Salome Rousseau

Doctor Salome Rousseau

Marion Cotillard as Salome Rousseau

Personal

Alias:	None
Age:	32
Features:	Eyes bordering between sky blue and slate gray, dark brown hair, a frail build and pale complexion with a rosy cast
Colony:	Picon

Professional

Rank:	Doctor
Department:	Civilian (QUODEL)
Position:	Psychiatrist

Background

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Ambitious and disciplined, prudent and practical, Salome Rousseau embodies many of the qualities that her late father - a Picon native and intelligence officer stationed aboard a Mercury-class Battlestar with the Colonial Fleet - valued in his fellow Man, and had she been born a boy, it's likely that he would have pressured her from an early age to follow in his footsteps and enlist in either the Navy or the Marines as soon as she was old enough. Instead, his wife gave him a baby girl with a weak constitution and the frailty of a bird.

As a child, Salome excelled in academics and was purposely discouraged by both her parents from participating in any athletics except for several years of ballet lessons during her early teens, which came to an abrupt end when she broke her ankle and was persuaded to take up other pursuits instead. An innate difficulty comprehending mathematics pushed her toward subjects like history and literature, amateur botany, music, painting and - eventually - psychiatry, and at eighteen she left the Rousseau family home to study on Caprica.

By twenty-six, she had earned her M.D. and was working closely with the local justice system to assess and rehabilitate violent criminals, which is where she eventually met her husband, a Caprican lawyer fifteen years her senior whose austere demeanor largely reminded her of her father who had passed away while she was working towards her degree. By thirty, it had become apparent that Salome's poor health was interfering with her ability to have children, and although her husband was initially supportive, Salome's own insecurities about the situation drove a wedge between them and motivated her to take what she felt would be a brief leave of absence from their relationship when officials heading up QUODEL Cerebus noticed her work and invited her to participate in the program as a consultant hired for the purpose of evaluating the ship's personnel.

Accepting their offer didn't save her marriage, but it saved her life.

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Physical Features

A small, frail woman with a wavy mane of dark brown hair and eyes that border between sky blue and slate gray, Salome has a face dominated by the rueful shape of a mouth that rarely smiles. Her skin, although pale, has a rosy cast to it and gives her a less sickly and wan appearance than her fragile appearance suggests she probably deserves.

She is dressed in civilian clothes that change from day to day but tends to favour neutral tones with few splashes of brighter colours, minimal amounts of make-up and silver jewelry accented with imitation pearls.

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