Laura Asha

Appearance
Laura is short, standing at about 160cm (or 5’2) and with a petite, almost doll-like frame. She has full, but mostly straight strawberry blonde hair with vibrant green eyes. Most notably, her Denobulan ancestry is revealed by the faint ridges around her eyes, though these can be hidden with good concealing and contouring.

Personality
Laura is a bit paradoxical in personality, so to say. Not very talkative, but certainly cheerful in a gentle sort of way. She's soft-spoken, but not shy, mostly. She is, however, very easily embarrassed and flustered, but that doesn't seem to stop her much: Laura will just keep on doing what she was before, but a bit more stuttery and a lot redder.

Ambitions

 * Have the ability to help many people, not just as Nurse Asha, but also as Laura.
 * Make friends and acquaintances (perhaps a few partners along the way, who knows?) that care for her, and that know she cares for them.
 * Teach people that nursing is a dignified and often difficult job even if it can look easy.

Morals

 * Don't forget who you are, both sides.
 * Always do what's best for your patients, both body and mind.

History
Born on Earth, Laura's parents, a Denobulan man and a Human woman, were married for a short time. Eventually, though, they drifted apart, and father and daughter lived on the planet for a few years, until he moved back to Denobula after this first, amicably ended marriage. He eventually married other women, all of which Laura considers as mothers. Of course. she's not immune to picking favorites, and she's certainly closest to Asha: her father's first wife after divorcing her birth mother.

Laura had a pretty uneventful childhood, other than the abundance of siblings she lived with: of course, that was just normal life for one of her kind. Most notably, she developed a loving for tribbles during her early teenage years, and at one point was taking care of four of them. Thankfully, all were spayed! Unfortunately, they had to be passed on to one of her younger siblings, school and the tribbles being too much to care for.

To both her older and younger siblings, she was a caring figure: not good with advice, but a master at making tea, getting blankets and sitting down to hear their problems. It was sometimes astonishing how Laura, only a teenager at the time (not that she's that far out of teenagehood by Denobulan standards nowadays) could help just with some subtle companionship. People always said she'd be a good counselor, if not for her trouble with encouraging through words.

After finishing school, Laura worked a few years in many jobs, still not having found her passion yet. Market stall assistant, babysitter… She'd worked in all of those. Eventually, she began to develop an interest in nursing, and studied the profession on her off time.

At 23 years old, she was invited to work in a small medical clinic owned by another husband of Asha’s as a receptionist, continuing her studies by watching and eventually assisting the other nurses. began to learn the basics of nursing to help her co-workers. After taking some courses, Laura eventually enrolled in the Starfleet Academy, as she wanted to not only help people on land, but out in space. It was quite difficult, as Laura didn't exactly have the best memory for facts, her forte being the more emotional side of things.. Despite that, she did end up passing the entrance exam after lots of studying.

In the Academy, she found herself a bit more alone than when she lived with her family: Many of her colleagues either focused on their studies and stayed far from the others, or were more interested in partying wildly than taking care of themselves. Eventually, she befriended the people in between the two groups, those who studied, but whose ideas of social interaction weren't loud parties.

A few years into her studies, Laura was contacted by a woman named Lily. When she eventually talked to her, she found out that the woman was her biological mother. On the years after the divorce, she'd built another family with a Human man. Laura still keeps in touch with her, and they're good friends, and she sees Lily's children as her siblings, in a way.

Before being assigned to a ship, Laura worked at a hospital on Earth for Starfleet officers when out of assignments, as well as their families. She'd mostly work with the children, her gentle and nurturing demeanor helping her with the kids. (Well, along with her love of tribbles, because what kid doesn't love them?)

Recently, she was assigned to be part of the Arcadia’s crew as a nurse.

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

 * BIO151: Cell Biology, Humanoid
 * MED111: Bedside Manner
 * MED150: Medical Ethics
 * MED175: Epidemiology and Medical Statistics
 * MED201: Clinical Fundamentals
 * MED202: Diagnosis, Major Species
 * MED211: Pharmacology 1

Minors

 * MED203: Diagnosis, Minor Species
 * MED212: Pharmacology 2
 * BIO152: Cell Biology, Non-Humanoid
 * BIO201: General Physiology
 * BIO202: Physiology, Major Species

Trivia

 * Having grown up in Denobula, Laura naturally had no surname, as do most Denobulans. However, when she went to Starfleet, she wanted to adopt a surname, but she didn't want to adopt her mother’s surname, as even though they were on good terms, she didn't feel like she wanted to share that name. Because of this, Laura decided to adopt her Denobulan stepmother's name, Asha, as a surname.


 * Don't tell anyone, but her closest friends and family call her Lala! If someone does use that to refer to her, she'll be very flustered (but very happy, she likes the affection)

Likes

 * Tribbles, she's absolutely crazy for tribbles: She even has a tribble plushie.
 * Physical contact
 * Her family! All her mothers, her father, some of her mothers’ husbands… The list goes on.

Dislikes

 * The cold
 * People underestimating her for being a nurse instead of a doctor