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Lieutenant Elizabeth Lynn

Name Elizabeth Lynn

Position Chief Counselor

Rank Lieutenant

Basic Info
Personality
History

Character Information

Gender		Female
Species		Human/Klingon Hybrid
Age		30

Physical Appearance

Height		5' 6"
Weight		138 lbs
Hair Color		Black
Eye Color		Soft Amber
Physical Description		Slightly muscular, well-defined body, in excellent physical health and condition despite her profession. Often dyes her hair for the fun of it (one of the few 'girly' things she does).

Family

Father		Andrew Lynn (Lt. Cmdr, Chief Engineer, Starbase 24)
Mother		Kallâ€™grata Lynn, Daughter of Kuren, House of Tâ€™Mar (Klingon Exchange Officer)

Personality & Traits

General Overview		Elizabeth is rather enigmatic for being a counselor. While not the most obvious person to ever pursue the career, she does seem to have a way of pulling things out of people using a range of skills, talents, and techniques that most wouldn't think to try. She can at times seem harsh, cold, and indifferent... then in the next second be flirtatious, friendly, and engaging... and never in any predictable manner.
Strengths & Weaknesses		STRENGTHS Incredible amounts of endurance, shrewd attention to detail, ability to take control of a situation and work with any number of different personalities to get a job done. WEAKNESSES Quick tempered, and surprisingly fragile when faced with emotionally challenging situations.
Hobbies & Interests		Reading, writing medical papers for review, playing chess, and taking walks through the holodeck.
Languages		Federation Standard, Klingon

Personal History		Elizabeth Lynn was born to a Federation Engineer and a Klingon Exchange Officer. Her parents had met by accident, then Lieutenant JG Andrew Lynn had been working mostly graveyard shifts aboard Starbase 24 and had almost never interacted with the Security Department which then Lieutenant Kall'grata was assigned as part of the exchange. Lt. JG Lynn was called to the Security section of the station one evening after a particularly large group of unruly suspects had been brought in and summarily bounced off every available wall, console, and station until their cooperation had been gained. Had it not been for that, the two would not have ever gotten the chance to meet. Two years following their initial meeting, the couple was married and blessed with their only child, Elizabeth. The pair decided that, while raising their daughter was important, so too was their respective careers, which led to Elizabeth being left in the care of neighbors and friends during periods when her parents' shifts didn't mesh with child rearing. While detrimental to most children, Elizabeth took it as an opportunity to become adventurous and independent. By the time she was ten, Elizabeth had been to every corner of the Starbase, both corridor and Jeffries tube, and knew just about every man, woman, and child by at least name, if not personally. The older Elizabeth became, the harder it was for her to interact with people. She'd spent so much time alone, prowling the decks and crawl spaces of the station, that her people skills lagged behind when it came time for school. Though her grades never slipped and her drive to succeed never wavered, her understanding of people began to lag farther and farther behind. This eventually led to her temper flaring when confronted by people who made the observation that she wasn't overly friendly or seemed anti-social. One such fit of rage landed one boy in the Infirmary, and Liz in the Counselor's office. Though her therapy session was brief, the idea was firmly planted in her head that if she could do what the Counselor could do, that being sift through a person's mind and pluck information from it freely with just words, she wouldn't have the problems she was having. What started as a means for getting even with the children around her soon turned into her life's work.
Service Record		2374-2375: Cadet, First Year, General Studies, Starfleet Academy 2375-2376: Cadet, Second Year, Pre-Med, Starfleet Academy 2376-2377: Cadet, Third Year, Pre-Med, Starfleet Academy 2377-2378: Cadet, Fourth Year, Pre-Med, Starfleet Academy 2378-2380: Ensign, Clinical Psychology Studies, Starfleet Medical 2380-2382: Lieutenant Junior Grade, Internship, Starfleet Medical 2382-2383: Lieutenant Junior Grade, Counselor, USS Hallsworth 2383-2386: Lieutenant, Junior Instructor, Pre-Med Clinical Psychology, Starfleet Academy 2386: Lieutenant, Chief Counselor/Cadet Cruise Advisor, USS Discovery 2386: Lieutenant, Chief Counselor, USS Iapetus Cadet Lynn entered Starfleet thanks to the recommendation of both her parents. Not surprisingly, her mother had been the one to push the issue on her father, who himself was reluctant given that she was his only child. A mix of stubbornness on the part of both of the Lynn women garnered the desired result, that being her arrival to San Fransisco in the fall of 2374. Her first two years went by without incident, which shocked everyone back on Starbase 24, including her parents. It seemed that things would progress for her much better than they had in the past... that is until she found herself the target of some rather opinionated and nasty humans. While Elizabeth never learned the reason for their hatred, several male cadets took to harassing her, seemingly intent on provoke a violent response. At first, Liz refused to play into their hands, she had learned her lessons well back on SB 24 about resorting to the fury that lay dormant just below the vainer of calm that she displayed. It wasn't until the group attempted to assault her one evening on her way back from a study group that she finally gave them what they were looking for. While Elizabeth managed to hold her own for a good while, three against one proved too much for her, and she was eventually beaten into unconsciousness. Upon her awakening, she was in a hospital room at Starfleet Medical. She later received a reprimand, weak as it was, for the fight that had been broken up moments after she'd blacked out while the other cadets were expelled and imprisoned. Elizabeth became a lot more closed off from her peers after the incident, and even went so far as to cut her own parents out of her life in the pursuit of her goals. By the time she reached her Clinical Psychology courses, the woman hardly spoke and seldom was seen outside the classroom. The rumors surrounding why filled the classes she took part in, and more than a few of them were less than flattering and far from the truth. Ens. Lynn, however, felt no need to involve herself in it, merely the drive to finish school and learn what she'd gone there to learn. Her final year at Starfleet Medical proved to be another turning point. At the tail end of her Internship, she met a patient by the name of Adam Weston. He had been traumatized by an attack on an away team he'd been part of, and had been sent back to Earth for treatment. Elizabeth had been given his case because, in all honestly, no one else (intern or resident) believed he could be salvaged. Lieutenant JG Lynn caught wind of their pessimism and made it her mission to do the impossible. At first, neither one of them could connect, they were both fairly messed up by their personal histories and it became as tangible a wall as anything made of stone or wood. It wasn't until Elizabeth shared her story with him in a fit of frustration that their walls came tumbling down. Soon after, they two were talking, even chatting idly at times about things unrelated to Adam's treatment, and before anyone realized it, Mr. Weston was being discharged from the clinic, back to duty as if he'd never left. Her triumph earned her a spot on a recently commissioned starship, the USS Hallsworth, where she took up a junior counselor slot. Her year spent there was only as productive as to give her some experience in the Fleet, but little more. She decided that being a shipboard counselor wasn't what she wanted, at least not right then, and she made the application to return to Starfleet Medical as an instructor. Starfleet Command reluctantly accepted, though it took every bit of her collected 'favors' to win the posting. Three years at Starfleet Academy help Elizabeth finally free herself of her shell. She not only began to master social grace (if it could be considered such the way she did things) but she also found a way to vent her anger without doing any real harm to others. This manifest in the form of the infamous plastic apple projectile. Cadets going through her class were subject to, at a moment's notice, being bombarded by thrown plastic fruit. To her mother's credit, she was the one that had first thought of the idea upon hearing from Liz's father that teachers on Earth used to have apples displayed on their desk. While the projectiles did sting, they didn't leave a mark and they had the desired effect of injuring, embarrassing, and refocusing young cadets on the task before them. Her last assignment as part of her Academy tour was as Ship's Counselor on the USS Discovery, a vessel devoted to cadet cruise activities. It was, in all, an unremarkable tour of duty, even if it pushed her back out into the void and gave her a renewed desire to be in the mainstream Fleet.