T’Shenn

Ensign T'Shenn is a Archeologist and Anthropologist on the USS Odyssey.

## Background

T'Shenn’s life started, as many lives do, with her parents. Her Mother was a young Vulcan woman named T’Para and her father was a Trill who she does not know and has never met. T’Para left home at a rather young age, despising the teachings of surak and the way her parents raised her. Before she left, she took a trip with some friends and very quickly she found herself on a pleasure planet. After a night with a handsome Trill, T’Para found herself pregnant, though she did not notice this until she had returned to Vulcan. Once she found out it wasn’t long after that her parents found out. T’Para did not want a child, and her parents wanted the child to grow up without the influence of their daughter. This ended with T’Para fleeing home soon after T’Shenn was born, never to be seen again.

T'Shenn was raised by her grandparents Sodok and T’Mirek in a secluded area on Vulcan. Her grandparents did not know where they went wrong with T’Para and so decided to be extra strict on T'Shenn to make sure she grew up ‘right’, which included practically ignoring her Trill side. T'Shenn never even learned that Trill were a joined species before she went to school. T'Shenn had a very hard time controlling her emotions when she was young, and her guardians, having failed to raise a logical child in the past, could not deal with the humiliation of having another one and so they kept T'Shenn mostly inside until she had at least partially grown out of it. When school eventually came around her guardians sent her without a second thought, though her many classmates did. Seeing as most of them had never seen or met a hybrid in real life before, the children tended to be rather harsh to her. As is still customary in many traditional Vulcan families, T’Shenn became engaged at a young age. At first they were not very close, as they were both rather shy and did not talk to each other there was some rift between them. T’Shenn later figured out that she was attracted to other women, and around the same time her betrothed came out as a Trans woman who was also attracted to women. If T’Shenn was spiritual she would have found this to be the work of a greater being, but she knew logicly that it was just something that happened to work out. After that T’Shenn and T’Varen became very close; eventually, as some other cultures might put it, falling in love. T’Varen is one of the only people T’Shenn ever became close to on Vulcan, and the day that they are to be wed is a day she looks forward to.

T’Shenn’s guardians pushed her greatly academically, which in a blessing of good luck T'Shenn enjoyed and exceeded at. The plan in her grandparent’s mind had always been that she was to attend the Vulcan Science Academy. However T’Shenn felt as though the VSA was not the right fit for her, and so she spoke up about her life for one of the first times, telling them that she wanted to join Starfleet instead. It took a long time for her grandparents to come around to the idea, still pushing her to attend the VSA for months after she told them that she didn’t want to. When they eventually came around to the idea however they really came around, deciding that if T’Shenn was going to be a starfleet officer, that she better be the absolute best officer. When she was 17 she applied for the academy and took the entrance exam. She got in on her first try.

When T’Shenn entered the academy she got quite the culture shock, having never been outside of Vulcan before now. Despite this being a chance to expand her horizons for her first two years at the academy she spent most of her time by herself or with other vulcans. T’Shenn joined the science division right away, though it took her a while to figure out what to specialise in. She tried botany and physics and while she enjoyed them both she never felt as though they were the perfect fit. This changed when an officer who specialised in archeology came to speak at the academy. As soon as she went to his talk she was hooked. She loved the idea of using old artifacts to figure out more about a civilisations past. After she started focusing on archeology she took an anthropology class in hopes of understanding humanoid development better. While in that class she fell in love with anthropology too, and it was then that she finally started branching out with her group of friends. Though she expanded her friend group more she still stayed in her traditional Vulcan ways, though she branched out a little more, partaking in non Vulcan activities and eating non Vulcan foods. Now joining the crew of the Odyssey

## Appearance

T'Shenn is a young hybrid and her appearance reflects that. At 5’0 she is also very short. She has pale skins with a greenish tint with the ears and eyebrows of a Vulcan but the spots of a Trill. Her eyes are a golden brown and her hair is styled in a traditional bob.

## Personality

T'Shenn is a brilliant young woman, though she is rather shy and soft spoken, not tending to speak up very often. Having been raised by traditional Vulcnas she believes in logic and is rather unemotional. She is also rather distant when you first meet her, but will form deep relationships with those who get past her exterior.

## Psych Evaluation

T’Shenn is fully fit for duty on a starship and takes much care to regulate her emotions, mostly through meditation. That being said however she does have a sad aura to her and there is the feeling that she is still searching for her true self.

## Medical

When T’Shenn entered the academy it was found during her physical that she was biologically suitable to be joined with a symbont. She has never told her grandparents about this and she plans to never be joined. However if she were to ever change her mind, or if there was an emergency situation where a symbiote’s host dies, she would be able to take it.

## Other Information

* Likes: Reading, Swimming, (live) Fish
* Dislikes: People who are too loud or annoying, most