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PLAYER INFORMATION
➤ NAME: Rook
➤ AGE: 22!
➤ JOURNAL: rookadoodle


CHARACTER INFORMATION
➤ CHARACTER NAME: S'chn T'gai Spock
➤ SERIES: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series
➤ CHARACTER AGE: 30
➤ REFERENCE: To Memory Alpha!

➤ CANON POINT: Post-Into Darkness
➤ SEXUALITY: Heterosexual/Heteromantic - Spock has been shown in a romantic relationship with a human female, Nyota Uhura. While it's implied he's not always emotionally available to the relationship, and doesn't let it interfere with his duties, it seems notable to mention Spock allows small public displays of affection from Nyota which would seem a little much by Vulcan standards. Spock from the original series was also known to occasionally break out a captain-baffling sense of charm toward women.

➤ PERSONALITY: Please explain your character's personality. Their strengths, weaknesses, flaws, hobbies - the things that make them them. Please be sure to include any significant character relationships that influence the character and make them who they are, especially if there are any romantic interests that are shown to shape the characters sexuality. This section has a minimum of 250 words.

Spock is often referred to as a child of two worlds, and belonging to neither. Half Vulcan, half human, the son of an Ambassador and a schoolteacher - Spock was born and raised on the planet Vulcan under high standards. The condensed version of Vulcan culture centers around the adherence to logic above all else, and the suppression of one's emotions. Spock flourished under the tutelage there; we learn that he comes before the Vulcan Science Academy board (something like the best of the best college/graduate school on Vulcan) with a perfect academic record. However, in spite of his incredible achievements, early life was not without its struggles.

Vulcans, especially their children, were strangely xenophobic in spite of the race's known philosophy of 'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination'. Spock was bullied from a young age by peers hoping to get an emotional rise out of him, in view of teachers who were more likely to punish him if they succeeded. For the most part, those attempts (over fifty) went on without response, though it is noted in the film's deleted scene that Spock was not in fact wholly unaffected. In fact he does snap when his father, Sarek, is called a traitor by one of the Vulcan children (for marrying Spock's mother, Amanda), which he is chastised for. It's assumed after that he goes on without further incident.

But it must be something he keeps with him, because when he is brought before a council to discuss his admission to the VSA, Spock is wholly committed to joining until a 'disadvantage' is mentioned. After learning this 'disadvantage' is his human mother, Spock turns down his offered acceptance and chooses to enlist in his alternative career course - Starfleet. Because it's then that Spock realizes that, no matter how much he achieves, he can never be accepted by Vulcan so long as he continues on an expected Vulcan path.

In Starfleet, Spock becomes known as one of its most esteemed graduates, earning the rank of Commander, becoming an instructor at the Starfleet Academy, and even programs the insurmountable Kobayashi Maru test.

Spock is dedicated to logic and order above all else. In general, he emulates what Vulcans claim to be, striving for knowledge and perfection in all tasks. He is very driven to succeed, though not necessarily to gain power; more to prove he is capable of any responsibility put to him.

Which explains why he demands James T Kirk be publicly reprimanded for cheating on his unbeatable test. No, the two don't get along at all at first flush, though you couldn't accuse Spock of being annoyed he was beaten so much as unwilling to let this irreverent cadet sit on his laurels over cheating. Annoyance comes a little later, when, after a distress call from Vulcan, Kirk reappears unauthorized on the Enterprise and stirs up trouble on the bridge.

The first Star Trek movie essentially sets the stage for what will now be an alternative timeline to the original series. Vulcan is destroyed by a vengeful Romulan from the future, Nero, because of a future Spock's (Spock Prime/TOS Spock) failure to save the planet Romulus from a supernova in time. While Spock manages to save the Vulcan elders and his father, he watches his mother slip from crumbling cliffside into the black hole that consumes his home planet from the inside.

Despite this, Spock assumes his duty as Acting Captain of the Enterprise when Captain Christopher Pike is kidnapped by Nero. He fully intends to proceed logically (minus this part where he nerve-pinches annoying, now-first-officer Kirk and has him ejected onto a nearby planetoid, oops) about reconvening with the rest of the fleet and pursuing Nero. In spite of witnessing Vulcan's summary destruction, he is determined to follow through on his assignment rather than even mildly acknowledge he cannot hold it together.

He's proved wrong in front of the bridge crew when Kirk reappears, cockroach-esque, back on the Enterprise and goes so far as to claim Spock was so beyond emotion, he never loved his own mother. That's about when Spock tries to beat Jim into a fine red paste and strangle him to death. After coming to his senses, he immediately surrenders his command on the basis of being emotionally compromised.

The point of this is that Spock, like all Vulcans, does indeed feel things, and deeply, but he is always struggling to keep them mastered behind a keen sense of control and logic. Starfleet, a peace-keeping armada, is perfect for providing a structure, rules, and rituals Spock can lean on outside of Vulcan culture. Some would call Spock repressed for his choice when, in fact, logic to him is a sort of sanctuary from a passionate, sometimes destructive nature.

His mother, Amanda, seemed to have done a lot to keep Spock mindful that he did have a human side, one that could afford its own sort of grace without being obtuse, within how she treated him. Indeed, in spite of never allowing or conveying any major signs of affection (he would barely allow her to fuss over his clothes), he undoubtedly loved her.

Into Darkness is suggested by Spock's actor to be a sort of emotional challenge for him. Just because he admits he chooses not to feel at times (like when he's about to die in a volcano) doesn't mean he doesn't care. Spock's romantic relationship with Nyota Uhura is clearly some sort of exploration of his feelings, though an occasionally rocky one. Nyota seems acutely sensitive to Spock where other humans tend not to get or search for more beyond the large lack of emoting. Generally you can see her in the films pushing Spock in a more encouraging way to be more emotionally available, and she's sort of a saint for being able to play at his level as well as fuel her own agenda, but even she can become a bit frustrated with him.

There's a sort of revolution in this way we see for Kirk, too, as the movie opens with Jim defying Starfleet's non-interference directive to save Spock (who was willing to die in order to save the planet and uphold their prime directive) from a volcano. Spock comes to acknowledge a deep friendship and loyalty for the captain over the course of the movie, as he helps Kirk to chase down the terrorist responsible for the death of Captain Pike. Spock tries to play the logical counterpart to Jim during the movie's events, but in the end does take a leaf from Kirk's book and cheat his way into victory over the vicious Khan. In the end, it seems he's given too little too late, as he admits his friendship to Jim after the man, taking a page from Spock's book, dies in the course of saving Enterprise. This spurs Spock into pursuing Khan into a rage-fueled death match flying over the streets of San Francisco. Despite being a capable and precise fighter, he's almost bested by Khan. He's only saved from dissolving into what he does not want to become (and maybe his own end) by Nyota's arrival, and subsequent announcement that Khan's blood can save Kirk.

Spock will be taken a year after the events of Into Darkness, just as the Enterprise is setting out on her five year mission.

NOW AS FAR AS HOBBIES GO, Spock is very into his role as XO and science officer of the Enterprise. He is specialized in programming with a mind toward science and phonology. However, Spock is highly curious and would hardly turn down learning most things, I imagine. He is also an admirer of the arts and music. He is a Grandmaster Three-Dimensional chess player.

➤ POWERS:
Vulcans are hardier than humans, having adapted to a desert climate with a higher gravitational pull. They are said to be about two times stronger than the average man, and are probably that much more sturdy. They can withstand high heat and radiation, at least for a short burst of time. They possess a second, inner eyelid that prevents them from being blinded by bright light. There are quite a few more biological differences from humans that I wouldn't necessarily call 'powers'.

Now, the powers even those who aren't familiar with Trek recognize: Mind Melding and the Nerve Pinch

Mind melds are an extension of Vulcans being slightly touch-telepathic. Spock should be perfectly capable of receiving and transmitting thoughts through touch without engaging in a mind meld. Mind melds are performed by touching specific points (psi-points) on the partner's face, after which the two parties involved join thoughts completely. It is suggested in the television series that more interrogative methods of this process exist.

Again, examples being taken from the original series Spock, anything that possesses some level of consciousness (humans, silicone-based aliens, whales...) can be a candidate. The meld is not something done lightly, never without permission if dealing with friendly parties, as it is an invasion of the mind which can go both ways.

The Vulcan Nerve Pinch is more of an ability than a power, but it's worth noting for its ability to knock just about anyone unconscious. The pinch involves grabbing someone between the neck and shoulder and, you guessed it, pinching a certain nerve which can instantly drop a foe to the ground... or in Khan's (special) case, be extremely painful. Vulcans aren't the only ones who can perform the move, but they are the most famous for it. In the first movie, Spock uses the pinch to get an insubordinate Kirk off of the ship.

➤ PREVIOUS GAME MEMORIES: n/a
➤ SUITABILITY:
While the concept of being pulled into another world isn't exactly new to Spock (in fact he has dealt with some time-tripped alternate reality version of himself in the very first movie), it will still be a considerable factor that he can no longer count on the Enterprise as a last resort. Having part of his crew still around will motivate him into finding solutions to get them off-world and back to their realities as soon as possible. He'll either be familiar or be a quick study to the technology due to his own world's advanced implements.

More troubling will be Proxima's unspoken incentive for sexual relations. While it's acknowledged that Vulcans do engage in them, and indeed Spock does have a romantic partner - Nyota Uhura - throughout the movie series, it will be extremely trying for him to realize this is a mandatory, enforced activity. Vulcans are both mentally and biologically capable of suppressing their passions, so one can expect a fight against baser drives even if his girlfriend happens to show. Spock will likely take any failure to overcome his chip as a failure to himself. Eventually I can see him acknowledging that obeying is something he must do in order to progress his more logical, productive agenda... but it's not an environment he will assimilate to easily.

➤ FIRST PERSON EXAMPLE:
With Nyota
Letters to McCoy - keep in mind they're kind of circling a relationship here, though it's more apparent in Bones' replies

➤ THIRD PERSON EXAMPLE:
Rescue Mission and bickering with McCoy
Pon Farr smut because obviously.