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Likes/Dislikes

FAVOURITE -
Color: Blue
Clothing: His dad’s beaten leather jacket.
Place: Bones’ house, georgia. 
Food/drinks: Anything that’s unhealthy, though he’s partial to fruit. If push came to shove, he’d probably say his favourite food were double bacon cheese burgers.
Music genre: His music tastes vary but his music player has a lot of old school hip-hop and rap on there.
Songs and Singers/Bands: Beastie Boys.
Movies/TV Shows/Performances: Crappy TV and crappy movies are his favourite, if there’s no over acting or ridiculous script he’s not interested. He’s quite partial to cookery programs too.
Book(s): He’s a book snob, he reads Shakespeare and Wilde, poetry from the early 1900’s. Non-fiction books and academic essays are also on his PADD.
Subject in school: When he actually bothered to turn up he actually really enjoyed english, hence the his book collection.
Animal: Birds, he dreams a lot about flying. ( Also why he has Icarus )

LEAST FAVOURITE - 
Clothing: On him, it’s the wetsuit though when on Bones, he’ll happily wax poetically about good they are.
Place: Riverside, Iowa.
Food: Oatmeal.
Music genre: Jazz and/or blues
Subject in school: Art, he can’t draw for shit.

Simple Pleasures: Jim really likes the moments when he’s not running hectically around the ship, the moments when they’re not being bombed or shot at or trying to save their lives and the lives of millions. He likes spending time with the crew, socializing and getting to know them but on the other hand, the one thing he really, really enjoys is holing up in his quarters with comfort food and a close friend/loved one, talking and spending time together.
Greater Pleasures: Anything where his adrenaline pumps around his body, anything that has his heart racing and a smile on his face ( and his partners, if it’s a two man/woman job )
Where does this character like to hang out? The observation lounge. He likes watching the stars whirl by the view screen.
Where is this character’s dream place to live? He’s already living there.
Motto/Personal quote: I don’t believe in no-win scenarios.
Mode of transportation: The Enterprise of course.
Most prized possession: His dad’s leather jacket.
Why?: He never knew his father, never got a chance to know the man and had always lived vicariously through the stories his grandparents, mother and brother told him. It wasn’t until he turned 18, he was in his mom’s loft, helping her spring clean ( it was on one of their particularly good days ). There was a pile of boxes in the back, dusty things that hadn’t been touched for a long time - it turned out to be George’s things, little knick knacks Winona hadn’t brought herself to throw away but couldn’t muster the courage to look at either. 
Jim on the other hand hadn’t been able to stop himself, rifling through the random objects in some vain hope to glean snippets of knowledge about the dad he never knew. It was just bits and pieces that only added to the idea Jim had of his father in his head, this clean cut, kind hearted man who seemingly could do no wrong.
All this changed however in the final box, Jim had pulled apart the cardboard on the top and was confused to see a leather jacket in there, a damn good leather jacket. There was a burn on the left elbow, something suspiciously cigarette shaped, roughed up and scuffed up patches dotting the worn material. It didn’t fit into the neat little hole that everyone had created for his father, it showed spirit, a little defiance, it told Jim more stories about his father than the countless people who had physically done so. It changed him from being a eulogy of a man into someone with actual character.
They had always told him he was so like George and he’d never seen a single corresponding trait that said so, looking down at the jacket in his lap he started to think they weren’t that wrong after all. 

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Past History

Hometown: Riverside, Iowa.
First Memory: Their mom wasn’t home much when Jim was growing up, the very few memories of his childhood he has, Winona played a very small part in most of them. His first memory however was one of the occasion’s she managed to make it back home. He recalls being excited, knowing she had something special planned for him and Sam, if Jim had to hazard a guess, he’d say he was around 5, so happy to just spend some time with his mom let alone have her take them some place. They’d piled into the car and she’d driven them a few hours out to an observatory, this big towering glass dome. It was amazing, possibly the best thing a 5 year old little boy had ever seen and he’d seen some stuff. 
There’s not much else to the memory, just time spent with the two people he loves, laughing joking. The best part of the memory for Jim was when his mom lifted him to look into the telescope, his legs too little to reach otherwise. 
It was here, this moment that his mom quietly told him that he was born in space ( not the part about his father dying there, that didn’t come until later, until he could actually understand ), she told him stories about the planets she’d visited, the names of the stars twinkling in the distance. He was instantly hooked.
20 years later, Jim’s still in love with space.
Most important childhood event that still affects him/her: The most important childhood event for Jim was the month surrounding the ‘car incident’, from that moment on everything changed for Jim, changed for all of the Kirk’s actually. It was the moment that his mother realised that she no longer could rein in her youngest son, it was the moment Frank realised he wasn’t capable of taking care of the kid, it was the moment Jim decided he’d done enough caring and simply… stopped.
He was pushed from pillar to post while Winona was still off-planet and it was a mere 2 weeks after the car careened off of the cliff that he was stepping onto Shuttle 18-b to stay with his aunt and uncle on Tarsus IV.
After that, there wasn’t any child left in him. 

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Basic Statistics

Name: James Tiberius Kirk
Nickname: Jim.
Origin of name: Paternal/Maternal Grandfathers names.
Age: 26
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
Current status: In a relationship.
Birth date: 4th January 2233
Birth place: Medical Shuttle 37, Space
Current residence: The USS Enterprise
Occupation: Captain.
Title/Rank: Captain.