Cecilia Angelica

PO1 Cecilia Angelica is a member of the intelligence department on the USS Odyssey. 
== Background ==
The planet of Deped 42 is located in the alpha quadrant in-between the borders of Federation and Cardassian space. The world was the center of trade for its particular sector. Many cities spanned the planet. Species from both the Alpha and Beta quadrants migrated to the planet to take advantage of the wealth that could be made, as a result, they made up the vast local population. The major factors that defined the planet, unfortunately, attracted many undesirable elements such as pirates and smugglers. Crime and poverty ran rampant across lower levels of Deped 42 and due to corruption and underfunding the Planet's local police force while respected by many law-abiding citizens were unable to keep them in check.
Cecilia was born on this planet along with her twin sister on February 14th, 2387. They were orphans, left at the front door of an orphanage created by the planetary government to keep kids off the streets and make them valuable members of galactic society. How they did this was by instilling them with harsh discipline, physical conditioning, and regimented education in very brutal conditions. The babies were taken in by the faculty as they often had to; Many people of the lower levels couldn't afford to take care of their children and usually, they would come to the orphanages in an attempt to give them a better life. Or they were just an inconvenience for the parents and were sent to the schools to relieve them of their burden. There were many reasons, most not empathetic or particularly noble but the kids had to suffer regardless.
A priest from one of the local churches typically would walk among the newcomers blessing them and give names to the ones who had no identity to speak of. He named them Cecilia and Aurelia Angelica respectively believing that they were god's gifts to the universe. The children endured the strict practices of the orphanage leaning on each other to push through it. Cecilia was considered more of a scoundrel while her sister was more quiet and antisocial with everyone that was in with her. However, when the twins turned 5 the faculty started to notice Aurelia significantly underperforming at her daily duties. She was getting devastatingly sick and eventually but gradually became deaf. Doctors determined it was a degenerative disease from one of her parents and due to the fact that they weren't in the planet's birth record system they couldn't attempt to track them down. It was too expensive to afford the treatments that could help her so the orphanage was authorized to give her the meagerest amount of medical care possible so she would at least be comfortable. Cecilia could hear her violently cough at night. When she called out her name there was no answer; and the faculty continued to treat her like a useless dying dog that needed to be put down. She was a parasite to them, a resource drain. Cecilia couldn't let her sister, her only family that she knew of die, especially in a place where they treated her like garbage. One night she took her sister and snuck out of the orphanage looking for someone that could help her. After a few hours of walking the streets subject to the suspicious gazes of the commoners, they discovered a church recused away in between two apartment complexes. It looked out of place compared to its surroundings but it was weirdly idyllic prompting the twins to enter the building. They meet the priest who happened to be the same priest that named them at the orphanage. He recognized the twins and was surprised as to why they were there. Cecilia explained their predicament and pleaded to the priest to take her sister in and try to save her. While he didn't have much, he took Aurelia in and did all he could to raise her as if she were his own, teaching them about the Bible and the Lord as she grew up. Weeks would go by and Aurelia's condition would worsen. The church did everything they could to help her but it wasn't enough. Cecilia would typically sneak out of the orphanage, which completely dismissed Aurelia's disappearance, and visit her sister as often as she could. During one of her visits, Cecilia overheard one of the ministers talking about preparing a service for her sister which caused her to panic and run into the city with no goal in mind but to get away from her issues.
Going through the streets of the city she was getting eyed by a multitude of shady figures confused as to why a child was roaming around without any protection. The child eventually found herself in a back alley where she would hear the sounds of a commotion and glass breaking. A Ferengi boy only two years older than her came crashing out of a window being tackled by two other men. He was carrying something glossy and he dropped a disruptor pistol which Cecilia approached not knowing what to do. The boy looked at her and the pistol pleading with his eyes and Cecilia picked up the weapon clumsily then fired it at the two individuals seriously injuring them. The boy managed to get up and approach a shaking Cecilia, smiling and talking his disruptor back. They heard the police sirens in the distance and the boy grabbed her arm and started running. They escaped the crime scene with the boy leading Cecilia to an underground cellar that contained a multitude of expensive items and merchandise. The boy handed her 1000 strips of latinum for saving him and extended an offer for her to join his crew. In exchange, he would give her a split of all the profits he made. Being five Cecilia didn't understand what she was about to get herself into but she did understand that the boy was able to supply her with enough money to keep her sister safe so she accepted his offer.
Her decision caused her to end up joining a gang of delinquent children who stole, mugged, and bullied their way across the city. Cecilia being the new kid involved herself with petty crimes under the mentorship of the Ferengi. She ran, ate, and slept with her new accomplices and while she didn't enjoy what she did she was good at it which was often expressed by them. Knowing that the pastor would question how she got it, all the money she made she left in the donation box at the church anonymously during the night when there was no clergy to spot her. She would sneak in to see her sister see if she was getting the care that she needed which she was. Occasionally she would go talk to her using sign language but Cecilia would lie to her about what she was doing out of fear of getting caught only stating that what she was doing was dangerous and no one must know. Aurelia never told the clergy or the pastor about Cecilia coming over which caused them to believe she simply disappeared. 
The small gang was monitored by the police long before Cecilia joined. One junior police officer, John, mostly dealt with them, becoming a recurring obstacle in their petty crimes but he noticed when Cecilia joined seeing how she was different from the rest. Over the years he came to know her through making arrests where he managed to catch her in the act of a crime. The police officer found her clever and filled with the untapped potential of being a decent person, often he sparked conversations with her in the back of a patrol vehicle while he took her back to the orphanage which often resulted in harsh punishments from the faculty for her. Each time he managed to get through her persona she tried to keep up for her gang and teach her valuable life lessons about justice, being law-abiding, and other things like a father would teach to their child. Cecilia thought of him similarly but she knew that she had no choice but to do crime regardless of what she felt. She didn't want her sister to die. One night when Cecilia was 12 the officer followed to the church trying to find out where she came from and discovered her sick twin. That same night was when Cecilia discovered that the pastor that took them in died a few days earlier. She had to comfort her sister but even she felt the loss of him. The police officer would not confront Cecilia about what he saw but would start providing a significant portion of his funds to the church and her so that she could stop relying on the latinum she received from stealing but it wouldn't work yet.
The Police were right in their assessment as By her 15th birthday the gang Cecilia had been in contact with the Orion Syndicate, offering them a job to steal a weapons schematic from a major arms manufacturer in the upper levels. The criminal organization also sent a representative to ensure the heist when according to plan. The police were aware of the new development but needed tangible proof of the crime syndicate's involvement in order to make an arrest. They needed someone on the inside. John proposed that he could convince Cecilia to turn on her crew and assist their operation. The leadership was reluctant but they gave the go ahead for him to get in contact with Cecilia. He visited the orphanage that she was living at during the day and confronted her in front of her instructors. John told her that he knew about everything that she had been doing for the past several years in terms of her sneaking out to see her sister, using the money she gained from her jobs to help pay for her treatment. He essentially offered her a way out. Help him bring her crew to justice and he would ensure that her sister is cared for and that she would be absolved of all crimes that she had committed in the past. When the instructors heard that she did all of this they were almost certainly about to punish her right there and then by giving her a couple of floggings but John stopped them, threatening to shut down the orphanage. Cecilia was conflicted at first by his offer, she trusted him more than her comrades but she hated the prospect of betraying people no matter who they were. Eventually, she came to the determination that it was the best for her and her sister. She did not enjoy what she did but it was out of necessity, she had always told herself that. Now she has a way out of that life. The teenager accepted the man’s offer. John knew she was going to make the right choice and was proud of her, he even told her so which reassured Cecilia of her choice. 
A few weeks later the heist would begin. Under the leadership of the Syndicate agent leading the group, the gang would infiltrate the arms facility disabling its security functions and gaining access to the data core. The syndicate agent eliminated several security guards and some facility staff that got in his way. Many of the gang including Cecilia were uneasy about his tactics but others like their Ferengi leader embraced them, even Cecilia admitted that it was more efficient however messy. Once they reached the datacore the agent started downloading the data while the others started to post security at the door. Cecilia who was carrying a wire the entire time spoke the code word to signal for the strike team to move in. Explosions and the loud clanking of boots alerted the gang causing them to panic. The agent knew that there was no reason why for the police to make their move if they had no evidence of their crimes leaving the only possible way for their arrival is that they had a mole. He pulled the download leaving him with half of the data he needed and shot Cecilia knowing that she had to be the mole. The gang wasn’t surprised at this revelation since they were somewhat aware of her relationship with the meddling police officer. It was just then while Cecilia was lying on the floor gasping in pain that the strike team breached the room firing their phasers at stun trying to arrest the criminals. The firefight only took a few seconds before it was over. Most of the gang except the syndicate agent and their leader were found and arrested. John who took part in the raid went to help and comfort an injured Cecilia while the medics were on their way. It was over, while the syndicate agent and the gang leader remained at large, they managed to halt the transference of data only allowing for half to be copied. John would visit Cecilia in the local hospital along with the police chief who did give her a pardon due to her actions. Aurelia would be given the utmost care that the government could provide and to top it off John offered to adopt the twins as well as offering a position to the police academy for Cecilia. She was elated at the prospect. She wanted to make things right for all the people she had wronged and her sister. It took 15 years to get to that point but things started to look up for Cecilia.
4 years would pass since the twins were adopted. Cecilia started training at the police academy as a cadet though her tenure was filled with reprimands and disciplinary citations in her record. Many of the other cadets knew about her criminal past and found her just being there to be an affront to everything the academy stood for. They picked fights with her knowing that Cecilia would not hesitate to fight back. Many of her instructorscrutinizeded her harder than the others citing her unconventional approach to policing to be a danger to her partners and herself. For all her faults she did however perform 2nd in her class. This was mostly due to the superintendent of the academy having a final say in class ranking and being the only one who thought of Cecilia based on her merit, not on what she did in the past. With the advice of the superintendent and her new father she managed to graduate and become a police officer when she turned 18. 
After a year Cecilia would be one of the top officers on patrol having performed admirably in her duties, busting drug rings, arresting criminals. Many still did not like working with her due to her headstrong rogue-like attitude and approach to situations which also put her at odds with many of her superiors but she always got the job done. One day she was put on a patrol with her father and had to respond to a call of gang violence near the city center. When they arrived the entire area looked like a war zone. Two sides of thugs were shooting at each other with weapons she had never seen before. They called for backup but once they arrived on scene the thugs turned their attention on them firing at their vehicle. The officers fought back but suddenly a proton grenade landed right beside Cecilia, her late reaction caused her father to push her away and jump on the grenade and annihilating instantly but throwing the woman across the street knocking her out.
She woke up a few days later in a medical hospital met by the police chief, her sister. They filled her in about what happened during the attack. The news about her father’s death enraged her, she wanted to head back out and get revenge on those responsible though the chief denied her any such satisfaction. After sending her sister out of the room he told Cecilia to forget everything she saw and that he would take her badge and ensure that her sister gets barred from any medical treatment if she did say anything. Unable to do anything the woman just sat on her medical bed and let the corrupt officers leave the room.
After getting discharged from the hospital Cecilia was met by a mysterious figure who told her that he knew the truth about everything and asked her to meet him in a secret location. When she arrived she was met by an investigation cell from starfleet intelligence investigating orion syndicate activity on the planet. Their CO gave her a proposal that she couldn’t refuse, revenge against the people who killed her father and justice. Apparently, the gangsters during the firefight were using federation weaponry that they had procured from the black market run by the Orion syndicate which Starfleet intelligence traced from a stolen federation transport headed to one of the front of the Federation klingon war. They also managed to identify two individuals who were running the weapon smuggling operations both of whom Cecilia was familiar with. She accepted the offer and aided their investigation working as a resource and intel plug between starfleet intelligence and the planet’s police agency. For months they tracked shipments, made contacts, went undercover, detained suspects, raided safe houses. They cleaned the house, taking down the smuggling ring day after day. The intel officer was impressed with Cecilia’s tenacity and zeal and admitted without her it would’ve taken much longer to take the criminals down. After a few more confessions and raids they managed to narrow down the location of the two people responsible for smuggling the starfleet weapons. The ambush went off surprisingly easy at first but then they ran into heavy resistance. Cecilia the intel officer’s team had to face off against an entire cell of Orion Syndicate operatives. It was a slog but the entire building was surrounded preventing anyone from escaping. They reached what seemed to be the planning room and discovered her former boss from the gang she ran with all that many years ago killed the Orion agent and held Cecilia’s sister hostage with a disruptor. He wanted out, just like her and was willing to exchange Aurelia for his freedom. Cecilia used the time while he was talking to aim her phaser at just the right spot to take the ferengi down which she did effortlessly. She was approached by the intel officer after she checked to see if her sister was ok. He congratulated her on a job well done and offered her another proposal. Impressed with what he had seen her do so far he was willing to give both Aurelia and Cecilia federation citizenship and enlist the latter into Starfleet as a part of Starfleet intelligence. He also knew of Aurelia’s condition and if Cecilia accepted federation doctors would be able to continue her treatment and possibly cure her. While reluctant to leave the life she had always lived the offer was too much of a no brainer to let go. After confining in her sister she accepted the offer and left the planet later that day.
Due to her existing experience Cecilia’s tenure at Starfleet Intelligence Headquarters was rather comfortable compared to the several other recruits coming from the Academy and Starfleet basic. She performed near the top of her class like in the police academy , adapting well to the intelligence courses they had thrown at her but her instructors noted that she tended to do her own thing skirting around protocol and regulations to accomplish the mission. Otherwise she graduated training with honors being selected as a field operative as a part of a quick reaction team used to get other operatives out of dangerous situations that didn’t need to be intergalactic incidents. For the next 9 years Cecilia trived in Starfleet intelligence, doing nearly every possible duty field assignment someone with her experience could do. Covert ops was her thing and through the Klingon- Romulan- Federation war and the iconian war she proved herself earning several commendations and ranking up to Petty Officer 1st class. All that time she continued to stay close in touch with her sister who joined Starfleet herself going to the academy and commissioning as a nurse. By 2415 both Cecilia and Aurilia out of sheer luck would be assigned to the USS Odyssey before its mission to investigate the anomaly plaguing starfleet vessels.  
== Personality ==
Cecilia’s upbringing did not give her any favors. The orphanage she grew up in during her formative years disciplined her and molded her into a hard person to break and deal with, though most of her pent up emotions she developed were vented during her nightly criminal activities with her former gang. As she grew older and mature she became less patient as an individual. When something needs to be done she expects it to be done in a timely manner. Most of the time she would make sarcastic quips at her counterparts in order to express her annoyance, displeasure, or confusion making her hard to read. In terms of authority Cecilia is not afraid to speak her mind nor challenge an authority figure if she believes the directive could be done better or is just wrong. While she would not outright disobey orders she would find a way to skirt the line and accomplish it in a way she finds more efficient why may come out to others as her having a superiority complex. Cecilia is a roguelike person who isn’t afraid to back down from a fight or to challenge someone to one. She is loyal to the federation and while not always agreeing with its policies she would do anything to protect its citizens and it’s defenders. 
== Psych Evaluation ==
Though her tough exterior that she had developed over the years is a very vulnerable person that completely relies on her skills and her sister to walk the galaxy. She is a soldier and a caretaker that often unnecessarily puts blame and responsibility on herself if anything goes wrong. From experiencing her adoptive father’s death to her experiences at the military prison like orphanage many of her feelings and emotions were buried all in an effort to be strong for others. She hates being vulnerable and would shut people down if anyone wants to pry into her mind voluntarily. Often when things go wrong that affect the lives of the people she serves with she would take it upon herself to correct the problem at any means necessary which can entail more physical aggressive actions than diplomatic. It takes a bit of effort to calm her down with an exception of her twin sister who can do it effortlessly. 
== Other information ==
* Likes: Silence, Efficiency, New gear, Judging people
* Dislikes: Armchair leaders, Annoying individuals, Traitors, and Kiss asses/By the book
== Photos/Art ==
File:Wonderful Cecilia.png|Art by Lavender
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Category:Odyssey Crew
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Category:Petty Officer 1st Class
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