SHERLOCK
VULCAN MALE
AGE 19 HEIGHT 188 CM WEIGHT 75 KG PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Gangling, long-haired and disheveled, Sherlock is not like the Vulcans you see in the Holodecks. While his height and build are average for his age, one could be forgiven for thinking he wasn't Vulcan at all. His curly mess of hair is usually covering his ears, which have sharper, longer points than most. He has a tanned complexion and a unique pair of moles on his throat. His eyebrows are abnormally curved, a trait he inherited from his father. He passed through puberty quickly, and can already grow substantial facial hair if he wishes; however he elects to keep himself shaved. |
His clothing tends to consist of an eclectic mix of items he finds
agreeable or fascinating, combined in a style which doesn't fit any
particular fashion paradigm, but which he finds aesthetically pleasing.
PERSONALITY
Sherlock, as his name would suggest, is not the average Vulcan. He does retain many of the traits considered common amongst his people - particularly a boundless curiosity, a desire to provide assistance where assistance is needed, and the driving urge to learn anything and everything he can.
He attempts to keep himself logical, but does not hold his people's beliefs to be essential, and as such is prone to occasional outbursts. As a result of his upbringing, Sherlock is somewhat naive socially, and has a tendency to say what he is thinking rather than analyzing the impact of his thoughts on others. He is endlessly fascinated by new things, incessantly questioning everything around him. He enjoys jokes and humour, though he does not properly understand them.
At all times of the day he is extremely energetic, and always eager to do something he enjoys or something he has never done before. Extremely capable at improvisation, Sherlock can find something fun to do in the most boring and uninspiring of situations, though his enthusiasm is not always shared.
Though much of his personality is exposed on the surface, he does keep a measure of himself hidden. He believes in romance, a trait inspired by his father, and has a strange obsession with luck as a physically real phenomenon. He is also extremely sneaky when he wants to be, though he is a terrible liar.
Sherlock has a great respect for all life, but in spite of his name, is not particularly gifted at problem solving.
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
His enthusiasm and somewhat sheltered upbringing have imbued Sherlock with a prominent confidence, and although he lacks grace and other niceties, he is supremely sure of himself in most situations. He is hard-working and quite intelligent, even amongst Vulcan standards, though his attention span is not often long enough for him to learn anything as well as he could. Physically he is quite capable, but this is owed mainly to his Vulcan physiology rather than any effort on his own part.
His naivety can be a burden, however; he has very little conception of when he is being deceived or threatened, and does not always act appropriately in the face of danger, either to himself and others. As his kolinahr training was never properly completed, at times he struggles to master himself, and can have severe mood-swings - though, like all his emotions, they are internalized.
Sherlock has something of a rebellious streak, though this is mainly directed at his mother.
Sherlock does not have much in the way of marketable skills, though his Vulcan strength is an asset when needed. While not particularly skilled at repair, maintenance or construction of machines and computers, he does have a particular affinity for understanding and modifying the way things work, particularly re-sequencing devices like transporters or replicators. (However, this is often to the eventual detriment of the device itself.) He completed the first year of an accelerated education at the Vulcan Science Academy and has certificates in first aid, counseling and safe food handling and preparation. He is capable of touch telepathy, but not particularly skilled at it.
AMBITIONS
Until recently, his only ambition was to get off Delta Vega. Now that he is out in the wide Galaxy, he wishes to see, experience and do as much as he can before his mother catches up with him.
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
Sherlock does not have defined hobbies and interests, per se; rather he will make whatever he is doing interesting, and loves nothing more than to learn a new game, activity or idea. Anything that is not sitting around being bored would be classified as an interest for him.
He quite enjoys listening to music, but knows very little about it, having only recently discovered non-Vulcan music. He is very eager to learn how to cook, though he has not had a chance yet.
FAMILY
FATHER Rovak, a Starfleet lieutenant.
MOTHER T'ret, a doctor.
OTHER Aunts and uncles; one great-forefather.
EARLY LIFE: THE LOGICALLY IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Sherlock's parents, Rovak and T'Ret, were betrothed in Vulcan custom when they were both children, in an attempt to unify their two prominent families. The arrangement was organized by the patriarch of each family. Rovak, however, rejected the idea of an arranged marriage, insisting that marriage should not be an affair limited to logical and beneficial arrangements, but rather something for which logic did not allow. While Rovak moved on from the incident, somewhat shunned by Vulcan society for his illogic, T'Ret became obsessed with her betrothed, and threw herself into her medical studies.
Decades later, the pair met by chance while Rovak attended an art exhibition on Vulcan. After a brief, awkward interchange, which Rovak tried to stifle with the drinks his human friend had recommended, he found himself waking up the next morning in her bed, legally married to the woman he had tried to avoid. By Vulcan law they were expected to live together for a year, but because of Rovak's assignment to the top-secret USS Sojourner, T'Ret was housed on Cellis Station. During this time Rovak was able to stop for visits; soon T'Ret became pregnant.
At the anniversary of their marriage, Rovak tried to indicate that he did not wish to continue the marriage, but T'Ret, being highly unstable, became violent and destroyed their shared quarters. When she was restrained by security, Rovak was made aware of the pregnancy - and also that T'Ret had been drugging him over a course of months to engineer feelings of affection in him. Though he realized that his wife had been trying to brainwash him, he chose not to terminate the pregnancy, as was his right under Vulcan law.
Sherlock was born in the Shi'Kahr Medical Facility, though in a mental health ward, not in the natal care unit. His birth was overseen by Doctor T'Lan, his foremother and Rovak's mother. Doctor T'Lan advised her son that his wife had been largely cured of her mental instability, and that their child would require a name, preferably in the Vulcan tradition. Rovak, never being particularly fond of Vulcan tradition, but wanting to honour his mother, selected an individual with the S-k name convention valued since the time of Surak, who was also an individual he admired. His son was named Sherlock, in honor of the great human detective he revered.
PERSONALITY
Sherlock, as his name would suggest, is not the average Vulcan. He does retain many of the traits considered common amongst his people - particularly a boundless curiosity, a desire to provide assistance where assistance is needed, and the driving urge to learn anything and everything he can.
He attempts to keep himself logical, but does not hold his people's beliefs to be essential, and as such is prone to occasional outbursts. As a result of his upbringing, Sherlock is somewhat naive socially, and has a tendency to say what he is thinking rather than analyzing the impact of his thoughts on others. He is endlessly fascinated by new things, incessantly questioning everything around him. He enjoys jokes and humour, though he does not properly understand them.
At all times of the day he is extremely energetic, and always eager to do something he enjoys or something he has never done before. Extremely capable at improvisation, Sherlock can find something fun to do in the most boring and uninspiring of situations, though his enthusiasm is not always shared.
Though much of his personality is exposed on the surface, he does keep a measure of himself hidden. He believes in romance, a trait inspired by his father, and has a strange obsession with luck as a physically real phenomenon. He is also extremely sneaky when he wants to be, though he is a terrible liar.
Sherlock has a great respect for all life, but in spite of his name, is not particularly gifted at problem solving.
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
His enthusiasm and somewhat sheltered upbringing have imbued Sherlock with a prominent confidence, and although he lacks grace and other niceties, he is supremely sure of himself in most situations. He is hard-working and quite intelligent, even amongst Vulcan standards, though his attention span is not often long enough for him to learn anything as well as he could. Physically he is quite capable, but this is owed mainly to his Vulcan physiology rather than any effort on his own part.
His naivety can be a burden, however; he has very little conception of when he is being deceived or threatened, and does not always act appropriately in the face of danger, either to himself and others. As his kolinahr training was never properly completed, at times he struggles to master himself, and can have severe mood-swings - though, like all his emotions, they are internalized.
Sherlock has something of a rebellious streak, though this is mainly directed at his mother.
Sherlock does not have much in the way of marketable skills, though his Vulcan strength is an asset when needed. While not particularly skilled at repair, maintenance or construction of machines and computers, he does have a particular affinity for understanding and modifying the way things work, particularly re-sequencing devices like transporters or replicators. (However, this is often to the eventual detriment of the device itself.) He completed the first year of an accelerated education at the Vulcan Science Academy and has certificates in first aid, counseling and safe food handling and preparation. He is capable of touch telepathy, but not particularly skilled at it.
AMBITIONS
Until recently, his only ambition was to get off Delta Vega. Now that he is out in the wide Galaxy, he wishes to see, experience and do as much as he can before his mother catches up with him.
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
Sherlock does not have defined hobbies and interests, per se; rather he will make whatever he is doing interesting, and loves nothing more than to learn a new game, activity or idea. Anything that is not sitting around being bored would be classified as an interest for him.
He quite enjoys listening to music, but knows very little about it, having only recently discovered non-Vulcan music. He is very eager to learn how to cook, though he has not had a chance yet.
FAMILY
FATHER Rovak, a Starfleet lieutenant.
MOTHER T'ret, a doctor.
OTHER Aunts and uncles; one great-forefather.
EARLY LIFE: THE LOGICALLY IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Sherlock's parents, Rovak and T'Ret, were betrothed in Vulcan custom when they were both children, in an attempt to unify their two prominent families. The arrangement was organized by the patriarch of each family. Rovak, however, rejected the idea of an arranged marriage, insisting that marriage should not be an affair limited to logical and beneficial arrangements, but rather something for which logic did not allow. While Rovak moved on from the incident, somewhat shunned by Vulcan society for his illogic, T'Ret became obsessed with her betrothed, and threw herself into her medical studies.
Decades later, the pair met by chance while Rovak attended an art exhibition on Vulcan. After a brief, awkward interchange, which Rovak tried to stifle with the drinks his human friend had recommended, he found himself waking up the next morning in her bed, legally married to the woman he had tried to avoid. By Vulcan law they were expected to live together for a year, but because of Rovak's assignment to the top-secret USS Sojourner, T'Ret was housed on Cellis Station. During this time Rovak was able to stop for visits; soon T'Ret became pregnant.
At the anniversary of their marriage, Rovak tried to indicate that he did not wish to continue the marriage, but T'Ret, being highly unstable, became violent and destroyed their shared quarters. When she was restrained by security, Rovak was made aware of the pregnancy - and also that T'Ret had been drugging him over a course of months to engineer feelings of affection in him. Though he realized that his wife had been trying to brainwash him, he chose not to terminate the pregnancy, as was his right under Vulcan law.
Sherlock was born in the Shi'Kahr Medical Facility, though in a mental health ward, not in the natal care unit. His birth was overseen by Doctor T'Lan, his foremother and Rovak's mother. Doctor T'Lan advised her son that his wife had been largely cured of her mental instability, and that their child would require a name, preferably in the Vulcan tradition. Rovak, never being particularly fond of Vulcan tradition, but wanting to honour his mother, selected an individual with the S-k name convention valued since the time of Surak, who was also an individual he admired. His son was named Sherlock, in honor of the great human detective he revered.
LIFE IN A BUBBLE
When Sherlock was only a few months old, his mother elected to take part in the Relativity-Condensation Field Experiment (RCF) on Delta Vega, an orbital body in the Vulcan System. T'Ret, consenting on behalf of her child but failing to alert its father, took Sherlock to the H'Lai Research Institute, where they lived in a bio-dome experiment with seven hundred other Vulcans and nine non-Vulcans. Time was sped up inside the facility, a geodesic dome in the frozen tundra. In what was two years to the outside world, nineteen years passed inside the Relativity-Condensation Field. |
Unable to leave until he had finished puberty (for his own safety),
Sherlock was stuck in the dome until he was a grown man. His father was able
to visit irregularly, but was unable to see his son more often than
every two years by RCF time.
Sherlock's father advised him to be himself, regardless of the Vulcan focus on logic and uniformity, and these views stuck with him. Sherlock was an extremely capable student in sciences and mathematics, with exceptional scores in humanities. He related poorly to the other children however, who were more interested in finishing additional work during lunch breaks than the playground provided. Sherlock spent his lunch-hours with the three non-Vulcan students in the school: a Klingon boy two years older than himself, a Human female, fourteen years old, and an Andorian female, sixteen years old. The four became quite close friends, even though they shared no classes.
Soon however the Andorian girl, Shalas, graduated and left the facility with her parents. At first Sherlock did not understand the absence of his friend; Sherlock never understood his friends at all, really, but he found their behaviour fascinating. When he attempted to imitate it, is mother would reprimand him severely, giving long lectures on the proper Vulcan way of doing things. Sometimes these could last two or three hours, and include history lessons, mathematical equations, and other boring cornerstones of Vulcan society.
Sherlock was far more fascinated with the stories his friend Gal'moH, Son of Kullos would tell him of Kahless and the Klingon warriors, and chose to grow his hair long. He refused his mothers demands to cut it, and one day at school when a teacher tried to cut it surreptitiously as he gave a presentation, he bit her on the hand. Sherlock and Gal'MoH were forbidden to interact after that.
Sherlock began to cut his hair as his mother commanded, though far less regularly than she insisted. With his hair short, he could interact with Gal'MoH and the human Tanya, though it limited the time he could spend with them.
His mother became increasingly frustrated by his emotional development, and tried to have her son medicated to help him. Because the only qualified doctor aside from herself (who had been uncertified after the drugging incident) was Kullos, father of Gal'MoH, who outright refused to medicate any child to stifle their emotional development. T'Ret accused him of being a bigot who did not understand enlightened society. The doctor called her a word in Klingon that has no direct translation in Vulcan or Federation Standard, but essentially means a prostitute-with-no-arms-and-a-smooth-forehead-who-refuses-to-fight.
Sherlock's father advised him to be himself, regardless of the Vulcan focus on logic and uniformity, and these views stuck with him. Sherlock was an extremely capable student in sciences and mathematics, with exceptional scores in humanities. He related poorly to the other children however, who were more interested in finishing additional work during lunch breaks than the playground provided. Sherlock spent his lunch-hours with the three non-Vulcan students in the school: a Klingon boy two years older than himself, a Human female, fourteen years old, and an Andorian female, sixteen years old. The four became quite close friends, even though they shared no classes.
Soon however the Andorian girl, Shalas, graduated and left the facility with her parents. At first Sherlock did not understand the absence of his friend; Sherlock never understood his friends at all, really, but he found their behaviour fascinating. When he attempted to imitate it, is mother would reprimand him severely, giving long lectures on the proper Vulcan way of doing things. Sometimes these could last two or three hours, and include history lessons, mathematical equations, and other boring cornerstones of Vulcan society.
Sherlock was far more fascinated with the stories his friend Gal'moH, Son of Kullos would tell him of Kahless and the Klingon warriors, and chose to grow his hair long. He refused his mothers demands to cut it, and one day at school when a teacher tried to cut it surreptitiously as he gave a presentation, he bit her on the hand. Sherlock and Gal'MoH were forbidden to interact after that.
Sherlock began to cut his hair as his mother commanded, though far less regularly than she insisted. With his hair short, he could interact with Gal'MoH and the human Tanya, though it limited the time he could spend with them.
His mother became increasingly frustrated by his emotional development, and tried to have her son medicated to help him. Because the only qualified doctor aside from herself (who had been uncertified after the drugging incident) was Kullos, father of Gal'MoH, who outright refused to medicate any child to stifle their emotional development. T'Ret accused him of being a bigot who did not understand enlightened society. The doctor called her a word in Klingon that has no direct translation in Vulcan or Federation Standard, but essentially means a prostitute-with-no-arms-and-a-smooth-forehead-who-refuses-to-fight.
The skirmishes with his mother continued, but Sherlock was largely able
to develop on his own terms - though he yearned for life beyond the
boredom of 'The Dome', as the other kids had called it. (His mother
insisted he call it The Institute.) His father visited irregularly,
subtly encouraging him to rebel against his mother and Vulcan society,
if he felt he should.
In his last words Rovak told his son: There is a great deal to be said for being a proper Vulcan. However, there is also a great deal to be said for choosing one's own destiny. |
When the law recognises your authority to make decisions, you will be
free to make whatever decision you choose. Until then, however, know that I will support any decision you choose to make. No matter how much it upsets your mother.
His father left, as the ten minutes he was able to visit each time had expired. That year Sherlock finished his schooling (graduating with honors) and enrolled in the Vulcan Science Academy's satellite branch within The Dome. At the conclusion of his first year of study, Sherlock was able to break into the Academy's Transporter Studies Lab, and utilizing what he had learned, beamed himself out of the Dome and onto a passing freighter moving near the planet.
He left no note, no warning, and only took the bare essentials with him, which included a lot of clothes, some medical supplies, and all the credits he had. Physically he was unaffected by leaving the dome, as he was sufficiently developed to exist outside the Relativity-Condensation Field.
From the freighter he beamed aboard, he knew he had found his way into the outside world, and when he reached his next destination, he would be free. How he was going to survive and avoid the wrath of his mother was another question entirely.
His father left, as the ten minutes he was able to visit each time had expired. That year Sherlock finished his schooling (graduating with honors) and enrolled in the Vulcan Science Academy's satellite branch within The Dome. At the conclusion of his first year of study, Sherlock was able to break into the Academy's Transporter Studies Lab, and utilizing what he had learned, beamed himself out of the Dome and onto a passing freighter moving near the planet.
He left no note, no warning, and only took the bare essentials with him, which included a lot of clothes, some medical supplies, and all the credits he had. Physically he was unaffected by leaving the dome, as he was sufficiently developed to exist outside the Relativity-Condensation Field.
From the freighter he beamed aboard, he knew he had found his way into the outside world, and when he reached his next destination, he would be free. How he was going to survive and avoid the wrath of his mother was another question entirely.