| Full Name |
Finn O’Sullivan |
| Race |
Male Human Lieutenant, Chief Medical Officer |
About Finn O’Sullivan
Name: Finn O'Sullivan
Species: Human
Age: 46
Place of Birth: Dublin
Rank: Lieutenant
Position: Medical
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Concept
Older among the crew, Finn is a jovial old Irish doctor. He joined Star Fleet Medical mostly for the steady nature of the career, avoiding the politics of privatized medicine. He has been mostly stationed in SanFrancisco, although he did work a few years on a starbase. He has just been called up for his first mission on a starship, and while he can't prove it, he thinks it is punishment for winning big in a poker game with a superior who was bitter. Still, he has no close attachments and didn't fight the assignment. Maybe it will be fun?
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Appearance and Behavior
Finn O'Sullivan is a short, stocky man with very light colored blond hair, cropped short and slightly balding in the back. He looks like he works out with a broad chest and strong arms.
Finn likes to use humor to keep his patients at ease. Occasionally he Irish blood will get the better of him, especially when drinking to excess, and he can come off hot headed. When he feels he is witnessing an injustice, he is quick to anger... but also quick to cool down and forgive. His fighting is generally restricted to an occasional bar fight, although he does also enjoy boxing on the holodeck.
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Abilities
Surgeon, doctor, boxing.
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Goals
Keep the crew alive and healthy
Keep up crew morale, watching for signs of depression
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Secrets
Known, but held close - A friend of Finn's was killed in a car crash when they were only 16. Finn was driving, and blames himself for the death, even though it was ruled to be an unavoidable accident.
Known - Finn's father was a smuggler, killed when Finn was very young. He was always quite embarrassed by this, and never talks about it.
Unknown - He never knew that his father was actually an starfleet officer undercover as a smuggler to discover Romulon secrets and was caught, tortured and killed.
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Relationships
Commander James Dover - friend from a previous position in San Francisco, mostly a drinking and card playing buddy.
Marie Gunderson - a researcher in Microbiology that has been close, and very briefly intimate in the past. They are now more in the "friend" zone.
Commander Dick Porter - the card player that became angry with Finn do to a significant loss in a card game. It seemed to be more of a pride thing, but Porter assumed he was being cheated.
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Background
Finn O'Sullivan was born and raised in Dublin by his mother, due to his father being off-world shortly after his birth, and killed in space when Finn was 4 years old. His mother was distraught, and because her husband was a known outlaw, they kept mostly to themselves. Finn's mother always swore her husband was a great man, wonderful father, and had left because he felt a sense of duty. But he never did tell her what we was doing, just that it was important that it was kept secret.
Finn grew up with a bit of a chip on his shoulder, and as he got older, he tended to run with a bad crowd. By age 14, he was a heavy drinker and would race old style cars for money. His best buddy, Freddie Murphy, was his co-pilot and wingman. They two were never seen apart for long. Unfortunately, one night while they were out driving a classic car around town, they came across a sudden slick spot and the car spun out of control, killing Freddie and severely injuring Finn and inducing a coma. When he woke months later, only to find his friend dead and his mother facing medical bills that she could never pay, he became rather distraught. As it happens, he was sharing a room with a Star Fleet Recruiter that suggested it might be a good place to get some structure to his life and be a solid career choice that could let him pay the bills.
The thought of Star Fleet stuck with him, but he still had months of recovery. The doctors, therapists and nursing staff that helped him to recover, both physically and mentally, very much impressed Finn, and he started to develop an interest in medicine. He also felt the need to pay forward these kindnesses, in memory of his friend Freddie, and started looking into medical school. Again Star Fleet came up as a full paid way to get the schooling he would need, and so he joined up.
Years later, after his initial training and commission, he was stationed in San Francisco, and he found he rather liked it. He was able to move his mother there to be close by, and made a few friends here and there, usually keeping his past very much to himself. One brief dating interest turned into his first really close friend, a microbiology researcher named Marie Gunderson. While they didn't prove to be that great of a match romantically, Marie and Finn became very good friends and often remain in contact.
While Finn O'Sullivan turned his life around, he still enjoys a good bout of drinking the night away, and has become somewhat of a gambler, although it is less a vice and more just a fun way to pass an evening. He never plays for very high stakes, and has never gotten in over his head.
Not particularly a fan of space travel, he doesn't necessary mind it either. He is not yet sure what to make of his new assignment, though.
