Service Record:
EVADNE, Assumpta
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Assumpta Evadne
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Hobbies:
Reading Poetry, Drawing, Listening to Music (Classical)
Family:
Mother: Tiana Evadne (Deceased); Father: Lieutenant William Peters (Deceased)
USS Resolution Service Medal, USS Resolution-A Service Medal
Service Record
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2380-2381 | USS Louisiana | Civilian Tactical Specialist |
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2381-2382 |
USS Resolution |
Civilian Tactical Specialist |
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2382-PRES |
USS Resolution-A |
Civilian Tactical Specialist |
Personal Details:
But she was saved and despite the slight brain damage the doctors suspected, she grew strong again. Without his wife to teach him, William was unprepared when Assumpta started showing signs of having strong empathic abilities. She would feel pain from someone else, start laughing without any reason and suddenly speaking as if she was someone else. It did not help that William had become an alcoholic, blaming himself for his wife's death. He was deemed unfit to father her when she was ten years old, and Assumpta was sent to an institution for girls. There, she grew more and more quiet in a silent rebellion against those who had taken her from her home.
But without her mother and with the slight brain damage she had gotten in the accident, Assumpta had no control over her abilities. She was not telepathic, but she would sense the emotions of others as keenly as she knew her own. She had no mental walls to push up, and she had no way of defending her own mind against the assaulting emotions. She grew more and more locked up in her mind and would spend hours sitting by the window, murmuring to herself. The institution's psychiatrist recommended that she would be moved to a mental institution rather than the orphanage where she had spent six months. There, she could get proper treatment.
But Assumpta couldn't be helped. Not in a permanent way anyway. Locked away amongst people more unstable than she was, she quickly went to their level. She would rave at the nurses, shouting and screaming at them. She would spend hours observing them as surely as they observed her through the many cameras. She would refuse to listen. By chance, a young Starfleet counsellor was sent there. He was fascinated by the girl, who was not more than 15. After having a doctor scanning her, he saw the problem. And he was
horrified that no one had noticed before. It was not Assumpta that had gone astray, but her abilities. She felt the emotions of those around her, taking them for her own. Her behaviour was the result of the lack of mental walls. Errol O'Brian wanted to know more, because he had never seen a half-Betazoid with such abilities and the lack of walls. He spent hours with her in a locked room, using cards as a way to communicating. He noticed her interest in the cards and eventually taught her how to play a few games. Then, he noticed something extraordinary. Based on his emotions and some analytical skills, she could control the game. She could even, to a certain extend, affect how he played. The discovery was important enough to tell Starfleet, and Starfleet saw it fit to take Assumpta from the institution and take her into their care to train. Her abilities could after all be useful.
Assumpta spent the next ten years at a research facility on Earth's Moon where she was mostly used to analyse personnel rather than data. She was also tested with different drugs, to see if it was possible to dampen her abilities to a point where she would function normally. One seemed to work. Leytra dampened the empathic incomes and outcomes, but also her own emotions and skills to read others. It took three doses each day to keep the levels down, but one missed dose and she would be back where she started. Starfleet decided it was best to keep her on the medication, unless they needed her. After the Dominion War, Assumpta returned to Earth where she lived on Starfleet's bill. She took her medication and studied Literature in England, finding it a decent outlet for the emotions she now felt she lacked. Her ability to love, hate...it was all dampened by Leytra, unless she quit her doses. Which she at times did, over a short period of time.
In 2380, she was called back to Starfleet after being caught yet again not using her medication. To make sure she did, because she was after all not a stable woman with an ability that could be used against others and enough information inside her head to be useful for anyone who stood against Starfleet and the Federation. Her analytic skills would serve Starfleet well, and her empathic abilities were easy to use against any enemy. Through the drug, she could be controlled. She was therefore sent to the USS Louisiana as an advisor, having a civilian specialist status. She was seemingly under control, only breaking her medication when the Ship's captain felt it was need for her abilities. Without the drug, her analytic skills were at their sharpest, and she was often used in Tactical.
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Late 2381, she was transferred to the USS Resolution, mostly because it was a ship that would have little use of her abilities.
Personality Profile:
"She appears almost like a raving lunatic, or perhaps the only sane person in the room when she is off the medication. It is unknown whether it is subconscious that she tunes herself into others, or if she does it deliberate. However, what we know is that this ability can go both ways. Half-Betazoids are always unpredictable when it comes to the abilities they inherit, and as powerful as hers are, she has no control whatsoever." Petyr Drinkwater, doctor, Luna Base.
Assumpta's greatest regret is the lack of things she feels when she is taking Leytra. She spends most of her off duty time reading or listening to music, trying to recreate the deep emotions. She has a cynical side, and a logic that is as twisted as it makes sense. Some might say that she is obsessed with feeling things as well as the idea that others feel. But when she is off the medication, she can even be violent if she feels threatened. She becomes almost mysterious and very unpredictable. Though for what strength she has in her mind, she has no control. She cannot use her ability as an active weapon, or even pretend to know what she is doing. And when she is on her medication, she often gets dizzy spells. But her analytic skills, developed from childhood, make it all worth it.
As a person, she does have some good sides. She tries to be helpful, and does a lot of volunteer work. She also tries to be useful with weapons, but despite having tried to train herself with Phasers, she has no talent or use for it. She gets hurt easily, but makes herself not show it. To others she either comes across as a cold Englishwoman, or as a freaky cold Englishwoman. Her experiences in the mental institution makes her withdrawn from others at times, as well as oddly unstable. The signs are paranoia and muttering things aloud to herself, which might be a sign that she has adopted some of the mannerism of a schizophrenia patient.
