Harry Lynton

Crewman Harry Lynton serves in the tactical department on the USS Odyssey.
== Background ==
The life of one Harry Lynton was one of hardship and a lack of support from the wider UPF. His parents lived on the UFP side of the UPF-Cardassian border, meaning they were the first to get hit by the war. They survived only by becoming refugees and not getting involved with the Maquis, yet there were still extreme hardships. Once the war was over, his parents resettled back onto their own farm and began a family, but Harry was the youngest of three children. Tragedy struck the family when his mother died from a perfectly treatable disease, but the lack of UFP infrastructure essentially hamstrung their efforts to care for her. In light of this, his early life was one of hard work, having to help around the farm and the house, trying to compensate for the loss of a parental figure. Harry had few friends and was much better at chopping down trees than his actual school work. Harry had always been taught to work for what you had, never be rude to others, and to always respect those above him in society. Over the years, he developed a reputation as an extremely quiet boy, one who despite his troubles spent a long time dedicated to learning and helping the family. At the age of 18, he made a shocking statement to his family and their friends, that he wished to join Starfleet. Not that he had shown any sort of particular interest in Starfleet in the past, but he had always been secretly wanting to serve in order to never allow what happened to his mother happen to another family. After some time and several months working to get a transport to the core of the UFP, he finally enlisted, rather than going to the academy. During his time at the academy for Enlisted, he was placed among the Tactical department, not having any particular skills in much else. He went through all of the basic classes as well as all of the PT necessary, taking an emphasis on close quarters combat and marksmanship. For his lack of an excellent intellect, he was really adept on his feet, a consequence of being in a colony. His time was mostly kept to himself, studying all that he could and generally not being around too many cliques, his shyness continuing to harm him when it came to actual leadership spots. His general unambitious nature led him to the occasional jokes being made at his expense, but his record overall was spotless. In all honesty, Harry would have loved to be placed on a distant station, but surprisingly he was deployed to the Odyssey. Something about the commodore pushing him towards a place that would open him up. Something that is a distant memory as Harry has just been in the background, not doing much as everything has been happening around him, until now. 
== Personality ==
Harry is a pretty shy individual, someone who would do his job and leave without most people noticing that he was there. He is kind to those who are kind back to him, but is almost cold to those who either don’t care about him or are disrespectful to him. He tries to be extremely respectful to those of higher rank, so of course that means almost everyone on the ship besides him. His care to detail is also notable, and he would spend hours doing a task to ensure that it is spot on, time management be damned. He always strives to never be lazy, as the statement “idle hands are the devil’s workshop” deeply ingrained in his mind. His utter lack of ambition and strive for promotion is relatively well pronounced, as he feels it would be better to be enlisted and do good work than just rush towards a higher rank. He can occasionally be rushed to increased anger or aggression, but years to work on it has reduced the risk of that to only rare instances. He is also pretty dull when it comes to humor or even social interactions in general, not really knowing when a good joke is thrown at him. 
== Psych Evaluation ==
What are some challenges your character faces? Be sure they are psychologically prepared for the stress of Starfleet. For Harry himself, some of his worst issues come with a latent issue with social interactions and some minor PTSD. Over the years, he was forced to see the occasional pirate raid upon his planet, as well as the general hardness of post-war living. He has gotten some counseling from a Starfleet counselor with the latter issue so he has been cleared by the staff at the academy for full service, but the former is something that hasn’t broken all in his life. His stress tolerance is high compared to the rest of his class however, as he has learned to deal with stress in more productive ways than to just break down. 
== Other information ==
* Likes: Exercising, reading in his bunk, quietly praying, diligently working on any task assigned, getting into small talk with the few friends that he made. 
* Dislikes: Being forced to do unnecessary work, being forced into big social situations, failure to do the tasks provided. Getting his teammates killed. 
Category:Characters
Category:Odyssey Crew
Category:Tactical
Category:Crewman 1st Class
Category:Human
Category:Enlisted
Category:Wareagle041502
Category:Male