also open invitation, tell me about any/as many disabled ocs as you want, i am always here for disability rep!
So I'm gonna talk about my Star Trek OC Captain Soraya Al-Sharif because I love her-
Soraya is the no-nonsense captain of the USS Corazon Aquino, she's been with Starfleet for most of her life, but not very many people know anything about her life before Starfleet, as she is a very private person.
Soraya takes no shit from anyone, enjoys pampering herself, and takes everything dead serious- not in a "cannot understand jokes" way, but in a "doesn't think jokes are funny" way.
Soraya is an amputee from the knee down, due to having contracted an alien carcinogenic virus as a teenager while traveling with her xenoanthropologist parents and developing a rare form of bone cancer in her leg. She uses a very low-tech prosthetic because that's what she's more comfortable with, she'd prefer not to be lugging dead weight if an EMP goes off and kills all the electronics on the ship or something.
One thing Soraya has no patience for is people asking how she lost her leg, she often tells elaborate stories for how it happened, then when inevitably, someone asks, "Really?" all wide-eyed, she's like "No. I lied to you. Now get out of my office.".
Soraya spent much of her life in Mecca, especially after losing her leg as a teenager, her parents sent her home to stay with her extended family and recover, and living in that environment has made Soraya a quite devout Muslim woman as an adult. She does not see any conflict between her faith and career, in her eyes, all the weird alien species she encounters are just more proof of the power and wisdom of Allah.
Soraya is canonically aroace, and has a close platonic bond with her first officer, Commander Carena Nal. They are very close with each other, but their relationship never breaches more than friendship. It is also very useful to have an aroace captain, as like, evil alien seduction schemes don't work on her.
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