[Backsim] Lieutenant JG Seleya- Tattoos
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((Starbase 1, Deck 53, Upper Mezzanine)) |
Seleya: What got you into medicine? And if you don’t mind, what made you choose Starfleet?
Dasal: Meds and Starfleet. Oh good questions! Well I wanted to learn more about the body. About what makes us, us. Our genetic design and how it makes us up. My home planet doesn’t like that train of thought. So I thought about where else to go but Starfleet. I can learn about not just my own people’s cellular structure but so many races!
Seleya: Going to be nervous for your first mission? They can sometimes get intense or go unplanned.
And Seleya certainly had lots of experience with that already.
Dasal: Honestly scared out of my mind. In my graduation mission. I ran off away from my group because I wanted to be the best science officer I could be and get the information right away. Then a hostile creepy jumped out of the woods. I fell in the water, and somehow they said it was okay for me to be on a starship now. I think they are crazier than me. ::he laughed:: what about you, why do you join Starfleet?
Seleya took a longer sip of her drink as she thought about the question. A fair question, but not one she wanted to go into.
Seleya: My brother encouraged me to join.
Dasal: Okay I give up, what species are you? Is that rude? Sorry if it is, I just really want to know.
Seleya let out an amused hum.
Seleya: It is not, perhaps odd, but not rude. I am Kazleti.
Seleya decided to spare the doctor from distinguishing between Federal and Imperial. She felt concerned it may confuse the doctor more, and she would have to go on a long tangent to explain their history.
Dasal: Well knowledge is power and I guess I’m learning a lot already being in Starfleet. I think you look amazing by the way. I noticed your tattoos, are they a cultural thing or for fun. I got some too, they are just for fun. Younger years of rebelling but they also just look nice.
Seleya gave a brief smile and offered up her arm for Korin to look over the tattoo if he wished.
Seleya: Thank you, they are cultural. It's one continuous tattoo. An older practice for warriors to list their stories, where they came from, and their achievement. So if they die, their tales can be shared, and their bodies identified. Ancient Kazleti tended to have practices that made faces hard to identify after battle. Some go so far as to have their tattoos copied onto their funeral urn.
Dasal: Response
Seleya: I had more facial piercings, but I removed them since coming to Starfleet. There weren’t cultural, just personal choice. I kept my gauges though.
Dasal: Response
Seleya: Do your piercings have any cultural reasons, or just more fun?
Dasal: Response
Lieutenant JG Seleya of Khanda
Intel Officer
U.S.S. Valkyrie-A
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