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* '''Likes''': Exercise (when she can), singing, wheelchair tennis. She also has taken a great liking to be referred to as her rank, and she takes great pride in her (albeit short) service history.
* '''Likes''': Exercise (when she can), singing, wheelchair tennis. She also has taken a great liking to be referred to as her rank, and she takes great pride in her (albeit short) service history.
* '''Dislikes''': Dislikes having her wheelchair pushed, and had the handles removed at the rear to make it clear to people.
* '''Dislikes''': Dislikes having her wheelchair pushed, and had the handles removed at the rear to make it clear to people.
* '''Ambitions and Goals''': Earn recognition as an unjoined Trill.
* '''Ambitions and Goals''': Safine's recent return to the Gorkon has sparked a slight defensiveness about her rank, especially when compared to other officers her own age, most notably [[Corliss Fortune]] and [[Arlo Thornton]]. She was medically retired, but a wounding comment from [[Mikali sh'Shar]] about "not even making Lieutenant" has her longing for a half-pip she has no realistic hope of ever getting.
* '''Temperament''': Occasionally mean and hot-headed, Safine is defensive about her injury and doesn't like being looked down upon (physically or otherwise). However, underneath the nasty exterior is a wounded person who needs to make peace with her injuries.
* '''Temperament''': Occasionally mean and hot-headed, Safine is defensive about her injury and doesn't like being looked down upon (physically or otherwise). However, underneath the nasty exterior is a wounded person who needs to make peace with her injuries.
* '''Mental problems (complexes and phobias)''':  
* '''Mental problems (complexes and phobias)''':  

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Private Lawyer
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Safine Rael
Position Civilian
Rank Ensign
Species Trill
Gender Female
DOB 237012.26
Age 30
Birthplace Trill Prime
Writer ID O238704AT0
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"If this host dies on a Starfleet vessel, I lose a bet." - Safine Tan, moments before her "death" and the loss of her symbiont.


Safine Rael, third of the Tans but now unjoined, is a Trill lawyer currently confined to a wheelchair. A former police cadet, she has recently graduated from a law degree. She retired from Starfleet with the rank of Ensign on a medical discharge, but still takes fierce pride in her rank.

Biographical Information


  • Full Name: Safine Rael
  • Race: Trill (unjoined)
  • Previous Hosts: Marlee Tan, Alleran Tan
  • Subsequent Hosts: Serren Tan
  • Date of Birth: 237012.26
  • Place of Birth: Trill Prime
  • Age: 30
  • Gender: Female
  • Telepathic status: T0/E0

Appearance


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  • Height: 162.56cm (5'4")
  • Weight: 54 kg (119.05 lbs)
  • Hair Color: Dark
  • Hair Style: Typically worn in a ponytail
  • Eye Color: Brown
  • Skin Tone: Lightly bronzed. Her face is sometimes sickly and she is wracked with occasional bouts of nausea, something she calls, "mourning sickness". Being un-joined is rough.
  • Birthmarks, Scars: Safine Tan bears significant scarring around her pouch, which is a source of infection and regular sickness for her. Emanating from her pouch is a thick spiderweb of scars, burned nerve endings, that she hates and finds disgusting.
  • Build: Thin and weak.
  • Face: Safine's face has hardened as she's aged, and her injuries have taken a toll, but her jawline remains sharp enough to cut glass.
  • Arms: Remarkably toned from pushing herself around all day.
  • Legs: Thin and twig-like from atrophy.
  • Handedness: Right

Personality


  • Clothing: Safine wears civilian clothing, but wears the Ensign's pip she earned on her collar even though she is retired. She justifies this by saying she earned it, and it's "the only thing I kept".
  • Quarters: Safine's quarters are spartan and functional, adjusted for her wheelchair.
  • Mannerisms: Safine's personality has hardened after her injury, but her life has continued. She now finds passion in the law, especially defending those who are being unfairly treated.
  • Religion/Spiritual Devotion: None.
  • Hobbies and Pastimes: Reading obscure law texts and galavanting around the galaxy using the law for good.
  • Likes: Exercise (when she can), singing, wheelchair tennis. She also has taken a great liking to be referred to as her rank, and she takes great pride in her (albeit short) service history.
  • Dislikes: Dislikes having her wheelchair pushed, and had the handles removed at the rear to make it clear to people.
  • Ambitions and Goals: Safine's recent return to the Gorkon has sparked a slight defensiveness about her rank, especially when compared to other officers her own age, most notably Corliss Fortune and Arlo Thornton. She was medically retired, but a wounding comment from Mikali sh'Shar about "not even making Lieutenant" has her longing for a half-pip she has no realistic hope of ever getting.
  • Temperament: Occasionally mean and hot-headed, Safine is defensive about her injury and doesn't like being looked down upon (physically or otherwise). However, underneath the nasty exterior is a wounded person who needs to make peace with her injuries.
  • Mental problems (complexes and phobias):
    • Unresolved Pain - Safine hasn't yet made peace with being shot on Deck 20 of the USS Gorkon.
    • Unresolved Quinn - Safine was left with a whole bunch of confusing feelings about Quinn Reynolds that have yet to be resolved.
    • From Pain comes Anger - Permanently crippled and in regular pain, Safine sometimes reacts to stress with anger.
  • Physical Limitations: Safine's body has no feeling below where her pouch begins, and her legs simply do not work. She has her mobility with her wheelchair, but finds common, mundane obstacles such as stairs and objects left in corridors to be a profound problem.

Injury


Safine Tan's whole life was upended when she was on the wrong end of a Polaran weapon, on Deck 20 of the USS Gorkon.

As she had received a neural blocker during the integration, she was not fully joined with the Tan symbiont. The disassociation had preserved her. When her isoboramine levels plummeted into the deck plating, the only fact saving her life was that the symbiont was not yet fully bonded; even as much as a few years ago, Safine Tan would have passed into memory, but medical science had made the impossible merely dangerously risky. Her symbiont, his symbiont now, had been successfully removed but at a terrible cost.

The beam's dark work had seared the nerves around her pouch like a big ole' juicy steak. Joining nerves, the doctors had called them, a vast array of fibres that sent signals from symbiont and host.

Those damaged nerves had to be removed to complete the extraction of her symbiont. But those nerves attached to the spine, winding around her back and intertwining with their kin like creeping vines. Naturally, to transmit their signals between brains. They could not be separated.

So the price of her life was the use of her legs. Safine Tan would never walk again. Her career, such as it was, was over before it had even really started, and she was now Safine Rael once more.

Personal Story Arcs


  • New Year, New Me: Joined after the death of Alleran Tan, Safine must join a new ship, new crew, in a new body where she adjusts to the pair of voices arguing in her mind.
  • Intruder Alert: The Gorkon is invaded, and Safine Tan is critically wounded in the ensuring battle.
  • Mourning Sickness: Distraught over the loss of her legs and her symbiont in one day, Safine Rael must come to terms with the fact that her life is not, and will never be, the same. (Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJIDbxGrRqc)


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CO
Quinn Reynolds
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2O & Ops. Chief
Jo Marshall
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Isabelle Basilia
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Chief Engineer
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