Lieutenant JG Natalya Chornovil

Character Information

Gender		Female
Species		Human
Age		31
Date of Birth		March 30, 2265
Place of Birth		Kyiv, Ukraine

Physical Appearance

Height		5'8
Weight		150 lbs
Hair Color		blonde
Eye Color		blue
Physical Description		The three words best used to describe Natalya are "Tall", "Blonde", and "Slavic." At 5'8" however, she's actually of fairly average height. However, one will rarely find her standing at her full height unless she's walking somewhere.

Family

Spouse		none
Children		none
Father		Boris Chornovil
Mother		Sanya Chornovil
Brother(s)		None
Sister(s)		None
Other Family		Lilliana Litvyak (Cousin)

Other Relationships

Significant Other(s)/Romance		Since her transfer to the America, Natalya has developed an infatuation with her boss, Glenn Radars. Furthermore, she realizes the feelings she's having go beyond a professional relationship.
Friends		Natalya used to be tight with several Gopnitsas she used to roll with. However, after she resolved to stop living her old lifestyle, she has not heard from any of them since. Natalya also appreciates her cousin Lilliana being in Starfleet as a sounding board.
Enemies/Rivals		Sistine Fibel - While Natalya tries not to hold it against the younger officer as a person, she can't help but classify Fibel as a rival for Glenn's affection.

Personality & Traits

General Overview		The best way to describe Natalya is a Gopnitsa; a delinquent subculture in Eastern Europe believed to have died out by the early 2020s. Natalya can more often than not be found squatting down munching on semechki (sunflower seeds) and drinking her homemade Slavic beverages on duty and vodka off duty. If you've ever tripped over someone, it was likely Natalya.
Strengths, Weaknesses, and Quirks		Strengths: +Capable engineer +Problem solver Weaknesses: -Can be slow to act. -Resents authority figures trying to tell her what to do Quirks: Due to an underlying medical condition, Natalya has hyperactive sweat glands, and as such, she has a strange aversion to wearing her uniform properly when in excessively warm environments (like engineering on a Starship, for example) and/or high stress situations; and she will often strip off the stuffy jacket and turtleneck undershirt in favor of a tank top. It is also one reason why her quarters are colder than a Siberian winter. If something looks written in Cyrillic to her, she will often try and pronounce what she is reading as if it is, even if it is not.
Ambitions		Natalya's ambitions are just to be successful at something. She gave up the gopnitsa lifestyle over a decade ago and then tried to get a Slavic restaurant off the ground, which failed, and now, at her cousin's suggestion, she is in Starfleet, hoping it will go better.
Hobbies, Interests, Likes, and Dislikes		Hobbies/Interests -Cooking -Beverage distilling -Squatting -CS:GO (both the old online game and so called "real-life" matches) -Card games -Mechanics Likes -Slavic Dishes and Beverages -Mayonez (Mayonnaise) -"Doctor's Sausage" -Adidas Tracksuits -Vodka -Hardbass music Dislikes: -"Western Spy Squat"
Languages Known		Ukrainian, Russian, Federation Standard
Medical Profile		Natalya has an underlying medical condition in which she has hyperactive sweat glands. No one really knows what causes it, but it is not recommended for her to wear multiple layers of clothing in excessively warm environments.
Psychological Profile		Remarkably, Natalya is in good psychological health despite everything she has been through.
Defining Quotes and/or Character Beliefs		"Oi, Blin!" ("Oh, Pancake!" Often used as non-expletive variant of the Russian F Bomb) "When Slav squat somewhere; it is Slav's squat area first, and walking area second" "Never stand between hungry Gopnitsa and her meal. It always end badly for those who do."

Personal History		Natalya was born March 30, 2265 in Kyiv, Ukraine on Earth, the only child of Boris and Sanya Chornovil. For as long as Natalya could remember; every February 24, she and her family would visit the war memorial in Kyiv and pay their respects to the Ukrainians who perished in World War III. As a teenager, Natalya got involved with the "wrong crowd." When she was 16, she took a trip with several of her peers which she probably shouldn't have trusted into the Chernobyl exclusion zone. On that trip, Natalya and her rather sketchy friends formed a delinquent gang, and for the next four years, Natalya lived the high life, often getting into shootouts with law enforcement or other gangs. When Natalya was 20, during one of these shootouts, a member of the gang whom Natalya had grown close to was seriously injured. This particular incident served as a wakeup call for Natalya, and she resolved to turn her life around; leaving the gang shortly after the incident for pastures greener. For three years, Natalya worked several dead end jobs, saving up enough to eventually open a restaurant in Kyiv serving authentic Slavic dishes in 2288. However, Natalya struggled to keep the restaurant afloat, and by 2290, she was forced to make the hard decision to permanently close the restaurant. Then, when Natalya seemed to be at her lowest point; her cousin. an officer in Starfleet, returned home from duty and found Natalya on a street corner, begging passersby for spare change. Lilliana brought Natalya back to the hotel she was staying at during her shoreleave and sat her cousin down to have a heart to heart, with Lilliana managing to convince Natalya to apply for Starfleet academy; an application that Natalya was quite surprised to come back approved. And so, Natalya enrolled in Starfleet Academy on the engineering track. Nothing remarkable came from Natalya's Academy tenure. Supposedly, she amazed her instructors with her problem-solving capabilities, but for Natalya, it was all second nature. Out of the Academy, Natalya was assigned to the USS Bonneville; a Miranda class starship which seemed to be held together by bailing wire and duct tape. It seemed Natalya and the rest of the Bonnevile's engineering department were always one or two problems short of a warp core breach. But Natalya performed well under pressure, and over time, came to find more permanent solutions than the repetitive temporary fixes she had been taught to perform. Natalya's ingenuity didn't go without merit, and by 2296, she had made the rank of Lieutenant JG. However, that year; the Bonneville suffered a bad plasma fire in Engineering, and though the fire was eventually extinguished, it wasn't before the fire knocked out multiple ships' systems, including the impulse engines, and they had to eject the warp core to prevent a breach. Adrift without power or impulse engines, the Bonneville's only resort was to be towed to the nearest shipyard for repairs; most long overdue. The tow took almost a week to complete, and during that time, raw sewage began backing up into crew areas, and multiple panicking crewmembers began hording food, causing others to go hungry. That was when Natalya's Slavic cooking came into its own, as she knew how to cook delicious meals from almost nothing to serve a small army. Once the Bonneville arrived in drydock, Natalya put in a transfer request; as the whole "poop cruise" she had just been on was enough to push Natalya to the breaking point. Natalya found herself reassigned to the USS America, an old Constitution class starship, as its Assistant Chief Engineer.
Education Record		2271-2275: Primary School 2275-2280: Secondary School, Base 2280-2283: Secondary School, Last 2283-2287: University, 4 year 2290-2294: Starfleet Academy (Major in Engineering)
Service Record		2294-2295: USS Bonneville (Ensign - Engineering Officer) 2295-2296: USS Bonneville (Lieutenant JG - Engineering Officer) 2296-Present: USS America (Lieutenant JG - Assistant Chief Engineer)