Skills: data-gathering
data analysis
programming & coding
some starship engineering
diplomacy
astrometry
logical deduction Canon Abilities: Most of these are innate, because Spock is a Vulcan, so when I use words like "enhanced," I mean compared to your bog-standard human.
enhanced strength
enhanced speed
longer lifespan
enhanced emotional control
enhanced durability (able to go without sleep, food, or water for multiple weeks)
touch-telepathy, specifically through the fingers & hands
ability to mind-meld, a subset of telepathy
long-distance telepathy Role: Familiar
Role Qualities/Attributes: Spock now has the tiny fuzzy ears & tail of a
sehlat, a native Vulcan creature, and can shift, mostly into Vulcan animals or Terran animals he's aware of
Role Reasoning: Spock is a creature of two worlds, balanced between logic and emotion, human and Vulcan. Given that he is neither at an extreme of emotions, like a Legend might be, or at the extreme of logic like a Myth (despite his best efforts), he must instead live right in the center as a Familiar. More than that, though he's certainly capable of leading, Spock is at his happiest when he is in a support role, acting as a logical rock and a second-in-command, relied on but not ultimately in charge.
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one of the follow options for your personality section. Please clarify which option you have picked and, if option 2, which questions you are answering:
Option 2. Choose FOUR-FIVE of the following questions to answer and expand upon. You may choose a fifth question if you feel it is integral to your character's personality. Each answer has a 100-300 word requirement.
OPTION 2 QUESTIONS (PICK 4-5) 100-300 WORD LIMIT EACH: What does your character feel like they struggle with still? Where could they improve? This could be physically, mentally, emotionally, or otherwise.
While he tries to maintain an appropriately-Vulcan even keel—and, compared to the emotional humans he's surrounded with, generally manages—Spock struggles with the very core of himself. He struggles to find a balance between his human side and his Vulcan side, and spends a great deal of time torn between the two worlds.
On the one hand, he respects the humans he serves with, and he has a relatively close and loving relationship with his human mother. On the other hand, he has never once felt "Vulcan enough," and worries that most other Vulcans see him that way as well. This comes to a particular head with his fiancee, T'Pring: a most logical and honorable Vulcan whose literal career is bringing straying Vulcan criminals back to the path of logic. Spock struggles so much with his identity and who he is supposed to be that he has prolonged nightmares about the two halves of himself having to fight to the death, and ends up seeking advice from a human colleague on relationships because he is so worried that T'Pring will look at him and, like most of his Vulcan peers growing up, find him lacking.
This struggle informs every choice he makes, though he certainly won't admit that. It consumes him mentally, emotionally, and even physically: his emotions are, like those of most Vulcans, so repressed that to let them out and release his human side has physical side effects. When he does this in an attempt to draw out the Gorn he and an away team are trying to eradicate—lets his feelings out, releases his anger—it works, but it takes him time to physically recover and shove all those feelings back down where they belong. This is the core struggle of who Spock is, and he is nowhere near to solving it, and finding the balance he desperately needs.
What are your characters dreams and nightmares? Do you believe they are more likely to obtain one rather than the other?
Spock would be the first to say that he does not have dreams. Goals, certainly: he is an expert at setting goals and laying out a high-achieving path toward them. But dreams are illogical things to have, he thinks, and so he thinks he doesn't have them. That isn't necessarily true. Spock dreams, deep down, of acceptance. He dreams of having a place where he doesn't feel other, where he can be competent and respected for what he has accomplished, without thought to his parentage or his genetic makeup. Starfleet, for the moment, provides him with that opportunity, so he's close to achieveing this dream he won't admit he has.
His nightmare, on the other hand, is the wholesale rejection of his people. This manifests again quite literally in a nightmare about his human self and his Vulcan self fighting a ritual
kal-i-fee to the death, urged on by T'Pring who in the nightmare has rejected him as an unsuitable mate. Spock is terrified of not living up to the expectations of the Vulcans he was raised around, and of letting his fiancee and his father down the way his brother did. He makes himself exemplary to compensate for this, sure that as long as he can keep a handle on his emotions and do the best work possible, he'll be able to earn a place for himself.
What is the most important and defining relationship(s) in your character's life and why?
Spock, despite his emphasis on logic, is a very relationship-driven person. While he hasn't yet met the man who will eventually become his most defining relationship (one Captain Jim Kirk), prior to meeting Kirk, his most important relationship is arguably the one he has with his family members, particularly his mother and his father. His mother and his father define the two halves of him, and he has been torn between them his whole life: he wants his mother's love and his father's approval. His father was ambivalent about having a hybrid son, and his mother tried her best to be there for him amid the near-constant bullying by other Vulcan children, but couldn't really understand his Vulcan half. His family defined, very literally, who he was. With a full-Vulcan older brother and an entirely-human adopted sister, Spock represented the exact center of the family, which was not an easy position to be in. Torn as he was between all these relationships, it was these experiences—learning to get along with his Vulcan father and his human mother, his brother and his sister—which prepared him for Starfleet, and make him such an effective officer. He is better than many Vulcans at operating int he relative mess of a Starfleet vessel entirely because of his relationships with his family.
What is your character's moral code? Do they have one? Why or why not?
Spock's moral code is informed heavily by the Vulcan philosophy he was raised around. It is thus: that logic is the highest calling; that a diverse and flourishing universe is a thing to aim for; that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. It is that last point—that many lives are inherently more valuable than one life—which truly guides Spock. He believes in working toward a greater good, and is motivated by the desire to add something to the universe. Vulcan philosophy can get a little patronizing—many Vulcans use their supposedly-superior intellect and reasoning to argue that their way is the only correct way—but Spock maintains a more flexible, open-minded curiousity about the universe he's been tasked to explore. The other part of his code comes from Starfleet. He is tasked to uphold Starfleet's ethics, which considers the preservation of life to be paramount above all things. Spock's moral codes are largely adopted from the places he was raised and the places he serves, but he has made them personal, important, and serious, and does not willingly violate them.
What is your character's safespace? When do they feel the most settled and comfortable? When do they feel confident and relaxed?
Spock's safe space is, somehow, the starship Enterprise. It should be logic. He feels that it should be logic, or perhaps his quarters, but it's the starship he serves on where he feels the most at home and least full of turmoil. When he's embroiled in an experiment surrounded by motivated and helpful crew members with the same goals as he, Spock isn't thinking about who he is, or whether he's being Vulcan enough or logical enough. His only focus is on his task, and that's a very comforting thing. It wouldn't work the same on his home planet of Vulcan, where he would feel scrutinized no matter what he did or recommended. On the bridge of the Enterprise in the middle of a red alert, there's no room for deep moral conundrums about who he is. There are only stars and the occasional diplomatic crisis.
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