What most makes you unique? . . . I'm not going to point to singular traits; if I say something about my situation, or my skills, or my physical traits, then of course one can point to someone other individual with a matching trait eventually, even in this microcosmic community. What makes me unique is the road of my life and my memories, and the actions I have taken and have yet to take; the singular combination of personal traits and experiences that make me who and what I am and what I have done.
How have your life experiences before Aather made you special? My experiences are the mark I have made on the clay of my world and the way the world has marked my clay in turn, to date. They have made me special because they are tied to me in that fashion. They sound blander on paper than they are -- 'I went to school.' 'I learned magic.' 'I joined a war.' -- but had I not been there, they would not have happened exactly as they had; and if they had not happened to me, I would not be exactly as I am now.
They are mine and I am theirs; I would not exchange them for something easier or happier.
How do you think people would react if you told them about your past? How did they react if you did tell them? They noticed that my past is full of idiots.
. . . to answer a little less flippantly, I certainly haven't shared everything about my memories with others -- some of it is simply embarrassing, or too personal. But what I have shared has met mixed receptions; some incredulity, some utter inscrutability, some amusement. Feelings, opinions.
"Those people were here before you," and "I don't have anything like that," are perhaps the most memorable ones to date. The second feels appropriate to this survey too, no?
Do you feel that any of these things are something your team wouldn't understand? Why or why not? Half my team isn't human, and most of them come from rather different cultural and technological contexts. I don't think any one of them can understand myself and my background fully, no, but that applies both ways. Understanding is touching on points in common -- I believe that between myself and another, there will always be a gap in understanding; because if there were not, they would be me and I would be them.
But . . . there will always be places where the gap can be bridged, and the bridges built upon. Bonds, if you must use that terminology, run on that principle somewhat, don't they?
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. . . I'm not going to point to singular traits; if I say something about my situation, or my skills, or my physical traits, then of course one can point to someone other individual with a matching trait eventually, even in this microcosmic community. What makes me unique is the road of my life and my memories, and the actions I have taken and have yet to take; the singular combination of personal traits and experiences that make me who and what I am and what I have done.
How have your life experiences before Aather made you special?
My experiences are the mark I have made on the clay of my world and the way the world has marked my clay in turn, to date. They have made me special because they are tied to me in that fashion. They sound blander on paper than they are -- 'I went to school.' 'I learned magic.' 'I joined a war.' -- but had I not been there, they would not have happened exactly as they had; and if they had not happened to me, I would not be exactly as I am now.
They are mine and I am theirs; I would not exchange them for something easier or happier.
How do you think people would react if you told them about your past? How did they react if you did tell them?
They noticed that my past is full of idiots.
. . . to answer a little less flippantly, I certainly haven't shared everything about my memories with others -- some of it is simply embarrassing, or too personal. But what I have shared has met mixed receptions; some incredulity, some utter inscrutability, some amusement. Feelings, opinions.
"Those people were here before you," and "I don't have anything like that," are perhaps the most memorable ones to date. The second feels appropriate to this survey too, no?
Do you feel that any of these things are something your team wouldn't understand? Why or why not?
Half my team isn't human, and most of them come from rather different cultural and technological contexts. I don't think any one of them can understand myself and my background fully, no, but that applies both ways. Understanding is touching on points in common -- I believe that between myself and another, there will always be a gap in understanding; because if there were not, they would be me and I would be them.
But . . . there will always be places where the gap can be bridged, and the bridges built upon. Bonds, if you must use that terminology, run on that principle somewhat, don't they?