Posted by Lieutenant Guy Freeman (Chief Counseling Officer) in Pre sim - Mazi checks in COUNSELOR
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She was surprised and the antennae flickered slightly. “Please. The Ale will be fine. Have you had it before?” She moved to one of the more comfortable chairs and settled herself. She crossed her legs at the knees and settled her hands in her lap all proper like. “I don’t get to enjoy it often because I don’t partake in synthahol. I prefer the real thing, so it’s definitely an ‘occasion’ thing.” She watched him watching her. Her antennae now as intent, it seemed, on him as she was.

Mazi
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“Good. I missed the real Andorian ale.” He smiled putting some of the content in Mazi’s glass and then to his “Alright… while you and I enjoy this superb beverage, I should say we shall start, shouldn’t we?” He took the notebook and opened a new page. As the pen swiftly wandered everywhere on the row, Guy sipped some of the alcoholic drink and looked through the Lieutenant’s eyes as he was usual to “Let’s start with something basic. Talk me about yourself, how would you define your persona.” Asked the Counselor.

Lieutenant Freeman, Guy - Chief Counselor Officer

Mazi settled into the seat and frowned slightly. “I’m not sure what you are looking for. I mean, don’t persona change depending who we speak to? One persona for your work and supervisor. Yet, something different for in private with a lover. Yes?” She took a sip of the ale and the edges of her lips relaxed slightly. “So are you asking who I am with you? With the ship in general? Or perhaps as this is a counseling session, perhaps you want to know what I am like should I ever have a lover?”

“As it is of work I am evaluating for, tell me how are you when you work, how do you interact with crew… but some personal review won’t hurt much. I mean, in the end personal and work sides blends together sometimes and it is essential that I understand of what dough you are made.” He slightly smiled “Just not too much in detail, luckily for you I am not interested in people’s love story-.“ He dropped a bit his tone. The truth was: he really did not had any experience in love stories and everything about mentioning it made Guy feel uncomfortable. 30ish years and still haven’t found his blending soulmate.

Her antenna seemed to take in the room then settle back on the man in front of her, even as the speaker did.

Mazi
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Amused by her antennas, Guy looked them for a while before remembering it could be taken as something perverted “Right…” and as nothing really happened, he looked down his notebook and just tried to hide his weirded and embarrassed face.

Lieutenant Freeman, Guy - Chief Counselor Officer

Perhaps it was being only half Andorian that gave Mazi the openness to let people observe her without commenting or attacking them. She watched with as much fascination as showed on his face as he watched the motion on her head. “They are intriguing aren’t they?” She smiled. “I don’t mind you looking. Though I sincerely don’t recommend it to any other Andorians you come across. It’s almost as awkward as a human being fascinated by a human’s hands when they talk. No one stares at hands, no matter how animated because it’s a natural occurrence. To most Andorians, that’s how it is with them,” her eyes rose to indicate the antennae. They react to my emotions and interests. If I get agitated, they will move more, if noises happen I am aware of, they will ‘look’ to that location despite my head not turning.” She fell silent and shook her head a moment. “I guess it’s hard to explain, but the point is, I don’t mind you watching them. Just don’t take such blatant liberties with others.”

“That’s- How can I say, Interesting, Lieutenant. Yeah I had some Andorians friend… they told me about the antennas thingy and really I just can’t get over it. They just distract me…” The counsellor gesticulated and replied with such apologies “Uhh… Right I won’t be looking at the for sake of job regulations, so let’s return to the question, shall we?” he scratched his head looking directly at her eyes and not at her antennas… tho it was hard.

She went back to his original questions as she took a sip of her ale. “Well, I don’t have a love interest so no worries about me pouring my heart out on you.” She laughed. “As to how I interact, I guess I am both a team player and a lone wolf, so to speak. I can take direction and go off on my own and complete given tasks. But I also function well in a group. I tend to take the lead if no one else does. And I admit there are times where a leader has hesitated or seemed unsure and I have spoken up. I know the difference between professional and personal confrontations and can be as polite and formal as a situation dictates.” She looked down at her glass a moment. “I think one of my failings is when it comes to the safety and security of the crew and ship. I will not hesitate to shut something down, or throttle back on something because I feel that not doing so will endanger lives. I don’t do it willy nilly, I will certainly bring it to the Chief’s attention if possible. But I’ve been known to react first, then explain myself second.”

She wasn’t sure how well that answered his question, but it was the only response she had thought of.

Mazi
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As Guy wrote down some points about Mazi’s personality, he took a pause and looked back and forward to Mazi and the Notebook, Mazi and the Notebook, before he could speak and say something “Really interesting… Alright Lieutenant, let’s see something more in deep. Do you perhaps remember some episodes happened to you when you reacted first and actually failed to solve the real issue of the situation? If yes, what was your reaction when you needed to explain it to your superior? I mean we all do errors. My career was an error and my whole life was filled with errors… some more troublesome, some less risky. So if you don’t feel to talk about errors, we can pass to something like, your family.”

Lieutenant Freeman, Guy - Chief Counsellor Officer

She laughed slightly. “I think of the two, I’d rather discuss failures than family.” She thought for a moment and shrugged. “I don’t recall a work incident that fits that, but rather a personal one. And it was misunderstand, as you said. I reacted but it solved nothing. It was a disagreement about work procedures for something or other. The one I was arguing with ran into me in the gym and we had it out so to speak. I took too quick to the goading and we ended up in trouble not just for the behavior but for the stupid reason the behavior began. And yet, after restriction and extra duties, we were still at odds. It took me coming to the Chief and asking how I could get out of the extra duties for him to say I had to resolve the rift, to both our satisfactions. Then the Chief would hear us out and consider the lifting of the punishment.” She sighed remembering the realization that she could have gotten out of the extra duties so much sooner if she and her antagonist had just spoken to one another instead of avoiding each other.

“It took a couple days to corner him where we didn’t end up yelling in two minutes and parting ways before punishments got worse. When we finally talked, we came to a compromise. It seemed that while my way was better as far as a timely manner went, his was better for trouble shooting. So as long as the system was functioning fine, I could check it out and get the needed readings faster. But if the readings came out slightly out of expected ranges, his way was more thorough for finding the issue faster.” She sighed once more. “I have sense learned that when I disagree with someone and we start to get heated, I sit down with them and we ‘side by side’ the issue to show one another how it goes. It usually resolves itself one way or the other a lot faster than arguing.”

Mazi’s antennae had been pressed back slightly from her agitation, but as she came to her conclusion, she, and the antennae seemed to calm down and relax. They settled to a more upright position.

Mazi
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