Player nickname: Dakotah Player LJ:callieach Way to contact you: Email: e_flat@live.com AIM: daredtodo Other: Twitter: callieach Are you at least 15?: Yes. Current Characters: N/A.
Character: James Tiberius ("Jim") Kirk Fandom:Star Trek (2009 movie, aka reboot)
Character Notes: History: James Tiberius Kirk, named after both grandfathers, was born in space in the year 2233, in a small escape pod literally moments before his father died saving his and many other lives. During his infant and toddler years, he and his older brother Sam were mostly raised by their mother’s parents, her mother having moved in to help with the boys now that Winona was alone. As time passed, his mother remarried, his elder brother ran away from home because of tension with their stepfather and Jim, a bright young thing, became a delinquent. At the age of thirteen, he was sent to live with extended family in the Tarsus system. His planet, Tarsus IV, underwent a food shortage during his time there. Kodos, the governor at the time, made the highly criticized decision to have half of the eight-thousand-plus population killed in order for the other half to live. Under Kodos’ convoluted view of eugenics, Jim’s family were among those sentenced to death. Jim himself survived, being one of only nine to come face to face with the governor and thus able to identify him as a perpetrator of this mass murder. Although help came, Jim returned to the family farm in Iowa a much more jaded young man.
As a mentor of his once put it, he’s “the only genius level repeat offender in the Midwest.” If there was trouble to be found in or anywhere near Riverside Iowa, Jim found it. From hotwiring cars to breaking into a bank, simply to see if he could, his brilliance was clearly wasted. And then he found Starfleet, which could have been very good or very bad. Determination, however, was not something Jim Kirk could be found lacking in. If someone believed he wasn’t capable of doing something, or told him he wouldn’t happen, he would do it, just to prove them wrong. As a consequence, he was praised as one of the brightest cadets of his year, excelling in physics, xenolinguistics, survival training, hand-to-hand combat, and strategy-based command courses.
When the planet of Vulcan was attacked and Starfleet cadets shipped out to investigate, the Admiralty ruled he was grounded, pending further trial for a violation of school code. Evidence of just how strong his charm and personality can rub off on a person, his friend, Doctor Leonard McCoy ended up essentially sneaking Jim aboard anyway. When serious trouble broke out in the form of a genocidal, time traveling Romulan, Jim proved himself a hero went above and beyond what anyone expected of him (except maybe Bones; he likes to think his best friend would believe him to be some sort of superman), saving Earth and earning the Captain’s chair of the Enterprise, to boot.
Jim Kirk (1/?)
Player LJ:
Way to contact you:
Email: e_flat@live.com
AIM: daredtodo
Other: Twitter: callieach
Are you at least 15?: Yes.
Current Characters: N/A.
Character: James Tiberius ("Jim") Kirk
Fandom: Star Trek (2009 movie, aka reboot)
Character Notes:
History: James Tiberius Kirk, named after both grandfathers, was born in space in the year 2233, in a small escape pod literally moments before his father died saving his and many other lives. During his infant and toddler years, he and his older brother Sam were mostly raised by their mother’s parents, her mother having moved in to help with the boys now that Winona was alone. As time passed, his mother remarried, his elder brother ran away from home because of tension with their stepfather and Jim, a bright young thing, became a delinquent. At the age of thirteen, he was sent to live with extended family in the Tarsus system. His planet, Tarsus IV, underwent a food shortage during his time there. Kodos, the governor at the time, made the highly criticized decision to have half of the eight-thousand-plus population killed in order for the other half to live. Under Kodos’ convoluted view of eugenics, Jim’s family were among those sentenced to death. Jim himself survived, being one of only nine to come face to face with the governor and thus able to identify him as a perpetrator of this mass murder. Although help came, Jim returned to the family farm in Iowa a much more jaded young man.
As a mentor of his once put it, he’s “the only genius level repeat offender in the Midwest.” If there was trouble to be found in or anywhere near Riverside Iowa, Jim found it. From hotwiring cars to breaking into a bank, simply to see if he could, his brilliance was clearly wasted. And then he found Starfleet, which could have been very good or very bad. Determination, however, was not something Jim Kirk could be found lacking in. If someone believed he wasn’t capable of doing something, or told him he wouldn’t happen, he would do it, just to prove them wrong. As a consequence, he was praised as one of the brightest cadets of his year, excelling in physics, xenolinguistics, survival training, hand-to-hand combat, and strategy-based command courses.
When the planet of Vulcan was attacked and Starfleet cadets shipped out to investigate, the Admiralty ruled he was grounded, pending further trial for a violation of school code. Evidence of just how strong his charm and personality can rub off on a person, his friend, Doctor Leonard McCoy ended up essentially sneaking Jim aboard anyway. When serious trouble broke out in the form of a genocidal, time traveling Romulan, Jim proved himself a hero went above and beyond what anyone expected of him (except maybe Bones; he likes to think his best friend would believe him to be some sort of superman), saving Earth and earning the Captain’s chair of the Enterprise, to boot.