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OOC INFORMATION
Name: Megan
Contact Information: wolfed
Age: 31
Characters Played: N/A

IN-CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Christine Chapel
Fandom: Star Trek AOS
Age: 23
Canon Point: the end of Star Trek Into Darkness after the year time jump
Original Universe or Alternate Universe? Technically Alternate Universe since the writing team put Chapel in the first movie, then wrote her out of the second by rewriting her history. I'm rping her as if she was still there serving aboard the Enterprise.

Personality:

Christine is the Head Nurse aboard the USS Enterprise and she strives to show everyone that she deserves the job. For starters, she has a no nonsense attitude. Usually if she has a problem with something or someone, she is not afraid to state so, unless the situation involves her superior officers. In cases such as those, she will be less blunt unless she knows the officer well enough to know they would not reprimand her for being candid. She will let few things bother her, unless it's an important issue to her, such as an injured or ill person refusing medical treatment. She also has a caring bedside manner, and Christine is sympathetic towards the ill or injured.

Christine tends to depend on herself for things, not wanting to rely on others. This stems from childhood, when her parents grew tired of attending all her ballet recitals and eventually stopped coming to them altogether. Not letting herself rely on others means there's no opportunity for them to let her down, as well as the fact that her accomplishments are hers alone. As the Head Nurse of the Enterprise, Christine still carries that drive to succeed and prove herself to be the best. Her career is the most important thing to her, and she throws herself into her work. She controls the inner workings of the medical bay, from stocking and reordering their inventory, to doing physicals and treating minor injuries, to assisting in surgeries, to begrudgingly issuing duty rosters to her nursing staff, to making the rounds. She's open and friendly with her nurses, even a little bit trusting, but if Christine had the time and resources, she would gladly be in control of everything in the medical bay herself. She is already very serious and dedicated to her work for her age.

Her perfectionist nature is her main flaw. She doesn't like to trust others to do things because she thinks she can do the best job. Her arrogance is something she is well aware of, but doesn't easily strive to control. She doesn't see anything wrong with wanting to be the best at what she does. Speaking her mind is natural for her. If she feels compassion for someone, she'll show it. If she feels proud of herself for something she's done, she'll brag about it and not apologize for it.

When she can't control things, such as when a patient dies despite her best efforts, she locks it away in her head and throws herself into other things, sometimes even completely unnecessary tasks, just so she doesn't have a breakdown where she feels that she's failed someone as well as herself. It's unhealthy to not confront the things she can't control, but if she did, she would have to admit to herself that she can't control everything and that she does occasionally fail. Bottling things up is something she does because she wants to appear perfect, in control, steady and sure. But eventually things have to come out and those emotions have to be set free.

Christine throws herself into things full force. She loves mastering/conquering challenges. When she gave up ballet, she knew she had to replace it with something about which she could be just as passionate. If she didn't, she would see herself as a quitter, and that's something she would hate to be. She doesn't accept defeat easily. She was always smart (according to supplemental info, she graduated in the 98th percentile of her class at Starfleet Medical Academy), and science was something she loved. Discovering how the body functioned and how to fix it when it failed appealed to her and her desire to control things.

Right now, Christine is exactly where she wants to be, doing what she loves to do. She gets to treat the injured and ill, go on away missions to collect data that could prove useful in medicine, and be in charge of all of the ship's nurses. She's incredibly work-oriented for her age, and while she likes to relax and have fun, having a fulfilling career that makes her feel needed and important is what really matters to her. Still ambitious, she'll consider working towards her doctorate and one day becoming the Chief Medical Officer of a Starfleet vessel.

Is this character immune? Yes

Background:

Christine's Universe

My Christine is from the alternative reality set up in the reboot movie. In 2233, the USS Kelvin was attacked by a rogue Romulan ship with advanced technology. In addition to this changing the futures of James Kirk, Spock, and many at Starfleet, it also affected Christine's life. Instead of entering bio-research and working alongside Dr. Roger Korby as she did in the Original Series of Star Trek, in looking for an area of science to focus on, she found that he published papers in the medical field and came to greatly admire him.

Christine was born in 2237 in New Orleans, LA on Earth to Lauren and Patterson Chapel. From a young age she had a great interest in ballet, and took lessons for twelve years. She had plans of making it as a professional ballerina, an incredibly hard profession to break into, and so from her early childhood to throughout her teens, Christine showed an intense drive to go after what she wanted. She had other interests, of course, such as softball, volleyball, singing, cooking, and science. Though she aced every class she took, her favorites were those that dealt with science, specifically biology. She never pictured herself as anything other than a ballerina though, and so she didn't consider at that point that she could do anything in the field of science. Ballet was her one true love.

As her parents lost interest in her extracurricular activities and showed less support, that made Christine all the more determined to get them to pay attention. She strove for excellence in everything she did. As her teens progressed and she slowly became aware that her parents just didn't share or really support her interests, she came to the conclusion that she couldn't depend on them, or on anyone else, for anything. This gave her an intense drive to prove herself to be capable all on her own.

At age sixteen, she gave up on becoming a ballerina because she no longer felt healthy pushing herself. After giving up the possibility of that, she turned to her next love, science, specifically biology. As is Christine's nature, she had to throw herself into something else, so that she could excel in it. She chose medicine, and began reading about breakthroughs being made by Starfleet scientists, specifically one named Dr. Roger Korby. Roger had been in high school when Starfleet suffered a tragedy in losing one of its ships, the USS Kelvin, in an attack by an enemy with advanced technology who was never found. This motivated Roger to join Starfleet, and this would later affect Christine's life.

On graduating in 2255 she joined Starfleet's Medical Academy. She excelled in every class she took, volunteered at the Medical Center, and easily made friends with like-minded, hardworking cadets. In 2258, she and her fellow cadets at the Academy were called to answer a distress call from Vulcan, as most of the Fleet was engaged too far away to answer the call. She was assigned to her first choice ship, the newly built USS Enterprise, which was going out on her maiden voyage. Upon arriving above Vulcan a bit later than her fellow starships after a delay, the Enterprise found herself to be the only surviving ship, and was promptly attacked by a rogue Romulan ship, which had just destroyed the others. Christine was knocked around in the attack, but not injured, and she quickly got her bearings, assisting in healing the wounded. Once the Romulans were defeated, the Enterprise returned to Earth and Christine finished her classes in time to depart on the repaired ship. As the previous Head Nurse had been killed in the attack above Vulcan, Christine was promoted to Head Nurse, based on her actions and how she kept a cool head and directed her fellow nurses during the attack.

In Star Trek Into Darkness, a year after the events of the first film, Kirk and crew are doing surveying missions while Kirk hopes to impress Starfleet enough to be rewarded with a five year mission. The writing team who had initially included Nurse Chapel in the first film as a voice offscreen seemingly forgot they had included her as part of the medbay staff and proceeded to include her in this film as a brief mention to set up a joke about Kirk forgetting his conquests. It was also implied that she didn't start her nursing career until after she'd slept with Kirk. This completely disregards what the writers previously stated so, once again, I'm going to AU her to fit into the time line and without making her the butt of a joke or acting completely opposite to the way the original series Christine acted.

Once Kirk disregarded Starfleet protocol and was demoted, Christine was still a member of the crew, but would have been serving under Pike, had the subsequent attack on Starfleet headquarters not killed him. After the attack, Christine was back onboard as Kirk was given permission to go after John Harrison, the perpetrator of the attack. Her friend Carol Marcus was aboard, but she didn't reveal that she knew her by that name because at the time Carol was using an alias so no one would know she was Admiral Marcus's daughter. Chapel was in the medbay when both Harrison/Khan and later a deceased Kirk were brought in and assisted Dr. McCoy with cryogenically freezing Kirk's body until the doctor had time to synthesize Khan's blood to give to Kirk and bring him back to life. Back on Earth, she helped monitor Kirk in the weeks after he was revived.

Other Notables:

As a nurse, Christine will want to get her hands on medical supplies to help people where she can. She'll want first and foremost to get a job in the medical sector, but if that doesn't work out because she doesn't exactly have her Academy transcripts handy, she'll settle for buying drugstore supplies and just offering help when she sees opportunity.

Inventory:

- Her science blue Starfleet uniform dress + Starfleet issued knee high black boots and undergarments.
- Small handheld medical scanner.
- En pointe ballet shoes.


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