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[kirking]

OUT OF CHARACTER

Name: melanie
Personal Journal: marching
Age: 25
Contact: crimsongrace
Characters Played: none here

IN CHARACTER

Name: James Tiberius Kirk
Canon: Star Trek AOS
Age: 26
Timeline: post Star Trek Into Darkness

Age Up?: I mean emotionally he might need it....

Background: This and this one.

Personality:

Most people think Jim Kirk is arrogant and reckless... and they are exactly right. Because he is, because he doesn't look before leaping. He throws himself headfirst into situations and then figures it out as he goes along. It seems like he's just really lucky, and he is (cats with nine lives have had less chances than him) but what it really boils down to is that he is good at thinking outside the box. He sees what he wants and he goes for it, and the route to get there doesn't really matter. What some people call cheating, he calls recalibrating the conditions of the test to make it actually beatable. But that means he often fails to see the point of a life lesson, because he thinks it doesn't apply to him. Why would he need to feel the sting of total failure when he's never failed at anything in his life and doesn't plan on doing it anytime soon?

While he has grown in many ways, learning discipline and that sometimes he has to hold himself back, and you know, finding your life's purpose tends to focus a guy, he's still more like an angry fifteen year old kid than a tried and true starship captain. Professionalism is a word Kirk pretends he doesn't know the definition of a lot of the time. He pouts when he doesn't get his way, and can be really petty sometimes. Kirk often says the first thing that comes to mind even if it's not exactly politically correct... or nice. He's pretty sassy and breathes sarcasm.

Kirk generally doesn't like rules. He often sees them as in the way to getting what he wants and he always gets what he wants. He's the kind of captain that will flout the Prime Directive to save a crew member's life. And the kind of captain that will be the first off the ship to explore a new world even if it's not exactly safe. He doesn't believe in no-win scenarios. The Narada Incident made him worse about this because everything seemed impossible and bleak and he went from being marooned on an ice planet to leading the Enterprise to defeating Nero and saving Earth from destruction by black hole in less than two days. It kind of went to his head.

Enough about his failings though, because he really does have the ability to be a great captain. He believes in doing the right thing. He's got heart, and passion and he loves his crew like they're family. Kirk would do anything for them, push come to shove. When they end up in situations where someone gets hurt or worse dies because of a decision he made, he has a habit of beating himself up for it, even if it wasn't all completely his fault. Kirk takes the blame on himself because he's their superior and because it's one thing to risk his own life and get hurt, it's entirely something else to gamble with someone else's. He has kind of a soldier's mentality when it comes to killing. If they're the enemy and tried to kill him or someone he cares about first, then you better believe he's going to put them down. But he'll grant mercy if asked and he really hates it when civilians get involved.

On some level, he wants people to respect and like him for being himself and not just because he's his father's son or the guy that saved the planet. He feels like he has to prove himself constantly, not that he really minds because it's also a way to show off but sometimes, it'd be nice if he didn't have to James T. Kirk all the time. He gets easily attached to people who hang around him in spite of his name and his ego. This doesn't happen that often, yeah but he's the kind of guy to forge life defining friendships.

Despite the fact that he's on a ship with hundreds of people, many of whom are close friends and he considers them all a part of his family, Kirk is kind of lonely. Some of it is a side effect of his position. He's the captain, he can't be giving personal favors to people or be accused of favoritism and he is supposed to be an impartial judge if there's a disagreement ever. There's also the fact where he has to put some distance between himself and his crew to maintain their respect for his authority. But a lot of his loneliness comes from the fact that he's been alone for most of his life. So he craves attention and seeks it in a lot of unhealthy ways.

He has a real weakness for the ladies. Well, some people might say he has a weakness for anything that moves but he definitely prefers the moving to be in a miniskirt. But you know, not all aliens have the same boy/girl sexes that humans do so it's kinda hard to tell sometimes. He'll hit on any girl at least once, even if it won't go anywhere, even if he knows it won't go anywhere. Sometimes he'll back off if she's not interested but more often then not, he'll keep it going for years to come. Just because he thinks it's cute.

Kirk got a slap in the face from humility recently, handed to him by Admiral Marcus and Khan both in addition to his own reckless ways catching up to him. When Marcus threatened to kill everyone on the Enterprise because of his mistake, Kirk pleaded for their lives, admitted to his faults and his arrogance and seemed like he finally got what Pike had been trying to tell him all along. That the rules do apply to him and he can't justify everything on blind luck like he had been since he signed up with Starfleet. Sure, yes he's smart and clever and damn lucky but he needs to consider the risks/benefits and sometimes the risks aren't worth it. When bargaining with Marcus doesn't work and the ship is going to crash, Kirk sacrifices himself to save everyone else, climbing into the warp core to manually restart Enterprise. Dying isn't something that you can bounce back from like the flu, so I expect that he'll have some lingering PTSD like symptoms over it and will do everything to keep people from noticing it. Because he doesn't want to talk about it.

Powers: Just the power of seduction and pure blind luck.

No really he's just a human little moron. He is considered a genius and he's been trained by Starfleet, so that's about all the more powerful he gets.

Do you want a power wipe? Not an issue

Suitcase: A couple extra gold shirt uniforms, his leather jacket, his communicator that won't work
Surprise? HELL YES
Other Notables:

SAMPLES

Network Sample: [originally from tlv]

You know, a year ago I thought it was pretty cool that I have my own action figure. But now I have a lot of them, of people that I know pretty well and I think it's actually... really creepy.

This is someone's toy and you know they never stop at the action figures. What if there's a board game or footie pajamas or something? Tiny little backpacks with my face on it.

And what if we all have weird crap like this out in the universe somewhere? Some kid could be playing the Prefect game where you try and sell everything you own. Or you can hit a little inflatable head with a frying pan. Or you could be a robot for a day... no that'd be boring. Stick people with hypos like they're going out of style.

Shit, what if there's costumes too?

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