Alexander Brodie/Personal Notes

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” - Oscar Wilde

Personality

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Alex is typically cheerful and respectful with a large dose of cynicism and a very fine attention to detail. He cares deeply for the people under his care and despite his working history, he will give all his efforts to helping those individuals along a road to recovery. He has been known to be somewhat glib and sarcastic but, in truth, it is more of an in built defense mechanism to ensure that he retains a sense of perspective and detachment from his work.

Having spent the vast majority of his life working outside of Starfleet he is more used to working outside of a traditional chain of command than others might like and has a general indifference to rank. He is generally respectful, however, and he tends to play along. The main exception to this is within counselling sessions as he feels rank has no place in that environment. In addition, Brodie tends to address people by the first name rather than surname or rank.

Quarters

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Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gideon. John Martin, 1816

Brodie occupies senior officers quarters. They contain the usual mundane items such as clothing and minor personal effects. Several PADDs typically litter his desk and comprise history books from various cultures as well as psychological, political, historical, and legal texts. In terms of non-fiction he prefers thrillers and intrigues.

A family picture sits on his desk, taken in the Chugach Mountains in 2388, with his then wife and young daughter. There is also a picture of him with his twin sister, Iona, on the banks of Loch Lomond as well as one of him and Dani from her visit to Til'ahn.

He has a fondness for landscape art, particularly from nineteenth century Earth, and has several replications of works by John Martin, Alexander Nasmyth, Sebastian Pether and Horatio McCulloch loaded into a holo-image projector in his quarters. He also has landscapes of Scotland, Mars, Alaska and Til'ahn on his walls as various reminders of key points in his life. In addition, he has a crest of Clan Brodie on his wall.

Despite his quarters being close to the arboretum he keeps some plants in his quarters for both colour and to keep a little bit of the natural world close to hand aboard a starship.

Office

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Alex works from an office in the Counselling suites. Given the nature of his role together with his background he will frequently attend to matters in person and often at their convenience and prefered location. He feels it helps him establish a better relationship with the individual in question and put them at ease.

He is a firm believer that he is always on duty for his patients and so his office hours would best be described as 'chaotic'.

Misc.

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• Brodie tries to maintain a good level of physical fitness through general exercise in the gym as well as isometric training. He is, however, an accomplished swordsman, having trained in swordsmanship since he was a child. His weapon of choice is the is the back-sword - as a nod to his nationality. He is also a skilled horseman, owning a dapple grey Warlander known as Kelpie. He was able to have the horse stabled on Til'ahn but, since moving to ship based duties, they are now stabled with is daughter on Earth.

• He enjoys the taste of whisky and always tries to ensure he has at least one genuine, non-replicated, bottle of single malt available in his quarters – his personal favourites being Islay region whiskies, their full peaty flavours reminding him of the fires of home. He has a set of glasses from Til'ahn that are made in the classic Laudean style. He is also fond of a good red wine. He has quite a varied palate and enjoys preparing fresh food over replicated meals an particularly enjoys fish. He prefers coffee to tea but is not adverse to either.

• He enjoys games that involve thought, memory, tactics and bluffs and is particularly fond of poker and liars dice – although his skills at observation, discerning microexpressions and deception detection mean he seldom finds people who are prepared to play him for long...and even more seldom for money. Alex is also an accomplished sleight of hand artist, particularly regarding card magic, which he learnt as a way of keeping his daughter entertained when she was younger.

• Alex enjoys classical music, of both earth and off-world cultures, together with theater and plays the piano and bagpipes.