Ensign Kian Quinn

Character Information

Gender		Male
Species		Human
Age		22
Date of Birth		3-Feb-2366
Place of Birth		NYC, Earth
Nicknames/Aliases		Ki, Kiqi

Physical Appearance

Height		180cm / 5'11"
Weight		69 kg / 152 lbs
Hair Color		Dark Brown
Eye Color		Light Brown
Physical Description		Kian is a slim, spindly young man who, while svelte, has modest muscle mass that is very highly toned due to his highly physical pursuits. His hair is short but neat, sporting no especially striking style but clearly chosen for practicality though maintained with caring precision. He has youthful boyish looks but a resting facial expression of near void like absence and eyes that seem to stare off into forever. His personality makes his outward behavior generally aloof and while he moves with no particular flare, even his basic motions show both exacting precision and natural grace. He walks with a default confidence devoid of social self awareness; showing balance, positional awareness and fluency of accurate motion like some organic machine yet retorting into skittish avoidance when under social observation, growing increasingly neurotic with psychological scrutiny.

Family

Father		Patrick Quinn
Mother		Sarah Quinn
Sister(s)		Elizabeth Quinn

Personality & Traits

General Overview		Kian is an exceptionally bright and creative in the stem fields with a particularly brilliant aptitude in applied science & engineering. He is more physically apt than he looks, being both a male ballet dancer and accomplished fencer. Beyond this though, his skills are across the board rather mediocre and, in particular, sporting poor intra-personal skills. Being on the ASD spectrum, though high functioning, he has trouble reading non-verbal communication and has a very hard time putting himself in other peoples shoes. He opens up personally when fixating on something that holds his interest but otherwise is rather aloof, naturally indifferent to the presence of others around him like a kind of social blindness. He has a habit of talking very directly and very literally, not really understanding many idioms nor sarcasm. His arm-device can coach him through situations involving these terms but it does mean that social interactions, for him, only consist of the most obvious and direct things as anything non-verbal or subtle will go unnoticed. He has a habit of not talking much in general but will spew forth uncontrollably on subjects that hold his interest. He is largely indifferent to physical contact with others though having a preference not to be touched. His directness can be blunt to the point of obnoxiousness at times.
Strengths		+ Engine Heart: He is a highly talented engineer in most respects but particularly in his focus fields. He is highly creative and inventive, with a beautiful mind seemingly naturally built for technology. His mind comes alive with numbers, equations and molecular activity the same way art, music and poetry stimulates others. + Tinker Smith: He often spends his personal time working on his own research side projects, sometimes crafting things totally unlike anything Starfleet might be working on. Many might be nothing more than private indulgences but who knows what mad machinations he works on today might change the face of tomorrow. While this is more of a personal activity, this inventiveness can occasionally crossover into his working life where he can offer unusual solutions to problems. + Fancy Feet: Kian is a very accomplished male ballet dancer. Strength, control, agility, grace; his body is a highly tuned and beautiful machine in that way. Had he not become a Starfleet officer, he could have made a career out of it. + Blade Dancer: Kian is a noted Fencer. With speed, agility and precision, he has won many a championship in his time and was even on track for the Olympics but ultimately could not afford the time having since joined Starfleet. Having said that, his proficiency did translate into "advanced" proficiency in hand-to-hand certification so there is that at least. + Tireless Toiler: When locked on to a task, it entirely consumes his mind as he sets off on a machine-like work ethic that does not cease until the task is sufficiently completed.
Weaknesses		- Funny Duddy: His social skills are not just poor, they are challenged. He is diagnosed with Arnesen's Syndrome albeit a somewhat higher functioning case. This not only gives him a poor ability to relate to and understand others but also means his own expression can be blunt, tactless and even obnoxious. He lacks the natural ability to identify facial expressions and he himself lacks the natural instincts to express emotion like most neurotypical humans do. He does not express emotion on his face and very little in his body but this is not because he lacks emotion but rather he cannot express it. He does undergo fairly regular therapy but this is not something that could ever be "cured", it is simply a fact of who he is. He has a special device that aids him in this respect but that still leaves him a long way from being a "normal" human. - Team Terror: Beyond his general social ineptitude, this has an impact on both his teamwork skills as well as his ability to establish personal relationships (or lack thereof). He can work with others but really only works well in "parallel"; which is to say, he works on his bit, you work on yours, we leave each other alone. As for personal relationships, his tendency to place higher psychosocial equity on objects than people means that his social life would be a barren wasteland (just the way he likes it) if not for the interference of "external forces". - Tunnel Vision: While a tireless worker, getting caught up in a project can be all-encompassing. While this can be advantageous to the task at hand, it can work to the determent to all else in his life. This also means that if multiple projects hold his attention, his focus can dart back and for wildly as he seeks to give everything he's got to more than one thing which can lead to a great deal of stress. - Narrow Tastes: He throws himself into his interest with reckless abandon but if something does not fall inside his wheel house then he simply could not care less about it. History, Politics, Diplomacy, Law; if it's not STEM, ballet, fencing or self improvement then it might as well not exist as far as his odd little brain is concerned.
Hobbies & Interests		Science & Technology, Ballet and Fencing is really the triquetra of his interests in their entirety. He always strives to train and practice to ever higher levels of achievement. He also spends his time experimenting with personal projects; equal parts invention and sharpening his crafting skills. In this way, you could say his fourth pillar of interest is himself. His fundamental self requirement for personal improvement, treating his body like a machine that needs to be calibrated and enhanced for ever increasing levels of specific performance, both mentally and physically (but with seemingly no interest in emotional development, as of yet). Having said that, most recently, he has begun exploring various holodeck programs that appeal to his interests; not just ballet and fencing, but expanding to include his interests in other more creatively programmed ways (suggested by Councilors in an attempt to open him up).

Personal History

Personal History

Kian's upbringing was perhaps more interesting for those around him than Kian himself. While he simply saw all of it as natural, it was quite apparent to his family that he was born a little different. Rather than his social ineptness allowing his parents an excuse to grow despondent, they simply took a different tack and facilitated him furthering his narrow interests. In school, he was unremarkable in most subjects but did well in the extra curriculars (Ballet and Fencing) and *obliterated* the bell curve in math and science subjects. For a time it was advised and even expected that he would go on to advanced academia but his interest in cutting edge engineering pointed him to Starfleet; the place where the rubber meets the road, in terms of applied science. His family were concerned that his "condition" might get in the way of his Starfleet career but councilors assured them that this was actually no problem at all. With a rainbow spectrum of alien species in Starfleet, a human with one foot in the ASD spectrum was really nothing special at all.

Prof. History

Service Chronology		2384 - Enters Starfleet Academy. 2388 - Graduates Starfleet Academy; Double-Major in High Energy Physics & Materials Science, Vocational Specialism: Matter/Energy Systems & Material Engineering 2388 - Assigned to Utopia Planitia, Special Duty Trial Period (3 months Psychosocial Probation), working with warp drive system assembly 2388 - Assigned to the USS Hope as Matter/Energy Systems Specialist
Service Record		While at the Academy, his social life was not rocky at all, it was simply non-existent. Other students where bright and understanding enough to respect that interacting with Kian on a daily basis was enough for him. There was concern for Kian as he entered leadership training but it seemed his habit for managing personnel as nothing more than material assets actually worked to his advantage; in essence, a turbo-charged Vulcan (as it were). This could rub people the wrong way on a personal level but his aloof coldness in even high pressure environments meant that he could make difficult decsions easier than most, completely unafraid of sacrficing the lives of the few to save the many. From his perspective, it was just logical asset management. While not scoring highly in team skills, his final scored tabulated from a full double major (not joint, actually two degrees) as well as high certification in physical areas meant that he passed with flying colors (albeit with a few notes in the margins). Graduating with final honors, he completed a full double-degree (two degrees) in High Energy Physics & Materials Science. With a particular talent for understanding the physics that occurs in the special region of high-energy density where matter becomes interchangeable as well as understanding how materials work, he has a particular specialty with M/AM generators, replicators and transporter technology. In terms of Starfleet vocation, he is listed as an Engineer with specialties in Matter/Energy Systems & Material Engineering. While graduating with a good record, special circumstances surrounding his social skills required him to complete a 3-month probationary period in which he would serve in a full officer role but under special psychosocial observation. This period was more of a redundancy to ensure that his limitations would not impact his work detrimentally. Completing this period with nothing but minor notes, he was transfered and assigned to a full proper post aboard the USS Arizona (as Matter/Energy Systems Specialist).

Medical History

Medical Profile

Kian is diagnosed with Arnesen's Syndrome, a variation of disorder on the ASD spectrum (first published in 2304). While this leaves him with very significant issues in his social and emotional processing, he is a higher functioning case capable of advanced logical and abstract thought. He has a recorded IQ of somewhere between 215 and 230 (as such things are tricky to test) but this IQ can seemingly collapse in subjects he is not so inclined to. He is issued with and thus carries on his person a specially wrap-around arm computing device that has a built in basic sensor that surveys the immediate surroundings with optical and audio detection. It's basic AI assesses situations with the purpose of monitoring social interactions. As Kian has trouble identifying facial expressions and non-verbal communication in general, the devices monitoring advises him of this information in a way he can understand (text and image guidance). Furthermore, with the help of councilors advised programming adjustments, it also includes situational reminders of basic social etiquette and behavioral suggestions. It also has basic text/image communication that cane be used to get in contact with him in a non-verbal way (which is sometimes advisable). Last but not least, it has clock and calendar functions for the setting of reminders, plans and alarms to help him regulate the flow of his day. All-in-all, it is designed to fill in where his own brain would fail would fail him but rather than just correcting him, it is an attempt to coach him into improved behavioral patterns that his natural instincts lack. Physically however, Kian is in exceptional shape. As a talented and accomplished male ballet dancer and Terran internationally ranked fencer, his low body mass is very highly toned, exhibits excellent range of motion and sharp reflexes. Watching and adjusting his physical activity and diet with machine-like precision, Kian is pound-for-pound probably one of the healthiest humans you are likely to see in Starfleet.

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