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 Aria was born on Bajor in the city of Hathon. Her family, Oddas, is of the ancient D'jarra, the Va'tello, consisting of Sailors, Pilots, and similar professions.  In the tradition of their D'jarra her family has always been one steeped in deep military tradition, going underground during the Occupation rather than surrender or take on other professions.  She grew up hearing stories of how her extended family were executed by Gul Pirak during for not showing loyalty. Her father and mother both were members of the Resistance and, later, the Bajoran Militia. Due to the extensive tradition of the Oddas Family in the military, it was assumed Aria would follow in their footsteps.
+Growing up she continued to hear more and more stories from friends and her remaining family, of heroes, ordinary people who fought for the survival of her planet, people who were not part of the military who resisted in other ways or who resisted in unconventional ways.  The stories had an impact and made her think she could find ways to serve in ways that did not involve directly picking up a weapon.
 ===Apptitudes, Leading to a Career===
-Aria was always interested in mechanics, math, and engineering, to the annoyance of her parents who were expert marksmen, logisticians, strategists, and could not understand Engineering as anything more than a 'maintenance' function. To their extra annoyance, she excelled at it.  Her interest was brought to a head at the age of 10 when she found a replicator seemingly beyond repair, and everyone told her it never be useful.
+Aria was always interested in mechanics, math, and engineering, to the annoyance of her parents who were expert marksmen, logisticians, strategists, and could not understand Engineering as anything more than a 'maintenance' function. To their extra annoyance, she excelled at it.  Her interest was brought to a head at the age of 10 when she found a replicator seemingly beyond repair, and everyone told her it would never be useful.
-Aria lived in a neighborhood where people did not worry about where their next meal came from, their replicators were working and fresh food was available as needed.  When Aria looked around she realized there were boroughs in her own city where people still went hungry and went without.  She realized an easy way to help would be to begin repairing things, starting with the scavenged replicator. Despite her family's insistence it could not be done, she searched high and low for replicator parts, taught herself how the machine should operate, and eventually got it functional well enough to feed one of the poorer areas of the city for three years before it was replaced.
-Growing up she continued to hear more and more stories from friends and remaining family of heroes, ordinary people who fought for the survival of her planet.
+Aria lived in a neighborhood where people did not worry about where their next meal came from, their replicators were working and fresh food was available as needed.  When Aria looked around she realized there were boroughs in her own city where people still went hungry and went without - mostly due to apathy.  She realized an easy way to help would be to begin repairing things, starting with the scavenged replicator. Despite her family's insistence it could not be done, she searched high and low for replicator parts, taught herself how the machine should operate, and eventually got it functioning well enough to feed one of the poorer areas of the city for three years before it was replaced.
 ===A Different Path, Confrontation with Family===
-The people around her, many of her classmates, friends, and all of her family, were interested in picking up phasers so they could go and become 'Heros of the Resistance', but during her scavenging efforts she came across Resistance's engineers who kept the ships running, their weapons repaired, and kept a low profile.  It was during this time she began to realize there more than one way to serve a cause. The same engineers spoke of engineering works helping entire planets and species.  They spoke of learning things to help the entire galaxy, and the older ones spoke as if Starfleet was the way to help as many people as possible with as little effort expended.
+The people around her, many of her classmates, acquaintances, and all of her family, were interested in picking up phasers so they could go and become 'Heros of the Resistance', but during her scavenging efforts she came across the Resistance's engineers who kept the ships running, their weapons repaired, and kept a low profile.  It was during this time she began to realize there more than one way to serve a cause. The same engineers spoke of engineering works helping entire planets and species.  They spoke of learning things to help the entire galaxy, and the older ones spoke as if Starfleet was the way to help as many people as possible with as little effort expended.
-She began to hear more and more stories from ordinary people who had fought for the survival of her planet and not joined the Militia afterward.  It opened her eyes to other paths and other people, including her future [[#The_Ijos_-_Family_in_All_But_Name|surrogate family]] who served in other ways.
+She began to hear more and more stories from ordinary people who had fought for the survival of her planet and not joined the Militia afterward.  It opened her eyes to other paths and other people, including her future [[#The_Ijos_-_Family_in_All_But_Name|surrogate family]] who served in other ways, and outright encouraged others to look for ways to help Bajorans to spread their influence by influencing affairs outside the military.
-When Aria decided to break the family tradition and join Starfleet it was not a popular choice<ref>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sb118-embassy/G_f2SDJdvZ0/F6Mfw4-bFAAJ</ref> in the Oddas house. Aria tried to explain it in Engineering terms: do the most good for the most people with the least effort. As she was leaving her parents insisted she not come back, her sister told her to never come home in a Starfleet uniform.
+When Aria decided to break the family tradition and join Starfleet it was not a popular choice<ref>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sb118-embassy/G_f2SDJdvZ0/F6Mfw4-bFAAJ</ref> in the Oddas house. Aria tried to explain it in Engineering terms: do the most good for the most people with the least effort.  Her parents chose not to understand her reasoning and as she was leaving her parents insisted she not come back; her sister told her to never come home in a Starfleet uniform.
 ===Looking Back===
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 [[File:Irina3.jpg|thumb|alt=Irina Pavlova|Irina Pavlova|125px]]
-; [[Irina_Pavlova|Irina Pavlova]], <small>Spouse</small>: [[Irina_Pavlova|Irina]] and Aria began dating at their [[Turner-Waltas_Wedding_(Embassy_of_Duronis_II)|Commanding Officer's wedding]].  Neither expected the relationship to occur or was looking for any sort of romantic situation, but it happened.  After dating for close to nine months, and their relationship growing, Irina accompanied Aria to Bajor to attend a function for the Ijo family.  During their time on Bajor the couple was swept up in the moment and were wed during a short, but blessed ceremony (239406.29)<ref name="twoparties">http://sims.starbase118.net/sim.php?simnum=2452654</ref>.
+; [[Irina_Pavlova|Irina Pavlova]], <small>Spouse</small>: [[Irina_Pavlova|Irina]] and Aria began dating at their [[Turner-Waltas_Wedding_(Embassy_of_Duronis_II)|Commanding Officer's wedding]].  Neither expected the relationship to occur or was looking for any sort of romantic situation, but it happened.  After dating for approximately nine months, and their relationship growing, Irina accompanied Aria to Bajor to attend a function for the Ijo family.  During their time on Bajor the couple was swept up in the moment and were wed during a short, but blessed ceremony (239406.29)<ref name="twoparties">http://sims.starbase118.net/sim.php?simnum=2452654</ref>.
 ; [[Snow,_Jazmine|Jazmine Snow]], <small>Step Daughter</small>:Adopted daughter of [[Irina_Pavlova|Irina]] and currently living with the couple, Aria is working out how to approach a daughter, not hers, and not her wife's, without being seen as an interloper.  She is trying to find common ground, especially in the fields of ignoring rules, and avoiding consequences.  Aria secretly sees a lot of similarities between her situation and Jazmine's, namely they are both in families not their own by birth and finding common ground with strangers.  Aria is also very cognizant of the fact Jazmine's mother died not long after marrying Irina.
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 === Oddas ===
 ; Colonel Oddas Gura, <small>Father</small>: Aria's father and often described as more at home with the higher ranks of military and intelligence officers.  Behind his back, he is sometimes called the politician's soldier, something he regrets and sometimes tries to make up for by being 'more soldier than soldier'.
-; General Oddas Umize, <small>Mother</small>: Mother, A front-line soldier through and through.  She never wanted Federation membership for Bajor and has earned the respect of every soldier around her through direct action or fear.
+; General Oddas Umize, <small>Mother</small>: Mother, A front-line soldier through and through.  She never wanted Federation membership for Bajor and has earned the respect of every soldier around her through direct action or fear.  Stories abound of Umize shooting a subordinate who did not follow her orders, this is known on Bajor as the 'Oddas Way'<ref>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sb118-embassy/Je35UPkzUms/sNFjDsXjCwAJ</ref>.
 ; Captain Oddas Ushow, <small>Sister</small>: Aria's older sister by a year and as of 239406.27<ref>http://sims.starbase118.net/sim.php?simnum=2452562</ref> a Captain in the Bajoran Militia.  Ushow was as equally, or more so, disdainful of Aria's choice of going into Starfleet as her parents, feeling Starfleet was a 'lesser' service.  The two have not spoken since before Aria left for the academy.
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 After Aria's shunning by her family, she felt alone, isolated, and generally as shut off from the world as she ever had.  Combined with the death of [[#Ijo Alea|Ijo Alea]] she assumed she would never have a home of her home ever again.  She was surprised to find Alea's parents recognizing her pain, fighting through their own, and treating her as their own daughter, always managing to find her and offering her the support she desperately needed.  Recently when she was worried about bringing her [[Irina Pavlova|fiance]], and future wife home they allayed her fears and treated both as if they had always been family.
-; <span id="Ijo">Ijo Alea</span> : Deceased Fiance, Bajoran, who had planned to attend Starfleet at the same time as Aria.  During a hike, the year before they were scheduled to leave for the Academy Alea was crushed under a rock slide.  Aria's family had hoped, not secretly, that Ijo's death would weaken Aria's desire to go to Starfleet, but the opposite happened.  Alea had planned to go to the academy alongside Aria and unbeknownst to Aria's parents the couple had exchanged betrothal bracelets in the days leading up to Ijo's death.  When her parents pressured her to stay on Bajor after the death, Aria realized that her desire to go was stronger than ever.
+Aria, through years of interaction, has deduced there was some sort of tension between the two families (Ijo and Oddas) stemming from the time of the Resistance.
+; <span id="Ijo">Ijo Alea</span> : Deceased Fiance, Bajoran, who had planned to attend Starfleet at the same time as Aria.  During a hike, the year before they were scheduled to leave for the Academy Alea was crushed under a rock slide.  Aria's family had hoped, not secretly, that Alea's death would weaken Aria's desire to go to Starfleet, but the opposite happened.  Alea had planned to go to the academy alongside Aria and unbeknownst to Aria's parents the couple had exchanged betrothal bracelets - designed and crafted by Aria - in the days leading up to Ijo's death.  When her parents pressured her to stay on Bajor after the death, Aria realized that her desire to go was stronger than ever.
-; Ijo Cada: The mother of [[#Ijo Alea|Ijo Alea]], and someone who had stepped in as sort of a 'surrogate' mother figure to Aria after the death of Alea.  Aria calls her 'Mother Cada' and is likely to write her or visit her when thinking of home.  Aria knows nothing concrete of her time during the Resistance, but innuendo, stories told, and things Cada knows leads Aria, and everyone around her, to believe she was of some importance in the intelligence gathering field.  She insists she is a 'retired Bajoran Housewife', but she seems to know a lot about everyone in her family, which now includes characters ranging from Aria, to [[Irina Pavlova]] to [[Snow,_Jazmine|Jazmine Snow]].
+; Ijo Cada: The mother of [[#Ijo Alea|Ijo Alea]], and someone who has stepped in as a 'surrogate' mother figure to Aria after the death of Alea.  Aria calls her 'Mother Cada' and is likely to write her or visit her when thinking of home.  Aria knows little concrete of her time during the Resistance, but innuendo, stories told, and things Cada knows leads Aria, and everyone around her, to believe she was of some importance in the intelligence gathering field.  She insists she is a 'retired Bajoran Housewife', but she seems to know a lot about everyone in her family, which now includes characters ranging from Aria, to [[Irina Pavlova]] to [[Snow,_Jazmine|Jazmine Snow]].
-; Ijo Teevin: The father of [[#Ijo Alea|Ijo Alea]], and until 239406.29<ref name="twoparties" /> was the head of the History Department at Bajor Academy of Technical and Military Sciences.  A man who does not like discuss his own past in the Resistance but does not shy from it, finds there are nonetheless people around him who are willing to embarrass him by telling of his heroic deeds and follow his example.  Brags about Aria as if she were his own daughter, beaming with pride.  Introduced Aria to Kali-fal.
+; Ijo Teevin: The father of [[#Ijo Alea|Ijo Alea]], and until 239406.29<ref name="twoparties" /> was the head of the History Department at Bajor Academy of Technical and Military Sciences.  A man who does not like discuss his own past in the Resistance but does not shy from it, finds there are nonetheless people around him who are willing to embarrass him by telling of his heroic deeds.  Brags about Aria as if she were his own daughter, and treats [[Snow,_Jazmine|Jazmine]] and [[Katya_Pavlova|Katya]] as if they were grandchildren.  Introduced Aria to Kali-fal at too early of an age.
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-; [[Toni Turner]]: Aria's first Commanding Officer, and the first to entrust Aria with Command responsibilities, shepherding her through the ranks from an Ensign in the Engineering staff to a Commander and the Executive Officer of the [[Embassy|Embassy of Duronis II]].  Aria considers Toni a mentor, a friend, and in a way family. Aria is sometimes still tongue-tied around the woman, mostly because she wants to make Turner proud of her.
+; [[Toni Turner]]: Aria's first Commanding Officer, and the first to entrust Aria with Command responsibilities, shepherding her through the ranks from an Ensign in the Engineering staff to a Commander and the Executive Officer of the [[Embassy|Embassy of Duronis II]].  Aria considers Toni a mentor, a friend, and in a way, family. Aria is sometimes still tongue-tied around the woman, mostly because she wants to make Turner proud of her.
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 Aria tries to listen to opinions of those around her, but sometimes to their chagrin and even her own detriment, she will not often back down after making a decision.  Stubborn is a word sometimes used to describe her by others, steadfast is a word she uses to describe herself.
-When looking for solutions to problems, she is often drawn to the less aggressive and violent solutions, which places her at odds with the Marines and similar minded people under her command who have labeled her as a 'pacifist' or worst.  Aria does not think this is a fair assessment and simply feels as if becoming too comfortable with weapons makes it more likely other solutions will be ignored.
+When looking for solutions to problems, she is often drawn to the less aggressive and violent solutions, which places her at odds with the Marines and similar minded people under her command who have labeled her as a 'pacifist' or worst.  Aria does not think this is a fair assessment and simply feels as if becoming too comfortable with weapons makes it more likely other solutions will be ignored.  She will point out several occasions when she has used weaponry to its most logical and violent conclusions.
-While not still an Engineer on a daily basis, she still finds time to do Engineering problems. She is most at home working out math and engineering problems. When studying a problem her eyes light up as she considers all ramifications and dark alleys of the solution.
+While not still an Engineer on a daily basis, she still finds time to do Engineering work and is most at home working out math and engineering problems. When studying a problem her eyes light up as she considers all ramifications and dark alleys of the solution.
 She does not get close to people easily, but she is extremely loyal to a close-knit group of friends, especially those who offer a challenge or puzzle.
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 People who are close to her note she is more likely to deflect interest away from herself to others, some engineering puzzle, or just some challenge recently faced.  She will talk about herself if people pry, but she is almost always embarrassed to do so.  She is kind and caring, hopeful for the future, and brave even if she doesn't always show it immediately or in obvious ways<ref name="arm"/>.
-A natural introvert she relies on friends to get her 'out of the house', a condition only exacerbated with the death of [[#Ijo|Alea]] and going to the Academy.  She is awkward around people, sometimes speaks before thinking fully and often babbles when nervous.  She will socialize when pushed, either by friends or duty, but will not generally go out of her way to do so on her own.
+A natural introvert she relies on friends to get her 'out of the house', a condition which was exacerbated with the death of [[#Ijo|Alea]] and going to the Academy.  She is awkward around people and sometimes speaks before thinking fully and often babbles when nervous.  She will socialize when pushed, either by friends or duty, but will not generally go out of her way to do so on her own.
 Does not typically like the outdoors, but will make exceptions for places like junkyards and other places she can go to scrounge for parts.