StarGate Atlantis Aberrant: StarGate Atlantis - [SGA] Doctor Moira Fitzgerald

[Moira Fitzgerald]

Birth Name: Moira Fitzgerald

Nick Names: The Bitch, Ice Princess

Aliases: None (Currently)

Calling: Anthropology/Sociology

Known Relatives: None - Orphaned

Nature: Autocrat

Age: 41

Gender: Female

Ethnic Background: English/Irish

Nationality: American

Height: 5 foot 9 inches

Weight: 139 lbs.

Eye Color: Green

Hair Color: Red

Handedness: Left-handed

Distinguishing Marks: Intense green eyes, fair skin, almost constantly stern or irritated expression.

Appearance: Moira is stunningly attractive woman in her early forties. She has red hair and green eyes, is fairly thin but obviously works out to keep herself toned and fit.

Personality: Dr. Fitzgerald is a very severe woman most of the time. She takes her field very seriously, and is both dismissive and intolerant of anyone who doesn't do the same (either her field, or their own). She doesn't think she's smarter than most everyone around her - she knows it. While she isn't outright hostile, she's in almost no way an approachable, friendly person. She's clinical, detached, and can be a downright ice queen when (not if) you piss her off. However, Moira's interaction with most people is in a professional manner, and as long as you aren't stomping all over her toes, she's an incredibly useful, highly intelligent person to have around and on your side.

Interests: History, ancient cultures, human sociology, xeno-sociology, gardening.

History: Moira was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Left to the church as an infant by an unwed mother, Moira was raised in a Catholic orphanage. Because of the low rate of adoptions in the heavily Catholic country at that time, she was never adopted. As she got older, she grew more and more bitter at her birth mother, her situation, the church, and even Ireland itself. She retreated into academics as her escape, and as she grew more and more frustrated with the people, religion, and culture she was surrounded by, she spent more and more time devoting herself to learning the truth about.. well, everything, really. An overwhelming thirst for excellence fueled her. Moira's motto was that if her mother ever decided to come looking for her, she was going to regret abandoning the daughter that she'd found. When she was eighteen, Moira took the scholarships that the church and any other organization was willing to provide (no matter whether they were based on her religious background, her sex, her history as an orphan, or her intelligence), and accepted an offer from UCLA - Berkeley in order to get her anthropology degree. After Berkeley she spent time at University of Chicago for her Master's Degree, and Harvard for her PhD. During that time she eliminated her accent, and the negative assumptions about her personality or intelligence that always seemed to accompany it. She held positions at both University of Chicago and Harvard, and once she was finished with her education she spent a few years working at Oxford (and without that annoying Irish stigma, too). By that time she had gained U.S. Citizenship, and spent time in Oxford on a work visa before returning back to the U.S. She was propositioned by the United States government at the age of 32, and was recruited by the Stargate program three years ago.