Christian belief systems, but atheist with respect to Judeo-Christian religious conceptions of God

Details

Kevin grew up with friends and family whose spirituality was descended from a predominantly protestant Christian background. While occasionally tempted by their sense of community, Kevin never really joined his more conservative friends in their strict adherence to ancient Christian customs, preferring instead a cross between mysticism and atheism as his outlook on matters spiritual.

Once, when asked by a friend why he described himself as an atheist despite believing in God, Kevin said that he was an atheist with respect to most of the versions of God any Christian or other religious person had presented to him.

It was while in college that Kevin's views briefly became a problem. In a speech concerning the Christian communities in the region where his school was located, Kevin condemned the views of most of the members of those communities as out-dated and antiquated, claiming that their view of God was insulting in that it placed someone supposedly awesome enough to have created the entire universe into an Earth-sized box. As a direct result of this speech, Kevin received a formal reprimand on his transcript for inconsiderate and slanderous action.

Since then, Kevin's concerns over spiritual matters have not been much of a concern to him.