100 Questions- Laurie

[Laurie Collins]

Mandatory Questions

1. What about you is heroic?

Me? Heroic? I don’t think anything about me is heroic to be honest with you. I guess the closest I can come is that I always look out for my mom however I can and if I could protect her under any circumstance I definitely would. But that’s more obedient child/ filial piety than heroism. Maybe someday I’ll save the world hah.

2. What about you is social? What do you like about people?

I’m pretty bad at interpersonal stuff but I feel a lot of innate sympathy for people. I hate seeing anyone sad or picked on no matter what they’ve done. I can never be happy at the ends of movies where the evil girlfriend is dumped or the bad guy is left on an abandoned island to die even though I know you’re meant to hate the character and enjoy their fate. I even have to change the channel or put down my book when a character embarrasses themselves. So I guess I relate to people well as long as you don’t actually make me talk to them. Useful huh? As to what I like about people, well, is avoiding them an answer? Hah, I guess not, um, I’d have to say I like that in all of human history no matter how misguided we are and what horrible things we’re doing it’s never total, there are always people who stand up for what’s right. Corny I guess but you asked for it right?

3. Of what benefit could you be to the group you're currently affiliated with/intend to be affiliated with?

This is a hard one… I don’t know what I could do with my pheromones that would be good, or if I even want to use them at all once I learn to control them. That being said if these X-men are really trying to live peacefully with people and can teach me how to stop emitting pheromones for good I’m sure they can find some use for me I won’t object to. I’d be willing to do anything that isn’t wrong to help them.

4. Why would/did you choose to join this group?

Well…really? Honestly? My mom made me. That sounds so stupid doesn’t it? But I guess I see why I’m here now, I need to learn to stop causing so much trouble, and this is the only place that can help me do that I guess. I don’t really know much of anything about other mutant groups out there though, just that some are terrorists like the ones that have instigated all those attacks, so maybe I’m wrong about that last bit.

Personal Questions

5. What is your real, birth name? What name do you use?

Laurie Collins and I go by, well, Laurie. I think it’s kind of weird for my actual name to be Laurie instead of Lauren with Laurie as a nickname but my mom said she hated the name Lauren and really liked the nickname Laurie so she just… called me Laurie officially. When I started reading mythology from different cultures I found out about this siren called Lorelei, I think that’s a gorgeous name and Laurie could have been a nickname for that. I pointed it out to my mom but she just laughed and told me I was twelve (my age at the time) years too late to get a say in my name. I don’t really think it’s quite fair to let other people name us even if you can’t exactly name yourself at birth. A solution to this should be found.

6. Do you have a nickname? What is it, and where did you get it?

Only if my codename counts I suppose. When I went in to get the cure a lot of people hadn’t wanted to put their names down on the liability forms (you know those forms, ‘in case we accidentally inject you incorrectly and you die a horrible agonizing death don’t sue us okay?’), so instead of name it said ‘codename’. Mom and I just stared at it for a while before she scribbled down Wallflower then smiled at me and said “Well you are one.”

7. What do you look like?

Well, I’m kind of small, 5’4” which is definitely not fair since my mom is 5’8” which is pretty tall. Other than my height fixation I’m a blonde and I have blue eyes and I’m kind of lanky. I don’t really know how to describe myself… I don’t think about my appearance much other than to stare at my reflection in the mirror sometimes and wrinkle my nose because I’m sort of boring looking.

8. How do you dress most of the time?

I mostly just wear cheap clothes from second hand stores or Wal Mart, plain colored tee-shirts and jeans with an old sweater or coat tossed over them in the winter. I actually really love clothes and I have a pretty good eye for what shapes and colors would compliment someone but I’ve never had money to spend on clothes and even if I did I can’t imagine myself all decked out.

9. How do you "dress up?"

I haven’t had much occasion to, but really it’s just as plain as my everyday outfits. I have a black skirt that comes down to my knees and a white sleeveless blouse that I’ve worn to every ‘occasion’ since sixth grade since I haven’t grown much since then.

10. How do you "dress down?"

I have this really old flannel nightgown that used to be my mom’s, I used to use it as a blanket in the car when I was a little kid, and it’s really pretty hideous- ruffles on the sleeves and around the hem and some old yellowed lace around the old-fashioned high collar. Still though, whenever I’m sick or sad or just really cold I put it on and curl up in bed. Kind of my comfort thing you know? So that’s really the only thing further ‘down’ than my usual pair of ratty jeans and a white tee-shirt I guess.

11. What do you wear when you go to sleep?

I have a pair of cloth shorts, a tank top, a pair of flannel bottoms, and a long sleeved top that I mix and match according to the weather and what’s clean.

12. Do you wear any jewelry?

I used to have a blue-bead necklace I always wore under my shirt, from a woman who used to watch me in New Mexico, but the string broke in a gas station and the beads scattered everywhere. I was really upset when it happened, it was a good thing my mutation was still dormant then or there would have been a rash of sobbing truckers.

13. In your opinion, what is your best feature?

My eyes I suppose. They’re blue like my mom’s and when I was a toddler or baby mom says people would always comment on how striking our eyes were. Glad they don’t do that anymore, talk about embarrassing.

14. What's your real birth date?

June 14th, 1991

15. Where do you live? Describe it: Is it messy, neat, avant-garde, sparse, etc.?

I live at school right now and it’s…wow really nice. Like something out of a storybook all ivy covered stone outside and wooden paneling inside. It’s nicer than anywhere I ever thought I’d live but at the same time it’s also really homey and comfortable.

16. Do you own a car? Describe it.

Nope and I’m too young to drive it even if I did have one.

17. What is your most prized mundane possession? Why do you value it so much?

Hmm, either my CD player or my book collection. I guess a book collection can’t count since it’s more than one possession so we’ll go with the CD player. It’s pretty beat up, I’m holding the headphones together with duct tape, and I named it Bert on one particularly long car ride. It’s a trusty little device, doesn’t eat up many batteries and it’s “jog proof” so it hardly ever skips. A real life saver for someone as addicted to CDs as myself.

18. What one word best describes you?

Right now I’ll kind of cop out and say my word is “unsure” because I really have no idea where I’m headed, or what I’ll be thinking or feeling or doing a day from now. I’ve just started here at Xavier’s and already everything’s changing, I used to think I’d never want to use my ability or meet other mutants but now I’m not so sure what I think.

[Laurie Collins]

Familial Questions

19. What was your family like?

My family is me and my mom and it’s small and close and great. We’ve been traveling around together for as long as I can remember, living in different tiny apartments and motel rooms while my mom did temp work wherever she could get it. I know it sounds bad, and some of it was, but it was wonderful too. I’ve lived in New Mexico, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Maine, and New Jersey. My mom home schooled me until middle school, she was kind of overprotective and paranoid about letting me out of her sight when I was younger and didn’t think it would make sense for me to change schools with all the moving. I guess that’s why I turned into such a geek, we did multiplication driving on the highway and recited the parts of a plant’s reproductive system while I helped her make spaghetti so school was just part of life for me not some chunk of my day cut out from my home etc. It also made us really close, my mom definitely knows how to parent, but she’s also like a friend to me.

20. Who was your father, and what was he like?

[[Laurie would just leave this blank, her father was Sean Garrison, a mutant with identical powers to hers who used them to manipulate and exploit people.]]

21. Who was your mother, and what was she like?

My mom is Gail Collins and she’s pretty great, I definitely wish I was more like her especially in the looks department, she’s in her forties but people still notice her wherever she goes. She’s smart too, she was a pre-law student at Stanford before she dropped out, and she could have gone back to all that after my dad but she decided to raise me instead and she’s never seemed like she resents me at all even though she could. The one thing she can cook really well is marinara sauce for spaghetti, with meatballs made from scratch, everything else she defrosts, puts on a plate, and serves. She listens to weird old music from when she was a kid on the radio and sings along really loudly even though she’s completely tone deaf. She’s the one who taught me to love books and she definitely led by example there, she used to read a children’s version of The Iliad and the Odyssey to me when I was little.

22. What was your parents marriage like? Were they married? Did they remain married?

I don’t think they were ever married.

23. What were your siblings names? What were they like?

No siblings that I know of. I guess I could have some half siblings out there, weird, I never really thought about it. I wonder if they’d be mutants too?

24. What's the worst thing one of your siblings ever did to you? What's the worst thing you've done to one of your siblings?

N/A

25. When's the last time you saw any member of your family? Where are they now?

I saw my mom when she dropped me off here a couple days ago, but I talk to her on the phone a lot. She’s in an apartment about an hour away and she’s working as a legal secretary like back in New Jersey and she seems to really like it.

26. Did you ever meet any other family members? Who were they? What did you think of them?

No, my mom’s parents died when she was 20 in a car crash and she was an only child. I guess she must have had cousins or something but I’ve never met them.

Childhood Questions

27. What is your first memory?

Sitting in a diner in Connecticut with my mom while she made up a story about a talking broccoli forest to get me to eat my vegetables. You know it strikes me as slightly ominous now that the only way to get me to eat my vegetables as child was to give them human voices.

28. What was your favorite toy?

My books of course, I’ve always been a reader. Even before I could read I was always after mom to read aloud to me or tell me a story.

29. What was your favorite game?

I didn’t know many kids my own age so I didn’t really ever play tag or red rover or anything, didn’t even know what they were till I started school. I played I Spy with my mom sometimes but I hated it, all that looking around for things made me nervous somehow. I guess I never really liked playing games. I’ve always been kind of a stick-in-the-mud heh.

30. Any non-family member adults stick out in your mind? Who were they, and how did you know them? Why do they stick out?

Probably Ana from the time we stayed in New Mexico for a year when I was six or seven. My mom was working as the manager of this Mexican restaurant owned by the brother of one of the only college friends who kept in touch with her after she dropped out for my dad. Times were pretty bad then and it was the only job she could find so she took it even when it meant leaving me from 6am to 7pm every day except Sundays. Ana watched all the local kids at this roadside stand she had selling homemade jewelry, this really wild clay-bead stuff she made in her own little kiln and dyed with homemade dye. She only spoke a little English but I was young enough that I picked up Spanish easily, and we used to chatter on in a mixture of the two. She was loud and overtly affectionate and teased and scolded the kids she watched every other breath. She used to call me “rojo-cara” or “red-face” because I was the only white girl and I used to always forget to put sun block on and get these awful burns.

31. Who was your best friend when you were growing up?

Well, my mom was really the only person I was around constantly. As far as kids my own age… when I went to middle school briefly in New Jersey I used to eat lunch with a girl named Becky Andrews. We were both really shy so mostly we just sat next to each other and read, then swapped books sometimes when we were done.

32. What is your fondest, childhood memory?

Lying on the roof of the apartment my mom and I rented in Ohio one night. I was about nine or ten and I stayed up till midnight and got an astronomy lesson. Eventually my mom fell asleep and I crept away to the very edge of the roof and curled my toes over it. I’ve always been sort of scared of heights and mom would never have let me get so close to the edge so I felt pretty daring, but at the same time safe because my mom was only a few feet behind me. Nothing really special about it just one of the only times I’ve felt brave and safe and completely alive

33. What is your worst childhood memory?
I count twelve as a kid so I’d have to say when my mutation first manifested itself while I was on holiday. It was a surreal, scary time. The less said about that the better.


Adolescent Questions
34. How old were you when you went on your first date?

I’ve never been on a date. I don’t think it would be a good idea.

35. It is common for one's view of authority to develop in their adolescent years. What is your view of authority, and what event most affected it?

Well, I’m pretty respectful of authority. I figure if a person has gained a position of authority they probably deserve it and know what to do better than I do. If they ask me to do something I feel is wrong I’ll try to be respectful about refusing, but I will refuse in the end. Mostly I’m just scared of drawing attention to myself and try to follow directions and fly under the authority radar.

36. What were you like in high school? What "clique" did you best fit in with?

When I went to high school for awhile after taking the cure I was pretty much how I am now except a little bit less shy. I felt like it was my big chance and tried really hard to come out of my shell and make friends. Mostly I fit into the “nerd” clique but I liked it a lot. I was in the literary magazine, environmental club, and Spanish club too, a very “community oriented” freshman as my guidance councilor put it. Then there was home schooling again and now… I don’t know. I guess we’ll see.

37. What were your high school goals?

They used to be fitting in, getting good grades, getting Alex Roberts to ask me to homecoming, all the normal stuff. Now they’re to learn to control my freaky mutant abilities, not become a corrupt manipulator, and get good grades though I don’t know what the point of the last one is. Do mutants go to college? Do they do anything besides blow things up once they’re in their twenties?

38. Who was your idol when you were growing up? Who did you first fantasize about in your life?

Well I think every kid who grows up close to their parents wants to be just like them when they’re little, but other than that I don’t really know. Levin from Anna Karenina maybe, though idol is really too strong a word, I just admire the way he lives a good life amidst a lot of decadence and tries his best to be moral despite his admitted imperfections. As to who I fantasized about… oh I daydreamed a lot about whatever I was reading at the time I suppose.

[[Laurie would totally not get that ‘fantasized’ might have had a sexual connotation]]

39. What is your favorite memory from adolescence?

After I’d taken the cure and been enrolled in high school for a few weeks I went out to the movies with some friends from school. We were all in the parking lot waiting for our rides afterwards and talking and joking around about the movie. One of them, Alex, was making fun of one of the ‘heroic romance’ scenes by acting it out with a parked car as the female lead. The owner of the car came by and looked so horrified I don’t think I stopped laughing for about an hour. It’s the most normal I’ve ever felt.

40. What is your worst memory from adolescence?

When the cure wore off and I almost caused a riot in English class. I seem to almost cause riots a lot huh? Maybe my codename should have something to do with that instead. Almostriotcauser. Nah, just doesn’t flow.

Occupational Questions
can also be applied to *team* if X-Men/BH rather than to paid employment
41. Do you have a job? What is it? Do you like it? If no job, where does your money come from?

Well being a student is my “job” I guess. Where does my money come from? Good question heh.

42. What is your boss or employer like? (Or publisher, or agent, or whatever.)

Well since Mr. Sheppard is the headmaster I guess he’s my “boss.” He scared me at first, what with the position and talking to me in my head, but he actually seems like a nice person. He’s sort of fidgety looking which makes me nervous but he’s still likable.

43. What are your co-workers like? Do you get along with them? Any in particular? Which ones don't you get along with?

I’ve only met one other student so far, Matthew Craft. We got along okay, he’s really nice and put up with me tripping over everything and scaring him with my pheromones about every five minutes. Hopefully if we run into each other again I’ll be more collected and can prove that I’m not always such a basket case. Even if I kind of am.

44. What is something you had to learn that you hated?

Hmm, probably that I’m going to have to get involved in this whole mutant thing. For better or worse I’m always going to be a mutant, I can’t run away anymore, and that means controlling my mutation and resisting the temptation to use it for the wrong reasons. I get the feeling that there’ll be more complicated things even than that, everyone seems tense about the politics and actions of other mutant factions… I don’t think I’ll be able to stay out of that forever. Scary.

45. Do you tend to save or spend your money? Why?

Oh I spend my money like there’s no tomorrow! I’m pretty good at controlling myself in other areas but if I see a new book I want I just have to have it, no waiting, no saving. Besides I’m only fifteen, what should I be saving up for?

[Laurie Collins]

Likes & Dislikes Questions
46. What hobbies do you have?

Oh I’m pretty boring I read and listen to CDs mostly. Sometimes I try to write but it’s nothing I’d ever torture someone by showing them, just teenager stuff. Actually one of my favorite things to do is make floor plans for buildings. I know that’s a weird hobby but I always wanted to be an architect when I was younger, designing custom houses for people ideally. Probably comes from moving around so much and, no matter how fun that was, wanting a permanent home a little bit.

47. Who is your closest mundane friend? Describe them and how you relate to them.

Does mundane mean non-mutant? I guess that’d be my mom. I think I’ve described our relationship in the family section well enough.

48. Who is your worst mundane enemy? Describe them and why you don't get along.

Enemy? Oh I don’t have any enemies… at least I hope I don’t. People who hate mutants I guess? I know they’re out there though hopefully they haven’t formed some sort of I-hate-Laurie-Collins group. Though if they have somehow noticed me I’ll have to commend them for being so very thorough.

49. What bands do you like? Do you even pay attention?

I do pay attention! I like mostly quiet stuff, Imogen Heap, The Kings of Convenience, The Postal Service, The Album Leaf, Youth Group, Joseph Arthur, Stars, Elliott Smith, Belle&Sebastian, The Posies, Rilo Kiley, The Format, and classical music too though not with too many strings. String instrument heavy pieces make me jumpy. I guess a lot of things make me jumpy. I love woodwinds and brass though.

50. What tape or CD hasn't left your player since you purchased it? Why?

The Album Leaf EP by The Album Leaf because it’s absolutely gorgeous, all instrumentals some of them played live and it’s just… I can’t even describe it, it’s like the most beautiful parts of every natural sound all strung together.

51. What song is "your song?" Why?

“Homesick” by The Kings of Convenience I guess. At least I listen to it a lot and with a little wiggling the lyrics could be applied to me.

52. What's been your favorite movie of all time?

La Vita e Bella probably. It’s this Italian film told in two parts, part one is kind of a romantic comedy, guy meets girl, girl is engaged, guy wins girl, they are both completely adorable together and you die of happiness for them. Then it’s World War II and he’s Jewish and the whole family gets sent to a concentration camp, but the man convinces his son that it’s all a game and saves him from being killed and maybe more importantly from being traumatized. It’s funny and scary and amazingly sad. Don’t ever watch it with me, you’ll probably get pheromone overload and go crazy.

53. Read any good books? What were they?

A lot of good books! My favorites are probably: Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Villette, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Ursula Under, White Oleander, Specimen Days, Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte’s Web, House of Leaves, The Collected Works of Rainer Maria Rilke and the Greek mythology book I got at a secondhand book sale with the cover torn off.

54. What do you watch on the Television?

I liked Gilmore Girls back in its season one-three years but then I lost track of it. I mostly watch movies on TV or the history channel nowadays.

55. When it comes to mundane politics, do you care? If so, which way do you tend to vote? If not, why don't you care?

I’ve never paid much attention to politics, I always found it overblown and dramatic and scary. I guess I’ll have to start though. If anything I’m a Democrat I suppose.

56. What type of places do you hang out in with your mundane friends?

Well when I had peers as mundane friends we hung out in all the normal teenage places, the mall, the movie theater in the mall, Barnes & Noble. We actually just stayed after school a lot of the time and joked around in empty classrooms since none of us were old enough to drive and there weren’t many places within walking distance.

57. What type of places do you avoid like the plague?

Really loud, crowded places mostly with extra points lost for any sort of flashing neon lights. The mall is usually off my list of spots though I like it early in the morning when it’s only old women in tracksuits power walking around all hyper-focused and puffing like it’s the running of the bulls. Is it mean to be so amused by them?

58. What annoys you more than anything else?

Hmm, that’s tough as most things negative scare me instead of annoying me. I’d have to say people who are really jumpy about spiders. I mean honestly, they’re tiny, tiny little harmless things (well in New York anyway, there were some big ones in New Mexico), and people go crazy and jump about and yell and are generally a million times scarier than the poor arachnid whenever they see one. How hard is it to just scoop it up and put it outside without all the fuss?

59. What would be the perfect gift for you?

A gift card to Barnes & Noble. A book is nice after all, but half the fun for me is picking it out myself. I suppose I learned the whole ‘take fifty thousand hours in any bookstore you even poke your nose into’ thing as a self-defense mechanism, my mom does the same thing and I’d have been bored to death by the age of nine if I hadn’t learned to be the same way.

60. What's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?

Probably the first time I remember seeing snow when I was ten and we moved to Ohio. Our first night in our new apartment there was a blizzard and it was like the world had completely transformed the next morning. I loved it, just went down and stood on the steps and looked at it all. I remember I didn’t want to go outside and step in it because I would ruin it with my footprints, my mom kept trying to get me to make snow angels but I’d only sit on the steps and just look at it.

61. What time of day is your favorite?

Early in the morning when I’m still in bed and sort of half-awake, usually thinking sort of fuzzily about something. I always sort of wake up an hour before I have to get up and look at the clock and see how much time I have left and feel relieved and comfortable. It’s very easy to be made happy at 6:00 AM heh.

62. What kind of weather is your favorite?

Snowy of course! Other than that, Fall weather, brisk enough for a sweater and to sting your cheeks but not bitter cold at all.

63. What is your favorite food? What is your least favorite food?

Well, I have to say that my favorite is my mom’s spaghetti of course though I’m also partial to anything spicy, and my least favorite…hmm, I’m not really that picky, I’ll eat anything. One thing I saw in the grocery store once though, turducen or something like that, really grossed me out. It’s a chicken stuffed inside a duck which is stuffed inside a turkey and they’re all cooked together so you wind up with a big meat roll. The idea just…ickk.

64. What is your favorite drink? (Coffee, Coke, Juice, Beer, Wine, etc.)

I like pink lemonade best for summer and hot chocolate best for winter. I’ve never had alcohol since I don’t know what my pheromones would do with that and my mom was always strict about my soda consumption. The number of time’s I’ve heard “Mutant or not Laurie your bones rot from that stuff just like the rest of us. Do you want to get osteoporosis when you’re my age?” Geeez.

65. What's your favorite animal? Why?

A dog, I’ve always wanted a golden retriever puppy or a mutt, just a big dumb friendly dog that’ll follow me around the house and sleep on my feet at night and smell bad and be reassuringly there and dog-ish and such.

66. Do you have any pets? Do you want any pets? What kind?

I had a pet daisy once, does that count? I dug up all the roots and transplanted it into this little pot and named it Daisy (creative I know!) and hauled it around everywhere for a few months until it died and I buried it in the backyard of our Florida apartment. Look above for the kind of pet I want.

67. What do you find most relaxing? (Not as in stress relief, but as something that actually calms you down.)

Hearing someone read or recite to me, or listening to music. It’s what I’ve always done to calm down ever since I can remember. My mom used to kind of sing-song this one poem to me when I had nightmares as a kid, it was Rilke, something about singing someone to sleep and standing watch over them through a cold night. I can’t remember much now.

68. What habit that others have annoys you most?

Licking their fingers to separate pages in a book. I’m not normally squeamish but that just disgusts me and makes me want to yell at them.

69. What kind of things embarrass you? Why?

What kinds of things don’t embarrass me is the better question really. Uh, mainly using my mutation to influence someone else, being the center of attention, talking strangely from not interacting with other kids that much, and not knowing an answer in class.

70. What don't you like about yourself?

I don’t like my mutation. I just don’t.
[[Fairly transparent to everyone including herself though she doesn’t like to talk about it is the fact that Laurie has a strange guilt complex about having inherited her father’s mutation. She thinks it must mean that she’s inclined to be more like him than her mother and at least partially responsible for her mother being hurt.]]

71. How would you like to look?

I’d love to be taller and have red hair like my mom. Sharper features too, people say I’m kind of baby-faced right now and sometimes I get mistaken for thirteen instead of fifteen.

Sex and Intimacy Questions

72. Would you consider yourself straight, gay, bi, or something else? Why?

Oh, well, I don’t know, I haven’t had much experience to, you know, um, determine. I’ve only ever been interested in guys though and the idea of, uh, that, with a girl kind of repels (for myself, other people are free to pursue that) me so I suppose I’m straight.

73. Who was the first person you had sex with? When did it happen? What was it like? How well did it go?

Oh gosh, I’ve never even held hands with a boy except one or twice when a male acquaintance grabbed my hand to pull me somewhere. Perhaps I should try that before, um, sex. Plus I am only fifteen.

74. Have you ever had a same-sex experience? Who with, what was it like, and how did it go?

No, no same sex experiences I don’t think.

75. What is your deepest, most well-hidden sexual fantasy? Would you ever try it?

Wow that’s rather intrusive. Um, pass? (Does anyone actually answer this?)
[[Laurie doesn’t fantasize about sex that much honestly, and when she does it’s in the weird vague way most young, inexperienced teens do- it’ll happen and be good but the specifics are vague.]]

76. What was the wildest thing you've ever done, sexually? Who was it with and when did it happen?

Oh gosh this will mark me as a real nerd… when I was in high school for a few months we were sitting in my friend’s room in, er, mixed company and she brought out a soda bottle and cajoled us all into playing spin the bottle. I didn’t want to seem like a baby so I went along with it and ended up getting paired up with the boy I had a bit of a crush on. I guess he saw I was nervous though and he just kissed the back of my hand very joking-dramatically. He was a nice guy, Alex, I miss him sometimes.

77. Is there any sexual activity that you enjoy and/or practice regularly that can be considered non-standard? (Bondage, Fantasy Play, etc.) Why do you like it?

…do I want to know what those are? I mean I have some guesses but, uh, no I don’t think I really need to know. So, uh, the answer here is no, no thankyou.

78. Is there any sexual activity that you will not, under any circumstances, do?

Well I don’t know what sexual activities there are. I mean for all I know there’s an unspoken tradition of having a post-coital pipe rammed through your eye, though if so I guess there would be a lot more blind people about. Uh, what I mean by that is- I’m not qualified to answer this right now, sorry. There’s probably something though right?

79. Do you currently have a lover? What is their name, and what is your relationship like? What are they like? Why are you attracted to them?

Lover? Etch, I hate that term. No, no I do not. I’m trying not to develop feelings for anyone either, I’m scared of what my pheromones could do or that love would make me crazy enough to use them on purpose.

80. What is the perfect romantic date?

The perfect romantic date? Are there platonic dates? Are you distinguishing a date the activity from a date the dried food? Ah, joking aside, I guess something relaxed where I and my, uh, date-partner, could both feel at ease and talk a lot. That’s quite cliché though, I don’t want that to be my answer. Anything I guess, it should be the person not the setting right? Though, you know, I’d probably be reduced to mush if someone made something for me, doesn’t matter what, a picture or a song or a story or a meal. Making things is really nice.

81. Describe the perfect romantic partner for you.

A miraculous immunity to pheromones would be very nice. Other than that, intelligence (though it doesn’t have to be the book learning kind, just sharpness) and confidence without losing empathy. Someone has to be the outgoing one in the relationship after all, heh. Maybe as inexperienced as me so I wouldn’t always worry about how dumb I would probably keep being.

82. Do you ever want to get married and have children? When do you see this happening?

If I never get my pheromones cured or completely under control then no, I don’t see myself ending up involved with anyone. If I can get past my mutation a family would be really nice though. I’ve only got my mom to go on but the family you surround yourself with are the most important people in your life I think, the more the better. The idea of loving someone enough to stick around no matter how old or weird or crazy they get is appealing too, that’s real family you know? I guess ideally, if I were normal, I’d like to get married in my early twenties and have kids by 29 or so.

83. What is more important - sex or intimacy? Why?

Well I don’t really know much of sex. I suppose it would depend on the situation wouldn’t it? If the situation were a one night stand or something of the like intimacy would be unnecessary but if we’re discussing marriage I’d definitely say intimacy over sex. Sex doesn’t help when you’re having a conversation. I mean I don’t think it does… does it?

84. What was your most recent relationship like? Who was it with? (Does not need to be sexual, merely romantic.)

I haven’t ever had a romantic relationship. Well, this kid Ana watched along with me, Marco did marry me in one of those little kid ceremonies when we were seven and six respectively haha.

85. What's the worst thing you've done to someone you loved?

I’ve never loved anyone romantically which is, I believe, what is being asked here. The worst thing I’ve ever done to my mother who is someone I love platonically obviously… it sounds terrible to say, but, be born I guess? She could have been anything she wanted if she hadn’t been raising and protecting me from everything she ever even imagined could hurt me. Plus I make it hard to forget what my father did to her.