Nikola Powell

Nikola Powell

Nikola Powell is an Engineering ensign known for being overly friendly towards most people aboard the U.S.S. Phoenix.

**Name: Nikola Margarita Dmitrievna Powell**

**Species: Human**

**Gender: Female**

 **Age: 23 years old**

**Appearance: Nikola is a young woman standing at 5'9 and weighing approximately 169lbs. She has pale skin, wide hazel eyes and puffy, voluminous brown hair that can reach to below her shoulders/above her lower back. She also has scarred hands due to her old job at a warehouse and also due to her very chaotic childhood.**

**Chosen department: Engineering**

**Special Position: N/A**

**Courses: Warp Theory, Transwarp Theory, Advanced Warp Theory, Engineering, Astrophysics**

**Backstory: Nikola was born in the Alaskan city of Fairbanks, first and youngest daughter to a pair of scientists whose names were Dmitriy and Annabel. The two scientists also had four older brothers; James, Scott, Konstantin and Anatoly. Her first years were basically heaven on earth for her and her siblings, but that soon changed when her parents just left and never came back once she turned 4 and was left with a foster family, luckily with all of her siblings. That time was the toughest part of her life, considering she basically grew up knowing she never would be able to know how it was like to have actual parents. Luckily, her brothers were very supportive of her and did their best to always be there and together. During puberty, Nikola was basically a problem child; She liked escaping during the night and stealing her older brother's motorcycle, occasionally racing with it against others. Once they found out, they basically lectured her in a way that she never did it again, afraid of hurting her brothers' feelings.**

**While working at her first real job at another shop at 18 years old, she heard something about the Starfleet and thought about it for a while. It would be quite a new experience for her, and she hoped none of her brothers would try to talk her out of it. As she grew up, so did her will to explore new places and discover new things. When she got to join the Starfleet, her brothers saw her leave. Nikola felt sad that she wouldn't see them for so long, but she knew she would come back to them. Little did she know… They were going to enlist too, but that's a story for another day.**

**When the moment to choose came to a start, she immediately picked Engineering because she knew that she wouldn't go well at all in Sciences. She was too energetic and chaotic for that. Nikola almost chose to be a security officer, but she thought hard about it and decided to choose Engineering. She didn't have the heart nor the courage to be a security officer.**

**Nikola's always been a student with medium grades, but that changed when she joined the academy, with the whole process as a whole being absolutely terrifying and exciting at the same time. During the psychological evaluation, she tried not to worry too much and keep herself calm, avoiding sudden panic attacks most of the time successfully. At the beginning of her life at the Academy, she constantly overworked herself to exhaustion, refusing to eat or sleep without finishing anything important. It took a huge toll on her health, making her collapse while on her way to work sometimes. Eventually she went to counseling and got her life back onto track, with her taking more care of her mental and physical health from now on.**

**Still, she tried her hardest to be an ideal student at the Academy, even with her studying her soul out. She also had a roommate who was a Romulan woman called Siko, who was also raised on Earth, and they were basically best friends but ended up being separated at one point. Being very outgoing, yet not quite normal, she wasn't used to making friends at all, rarely even speaking to others of her own kind.**

**She had a certain difficulty with understanding facial expressions with others, maintaining eye contact and a few other things... Although she had a few friends, aka her two cats (Smokey and Cottonball). They are her best friends. During her time at the Academy, Nikola went through a lot of fun situations. For example, she and a few colleagues used to grab random boxes, get inside them and slide down staircases in them. Sometimes one or two people fell off the boxes, but it was ridiculously fun. They also used to prank others, although they were harmless pranks.**

**She started off with the U.S.S. Phoenix, and hoped to go well.**

**Personality: Nikola is very careful and doubtful when you don't know her, but once you get through her thick shell… She is cheerful and giddy, with her personality always shining through with full power. Always a hard worker, she is incredibly stubborn and strong, never giving up on others or herself. She is always following a path of learning, helping and growing, even though she can also be very lazy and a procrastinator. She loves talking about her current hyperfixations, but is also an avid listener to others. Due to her growing up in a mostly hostile environment, she's unfortunately grown used to lying and hiding her true intentions, even if it wasn't something bad or endangering to herself or anyone else.**

**Nikola's also sometimes quite childish, with her crazy hairstyles and little dances. She is also incredibly creative, once she composes her own songs and their lyrics. She's also crazy to learn new languages, doing her best to understand them and hopefully even get to use them in special situations.**