1. Kaya Does a Runner
In which Kaya Som has had enough and goes AWOL.

Starting immediately after s1m2 Secrets of Serenity, maxed out on danger and disillusionment, Kaya is going to run off without telling anyone where she's going. And then have to make some big choices once the consequences roll around.

How to be involved: Someone will need to notice she's gone and then someone will need to go fetch her. People who spend time with her up until now will have seen some warning signs she's not doing great. She won't be hard to find as she won't be in critical-thinking mode. Following the actual journey, there's plenty of space for people to react to it with their two cents.

When: This would probably take up time during the February mission/event. And for Kaya, consequences definitely affecting the next few/several missions/events.

(Aftermath and career consequences are being worked out with command/admins.)

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2. Friend Squad
In which Kaya Som has some friends/peers that aren't NPC'd by me.

Would you like to be Kaya's friend? Kaya treats Starfleet like a job more than a calling and, present drama excepted, likes the job. But she's a whole person and has a life and relationships outside of engineering. We could have fun in downtime threads reacting to ship/station goings on or coming up with our own interpersonal development stuff.

Friendships I enjoy:

• Bad influence friends - will party with her.
• Hate friends - they argue all the time but obviously like each other anyway.
• Intimate friends - a closeness that comes from time and achieves emotional and physical intimacy without being romantic or sexual.

Kaya likes political discussions, being nosy about others' lives, nerding out over tech, learning about other cultures, being petty, being loud, consuming media/music/etc. Kaya doesn't tend to relate well to career Starfleet, but there are exceptions. She's also put off by most humans, but again, always exceptions. 

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Adoptables

• Tarin Jin - she/her, Bajoran, 20s - Lower rank, Engineering. She's more buttoned up than Kaya but they get on.
• Oarren - he/him [surname: open; species: open; age: open] - Lower rank. Kaya's long-suffering roommate, but they're still friends.
• Apazi Fellin's grown children - he has two. I haven't established anything about them.
  
  • Son, written by Jeb!
  • Daughter, open

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3. Please Look After This Mott
In which the village raises a Bolian.

This would start immediately after s2e9 Flotsam in which Avi gets pinched for assault. I can imagine her being detained for at the least several days, so someone will need to be taking responsibility for 12- or 13-year-old Mott.

How to be involved: So far Apazi Fellin and Matthew Harmon are already involved. Fellin has him at his shop on the day, but will presently report Mott's lack of supervision to authorities. (I think he'd jump the queue and go straight for Judith Eastman initially.) Fellin would be a candidate to care for Mott because Mott spends time with him, but Fellin would decline.

Someone from Starfleet would probably coordinate because Starfleet is the station government, basically. But I can imagine the citizen council wanting to offer an opinion/solution. I think station civilian characters like Mott and may have already been concerned about him with Avi being so erratic. Things that they might consider would be sending Mott back to Celladore where he was in the custody of his cousins for most of his life (but were content to let him go to Avi bc Bolians.) I see this deliberation being a thread or two.

I'd also need a character to take full responsibility for Mott for maybe a mission-lenght? I'd love a thread or two.

This will be hard for both Avi and Mott to deal with, but in the end they won't have a choice. Once Avi is stable, it would be her right to care for him again.

And bonus, you'll all get to learn the truth about their relationship.