Captain Kiyoshi Shingoen
Name Kiyoshi Shingoen
Position Prison Warden
Rank Captain
Character Information
| Gender | Transgendered/Intersex | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | 29 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'7" | |
| Weight | 150 | |
| Hair Color | Black | |
| Eye Color | Brown | |
| Physical Description | Kiyoshi certainly doesn’t look very imposing. He stands just 5’7” and weighs a mere 150 pounds, both measurements below the average for a human male. He wears his raven's wing black hair a bit longer than regulation, at least out in the field, where such things are less important. His eyes are the color of freshly roasted coffee beans. He looks more like an androgynous model than a man who once led a marine squad, or faced down a trio of Nausicaans At least at first glance. It has taken him a while, but he is superbly confident in his character and ability and he wears that confidence like a second uniform and anyone that spends more than a few minutes with him knows that he is no model. Adding to the truism that appearances are deceiving is the fact that while he only weighs 150 pounds, he has less than 3% body fat and all his 150 pounds is lean muscle, and he is stronger than he looks. When he goes shirtless it's especially clear he takes care of himself. When not in uniform he prefers casual clothes or traditional Japanese attire. |
Family
| Spouse | None | |
| Children | None | |
| Father | Takeda Shingen 62 | |
| Mother | Hisano Shingen 64 | |
| Brother(s) | Benjiro 34 Takahiro 32 |
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| Sister(s) | Reina 37 Tatsuo 25 |
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| Other Family | Various uncles, aunts and cousins. |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Kiyoshi grew up in a very traditional Japanese American family in San Francisco. His father teaches Japanese History at the University of San Francisco and his mother is a nurse. His childhood was not a happy one. Kiyoshi, which means He is pure, was originally born a girl and she was called Kiyoko which means a clean and pure child. She knew from a very early age that there was something different about her. Nothing seemed to feel right, or fit right to her. She was a tomboy with no desire to wear makeup or play with dolls. When she played with other kids she always wanted to play the male part. It was not until she reached preadolescence that she realized that not only was she attracted to boys, she wanted to be one. Because of his family's conservative views, he wasn’t allowed to transition until he was sixteen. It was a three-year process but in the end, he was much happier than before. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Kiyoshi is a very determined and driven young man. Once he makes a commitment he stays with it no matter how hard it might be. The other side of that strength is that he can be stubborn. He is intuitive and tends to rely on instinct and his guts when assessing a situation. He’s not so adept at analyzing and assessing data. He is an excellent martial artist in both Iaido(Kendo) and Aikido On the other hand, he is only average with a phaser, though he better with a rifle He has a near idetic memory He has intimacy issues and it’s not easy for him to let people get too close to him, even though that is what he wants. Has issues when someone refers to him as a girl. He’s a better strategist than a tactician. |
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| Ambitions | On a personal level he would like to make peace with and be accepted by his family He would also like to find true love. From a professional standpoint, he would like to become a Colonel and retire to teach at Anapolis |
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| Hobbies & Interests | He likes poker, strategy games, cooking, and free climbing, and he sketches and paints He doesn’t really show his art |
| Personal History | The Shingen family first became famous in Japan in 1521, when the Samaura Takeda Shingen rose to power and helped to unite much of the country. The 22nd century Takeda could proudly trace his lineage all the way back to the original Takeda. His father even named him after his famous ancestor. This was a source of pride to the modern Takeda. A pride he tried to pass on to his children. There are no longer any Samurais in Japan any longer, but the Samurai spirit lives on at least in the Shingen family. Honor, integrity, dedication to duty, and striving for perfection in everything that they do. This is the lesson that Takeda tried to instill in each of his five children. Kiyoko was born on November 22, 2346, the fourth of the five children and the second daughter to be born to the growing and happy family. She was welcomed with open arms and everything appeared to be normal through her toddler years. As she grew older that began to change. She had no desire to play with dolls or house or any of the traditional feminine activities. She didn’t liked wearing dresses or skirts, put preferred pants and shirts. Everyone in the family, including her thought she was just going through a TomBoy phase and would eventually outgrow it. But that proved not to be the case. As she got older and started to become more self-aware, she knew that it was something else. Something deeper and permanent. She just didn’t know what it was. As puberty approached, she became more frustrated at her failure to really connect with who she was, who she was supposed to be. Shortly after she turned twelve, the frustration which had been building for years turned into depression and she even attempted suicide a week before her thirteenth birthday, by taking an overdose of over-the-counter sleeping pills she’d gotten at a drug store. Her parents took that as a wake-up call and did what they had been reluctant to do before, they got her counseling. It took the counselor, six months to get to the bottom of things, and the results, while a relief for her, did not please her parents at all. Doctor Grey helped her discover that she was actually a he. And that he liked boys and not girls. He changed his name to Kiyoshi and asked his parents to start using masculine pronouns to refer to him. His father flat out refused to do so and his mother did so only when Takeda wasn’t around. While the majority of the world was tolerant, if not fully understanding, and his siblings were supportive, that was not the case with his parents. Taleda refused to allow him to transition and he had to wait for the better part of two years before he became emancipated and could get the hormones and surgery. The transition not only changed his life, but it saved it. Now that his body matched what he knew he was things his depression and anxiety went away. Once he had adjusted to the new him, which took another year, he knew that he didn’t want to be average (0r normal). That he wanted his life to make a difference, on Earth and beyond. Starfleet seemed to be a solution for him, it would take him to the stars. But it was too tame for him. So a new idea came to him from Benjiro. Honoring the warrior tradition of his ancestors he attended Annapolis. After graduating, he joined the Marines. While the Marines were a relatively small part of Starfleet, they are a part. He figured no one there knew of his past as a girl, or if they did, it wouldn’t bother them. While he lacked the brute strength of his mostly larger colleagues, he more than made up for it with his speed, agility, and martial arts training. He entered SFMC Annapolis at 19 and graduated four years later as a 2nd Lieutenant. He received specialized training as a military police and corrections officer. He gradually worked his way up the ranks and has been both an investigator and a brig officer. He was promoted to Captain six months ago and just assigned to the Artemis |
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| Service Record | 2381- 2385 UFMC Annapolis 2385-2387 SF Headquarters San Francisco 2387-2390 USS Boston 2390-2391 USS Archer 2391- Present USS Artemis |