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** His speech is ladled with thick 1920s Terran vernacular and Iotian slang, a habit he can't seem to drop, although he does take care to follow proper protocols with regards to respect and rank as much as he can. His primary issues in that regard have been the occasional officer dressing him down for his drawling syllables and colorful metaphors, and once or twice being accosted by female officers whom he unwittingly referred to as "doll", "peaches", or "oh, you kid". | ** His speech is ladled with thick 1920s Terran vernacular and Iotian slang, a habit he can't seem to drop, although he does take care to follow proper protocols with regards to respect and rank as much as he can. His primary issues in that regard have been the occasional officer dressing him down for his drawling syllables and colorful metaphors, and once or twice being accosted by female officers whom he unwittingly referred to as "doll", "peaches", or "oh, you kid". | ||
* '''Temperment''': Even. Nickels was raised in a very challenging environment, and only the most adaptable survived. He is unique even among his Museum-bred brethren for escaping the old city and making it to Starfleet by hook and by crook, and has learned to adapt and watch and wait. He is exceedingly patient, good-humored (if a bit chatty), and his anger is ground exceedingly fine. He has demonstrated a propensity for responding to physical confrontation with immediate and merciless violence - a street-bred survival response from being a made kid during the gang wars. He has been working on that violent response instinct with the help of Starfleet Academy counselors, and hopes to continue the counseling aboard the Independence-A. | * '''Temperment''': Even. Nickels was raised in a very challenging environment, and only the most adaptable survived. He is unique even among his Museum-bred brethren for escaping the old city and making it to Starfleet by hook and by crook, and has learned to adapt and watch and wait. He is exceedingly patient, good-humored (if a bit chatty), and his anger is ground exceedingly fine. He has demonstrated a propensity for responding to physical confrontation with immediate and merciless violence - a street-bred survival response from being a made kid during the gang wars. He has been working on that violent response instinct with the help of Starfleet Academy counselors, and hopes to continue the counseling aboard the Independence-A. | ||
* '''Habits''': Nickels is a man of superstition, ritual, and tradition. He does his readings from the Book. He religiously goes target shooting with his antiquated matched .45s, modern type 2 and 3 phasers, and his dear old Iotian-built 2270-edition vintage type 2. He writes his mother. He polishes his spats | * '''Habits''': Nickels is a man of superstition, ritual, and tradition. He does his readings from the Book. He religiously goes target shooting with his antiquated matched .45s, modern type 2 and 3 phasers, and his dear old Iotian-built 2270-edition vintage type 2. He writes his mother. He polishes his spats. He always meant to learn to cook, but his mother was so good at it that he never had the chance, and so now he just relies on the replicator codes she subspaces to him every week to keep him fed in the style to which he is accustomed. | ||
* '''Religion''': The Luciano clan, like several of the other families of the old Museum district, are religious followers of the [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Chicago_Mobs_of_the_Twenties Book] left behind by the first Federation crew to visit Sigma Iotia II. In much the manner of a cargo cult, the Iotians adapted the elements of Terran culture for their own ends, and some families took it a step further, embracing the teachings in the book as religious scripture, even changing their traditional Iotian (Oxymyxian) surnames to honor those of the great names in the Book. The teachings are very much a mystery tradition, with the holy figures represented by the great gangsters of myth; the saints are designated by the title "The Wanted", with the greatest figures being heralded as the "Most Wanted". In a manner somewhat similar to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loa voodoo loa] of Earth, the Wanted and Most Wanted represent both good and evil forces in their different aspects, as too do the shadowy and relentless | * '''Religion''': The Luciano clan, like several of the other families of the old Museum district, are religious followers of the [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Chicago_Mobs_of_the_Twenties Book] left behind by the first Federation crew to visit Sigma Iotia II. In much the manner of a cargo cult, the Iotians adapted the elements of Terran culture for their own ends, and some families took it a step further, embracing the teachings in the book as religious scripture, even changing their traditional Iotian (Oxymyxian) surnames to honor those of the great names in the Book. The teachings are very much a mystery tradition, with the holy figures represented by the great gangsters of myth; the saints are designated by the title "The Wanted", with the greatest figures being heralded as the "Most Wanted". In a manner somewhat similar to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loa voodoo loa] of Earth, the Wanted and Most Wanted represent both good and evil forces in their different aspects, as too do the shadowy and relentless G-Men who oppose them. It is a religion of shades of gray, of spiritual convenience, and of absolution and hope in dark times. It is uniquely Iotian. | ||
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===Hobbies and Pastimes=== | ===Hobbies and Pastimes=== | ||
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** | ** '''Magic''' - After being asked if he was a magician by a student at the Academy who saw him making his nickel appear and disappear from his closed fist, he began studying legerdemain and sleight-of-hand, and registered with the Galactic Brotherhood of Magicians as a close-up magician just before graduating from the Academy, although he has not yet given a performance. Although he primarily focused on coin tricks, he is also adept with making other small objects appear and disappear and certain forms of card magic. | ||
** '''Pistoleering''' - Nickels is a crack shot with his antiquated .45 automatics, and enjoys target shooting and shooting skeet with them, although he has to be careful about using projectile weapons on a starship. He's become increasingly satisfied with simulated pistol shooting, though, and is a patient - if wisecracking - teacher for anyone who wishes to learn the old art. | |||
===Likes and Dislikes=== | ===Likes and Dislikes=== | ||