Title: Introducing Andromeda Minuet T'Prisa
Author: Bymoonlight
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Note: These characters that I have created have been in my head for a long time. I have enjoyed them on long plane trips and the like. I believe others will too. So, if you like my characters let me know because they have all been through a lot in my head.
Summary: Andromeda Minuet T'Prisa is a Vulcan/Human hybrid trying to find her place in the logical world of Vulcan. This is her story. Enjoy!
Andromeda Minuet T'Prisa woke up with the beautiful red Vulcan dawn. She climbed out of bed and went to her window and saw the sun rise over the distant city of Gol. She had seen this same image every morning for all the fifteen years of her life. It never ceases to take her breath away. She allowed a ghost of a smile spread across her lips as she walked over to her mirror and took down her hair. In the mirror she saw a sweet gentle face of a girl that was going to turn sixteen soon. Medium brown hair spiraled down her back in a curtain of curls. Eyes like her father Christopher, blue as the oceans of Earth, where he is from. In just about all cases she favored her father. Only if one looked closely they could see the pale green of her cheeks and veins. Inside her was the blood of her mother T'Ling. Yes, she was like Ambassador Spock, a Vulcan/Human hybrid.
Christopher Smith came to Vulcan twenty years ago. He chooses Shir'Kar because he wanted to expand his successful trading post business. What better place than a few blocks away from the Earth Embassy. The first post he created with his brother Daniel was near the Vulcan Embassy and Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. The brothers were well known to be able to obtain any legal item from any known world fast and effectively. Visiting diplomats from other worlds enjoyed getting a taste of home. Others were just adventurous and wanted to try new things. Christopher's plan was to set up his new post on Vulcan then return back to San Francisco. His plans changed when head strong and beautiful T'Ling entered his post one day requesting the ingredients for Klingon blood pie. Daniel and his wife Sara stayed on Vulcan with him.
When Christopher and T'Ling met she was at the time the assistant to Ambassador Spock before he suddenly settled his affairs and went off on some personal mission. T'Ling had unsuccessfully bonded with three suitors that were chosen by her family. The bonds just would not take hold. A rare event but it happened. Christopher was smitten by her grace and devotion to inter planetary peace. Dutiful and logical almost to a fault, but she was an idealist at heart. They married two years after courting. Now T'Ling was an advisor to the current Earth Ambassador T'Prisa, from whom Andromeda got her third name from.
Andromeda sighed was she brushed her long hair. She was not ashamed for her mixed heritage. Her parents are more than positive that hybrids like her will one day become more common place. That day was not today though; she was the only known Vulcan/Human hybrid besides Ambassador Spock. Sometimes she believed that she was completely alone. As illogical as that was with her cousins, parents, and other peers she was obviously not a lone. She kept up well in school and was fully accepted by her peers and teachers. Only a few times has she been bullied by others because of her dual parentage, but they grew out of that. She embraced the Teaching of Surak, understanding at a young an early age why suppressing emotions was important to the survival of the Vulcan people. When she was about four her mother and father took her to a state dinner in honor of the new Andorian Ambassador to Vulcan Saren. She noticed a male Vulcan servant acting strangely. He was sweating and his whole body trembled. He became enraged that he was not given the correct number of plo meek soup for the guests that he went into the kitchen and tried to fight all of the staff. When she asked her mother about his behavior, T'Ling gave her little detail about pon farr. "There is a beast that dwells in every Vulcan. Suppression of emotion and devotion to logic keep that beast at bay, but it will always be there. Every few years the Beast will no longer be ignored and he will come out with a vengeance."
Andromeda considered herself fortunate to have two cousins to grow up with, her Vulcan cousin T'Kita and her human cousin Henry. T'Kita had long hair like Andromeda but it was perfectly straight and jet black that is common among the Vulcan people. She had lovely symmetrical pointed ears and elegantly up swept eye brows. Both of her parents were on the Vulcan High Command. T'Kita excelled in music and art and always received high praise from peers and teachers. When she was younger, Andromeda found herself angry at T'Kita and her accomplishments and would often pick fights with her. Christopher confronted this behavior after one day when Andromeda pushed T'Kita into the family's fountain in the court yard. "Jealousy I believe is what you are feeling, Dee," he said. "On Earth it is common for there to be rivalries between the children in families, but T'Kita has done nothing wrong for you to treat her that way. You have your own strengths and one day it will shine through. T'Ling agreed and added, "There is no logic in dwelling on other's accomplishments. It only takes away time to have your own." Andromeda nodded and agreed with her parents and made up with T'Kita by helping her dry out she school robes for the next day. That was about four years ago. They now enjoy a close relationship.
Henry was a tall thin teenager with sandy blond hair and blue eyes. He was going through an awkward growth spurt but his father Daniel and wife Sara agree that he would grow into his body. Henry had a teacher from Earth come and educate him, other Terrans, and off worlders that could not keep up with the Vulcan School System. Many asked if when he became a man he would move back to Earth. He always said 'no". He loved living on Vulcan. Although Henry did not follow the Teachings of Surak or much of the Vulcan culture he had a lot of respect for it. He took some human cultures and blended in some Vulcan Philosophy and made his own path he called "Henryism." Every night he would go with his cousins and they would all do their homework together. Most of the time Prissy (Andromeda) and Kitty (T'Kita) as he called them would finish before home even though they had more work to do than he did. Sometimes he would ask for help but usually they would sit and read or sing for him until dinner. All three of them were an only child so they shared a sibling like bond. Henry is amicus young man as well. He longs for the day that he will take over the family business and run it with his long time friend and pen pal Sha'nin. Sha'nin lived in a small village that no one ever heard of but a lot of fine crafts and produce came from that little town. Sha'nin's family bred domestic selhats and farmed tea. When he was very young Sha'nin got caught in a machine that cut the loose tea leaves as he was dumping a batch in and left him with a permanent limp and he his unable to use his writing hand so he had to adapt using his left hand to right. Sha'nin shared the Smith's family values of working together with other cultures to make the universe a safer and more prosperous place. That was Henry's drive and reason for living.
Although Andromeda was devoted to the Vulcan Way of Life she missed out on one of the (if not the most) important event in a young Vulcan's life. She was not bonded at the age of seven. When she was six Christopher took a leave of absence and the family went to San Francisco. Christopher wanted to sell the trading post he had there. It was getting too much to handle two trading post worlds away even with the help of his brother. The post on Vulcan was more profitable and certainly closer to home. He first asked Daniel if he wanted to buy him out. Daniel denied. He said "There is no logic in keeping a business that is light years away." Christopher burst into laughter, they loved Vulcan but all the logic made them laugh at times. Well, it took longer to sell the post than Christopher anticipated; a year and a half later they were on their way back home. When they got back T'Kita informed her of her bonding to a classmate Suran. That night Andromeda requested to her parents that they too choose a mate for her as well. Christopher was not comfortable with the idea of an arranged marriage he agreed after much persistence from Andromeda. The search for a bond mate went unsuccessful. It was too late; any suitable choices had been bonded already. It hurt Andromeda. She believed that the real reason was no one wanted their son bonded to a hybrid like her. She quietly accepted it.