B'Etanna, daughter of K'Emir

## Appearance

B’Etanna is a stocky woman, built like a brick wall despite her shorter stature of 162.56 cm. She doesn’t however let her height inhibit her abilities and usually uses it to her advantage against those who expect a short Klingon woman to be weaker than others, those people are commonly proven wrong. Her hair is very long and goes past her buttocks, she tends to have two long braids as well. B’Etanna’s jaw is contoured and easily distinguishable from her neck, this gives her face an edgy appearance and makes her square jaw more obvious. Her lips are dark and fleshy, commonly without any makeup. Her eyebrows are thick and dark with a slight angle to them. She has a bulbous nose, although it isn’t too defined or obvious. Her eyes are on the larger side and are round-shaped. The ridges on her forehead go on an upward angle with a longer ridge around the edge of her forehead. Her shoulders are square and her arms are muscular. Her shoulders lie wider than her hips, but her waist is thinner than her hips. She has averaged sized feet.

For clothing, she commonly wears the garb of a Klingon warrior, though with her new posting she has to wear a Starfleet comm-badge which she places on her belt, preferring that location compared to her chest. Her casual clothing exposes her chest and parts of her breast but when in combat she wears her armour.

## Personality

B’Etanna often comes off as aggressive and harsh towards her compatriots aboard her ship, she has seen many years of combat and knows incompetence when she sees it. She will speak her mind and let someone know her thoughts and opinions if she strongly objects to it, but part of her preferred command position is that it is common she is not objected to. She also believes strongly in loyalty and forced her officers to swear an oath to the betterment of her ship no matter the circumstance. B’Etanna does tend to have some more xenophobic tendencies in that she perceives most other races as weak until they can prove themselves otherwise, and even that is just for the individual. There are some that she excludes from this, like humans she fought in combat and some of the Jem’Hadar. However, she has a deeply rooted hate for the Romulans, still distrusting them for prior conflicts they have had with the Empire.

If one proves their honour to her or their prowess in combat, she will congratulate them and treat them like a Klingon, offering bloodwine if she has it and congratulating them. If she finds her enemy honourable she will have no problems enjoying a Klingon-style feast and drinking until they cannot remember what happened over the night, a hard thing for a Klingon to do, less so for a human, and she measures that intoxication by Klingon standards. She is overall a positive person to those who get to know her. However, it is those who do not know her that she often comes off as rigid and abrasive. Constant insults and arguments are common from B’Etanna, especially if she finds someone to be dishonourable, she won’t just argue with them but give an even greater disrespect, never talking to them in any capacity and not even recognizing them as a sentient being. This stubbornness and affiliation with Klingon tradition can often make her come off as rude and prejudiced to the point where she won’t change her mind.

B’Etanna’s greatest wish is to reach Sto-vo-kor when she dies. To know that she has succeeded in her life as a Klingon and lived and died honourably is the greatest thing she could ever wish for. However, on this mortal plane, her greatest wish is to have a mate that she can spend more of her time with and have a family, thinking of it as a way to ensure her honour and bloodline.

B’Etanna believes deeply in traditional Klingon religions and ceremonies. She places them above almost everything else, including the laws of some places depending on where she is. She doesn’t expect non-Klingons to understand or know the traditions, but when they do she is surprised by it and doesn't believe them to be as weak. She will almost always support the more traditional Klingons when it comes to politics, although that only matters in terms of religious and societal aspects. She will support whoever she finds to be more honourable, taking a more pragmatic position on other issues like the dealings with the Federation and Romulans.

### Ambitions

B’Etanna wishes to one day bring glory to herself and her house, through combat, wit or intelligence, she is determined to bring honour. Even if it means resigning her command she would prefer death in Sto-vo-kor over some short bliss in this current existence.

### Morals

Her morals are tied to traditional Klingon beliefs, she will not hide her face while killing, she believes intercourse outside of being mated as dishonourable, taking hostages is dishonourable and wrong. She believes in protecting those who cannot be stronger due to their reasons like children and the disabled but will scoff at those who refuse to better themselves when they are able to.

## History

On a cold night in a small town in the Mekro’vak region of Qo’noS, storms affected the equatorial region on the planet that night. In the residence of the House of B’Etha, a woman was giving birth. B’Etanna, daughter of K’Emir of the House of B’Etha, born on the 43rd day of Lo’Bral, the first child of the family. This moment was eventful and joyful for her father K’Emir and her mother B’Elanna. She was strong and hot-headed from birth, stories of her breaking personal items when she didn’t get what she wanted and using her father’s bat’leth to challenge him for extra food. But this attitude was worked out over time, she grew to respect her elders and abide by Klingon tradition. Although she did tend to be a strong and independent young lady, often challenging those she disliked or who teased her so that she may fight them to the death, or usually after persuasion from friends, until first blood. This headstrong attitude that she developed caused her to perceive many others, including her fellow Klingons, as being too weak for her and she never enjoyed the company of those who were weaker, often leading her to be a bit more isolated unless she took a liking to someone first. This semi-isolation caused her to focus more on her skills, the ideas of serving her nation and people for honour and glory appealed to her since she could first understand the ideals. And it was because of this that she wanted to enter the military like her father before her and his father before him and going back through the traditions of the House of B’Etha.

She entered the Klingon Naval Academy soon after she was allowed to, her time in Klingon school prepared her for the challenges of the academy. On her first day of the academy she had gotten into a duel to first blood with a student a year above her, she proved herself quickly in the fight with the student and this would be her first friend at the academy, she found his fighting honourable and good-willed, the name of this man was Kokos, son of Drik. This introduced her to more of the possible officers in the academy, her friend group grew rapidly but so did her enemies. She was constantly challenged to duels over her honour through the day before partying with those same individuals and those she would duel the day after for most of her first year at the Klingon Naval Academy. Not to mention that during her first year, many in the Academy were divided between their positions on the Civil War, she preferred Gowron over the Duras sisters and their proxy, an illegitimate child and the betrayal of all Klingon law disgusted her. This only caused more duels between herself and her classmates, most of which she won, but against a few she lost, which only encouraged her to become stronger, better and superior in all ways. She did not shy away from a challenge or a fight and her attitude at the academy only encouraged this attitude that she has.

Fresh out of the academy in the year 2370, B’Etanna was a junior officer aboard the IKS P’gagh, serving as a junior tactical officer, she monitored the ships disruptors to ensure that they fired properly and that they may be effective for combat. However, it was soon after her assignment to the ship that she gained a more prominent position. She felt that the Assistant to the primary Tactical Officer was failing in his duties and allowed for too much work to be put on the shoulders of the Tactical Officer, so she killed him. She challenged him to a duel, backhanding him across the face and arranging a time, the time for dinner that day aboard the ship. She duelled him, it was intense as he had a lot of experience with duelling, but she prevailed using some improvisation and tactics. That night the crew celebrated her victory and promotion with a feast and much drinking of bloodwine. The next day she attempted immediate improvements of the tactical department on the ship, although the primary officer took some offence to this, thinking it was insulting his leadership, he let it happen anyway, at least for the moment that is. She served in the capacity of Assistant to the Tactical Officer for two years until the start of the war with the Federation and the war with the Cardassians. She wholeheartedly supported the conflict against the Cardassian’s, she thought of them as a threat to the possibility of the growth of the Empire, and the Federation that would protect them is just as bad.

However short as the two wars were, they earned B’Etanna glory, she fought valiantly against the Cardassians and her improvisation of certain disruptor systems led to her being awarded the Token of the Mek'leth due to her still being considered a junior officer. This had the adverse effect, however, of drawing more hate from her superior in the tactical department, and in the middle of combat with Federation ships in a skirmish, he engaged in combat, attacking her from behind in a dishonourable fashion, she was only saved due to his choice not to use a disruptor. Because of that, she managed to fire upon him, however, this propelled her once again to a higher rank where she would have to further adapt, especially considering practically right after the conflict with the Federation ended, the conflict with the Cardassians escalated into the Dominion War. During the push by the Jem’Hadar against the lands conquered by the Empire, the fleets of warships were on a constant defensive. Multiple skirmishes were participated in by B’Etanna, and she was promoted to the position of Second Officer as a Lieutenant by the Captain as it was left open when the previous Second Officer died during a retreat from the Jem’Hadar. Her promotions continued quickly, she killed the First Officer after he suggested retreating to the Federation, she did not fight in a war with them for nothing and did not like the Federation at the time. Her position as First Officer from the killing of the previous one left her at the rank of Lieutenant Commander, this position allowed her to have much more influence over the ship, including during a battle in 2374, where the ship was forced to surrender after the death of the Captain and all but two of the bridge crew, this left B’Etanna in command of the ship, the first order which she was forced to do was surrendering to the Dominion forces.

Taken prisoner by the Dominion, B’Etanna was routinely tortured by her Jem’Hadar captors in their own twisted sense of honouring her valiance in battle. She was also made to fight with some of the Jem’Hadar while imprisoned so that they may learn how a Klingon fights. It was cruel and brutal, even by Klingon standards the ways that the Jem’Hadar treated their captives was abhorrent. It certainly had its negative physical effects, as by the time the war was over and B’Etanna had been in the prison camps for over a year, she came out malnourished and weaker than ever before. She despised appearing as weak and reintegrated herself, slowly gaining what she had lost, including a new command.

When she returned to Qo’noS and met with her family after the war, B’Etanna was clearly in no position to be a warrior, but she refused to be pushed aside due to some simple reason. She forced herself to get better, working back to the muscle that she had, the strength that people once feared. She continued to work her way to betterment, to solve the issues that she had, eventually coming back healthier and stronger than ever before. She received her own command of a new ship, the IKS may’roQ, a bird-of-prey. She was also granted a promotion to the rank of full Commander, allowing her to properly command a ship. She would serve in this capacity for the next ten years, although not liking it, she commonly was made to work with the Federation in missions of scientific research. She found the actual scientific aspect of it quite interesting, however, she still despised the Federation and did not trust them, almost always having her shields up and taking a guard with her whenever meeting with the Federation Captain of the other ship, it’s this lack of trust that is a recurring theme in her future career as she keeps her notes that she has collected by her science officers hidden from that of the Federation, paranoia controlling that decision. In the year 2380, she nearly fired upon a Federation ship due to her suspicions of it, because of this and nearly causing a small crisis, she received a reprimand on her record, preventing her from further advancing in the ranks for the near future.

After another 4 years of service after that event with the Federation and receiving the reprimand, she decided to take a small break from her position as a commanding officer, retiring for a moment as she chose instead to explore the known galaxy for a moment. Her earlier moment with science and cultural studies had got her interested in things such as life in the Federation and how other species worked. She travelled across the Federation as an independent citizen on her ship for many months and visiting many Federation planets, some of which enthralled her and others that confused her, most notably the idea of Risa, she found it confusing how anyone could find pleasure in the boring activities on the planet, no combat and no drinking, just the human concept of relaxing which disgusted her. However, she needed a better long-term source for studying the people of the Federation, for this she decided to settle herself as a civilian in the Alpha Quadrant on the Deep Space 9 station, figuring for her own research that staying on a station such as this would be one of the best opportunities.

## Trivia

* B’Etanna is experienced enough the have a majority of pieces of Klingon opera memorized by heart and she can sing it quite well at that.
* She has her bat’leth that she carries with her nearly constantly provided it is allowed.
* B’Etanna is inspirational when she wants to be, but will often be more isolated when it comes to casual conversation, being able to give great speeches but only to her crew.
* Despite her stubbornness and almost always preferring Klingon ways, she wants to learn about other species, if only to better beat them in combat later.
* B’Etanna is the eldest child.
* She has 3 younger sisters and 2 younger brothers.
* All possible mates so far encountered she found too weak for her tastes.
* She had a childhood targ named Krag.
* One of her younger brothers died in the Federation-Klingon War.
* Her previous mate died in the Federation-Klingon War.

### Likes

* Proper Klingon food, nothing from a replicator or else it’s not done just right.
* Klingon Opera is her favourite genre of music.
* Her favourite Klingon dish is gagh.
* Her favourite drink is unsurprisingly bloodwine.
* B’Etanna’s favourite form of combat is using her bat’leth.

### Dislikes

* Federation food, specifically Vulcan food, she finds it bland.
* Being insulted in any way, be it personally, her family or the Empire.
* Dishonourable individuals, especially a dishonourable Klingon.
* Romulans in almost, if not every, capacity as a people and culture.
* Replicated food, it simply isn’t done right and she considers it an insult to her tastes.