FANDOM: Star Trek 2009 CANON POINT: Near the end of the film, just prior to the Narada becoming engulfed in the singularity, before the USS-Enterprise's escape. JOURNAL:imadoctornota_
LIKES: Whisky, working with his hands, being on Earth, messages from his daughter, being in his element DISLIKES: Vulcan biology, being a baby sitter, being estranged from his daughter, his ex-wife, space, flying STRENGTHS: determined, intelligent, quick on his feet/good at problem solving, very knowledgeable about his field, loyal, hard worker, good sense of humour WEAKNESSES: stubborn, gruff, abrasive, tends to complain, not particularly adaptive, argumentative, quick to anger/frustration
Any special facts/special abilities/anything else we should know about your character?: Bones is a highly trained medical officer. He was very studious in medical school, and was one of the top students. Bones is well versed in the biology of all alien races, however, has yet to put most of his technical knowledge of some species (namely Vulcans) into practice. What is arriving with your character: A drawing of himself and Joanna (his daughter) which he always keeps, folded up, in his pocket.
PERSONALITY: 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.
HISTORY.
BIRTHDATE: Stardate 2227. FAMILY: David and [mother] McCoy. BIRTHPLACE: "Old South" region of North America, possibly what was once Atlanta, Georgia, USA. PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY: n / a. BRIEF SUMMARY: 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.
SAMPLES.
FIRST: Hey Joey, it's daddy calling to wish you a happy birthday because I can't be there right now. I know I promised that I would be, but when momma and I started fighting, I had to leave, and when I had nowhere else to go, I went into space. I know how you've wanted to go out and see the stars, and if I can, I'll try and catch one for you and bring it back with me when I can. --- >>Medical Report 114: >> >>Three patients remain in critical condition after the attack. Chapel is tending to injured while many of the other nurses are preparing the dead. The current total is fourteen dead, twenty-four wounded. Unless we can salvage some supplies from the destroyed wings, there will be more deaths on my hands. Our current state is critical and I don't see it improving in the near future. >> >>End. THIRD: "You've got to be kidding me. Are you completely insane?" He shouted into the intercom. He's pressing the button down with so much force he's pretty sure it's become lodged in place. He blinked angrily a few times, releasing the button, afraid of the kinds of profanity that were rising at the back of his throat. Just then, Chapel came into his office with something in her hand, a report of some kind, and he must have sent her the nastiest look because she merely stared at him in shock for a second before immediately backing out of the room. He made a mental note to apologise to her after; she was his best nurse, the only one who seemed to handle the pressure, and his surly attitude. He sighed a bit, trying to keep himself listening to the grating voice on the intercom. He couldn't punch it again. They weren't too pleased the last time and he wasn't sure his knuckles wouldn't crack this time.
When the irritating voice stopped, he knew it was his turn to respond, though he wasn't sure if he'd be able to keep things pleasant.
"Now, you see, as a medical man, I think that is the dumbest damn idea I've ever heard." All things considered, that was pleasant for him. "Listen here. Since you've called me for my honest opinion, I'm going to give it to you. No." He barked, not pulling any punches. "No, and that's my final answer. If you think that anyone would come back from that suicide mission, you're stupider than I thought." Bones knew he was being a bit harsh, but no one on this ship didn't know that about him, and he wasn't about to give any credit to this insane mission for fear of Jim thinking it might be the only option.
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