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Hi, everyone! It's Louisa here (for Iphigenia and a few others~), and I am trying very hard to get back into RP. Boo, work.

So! I have a kind of getting-to-know-you game we can play. Maybe it will be...fun? Hopefully? /cringes at self

I'm curious about everyone's pups' and their respective canons, and I'm hoping others are as well! So, in this post, feel free to link to video clips/blogs/general flailing about the worlds from which your characters come from. Go wild! Wax poetic! Just be excited about media!

Also, if anyone wants to use this post as a sort of ~enabling~ thing, go right ahead. We probably all need more characters to play, right?

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Okay so...The basics.

James T. Kirk here hails from the rebooted movies and hails from post movie Star Trek (2009) and Into Darkness (2013). This means that the incident on the Narada and the ordeal with John Harrison, the alias of Khan Noonien Singh, have already taken place.

The movies try to give an overview of what is different about this alternate reality and life of Jim Kirk, but there is very little mentioned of what is the same. Of course, there are a myriad of books, retcons, the original series, the movies...so much to pull from for Kirk's backstory.

And here is my confession: aside from the original series and the original 7 movies? I haven't read any of it. Star Trek was always a thing I watched with my family. I didn't even know the books or the bigger fandom existed until I was in college and started poking around online.

What I have done is an exhaustive read of several wikis to put together a comprehensive headcanon backstory of Jim's life leading up to the point where the first movie takes place. It has been cobbled together primarily from references to the Original series and book tidbits I've gleaned from wiki reading.

Jims family is from Riverside, Iowa living in a farmhouse that has been in the family for generations. After his father's death his mother threw herself into her work at Starfleet and was seldom home, leaving the two Kirk children (Jim and his older brother Sam) primarily in the care of her new partner Frank. Under his care both boys suffered physical and verbal abuse, though Jim's rebellious nature made it all the more worse for him. It's not said how aware their mother was of the abuse. At some point Sam left the Kirk home, leaving Jim with no one but Frank in the home.

Jim was roughly thirteen when Frank was out of the picture (sources can't decide between Winona leaving him or Frank passing on) and with his mother still off planet Jim was sent out to live with an Aunt on the small space colony on Tarsus IV. Invasive spores caused the food supply to become ruined and the colony devolved into anarchy. Jim lost his Aunt during the incident and managed to survive a colony ravaged by starvation, cannibalism, disease, and torture as people did what they had to in order to survive.

By the time Jim returned to Earth and the farm in Iowa, he lived alone in the farmhouse and finished his schooling. Despite being tested and found to be crazy smart, Jim wound up in and out of jail for petty crime. It is speculated most of the crime involved stealing food once he had come back from Tarsus. Despite no longer needing to steal to survive, it took Jim time to readjust. His employment is spotty and he seemed to drift from job to job until Captain Christopher Pike found him during the bar scene of the first movie.

Currently, there is a comic series exploring the 5 year mission of the original series, re-imagined for the alternate reality. Published by IDW Publishing and simply titled Star Trek: Ongoing, it is something I am slowly buying and reading in order to pull even more from for my Jim Kirk. So far I only own the first two volumes, so at this time I am not pulling anything from these books for this character.