Raymond Dean
From USS Takeda Shingen
| Raymond "Mouse" Dean | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Species: | Human |
| Height: | 5'7" |
| Weight: | 124 lbs |
| Rank: | Ensign |
| Position: | Yeoman |
| Born: | September 8th, 2355 Indianapolis, Earth |
| Parents: | Patricia Dean-Watts Thomas Dean |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Blood Type: | O+ |
"Do you want the commanding officer, or the yeoman who knows what's going on?"
Raymond is a dry witted, sarcastic young man who has a tendency to put his nose to the grindstone regardless of if anyone will notice or care. When no one else seems to be taking charge, he's the one who stands up and coordinates everyone so stuff gets done. Usually the last to get credit for whatever he does, he has long since resigned himself to this simply because that is how it always seems to go for him.
Dirty blond, green eyed and small in size for his gender and species, he often times is ignored by rougher and larger people, regardless of their gender and species. He doesn't mind this so much as it allows him to get done what needs doing without being bothered.
Nick named Mouse by Diziara based upon the first impression he made upon her, he generally dislikes anyone other than her calling him that.
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Childhood
Raymond grew up the only child of Patricia Dean-Watts and Thomas Dean. His mother and father owned a little cafe, where it was a miracle each day it opened its doors vaguely on time, and that orders arrived at tables anything resembling correct or punctual. Raymond was born in the upstairs office, and grew up running free through the place.
As he got older, his parents paid him little mind and he found himself following the employees of the cafe around when he wasn't at school or working on homework. From them, he learned how the business was actually run, and eventually started helping out on the day to day operations. He started as a bus boy when he was 10, found himself waiting tables by 12 and helping in the kitchen soon after that. He was solely responsible for the cafe's books by the time he was 15, and once his parents figured out he had control of the situation, they started taking off for random vacations, leaving the cafe entirely to his care.
It was because of his parents dropping the cafe in his lap that he decided to join starfleet. He figured at least there, he stood a chance of going up the ranks for his hard work.
Starfleet
When he started his officer training, he intended to go into Intelligence because it sounded cool. He didn't have the edge needed to qualify. While trying to show those in charge that he could do the job as well as anyone else, he did catch the eye of one of his instructors... but not for his Intelligence skills. He soon found himself strongly encouraged by his guidance councilor to go into more administrative studies, though he tried to avoid it by first changing his focus to something more in line with a standard security posting, then even trying an engineering posting. Pressure didn't let up, and he soon submitted himself to the fast track to being a yeoman.
Frustrated that he was being pigeon-holed back into the same situation he had at home, he became depressed and started going out drinking and partying heavily to distract himself. Even thus distracted, he still passed all his classes and placed well in his graduating class. He was looking to be earmarked for a position in Starfleet headquarters, possibly even as a personal assistant to an Admiral, when one of his nights of partying got him into trouble. He ended up taking home the under-age daughter of one of the instructors at the academy, and got caught in the middle of the act by her mother, the Commander in charge of the Intelligence department at the Academy at the time.
Service Record
- Graduated Starfleet Academy: June 2377
- Starbase 668: June 2377 - current
Hobbies
Raymond hasn't actually had time enough of his own to really get into many hobbies. Growing up he spent a lot of time in the mystery holonovels and antiquated pulp detective graphic novels, but that was about all he could steal time for.
He did learn early about sex, and developed a strongly kinky bent to his tastes. It was this kink that seemed to have served as the final nail in the coffin when he was caught with Commander Carly Smythe's daughter, Alana, as they were involved in some heavy BDSM at the time. His strongest interest is in power play, but he'll explore most other areas of kink if his partner is interested. Good, Giving and Game is his motto, picked up from a 20th/21st Century advice columnist Dan Savage.
Relationships
Raymond puts up a front of sarcasm as a defense mechanism to being used by people all his life. He is mistrusting of people, and sometimes a little harsh because of it. This has kept most people at bay and he is typically isolated from his peers and crew mates. This has made it hard for him to form lasting friendships and relationships. For the most part, his relationships have been fleeting and friendships sparse.
Catrina Dewie
A summer employee in his parent's cafe, her first summer was when she was 15 and he was 11. Though he didn't actually pay much attention to her the first summer, the second summer, he started trying to hide and catch her changing before her shifts, or would accidentally drop things to see her bend over to pick them up. She pretended not to notice, and was polite enough as he was just a kid, and the son of her employers. The next couple summers, he'd try to flirt with her, and she'd dismiss his interest with a girlish giggle or a teasing comment.
The summer he was 15, she realized that he wasn't so much of a kid anymore, and when he worked up the nerve to ask her out on a date, she accepted even though she was four years older than him. The date went well and she actually took him back to her place after. Over the summer, she introduced him to many of the kinks that would stick with him later in life. She convinced him to not hold her to an exclusive relationship while she was away at school the rest of the year, but the next two summers they picked up exactly where they left off.
When he told her that he was joining Starfleet, she was angry and accused him of running away from her. He was confused and frustrated by this reaction, given that she was the one who convinced him that they shouldn't have an exclusive relationship. They parted on sour terms and she didn't work at the cafe the summer before he started at the academy. His parents have mentioned her visiting the cafe after he left, but he hasn't talked to her since.
Diziara
Their interactions started out purely professional. He was the person clearly running things on Milliways, even though he was one of the lowest ranking officers in the place, and she was someone who had every intention of doing her job. At first, they simply just appreciated having the other around because it made the duty shift go by faster. Soon they started catching drinks together after their shifts were up, and bitching back and forth about their crew mates. This led to talking about their personal lives, and it didn't take long for sex to enter the discussion. Conversation that night finished as she walked him back to his quarters to get thrown across his table.
It only took about a month for it to progress that far, and for the rest of the time they were posted on the station together, they were regular bed fellows. While his partying during his time at the Academy did involve sex, it usually wasn't with the same girl twice, he was raised with the expectation that if one has a repeated sex partner, it's part of a monogamous relationship. So he wasn't sure what to make of the situation when Diziara laid out the ground rules early that the sex was just casual and they were not going to be exclusive. He wasn't entirely happy with the arrangement, but he did the best he could with it given that he enjoyed her company enough that he didn't want her to run away on him. He had just been building up the nerve to try to convince her to settle down when she received her transfer orders off the station.
