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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Zinfandel Blanc -- or Zin, to the few people she manages to talk to on a regular basis
Age: 23
Gender Identity: Female
Sexuality: Kind of tough to figure this one out properly when being in social settings makes you uncomfortable most of the time.
Height: 5'7"
Occupation: Biochemist turned assistant medic

Personality: Withdrawn and quiet, Zin shies away from people, preferring to sequester Leucine and herself away in the labs where she can busy herself with work that holds all of her attention. Being around a significant number of people she doesn't know (or barely knows) for an extended period of time makes her extremely uncomfortable; this shows in her growing tendency to snap at people the longer she has to stay in their presence, and, given such, prefers to do away with the snark and the resulting awkwardness and just avoids people altogether.

She is not unkind, however; despite how grumpy she gets, she does care for people and for the few friends she's been able to make -- she believes that her passion for research and work in the biochemical field can help her fellow colonists live better lives, but that doesn't necessarily mean she has to interact with everyone on the ship while she does it.

Likes/Dislikes:
+ Her research work
+ Ice cold soda
+ Pleasantly chilly temperatures
x Unwanted social interaction
x Noise
x Being around large groups of people for a considerable amount of time

History: Zin was raised by her grandmother Vidi, and only knows her mother from the photographs Vidi kept in a small album. Her mother died at childbirth, and her father had left long before upon learning Zin's mother was pregnant; Zin doesn't think too much of it, having known and accepted her grandmother as her only family (the only important family) since she was a child.

Vidi, an adept botanist, brought Zin up with a love for knowledge and a healthy curiosity for biology and how things worked; it was this curiosity that sparked her love for science early. She attended school ('attended' is putting it nicely; she often grew very tense and discomfited in classes, sometimes not showing up entirely, and ended up having to be tutored to some degree along with a lot of determined self-study) and went straight into a specialization for biochemistry the instant she could. It was here that she flourished, working under the supervision of a few senior scientists and having a small part of the laboratory to herself as a private work area.

She tends to stay in the lab a lot when she isn't in her quarters; she says it's for work, and she does work hard, but a big part of it is the sheer relief of not having to awkwardly (quietly) try to not hyperventilate while being stuck in an elevator or having to pass through a high-traffic part of the ship. Her grandmother is presumed dead at the time of the incident, as the location she was last in before the explosion occurred is part of the damaged area.

Relationships: --

Additional Notes:
Zin thinks her full name is overly flowery, which is why she sticks to the nickname. Her grandmother (quite sassily) begs to differ -- she says it's quite apt since Zin's hair matches the colour of her namesake perfectly.

She gets lost in her work quite often. It's not a rare occurrence to see her only at the beginning and at the end of a day, being in the lab for the entire time in between. (She would probably sleep there if she could.)

In the aftermath of the incident, Zin has been pressed into service as an assistant medic in the makeshift sick bay to help deal with the influx of people needing assistance; this absolutely terrifies her, given her tendencies in large social situations, but she's determined to help out as much as she can -- anxiety or no anxiety -- and she's managed to put on a brave face to serve as a small and hopefully calming measure of assurance for the patients pouring in. Keeping this up is quite exhausting, especially since she's not used to facing the sheer amount of people she has to see every day now in addition to trying her best to be a comforting presence instead of a stressful one, but she'd rather not push her personal problems onto other people when there are several infinitely more pressing matters to deal with.

POKEMON
Name: Leucine (loo´sēn)
Gender: Female
Species: Duosion
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Overcoat
Size: 2'05"
Attacks: Secret Power | Recover | Rain Dance | Safeguard
Personality: A younger Zin received then-unnamed Leucine from her grandmother as a present; Leucine kept the shy Zin company during the times she couldn't handle being around other kids a lot growing up, and the two have been inseparable since. The Duosion never leaves Zin's side, and accompanies her even in her research work in the labs, where her moveset has been largely designed to assist Zin with her efforts and augment general lab safety. (Rain Dance has proven especially useful given Zin's track record for accidentally setting off clandestine chemical fires.) Leucine's generally sunny disposition also brings cheer to Zin's otherwise lacklustre little section of laboratory (population: 2).
Extras: Leucine's name is a reflection of how into her field of work her owner has been ever since childhood -- best not to tease Zin about it.

Description

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Zinfandel Blanc -- or Zin, to the few people she manages to talk to on a regular basis
Age: 23
Gender Identity: Female
Sexuality: Kind of tough to figure this one out properly when being in social settings makes you uncomfortable most of the time.
Height: 5'7"
Occupation: Biochemist turned assistant medic

Personality: Withdrawn and quiet, Zin shies away from people, preferring to sequester Leucine and herself away in the labs where she can busy herself with work that holds all of her attention. Being around a significant number of people she doesn't know (or barely knows) for an extended period of time makes her extremely uncomfortable; this shows in her growing tendency to snap at people the longer she has to stay in their presence, and, given such, prefers to do away with the snark and the resulting awkwardness and just avoids people altogether.

She is not unkind, however; despite how grumpy she gets, she does care for people and for the few friends she's been able to make -- she believes that her passion for research and work in the biochemical field can help her fellow colonists live better lives, but that doesn't necessarily mean she has to interact with everyone on the ship while she does it.

Likes/Dislikes:
+ Her research work
+ Ice cold soda
+ Pleasantly chilly temperatures
x Unwanted social interaction
x Noise
x Being around large groups of people for a considerable amount of time

History: Zin was raised by her grandmother Vidi, and only knows her mother from the photographs Vidi kept in a small album. Her mother died at childbirth, and her father had left long before upon learning Zin's mother was pregnant; Zin doesn't think too much of it, having known and accepted her grandmother as her only family (the only important family) since she was a child.

Vidi, an adept botanist, brought Zin up with a love for knowledge and a healthy curiosity for biology and how things worked; it was this curiosity that sparked her love for science early. She attended school ('attended' is putting it nicely; she often grew very tense and discomfited in classes, sometimes not showing up entirely, and ended up having to be tutored to some degree along with a lot of determined self-study) and went straight into a specialization for biochemistry the instant she could. It was here that she flourished, working under the supervision of a few senior scientists and having a small part of the laboratory to herself as a private work area.

She tends to stay in the lab a lot when she isn't in her quarters; she says it's for work, and she does work hard, but a big part of it is the sheer relief of not having to awkwardly (quietly) try to not hyperventilate while being stuck in an elevator or having to pass through a high-traffic part of the ship. Her grandmother is presumed dead at the time of the incident, as the location she was last in before the explosion occurred is part of the damaged area.

Relationships: --

Additional Notes:
Zin thinks her full name is overly flowery, which is why she sticks to the nickname. Her grandmother (quite sassily) begs to differ -- she says it's quite apt since Zin's hair matches the colour of her namesake perfectly.

She gets lost in her work quite often. It's not a rare occurrence to see her only at the beginning and at the end of a day, being in the lab for the entire time in between. (She would probably sleep there if she could.)

In the aftermath of the incident, Zin has been pressed into service as an assistant medic in the makeshift sick bay to help deal with the influx of people needing assistance; this absolutely terrifies her, given her tendencies in large social situations, but she's determined to help out as much as she can -- anxiety or no anxiety -- and she's managed to put on a brave face to serve as a small and hopefully calming measure of assurance for the patients pouring in. Keeping this up is quite exhausting, especially since she's not used to facing the sheer amount of people she has to see every day now in addition to trying her best to be a comforting presence instead of a stressful one, but she'd rather not push her personal problems onto other people when there are several infinitely more pressing matters to deal with.

POKEMON
Name: Leucine (loo´sēn)
Gender: Female
Species: Duosion
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Overcoat
Size: 2'05"
Attacks: Secret Power | Recover | Rain Dance | Safeguard
Personality: A younger Zin received then-unnamed Leucine from her grandmother as a present; Leucine kept the shy Zin company during the times she couldn't handle being around other kids a lot growing up, and the two have been inseparable since. The Duosion never leaves Zin's side, and accompanies her even in her research work in the labs, where her moveset has been largely designed to assist Zin with her efforts and augment general lab safety. (Rain Dance has proven especially useful given Zin's track record for accidentally setting off clandestine chemical fires.) Leucine's generally sunny disposition also brings cheer to Zin's otherwise lacklustre little section of laboratory (population: 2).
Extras: Leucine's name is a reflection of how into her field of work her owner has been ever since childhood -- best not to tease Zin about it.