ladyvean:

Tell me about your Star Trek OCs.

*sees this cross their dash via @guljerry* Oooh. An excuse to babble about everyone.

Mm. Where to start.

Eka Ke

An OC from an original species, specifically written for A Galaxy Away From Home. Ne/nir/nem pronouns because four-gendered species, who follows Garak when Garak escapes from the being who thought xir owned him. (And then followed him when Garak went into a zone interdicted by Eka’s species, and effectively got nirself exiled because Eka was curious about Garak’s ability to lie and get away with it.)

Every other OC is Cardassian, so far. Most of them Obsidian Order or relatives of those in the Obsidian Order because of what I’ve been writing them in.

Nadya Gennel

A field operative only a little older than Garak, who has a penchant for long-term assignments, and following up on interesting bits of information independently. No interest in a spouse, and has an adopted son, which makes her something of an oddity.

In Children of the Order, her adopted son is a teenage Julian Bashir who she first met when his parents took him to Adigeon Prime for genetic resequencing. (Sometimes she thinks it might have been a mistake to take a long-term assignment to Earth after that netted her a son and little else, but on the other hand, Julian’s been an exemplary field operative following in her footsteps, so she’s really quite proud of him.)

Any other AU she shows up in, her son is Jakel, who is 8 at the end of the Dominion War, and I haven’t decided yet if he’s one of the war orphans left on Bajor and adopted at some point after the Occupation, or is a mixed Cardassian-Bajoran infant she adopted just at the end of the Occupation.

She lives in Lakarian City, and because I stubbornly headcanon that no matter what they want to claim, the Dominion did not succeed at killing everyone in Lakarian City, she’s one of the survivors. Even if she did lose most of her family who’d not moved elsewhere on Cardassia.

Salen Gennel

Nadya’s mother, and the doctor who Julian joins – and eventually takes over from – in Burning Bridges. I haven’t actually done anything to develop her in Children of the Order, and in the only other story I have in progress, she’s one of the dead in Lakarian City, as she never made it out of the hospital she works in (or runs).

Aerit Milar

An Obsidian Order surgeon, who tends to call herself a sculptor of new truths. She is justifiably proud of her skills, and is willing to accept favors as payment for doing work.

She lives in Lakarian City, though she wasn’t born there, and though when the Obsidian Order was officially dissolved, she took up a job as an archivist – officially – she’s never bothered to stop doing what she does best. I still haven’t figured out what she owes Garak that she does the work on Julian in Burning Bridges.

I also tend to headcanon her as the surgeon who Damar sends Dukat to for altering Dukat’s features so he appears Bajoran. What exactly the transaction was that allowed that to happen, I have no idea, but she’s annoyed that her work was used thoughtlessly and carelessly, found out, and as far as she’s concerned, utterly wasted.

In Children of the Order, she’s Julian’s primary physician, as well as the surgeon who has altered him multiple times. She’s mostly proud of him for his ability to readily adapt to whatever truth she’s been instructed to craft for him, and only mildly annoyed he was found out by the Bajorans and the Federation, since it wasn’t carelessness on his part.

The rest of my Trek OCs aren’t very developed yet, though eventually. I’ve a good half dozen I’m poking at for a post-canon story that only tangentially involves canon characters. Because I can, and because it’s worth exploring what happens when the only survivors of the destruction of Lakarian City (as Nadya puts it “a place of leisure, religious fanatics, and retired Obsidian Order families”) are those retired and not-so-retired Obsidian Order operatives and their families, and that because paranoia and building for that paranoia.