Everett Young

Everett Young is a character from Stargate: Universe.
 * Date of Arrival: 7 December 2009
 * Age: 41

Info

 * Player: Mara
 * PB: Louis Ferreira
 * Journal: thewrongsoldier

Appearance
Everett Young is forty years old, though he looks a little older. Dark-haired, not exactly conventionally handsome. Soft voice, quiet but calm demeanor. Dignified but casual in the way he moves.

Personality
Everett Young is the kind of person who needs to be doing something important. He's very competent, cool-headed in a crisis, experienced and capable, and he's only really fulfilled when he's able to use that experience towards something he cares about.

Unfortunately, that experience has been gained at a very high cost. Young is burnt out. So many years being a team leader, watching one to many people die under his command, has made him withdraw from military life. He's managed to convince himself that the important thing is home and family, and that he doesn't need excitement and exploration to survive.

This contradiction has produced someone who's torn between his duty, which he truly values, and his home, which he truly wants to value. He does his duty and does it well, and has a strong tendency to choose offworld assignments over staying home with his wife, but his preoccupation with her, and the struggle that has produced, has made him feel trapped and lash out in an effort to break that trap.

This burnout has also produced a flaw in his otherwise seamless ability as a commanding officer. Young doesn't want to make the difficult decisions. He would rather sacrifice himself than face up to the responsibility of choosing who, under his command, should die. He knows he's the wrong person for the job, and has acknowledged that fact verbally more than once, even though he fights to retain command under the threat of it being taken away.

Young can be very manipulative. If the greater good is served by undercutting someone else, or lying, he's fine with that. He's soft-spoken, not loud, and doesn't have to use his physical presence to get what he wants -- interesting, for someone who chooses a career in the military, a profession all about physical force.

He's very protective of his people, and is unwilling to leave anyone behind.

Finally, if Young is provoked -- if he is personally provoked, not simply challenged or slighted -- then he can become very violent very quickly. This is extreme situations only, but he has displayed it twice, in canon: once, when a man attempted to sabotage Young's relationship with his wife (in this case, it was cool, premeditated, and very nasty), and once when Nicholas Rush attempted to frame Young for murder, and then wouldn't back down. In the case with Rush, Young's actions amount to attempted murder.