Character questionnaire meme
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liralen! I have no intention of turning this LJ into a memefest, but given that it's a writing meme, I find it hard to resist.
1. Choose a few of your own characters.
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself!!
4. Then tag three people.
Who are you? I'm Shelly, librarian of souls for Aegis. I oversee the memory repository where they store the mental engrams of people who are casualties of the ongoing war between the Aegis and Marauders. Bastards.
Do you have any brothers or sisters? I have a brother. He's an Aegis agent, working with one of the Aegis automechs. I had a sister, too, but she's missing. Marauders overran the city she was last seen in, so she's probably in a Marauder library somewhere. If so, we'll get her back sooner or later.
How old are you? Twenty-three.
What's your height? Five foot seven.
Are you a virgin? What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
Who is your mate/spouse? I used to have a boyfriend, but don't have one now…exactly. Not anymore. I do have a car, though.
Do you have any kids? No, and no prospect of getting any. My boyfriend isn't in any condition to help with that, and the idea doesn't interest me right now anyway. I have 12,000 souls under my care, I don't need bodies to look after too.
What's your favorite food? Chocolate. The real dark stuff in bars. It's the best reason to stay organic; the automechs don't know what they're missing.
Have you killed anyone? Not directly. I suppose you could say as part of the war effort I've been party to a whole lot of…beings getting killed, but I try not to think about it.
Do you hate anyone? I hate the Marauders with the fury of a thousand suns. The bastards. Go around ripping people out of their bodies, and cooking the bodies down into fuel. They don't even need to; it's nowhere near as efficient as hydrocarbons. They just do it because they can. As an insult. Bastards.
Have any secrets? Funny you should mention that. I sort of haven't told Aegis about my boyfriend, and my car…not exactly.
Do you love anyone? Well…I love my car.
What is your job? I told you; librarian of souls for the Aegis. See, in this war we're in, Aegis are the good guys, a task force of automech robots under the direction of the UN. The Marauders are a terrorist automech force who want to take over the world, or wipe out humanity, or some crap like that. Whatever their ideology is this week. They're in the habit of rounding up people, scanning their mental engrams into storage cubes they can grep for useful data or harness in parallel for computational power, and cooking their bodies down for fuel. They store these engrams, these "souls," in library complexes.
Every so often, we—the Aegis—raid one of their libraries, and recover all the cubes in it. Aegis doesn't engram people except in emergencies, but that sure doesn't keep them from making use of the engrams they capture. Have to try to get any little advantage they can, don't they? It's my job to monitor the library and to try to make sure the engrams we have are as comfortable as possible. Well, at least I feel like that's my job. It's not exactly in the official description. But I figure someone has to.
Boy or Girl? Excuse me? What kind of a question is that?
What do you do to relax? Curl up with a good book, or maybe a movie. Or go for a drive.
There's a person who's teasing you; what could you do? I don't know, that's not the sort of thing that's happened to me since my school days. People are a lot more…subdued in the Aegis complex. Somber. The things the Marauders do get on everybody's nerves.
Let's say you have a person you really care about but she/he doesn't know about your feelings. How do you tell him/her? I don't know. That kind of emotional state is so alien to me at this point it's hard to even imagine it. I've only really cared for one man, and he had an unfortunate encounter with the Marauders. I can't even remember how or if I had to tell him about those feelings.
Do you like your maker? My writer? I'm neutral. Without him, I wouldn't exist at all—but it's not as if I have much of an existence anyway. I'm only in three ficlets, and nobody's continuing any of them—or any of the ficlets in my universe, for that matter—and my writer really doesn't like writing ficlet chains all by himself as it kind of defeats the purpose of the site. So there I go.
Tagging:jarodrussell, masonk, demiurgent. As always, if you're tagged you can ignore it, and if you're not tagged you can pretend you were tagged if you want to.
liralen! I have no intention of turning this LJ into a memefest, but given that it's a writing meme, I find it hard to resist.1. Choose a few of your own characters.
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself!!
4. Then tag three people.
Who are you? I'm Shelly, librarian of souls for Aegis. I oversee the memory repository where they store the mental engrams of people who are casualties of the ongoing war between the Aegis and Marauders. Bastards.
Do you have any brothers or sisters? I have a brother. He's an Aegis agent, working with one of the Aegis automechs. I had a sister, too, but she's missing. Marauders overran the city she was last seen in, so she's probably in a Marauder library somewhere. If so, we'll get her back sooner or later.
How old are you? Twenty-three.
What's your height? Five foot seven.
Are you a virgin? What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
Who is your mate/spouse? I used to have a boyfriend, but don't have one now…exactly. Not anymore. I do have a car, though.
Do you have any kids? No, and no prospect of getting any. My boyfriend isn't in any condition to help with that, and the idea doesn't interest me right now anyway. I have 12,000 souls under my care, I don't need bodies to look after too.
What's your favorite food? Chocolate. The real dark stuff in bars. It's the best reason to stay organic; the automechs don't know what they're missing.
Have you killed anyone? Not directly. I suppose you could say as part of the war effort I've been party to a whole lot of…beings getting killed, but I try not to think about it.
Do you hate anyone? I hate the Marauders with the fury of a thousand suns. The bastards. Go around ripping people out of their bodies, and cooking the bodies down into fuel. They don't even need to; it's nowhere near as efficient as hydrocarbons. They just do it because they can. As an insult. Bastards.
Have any secrets? Funny you should mention that. I sort of haven't told Aegis about my boyfriend, and my car…not exactly.
Do you love anyone? Well…I love my car.
What is your job? I told you; librarian of souls for the Aegis. See, in this war we're in, Aegis are the good guys, a task force of automech robots under the direction of the UN. The Marauders are a terrorist automech force who want to take over the world, or wipe out humanity, or some crap like that. Whatever their ideology is this week. They're in the habit of rounding up people, scanning their mental engrams into storage cubes they can grep for useful data or harness in parallel for computational power, and cooking their bodies down for fuel. They store these engrams, these "souls," in library complexes.
Every so often, we—the Aegis—raid one of their libraries, and recover all the cubes in it. Aegis doesn't engram people except in emergencies, but that sure doesn't keep them from making use of the engrams they capture. Have to try to get any little advantage they can, don't they? It's my job to monitor the library and to try to make sure the engrams we have are as comfortable as possible. Well, at least I feel like that's my job. It's not exactly in the official description. But I figure someone has to.
Boy or Girl? Excuse me? What kind of a question is that?
What do you do to relax? Curl up with a good book, or maybe a movie. Or go for a drive.
There's a person who's teasing you; what could you do? I don't know, that's not the sort of thing that's happened to me since my school days. People are a lot more…subdued in the Aegis complex. Somber. The things the Marauders do get on everybody's nerves.
Let's say you have a person you really care about but she/he doesn't know about your feelings. How do you tell him/her? I don't know. That kind of emotional state is so alien to me at this point it's hard to even imagine it. I've only really cared for one man, and he had an unfortunate encounter with the Marauders. I can't even remember how or if I had to tell him about those feelings.
Do you like your maker? My writer? I'm neutral. Without him, I wouldn't exist at all—but it's not as if I have much of an existence anyway. I'm only in three ficlets, and nobody's continuing any of them—or any of the ficlets in my universe, for that matter—and my writer really doesn't like writing ficlet chains all by himself as it kind of defeats the purpose of the site. So there I go.
Tagging:
jarodrussell, masonk, demiurgent. As always, if you're tagged you can ignore it, and if you're not tagged you can pretend you were tagged if you want to.
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Date: 2008-03-01 04:55 am (UTC)Thank you!!