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Name: Beck Age: 39 Contact: PM Timezone: CST Other Character(s): N/A

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Name: Lea "Bones" McCoy Door: Door Pass Canon: Star Trek (AOS!Comics) Canon Point: After Mitchell returns her to the ship Age: 37 Appearance: Lea is a 6' tall white woman, with a lightly athletic build, hazel eyes, and shoulder-sweeping dark brown hair. History: Lea hails from a universe that follows similar events with AOS's, though due to multiversal hijinks, most everyone has been gender-swapped. Born in 2237 to David and Eleanora McCoy of Georgia, Lea was named after her mother. Medicine ran in the family, as her mother was a country doctor with a local practice, and her maternal grandmother, T.J., was Chief of Medicine at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Lea was a bright student, and headed off to college at the tender age of 15. She attended the University of Mississippi, where in medical school she met Joss Darnell, a fellow Georgia native who was attending law school. The two married shortly after they moved back to Atlanta, and a year into their marriage they had a daughter, Joanna. While things were happy for the young couple at first, they were rocked when Lea's mother contracted pyrrhoneuritis, a colony world disease that had no known cure. Lea became obsessed with finding it, as her mother wasted away, wracked by unbearable pain. She begged her unceasingly to help her pass, and in the end she complied, shutting off her life support. Only a few weeks later, a cure was discovered, which sent Lea further into a tailspin of guilt and grief. Already under strain, her marriage buckled further as her husband pursued an affair with a colleague. Things ended in an acrimonious divorce, with her husband taking most everything in the process, including their daughter. She went on to leave Georgia and, seeing no alternative, enlisted in Starfleet, meeting Jane Kirk on the shuttle out of Iowa. They became fast friends, and were largely inseparable during their time at the Academy. Three years later, their universe would see an encounter with (female!)Nero and her defeat, the destruction of Vulcan, and the decimation of many of Starfleet's ships and senior crews. In the aftermath, Lea's emergency promotion as Chief Medical Officer of the Enterprise was upheld. A year on from this crisis, the crew would go on to disrupt the machinations of Admiral Marcus and Khan Noonien-Singh. She spent much of her time worrying after Jane, whose recklessness and desire for revenge, following the death of Admiral Christina Pike, was driving a wedge between them. Despite her sometimes tense relationship with Commander Spock, Lea worked with her to safely remove Khan's cryosleeping crew from the photon torpedos they had been placed in, replacing them with bio-printed simulacrums. She later urged Spock to bring Khan back alive after Jane's death in the warp core, creating a serum from the Augment's blood that proved to resurrect their captain. Some time after embarking on their five year mission, the Enterprise was sent to investigate a spacial anomaly in the Campor system, where the ship and her crew were pulled into a quantum storm. Pulled into an unknown region of space, they were shocked to meet another Enterprise, crewed by their male counterparts from another universe. Lea herself was especially disturbed by this, and like Leonard McCoy, was less than thrilled to host them on their ship. After both crews worked together to return their ships to their own universes, leaving buoys to warn other ships of the storm, Lea would confess the depths of her small existential crisis to Jane: if there really are an infinite number of realities, is anything real? A year later, Lea's concerns were hardly put to rest: they encountered yet another quantum anomaly, and again met another alternate Enterprise, this one commanded by Christopher Pike, and under assault from a Klingon vessel. Which... was commanded by an alternate-alternate version of James Kirk. Other Enterprises from across the multiverse appeared as well, and all crews were soon teleported off their ships by an all-powerful Gary Mitchell, a former friend of Jim Kirk. While the storyline largely follows Jane, and Gary's attacks on Jim, Lea was yanked around the multiverse with the rest of the crews, dropped onto the pleasure planet of Risa, an alternate Vulcan that had escaped destruction, and an Earth where Khan ruled. Lost as to the Why, Lea wouldn't come to grok the full scope of what happened until Mitchell acknowledged his defeat, and she was returned to her own ship with Jane. Personality: Positive Trait: Loving Described as the Heart of the Spock/Kirk/McCoy Triumvirate, this genderswapped Bones is no exception. She fiercely loves her crew like a second family, and under all the bluster and snark, Lea has a heart of gold. A regular member of away teams, something she could readily delegate to a subordinate, she's ready (though maybe not always willing) to throw herself into danger for the sake of others, showing courage in the face of her fears. Better her than them, right? Right. Having known Jane now for several years, their friendship is strong and solid, proven from the moment they first shared a drink on that shuttle, and while she habitually locks horns with Spock, she values and respects her intelligence and expertise. With her patients she's charming, gentle, and utterly dedicated to them– and even with those she mislikes, Lea is still a compassionate healer for them should they need it. Some might have argued that Khan didn't deserve care after everything she did, but Lea ensured she went back to cryosleep without a scratch on her. Negative Trait: Stubborn Stubborn as fuck and incredibly tenacious, Lea will stick to her guns and argue until she's blue in the face. In TOS canon, McCoy literally gets into a morality argument with a God (and declares why They can't possibly be God because of it), so she's generally set to be an immovable object wherever and whenever. Lea refused to leave Earth without Jane, so she dragged her along, and dug her heels in when Jane tried to blow her off about needing a physical assessment after Pike's death. It was Lea's stubborn refusal to accept her friend's death that propelled her into creating the serum that would save her. She can come off as obnoxious, overly cautious, and is quite fine with being seen as ridiculous for it. Negative Trait: Tempestuous While her everyday demeanor is quite friendly, Lea has a sharp tongue and a hot temper. Though her relationship with her ex has been repaired into a kind of amicable respect all these years later, she was very clear about her disdain for him in the early days of their divorce, even in spite of her acknowledgment of her own failures. Her first real conversation with Spock, after Jane was ejected from the Enterprise, is laced with scathing disapproval, without any fear of reproach. What was she gonna do, kick her interim CMO off the ship too? Though warned off by Jane, Lea cops an attitude with Khan, and a year later during the meeting between their multiverse counterparts, she's visibly unhappy and unafraid to show it. Negative Trait: Reckless With how often she tends to reprimand Jane and Spock for being reckless little assholes, it would be easy to assume she's got her shit together. The reality is, she's just as fucking impulsive as the two of them: throwing herself into Starfleet after her divorce; smuggling Jane aboard the Enterprise when she was grounded; agreeing to assist Carl Marcus with the defusing of a photon torpedo and demanding he be beamed back without her once it threatened to detonate. Though she was annoyed about accompanying Jane to the surface of Nibiru, she still successfully wrangled a Nibirilla for them to ride, and would later risk her career in order to bring Jane back to life. Break a few medical oaths in the process? Sure, why not. Powers and Abilities: Lea is a 100% human MD, with a middling ESP rating and zero capacity for supernatural powers, but she's proven to be resilient, able to think quickly on her feet, and readily adaptable in a crisis. After an initial career start in Earth-based medicine, her training and subsequent years in Starfleet gave her the experience and knowledge to treat a wide variety of human and alien ailments that might occur on a starship that visits other worlds. While officially she's a neurosurgeon, with a secondary specialty in trauma, as Chief Medical Officer, Lt. Commander McCoy leads the Enterprise's medical department, a senior officers' position that requires solid leadership, diplomatic and people skills, and a great degree of coordination with others both inside and outside her department. Medical research is a particular passion of hers out in deep space, with pharmacology and epidemiology also important to her work. She's proficient in the use of a phaser and in hand-to-hand combat, specializing in medical restraint techniques. At the Academy, she undertook survival training, piloting, and enough command track courses in tactics and navigation to qualify as a helmsman for Jane's run at the Kobayashi Maru. Inventory: Medical tricorder Dermal regenerator Protoplaser Samples: Current TDM & previous TDM