Your name or online alias: Ryann
Your email: cornichaun @ gmail
Another preferred means of contact: cornichaun @ plurk
Character's Full Name: Hugh Cambridge
Character's Canon: Star Trek: Voyager
Character's Canon Point: prior to Acts of Contrition
Character's Journal Name:
chaoticaWhat would you like your character's tag to be?: Hugh Cambridge
Answer the following questions in no less than 300 words but no greater than 1000 words put together...Character's background (their past and present): With qualifications in medicine, psychology and xenoanthropology, Cambridge has been a Starfleet officer and a counselor for about four decades. At first, his duties mostly took place on starships, with occasional stints of time in academic settings. After the battle of Wolf 359, when Cambridge was aboard a ship that was destroyed, he gave up on the starship life and moved permanently to Starfleet Medical, where he worked as a counselor and pursued his research into the cultural backgrounds and mythologies of various alien species. He became complacent, if not entirely content, with this life. However, it didn't last forever: he was transferred aboard
Voyager as a permanent ship's counselor. Dissatisfied with the assignment, Cambridge acted like a brat for several months before reluctantly settling in, then, quietly, falling in love with the ship and crew.
Character's personality: Cambridge's general attitude is terrible; he is rude, he states exactly what he is thinking, and he doesn't bother to hide boredom and irritation. In fact, for quite some time after meeting him, most people get the impression that he's an entitled asshat who's totally unsuited for his job. This is mostly a shell. Underneath, Cambridge is fiercely loyal to his friends, uncompromisingly moral in his decision-making, and keenly eager to explore and learn. His passion is in the minds that he meets, the psychology and culture of different races. Cambridge is a genius, and he's rarely been in situations where his intellect is matched or challenged.
Once Cambridge has decided that someone is worthy of his respect, it's almost impossible to shake. He's a wonderful judge of character, with a limitless store of empathy, though he could stand to use that empathy a little more often. Though he has the ability to put his personal emotions aside and go on professional judgment, he's not much of a liar. When it comes to outright hiding his own emotions, he's not good at it. He deals with his emotions like an adult (most of the time), but they are strong, and what he chooses to care about, he cares about unreservedly.
Cambridge can also be the exact kind of idiot he abhors. He sometimes can convince himself so much that he knows what to do and no one else does that he fails to rely on anyone else, thus leading to idiotic outcomes. In cases like that, he's able to acknowledge how dumb he's just been when called out on it. In addition, when his emotions get deeply personal, they can blind his judgment.
Overall, he's not just picky and egocentric because he's never been challenged properly. He doesn't wait to make friends because he likes being that picky. It's because he quietly doesn't believe that he's worth being friends with. Or worth loving. His solution is to do amazing things and surround himself with amazing people; if they all like him, he must be worth liking, right?
Character's skills/abilities/powers: Cambridge has an eidetic memory and a very keen understanding of body language and the mind. He also is a Starfleet officer with basic training in all areas (engineering, navigation, sciences) and advanced training in a few (anthropology, languages, first contact). He has degrees in psychology and xenoanthropology and is a fully qualified physician.
Any special equipment your character is bringing along? This includes weaponry, magic items, etc.: Just his communicator.
Are you bringing your character to
ten_fwd from another game? If you are, which game?: Nope
If you answered yes above, briefly summarize how they were changed by and what challenges they faced in the climate of their previous game(s): n/a
Why do you want to play this character in Ten Forward, and what do you plan to do with them? Cambridge is one of those characters who's very adaptable and easy to play in a variety of universes, with or without canonmates. That's what I've been doing with him so far. But, I admit, there's something really appealing about playing him in a familiar universe, and I'd love to see him bounce off of television Star Trek characters. I also really want him to take a role as counselor on the ship; he thrives when he's responsible for people's mental health. (And since he's not the only counselor, I can play him as fully annoying as he is in canon, without worrying about sabotaging anyone's plot opportunities.) In general, he's flexible, he's fun, and I'd love to give him a shot here.
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