Hosui Tehn

Appearance
175cm tall with ash brown, slightly wavy hair. Hooded, but big eyes that make him look "Asian" to human standards, with the typical black color for his species. He has a small face, skinny frame but wide shoulders, as well as a few freckles. He has slightly thick eyebrows, but they don't usually grow too far.

Almost always wears his uniform properly, though it's often got dirt or leaves in it. He's often wearing flower clips in his hair, or even fallen flowers from plants.

Personality
Sui is very cheerful but also very kind and caring. He can be somewhat shy and prone to nervousness often, but when comfortable becomes very affectionate and even clingy sometimes. Flowers are his passion, and he'll always be willing to discuss botany with others.

He can also be very talkative at times, sometimes to mildly irritating levels.

Due to part of his life story, he has unintentional, subconscious reactions to a few “triggers”, which he oftentimes won't notice.

History
Hosui Tehn was born on a small village in planet Betazed to the Tehn family, known for their contributions to art, music and literature, being the surname of many well-known and influential figures of the arts.

Sui had quite a traditional upbringing and grew up learning many ancient customs. As a result, he's rather well-versed in these traditions and ceremonies, and even if it's not his passion he sometimes indulges in some as a hobby. He's the youngest brother after four sisters, each being almost, if not as close to him as his mother. Being a boy with many sisters in a mostly matriarchal society meant he had quite a bit of leisure and not many obligations.

Although not any kind of genius, Sui was a good student, good with Science-related subjects and especially with Botany, his first career choice since he was quite young. Initially, he was going to work with research in his home planet, but eventually developed a passion for research with alien plants and flowers too, and decided early in life to go down that career path.

During his teenage years, came the Dominion war, and with it the occupation of Betazed. One night, he left the house and headed for the thick woods followed by his dog Koy.. There he'd encountered a man - Possibly a Jem’Hadar, or a Cardassian - He couldn't recognize the person in the dark.

No matter how much he tried to explain he was just taking a walk or how far in the air he lifted his hand, he could see something in the man's hand begin to light up: The barrel of a phaser. He ran as far as he could, but eventually tiredness took its toll, his feet going clumsy and making him roll down a small cliff. As he was still lying on the floor, the person barked at him to put his hands behind his head, and as soon as he did so, he received a phaser shot on his back, almost point blank.

After the attack, the young Hosui showed signs of trauma. Heartbroken, his family made a decision for the boy: He was taken to a specialized healer who used telepathy to hide and suppress memories, and after a few months and many side effects of the procedures, the trauma was buried deep into his mind to never surface. It would occasionally, however, resurface in involuntary reactions.

Traumatic incident forgotten years prior, Sui attempted the Academy entrance exam as soon as he could, but was met with a failure the first time and passed the second: not a rare occurrence due to the difficulty of the exams, and then Sui went on to get an Exobotany major.

In the Academy, Hosui’s student life was somewhat unremarkable, mostly filled by studies, studies and more studies. Of course, he also had a few struggles and strange shenanigans, like most students.

Despite this, he graduated from the Academy quite well, even if not as a top student.

Now on his first assignment aboard the Arcadia, he has high hopes for it.

Core Courses:

 * ADMIN101: Star Fleet Operations
 * ADMIN110: Chain of Command and General Protocol
 * DIPL101: General
 * ENG221: LCARS Programming 1
 * ENG231: Computer Memory and Personnel Interfaces
 * ENG232: Replicators, Transporters, and Holodecks
 * ENG233: Sensors, Communications, and Helm Systems
 * HIST101: Birth of the Federation
 * LANG101: Federation Standard
 * LANG110: Major Species (Elementary) - Cadet's Choice
 * LAW101: Federation, General
 * MATH101: Concepts
 * MED101: First Aid and Field Medicine
 * PHYS101: Concepts
 * PILOT101: Runabouts and Shuttles
 * SURV101: Starship Emergencies
 * SURV110: Environmental Suits and Zero-G Training
 * TAC101: Combat, Unarmed
 * TAC110: Combat, Small Weapons
 * BIO101: Concepts
 * XEN101: General

Majors

 * BOT121: General Botany of Major Worlds
 * BOT311: Plants, People and Civilization
 * BOT326: Plant Pathology
 * BOT327: Plant Ecology
 * BOT431: Advanced Plant Pathology
 * BOT433: Field Botany

Minors

 * ASTROMYCO101: Astromycology I
 * ASTROMYCO201: Astromycology II
 * ASTROMYCO220: Fungi and You
 * BIO201: Advanced Biology
 * BIO222: Exobiology

Trivia

 * Sui's favorite plants, as well as the one he keeps himself, all have names. Most have female names and are named after women of his family, though there are a few “male” plants here and there.
 * The Tehn family is known for being a family of artists, a few important figures of Betazed art and culture sharing this surname. As such, Hosui has learned a few artforms, though his favorites are paper folding (similar to Terran origami) and flower arrangements.

Likes

 * Flowers & Plants
 * Very sweet food
 * Talking

Dislikes

 * Violence, both speech & actions
 * Seeing someone suffer and being unable to help
 * Phasers and guns (subconciously)

Character Development
One major weakness of Sui’s is his difficulty dealing with violence: he becomes nervous at the mere mention of war, weapons and death, nevermind actually causing or witnessing it. He may eventually learn to cope better, but he'll never take lives for granted, even non-sentient ones.

(as one can imagine, that took a toll on his Tactical classes, having almost flunked those once.)