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What my characters think about your characters - Thunderer - 03-31-2021
Elizabeth Hall
Victor Steiner:
Always struck me as too young and naive for a director of an intelligence service. Allegedly my deceased father bullied him while he still served the BAF, though he feels grateful to him for sacrificing his life for his brother Edmund. But, having lived with the Steiners and known them for a few years, I think that this innocence is a facade and that there is a lot more underneath. The Steiners, at one time, controlled much of Bretonia and without them I'd still be an arrogant peasant girl from Gran Canaria. They came from Rheinland and I have solid evidence that it was them who helped organise the Rheinland putsch and it was the SIS who kept the emperor protected. I know the Steiners had strong connections with the University of Cambridge -- and, guess what -- the new Rheinlandic emperor used to be a Cambridge professor. They may be descendants from some ancient aristocrats that fled Rheinland after the deposition of the First Empire, with plans to return not lost through generations. Since Rheinland became an empire, all Steiners have disappeared, but I haven't heard of them appearing in the Rheinland public. Perhaps they are members of some secret society that even I, the prime minister of Bretonia, don't know of.
One time I saw Victor apparently conversing with an alien near the (officially?) abandoned alien city in Newcastle. It was very suspicious, but per the Secrets Act, I am not allowed to speak of it. I will only speak about this on my deathbed.
Since it was thanks to the Steiners that I became prime minister, I get chills when I wonder what role I'm supposed to have in their schemes. I've got myself into something that's bigger than I thought and I'm not sure any more it was the right thing to do.
Mehmed Selim:
Not more competent than anyone else, but he knows his place and does what he is told, and that's why I like him. I wonder how he managed to lose his position as premier and get exiled from the Coalition, because such people are usually experts at not seeming as a threat to anyone. I believe that he failed to seem as a threat to Bretonia.
I don't know why Victor had him appointed as director of the intelligence service, but I approved. Because of our history, he's more loyal to me than to Bretonia and I can rely on him to tell me the truth. Unless it's about the Steiners, I suppose.
John Redmond:
If he ran out of ships, he would probably use that jaw as a melee weapon against Valors. Certainly a strong man, but he's still just a man. He started drinking a lot since the end of the war. Many did. I have the media talking about our "glorious victory", but we all know we keep lying to each other because the truth is too harsh. Redmond obviously has a lower tolerance to alcohol than to physical strain and it's showing. He's a good man, a good soldier and he used to be a good leader. Fortunately he's a Royalist sympathiser, so I'm waiting for him to inevitably make a fool of himself one day, so I can have him replaced with a Whig, a Social Democrat or at least an apolitical figure.
Pria Y'berg:
I think she was born as a Junker. Apparently her mother was heavily inebriated when she was received by the immigration office and Pria's unfortunate name and surname stuck. An unstable individual with questionable morals, but luckily too irrelevant and incompetent to cause any serious issues. We must have been very desperate when she was recruited (and promoted, repeatedly!) by the BAF. I remember her hitting her own mine several times. Shieldless. Yet something still gave her staunch self-confidence. Perhaps she thought that, because she managed to survive on her own methods, those methods were correct, although she disregarded that the only thing that allowed her to survive was luck.
I still appreciated her struggle for the common man. I would have considered her as an ally did she not have revolutionary tendencies. I don't want a revolution, I only want reforms. This is what an average revolutionary is like, I suppose.
Pepe Ladron:
An example of why men should be in a pub and not in power.
Kaze Dagon:
I didn't know her in person, but I did spend several months fixing her mistakes on Gran Canaria. She did take an entire planet with almost no casualties, but then she caused a veritable genocide and never answered for it. In fact, this is something that will probably forever be forgotten, because she was posthumously decorated as a war hero after she incapacitated a Valor by diving her fighter into its unshielded bridge. The world is grey.
Lukas Keller:
A revolutionary that doesn't mine himself. I almost respect him for his competence, but he tends to draw conclusions too quickly and then act most extremely on them. He regretted at least one time that I know of, which is exactly why I got the misfortune to meet him. But somehow I doubt he has learned...
Alexandra Ward:
A mistake that will haunt me until I die. I knew my father was very active in his young days, but I didn't expect to actually meet any of his other illegitimate children from different mothers. I lost my twin sister to an illness when we were 12. And after my father's death and my rise to prominence, suddenly this innocent girl finds her way to me. In fact, she was already 30 years old, but due to the conditions she had previously lived in, she had the mind and innocence of a child.
I was taken by complete surprise. I didn't know what to do, do I even love her? Should I? We were only half sisters and I had just met her. But for some reason I did care. I only realised that when an assassin shot at her instead of me by mistake because she wore my hat. Yet another sister of mine almost died in my arms, now directly because of me. I was so glad only the hat was hurt. Poor Alex only understood what had happened the following day. Besides my mother and my twin sister, she was the only person in my life that I truly ever trusted.
That was why I sent her on an intelligence mission to the Reavers. They were unwanted in Bretonia at the time, but I knew we needed them, and I didn't trust Victor. But the savage beasts killed her. I thought I sent her to people, but I sent her to dogs. No, it was not my fault! It was hers. Ward was an idiot and her stupidity got her killed. But the Reavers will suffer for this, they will one day! Ironically, it was after they killed Ward that Bretonia opened them its arms. I can't banish them, that would only would the beast. I must destroy them. Maybe I should give them the HMS Hellbound for their services, as promised... but have someone plant a time bomb...
Sarah Mountbatten:
Duchess of London. London! Is there any title that a Bretonian duke would be more proud of? Mountbatten lives off of pride. She stands on past glory, her father's glory. Much like myself, in fact... Except that I have been resourceful to snatch what belongs to me yet my father never gave me, while she received it warm on a plate. The Royalists trust her. I believe she is 10th or something like that in the line of successors to the throne. She has a great burden on her shoulders and for that I don't envy her, because I believe that luxury and idleness have clouded her perception of the real world and that her family's proud and ancient legacy might be ended in a day by one of her naive accomplishments. I pity her, but politics is a ruthless world without pity. I should probably not interrupt her and she will ruin the Royalists sufficiently that they are out of my way.
Always struck me as too young and naive for a director of an intelligence service. Allegedly my deceased father bullied him while he still served the BAF, though he feels grateful to him for sacrificing his life for his brother Edmund. But, having lived with the Steiners and known them for a few years, I think that this innocence is a facade and that there is a lot more underneath. The Steiners, at one time, controlled much of Bretonia and without them I'd still be an arrogant peasant girl from Gran Canaria. They came from Rheinland and I have solid evidence that it was them who helped organise the Rheinland putsch and it was the SIS who kept the emperor protected. I know the Steiners had strong connections with the University of Cambridge -- and, guess what -- the new Rheinlandic emperor used to be a Cambridge professor. They may be descendants from some ancient aristocrats that fled Rheinland after the deposition of the First Empire, with plans to return not lost through generations. Since Rheinland became an empire, all Steiners have disappeared, but I haven't heard of them appearing in the Rheinland public. Perhaps they are members of some secret society that even I, the prime minister of Bretonia, don't know of.
One time I saw Victor apparently conversing with an alien near the (officially?) abandoned alien city in Newcastle. It was very suspicious, but per the Secrets Act, I am not allowed to speak of it. I will only speak about this on my deathbed.
Since it was thanks to the Steiners that I became prime minister, I get chills when I wonder what role I'm supposed to have in their schemes. I've got myself into something that's bigger than I thought and I'm not sure any more it was the right thing to do.
Mehmed Selim:
Not more competent than anyone else, but he knows his place and does what he is told, and that's why I like him. I wonder how he managed to lose his position as premier and get exiled from the Coalition, because such people are usually experts at not seeming as a threat to anyone. I believe that he failed to seem as a threat to Bretonia.
I don't know why Victor had him appointed as director of the intelligence service, but I approved. Because of our history, he's more loyal to me than to Bretonia and I can rely on him to tell me the truth. Unless it's about the Steiners, I suppose.
John Redmond:
If he ran out of ships, he would probably use that jaw as a melee weapon against Valors. Certainly a strong man, but he's still just a man. He started drinking a lot since the end of the war. Many did. I have the media talking about our "glorious victory", but we all know we keep lying to each other because the truth is too harsh. Redmond obviously has a lower tolerance to alcohol than to physical strain and it's showing. He's a good man, a good soldier and he used to be a good leader. Fortunately he's a Royalist sympathiser, so I'm waiting for him to inevitably make a fool of himself one day, so I can have him replaced with a Whig, a Social Democrat or at least an apolitical figure.
Pria Y'berg:
I think she was born as a Junker. Apparently her mother was heavily inebriated when she was received by the immigration office and Pria's unfortunate name and surname stuck. An unstable individual with questionable morals, but luckily too irrelevant and incompetent to cause any serious issues. We must have been very desperate when she was recruited (and promoted, repeatedly!) by the BAF. I remember her hitting her own mine several times. Shieldless. Yet something still gave her staunch self-confidence. Perhaps she thought that, because she managed to survive on her own methods, those methods were correct, although she disregarded that the only thing that allowed her to survive was luck.
I still appreciated her struggle for the common man. I would have considered her as an ally did she not have revolutionary tendencies. I don't want a revolution, I only want reforms. This is what an average revolutionary is like, I suppose.
Pepe Ladron:
An example of why men should be in a pub and not in power.
Kaze Dagon:
I didn't know her in person, but I did spend several months fixing her mistakes on Gran Canaria. She did take an entire planet with almost no casualties, but then she caused a veritable genocide and never answered for it. In fact, this is something that will probably forever be forgotten, because she was posthumously decorated as a war hero after she incapacitated a Valor by diving her fighter into its unshielded bridge. The world is grey.
Lukas Keller:
A revolutionary that doesn't mine himself. I almost respect him for his competence, but he tends to draw conclusions too quickly and then act most extremely on them. He regretted at least one time that I know of, which is exactly why I got the misfortune to meet him. But somehow I doubt he has learned...
Alexandra Ward:
A mistake that will haunt me until I die. I knew my father was very active in his young days, but I didn't expect to actually meet any of his other illegitimate children from different mothers. I lost my twin sister to an illness when we were 12. And after my father's death and my rise to prominence, suddenly this innocent girl finds her way to me. In fact, she was already 30 years old, but due to the conditions she had previously lived in, she had the mind and innocence of a child.
I was taken by complete surprise. I didn't know what to do, do I even love her? Should I? We were only half sisters and I had just met her. But for some reason I did care. I only realised that when an assassin shot at her instead of me by mistake because she wore my hat. Yet another sister of mine almost died in my arms, now directly because of me. I was so glad only the hat was hurt. Poor Alex only understood what had happened the following day. Besides my mother and my twin sister, she was the only person in my life that I truly ever trusted.
That was why I sent her on an intelligence mission to the Reavers. They were unwanted in Bretonia at the time, but I knew we needed them, and I didn't trust Victor. But the savage beasts killed her. I thought I sent her to people, but I sent her to dogs. No, it was not my fault! It was hers. Ward was an idiot and her stupidity got her killed. But the Reavers will suffer for this, they will one day! Ironically, it was after they killed Ward that Bretonia opened them its arms. I can't banish them, that would only would the beast. I must destroy them. Maybe I should give them the HMS Hellbound for their services, as promised... but have someone plant a time bomb...
Sarah Mountbatten:
Duchess of London. London! Is there any title that a Bretonian duke would be more proud of? Mountbatten lives off of pride. She stands on past glory, her father's glory. Much like myself, in fact... Except that I have been resourceful to snatch what belongs to me yet my father never gave me, while she received it warm on a plate. The Royalists trust her. I believe she is 10th or something like that in the line of successors to the throne. She has a great burden on her shoulders and for that I don't envy her, because I believe that luxury and idleness have clouded her perception of the real world and that her family's proud and ancient legacy might be ended in a day by one of her naive accomplishments. I pity her, but politics is a ruthless world without pity. I should probably not interrupt her and she will ruin the Royalists sufficiently that they are out of my way.
RE: What my characters think about your characters - Thunderer - 03-31-2021
Addition:
Enma Loyola: For some reason my father had some business with her. He was an unscrupulous bastard (oh wait, I am his bastard) scoundrel from what I've heard, and it puzzles me why he sacrificed his life for someone else. Loyola is an intelligent woman, but she displays that kind of intelligence a beast needs to trap its pray. She might understand, for example, John Locke, but I doubt she would be interested. I've seen such traits in leaders before, but Loyola strikes me as a silly, immature, irresponsible individual with little gravitas or any resemblance of authority. Yet, she is the unofficial dictator of an entire nation. I can easily imagine her making a selfie with her new haircut -- and the severed head of a don that thought to oppose her.
Keeper Raven:
I don't actually know her real name and Raven must be a pseudonym. She never removes her mask. Apparently this is someone who has gone to some lengths to keep their identity private. According to her (which her accent confirms), she is from Planet Cambridge. For some reason my father had connections with her as well. She and her paramilitary helped police Omega-3, but I know this went deeper. I just don't know any specifics. Was it my father who brought them to Inverness? He probably didn't care what they would do with it after he died, but I'm not sure he intended to die that soon. Raven has some form of reason and logic, but her motives are as cloudy as the New London sky. If she is a Bretonian by birth, why did she so easily side with the Enclave after they had glassed Leeds? I understand that she wanted independence for Inverness, but not even the Mollies ever sided with the Enclave after the Glassing. Maybe she was exiled, set up, wronged, betrayed, and that is why she wears an alias and a mask. Perhaps, under that mask, she is more famous and relevant than anyone save a few quiet individuals think. Who is Raven? That is the question of questions.
Or maybe she is just unspeakably ugly and she was bullied for that at school by other little Bretonians. Oh, who the bloody hell cares about Auxesia?
Keiji Namura:
That Ultimate Specimen from the Playgirl Magazine, 807 New Year's Edition. Mrawr, that Christmas hat! I invested some effort to keep my copy safe (and secret!) since when I was a teenager. Unfortunately, it burned down together with my house on Gran Canaria when the Corsairs bombed it. I haven't managed find another one. Fortunately I still hold the picture in my memory. Every single detail. Oh, yes.
Still, the Corsairs should suffer for his sacrilege. One day I'll have Ladron and I'll kick him where it hurts. For my Keiji!
Keeper Raven:
I don't actually know her real name and Raven must be a pseudonym. She never removes her mask. Apparently this is someone who has gone to some lengths to keep their identity private. According to her (which her accent confirms), she is from Planet Cambridge. For some reason my father had connections with her as well. She and her paramilitary helped police Omega-3, but I know this went deeper. I just don't know any specifics. Was it my father who brought them to Inverness? He probably didn't care what they would do with it after he died, but I'm not sure he intended to die that soon. Raven has some form of reason and logic, but her motives are as cloudy as the New London sky. If she is a Bretonian by birth, why did she so easily side with the Enclave after they had glassed Leeds? I understand that she wanted independence for Inverness, but not even the Mollies ever sided with the Enclave after the Glassing. Maybe she was exiled, set up, wronged, betrayed, and that is why she wears an alias and a mask. Perhaps, under that mask, she is more famous and relevant than anyone save a few quiet individuals think. Who is Raven? That is the question of questions.
Or maybe she is just unspeakably ugly and she was bullied for that at school by other little Bretonians. Oh, who the bloody hell cares about Auxesia?
Keiji Namura:
That Ultimate Specimen from the Playgirl Magazine, 807 New Year's Edition. Mrawr, that Christmas hat! I invested some effort to keep my copy safe (and secret!) since when I was a teenager. Unfortunately, it burned down together with my house on Gran Canaria when the Corsairs bombed it. I haven't managed find another one. Fortunately I still hold the picture in my memory. Every single detail. Oh, yes.
Still, the Corsairs should suffer for his sacrilege. One day I'll have Ladron and I'll kick him where it hurts. For my Keiji!
RE: What my characters think about your characters - Thunderer - 03-31-2021
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RE: What my characters think about your characters - Thunderer - 03-31-2021
Appendix 3:
Doc Holiday:
Did he actually change his first name into Doc? Incredible, but for some reason I can't remember what he's actually called. Both a doctor and a Zoner. A noble and peaceful man who saves lives, one might think at a glance. Little did anyone suspect it was him who blew up that friend of the Steiners on Canaria with a nuclear bomb. Or maybe he was an enemy of the Steiners. They let Holiday off rather lightly, for a homicide. I wonder what would the professor's family say. No, he probably had no family, which is why they could do this.
I remember a quote of Holiday's. "I want to roam" is why he said he didn't want Bretonian immigrants on Canaria. "I want to roam"!? What about those millions of people who wanted a roof over their heads!? Doctors sometimes tend to be detached from living beings like this. Some of them see us as meat and nothing more. It's a wrong prejudice, to assume that anyone who is a doctor is a selfless and caring person. Some people just like blood.
Did he actually change his first name into Doc? Incredible, but for some reason I can't remember what he's actually called. Both a doctor and a Zoner. A noble and peaceful man who saves lives, one might think at a glance. Little did anyone suspect it was him who blew up that friend of the Steiners on Canaria with a nuclear bomb. Or maybe he was an enemy of the Steiners. They let Holiday off rather lightly, for a homicide. I wonder what would the professor's family say. No, he probably had no family, which is why they could do this.
I remember a quote of Holiday's. "I want to roam" is why he said he didn't want Bretonian immigrants on Canaria. "I want to roam"!? What about those millions of people who wanted a roof over their heads!? Doctors sometimes tend to be detached from living beings like this. Some of them see us as meat and nothing more. It's a wrong prejudice, to assume that anyone who is a doctor is a selfless and caring person. Some people just like blood.