https://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php?title=Ventu/Early_Life&feed=atom&action=historyVentu/Early Life - Revision history2024-03-29T02:40:50ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.1https://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php?title=Ventu/Early_Life&diff=63786&oldid=prevOnewhoisseveral: /* A Childhood of Imbalance & Indecision */2009-01-22T22:31:14Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">A Childhood of Imbalance & Indecision</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Aresee Lily Ventu was born to Jarin Ventu and [[Tayler-Ventu, Matilda|Matilda Tayler]] in 2352. Matilda had been warned earlier in her life that she carried a genetic marker that made a neurochemical imbalance almost certain in any children she might have, and so the couple decided, early on in their marriage, not to have children. Lily's was an accidental pregnancy but, even knowing the risks, Jarin and Matilda went ahead with the birth.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Aresee Lily Ventu was born to Jarin Ventu and [[Tayler-Ventu, Matilda|Matilda Tayler]] in 2352. Matilda had been warned earlier in her life that she carried a genetic marker that made a neurochemical imbalance almost certain in any children she might have, and so the couple decided, early on in their marriage, not to have children. Lily's was an accidental pregnancy but, even knowing the risks, Jarin and Matilda went ahead with the birth.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Aresee Lily Ventu was born to Jarin Ventu and [[Tayler-Ventu, Matilda|Matilda Tayler]] in 2352. Matilda had been warned earlier in her life that she carried a genetic marker that made a neurochemical imbalance almost certain in any children she might have, and so the couple decided, early on in their marriage, not to have children. Lily's was an accidental pregnancy but, even knowing the risks, Jarin and Matilda went ahead with the birth.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Aresee Lily Ventu was born to Jarin Ventu and [[Tayler-Ventu, Matilda|Matilda Tayler]] in 2352. Matilda had been warned earlier in her life that she carried a genetic marker that made a neurochemical imbalance almost certain in any children she might have, and so the couple decided, early on in their marriage, not to have children. Lily's was an accidental pregnancy but, even knowing the risks, Jarin and Matilda went ahead with the birth.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* 2380 - </del>Aresee <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">spends </del>several months at home, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reacclimating </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Federation standard </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">life </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">helping </del>her <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new sister adjust</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">To her dismay</del>, she <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">finds </del>that her <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mood swings have returned in full force</del>. Aresee <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">returns </del>to the Academy. She <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">does an extra semester of catch-up</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While there, she steers clear of romantic contact</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>though she <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has </del>a few <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">acquaintances, makes few friends</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">She does not attempt to track down Nick</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nor does </del>she <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">return </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">using Lily as </del>her <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first name</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Image:Lilyacademy.jpg|thumb|left|110px|Returning student Aresee]]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=A Childhood of Imbalance & Indecision=</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=</ins>=A Childhood of Imbalance & Indecision<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=</ins>=</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Aresee Lily Ventu was born to Jarin Ventu and [[Tayler-Ventu, Matilda|Matilda Tayler]] in 2352. Matilda had been warned earlier in her life that she carried a genetic marker that made a neurochemical imbalance almost certain in any children she might have, and so the couple decided, early on in their marriage, not to have children. Lily's was an accidental pregnancy but, even knowing the risks, Jarin and Matilda went ahead with the birth.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Aresee Lily Ventu was born to Jarin Ventu and [[Tayler-Ventu, Matilda|Matilda Tayler]] in 2352. Matilda had been warned earlier in her life that she carried a genetic marker that made a neurochemical imbalance almost certain in any children she might have, and so the couple decided, early on in their marriage, not to have children. Lily's was an accidental pregnancy but, even knowing the risks, Jarin and Matilda went ahead with the birth.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><br> <br></del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:</ins>''Although Lily's condition is a unique, familiar genetic condition, similar to [<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[wp</ins>:5-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">alpha Reductase Deficiency|</ins>5-alpha reductase deficiency<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>], its closest analogue in current medicine is [<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[wp</ins>:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bipolar disorder|</ins>bipolar disorder<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>].''</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''Although Lily's condition is a unique, familiar genetic condition, similar to [<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http</del>:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</del>5-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">alpha_Reductase_Deficiency </del>5-alpha reductase deficiency], its closest analogue in current medicine is [<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http</del>:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder </del>bipolar disorder].''</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At age five, Aresee is first diagnosed after rapidly cycling through multiple moods, leaving her extremely hyper one moment and nearly catatonic the next. She is misdiagnosed as depressed and begins seeing her first counselor, by whom she is labeled bipolar. However, further genetic tests reveal that she (and her family) carry a unique genetic marker for the disorder. She is put on a daily regimen of meds and begins her "normal" childhood.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At age five, Aresee is first diagnosed after rapidly cycling through multiple moods, leaving her extremely hyper one moment and nearly catatonic the next. She is misdiagnosed as depressed and begins seeing her first counselor, by whom she is labeled bipolar. However, further genetic tests reveal that she (and her family) carry a unique genetic marker for the disorder. She is put on a daily regimen of meds and begins her "normal" childhood.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Lily10.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Aresee at ten]]When she's ten, Aresee experiences her first violent mood swing at school, destroying some property and breaking a boy's arm. She flees the scene and is found a mile away, curled and apologetic, having drawn so far into herself that all she can say is, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." She undergoes a three-week intense session of counseling, during which she's withdrawn from school at put on even more medications. She refuses, following the incident, to return to school, and is home-schooled until high school, sometimes staying at home with her father, and sometimes traveling with her mother aboard her ship.<br>[[Image:Lily15.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Lily enters high school]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Lily10.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Aresee at ten]]When she's ten, Aresee experiences her first violent mood swing at school, destroying some property and breaking a boy's arm. She flees the scene and is found a mile away, curled and apologetic, having drawn so far into herself that all she can say is, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." She undergoes a three-week intense session of counseling, during which she's withdrawn from school at put on even more medications. She refuses, following the incident, to return to school, and is home-schooled until high school, sometimes staying at home with her father, and sometimes traveling with her mother aboard her ship.<br>[[Image:Lily15.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Lily enters high school]]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Lily17.jpg|thumb|right|110px|Lily the senior]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Lily17.jpg|thumb|right|110px|Lily the senior]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A perfect marriage of both the careers suggested to her and the ones she's considering presents itself in the form of [[USS Galaxy|Abby Roberts]], a senior at [[ma:Starfleet Academy|Starfleet Academy]] who contacts Lily when she expresses interest in the Academy. The whole affair is very congenial - Roberts answers all of Lily's questions, up to and including her sitting the entrance exam. However, a few weeks later, her failing results are returned.<br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A perfect marriage of both the careers suggested to her and the ones she's considering presents itself in the form of [[USS Galaxy|Abby Roberts]], a senior at [[ma:Starfleet Academy|Starfleet Academy]] who contacts Lily when she expresses interest in the Academy. The whole affair is very congenial - Roberts answers all of Lily's questions, up to and including her sitting the entrance exam. However, a few weeks later, her failing results are returned.<br></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2380 - Aresee spends several months at home, reacclimating to the Federation standard of life and helping her new sister adjust. To her dismay, she finds that her mood swings have returned in full force. Aresee returns to the Academy. She does an extra semester of catch-up. While there, she steers clear of romantic contact, and though she has a few acquaintances, makes few friends. She does not attempt to track down Nick, nor does she return to using Lily as her first name.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2380 - Aresee spends several months at home, reacclimating to the Federation standard of life and helping her new sister adjust. To her dismay, she finds that her mood swings have returned in full force. Aresee returns to the Academy. She does an extra semester of catch-up. While there, she steers clear of romantic contact, and though she has a few acquaintances, makes few friends. She does not attempt to track down Nick, nor does she return to using Lily as her first name.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Salakhttps://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php?title=Ventu/Early_Life&diff=54353&oldid=prevOnewhoisseveral: /* A Childhood of Imbalance & Indecision */2008-08-01T21:07:55Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">A Childhood of Imbalance & Indecision</span></span></p>
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</table>Onewhoisseveralhttps://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php?title=Ventu/Early_Life&diff=54352&oldid=prevOnewhoisseveral: /* Alone in the Borderlands */2008-08-01T21:06:49Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Alone in the Borderlands</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* 2376 </del>- Two years <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hence</del>, Lily finds herself <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on </del>the edge of Federation <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">space</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">region known as </del>the Borderlands<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. For some reason</del>, she's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">drawn </del>to the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">region</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While there, pragmatism wins out over aesthetics</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lily becomes </del>Aresee <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">again, using </del>her <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">old </del>name <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as a kind of alias</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The next year or two pass in a haze of emotional memory: Lily can remember journeying, exploring, and visiting whatever struck her fancy, but few specifics. She was never taken home, either, and whether that was because of her parents' reluctance to force her back or her own luck in avoiding whoever was looking for her, she was never sure. All she really knows of that time is that she was running </ins>- <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">every day, she set a course that led away from Earth and the galactic center, out towards where the arms of the Milky Way grew sparse. <br></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For the next </ins>two years<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Aresee explores </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">borderlands</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">moving on her regular path for the first </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meandering more during the second</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Towards </ins>the end of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the second year, she makes the largest discovery of the whole trip: On a seedy station</ins>, she discovers <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a group of drunken aliens accosting a young girl, and she steps in. She rescues the girl, but incurs the wrath of a new cartel. She's chased from the Borderlands for good, and finds herself back in Federation space. <br></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* 2369 - </del>Lily <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fails </del>her <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first entrance exam </del>when she <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">attempts it during her junior year</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">She decides to try for a bachelor</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">degree in counseling psychology on Earth</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then go for </del>her <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">master's</del>. However, a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">week after </del>her failing <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">scores arrive</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an ensign from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Academy named </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">USS_Galaxy_Profiles#Capt</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">_Abby_Roberts</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Abby </del>Roberts]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">contacted </del>Lily <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and urged her </del>to re-take the exam. Lily <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">signs </del>up <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">after her mother agrees that it's a good idea</del>, but doesn't intend to sit the test <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">again</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Image:Lily17.jpg|thumb|right|110px|</ins>Lily <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the senior]]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* 2370 </del>- <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After </del>her <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">acceptance </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">two reputable schools </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">her graduation</del>, Lily <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">takes her second entrance exam</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">She </del>passes, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">decides </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">try it out for a year</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Abby </del>Roberts is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">assigned </del>as Lily's don, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">serves </del>as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">her mentor </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">friend </del>during her first <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">terms</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A perfect marriage of both the careers suggested to </ins>her <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and the ones she's considering presents itself in the form of [[USS Galaxy|Abby Roberts]], a senior at [[ma:Starfleet Academy|Starfleet Academy]] who contacts Lily </ins>when she <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">expresses interest in the Academy</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The whole affair is very congenial - Roberts answers all of Lily</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">questions</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">up to </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including </ins>her <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sitting the entrance exam</ins>. However, a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">few weeks later, </ins>her failing <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">results are returned.<br></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* 2371 - In </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first months </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">her freshman year</del>, Lily <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meets Nicholas Parks</del>, and the two <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">become good friends</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A month before </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">end </del>of their first <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">year, the two begin dating</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Instead of turning Lily inward again</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">failing score strengthens Lily's desire to leave her home town and make her own life, and she whirlwinds about, applying to over a dozen schools. She's accepted at four, and is making her final decision following her senior year when she's contacted again by Abby Roberts. <br></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* 2373 - During </del>Lily<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s </del>junior year at the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Academy</del>, she <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">decides </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">take </del>a leave of absence <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for several reasons</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Not coincidentally</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">leave of absence request comes just </del>as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nick </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lily break up</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Image:Youngabby</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jpg|thumb</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">left|100px|Ensign </ins>Roberts]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* 2374 </del>- <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lily borrows a family </del>ship and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strikes out on her own</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The now-Ensign Roberts urges </ins>Lily to re-take the exam<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, as her scores were a single point below the acceptance cutoff</ins>. Lily <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">allows Roberts to sign her </ins>up, but <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">she </ins>doesn't intend to sit the test. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Instead, she turns to selecting one of the Earth</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bound universities. Increasingly, though, she finds </ins>her <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mind wandering to the stars, first </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">her mother's offer, </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then to Roberts's suggestion. The day of the test comes</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>Lily<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s among those taking it</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><br></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lily's first days and weeks at the para-military Academy are very different than anything she's used </ins>to. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, Ensign </ins>Roberts is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a cadet liaison, and she serves in a further capacity </ins>as Lily's don<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Lily continues to see a campus counselor</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gets to know the Medical Services staff very well, </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">she's in at least once a week for prescription refills </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">general check-ups.<br></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perhaps the most exciting think to happen to Lily </ins>during her first <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">trimester was meeting [[Parks, Nick|Nick Parks]]. [[Image:Parksyoung2</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jpg|thumb|right|100px|Nick at 18]]His background of being a loner was similar to hers, though he came with an indecisive air rather than a genetic disorder. However, the two became friends and, by </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">end </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">November, more than. At eighteen</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nick is </ins>Lily<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s first boyfriend</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but - free of the strict roles of her high school </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">expectations of what she knows - </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">relationship blossoms.<br></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* 235205.24 - </del>Aresee Lily Ventu <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </del>born in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Scandinavian region of Earth </del>to Jarin and Matilda <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ventu</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Aresee Lily Ventu <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was </ins>born <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to Jarin Ventu and [[Tayler-Ventu, Matilda|Matilda Tayler]] in 2352. Matilda had been warned earlier in her life that she carried a genetic marker that made a neurochemical imbalance almost certain </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">any children she might have, and so </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">couple decided, early on in their marriage, not </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have children. Lily's was an accidental pregnancy but, even knowing the risks, </ins>Jarin and Matilda <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">went ahead with the birth</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* 2355 </del>- Aresee is first diagnosed <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with </del>her <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">classified 'chemical imbalance</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">' Although the disorder was treatable at birth</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">now something </del>she <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">must live with</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Her parents start her </del>on a daily <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">round </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">medications </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hypos</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><br> <br></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2360 - At the age of 8, Aresee experiences her first violent mood swing while at school. Her medication is increased, and she is placed under the care of various counselors. It's around this time that she eschews her first name, citing an inborn hatred for its forced ostentatiousness, and chooses to go by her middle name, Lily.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2360 - At the age of 8, Aresee experiences her first violent mood swing while at school. Her medication is increased, and she is placed under the care of various counselors. It's around this time that she eschews her first name, citing an inborn hatred for its forced ostentatiousness, and chooses to go by her middle name, Lily.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2369 - Lily fails her first entrance exam when she attempts it during her junior year. She decides to try for a bachelor's degree in counseling psychology on Earth, and then go for her master's. However, a week after her failing scores arrive, an ensign from the Academy named [[USS_Galaxy_Profiles#Capt._Abby_Roberts|Abby Roberts]] contacted Lily and urged her to re-take the exam. Lily signs up after her mother agrees that it's a good idea, but doesn't intend to sit the test again.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2369 - Lily fails her first entrance exam when she attempts it during her junior year. She decides to try for a bachelor's degree in counseling psychology on Earth, and then go for her master's. However, a week after her failing scores arrive, an ensign from the Academy named [[USS_Galaxy_Profiles#Capt._Abby_Roberts|Abby Roberts]] contacted Lily and urged her to re-take the exam. Lily signs up after her mother agrees that it's a good idea, but doesn't intend to sit the test again.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2370 - After her acceptance to two reputable schools and her graduation, Lily takes her second entrance exam. She passes, and decides to try it out for a year. Abby Roberts is assigned as Lily's don, and serves as her mentor and friend during her first terms.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2370 - After her acceptance to two reputable schools and her graduation, Lily takes her second entrance exam. She passes, and decides to try it out for a year. Abby Roberts is assigned as Lily's don, and serves as her mentor and friend during her first terms.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2376 - Two years hence, Lily finds herself on the edge of Federation space, in the region known as the Borderlands. For some reason, she's drawn to the region. While there, pragmatism wins out over aesthetics, and Lily becomes Aresee again, using her old name as a kind of alias.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2376 - Two years hence, Lily finds herself on the edge of Federation space, in the region known as the Borderlands. For some reason, she's drawn to the region. While there, pragmatism wins out over aesthetics, and Lily becomes Aresee again, using her old name as a kind of alias.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2378 - Aresee spends two years in the Borderlands, making various contacts and enemies. During the end of her stay, she discovers an eleven year old girl - Alexa, no last name - and, like her attraction to the Borderlands themselves, finds herself inexplicably drawn to the girl. She convinces the girl to come with her.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2378 - Aresee spends two years in the Borderlands, making various contacts and enemies. During the end of her stay, she discovers an eleven year old girl - Alexa, no last name - and, like her attraction to the Borderlands themselves, finds herself inexplicably drawn to the girl. She convinces the girl to come with her.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2380 - Aresee spends several months at home, reacclimating to the Federation standard of life and helping her new sister adjust. To her dismay, she finds that her mood swings have returned in full force. Aresee returns to the Academy. She does an extra semester of catch-up. While there, she steers clear of romantic contact, and though she has a few acquaintances, makes few friends. She does not attempt to track down Nick, nor does she return to using Lily as her first name.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* 2380 - Aresee spends several months at home, reacclimating to the Federation standard of life and helping her new sister adjust. To her dismay, she finds that her mood swings have returned in full force. Aresee returns to the Academy. She does an extra semester of catch-up. While there, she steers clear of romantic contact, and though she has a few acquaintances, makes few friends. She does not attempt to track down Nick, nor does she return to using Lily as her first name.</div></td></tr>
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