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'''Personal Habits''' | '''Personal Habits''' | ||
* '''Daily Habits''': When on a normal day shift, Savan rises daily | * '''Daily Habits''': When on a normal day shift, Savan rises daily between 0300 to 0400 hours. His morning routine consists of bathing, meditation, and one to two hours of physical traning before eating breakfast. He also is meticulously groomed. On occasion, unlike most Vulcans, he does grow a beard. Savan does go to bed regularly at 1130, after a period of meditation. | ||
* '''Diet''':In keeping with Vulcan custom, Savan is usually a vegetarian. However, after having grown up on Earth, he has acquired a taste for spicy or strongly flavored cuisines. (His friend John Torres inspired his like for Mexican cuisine, in particular.) After spending time throughout the Pacific, Savan does eat raw fish on special occasions. | * '''Diet''':In keeping with Vulcan custom that he adopted in childhood, Savan is usually a vegetarian. However, after having grown up on Earth, he has acquired a taste for spicy or strongly flavored cuisines. (His friend John Torres inspired his like for Mexican cuisine, in particular.) After spending time throughout the Pacific, Savan does eat raw fish on special occasions. | ||
* '''Drink''': Savan mainly drinks strong coffee, Vulcan and Terran teas and water. On occasion, he does have Mexican-style hot chocolate. Savan also drinks alcohol but only on limited occasions, when he describes it as an “unnecessary but pleasurable indulgence.” He does have an affinity for Japanese sake. However, he will avoid Romulan ale and tequila, as he has noted that both spirits produced “somewhat regrettable after-effects.” He has admitted that he did partake of too many “indulgences," including tequila, while he was a university student. | * '''Drink''': Savan mainly drinks strong coffee, Vulcan and Terran teas (with a strong exception of peppermint), and water. On occasion, he does have Mexican-style hot chocolate. Savan also drinks alcohol but only on limited occasions, when he describes it as an “unnecessary but pleasurable indulgence.” He does have an affinity for Japanese sake. However, he will avoid Romulan ale and tequila, as he has noted that both spirits produced “somewhat regrettable after-effects.” He has admitted that he did partake of too many “indulgences," including tequila, while he was a university student. | ||
* '''Living spaces''': Savan prefers a clean and minimally decorated room but does like the scent of incense. He often includes one or two orchid plants. On display are his weapons (including a lirpa and a bat'leth) as well as a surf board and a canoe paddle. He also has a table for personal mementos and holophotos, as well as an altar. | * '''Living spaces''': Savan prefers a clean and minimally decorated room but does like the scent of incense. He often includes one or two orchid plants. On display are his weapons (including a lirpa and a bat'leth) as well as a surf board and a canoe paddle. He also has a table for personal mementos and holophotos, as well as an altar. | ||
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* '''Hobbies and Pastimes''': Savan is an undeniably an active outdoors person. His main pastimes include martial arts, hiking, wilderness survival training, surfing, swimming, and outrigger canoe paddling. He is also developing an interest in holophotography. Savan also enjoys dancing, both as an artistic practice and as a social activity. (Savan taught an extracurricular tango class at the Academy his senior year.) | * '''Hobbies and Pastimes''': Savan is an undeniably an active outdoors person. His main pastimes include martial arts, hiking, wilderness survival training, surfing, swimming, and outrigger canoe paddling. He is also developing an interest in holophotography. Savan also enjoys dancing, both as an artistic practice and as a social activity. (Savan taught an extracurricular tango class at the Academy his senior year.) | ||
* '''Dislikes''': Bureaucracy, Vulcan snobbery and arrogance, tequila, closed-up spaces with no views | * '''Dislikes''': Bureaucracy, Vulcan snobbery and arrogance, tequila, closed-up spaces with no views | ||
* '''Likes''': Open natural spaces, the ocean, and though | * '''Likes''': Open natural spaces, the ocean, and, though Savan would not readily admit this and has not indulged himself in socializing much of late, bars | ||
* '''Languages''': At the Academy, Savan showed a strong skill in | * '''Languages''': At the Academy, Savan showed a strong skill in languages, showing a mastery for Romulan and, to a lesser degree, for Klingon as well. (He liked to use his Klingon to challenge his mok'bara instructor during sparing practice.) He also studied Cardassian to a high level but gradually found he did not care for it. Through his studies in high school and university, Savan also learned Terran languages of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin, as well as some Andorian and Deltan. Savan also learned some Mandarin Chinese as a result of his studies of wushu. ''Note on Vulcan language'': Savan obviously speaks Vulcan fluently. However, until his late teens, Savan spoke only a young adult's version of the Vulcan standard dialect as he had left at age 12. His adopted father Torin later schooled him in Vulcan language. On occasion, Torin's father Selon provided instruction during visits. During his studies at the University of California, Savan took coursework so he could have a strong fluency. While colloquially fluent, Savan has a light accent in Vulcan, though it's difficult to place. Also, he is not familiar with scientific, technological and military terms and vocabulary, so he would be challenged if put into a situation, such as Vulcan ship. He has thought of contacting his uncle Staran for suggestions on the best way to learn this, but Savan hasn't had time. | ||
* '''Musical tastes''': From Terra - jazz, classical Indian music, tango / From other worlds: Andorian blues, Vulcan lyre | * '''Musical tastes''': From Terra - jazz (especially, 20th century artist Miles Davis), classical Indian music, tango / From other worlds: Andorian blues, Vulcan lyre / Savan works out to beat-driven music that descended from a Terran musical form called house. | ||
* '''Pets''': When Savan was a child on Vulcan, he had a pet sehlat. But he was unable to bring him to Earth, so it was given to a cousin. While he does not miss Vulcan much, he still misses the sehlat. He is also fond of cats and kept two while in college. They now live with his adopted parents. | * '''Pets''': When Savan was a child on Vulcan, he had a pet sehlat. But he was unable to bring him to Earth, so it was given to a cousin. While he does not miss Vulcan much, he still misses the sehlat. He is also fond of cats and kept two while in college. They now live with his adopted parents. | ||
* '''Relaxation''': Savan tried to learn the Vulcan technique of putting the body to rest, which many has said is better than the Terran vacation. He has yet been unable to and has lost interest in any case. For short-term relaxation besides meditation, Savan likes to soak in herbal baths (similar to Japanese ofuro) as well as steam and sauna. Due to his Vulcan physiology, he can endure rather high heat settings. When he was more time, he actually enjoys the Terran-style vacation but keeping activity to a minimum. In particular, his preference is a sparsely visited beach in a tropical climate, where he can swim, just float in the water, or lie in the sun to tan. That said, he likes Tahiti, Bora Bora and the Tuamotus. | |||