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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 2597970" data-attributes="member: 130">That could be interesting. We were just minding our own business and we got drafted! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For Ozmar:[sblock]I'm picturing an Inseer-themed sort of mechanical/grid "genius!". Very high opinion of his skills that he's fairly able to back up (at least for a PC of his level). He was a genetic experiment (mutant, hyper intellect, unsure of drawbacks yet) of uncertain origin. Some Hatirans found him in suspended animation at an abandoned military facility left over from GW2.They thawed him out and discovered to their horror that he was the product of genetic engineering. They weren't the type to punish him for the "sins" of his creators, but decided it was vital for his soul that he not glory in his unnatural birth. He was settled on a strict agricultural colony where hard, often tedious labor was the norm. They wanted to fill his mind with natural, proper things. He never knew enough to be curious, but spent childhood bored out of his skull. He didn't know what was missing (and wasn't allowed to) and ended up thinking it was a product of his horrible nature. Then he serendipitiously discovered computers. Not sure quite how yet, but he found everything that was missing in his life and promptly ran off, enthusiastically rejecting the heritage of his discoverers in favor of the complete opposite.He's still running from his past to a degree. He's legally able to run his own life now and more or less settled into his new identity, but his relationship with authority and discipline is complicated. I can't see him joining the military outright, or necessarily being happy there, but there's also an element of attraction to it. He wants to be an out-and-out rebel innovator and gridpilot desperately. But at the same time, he was raised in that kind of regimented life. He's sometimes consciously fighting an automatic deference to authority and guilt over running away and what he's doing now. He doesn't always succeed, and often enough ends up settling for an at best arguable notion that he's doing things on his own terms. I'm not sure if this is making any sense at all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Basically, the PC has a tension between who he wants to be (sort of a cyber-hippie information anarchist) and what he spent most of his life being (a technophobic, deferential Hatire farm boy). The Inseer side (religious, not necessarily nationality-wise) is outwardly dominant but it hasn't replaced all the old, ingrained habits. He's been consciously avoiding authority figures, but I can see him courting the kind of legal trouble that might get him stuck back in the midst of authority out of some subconscious baggage. Maybe he's serving out some kind of probation in lieu of prison? Or otherwise ended up dragooned into the job? I'm open to suggestions.Since he ran away, he's been having recurring nightmares that may or may not have to do with suppressed memories of his year or two of life pre-stasis that he lacks conscious recollection of.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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