Teek Virtanen

Teek is a youngish female human working in the Department of Floaters, and is a rather new recruit. She is written by Lycaenion.

Partners
Upon being released from Basic Training around late July 2008 HST, Teek was partnered with Crebaina Aisenyev, an eighteen-year-old from Lyra's world in the His Dark Materials continuum. The two experienced some difficulty working together, but had (almost) begun to establish a slight rapport by the end of their second mission.

Then, of course, said mission induced a sort of post-traumatic stress reaction in poor Crebaina, which led to her placement in FicPsych. =

Hence, Teek's present situation, which she is none too happy with. Most of her time is now spent yelling or swearing at her new partner, Crelmos, who regards her with equal loathing (if not more, he's quite good at it).

Appearance
Teek is pretty much your average World One adolescent human female, roughly 5'3" in height and with a relatively stocky frame. Her eyes are a sort of mucky Generic Medium Brown; her hair, which is far more readily noticeable, is dark brown, thick, and wild, and has had bright orange streaks dyed into it. Her clothing is never given much description, since she doesn't much care; she can, however, usually be found in cargo pants or jeans, and has a wide variety of Queen and Star Trek T-shirts.

''Note: Some people tend to infer that, since Teek is based somewhat off Lycaenion, her writer, they look (more or less) exactly alike. This is not, in fact, true, although Lycaenion's hair did once look rather similar.

Personality
In general, Teek is extroverted and quite friendly to new people, although the length of time in which things stay that way is variable. She will frequently greet strangers with the Vulcan salute, or perhaps a Monty Python quote. Her main weakness lies in her absolute lack of patience; she is rash and impulsive, and will say or act on whatever enters her head.

Being a teenager, she is capable of sulkiness at astounding levels, and is often more stubborn than she wants to admit. This has not, in the PPC, served her all that well thus far.

Her temper is mercurial and extremely short; fortunately, however, she calms down with equal speed once things have been sorted out. She tends to talk quickly when angry or excited, to the point of being unintelligible (she claims to have once topped warp five). She curses loudly and frequently, using mostly Klingon and British swear words. Her epithets tend to be creative and heavily fandom-influenced, with, "Zarquon, Om, and Q!" being a favorite.

Teek does not hold too well with arrogance; she hates few things more than being made to seem childish or stupid. She values honor and fair play to a large extent, but will twist a situation to her needs if the circumstances require.

She's a very devout Trekkie, though she also loves The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Monty Python, and the works of Isaac Asimov. She vastly prefers sci-fi, but her sole concessions to fantasy are Discworld and Harry Potter.

For fighting and other related pursuits (including sporting activities), her strategy is to howl, flail wildly, and hope for the best. Her weapons, which she will not hesitate to use or threaten someone with, are a lightsaber (red) and a mek'leth (a medium-sized Klingon blade weapon), both given to her by Beethoven Sonata when she promised to join the Flower Paranoia Society (don't ask).

Agent History
Teek's nerdiness is more or less genetic; she was conditioned into Star Trek by her father, and her mother was a marine biologist (there's something to be said about a parent who thinks a plush squid is the perfect thing for her baby to cuddle). Her home is in the United States, but her mother was originally from Poland, and her father's parents were Finnish.

Her childhood was largely uneventful, mostly spent watching television and reading; she learned of the PPC while looking up ways to fight the Potterverse badfic pandemic, and decided to join to protect that fandom, which was much beloved in her early-teenage years. The fact that she had no clue what she wanted to do with her Real World life probably also contributed.

Mission Logs
Teek's mission logs can be found here: