Miriam Ditrium

## Appearance

### Typical Style

Ditrium often actually opts to wear her uniform. She always enjoyed the idea of having a uniform, thinking the simplicity of not needing to find outfits made it much easier for her to go about her day. A uniform was just something she could roll out of bed, slap on, and be on her way. She makes sure that her uniform is neat and tidy, no wrinkles or lint on it. She makes sure her collar is done properly and that her shirt is tucked in as it should be. The only thing she ever really alters about the uniform is that she oftentimes will wear her cloak over it. Since is it a simple black cloak, no patterns or anything fancy all over it, it does not affect much. If she is meeting with others she will remove it, otherwise, if she’s just sitting in her office, she will keep it on. She often is wearing shoes with heels to give her a boost of height while working so she is not so short.

When not wearing her uniform, she can be found wearing rather nice outfits. Her mother always taught her that appearance is key and so, when off shift and in her free time, she can be found rather put together. While others may opt to lounge around in jeans or sweatpants, Ditrium often wears a nice pair of leggings or even a skirt. She rarely wears a dress, but often may. She often has a nice shirt rather than just a graphic tee and, of course, her cloak. When lounging around her quarters, she is often in less formal outfits. Simple shirts and pajama pants suffice, but if she leaves she will put on nicer clothing. She enjoys wearing boots or some sort of heeled shoes because she is so short and feels often diminished. She attempts to appear taller than she is as she does not want to be lost in the crowd

### General Description

Ditrium, though she holds herself like she is over 6 feet tall, stands with a small frame at 5 foot 2 (1.5 meters) tall. She weighs in around 122 lbs, (55.3 kg) which is on the lighter side due to her mesomorphic body type. Her metabolism is rather high and she eats very little which is both due to her simply forgetting and being too busy to. She has white hair that falls to about her mid back, however, she often has it thrown up in random up-dos. Her bangs are rather jagged and her hair is often a mess. She often just tends to toss it up into a messy bun or a simple ponytail to keep it out of her face, yet her bangs persist to be in the way of her eyes. Her eyes are a rather greenish yellow tint, often shifting between the two depending on the lighting she is around. She is uncertain where she inherited the colour from, but her mother says it is the same colour that her great-grandmother had. She often has a rather hinted shine in her eyes, often filled with mystery and curiosity.

She has rather pale skin and her the traditional pointed ears of a Romulan. Ditrium is actually required to wear glasses due to her eyesight, but she often opts not to. She dislikes them and knows that it is for the benefit of her health, but otherwise just chooses not to. She just dislikes the way they feel on the bridge of her nose. Her eyesight is not bad enough that she can ignore it for the time being. Her pale cheeks are dotted with freckles and often have a light pink tint of blush as well.

## Personality

### Positive

* Moral Direction :: Ditrium has a moral compass in her and is very direct with it. She knows where it is pointing her and she often attempts to follow through with it. She believes in her morals with all her heart and will do her best to uphold them and follow them through, wanting to make sure that she is the best person that she can be. She believes that if she follows her morals and does what she should do, she will succeed and be the best version of her that she can be.

* Precise :: Ditrium takes time and care into everything she is doing. She is deliberate and intentional with specific goals in mind. She takes the time to plan her things out and often has certain steps to everything she does and aims to see each one followed through. She aims for the shortest yet most thorough plan that she can create and prizes the quality of her work above all else. She makes an aim to be as accurate as possible with everything she does.

* Orderly :: If a single item is out of place, Ditrium will refuse to do anything until that thing is back as it should be. She has a strict method to her madness and while many may believe that she is mental for things like keeping all of her items in the order she does, she does it for herself. She had a neatness to all she does in terms of cleanliness and quality. She can get slightly frustrated if something is not the order she wants it to be, but is definitely building upon her leeway sort of allowance.

### Neutral

* Reserved | Private :: Ditrium is not often interested in discussions that involve her private life and often keeps that information to herself. She is happy to speak with others about other things, but she also believes in a certain level of privacy and confidentiality.  She understands when there is a time to talk and be social and other times to simply stay silent. She enjoys being social and interacting with other people, but she also is not necessarily unhappy with being alone or doing her own thing. She is fine being unbothered but also is comfortable with other people.

* Ambitious :: Ditrium’s strive for what she wants can drive her to do unimaginable things. She can either do amazing things with a large dedication to do so, or she can end up getting tunnel vision on something and ends up getting lost. She risks losing sight of the ‘correct’ goal and can end up wanting nothing but that one thing.  She has a large ideal in her head of what she wants to do and will continue to push forward till that, regardless of the sort of downsides to it all. She wishes to have control over her own life and will make sure she has control over her own things for as long as she can.

* Untraditional :: Ditrium has a mind that is constantly moving and that can often end up being something beneficial to her, offering different ways to solve issues, but it also means that Ditrium can end up with strange ideas that may not necessarily work or are rather… different. With this, Ditrium also ends up taking different routes with her plans and enjoys taking risks that may not pan out. She is rather creative and, in her mind, she can come up with these rather strange things. Though she respects Starfleet & the traditions / regulations, she also understands that sometimes, they may be wrong. They should be followed, but there also is a rather larger space for some changes for the better.

### Negative

* Stubborn | Headstrong :: Ditrium is rather...stubborn. She dislikes being told she is wrong and is unlikely to simply allow people to push her over or try to get past her. She sticks to her guns and will not budge off of them, but with that being said, she will also not budge on anything. Anything. It takes a lot to convince her to change her mind. She will not really budge on her ideals unless she has a strict reason to. She is not the type to just bend willy-nilly and just let people walk over her.

* Dislike of Combat :: Although she won't admit it, due to her inability to pick up on things like combat, Ditrium has thus avoided it ever since. She has a deep dislike of combat since she has always performed so poorly in the area and thus ends up avoiding it at all costs. She is not a pacifist by any means, just dislikes combat because of how bad she is at it. She attempts to avoid it at all cost because she is embarrassed of the fact that she is not good at something. She often feels like she has to be perfect at everything and her inability to fight sort of upsets her a lot.

* Lazy :: Ditrium, for as hard of a worker as she is, still ends up having her lazy times. Sometimes she just does not want to do something and probably will not do said thing. She has a good work ethic, but the moments where Ditrium ends up in those lazy moods, she struggles to get out until she finds something to actually push her to do something. She can easily get deterred from her work or her lack of attention sort of drifts her away from the important things she should be doing. She sort of just, lets it take over her and oftentimes it causes all her work to pile up and easily stress her out.

### General Personality

Ditrium, summarized, is an intelligent and creative girl who is bound by her morals but also stuck with her stubbornness and flaws. Though she is academically advanced with an intelligence slightly higher than what should be for her age, she also struggles with things that others can easily pick up on like combat. She is stubborn to a fault but also attempts to try and understand some other things in the world. She tries to keep her mind open, but also is not the kind to just throw out what she believes. Her curiosity to know more about everything occurring out in the universe is what drives her to her job. She is always so interested in learning more and expanding her knowledge. She often wishes to know more about other species just to know so, not so that Starfleet can use the information for other things. She just wants to know more.

She is driven by her desire to be more than what her mother ever thought she could be and will prove her wrong, even if it kills her in the process. She dislikes being confined or stuck in places and simple wishes to explore and travel and be anywhere but in 1 spot at all times. Her mother often suppressed her creativity and overworked her brain in an attempt to turn her into some sort of genius, but in reality, Ditrium is really just a burnt out academic child who wants to just be her own person.

## Backstory

### Childhood

Ditrium enjoyed a simple youth. As simple of a childhood as a child of high ranking people in the glorious city of Tycho could have. The domed city was her home till the day she left for the Academy, but up till then Ditrium resided within, the yearn to leave being sparked by the planets she could see from just outside her window alone. Her lovely Romulan mother who often left on trips due to her job, was a representative for Luna. Her mother often left for periods of time for whatever her job required of her and left Ditrium with her human father. Her father was equally busy- but often home at least. Due to holding a higher ranking position among the shipyards that Luna housed, he was able to be home more for the child. However, Ditrium could not have cared less if her parents were home or not. She had other things on her mind.

Her relationship with either parent was nothing spectacular. Her father was like any normal father. He cared for her well being and often scared off the idea of relationships, but he was often busy with work. Even when he returned home from being away at the office, he then threw himself into his work in his home office. Her mother was similar, but worse. If she was not away on a work trip, she was home, nagging Miriam to get her work done, to be better. Miriam often sort of just, ignored it all. She backed off and left it all as it was. She attempted to leave it be, but her mothers words often bugged her on a deeper level, one that she did not really reveal to most people.

School was easy. At least the schooling she received. She never had to try and often passed classes with ease and, to the surprise of parents, often slacked with everything she did. Her laziness and grades did not match up, but her mom was often too busy to notice and her father was uncertain what to do since, in his book, it was fine. Miriam was passing her classes and the teacher's complaints did little to change it. Her mother often would lecture her day in and day out about trying harder and applying herself, and she would. Ditri would try a little bit harder, but soon reverted back to the normal way. It would infuriate her mother, but she really did not care much about it. Her mother eventually would just back off, focusing on her work instead.

The girl often enjoyed her time away from the home, even if her home was among the larger of those on Luna. She had other things to do than wander the mansion like manor and that included spending time with her friends, even if her mother was not pleased that they did not have the same background as Ditrium. Her mother often had the set ideal that Miriam would hang with the other children of diplomats and the other rather well-off families. However, Ditirum hated all of them. She disliked being around all the bratty kids who only wished to speak about the time their fathers took them along on a work trip to Cait or their mothers brought them home a present from a conference on Earth. It was boring to her, especially since her mother never took her along for trips so she never got to share any stories either.

As she aged, things stayed similar. However, the ability to pass classes with ease started to slip from her grasp and soon enough, her grades started to fall. Her mother, growing older, started to do more office work and started to notice these mess ups more and more with her daughter. She started to invest herself further into Ditrium’s life, but in a way that forced Ditrium away. She often scolded Ditrium for preferring to go off with her friends rather than studying, regardless of the low grades. Grounding became a normal occurrence, but Ditrium’s mind, unable to stay still, easily found ways around them. Things like sneaking out was easy and hiding secrets was second nature to nature to her. She quickly developed ways to simply leave the house and, eventually, hit the point where she cared so little she would just walk out of the house.

However, Ditrium could only get away with so much for so long. Her mother finally managed to put a stop to Ditrium’s way out of the house and, after a long discussion with her father that was really her mother simply stating and rambling on about things while he sat and nodded, decided Ditrium had to change or else she would discover some sort of harsher punishment. That harsher punishment most likely entailed some sort of preppy boarding school that Miriam would most likely have rathered burn to the ground. Among these base lines of punishment included being forced to find some sort of activity to do considering the fact that Ditrium blew threw money on food like a child in a candy store. Her mother found out the hard way where the money the girl was using went. A rather large charge consisting of simply sweets was discovered. Another key component was that she had to actually focus on her language. As a child, Ditrium could speak the Romulan language, but drifted away from it. Her mother made sure to change that and made sure her daughter was fluent in it.

Ditrium, attempting to somehow discover some sort of loophole around her mother’s rather boring punishment, tried to find the most outlandish things to do to occupy her time. She would be doing the punishment, but that does not mean the way her mother wanted her to. She picked up martial arts originally just to spite her mom, but as she dove into them more, she did them for the sheer love of doing so. It became enjoyable and a genuine way to not be in the house, especially while her mother was around. Her mother was infuriated that her precious daughter was doing such an un-ladylike activity, but her father managed to calm her mother down. He said it was good for her to actually be doing something she loved. It was good for her to actually get out and do something rather than just lounge around the house all day or go spend enough money to buy an apartment in Luna for a year.

Her grades raised back up so that she could gain the ‘privilege’ of going out and having fun with her friends. However, all this time away from them sort of dwindled her wishes to hang with them. She would go out with them, but it was not the same as she remembered. It was less adventurous and less eventful. She still enjoyed it, but did it more so to leave the house rather than to be with her friends.

She never focused much on what she was doing and was mainly doing enough to pass, but with that actual focus her grades skyrocketed. She was quickly among the top of her classes, but the classes bored her. She was easily in the more advanced classes, but they were not as stimulating as she needed them to be. Her brain needed to constantly be moving and none of the classes were doing it for her. Nearly two years before she was supposed to even consider anything higher than the education she would get on Luna, she was accepted into the Starfleet Academy. The girl was astounded by the offer, wondering what it would mean for her.

Her mother was instantly against it, not believing her child was smart enough nor prepared to leave so soon. She refused to believe that her daughter would be leaving her, especially so soon. Ditrium did not care what she had to say. She convinced her father it was enough and after nearly weeks of arguing with her mother, she finally got to go. Ditrium would not allow herself to be under that control anymore. No longer was she bound to Luna but she could finally be free. Free from all that. She soon was off to San Francisco, excited for a new world that was not Luna.

### Starfleet Academy

During her time at the Starfleet Academy, Ditrium continued with her joy of martial arts as well as actually focussing on her classes. Her father had promised her that he would do his best to keep her mother at bay as long as she did her best, and her best she did. Ditrium quickly rose to the top of her class and held onto it. She found interest in the diplomatic courses which were natural to her. Even though she despised the topic since that was what her mother’s line of work also was in, it was what she also loved and was best in. She was accepted into an abroad program to Vulcan where she thrived. The chance to explore and experience new places. She quickly took classes that specialized in things like foreign affairs, languages, and other outside works. She was advancing quickly and loved it all.

She quickly took to specializing in Xenolinguistics and Diplomacy, finding interest in things like Psychology as well. She enjoyed being able to study and be social with others, being an outstanding student. Instead of the traditional 4 years, she took an extra 5th. She appealed for such due to wishing to aim for the Intelligence Academy and it was approved. She enjoyed the mentorship she got and her main advisor recommended that she thus apply for the Intelligence Academy to continue her studies. She was up for the challenge and applied and, due to her stellar grades, was accepted.

### Intelligence Academy & Cadet Training

After the Starfleet Academy, Ditrium was accepted into the Intelligence Academy for a year of post-graduate work. Here her luck of simply being academically gifted ran out. While Ditrium, grade wise, was still among the top of her class, her lack of ability in combat quickly pulled her downwards. Despite her attempts to succeed, she simply could never pick up on it. Combat was simply not her strong suit and it balanced out her academic skills. She quickly fell to the lower rankings with the only thing keeping her from hitting the very bottom being her academic success.

While in the Intelligence, she joined Starfleet as a Cadet. She joined as an Intelligence Cadet on board the U.S.S. Aurora. She loved it all and could not wait for her time to be on another ship. She enjoyed the prospect of it all.

### U.S.S. Arcadia

After graduating from the Intelligence Academy, Ditrium was straight away to work. She joined the  U.S.S. Arcadia NCC-85311 directly from Deep Space 9  and was quickly on her way. She was admitted on as an Ensign with Command, taking the job of an Affairs & Diplomatic Officer on board, her skill set unseen elsewhere on the ship. She was a single-member department within the Command department but loved her work. She proved her usefulness multiple times over, working with multiple species that the U.S.S. Arcadia encountered. Upon her most recent work of working with the Pil’Tridon has allowed her the promotion of now being a Lieutenant Jr. Grade. She looks to the future.

## Starfleet Courses

### Core Courses

* ADMIN101: Star Fleet Operations
* ADMIN110: Chain of Command and General Protocol
* DIPL101: General
* ENG221: LCARS Programming 1
* ENG231: Computer Memory and Personnel Interfaces
* ENG232: Replicators, Transporters, and Holodecks
* ENG233: Sensors, Communications, and Helm Systems
* HIST101: Birth of the Federation
* LANG101: Federation Standard
* LANG110: Major Species (Elementary) - Cadet's Choice
* LAW101: Federation, General
* MATH101: Concepts
* MED101: First Aid and Field Medicine
* PHYS101: Concepts
* PILOT101: Runabouts and Shuttles
* SURV101: Starship Emergencies
* SURV110: Environmental Suits and Zero-G Training
* TAC101: Combat, Unarmed
* TAC110: Combat, Small Weapons
* BIO101: Concepts
* XEN101: General

### Majors

Diplomacy | Diplomatic Relations

* DIPL200: Hostile Species
* DIPL250: Non-Traditional Situations
* LAW150: Non-Federation
* LAW210: Federation, Administrative
* LAW220: Federation, Contracts
* LAW250: Federation, Interplanetary Xenology | Xenolinguistics
* XEN 100, 200 & 300’s for Betazoids, Klingon, Trills, & Cardassions
* XEN500: Borg
* XEN510: The Dominion
* XEN520: Species 8472

Post Graduation:

* ADMIN500: Personnel Management

### Minors

Psychology (Non-Terran & Hostilities)

* PSY101: Terran, General
* PSY102: (Non-Terran, Major Species)

Languages

* LANG250: Intermediate Betazoid
* LANG260: Intermediate Trill
* LANG290: Intermediate Cardassian
* LAN306: Intermediate Gorn
* LANG309: Intermediate Bajoran

## Trivia

* Ditrium is very confused on her sexuality. She likes girls, guys, everyone. She really just wants to be treated correctly
* Being raised on Luna and by her human father mainly, she takes a likeness to human food over Romulan treats. She likes certain Romulan cuisine, but specially likes human desserts like cheesecake and ice cream.
* Ditrium really likes anything with carbs in it.
* She is able to speak English & all three Romulan dialects. She is also able to speak basic, conversational in the language of the following species: Betazoid, Trill, Cardassian, Gorn & Bajoran

### Likes

* Candles
* Water (oceans, likes, rivers, etc)
* Gardens
* Nature
* Proper Debates
* Languages

### Dislikes

* Any moon (whether Luna or another moon)
* Being confined | closed spaces
* Combat
* Chalk
* Most sports
* Broken things

### Ambitions

* To Prove Her Mother Wrong :: Ditrium’s driving factor is to prove her mother wrong considering that she has, so far, done practically everything her mother has said not to do and is still alive. Her one goal in life is to see the moment where she finally ‘defeats’ her mother and gets her to prove that she is fine on her own and her mother does not control her. Her mother often told her she would never amount to anything worthwhile, that she would not be as good of a success that she (her mother) was. Ditrium’s one goal in life is to prove that wrong and be her own person.

### Harmatia

* Pride :: Nothing tops Ditrium like her pride. Her pride to be her own person, her pride to do her own thing, her pride to simply be who she is. Her pride is what will block her from others but can also lead her to success. She often struggles to see others in the same light that she upholds herself due to her always being, academically, among (and if not the) highest of her classes. She is driven by her want to be unique and carve her own path. She, as a child, struggled to be proud of her and now, as she is independent, is on the other extreme where her pride of herself guides everything.

### Morals

* Have courage
* Do not make promises you cannot keep
* Do not judge
* Do not be gullible or naieve
* Trust yourself
* Justice above all else

### Character Development

* A lot of Ditrium’s development will revolve around her breaking free from the mentality that she is not enough, the mentality that she has to live up to her mother’s standards
* She also will grow towards being more social, but less tolerant of stupidity. Her social skills will get better but she will develop further from allowing people to do things to being stricter on people. She is already strict on rules, but will be more assertive
* The majority is about her learning who she is and who she wants to be, not what people want her to be.
* She also wishes to find someone to love and appreciate her as she never understood the concept of affection and love