@reject-tiefling's beautiful art and this post combined made me draw this comic. You cannot tell the new parents running on -10 hours of sleep that you find their humanoid kitten babies disconcerting. That's like rule number one of being a Captain.
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Janeway x Chakotay x Seven - you are incredibly sexy and smart
B'Elanna x Tom x Harry - you are incredibly sexy and smart
Janeway x Tuvok x Chakotay - you are incredibly sexy and smart and have both mommy and daddy issues
Janeway x B'Elanna x Seven - you understand the true meaning of feminism
Chakotay x Tom x Harry - you want to see Tom spitroasted and incapacitated with orgasms
Janeway x Ayala x Chakotay - you want to see Janeway spitroasted and incapacitated with orgasms
Janeway x Tuvok x T'Pel - there is something incredibly wrong with you (affectionate) (slide into my DMs)
Janeway x Tuvok x Seven - you have ascended to a higher plane of existence and have left us mortals behind
Janeway x Chakotay x Jaffen - you live to suffer and suffer to live, it isn't about the pining, it's about expanding upon what once was, what can never be again, its about building a foundation upon rubble and ash. it's about love actually being enough this time
Janeway x Tom x Harry - how does it feel to be god's bravest soldier?
Tuvok x Neelix x EMH - you are HOARDING all the brain cells. please return some to the drop-off area for the rest of us
Janeway x Kashyk x Chakotay - you either love non/dubcon or want to see Kashyk as a pillow princess
Neelix x Kes x Tom - you are incredibly correct and soooo so sexy
Janeway x coffee x Voyager - you only like canon ships
This is me sending another ask, giving you the stage to please ramble about your T'Pel!!
(It's like this meme but if she was smiling eagerly)
I got my compression gloves on and my documents containing my personality and life profiles on T'Pel and Tuvok open. Let's do this.
Of course, disclaimer, basically all of this is headcanon and is subject to change a little as I continue to develop her more, but I got paragraphs on her and her growing up. Now that that's out of the way, welcome to an episode of:
Chaos lose their mind about their T'Pel headcanons (because they were so kindly asked) ✨
(Chaos loses their mind about their T'Pel headcanons (because they were so kindly asked) ✨)
If you just want a personality profile with interests, it's down at the bottom. The beginning half is a condensed overview of her as a character. :)
OVERVIEW
Okay, so, T'Pel comes from a sort of traditionalist family, but not entirely in the followings of Surak kind of way, more in a "we've lost who we are because of technology" kind of way. Her father, Solkar, was raised in a much more old life, part of a group that lived on the land and off of what they could provide. When he was married, he moved a little closer to the city and overlooks housing construction. Her mother, T'Dar, was raised similarly, though her family prioritized artistic things. T'Dar did pottery, and was damn good at it too, but followed her family's tradition. She lived with her parents, then became a stay at home mom and wife to Solkar.
T'Pel is the second eldest of four children, close to her older sister in age, and helped raise the younger two due to a slightly larger age gap (fertility issues, whole other thing). She watched her mother disappear into that, becoming someone with no hobbies, no friends, very little support from her own family, someone who was quiet and did what she was told. Her family lived out of town, making it difficult for her growing up to travel for school and spend time with friends, as she had chores to do at home.
In her youth, T'Pel followed how she was raised. She was discouraged from following her interest in medicine, and was supposed to be a quiet housewife subservient to her husband. She did not mind housework, and does genuinely enjoy homemaking, but did not want to become her mother, and it caused tension within the house. While she did not have outward emotional issues and did not require some kind of treatment, she is still a good Vulcan after all, she found it difficult to not talk back.
When she was in her mid-twenties, against her parents' wishes, she went off to study medicine. She became a nurse this way, working specifically in essentially mental wellness clinics. Here, she develops her telepathic abilities to fend off against the way dying minds reach out. It took time, and a lot of dedication, but she was determined.
Her marriage to Tuvok was tumultuous at first. Her parents no longer fully approved of Tuvok after his emotional difficulties in his youth and his stint at Starfleet, but she was partially healing her relationship with them due to them reflecting on their relationship and disliking not having their daughter in their life. It causes for tension later on, as they extra don't like Tuvok when he joins Starfleet again.
Beyond that, T'Pel and Tuvok did not get along at first. It took years for them to develop their relationship, that's why they had kids later in life. They argued and debated and clashed. They were both still unpacking issues from their parents and it was effecting how they saw each other. However, they, of course, figure things out, and deeply adore each other once they get over themselves.
T'Pel's relationship with Tuvok's family is.. difficult. She does not like them very much, mostly for how they treat Tuvok, and mostly for how they criticize her and their parenting. Tuvok's parents are highly critical old school Vulcans with an inflated sense of self and logic about them, which is just about everything T'Pel dislikes. Plus, they hurt her husband, someone she cares for very deeply.
I could do an entire separate post on T'Pel and Tuvok's relationship in particular and another one on their parenting styles and another one on each of their relationships with their in-laws, but that's for another time (or future fics) and also not why you're here.
T'Pel wanted to be the mother she did not have and the parent children deserved. She would be engaged, and not relegate her children tasks unfitting of them, and be kind. It takes a bit, she's actually more stubborn and harder than Tuvok at times, but they make it work. She never wanted her children to feel a need to hide, as not only does that defy logic, but it also damages children. She is knowledgeable in the mind, she wouldn't want to be the purposeful cause of any undue stress.
She keeps her job in medicine as much as she can, finding a place when they go to Earth. She takes leave when Tuvok goes missing, but she does eventually go back. She likes being able to care for people, it's an integral part of who she is. She just did not enjoy having it forced upon her.
PERSONALITY
T'Pel is a slightly odd Vulcan, but nothing abnormal. She does not struggle with emotional control and believes it necessary, but she holds no animosity towards those that have issues. She understands, especially after her education, what can happen to a Vulcan to make them behave that way. It isn't their fault, generally, and it is something to work with, not against. It's best to herd the sheep, not pull them along the grass.
She is solid in her beliefs, and enjoys tradition in the sense of understanding its importance, but not letting it take over their lives. She is a calm person, often serving as a rock to people and allowing them balance from her. She finds fulfillment in creating and repairing, an intelligent woman and well skilled.
However, she does find traditions ridiculous in some points. She finds the formality they have boring, and the lack of allowance between spouses and family to show affection ridiculous. Emotions are not something to be afraid of, they are something to learn from and keep quiet. They are as much a part of you as your logic is. She does not appreciate the way there is a superiority in intelligence, specifically scientific intelligence, and the way that so many Vulcans are intolerant to other cultures despite preaching IDIC. Xenophobia is incredibly illogical, as are all forms of discrimination. Creatures will be different, and that is the beauty in living.
INTERESTS
This is just a small section that I wanted to include. T'Pel's biggest interest is, genuinely, healing. She loves learning about all the different medical advancements going on around the galaxy. It was one of the good things when moving to Earth, she learned more about alien culture. She has interest in psychology as well as someone that's worked in mind healing, and thinks it really needs to be more widely implicated into Vulcan medicine.
T'Pel enjoys exploring with Tuvok, but she much prefers calmer walks while he likes the challenge. While Tuvok is the gardener between them, she has an herb garden she keeps for herself, as well as goes on walks and hikes to forage naturally. She is a skilled forager, and has an eye for plant identification anywhere she goes.
Also, T'Pel is an artist. She enjoys pastels and charcoal, mostly, but works in sculpting and pottery, something she learned from her mother. She has a plant book she made entirely from scratch. She adds pages from every planet her and Tuvok went to.
She is more social, and finds spending time with others pleasant. It's something she encouraged in her children since she was deprived of many close friendships as a kid, and she does find humor in dragging Tuvok to gatherings he very clearly does not want to go to.
On a side note, something T'Pel cannot really do is cook. Tuvok cooks between them. She can handle it, of course, she isn't incompetent, but she doesn't have a skill for it like Tuvok does. She also, to be quite honest, doesn't actually like Vulcan teas that much.
I think that covers most bases? If you've got more questions or want to know more, please let me know, I am way more than happy to keep talking and I am so sorry if this is way longer than you expected. Hope you got something from it!
Also I wanted to say, I checked out your art, fucking gorgeous. Genuinely. I absolutely cannot wait to see what you do.
I find it depressing that Tuvok would've reached Kholinar, but he went into pon farr and had to marry T'Pel. It feels like he didn't choose this and he doesn't truly love her, which is nonsense, because he seems to be a family man. But it reads like a story about a young woman who wanted to graduate from a good college and follow her dreams only to get knocked up and having to raise the kid. Pls change my mind
