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faithuninherent) wrote2015-11-16 09:30 pm
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About Arty
Player Information
Player name: Jack
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Are you over 18: Yes
Current Game: N/A
PSL/Open Tag Post: Arty specific Open Post (Coming Soon); Random Scenario Meme on Musebox.
Character Information
Character Common Name: Arty
Character Full Name: R-T-201023
Also Known As: Traitor, The People's Priest, Brother Arty
Canon: Original Character
Age: 27
Species/Status: Human and Alive
History:
The World:
The ship that is home to Arty and the only world he has ever known, is known as ASPIRATION. It was finished in the 1425th year After Earth's Destruction, and began its journey with its original crew on the first day of that year. It is the fourth such ship of its kind to leave the ARK OF HOPE since its creation, and like those before it, its mission is to continue and extend the existence of the human race.
The ultimate goal of the vessel, as with all the others, is to reach and settle planets with as close to ideal environments as possible to support human life. Though no planets have been successfully settled and reported back since the ARK OF HOPE's creation, the people of the ever growing and moving space station remain optimistic. As do those of the ships ASPIRATION, DETERMINATION, AMBITION, and INSPIRATION.
600 humans are born to the ship ASPIRATION every year, created via the artificial recombination of the DNA of each ship's passengers, randomly paired and carefully checked for any potentially species-hazardous genetic anomalies. With each human born genetically unique and healthy, they are put in the care of sectors of the ship, to be raised and taught in the ways and laws of the vessel before deciding where they would like to continue to learn, and what positions they might be inclined or predisposed to fulfil.
ASPIRATION itself is in its own way a country in space. Within the ship, everyone has a different occupation, and people are encouraged to learn Earth’s history, and the history of its people. The religions of old Earth are known of, but they have changed too much from what they were on Earth. The people of the ship have varied beliefs and faiths, in some parts touched or inspired by these older religions. The laws of the ship dictate that no one may attempt to alter a person’s faith, all though religious discussion outside of the sectors is allowed as long as it remains civil.
There are many positions to be filled within the ship, and on the 16th birthday of every generation, a ceremony takes place in which the 600 (or fewer) children of the generation apply to the sectors of their choosing, to take their places in their new assignments and work their way through the ranks to the positions they are best qualified for. Any of the generation who has not chosen a sector is given an aptitude exam and placed in either the sector they are best suited for, or the sector they are somewhat suited for that had the least number of new entrants.
There are certain class systems and issues within the ship, all though the high council which makes decisions in regards to the health, safety, survival and comfort of the population denies this firmly and declares there is a zero tolerance policy for such discord. Once a sector is chosen at sixteen, the only available option for exiting the sector is to be noticed and recruited by a high council member of a different sector.
History
I had 3000 brothers and sisters.There was a lot of competition.
Arty was born on the 2000th year memorial of Earth's destruction. He is the 201st son of the great ship ASPIRATION's 575th generation. He was placed in the defense sector to be raised and his military upbringing lead many to believe he would eventually choose to be one of the armed sector. He learned all the values and skills of the armed sector, and although he did well enough in all the training routines, he was not fond of the atmosphere, or the constant in-fighting that occurred in his sector. Children of the armed sector had a habit of getting into brawls. The focus of the sector’s training involved both weapon and physical combat, training in the justice and law systems of ASPIRATION.
The heavy focus on physical training and logic skills left a lot to be desired for Arty. Despite being the only laws his generation, and many before theirs, had known, Arty found the rules too strict and the consequences too extreme. Dissent was outlawed on the ship to avoid fear of mutiny, and those unsatisfied with their sectors often disappeared only to return to their sectors quieter and more reserved. For the most part, Arty kept his displeasure to himself and threw his efforts wholeheartedly into his training. He did not want to get in trouble with the High Council, and so he kept his opinions to himself. He was only a child, what could he really know?
After the fourteenth year, when many of his generation were growing eager to choose their sectors, Arty found himself in the central sector of the ship for a celebration. A planet had been discovered by the Navigation Sector that held far greater promise than was originally found in distance probe scans. During the celebration, however, the High Council announced that it did not plan to settle the planet, and believed the ship was better suited as a home for the population, citing that the known was safer than the unknown and that it was their duty to protect the inhabitants from danger, even if it meant protecting them from themselves.
An organization of dissenters attempted to take over the council, and were thwarted, several of the ‘mutineers’ captured and locked away in the reform sector. There were many on the ASPIRATION who wished to try to make a new home on a planet, even after so many generations of living aboard a ship, and the whispers travelled through aall the sectors, creating increased dissent among the inhabitants.
Eventually, the High Council chose to sabotage certain ‘unnecessary’ sectors of the ship where dissent was highest, including the scientific and religious services sectors. Their actions lead to disaster, when the damage the planned explosives caused to the ship were not quite as they had calculated. The hull took serious damage, and while the ship was easily saved, the toll on the population was higher than it had ever been.
The ‘terrorists’, as they were labelled by the council, were rounded up and held in the armed sector, while the High Council deliberated over the actions to take against them. They made it clear it was the actions of those who wished to force them to seek out the planet and make their home there that were responsible, and made sure that everyone heard of how the terrorists had plotted to damage their home and safety on the miniscule chance that the planet might be inhabitable.
Outcry among ship inhabitants was not quelled, this time. Rather it was encouraged secretly, and as a result the High Council managed to whip the ship’s population into an angry frenzy, demanding blood.
Consequences had always been severe on the ship, but death was never before on the list. And seeing the 25 captured members of the ‘terrorist group’ executed was too much for Arty’s young mind. The violence among his ‘siblings’ in the armed sector had always been greater than other sectors. In-fighting and brawls were common and playfully encouraged. The teens of the armed sector took sport in giving each other scars. But rather than accustoming Arty to the violence, it made the deaths of the terrorist group hit even harder.
He was always on the lower end of the chain when it came to sector fighting. His physical strength was not on level with that of many of his sector siblings and so he took the brunt of the worst beatings and brawls in the sector. And because brawling was an encouraged sport among his sector, little was done to stop it. The idea of the High Council not only breaking two fundamental laws of the ship, but being praised by the population for it and their violence did not sit well with him.
When the time came for him to choose his sector, Arty was forced to take the aptitude exam and was sent to the Religious Services sector. His High Council members wanted to ensure he would never reach the Armed Sectors or the High Houncil itself, along with a group of his generation’s siblings, because they shared common DNA markers with the ‘terrorists’ and tested for an empathy level that concerned the council.
While Arty had never had much teaching in the ways of the mixed religions on board the ASPIRATION, he thrived in studying what was left of Earth History, the history of humanity, and what little was left of religious texts. He took to the brighter pieces of the broken religions, finding hope in the ideals and beliefs of a set of laws meant for treating others well, respecting life and what it had to offer, and belief of a higher or greater good. While Arty himself did not take immediately to believing in Gods, he did strongly believe in the ideals of the new religions created from those broken texts.
For the four formative years of his training in his new sector, Arty lost himself in the study of old Earth and its people, and unbeknownst to the High Council, became far more enamored with the idea of a home planet. A place where they could live ‘naturally’, learn to live off the land and build a new society where people could learn and become what they wanted, rather than be funneled into the parts of the ship that most needed new blood. He wanted to know what it felt like to walk on a planet, to see rivers and seas and experience other creatures to see how they lived.
In particular he was fond of studying the lives of elephants. A species of animal from the planet so large and majestic, and yet so centered around familial bonding and close relationships. He saw them as an example to aspire to.
Of course, Arty new better than to voice his thoughts, and as he had in the Armed Sector, he threw himself into his training and strove to do his best to contribute to the sector as he was expected to. But an unease and unrest that had started growing in him from his 14th year had only continued to rise as he learned and aged.
At 20, he became a member of the Church of Religious Services, offering therapy, counsel and advice to all who came to the sector in search of it. The CRS was responsible for keeping inhabitants happy, and helping to give them distractions from questions like ‘what comes after life’ and ‘what are we meant for’. Unfortunately, the High Council had begun to crack down on the freedom of exploration for ship inhabitants, and the CRS’ services grew more and more limited with each passing year.
As the ship drew near the solar system of the planet that had started it all, the High Council became erratic, cracking down on any dissention, and the Church of Religious Services was removed. The Religious Services Sector became the Human Services Sector, and what was left of the broken texts and history of earth were ordered to be destroyed.
It was that moment that life changed drastically for Arty. In an act of first true rebellion, he downloaded as much of Earth’s history and the broken texts as he could before they were destroyed and tried to hide his chip before it could be discovered. And in doing so, he was pulled into the very underground organization that he had believed to be destroyed.
The called themselves The People’s Choice, and they pulled him into their ranks and hid him from the High Council. As they had many others like him. From then on, Arty was a rogue priest. He offered his services to any who were unable to find religious or personal council without fear of the High Council’s fist, and helped the People’s Choice protect and collect writings of free thought and people who were added to the High Council’s list of terrorists.
This continued for three years before the war broke out on board the ship. The High Council and all sectors loyal to them turned the ship into a state of old Earth style Martial Law and confined people to their sectors, claiming it to be for everyone’s safety, and that the terrorist group was trying to eliminate the ASPIRATION with false information and hope that the planet they were nearing was inhabitable. The People’s Choice and the supporters they had brought to their side became engaged in a war of secrecy, subterfuge and death from both sides as the two warring ‘factions’ of the ship came to a head. The ship fell into chaos and a state of war the likes of which had never been seen before, and many lives were lost.
Although Arty despised the war, he had become all too aware of the corruption of the High Council, and for better or worse he had decided to fight to help tear it down, so that they could eventually rebuild a new society that would be, in his mind, less corrupt. He did not wholly agree with either side, and he did not agree with the war or the death, but he did believe they needed to fight for what they believed in. And that was what kept him fighting with the People’s Choice.
Personality:
A former Priest of the Religious Services Sector of the ship ASPIRATION, Arty believes in the freedom of choice and happiness for him and the rest of the humans aboard the spaceship, provided their choices and happiness do not cause harm to others. He is a member of The People's Choice, a group fighting against the ship's High Council for their right to live as people instead of tools of the ship, and the right to settle a planet in spite of the Council's displeasure at the idea of giving the people back their freedom to build a new society.
Arty grew up in a very confrontational sector. With many of the Armed Sector on edge and often searching for excuses to start a fight, he had learned to be non confrontational, and when possible to try to fade into the background. He was weaker than most of his three thousand sector siblings, and as a result he was often on the losing end when the fighting started. It was this that started Arty’s search for peace in his life and escapes from the sector of his youth.
He was relieved when he was placed into a different sector after the 16th year ceremony, and he immediately became enamored with the opportunities to learn about other people, other ways of life, and other faiths. While he did not immediately believe in the religions of his new sector, he loved the ideology behind the new religions and the broken texts they came from. He was not disillusioned with faith, but rather with people.
His new sector gave him the opportunity to meet many people who lived in the ship with him, from all sectors and backgrounds. This new diversity helped Arty to find faith in his fellow shipmates again, and he found it not only easy but enjoyable to connect with all these new personalities entering his life.
Arty naturally reaches out to the non-antagonistic, and when possible is always quick to offer what he can in the way of guidance and counsel. This attribute has only increased with the war, as he comforts many who have lost friends or seek comfort from the horrors unknown to them before.
He loves learning about old earth and the beautiful and diverse cultures and people who lived there. But more than anything he loves to learn about the world itself. The concept of rivers, oceans and animals are nothing more than images for him, and he desperately wants to seek out new worlds to find these things for the people of the ASPIRATION again.
He is level-headed and a quick thinker, but not always a rational one. Above all, Arty will put the good of people in front of what is easiest or the best course of action. He believes in redemption and second chances, but also that no one should ever pay the ultimate price for their mistakes. It has never been in Arty to kill anyone, and he does everything he can to try to avoid letting others do so, as well.
He is also a strong leader, and though he would never accept it, the leaders of the People’s Choice often tried to pull him into becoming a leader, because of his ways with words and people. While Arty is gifted in persuasion and convincing people of things he believes in, he has a hard time trying to change the beliefs of others, as he finds that too similar to the High Council’s ways.
While not overtly religious, Arty prefers to believe there is a God, and though he is not entirely sure whose God, or what their purpose is, he prays to them when times are dark and he needs counsel of his own.
Writing Sample
Arty was in charge of the hold for the night. The People’s Choice had managed to keep the storage hold’s alternate use a secret from the High Council so far. One of the leaders of the People’s Choice worked in the storage sector for overflow and they had been using the hold for rarely needed ship parts as a half-way house for refugees from the council’s terrorist list. It was a nerve-racking position to be in, because up until the reappropriation of his sector he had always tried to abide by the laws of the ship.
He had a notebook with him, one he had worked hard to earn enough to be able to acquire. In it were various words and thoughts meant to be used in place of the verses he no longer remembered. The broken texts were lost to him, collected on a drive somewhere far out of reach. And what he could remember of them was not verbatim in any way.
He watched the groups of huddled refugees sleeping in the hold, some in pairs or sets and others off on their own. Spirits were low on the Aspiration these days, and even lower for this group of people.
Getting to his feet, he tucked his book away and moved over to one of the groups he knew better than the others. A self-made family that had come to him for a life-lining ceremony when he was still a younger, fresher face in the RS Sector. He sat down with them and offered the couple and the younger generation children they had been raising, not as sons and daughters of their sector but as their own children. The youngest had a wonderful voice. He remembered hearing her sing some of the passages from one of the broken texts in the Church of Religious Services for the ceremony.
“Would you like to sing with me? I think it might help to lift people’s spirits.” He offered the family a small smile and nodded to the girl, letting her start before joining in. It was a children's song, one to help learn some lesson or other. He couldn't remember the exact meaning, but it was a lighter, happier song. At least they did not need to worry about sound in the hold, and maybe the sound of their voices could help to lighten the mood in their temporary new home for a while.
Player name: Jack
Contact: AIM/Plurk: Asymboled and
Are you over 18: Yes
Current Game: N/A
PSL/Open Tag Post: Arty specific Open Post (Coming Soon); Random Scenario Meme on Musebox.
Character Information
Character Common Name: Arty
Character Full Name: R-T-201023
Also Known As: Traitor, The People's Priest, Brother Arty
Canon: Original Character
Age: 27
Species/Status: Human and Alive
History:
The World:
The ship that is home to Arty and the only world he has ever known, is known as ASPIRATION. It was finished in the 1425th year After Earth's Destruction, and began its journey with its original crew on the first day of that year. It is the fourth such ship of its kind to leave the ARK OF HOPE since its creation, and like those before it, its mission is to continue and extend the existence of the human race.
The ultimate goal of the vessel, as with all the others, is to reach and settle planets with as close to ideal environments as possible to support human life. Though no planets have been successfully settled and reported back since the ARK OF HOPE's creation, the people of the ever growing and moving space station remain optimistic. As do those of the ships ASPIRATION, DETERMINATION, AMBITION, and INSPIRATION.
600 humans are born to the ship ASPIRATION every year, created via the artificial recombination of the DNA of each ship's passengers, randomly paired and carefully checked for any potentially species-hazardous genetic anomalies. With each human born genetically unique and healthy, they are put in the care of sectors of the ship, to be raised and taught in the ways and laws of the vessel before deciding where they would like to continue to learn, and what positions they might be inclined or predisposed to fulfil.
ASPIRATION itself is in its own way a country in space. Within the ship, everyone has a different occupation, and people are encouraged to learn Earth’s history, and the history of its people. The religions of old Earth are known of, but they have changed too much from what they were on Earth. The people of the ship have varied beliefs and faiths, in some parts touched or inspired by these older religions. The laws of the ship dictate that no one may attempt to alter a person’s faith, all though religious discussion outside of the sectors is allowed as long as it remains civil.
There are many positions to be filled within the ship, and on the 16th birthday of every generation, a ceremony takes place in which the 600 (or fewer) children of the generation apply to the sectors of their choosing, to take their places in their new assignments and work their way through the ranks to the positions they are best qualified for. Any of the generation who has not chosen a sector is given an aptitude exam and placed in either the sector they are best suited for, or the sector they are somewhat suited for that had the least number of new entrants.
There are certain class systems and issues within the ship, all though the high council which makes decisions in regards to the health, safety, survival and comfort of the population denies this firmly and declares there is a zero tolerance policy for such discord. Once a sector is chosen at sixteen, the only available option for exiting the sector is to be noticed and recruited by a high council member of a different sector.
History
I had 3000 brothers and sisters.There was a lot of competition.
Arty was born on the 2000th year memorial of Earth's destruction. He is the 201st son of the great ship ASPIRATION's 575th generation. He was placed in the defense sector to be raised and his military upbringing lead many to believe he would eventually choose to be one of the armed sector. He learned all the values and skills of the armed sector, and although he did well enough in all the training routines, he was not fond of the atmosphere, or the constant in-fighting that occurred in his sector. Children of the armed sector had a habit of getting into brawls. The focus of the sector’s training involved both weapon and physical combat, training in the justice and law systems of ASPIRATION.
The heavy focus on physical training and logic skills left a lot to be desired for Arty. Despite being the only laws his generation, and many before theirs, had known, Arty found the rules too strict and the consequences too extreme. Dissent was outlawed on the ship to avoid fear of mutiny, and those unsatisfied with their sectors often disappeared only to return to their sectors quieter and more reserved. For the most part, Arty kept his displeasure to himself and threw his efforts wholeheartedly into his training. He did not want to get in trouble with the High Council, and so he kept his opinions to himself. He was only a child, what could he really know?
After the fourteenth year, when many of his generation were growing eager to choose their sectors, Arty found himself in the central sector of the ship for a celebration. A planet had been discovered by the Navigation Sector that held far greater promise than was originally found in distance probe scans. During the celebration, however, the High Council announced that it did not plan to settle the planet, and believed the ship was better suited as a home for the population, citing that the known was safer than the unknown and that it was their duty to protect the inhabitants from danger, even if it meant protecting them from themselves.
An organization of dissenters attempted to take over the council, and were thwarted, several of the ‘mutineers’ captured and locked away in the reform sector. There were many on the ASPIRATION who wished to try to make a new home on a planet, even after so many generations of living aboard a ship, and the whispers travelled through aall the sectors, creating increased dissent among the inhabitants.
Eventually, the High Council chose to sabotage certain ‘unnecessary’ sectors of the ship where dissent was highest, including the scientific and religious services sectors. Their actions lead to disaster, when the damage the planned explosives caused to the ship were not quite as they had calculated. The hull took serious damage, and while the ship was easily saved, the toll on the population was higher than it had ever been.
The ‘terrorists’, as they were labelled by the council, were rounded up and held in the armed sector, while the High Council deliberated over the actions to take against them. They made it clear it was the actions of those who wished to force them to seek out the planet and make their home there that were responsible, and made sure that everyone heard of how the terrorists had plotted to damage their home and safety on the miniscule chance that the planet might be inhabitable.
Outcry among ship inhabitants was not quelled, this time. Rather it was encouraged secretly, and as a result the High Council managed to whip the ship’s population into an angry frenzy, demanding blood.
Consequences had always been severe on the ship, but death was never before on the list. And seeing the 25 captured members of the ‘terrorist group’ executed was too much for Arty’s young mind. The violence among his ‘siblings’ in the armed sector had always been greater than other sectors. In-fighting and brawls were common and playfully encouraged. The teens of the armed sector took sport in giving each other scars. But rather than accustoming Arty to the violence, it made the deaths of the terrorist group hit even harder.
He was always on the lower end of the chain when it came to sector fighting. His physical strength was not on level with that of many of his sector siblings and so he took the brunt of the worst beatings and brawls in the sector. And because brawling was an encouraged sport among his sector, little was done to stop it. The idea of the High Council not only breaking two fundamental laws of the ship, but being praised by the population for it and their violence did not sit well with him.
When the time came for him to choose his sector, Arty was forced to take the aptitude exam and was sent to the Religious Services sector. His High Council members wanted to ensure he would never reach the Armed Sectors or the High Houncil itself, along with a group of his generation’s siblings, because they shared common DNA markers with the ‘terrorists’ and tested for an empathy level that concerned the council.
While Arty had never had much teaching in the ways of the mixed religions on board the ASPIRATION, he thrived in studying what was left of Earth History, the history of humanity, and what little was left of religious texts. He took to the brighter pieces of the broken religions, finding hope in the ideals and beliefs of a set of laws meant for treating others well, respecting life and what it had to offer, and belief of a higher or greater good. While Arty himself did not take immediately to believing in Gods, he did strongly believe in the ideals of the new religions created from those broken texts.
For the four formative years of his training in his new sector, Arty lost himself in the study of old Earth and its people, and unbeknownst to the High Council, became far more enamored with the idea of a home planet. A place where they could live ‘naturally’, learn to live off the land and build a new society where people could learn and become what they wanted, rather than be funneled into the parts of the ship that most needed new blood. He wanted to know what it felt like to walk on a planet, to see rivers and seas and experience other creatures to see how they lived.
In particular he was fond of studying the lives of elephants. A species of animal from the planet so large and majestic, and yet so centered around familial bonding and close relationships. He saw them as an example to aspire to.
Of course, Arty new better than to voice his thoughts, and as he had in the Armed Sector, he threw himself into his training and strove to do his best to contribute to the sector as he was expected to. But an unease and unrest that had started growing in him from his 14th year had only continued to rise as he learned and aged.
At 20, he became a member of the Church of Religious Services, offering therapy, counsel and advice to all who came to the sector in search of it. The CRS was responsible for keeping inhabitants happy, and helping to give them distractions from questions like ‘what comes after life’ and ‘what are we meant for’. Unfortunately, the High Council had begun to crack down on the freedom of exploration for ship inhabitants, and the CRS’ services grew more and more limited with each passing year.
As the ship drew near the solar system of the planet that had started it all, the High Council became erratic, cracking down on any dissention, and the Church of Religious Services was removed. The Religious Services Sector became the Human Services Sector, and what was left of the broken texts and history of earth were ordered to be destroyed.
It was that moment that life changed drastically for Arty. In an act of first true rebellion, he downloaded as much of Earth’s history and the broken texts as he could before they were destroyed and tried to hide his chip before it could be discovered. And in doing so, he was pulled into the very underground organization that he had believed to be destroyed.
The called themselves The People’s Choice, and they pulled him into their ranks and hid him from the High Council. As they had many others like him. From then on, Arty was a rogue priest. He offered his services to any who were unable to find religious or personal council without fear of the High Council’s fist, and helped the People’s Choice protect and collect writings of free thought and people who were added to the High Council’s list of terrorists.
This continued for three years before the war broke out on board the ship. The High Council and all sectors loyal to them turned the ship into a state of old Earth style Martial Law and confined people to their sectors, claiming it to be for everyone’s safety, and that the terrorist group was trying to eliminate the ASPIRATION with false information and hope that the planet they were nearing was inhabitable. The People’s Choice and the supporters they had brought to their side became engaged in a war of secrecy, subterfuge and death from both sides as the two warring ‘factions’ of the ship came to a head. The ship fell into chaos and a state of war the likes of which had never been seen before, and many lives were lost.
Although Arty despised the war, he had become all too aware of the corruption of the High Council, and for better or worse he had decided to fight to help tear it down, so that they could eventually rebuild a new society that would be, in his mind, less corrupt. He did not wholly agree with either side, and he did not agree with the war or the death, but he did believe they needed to fight for what they believed in. And that was what kept him fighting with the People’s Choice.
Personality:
A former Priest of the Religious Services Sector of the ship ASPIRATION, Arty believes in the freedom of choice and happiness for him and the rest of the humans aboard the spaceship, provided their choices and happiness do not cause harm to others. He is a member of The People's Choice, a group fighting against the ship's High Council for their right to live as people instead of tools of the ship, and the right to settle a planet in spite of the Council's displeasure at the idea of giving the people back their freedom to build a new society.
Arty grew up in a very confrontational sector. With many of the Armed Sector on edge and often searching for excuses to start a fight, he had learned to be non confrontational, and when possible to try to fade into the background. He was weaker than most of his three thousand sector siblings, and as a result he was often on the losing end when the fighting started. It was this that started Arty’s search for peace in his life and escapes from the sector of his youth.
He was relieved when he was placed into a different sector after the 16th year ceremony, and he immediately became enamored with the opportunities to learn about other people, other ways of life, and other faiths. While he did not immediately believe in the religions of his new sector, he loved the ideology behind the new religions and the broken texts they came from. He was not disillusioned with faith, but rather with people.
His new sector gave him the opportunity to meet many people who lived in the ship with him, from all sectors and backgrounds. This new diversity helped Arty to find faith in his fellow shipmates again, and he found it not only easy but enjoyable to connect with all these new personalities entering his life.
Arty naturally reaches out to the non-antagonistic, and when possible is always quick to offer what he can in the way of guidance and counsel. This attribute has only increased with the war, as he comforts many who have lost friends or seek comfort from the horrors unknown to them before.
He loves learning about old earth and the beautiful and diverse cultures and people who lived there. But more than anything he loves to learn about the world itself. The concept of rivers, oceans and animals are nothing more than images for him, and he desperately wants to seek out new worlds to find these things for the people of the ASPIRATION again.
He is level-headed and a quick thinker, but not always a rational one. Above all, Arty will put the good of people in front of what is easiest or the best course of action. He believes in redemption and second chances, but also that no one should ever pay the ultimate price for their mistakes. It has never been in Arty to kill anyone, and he does everything he can to try to avoid letting others do so, as well.
He is also a strong leader, and though he would never accept it, the leaders of the People’s Choice often tried to pull him into becoming a leader, because of his ways with words and people. While Arty is gifted in persuasion and convincing people of things he believes in, he has a hard time trying to change the beliefs of others, as he finds that too similar to the High Council’s ways.
While not overtly religious, Arty prefers to believe there is a God, and though he is not entirely sure whose God, or what their purpose is, he prays to them when times are dark and he needs counsel of his own.
Writing Sample
Arty was in charge of the hold for the night. The People’s Choice had managed to keep the storage hold’s alternate use a secret from the High Council so far. One of the leaders of the People’s Choice worked in the storage sector for overflow and they had been using the hold for rarely needed ship parts as a half-way house for refugees from the council’s terrorist list. It was a nerve-racking position to be in, because up until the reappropriation of his sector he had always tried to abide by the laws of the ship.
He had a notebook with him, one he had worked hard to earn enough to be able to acquire. In it were various words and thoughts meant to be used in place of the verses he no longer remembered. The broken texts were lost to him, collected on a drive somewhere far out of reach. And what he could remember of them was not verbatim in any way.
He watched the groups of huddled refugees sleeping in the hold, some in pairs or sets and others off on their own. Spirits were low on the Aspiration these days, and even lower for this group of people.
Getting to his feet, he tucked his book away and moved over to one of the groups he knew better than the others. A self-made family that had come to him for a life-lining ceremony when he was still a younger, fresher face in the RS Sector. He sat down with them and offered the couple and the younger generation children they had been raising, not as sons and daughters of their sector but as their own children. The youngest had a wonderful voice. He remembered hearing her sing some of the passages from one of the broken texts in the Church of Religious Services for the ceremony.
“Would you like to sing with me? I think it might help to lift people’s spirits.” He offered the family a small smile and nodded to the girl, letting her start before joining in. It was a children's song, one to help learn some lesson or other. He couldn't remember the exact meaning, but it was a lighter, happier song. At least they did not need to worry about sound in the hold, and maybe the sound of their voices could help to lighten the mood in their temporary new home for a while.