Leonard "Bones" H. McCoy, MD (imadoctornota__) wrote, @ 2013-02-28 22:07:00 |
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NAME: Dr Leonard Horatio McCoy.NICKNAMES: Bones. AGE: Thirty-one. GENDER: Male. HAIR: Brown. EYES: Brown. HEIGHT: 1.85-m. WEIGHT: 93.0-kg. BUILD: Fit, but average. PB: Karl Urban. MARITAL STATUS: Divorced. SEXUALITY: Kinsey 1. CANON OR OC: Canon; J.J. Abram's Star Trek + Star Trek: Into Darkness. PUNCTURABLE? Yes. GREATEST FEAR: Space. Witty quote or awesome song lyric here.
Damnit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a moon-shuttle conductor/bricklayer/scientist/phyisist/eWitty quote or awesome song lyric here.
Leonard McCoy isn't quite good at 'make friends and be nice', nor does he have a particularly great bedside manner, though that never really seemed to slow him down. Bones doesn't really have the patience to deal with most people, and sometimes, the easiest way to ingratiate yourself into his life is to just plant yourself under his skin and make it known that you're just never going to leave. Once Bones accepts someone as a friend, however, he is terribly loyal and will risk anything for them. When it comes to his close friends, there is nothing that Bones won't do, from risking his career to risking his life. Bones' loyalty comes with his complete trust, and while he might question others motives (or their sanity), he is willing to put his complete faith in them. It might also be his nature as a doctor, but Bones can keep a secret until the day he dies, and prides himself in being someone people feel they can come to, and be a confidant for. (But don't expect him to not call you an 'idiot' or a 'moron'. It's a term of endearment, really.)While Bones is great for asking advice, he rarely seeks any for himself. He has the tendency to internalise his emotions and problems, preferring to wallow in his own guilt or feelings rather than have to struggle to put them into words. Bones, while he can be prone to outbursts, it's usually frustration or anger or disbelief or sarcasm rather than any heartfelt emotions, and he'd prefer to keep it that way. Medicine revolves around the principle 'save as many as you can, but you can't save them all,' and 'don't get attached,' so he's become quite good with keeping to himself, so much so that even outside of the operating room, he's a brick wall made off gruffness and sharp wit and the core of himself rather nicely hidden away. It will be a cold day in Hell before anyone sees Dr Leonard H. McCoy cry. Bones also has the issue of holding grudges, and he tends to never forget when he's been betrayed, and it's enough to lose his trust for good. A perfect example is his ex-wife, a woman with whom Bones can barely stand being on the same planet with, let alone the same state. Bones also isn't the kind of man to wallow in his anger or guilt, and it's difficult to tell if he's even suffering. Someone who's known him for some time might be able to notice a difference, but even then, he's slow to open up. Witty quote or awesome song lyric here.
Bones has the power of sass.
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Leonard H. McCoy was born in Georgia to a pair of loving parents, and never suffered for it. He had a great relationship with his father, spending much of his time with him. In his younger years, Bones was his father's little shadow. It was his father who inspired Leonard to become a doctor, as his father was a surgeon, and a brilliant one at that. Leonard was always amazed by his father's skills, and was very proud of the man growing up, bragging about him to his schoolmates and friends. Because of his aspirations to get into medical school, an institution as highly respected as it was impossible to get into, Bones found he had less time to be a child than most of his other schoolmates, who, as time went on, he found himself isolated from, more focused on grades and performance than maintaining friendships. When it came down to it, it never really bothered Leonard; he had an excellent companion in his father, a man who shared his inspiration and passion, and he was born naturally with a gruff and self-isolating disposition and preferred to be left alone to being surrounded by throngs of people who talked ceaselessly. When he graduated from high school, Leonard was one of only forty students from his graduating class of nearly three hundred to not enlist in Starfleet for college. Aside from being terribly afraid of flying and entering space, Leonard had his girlfriend to think of, the woman he was thinking of proposing to. He couldn't leave her; they've been together since they were freshmen, and he cared for her almost more than he cared about becoming a doctor, a hero like his father. And so, Leonard applied to, and was accepted, to the University of Mississippi where she was attending as well. He proposed in their junior year, and they married after graduation. It was just after he had started medical school he found out that they were expecting a child. Leonard and his wife had begun fighting not long after they had got married, and he hoped that their little miracle would repair some of the cracks in their relationship, Leonard not able to give of the ghost and his wife still clinging to the idea of being married to a doctor even if all she wanted was to pack up and run away with a man she worked with instead. He continued to work himself to the bone in medical school, getting top marks in every class, passing everything just to have a good job to support his family, his mind completely forgetting about his dream of being a hero and replacing it with the dream of being a father. When he graduated from medical school in 2253, his daughter was four years old and the light of his life, but she was barely keeping her parents together. While Leonard was wholly dedicated to the young girl, he was a much better father than a husband and soon, he and his wife began falling out. He tried to prevent her from leaving, but when it came to light that she wanted nothing to do with him, hating him for his stronger dedication to medicine than herself, that she had found someone else, well, that was when Leonard snapped. He was angry with her, so angry he could have moved out, but he didn't want to leave Joanna. For her sake, he still, quite stubbornly, tried to keep his marriage together, but when, while he was in the OR no less, he was served for divorce, he knew he had lost the fight. The next year was filled with battles and court dates, and by the end of it, he was tired. He couldn't even force himself to be angry anymore. He was just tired. As the number of court dates increased, all he wanted was to learn about the custody of Joanna, something he hoped he would be able to take away from his wife, a woman he didn't even recognise anymore. When the judge finally ruled that Joanna would stay with her mother, that he was only going to get one weekend a month with her, he was heartbroken. Not only that, but his ex-wife took the house his father bought for them, wanted half of the savings he'd kept for their future and in the end, all he wanted to do was get away from her, even if it meant not seeing Joanna. 2255 saw Leonard doing just that with his enlistment in Starfleet. It was on his shuttle ride to the campus that he met Jim Kirk, covered in bruises and cuts who didn't seem to mind the prospect of being thrown up on and Leonard should have realised right then and there that they were destined to be friends, but he was still angry and upset over the divorce, over the loss of his daughter and terrified of dying in that damn shuttle that he couldn't think that far into the future. His first year at the academy consisted of classes that were simple enough and he found himself almost bored. It was during his second year where things started to get more complicated, where he needed to learn infinitely more about alien races, newer practices. In the middle of all of this, his father, David, became very ill and it pulled Bones away from San Francisco more than a few times that year, his fear of flying overcome by his dedication to his father. Leonard knew the illness that was killing his father was incurable, yet he tried when he could to prolong his father's life, disregarding the pain his dear father was in, struggling to carry on. While he would visit, his father would ask him for a favour, asking it so easily that Leonard couldn't believe it, and each time he refused. It wasn't until the middle of his second year when he started to question his denial and the next time he visited his father, they talked for hours, and when his father asked again, he relinquished and then his father was dead. He couldn't bear to see his mother's face, and couldn't even be there for the funeral, instead returning to San Francisco, to Starfleet, to the only friend he ever really had and didn't say anything about what had happened. Bones tried not to even think about what had happened, knowing that, though he had saved his father from horrible pain, he couldn't quite come to terms with the fact that he had purposefully ended a life, the life of his very own father. When a miracle cure was discovered at the end of his second year as a cadet, Bones' guilt intensified, as did his determination to keep the event a secret. His third year was more studying, more work, with the occasional break to witness Jim attempt the Kobayashi Maru again. The year seemed to be uneventful until first Jim's third attempt at the test resulted in a win, something that was impossible -or so he had always thought- followed almost immediately by a distress call from Vulcan. Suddenly Bones was sneaking Jim on to the USS-Enterprise under false pre-tenses, nearly killing his best friend in the process. Once in the medical bay, he was quickly promoted to CMO after the death of the current one at the hands of the renegade Romulans. He struggled to keep the medical bay functional as he fought to keep Jim from having acting-captain Spock kill the idiot. He felt as if he had failed when Kirk was marooned on Delta Vega, taking his anger out on Spock before focusing his attention where it was needed most. He stayed at his post, running around the medical bay, outpacing younger staff with his inability to lose another life, nearly missing the impossible return of Jim 'I refuse to do what I'm told' Kirk. Despite his protests, Jim and Spock beamed aboard the Narada, leaving him concerned about what was going to happen to all of them. He remained on the bridge for the most part, though he made frequent trips to the medical bay to check on his staff, returning once he was sure they weren't screwing around. The last thing Bones remembers was Jim and Spock's return, the black hole that formed in the middle of the Narada, slowly pulling the ship into it. This is why he always hated space. CANON UPDATE Jim's insane idea works, and they manage to escape the black hole and return to Earth. Bones is more than happy to see land and his daughter and not space again. Though Bones is happy that Jim is promoted to Captain officially, he can't help but wonder what went through their heads. When Bones heard that he would remain aboard the Enterprise with Jim, he knew the rest of his career in Starfleet would never be boring. Whether or not that was a good thing is still up in the air. The ship was given the mission to scout and survey planets as their first order of business under a new captain, and though Jim occasionally edited the rules and made up his own, they more or less followed the Prime Directive and remained under the radar. Until of course, they are sent to scout the class M planet Nibiru. It's discovered by their sensors that a volcanic eruption was imminent that would completely wipe out the entire civilisation on the planet. Bones then gets roped into another one of Jim's crazy plans and they disguise themselves and invade a temple while the Enterprise is hidden in the ocean and Spock, Uhura and Sulu attempt to neutralise the volcano. The plan, for the most part, goes off without a hitch until Spock is stranded in the volcano, and Jim, unwilling to let his friend die, pulls the Enterprise out of the water to save him, violating the Prime Directive in the process. When they return to Earth, he is demoted. And made first officer to Pike, who resumes captaincy of the Enterprise and Spock is moved to another vessel. A bombing of a Starfleet data archive prompts a meeting between the top two ranking officers aboard each flagship, and an attack there, and the resulting death of a number of highly-ranked officers, including Pike, prompts Kirk to take a nearly suicidal mission to track down the man responsible for the bombing, the attack, and the death of Pike. Of course, Bones is along for the ride. The Enterprise enters the neutral zone, but her engines, more specifically her warp core, fail just as they neared Klingon space. Opting not to fire the missiles, whose appearance aboard the ship prompted Scotty's resignation, left Bones to deal with the fact that Jim would then pilot a shuttle into Klingon space to retrieve John Harrison. They return with him and place him in the brig, where Bones takes a sample of his blood before departing. While Kirk is dealing with the prisoner, who turns out to really be Khan Noonien Singh, a relic of an age-old war on Earth, and centuries old, Bones learns that there is something peculiar about his blood, but cannot quite determine what it is. Bones is taken away from his analysation of the blood when it is revealed by Khan that stored in each torpedo is not what they think, and Carol Marcus and himself travel to a barren planet where they can examine the torpedo more safely. As they attempt to get it open, it suddenly arms and traps Bones' arm in the device. Carol manages to disarm it and it opens up, revealing a cryotube. Bones and Dr Marcus then open the remaining torpedoes and remove each tube, which Bones takes to studying, just as Kirk begins to learn more about Khan and the war that Admiral Marcus plans to wage. As a ship approaches the crippled Enterprise, Khan is moved into the medbay with a heavy guard, and there Bones waits with the terrorist until the USS-Vengeance reveals her intent. For a brief moment Bones is sure they're going to die, and seriously, fuck space, but Scotty shuts the main power down for the ship and Kirk takes Khan from the medbay in an attempt to board the other vessel and take out Admiral Marcus. Bones follows, insisting this is yet another idiotic plan, but knows that it might be their only hope and remains on the bridge during the mission. For a long time, the dead silence between the ships is suffocating, as Spock calls a man who looks strangely like Spock, and the world certainly does not need two of them in this world, thank you very much. Bones listens as the older Vulcan explains how dangerous Khan truly is, and not long after, they are hailed once more by the Vengeance, however, Admiral Marcus is not at the helm, but Khan himself. He beams Kirk, Carol and Scotty aboard only after Spock returns the seventy-two torpedoes, not knowing they were both armed and empty of the cargo Khan wanted. Bones takes the wounded Carol to the medbay at the torpedoes explode. Soon, both ships, now entirely crippled, begin to fall into Earth's atmosphere. Unbeknownst to Bones, Jim has one last plan, and rushes to the engines to fix the warp core, though the radiation will be fatal. He manages to repair the engine enough to help the Enterprise land safely, but Spock and Bones soon after receive calls from Scotty that the captain is dying. When Kirk is brought to the medbay, Bones is speechless and more visibly upset than he's been since the death of his father. He collapses at his desk. Just then, a dead tribble that Bones had injected with a sample of Khan's blood purrs and moves, and Bones realises there might be a way to save Kirk. He alerts the bridge that they need Khan alive, knowing that Spock had gone after him in a fit of what Bones could only describe as rage. When Khan is apprehended, Bones transfuses Kirk with blood from Khan before the latter is returned to a cryogenic sleep with the rest of his crew. Kirk wakes up and after another ceremony, is given his position as captain again. Bones, fearing for the safety of his daughter in light of the disaster, moves her to live with his sister and her husband on Centaurus, away from Starfleet headquarters. He buys a home there as well -though it'll never beat Georgia- and prepares to leave for the first five-year mission of the USS-Enterprise. Witty quote or awesome song lyric here.
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NAME: Meg.AGE: 21. CONTACT: His contact post, here. TIME ZONE: EST. EXPERIENCE: A lot or something like it. Are you aware that your character(s) will be chosen at least once a month to participate in mandatory storylines that tie in to the plot of the game? Oh, yes. Bones is going to love this. Please indicate that you have read and understand the rules: BOOM | |