Line #66 Characters/ChildrenOfMemory


1	This is the Character Sheet for the novel ''Literature/ChildrenOfMemory''. Major spoilers, given the layered mysteries of the novel, are unmarked!
2
3	[[foldercontrol]]
4
5	!!Crew of the Enkidu
6
7	[[folder:Heorest Holt]]
8	Captain of the Enkidu and Liff's grandfather.
9	-----
10	* AcePilot: Flies a shuttle that is falling apart between the starship and the colony, over and over. [[spoiler: Except that only happened in the simulation.]]
11	* TheChainsOfCommanding: Holds himself together to hold the crew together, so they can hold the ship or the colony together. Makes hard decisions.
12	[[/folder]]
13
14	[[folder:Helena Garm]]
15	Chief of Security on the Enkidu.
16	[[/folder]]
17
18	[[folder:Gembel]]
19	Second Chief Scientist on the Enkidu. Cobbles together an ecosystem for the Imir colony. [[spoiler: Except that only happened in the simulation.]]
20	[[/folder]]
21
22	[[folder:Esi]]
23	Classicist on the Enkidu.
24	[[/folder]]
25
26
27	[[folder:Olf]]
28	Chief Engineer on the Enkidu. Kept the ship running during the journey and designed low-tech machines for the colony.
29	[[/folder]]
30
31
32	!!Colonists of Imir
33
34	[[folder:Liff Holt]]
35	Granddaughter of the Enkidu's Captain Holt. Except when she's not, and is from the end of colony's history. For instance, in the base simulation.
36
37	* SoleSurvivor: Is the last human alive in the simulation.
38
39	[[/folder]]
40
41	[[folder:Uncle Molder]]
42	Liff's lazy, mean, and xenophobic uncle.
43	[[/folder]]
44
45	!!The starship Skipper
46
47	[[folder:Miranda]]
48	A Human woman who is a refugee from the out-farms, and Liff's favorite schoolteacher. She knows things nobody else does and doesn't know things everybody does. And she has strange ideas about the world and how it should be...
49
50	-----
51
52	* BrainUploading: She's a copy of the original Miranda.
53	* CoolTeacher: How Liff sees her.
54	* IdentityBreakdown: Is a human personality simulated by a horrifying alien assimilator, who remembers being horrified at said alien assimilator. She thinks she's over it, but she's really not. And that's where her trouble ''starts''.
55	* SplitPersonality. An alien version: thoughts and feelings from "Miranda"'s other recorded personalities leak into her awareness... which sometimes makes her Miranda personality lose coherence!
56	* TheFace: As the least strange member of the survey team, she does most of the talking.
57	* UncannyValley: Miranda's body freezes while she breaks and pulls her mind together.
58	[[/folder]]
59
60	[[folder:Fabian]]
61	A Portiid wearing a human body. [[spoiler: The version in the simulation is actually Miranda having an existential crisis.]]
62
63	-----
64
65	* MrFixit: His role in the town of Landfall. He even names his shop Fabian's Fix-It.
66
67	[[/folder]]
68
69	[[folder:Portia]]
70	A Portiid wearing a human body. [[spoiler: The version in the simulation is actually Miranda having an existential crisis.]]
71	-----
72
73	* ActionGirl: As is common among Portiids.
74	* ClassicalHunter: Embraces this role, tracking down escaped hogs in the woods.
75	* {{Tomboy}}: The townspeople notice how much she takes to hunting, guns, and manual labor.
76	[[/folder]]
77
78	[[folder:Paul]]
79	An octopus wearing nine human bodies. [[spoiler: The version in the simulation is actually Miranda having an existential crisis.]]
80
81	-----
82
83	* CreepyChild: Paul's children are unnaturally coordinated.
84	* HiveMind: The brains in Paul's ''arms'' are each put in a child body.
85	* HughMann: The strangest member of the group.
86	* MadArtist: He makes inhuman paintings.
87	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: When Paul is threatened, they are unnaturally coordinated - and holding knives.
88	[[/folder]]
89
90	[[folder:Kern]]
91	See her entry on Characters/ChildrenOfRuin.
92	[[/folder]]
93
94	[[folder:Goethi and Gethli]]
95	Ambassadors from Rourke who join the expedition to Imir.
96
97	-----
98
99	* CleverCrows
100	* {{Familiar}}: Liff interprets them as Kern's familiars. It doesn't help that they follow Kern's commands and perch on her shoulder.
101	* HiveMind: Each pair of Corvids form a complete brain.
102	[[/folder]]
103
104	!! Rourc
105	[[folder:Renée Pepper]]
106	Terraformer who survived the apocalypse of the ancients and made her best effort to get any life to survive on Rourke.
107	[[/folder]]
108
109	[[folder:Corvidsof Rourke]]
110	The intelligent and possibly sentient species of Corvids who became the dominant species on Rourke.

Context Characters / ChildrenOfMemory