Project: Introducing Characters

Lead Character

Name:  Matthew Blake                  Age: 22                     

Role: Secretary of World Funds

Background

Matt was born in the slums Sconik on the Omarch Peninsula into a family with twelve siblings.  Matt's parents are heavily into crime and the family become quite powerful in the world of crime.  Matt was a very intelligent child and shied away from his family.  Against the will of his family, Matt took a scholarship to Trotnis International University to study World Economics and Mathematics. 

Approached by the U.U.N shortly after graduation, Matt was appointed as one of the six ‘new world leaders’ at the age of 21, with responsibility for ‘World Funds’. 

Characteristics

Matt has a thirst for knowledge and strong empathy for the feelings and needs of others.  Despite a difficulty in making personal connections, his confidence draws others towards him.  He is highly intelligent with a slightly obsessive personality.  Due to his upbringing, Matt has a very disillusioned view of the world, but constantly seeks to find meaning in life.  He has a very gentle temperament, only taking his frustration out on himself.  He sees it as a weakness to show emotion in front of others. 

Matt’s internal conflicts are mainly due to the lack of care and attention in his upbringing and this has left him struggling to connect with others, despite desperately wanting to.  However, his more traditional moral stance causes him to constantly strive to ‘fix’ the world.    He very much resents his background and is confused by his new-found opportunity to mix in high-society at University. 

Second Character

Name:  Talia Bitsworth-Ashington      Age: 17

Role:  Secretary for Global Communications

Background

Born in the high-society world on Creov, Talia lived a privileged childhood, funded by her Mother’s art career.   Talia’s father was rarely a part of his daughter’s life and left when she was 13.  Talia was educated at the Anworth Academy for the Gifted, but never excelled at school.  Before being approached by the U.U.N. Talia lived a party lifestyle of drugs and alcohol, seen at an ‘It girl’ by the majority of the high-society.

Characteristics

Talia is very morally unaware and lives her life through the screen of technology.  She is very selfish, beautiful and self-important and takes no interest in issues outside her own life.  She is highly addicted to a drug called Cranium-G, causing violent outbursts and unpredictable behaviour.  Talia will use her looks to get what she wants and is not beyond seducing men and women to achieve her goals. 

She is very intelligent, but hides behind the guise of her party girl status, masking the insecurities which she inherited when her father left.  She has problems trusting other individuals and travels with a group of seven silent aides who undertake her every request.  She is outwardly emotional, but never displays her true feelings of self-loathing.  

Third Character

Name: Oriania Laytroi         Age:  21

Role:  Intelligence Officer for the U.U.N Resistance Party

Background

Oriana was also born in the slums Sconik on the Omarch Peninsula and was a childhood friend and love interest of Matt.  Oriania’s family were morally just and her parents both worked very hard to give her a reasonable upbringing.  She was educated at a local school, but was never offered the same opportunities as Matt to further her studies.   After her Father was brutally murdered by the U.U.N. troops on a ‘memory banking’ raid, Oriania joined the U.U.N. Resistance Party, fighting against the injustices of the U.U.N. 

Characteristics

Orania has a very idealistic view of the world, instilled by her father, and strives to make things better.   She is very kind and non-judgmental, but has a temper that causes her to make snap decisions.  Despite her moral upbringing Oriania is beginning to lose her ideals and is becoming resigned the world she lives in.  She is highly intelligent person, fluent in 17 ancient dialects, and very technologically savvy. 

Oriania strives to find a better world and way of living, and tries hard to maintain her ideals and pass them on to others.  She is extremely selfless and will always put the lives of others before her own.