Lieutenant JG Ciara Odette
Name Ciara Aoife Odette Miss
Position Lead Technical Specialist
Rank Lieutenant JG
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | 29 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'9 | |
| Weight | 165 | |
| Hair Color | Black | |
| Eye Color | Light grey with hints of blue | |
| Physical Description | Eyes of grey, laced with specks of blue, flick back and forth with repressed energy as the woman before you takes in her surroundings. Freshly tousled cropped jet black hair sits atop a head blessed with a smattering of sun-kissed freckles highlighting her nose, and upper cheeks, with a faint passive smile upon her lips. These attributes distract from but do not fully hide the light blue bags which are often beneath her eyes. Sitting at roughly 5'9, her body one of someone who is fit by necessity. Thin, but solid. She stands with her weight shifted onto her left foot, arms crossed or busy with whatever task may be at hand. If sitting, her right leg bounces with energy. |
Family
| Spouse | None. | |
| Children | None. | |
| Father | Morten Jensen Odette | |
| Mother | Aisling Rey Odette | |
| Brother(s) | None. | |
| Sister(s) | None. | |
| Other Family | None. |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Bubbly, is the way others describe her. Ciara would balk at that, and simply say she is friendly. A smile always greets you when approaching her, and she prides herself on being a kind individual who loves to listen to others and help in any way she can. Despite working very well as a team, and having pursued Command in the Academy, she does value her alone time and often can be found staring off into a good book, or space, with a cup of something next to her. Very good at being a 'team player', she hides her emotions and true feelings well, keeping the smile ever present and ensuring those around her know she's reliable and able to be trusted. She still struggles internally in her life though with negative thoughts towards herself at times, knowing she could do better with her career. Typically it doesn't manifest in public, but she can be caught between shifts or on rough days where her smile was gone and replaced with a blank slate if she isn't aware of being observed. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: - Strong willed, and is eager to take on new challenges. - A natural problem solver, and jack of all trades, she will do the time and research to learn new skills or tackle a task outside of her skill set. - Diplomatic, and works great on or managing a team. - Kind-hearted, and truly believes in the best of Starfleet's vision. Weaknesses: - Sensitive about her past weight, and anytime she gains weight. Tied to this is her love of food and shared food experiences with other, but a cloud of shame always hangs over it. - Doesn't know when to quit, or give up, often leading to overexertion or not involving her peers when she should. - Has an 'anxious attachment' personality, where though she hides it professionally, she is convinced any friend or relationship will most likely abandon her unless she over-commits to them. - Suffers the occasional depressive/anxiety episode, though small and managed. |
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| Ambitions | Having spent her childhood buried with her nose deep in comics and books, she developed a romanticized image of space travel and life in Starfleet. Ciara knows that her true desire is to have a ship of her own one day, and a crew that she has a familial bond with, wanting to be a force of good in the universe like in the stories she read growing up, an inspiration to others. These ambitions have been somewhat normalized since the academy, but burn bright at her core none the less. She also discovered a love for technology, from old antiquated 'manual' systems to cutting edge tech, landing her in her current line of work in operations. Beyond professional interests, she yearns to find a romantic connection one day as that is massively neglected part of her life, but it sits simmering on the back burner of her career, along with finding meaningful friendships. |
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| Hobbies & Interests | A self-described bookworm, Ciara collects original writings and any 'physical' reading material she can get her hands on. This proves to be an annoyance when traveling between assignments, but she considers it worth the hassle. Beyond reading, she enjoys running, bodyweight exercises, and archery. While she prefers to practice archery with her actual bow on a real range, she doesn't mind resorting to the holodeck training programs and has obtained a few customs made ones as well. Finally, not the last of her hobbies but the largest worth mentioning would be her love for food. Specifically, bread and any type of drink. Her father instilled a love of proper french bread, and bakeries deep in her personality, and she's always chased the perfect cup of coffee, tea, along with the most exotic alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages she can get her hands on. |
| Personal History | Pre-Academy History: Ciara Odette, or 'Aoife ' (pronounced ee +fa) to her friends and family, is a very curious-minded individual hailing from the planet Earth. She was born in Carlingford, Ireland as an only child, to a French father and Irish mother. As a child, she loved to explore their house, yard, city and beyond. No stranger to scrapes, bruises, dirt under her fingernails, she was a very adventurous child. Her first, and main job growing up was in her father's small bakery, named Calcifer. Throughout her childhood, and early adulthood, one of her main struggles was always her weight, despite being an active child. Her love for food (all her father's fault, she'd say) was to blame, and it took awhile for her to find out the flow of her own body. As she aged into her late teen years, the burning desire to join Starfleet Academy compelled her to get into the shape and size she'd always wanted to be. Now having met that goal, she can more happily embrace her love of food, while keeping her body in balance. Though it does still worry her at the edge of her mind, and she can be self-conscious about it. Growing up she always read stories of the scientists and adventurers in space, reading over publicly released Starfleet mission reports like one would read comics. Treasured birthday presents were bits of rocks from other planets, to small plants (that cleared import and customs, of course), and even books from completely other worlds. Complete and rare treasure in her eyes. |
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| Service Record | Academy History: Joining the academy at 19, she was quickly swept up into a crazy world of knowledge, new worlds, new people and crushing amounts of homework. Thankfully her physical preparation did pay off and made the long nights, and intense physical education classes and combat training easier than it would have been earlier in her life. But her time was consumed with command classes, operation systems, and even extracurricular activities such as tactical training, and participating in the Academy's archery program. Her academy years were eventful, but she was not the most decorated Cadet outside in her class by any means. Having taken so much on, she managed great grades but didn't make the top 5 of her class. This lead to her peers not paying her a lot of mind professionally, but her friends were close and her family proud. Plus, soon she'd take that leap into warp and finally venture properly out into the universe, so she couldn't be happier. She made many friends, both other students and teachers alike, and looks back on her Academy years very fondly. Starfleet History: Fresh out of the academy, Ciara was assigned with a few other cadets from her class, to the USS Ashaton, an Olympic class medical frigate. Not her first choice, but they had the need for a new operations chief, who in turn needed bright-eyed cadets to carry out grunt work. It was hard work, and overwhelming, but the never-ending, bubbling excitement of working on an actual starship helped to temper that. Over time, her group of Cadet's became known as the 'Reliable Dets' or simply 'the Dets', and were often bounced around the Ashaton to different departments in need of assistance. Her favorite was working with tactical and security, as the systems are so complex and intriguing, along with the fact Phasers have always fascinated her. It doesn't hurt she already had an affinity for weapons with her love of Archery, but she definitely is someone who would hesitate using anything above Stun settings. After a long stint aboard the Ashaton, her group was sadly split up as they knew would happen one day, each transferred to a new home. Though they stay in contact, Ciara is currently focused on heading towards new adventures, and continuing her career in Starfleet. |