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Core four

The core four are the four characters that started all of my OCs. The four of them are the root to every story i create, being transplanted and tweaked for each universe to keep their general characteristics the same. This post will be the Star Trek versions of these characters specifically, however they began (6 years ago) as Miraculous Ladybug OCs (The Star trek versions of them has quickly become my favorite)

Spark- Spark is one half of my main couple. They are an alien of my own creation whose home is in the Delta quadrant, a planet known to the native population as Otel. The race (also refered to by the formal noun of Otel) has no concept of gender so Spark has always used they/them pronouns. They are the last empath on their homeworld, able to feel the emotions of people they are in close proximity to. Spark joins the crew of Voyager after helping Micah escape their homeworld, an act that is on bar with treason within their society.

Spark is curious, with a hopeful disposition in most respects. They have very good attention to detail which leads to the ability to see patterns others often overlook. After teaching themself how to read federation standard, Spark studies medicine and engineering to try and find their place on the crew. Spark finds it in sick bay as the doctors assistant, although they also take shifts in Engineering when the department needs extra help, as well as tending to the plants in the aeroponics bay and helping Neelix cook. Spark becomes something of a 'jack of all trades' on Voyager, knowing just enough of everything to be helpful if they need to be.

Micah- Micah Williams is the other half of my favorite couple. He is a legacy Starfleet Officers. For as long as Starfleet has existed there as been a Williams from every generation in Starfleet. Micah joins at 18 and goes to be an engineer, like his father was before the older man resigned his commission. After the academy Micah is stationed on Deep Space Nine for a few years where he falls deeply in live with a Bajoran woman named Julia. When Voyager sets off from the station he is 'temporarily' reassigned to Voyager.

Micah loses a part of himself when Voyager is lost. He loses a future he had planned with a woman he was deeply in love with and its a heart break he never fully recovers from. He does his best to pretend to be okay most of the time, and fakes a smile well enough everyone but Alice is fooled into thinking hes okay. Until he meets Spark. Spark saves his life on Otel and when they get to Voyager they becomes a friend who never asks or expects him to fake happiness (in fact they are very confused as to why he would pretend to be happy when he so DEEPLY isn't) and they become his best friend and the second person he is honest with about his cushing depression.

Alice- The younger of two girls, Alice Adams is also a 'legacy'. Her father is an admiral and has very high expectations for her so she has a tendency to push herself for perfection. Alice graduates the academy top of her class and all her friends expect she'll be the youngest captain from their class. She spends her academy years making friends with people she believes will make good and trustworthy officers, in the hopes of making them her senior staff when she becomes a Captain.

When Voyager gets lost her plans are derailed and instead of climbing the ranks she finds herself fighting to be her best friend's only emotional support as he gets more depressed and hides it from everyone but her. Within her stress she does make friends with some of the rest of Voyager's crew and a few of the former Maquis, including a guy 3 years younger (freshly 19) who seems to like a heated debate about material interests (books, holoprogams vs old fashioned movies, art, music, ect) as much as she does.

Mason- Mason Dubois grows up on a colony on the Cardassain boarder and is 16 when the treaty is signed. His family is offered relocation but chooses to stay and at 17 he and his twin sister, Ellis, join the Maquis together to fight for their home. While Mason insistes he talked his sister into the decision, if Ellis were ever asked she would claim she talked Mason into it (in reality the conversation was more both of them agreeing with the other until the decision to join was made near simultaneously).

Mason falls stupid, head over heels with Alice about 6 months after they get stuck in the Delta quadrant. While on an away mission she breaks her ankle and while the two had been butting heads all day, he comes to realize they are two sides of the same coin (joining an organized group with the intention of protecting the people you love and making your family proud) and from there basically everything she does is endearing to him. He learns she likes to debate and begins to rage bait her into a arguments as a way of flirting.

Williams family

Okay so hopefully these will be shorter, but as the title says, the next group is the Williams family.

Margaret- So shes not technically a Williams, Margaret is the Mother in law and she is commonly seen as the matriarch of the family. She is a Pagan witch who believes her dead ancestors guide her. She meets Hank, her husband, at a Pagan temple, and raises her daughter to follow the same traditions she grew up practicing.

Hank- The Father in Law, Hank actually passes away from a TBD illness while Lana is pregnant with Micah. However, while alive he had rather intense social anxiety that made it difficult to speak in large groups (although one on one he was more relaxed) He was also a Pagan, although took a different approach and chose to worship the roman god Janus (god of doorways and transitions).

Lana- Micah's mother! Again, not born a Williams, Lana is a starfleet doctor who is also rather devout in her Pagan beliefs. Less so then her parents, but she definitely prays and makes offering and attends celebrations for holidays at the Pagan temple nearby. She joins starfleet from a desire to help and heal people in need and ends up doing medical research at starfleet medical and definitely wins some award for her research.

Cole- Micah’s father, and he first actual williams on the list 🤣. From North Carolina, His is the mulit generational service root and joins Starfleet at 20 after spending two years after highschool feeling very lost. He becomes an engineer because he is very good with his hands and he actually loves the math involved (he also loves to negate the 'southerners are stupid' sterotype). He and Lana meet while serving on the same ship (before she switches to research on earth) and he falls STUPID in love with her. Cole does end up fighting in the border conflicts and comes back with pretty bad PTSD after losing his leg from the knee down. He joins a cargo ship for about 10 years and is gone as much as hes home until Micah leaves for the academy. Cole then copes with his mental health by slowly turning his back yard into a massive garden.

Heather- The youngest Williams! Heather is Micah's younger sister. She is 8 years younger but her and Micah are rather close. When she was small she would often tag along because she struggled to make friends her own age (most likely due to her autism). She was 15 when Voyager disappeared and while She had a vague interest in engineering before, after the disappeance she throws herself into it, most communications and sensors, learning how it all works so she can try and design her own to look for her brother. She becomes a bit of a workaholic and is rather obsessed with finding her brother.

Elizabeth (Liz or Lizzie by her friends)-Elizabeth is a trans Andorian Woman who Heather meets and falls in love with during the academy. Liz chooses her new name after going to earth, one part to transition, one part to escape over bearing and controlling parents, and she chooses it because she thinks it sounds beautiful (Heather is the first to call her Liz). Liz is a scientist, although exactly what kind im still unsure (I think I said xenozoologist at one point?) However she is also an Artist who loves to use art as an expression of her feelings.

Otel

Otel being Spark’s home planet, The next few are people Spark knew while living there.

The Pa- so The Pa is technically a title, However it if how this individual was always referred to. The Pa was the one who raised Spark and was on the council of elders (their highest level of government in the town) The Pa also went on to raise both of Spark’s children (children are raised by village elders (55+) instead of their parents)

Dorian- Spark’s childhood best friend. When Spark realizes they are capable of carrying children (Otel dont know until about 20), they ask Dorian to be their 'Companion' (ie the other parent, Otel don't form romantic relationships and usually choose to have children with their trusted friends. These arrangements often lead to "life mates" which is basically a QPR). Dorian mistakes the request as Spark wanting the long term commitment of Life Mates and is heartbroken when Spark explains their plan to become a scholar (scholars don't usually have life mates as they spend much of their free time studying historical texts. Think of a cross between an archeologist/historian and a nun.) Dorain still takes care of Spark through their pregnancy, however after Judith is born their relationship is basically non existent

Mathis- Spark’s companion through their second pregnancy, Mathis is a cook in town and is unbothered by the mote casual nature of the arrangement. They become friends after the pregnancy, often discussing Malachi and how they looked forward to helping him with his secondary education (Otel children basically have a series of apprenticeships as their secondary school, Primary school being home/small group school with the elders to learn to read/write, do basic math and some history)

Hollia- One of Spark’s mentors as a child. Hollia taught Spark to hunt and navigate by the stars. Hollia isn't directly related to Spark, however they were a trusted adult Spark respected highly.

Judith- Spark’s elder child. Spark and Judith are never particularly close, but they still care for the child and hope they doing well.

Malachi- Malachi was Spark's second child and they bonded much more with the second child. Spark would play board games with Malachi and taught the child how to swim the summer before they commited treason and escaped left Otel. Spark actually asks Mathis to look out for Malachi before they leave.

The Academy Crew

This is the group of friends Alice and Micah have while attending the academy, and the people Alice intends on building her crew around.

Brad- Brad Murphy grew up on a colony on the opposite side of the Cardassain boarder. He has dyslexia to the point reading is near impossible, however he makes up for it with an extremely good auditory memory. He joins starfleet to be in security and protect people while exploring the galaxy.

Ivy- A Trans Bajoran girl adopted by human parents and moved to the colony Brad grows up on. Ivy is pretty shy at 6 when she is adpoted, but as she grows and finds herself outspoken and brutally honest. Ivy isn't in Starfleet and is instead a civilian cook on long range exploratory vessels. She and Brad fall in love as teenagers and move to earth together, her going to culinary school in New Orleans while he is in California at the academy.

Mobud- An Aro Betazoid guy who joins starfleet to be a doctor. As a child he is sick with a TBD illness that is cured by Starfleet doctors in an experimental trial so he decides to dedicate his career to medicine to try and do the same for others. He has a tendency to push people away rather then have serious conversations, but the following three characters and Mobud end up in a QPR polycule where Mobud is essentially living with and intimately/physically involved with his three closest friends.

Tyliv- An Andorian engineer who is one of the more outgoing of the group. He plans birthday parties, sets up times to hang out and is basically the kind of person who can make friends with anyone.

Rhuss- Also and Andorian, Rhuss is the introverted one of the social group and Quartet. Rhuss is an artist who joins Starfleet because he doesn't want Tyliv to join alone and he doesn't want to be left on Andor without Tyliv. The two boys have been best friends since childhood and have been romantically involved since their teen years. Within Starfleet Rhuss becomes a botanist, loving the beauty plants have and often using them as inspiration for his art.

Hali- an Orion woman a few years older then the rest of the group, she is also a civilian. She leaves Orion after spending much of her teen years 'helping' (basically raising) with her younger siblings, and deciding she wants to become a teacher. It takes some work to break down Orion sterotypes, but she does end up working in a school with coworkers who respect her. She becomes part of the social group after meeting Tyliv on the beach and the aforementioned social butterfly invited Hali to hang out with his friends.

Ub'est- A half Klingon woman, Ub'est joins starfleet for security. Her mother was the daughter of an ambassador who was stationed on Kronos and she falls in love with a Klingon boy the same age. Her mother ends up staying on Kronos after her parent's assignment is over and marrying said Klingon boy. Ub'est is born a few years later and when shes 10 her father is killed in a skirmish (with who? Idk yet, but he dies in honorable combat) her mother moves the two of them to earth. It takes Ub'est some time to find a place, but she finds that security things actually come pretty easily to her and chooses to put that to use.

DS9 / Ferengi gals and company

And the last group! So this group is admittedly the OCs that dont really fit into any of the above groups. They are all connected within their own fic and while there is some overlap with these OCs and the rest of the above ones, for the most part these characters exist separate of the others.

Tasha Julia- Julia is a Bajoran woman with a human first name. She was named for a character in a Terran book her Mother loved. The fictional book is set during earths third world war and centers around a young girl named Julia. She is born during the occupation and is 8 when she starts learning to fix phasers and rifles from one of her older brothers (she has five). Shes 16 the first time she fights herself and 26 when the occupation finally ends and by that time shes the last of her siblings still alive. Julia ends up on DS9 and is the Bajoran girl Micah falls hopelessly in love with.

When Voyager disappears Julia goes a bit off the rails. She becomes closed off, and quite frankly violent at times. Enough that it drives any remaining friends she has away, but not so much that she gets into trouble (well....a little trouble when she is occasionally kicked out of Quarks for being drunk and belligerent) with Time and the experiences she has falling in love a second time, she moves past the anger phase of grief, however the loss of so many people is something she carries with her constantly.

Edmund Lewis- The second man Julia loves, Ed has also experienced intense loss and its their common grief that bonds Ed and Julia. Ed loses his first wife when shes assimilated by the borg so he also feels like hes in limbo with unanswered questions. He is in security and he and Julia actually meet when she starts a fight with one of his friends and he bails her out (not his 'friend' tho cause that guy was an ass who got what was coming to him). They start as sparring partners but there is a weird sexual tension there cause she keeps kicking his ass and they do end up having a physical relationship which slowly turns into something romantic. The two get married after about a year and Julia finds out shes pregnant. Unfortunately Ed doesn't survive the dominion war and when he is parr of the fleet during that last push to take Cardassia, Ed doesn't come home.

Zaika Lewis- Julia and Ed's daughter, Zaika grows up on the station and while she is one of the least developed characters I do know she goes on to have a deep connection to Bajoran spirituality and eventually becomes a Vedek.

Pel- Okay so yes, Pel is technically a cannon character. However in the one episod she appeared is she was used as a prop and plot device and the writers did my girl dirty so I adopted her....This is is gonna be long cause I love Pel, sorry not sorry (content warning, vague talk of a violently abusive childhood)

My version of Pel is the middle child of three daughters, to a father who is bitter and abusive because he wanted a son. When she is young (somewhere between 10-14) her older sister regularly steals small amounts of latinum from their father, trying to find a way to free her and her younger sisters. However when Pel is 15 her father finds out what the eldest girl (Fania) is doing and becomes violent. He beats the eldest in front of both of the younger girls trying to get her to admit where the latinum is. When he fails, he finds someone to marry her off to so he doesn't have to deal with her anymore. Three years after Fania is married off, Pel overhears her father talking about Fania dying in childbirth after having a son and something about an insurance policy that paid out (Fania's death was considered a "loss of property"). Pel is immediately suspicious her Father was responsible for Fania's death and begins to fear shes next. She spends years living in that fear until she finds Fania's stash of latinum and uses it to escape (in combination with stealing clothes from her father and altering them to fit her) and end up on DS9.

My Pel works for Quark for a few years before she has her episodes and it plays out basically the same. When she gets to the Gamma quadrant she finds her personal skill of altering her clothes gives her steady work and she starts a tailoring shop. Over the years she starts to create her own designs which leads to starting her own fashion line. By the time Ferengi woman gain equal rights Pel has a thriving fashion line in the Gamma quadrant and she finds it very easy to transfer her skills to a Ferengi market, her buisness basically taking over the woman's fashion market in just a few years.

She does end up back on DS9 and after a few missteps she and Quark end up together and married (there's some groveling on his part after how he burned her the first time she was there)

Riva-Riva is Pel's younger sister! A deeply traumatized woman, she turns to external validation to find her worth for a long time. When Pel comes back (after being gone for like....20 years) Riva is in a bad place and Pel helps her sister by giving her a good job working in one of her stores. The job does help give her a more stable life and she has time to explore music as a way of coping with her trauma. Riva becomes a musician and while her music is very popular, Riva tends to be imulsive and craves instant gratification. Through a series of actions she didn’t think through she ends up pregnant rather early in her career. While she doesn't want the baby, terminating the pregnancy feels like killing the baby for being inconvenient and when she finds out it's a girl she cant bring herself to even consider it....so she calls Pel. The two eventually reach an agreement where Pel takes and raises the baby, on the condition Riva gives up any and all parental rights and agrees to never tell the baby's biological father (also Ferengi) that the baby even exists. After the birth Riva goes on to be like...Selena Gomez levels of famous in the music scene and does (eventually when shes much older) get help for her mental health.

Tezzera (also called Tez or Tezzie by a very select few)- Tezzera is the aforementioned unexpected pregnancy and honestly probably my favorite of my Ferengi gals (sorry other gals). She is raised on DS9 by Pel and Quark (who is more accepting and participating in raising a daughter then Pel or anyone else ever expected from him tbh). She is extremely smart and charismatic. From a very young age she excels at Math and bounces between Pel's shop and the Bar until she is old enough to attend the federation school. She only attends two days a week (its actually a HUGE fight between Pel and Quark) otherwise she still has mornings with Pel at the shop, leaning to sew and see how her mother runs her buisness, to the bar with Quark teaching her the rules of acquisition and being cute to draw in customers in the afternoon until Pel's shop closes. While she has some non monetized hobbies (Pel encourages her to do something just for the love of it) like art, Tezzera starts running drinks at the bar at 9/10 (once she is old enough to easily see over the counter) and negotiations payment for chores around their living quarters. She ends up starting her own business with another Ferengi girl on the station, selling makeup (the other girl has a good product but no sales abilities). The two end up working very well together and over the years (like 10 ish years) the line grows to like....ELF levels of success.

Aires- Tezzera's business partner! Aires is born and raised on DS9, both her parents actually working for Quark.She starts making her own makeup as a teenager and while she does sell some of it to classmates, sales isn't her strong suit and she and Tezzera get close when Tezzera offers to help her sell the product for a cut of the sales. The two like to hang out a Quark's when Aires gets out of school so Aires can keep Tezzera updated on the drama from the federation school kids (where she goes five days a week cause its free child care) as well as occasionally sitting on the second level of the promenade like Jake and Nog used to to watch transports come in.

Unnamed Bajoran artist- So this guy is unfortunately nameless, however, he is in Tezzera and Aires's generation and also attends the federation school. He and Tezzera make friends over art when he sees one of her drawings (they are usually of space/nebulas/constellations). They bond quite a bit over art and drawing and date for a short time before Tezzera leaves to expand her buisness on Ferenginar (quite effectively breaking his heart if im honest) He becomes a quite well known artist on Bajor, even being employed to paint in some of the newer temples through Bajor's continuous rebuilding.

Yaladis- Back to the adult generation, Yaladis is the manager of the Pel's store where Riva works before she becomes a musician. Yaladis comes from a pretty traditional home, however she is actually one of Pel's first employees when the buisness on Ferenginar gets started, since Yaladis knows how to sew. Yaladis works for Pel most of her career, the job making enough latinum for Yaladis to have her own okay sized place (not tiny, not huge, just right for one person). She also works as a fashion consultant for Riva after the latter starts her music career, often going on tour to make sure costumes fit correctly/make any repairs that might need to be made after a show. Yaladis and Riva have a very casual on and off again sort of relationship for decades before Riva gets help with her mental health is is able to have a more stable relationship.

And last but most definitely not least

Otutho- Riva’s Klingon bodyguard. She is quite a few years older then Riva and fought in the dominion war. Otutho saw alot of her friends die and it shook her belief in the glory of battle. She leaves the Klingon military to work personal security. She jumps from employer to employer for a while until she meets Riva (who's career is starting to get more attention) snd gets hired. Otutho and Riva ALSO get involved sexual on and off, with Riva panicking and pushing Otutho away everytime they have an emotional moment. She also finds her sort of unintentionally in a relationship with Yaladis and once Riva starts her healing journey the three of them end up in a triad that actually works quite well.

Thank you for your time reading this and I hope this has sort of introduced everyone to my OCs