RP [Private] Audio Journals

[SmokeEmpress]

This thread is just set up for me to work on some of my concepts for my new character, Merna. Please do not respond to anything in here. It's open for anyone to read, though. I am not sure how many I will post before closing, or if I will close at all. If you have any questions about what is going on, please feel free to send me a conversation or catch me on IRC.

Thank you!

 

[SmokeEmpress]

First Entry - A young voice is heard speaking

Hello! My name is Katayanagi Merna. My mother thought that this would be a good thing for me to do, even though I can remember everything that I have done. She says that I will have more and more memories and, though I could keep them stored in my memory to access at a later time, this would help me talk through my thoughts. Even though I don't think anyone else is going to hear these, I will tell more about myself.

I am only six years old right now and I am learning many wonderful things about history, music and literature. The sad thing is that I can't exactly picture in my mind what all is described, but I do love hearing the descriptions so much! For, it must be said, I am blind. I can't quite get the colors mentioned, but anything else that I could feel or smell or hear I can understand well enough.

I was born blind. And though I could have been healed, or fixed, or cured, my parents had decided not to do so. They are geneticists, so they know that I could have been put in a new body with working eyes, but they want to study me as I grow. I know that they love me, for though I am being studied, I don't feel as if that is the case. They make sure that my days are filled with fun things and spend much of normal time with me too!

My ears have started to become pointed now that my hearing is becoming more enhanced. I can even smell things better than both mother and father. My cousin, though, likes to tease me! Aevar-san is mean at times, but I do so love him! He helps me, too, by describing some of what my eyes still try to see.

Umm..okay. I think that is enough for now. Perhaps I shall do another entry another time.

 

[SmokeEmpress]

Second found entry - Voice is of same girl just a few years older

Okay, so this is not a good thing. I know that I should be able to talk to someone that I am looking at, but for some odd reason it never happens. Mother thinks it might be because I am unable to focus on the person I am looking at. Even though they can see into my eyes, since I can't see into theirs, it's unable to be done.

Not only that, but the dreams keep coming more and more. I've linked with Aevar-san. He says that my eyes will still try to see, even if I can't. It's almost as if my eyes are wanting to heal themselves, but even with that there's no color. Or so he says. It's all black and white, or something like that. Oh well, maybe one day we can figure it out.

 

[SmokeEmpress]

Third found entry - Voice of same girl, Age 14

I just got a new body! It feels the same, but I can tell there are some differences to it. It's amazing! When I focus on listening, sometimes my ears change from slightly pointed and fixed in one direction, to more pointed and moving in three! Hair also grows out of it. Mother says this is okay and it only has the hair when I am in my 'cat-like' mode. She says that the hair even blends into my regular hair, so unless one really looks for it, or I have my own hair back, it's hard to tell when I am being active in listening or not.

Aevar-san teases me a lot about them, but if anyone else does, he's the first to make them take it back. I'm going to miss him when he goes off to the Academy.

 

[SmokeEmpress]

Fourth found entry - Age 17

I got accepted into the Academy! I knew I would do it, but it is still pretty thrilling! I will even be able to go for a double major of Linguistics and Computer Science! Mother and Father are both proud of me. They are setting up another appointment for me to get a new upgrade. It'll be my graduation present, so to speak.

I really miss Aevar-san. I don't know where he is right now, exactly, but I do hear from him now and again. I keep sending him my dreams and images that seem to haunt me when I sleep. He says it's nothing to worry about. So do Mother and Father, so I won't. But part of me still wonders about them.

 

[SmokeEmpress]

Fifth Entry found - Age 18

Okay, so this is a new development. It seems that with the new Minkan bodies the eyes have enhanced abilities that are genetically programmed in. As I was in class for martial arts, I started to see shapes, kind of. It was like I could make out the bodies of everyone around me. I did not expect that! I called Mother and Father immediately and they were excited to learn about this new development. I am beginning to wonder if maybe I am not just their daughter, but a science experiment. I had thought this before, but never really took the time to consider it.

They had always asked me questions about different things when I was growing up, and especially when I was transferred into the new bodies. I wonder if they really did keep the genetic blindness in there, or if somehow my eyes are trying to heal themselves. When I think of my memories, especially after the first transfer, I can almost see what it is that had happened, not just hear it.

Oh well. Sensei now says that I am to train with the others in weapons as well. They will work with me in triggering the Infrared so that they can add heat to the targets, which would make it easier for me to practice. I can learn how to take care of the handgun by feel, since there's really not much needed for sight itself.

Many of my classmates keep asking me why I haven't gotten my eyes fixed, or why I haven't transferred into a body with working eyes. I tell them that I don't want to. For so long, I was without sight of any sort and, though most parents would have instantly had their child's abnormalities fixed, they are geneticists and wanted to see how things would develop, I guess. I don't know. Still, why would I want to see now? What would be the point? And, even still, would I really see color as they do?