Trisant Myrddin

Character Information

Gender		Male
Species		Bajoran
Age		35
Date of Birth		Stardate 32623.5 (2354)
Place of Birth		Citrin, Gemaris V

Character Type

Starfleet ID

Serial Number		TR-920-4833
Security Clearance		Level 2
Duty Watch		N/A

Physical Appearance

Height		1.8 metres
Weight		79 kilogram
Hair Color		Black
Eye Color		Grey-Blue
Physical Description		Myrddin maintains a healthy level of physical fitness through frequent physical activity -- usually climbing jefferies tubes or swimming. He has little patience for calisthenics or weight training. The notion of going to a room designated for fitness is foreign to him. Instead, he believes in living a life that embraces frequent activity. His physique is naturally lean, without much effort, and he has to eat and exercise appropriately to avoid appearing gaunt. As a Bajoran, Myrddin's external appearance is nearly identical to a Human, aside from five horizontal creases across his broad nose. His face is framed by a lantern jaw. His hair is a dark shade of brown, approaching black, and his eyes are a cloudy-grey shade of blue.
Body Art		=^= PNPC Owned by Andreus Kohl =^=

Family

Spouse		Trisant Kanakanui (Divorced)
Children		None
Father		Trisant Solis
Mother		Trisant Betrs
Brother(s)		Accessing...
Sister(s)		Accessing...
Other Family		Accessing...

Personality & Traits

General Overview		In his youth, Myrddin was nothing but serene and taciturn. As a born listener, he only spoke when it was absolutely necessary. Even then he tended to sum up his expression into as few words as possible. When expressing himself, he chooses his words with great care. This largely results from a borderline social anxiety disorder that causes him to irrationally fear the thoughts and judgments of strangers. Having been raised on a planet not his own, he fears that he cannot adapt to the norms of every species he encounters. He can only assume how poorly others might think of him, as a result. As he has matured, Myrddin has become more comfortable with himself and his personality flaws. Generally, he is confident in his own skin. He is far more likely to speak his mind than he used to be --and he has little regard for tact or guile-- but he still tries to use as few words as possible.
Strengths		Through his career, Myrddin has become an expert in signal transmission. He knows the whole path from the user interface to the journey into subspace. More recently, he has developed a strong understanding of astronomy and celestial cartography. He also has a passing understanding in the other areas of responsibilities in the Operations and Science departments, with some overlap into Engineering from his previous assignments. Left alone with a PADD and stylus, Myrddin has a way with words. At times he can be overly precious and too clever about how he writes his duty reports. This mastery of Bajoran and Federation Standard language doesn't always convey to the spoken word, though. He has become skilled in designing replicator patterns for foodstuffs.
Weaknesses		Pride. He sometimes feels under-appreciated. When he performs his profession successfully, he fears that his colleagues see his accomplishments as merely meeting expectations, rather than a thing of wonder. Avoiding conflict comes naturally to Myrddin. His tendency is to run; it always has been. All of Myrrdin's expertise comes from experience. He comprehends subspace transmission, but he doesn't know the scientific reasons for how or why signals transmit through subspace. He takes these gaps in his knowledge for granted, and he focuses on the practical matters he can grasp between his own two hands.
Ambitions		To write a five-hundred word story that will make you cry. Some day, he'd like to serve on a ship that offers family quarters.
Hobbies & Interests		botany, playwright, dancing alone, computer interfaces, swimming, designing replicator patterns for desserts, writing for peer-review science and engineering journals, stellar cartography
Vernacular		Myrddin can come across as taciturn. He speaks infrequently and uses simple sentences as much as possible. Even when talking about the work he loves, he aims to communicate himself in a brief and direct manner that leaves little room for misinterpretation. And then, when he's put in a position to tell a story --be it one of his exaggerated Dominion War stories or mere gossip from the ship's lounge-- that's when he comes to life, verbally speaking. Myrdinn's entire bearing becomes more animated and his diction more verbose (bordering on purple prose) when he's a story-teller.
Orientation		Bisexual
Language(s) Spoken		Bajoran, Federation Standard

Personal History		Trisant Solis first met his wife, Betrs, aboard the transport ship that smuggled them off Bajor during the Cardassian Occupation. It was in the refugee camp on Gemaris V that Solis and Betrs raised their six children. Myrddin was a middle child. Although he looks back on it differently now, Myrddin was perfectly content with his life in the camps. The land was just about fertile enough to allow his parents to grow and preserve the foods they needed to feed their family, and to barter for other goods. He never knew any kind of life but for his own. He never knew of the luxuries of the Federation that he was missing. Among six siblings, Myrddin could only obtain the affections of his parents through competition. And he wasn't the most adventurous, the most charming, nor the most talented at athletics. By the time he could talk and read in full paragraphs, he established himself as the one who would listen. His role in the family was that of the mediator. He remained neutral during family conflict, more interested in understanding than in picking sides. While each of Myrddin's siblings learned useful trades like their parents, his calling was that of a lyrical bard. He devoured whatever literature he could get his hands on, from classic mythology to trashy romance. The story structure, the characters, they always fascinated him. With his devotion to storytelling, it became an expectation that he would become a playwright for their community. That expectation festered with him, driven onwards by perfectionism. He wrote prolifically, all his adolescence, but he found himself stumped. Everything he had written, everything he was motivated to write, it all had the stench of derivation. Nothing sounded original. And so, as an adolescent, Myrddin stranded himself aboard Colius Station. He figured he could study formal writing technique sometime later. He could formally learn to write after he discovered what he wanted to write about. Boldly, he secured himself a bunk and employment as a cargo handler. Giving into wanderlust, he toured known space aboard a UFP cargo ship called the Diabolical Streak and applied for his Federation citizenship. Traveling from world to world, from base to base, he dove into every experience that could fuel later writings. The only thing he wanted to do with his life was write. It seemed the only thing he was good at. In practice, the job of a cargo handler was physically demanding, exhausting. It left him in little mood to concentrate on forming words. As a young adult, all he was really in the mood for was romance, or at least the trappings of romance. Most of his years aboard the Diabolical Streak were spent with writer's block. Whenever he was single and miserable, he managed to do some writing, but it was never anything of consequence. Usually he wrote little more than journals. Frustrated that employment and a lover afforded him no opportunity to write, Myrddin ran away again. He quit his job and stranded himself on a pleasure planet, Argelius II. Living in the figurative lap of luxury, he expected to write the Greatest Play in the Galaxy. He could write it now that he had lived. Now that he had the time to write about it. But he didn't. He procrastinated. He stared at blank screens, at blank paper, at blank canvas, and he didn't know what to write about. He couldn't even start. After unproductive weeks went by, he feared that he would never write even a prologue or a single sonnet. His thoughts went to planning a new escape route, but he couldn't decide what do do with his life. He couldn't decide where to go next. He was struck dumb with abulia. That inability to make a decision compounded exponentially, and it got to the point where he couldn't decide whether to take the stairs or the turbolift. He couldn't leave his condominium and couldn't decide what to eat for breakfast. Before he starved to death, he made one decision. Just one. To save himself, he stripped away his agency all together. He gave himself over to a lifestyle that would tell him what to do and would tell him where to go. He applied to the enlisted training school at Starfleet Academy. He surrendered to destiny.
Starfleet History		For his first assignment, Myrddin was shipped off to Starbase Sixty as a Crewman Second Class. Serving as a Transmitter Maintenance Technician, Myrddin was assigned all of the duties no one else wanted to perform. He spent most of his shifts completing preventative maintenance on the subspace transmitters, which generally worked perfectly anyway. Occasionally, he would have the opportunity to perform repairs or scour the databases for electronic messages that went missing. Sometimes he would repair com badges for fun. In 2373, Myrddin was promoted to Communications Technician with the rank of Crewman First Class. He never learned another language, but he understood how to boost a transmission through interference and how to coax the universal translator into operating faster. Once the conflict with the Dominion broke out, he specialized in communications encryption to support the war effort. Life during wartime, it did things to a person. Changed a person. It made Myrddin appreciate life's little pleasures all the more. He married an Haliian medical officer, named Kanakanui. Their marriage was never stronger than when they thought they might be murdered by Jem'hadar at any moment. Well after the war was over, Myrddin was transferred to USS Laozi. Kanakanui requested a transfer to the same vessel, to be with Myrddin, but her transfer wasn't approved. She was being groomed to become the Chief Medical Officer aboard the starbase. With Myrddin's expertise in transmission, he was assigned as a Sensor Operator aboard the Laozi. Due to his overlapping experience between Operations and Science, when he was was transferred to the USS Farraghut, he was assigned as an Astrometrics Technician. He served as assistant to Astrophysicists, Astrometrics Specialist and Stellar Cartographers, and he learned everything he could from them both on duty and off. Kanakanui never even requested to serve aboard the Farraghut with Myrddin, nor aboard the subsequent USS New Orleans. Myrddin didn't ask her to, either. It was aboard the New Orleans that Myrddin earned his credentials and became a Stellar Cartographer in his own right. Hardly a year later, Myrddin was transferred to the science vessel USS Galileo in the wake of its harrowing first mission. While Galileo was investigating metaphysical manifestations on the mining planet Lyshan III, Myrddin came into contact with one of the miners, a Cardassian named Draia Theroh. The two of them began a secret love affair by written word and subspace communication after Galileo moved on to its next mission. Once he was ready to begin a new life with Draia, Myrddin divorced his estranged wife, resigned his Starfleet commission, and followed Draia to the Federation's new colony on Celes III.
Medical History		Myrddin is in relatively good health due to exercise, nutrition, and regular time spent with medical officers to discuss preventive medicine. Myrddin is currently prescribed medication to manage a cardiac condition resulting from the lack of adequate nutrition and medical facilities in his childhood.
Service Record		2370: Hired as a Cargo Handler aboard the cargo vessel Diabolical Streak 2372: Accepted into Starfleet Academy Enlisted Training School with the rank of Crewman Third Class 2372: Promoted to Crewman Second Class, transferred to Starbase 60 as Transmitter Maintenance Technician 2373: Promoted to Crewman First Class as Subspace Communications Technician 2377: Promoted to Petty Officer Third Class, transferred to USS Laozi as Sensor Operator 2381: Promoted to Petty Officer Second Class, transferred to USS Farraghut as Astrometrics Technician 2385: Promoted to Petty Officer First Class, transferred to USS New Orleans as Astrometrics Technician 2388: Promoted to Stellar Cartographer 2389: Transferred to USS Galileo as Stellar Cartographer

Character Progression System

CPS Option

DISABLED

Skills and Perks

Skill Training