Jonathan Forrest

Jonathan’s mothers met shortly after they both left the Academy and were serving on the Reliant together. They met, fell in love, and after something of a whirlwind romance they were married. Like any marriage, they have had their ups and downs, but theirs is a happy relationship. They had been married for five years when they decided to have children. Since both women were stationed together at the time they decided to get pregnant at the same time, using artificial insemination to do so. While both women’s first priority was to have a healthy, happy child, they also wanted that child to be bright with a lot of potential.

They selected Michael Hall, a friend of Marice’s who like her was a rising star, who was 28 at the time. He was one of the best infiltration officers within the Intelligent Division and had a string of highly successful undercover operations under his belt.

He is highly intelligent with a keen mind and like his son very intuitive. Jonathan was born first on June 11th and his brother Alex was born three weeks later on June 25th. Michael had no desire to be part of either of the boys’ lives nor did the mothers have any real interest in having him a part of their life.

There were long stretches where the family was not altogether, Jonathan was sometimes with his mother Marcie sometimes he was with his mom Jennifer. Sometimes his brother was with him, sometimes not. The two women were able to coordinate leaves and were always together for those times. On a handful of times over the years, they were all together until the last two and a half years when both women were assigned to Starfleet Headquarters.

Most people could have cared less that Jonathan had two mothers, but he would occasionally get comments from nonhuman children that came from a heteronormative culture. He would sometimes get into fights over this when he was younger thinking he’d been slighted or that they were insulting his moms. As he grew older the questions lessened and rather than get in a fight over it when it did he shrugged it off or used words rather than his fists.

He would rather use his words to get out of other situations and avoid unnecessary brawls, but is not afraid to throw a punch, or jump into a fight when he thought he should and he’s had to do that a handful of times, usually coming out on top.

As he grew older his relationship with his mothers became more complicated. He still loved them, but he began to resent what he considered to be their interference. They would question the motivation of his friends, and while they allowed him to explore his sexuality.

They weren’t above sharing about his accomplishments; his acing a test or scoring the winning goal in Parrises Squares, or soccer with those who not only wanted to hear but those who didn’t have a lot of interest in hearing. This has put a strain on their relationship and he is glad to be away from them and truly on his own (Though he does have to contact them by subspace radio at least once a week.)

His relationship with his brother became complicated as well, but for a different reason. Both boys were close to each other and shared some common traits, but in many ways, they were very different from each other. When Alex turned twelve, he came out to his family that he was a girl, trapped in a boy’s body By fifteen he had begun hormone treatments and had surgery. Now, at 18 hormones have worked their magic and Alex is now fully Angela.

While he loved Alex/Angela unconditionally, there was a period of questioning and adjustment. It is one thing to accept someone who is transsexual, but another when that person is someone you knew for so long as a boy, who has become a girl. Especially when that person is going through the transition.

From early on, he was a very social person, a natural leader, and even something of a diplomat.

For most of his life, he wasn’t in a regular school. Depending on the size of the ship he was either in a classroom with only a few kids, or he was with a tutor, so he was much more accomplished in dealing with adults.

When the family moved back to San Francisco, he and Angela were allowed to attend a regular, public, High School.

The school that they chose was Mission High School, the oldest school in the city that was still in the same location, On Eighteenth street between Mission Dolores and Mission Church. He served on student council all three years and was the Senior Class president. He did well in his classes with a strong, high B average. He also played on the Soccer and Parrises Square teams.,

While there he met and fell in love with a Bajoran boy named Sarish Anjar. He was crushed when Anjar decided to move back to Bajor to further his career as a diplomat, while he chose to attend the Academy as he had told Anjar he was doing for the three years they were together. This left him heartbroken, but no less determined to pursue his career.

He’s mostly kept his nose clean, but there’s been a fight or two. He’s had one or two professors express his irritation at his speaking out of turn and there was one fly by incident at the Golden Gate bridge that resulted in an official reprimand in his record, his only blemish so far.