Lieutenant Miki Matsutaki
Name Miki Liliya Matsutaki
Position Chief Counselor
Rank Lieutenant
Stats
- 4 Mission Posts
Last Post
Sat Sep 1, 2018 @ 1:50am
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | 28 | |
| Sexual Orientation | Heterosexual |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5' 10" | |
| Weight | 143 pounds | |
| Hair Color | Black | |
| Eye Color | Brown | |
| Physical Description | Miki is tall and svelte, with deeply-tanned blemishless skin. At first glance, her body shape appears to be the result of a rigorous regimen of exercise and a tightly control diet, aimed at maintaining a feminine shape rather than at attaining muscularity. Atop is a lustrous head of jet-black hair that, when loose, tumbles down her back to reach her tailbone. Prominent on her left shoulder is a large tattoo of a hooded woman's head with an elaborately tattooed face. |
Family
| Significant Other | None | |
| Children | None | |
| Father | Kashou Mitsutaki (Age 53) | |
| Mother | Daria Mitsutaki (Age 51, neé Shevcheka) | |
| Brother(s) | None | |
| Sister(s) | None | |
| Other Family | Dmitri Shevchenko (maternal uncle, age 55) |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Miki is something of a dichotomy, at the same time possessed of a razor-sharp wit, capable of making remarks that cut those she considers to be haughty off at the knees, and a gentler side that people in trouble can wrap around themselves like a soft warm blanket. She passionately detests arrogance, and will often forget herself in standing up to those who dare to look down their noses at others. She is quite protective of people, but has learned from years of hard experience that no matter how much she might want to, she cannot always save people from themselves. Even so, she always tries to mitigate the consequences of a person's self-destructive behavior, even if that means taking some of those consequences onto herself. Miki focuses extremely hard on everything she does, although she makes those things that lie within her set of talents look utterly effortless, and this is particularly true when it comes to music. |
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| Languages | Federation Standard, Japanese (Native), Russian (Native) | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: * Passionate * Exceptional social awareness * Eidetic memory (audial and visual) * Quick thinking * Fortress of willpower (see OOC-knowledge) * Tone-perfect * Never has an ineffective night's sleep Weaknesses: * Ikiryō (see OOC-knowledge) * Cannot be roused, at all, within 6 hours of going to sleep (see OOC-knowledge) * Makes telepaths and empaths unexplainably uneasy |
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| Ambitions | Simply to serve in Starfleet for the betterment of the Federation, and to prove herself to those around her while doing it. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Music (more accurately, the Composition and/or Performance thereof, merely listening doesn't interest her so much. Favorite genre: eclectic) Cooking Kyūdō (Japanese archery) (6th dan) Iaidō (5th dan) Kenjutsu (5th dan) Combative Aikido |
| Personal History | Born in the Kasumigaura District of the megapolis of Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese father and a Ukrainian mother, on September 15, 2360, Miki moved at the age of 2, with her parents, who wanted to get away from the rat-race of the Japanese administrative capital. Although not really a tomboy, all of her friends throughout her childhood were boys from her neighborhood, who were not particularly aware that she wasn't a boy. Despite that, her participation in the rough games they often played was undertaken without any hesitation or reservation, although she did manage to avoid most of the physical fights that often resulted from the youngest of the group's attempts to establish a dominant position, "most" being the operative word. One day, she couldn't avoid being the target of this belligerent friend's aggression, and she returned home in tears, having been on the receiving end of a beating, despite the best efforts of the oldest member of the group to prevent it. Upon seeing the state of his only child, her father decided not only to forbid her from associating from her circle of friends, but to begin the long process of teaching her the various martial arts that he had learned, so that she could defend herself from her friend in the future, knowing that he couldn't completely prevent them from encountering one another, as they were neighbors, and classmates at school. This prohibition didn't last long, and Miki quickly forgave her attacker, and the long, nightly conversations across the short distance between their bedroom windows soon resumed. As they grew into their teenage years together, Miki began to recognize and exhibit her femininity more and more, and her friend, who was only a few months younger than her noticed. They still argued constantly, usually over very trivial things, but his aggressive, combative nature was directed toward her less often. It wasn't long before he even began to pay audience to her music practice. Upon graduating junior high school, Miki auditioned for and was granted entry into a Music Academy. Although she would receive her normal high school education at the same high school as her friends, she would then spend a further 4 hours of education a day, 6 days a week, for the next 6 years, learning the art of Music to the level of a Master's Degree. When she was 13, Miki's parents returned to Japan for a second honeymoon, leaving her in their neighbor's care in their absence. Her best friend's older brother, who had just turned 18, announced at the dinner table that he was going to join Starfleet, and asked her to keep an eye on his little brother for him for as long as she could. As Miki was seen by his parents as a sensible, responsible girl with a good head on her shoulders, and not wanting to let anybody down, she agreed, despite the heavy educational workload that she was under. At the age of 19, having poured her heart and soul into her musical education, Miki graduated summa cum laude, and as a result gave a recital at her graduation ceremony. This drew the attention of a promoter, who arranged for her to take her music on a tour of a number of worlds around the Federation. By this time, the gangly, sometimes uncoordinated teenager had become a beautiful woman who, even without her musical talents on display, often attracted the admiration of those that saw her, in person or on some of the broadcasts aimed at showcasing up-and-coming performers in the entertaining industry. This tour was due to take several months, but a promise she had made to her friend that she would be at his Starfleet Academy graduation ceremony, or to at least be at the spaceport to see him off to his first ship assignment, played on her mind, and she insisted that the tour should end early enough for her to easily get back to Earth in time to fulfill it. Three days after departing Earth, in transit between her second concert on Vulcan and her third, scheduled to take place on Andoria, and to significant media consternation, Miki's runabout disappeared without trace, and for the next 3 years, no-one saw or heard anything from her. The first anyone saw of Miki after this was when she walked into a cafe in San Francisco, and sat down with a flat white, and she was recognized by the friend who had once given her a black eye as a child. To confirm his suspicions, he sat across the table from her, and waited for her to look up at him. She, of course, instantly recognized him, and greeted him by name, snidely commenting that being apart from her for a few months appeared to have aged him by a few years. When he told her, in all seriousness, that she had vanished for 3 years, she immediately brushed it off as a joke, at least in part because she was painfully aware that her concert tour got extended without her willing agreement, making it impossible for her to get back in time to fulfill her promise to his brother. During her "concert tour", she had seen the emotions her music was able to evoke in members of her audience. This piqued her curiosity, and she started to read about psychology. This reading prompted her to want to study the therapeutic effects of music in patients with physical and mental health issues. Still wanting to apologize to her older friend for not being at his graduation, she came to the decision that she would join Starfleet, as a Counselor. Her first 4 years at Starfleet Academy went surprisingly well for Miki, who found that she easily surpassed all of the physical fitness requirements for men, even though she always believed that she would struggle to meet the lighter requirements set for female cadets. By the time she was ready to begin the additional 2 years of the Psychologist AIT at Starfleet Medical, she was a top 10 student in her year. At 28, being older than the majority of her classmates, but looking a bit younger than all of them, Miki completed her internship, and was given her first ship assignment as a full-fledged commissioned officer: the USS Triumphant. ***OOC Knowledge*** Miki never actually returned to Earth, nor completed her concert tour. What returned to Earth, 3 years after her scheduled return, is her Ikiryō, a physical manifestation of her unconscious will, created by her overwhelming desire to fulfill the promises she has made to people she left behind. It exactly and immutably resembles her physical appearance at the instant she was last conscious, in every respect, even to the most stringent examination. As a result, no matter how much time goes by, she looks like a woman in her late-teens to early twenties. The reason she makes telepaths and empaths uncomfortable is because, being a creature of pure willpower, she positively radiates immense psionic power, despite having no meaningful psionic abilities. It is simply raw energy that is dangerous for a telepath's mind to reach out to. Miki cannot be roused within 6 hours of going to sleep because as she falls asleep, she fades from existence, the process reaching completion over the course of about 10 seconds. The first thing to go is her corporeal form, meaning that any attempt to shake her awake would be met with the rousing hand passing through her increasingly transparent form. As her consciousness rises from sleep about 6 hours later, she again manifests her physical, corporeal form. One of the natural consequences of all of this is that any clothing in which she went to sleep will fall through her body as it fades, but will not cover her again as she awakens. Miki is entirely unaware of the current nature of her existence, she utterly believes that she is completely normal. To her, all of her imagined experiences in the time she was away from Earth are completely real, and she can recount them with such consistency that there is no psychological evidence that they are not. |