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PRE-MEETING
Charismatic, cheerful, and possessing an uncanny ability to make whoever he's talking to feel like the sole object of his attention, Hé Míng seems made for television. He's good at finding things to talk about when he wants to carry on a conversation, and also good at cutting things short without hurting people's feelings. He makes friends quickly, even if he doesn't hang out with most of them them too much. He's respectful to his elders, doesn't brag, and is basically a nice person, if a little scatterbrained. He has a simple confidence and an aura of self-assurance that makes people trust him. And while these traits are genuine, they're also usually only witnessed during his publicity appearances.
To his closer friends, Hé Míng's popularity can only be attributed to black magic. While not malicious, he is self-absorbed, naive, and can be cruel without meaning to when he doesn't have a general script to follow. His parents were too distant and absent to teach him anything beyond showing deference to those older than him and a basic sense of morals. Hé Míng, an adult at twenty, has a tendency to do and say things that are about as sensitive as what you'd expect from a fifteen year old.
His friends are just used to it, which is why they put up with him. He often says what he thinks without bothering to censor himself, and what's considered "refreshing honesty" on television becomes being blunt to the point of rudeness in real life. He sees no point in lying to spare someone's feelings, figuring that they'll have to know eventually anyway. In that vein, he doesn't say things with the intention of hurting people, though things often turn out that way. Fortunately (or unfortunately, in the long run), he also isn't the sort to share his opinion without prompting or reason, or else he'd probably get told off more often.
He certainly isn't shy, though. He's outgoing on and offscreen, feeling a responsibility to include everyone in the conversation whether they want to be included or not. It's useful on a talk show, but pretty obnoxious in normal situations with people who want to be left alone. He thrives in social situations. He doesn't want to be Best Friends Forever™ with everyone, but he doesn't see why he should be prejudiced in favor of or against people before he at least tries to talk to them. He makes friends easily because he's nice to nearly everyone, and he thinks, why not be nice to people? He doesn't have it in him to hold a grudge for very long once the other person apologizes.
In turn, this is a trait that makes him gullible and keeps him in contact with people that might not have his best interests in mind. Even though he has a good memory, he'll let things go if he feels like it's been long enough. Hé Míng thinks everyone deserves a second chance, unless they've killed his mother or something. Even then, if they did so because they were desperate or they did in in self-defense, he wouldn't go after them for vengeance. He'd just put them down as someone he doesn't really want to talk to anymore and let them be. If a friend or someone he trusted told him flat-out that so-and-so was an evil, lying bastard, he'd still at least try a conversation with them first. It's kind of a miracle no one's taken advantage of that yet (or just a combination of privilege and special circumstances).
This is due both to the fact that he doesn't generally care about other people enough to try and better them, and also because sheltered as he was from real hardship, he operates on a system of what are basically elementary school rules. Don't lie, don't hurt people unless they really deserve it—and even if they do, you should probably just tell the teacher. Listen to your parents, listen to anyone older than you, sharing is caring, etc.
He feels a heavy obligation towards his parents for giving him a good upbringing and always providing for them. He feels that everyone should have an equal chance at success. He knows what cruelty is, and that everyone should always work hard and play fair but that that isn't always how the world works. For what it's worth, he does his best to do good, he just doesn't go very far out of his way to help people, and he hasn't yet been in a situation that's called for that yet.
Still, what he does have is a strong sense of duty to his family and to 'good'—he never once considered turning down the position of pilot once he passed the test, and after being informed by the CDC the terms of his "contract" he'd take them without a second of hesitation. He wants to protect and do what he can for the better of the human race; he has wanted that since he was young, and piloting was simply a convenient way of doing it. To be honest, he probably wouldn't have been able to find another way on his own. Hé Míng has very little sense of ambition or direction; he passed school exams by having a good memory and the ability to focus in on specific tasks. When he was graduating high school, he figured he'd go to med school or something like it, then move onto a career that wasn't too difficult and made a lot of money (but was still legal, of course).
He became a pilot, instead. As a pilot, he gets a lot of attention. More than he knows what to do with, really, because although he'd always been popular in his age group, being pretty and friendly, he was suddenly visible to people all over the world, and had the responsibility of protecting those people on top of that. He adjusted quickly, more or less, but he didn't mature much. Or at all. It isn't that he's too young to take advantage of his position for something greater. He knows it's important and he treats it with respect, but he just sees it as a duty and not an opportunity. He can't see beyond himself for the greater good and simply assumes that following orders and killing aliens is the greater good.
Ultimately, he's easy enough to have a conversation with, but difficult to stay friends with. The shallowness of his current relationships and general isolation proves that. Even though he feels fine without close friends, it's partially what contributes to his lack of development. No one has bothered pointing out that his habitual chattiness is a weakness as well as a strength; he doesn't talk about himself to people, and he doesn't know that not really caring about people beyond their basic safety and superficial happiness is, at his age, weird. Due to his tendency to just try and please people, he's bad at relationships and good at leading people on by accident. He won't bring up problems if he has them, but if they ask, he'll spill every flaw he's noticed immediately. This has not made him popular for long-term relationships, except in high school, where most people are equally self-absorbed teenagers. He hasn't had any opportunities for romance in the past two years or so, which is probably for the better and also because his sponsors heavily discourage real romantic relationships.
Hé Míng is now a self-absorbed adult piloting a robot with an incredible AI that could blow up a city block with one shot at its lowest setting. This does not end well in the long run, but for the moment, he's just an overly optimistic young man who talks too much.
POST-MEETING
On a deployment into a deeper area of space, He Ming meets the beings so large and great they exist beyond 'this world'. They eat his brain and regurgitate it back into him. Moderate existensial horror etc. ensues. He goes back to Earth, someone new and old at the same time.
He doesn't work for them in the sense that they know he's there. He's just part of them now, and he always knows what they want.
- develops moderate clairvoyance and visions of the future
- what's a moral in the face of the multiverse
- healing + not really killable
Charismatic, cheerful, and possessing an uncanny ability to make whoever he's talking to feel like the sole object of his attention, Hé Míng seems made for television. He's good at finding things to talk about when he wants to carry on a conversation, and also good at cutting things short without hurting people's feelings. He makes friends quickly, even if he doesn't hang out with most of them them too much. He's respectful to his elders, doesn't brag, and is basically a nice person, if a little scatterbrained. He has a simple confidence and an aura of self-assurance that makes people trust him. And while these traits are genuine, they're also usually only witnessed during his publicity appearances.
To his closer friends, Hé Míng's popularity can only be attributed to black magic. While not malicious, he is self-absorbed, naive, and can be cruel without meaning to when he doesn't have a general script to follow. His parents were too distant and absent to teach him anything beyond showing deference to those older than him and a basic sense of morals. Hé Míng, an adult at twenty, has a tendency to do and say things that are about as sensitive as what you'd expect from a fifteen year old.
His friends are just used to it, which is why they put up with him. He often says what he thinks without bothering to censor himself, and what's considered "refreshing honesty" on television becomes being blunt to the point of rudeness in real life. He sees no point in lying to spare someone's feelings, figuring that they'll have to know eventually anyway. In that vein, he doesn't say things with the intention of hurting people, though things often turn out that way. Fortunately (or unfortunately, in the long run), he also isn't the sort to share his opinion without prompting or reason, or else he'd probably get told off more often.
He certainly isn't shy, though. He's outgoing on and offscreen, feeling a responsibility to include everyone in the conversation whether they want to be included or not. It's useful on a talk show, but pretty obnoxious in normal situations with people who want to be left alone. He thrives in social situations. He doesn't want to be Best Friends Forever™ with everyone, but he doesn't see why he should be prejudiced in favor of or against people before he at least tries to talk to them. He makes friends easily because he's nice to nearly everyone, and he thinks, why not be nice to people? He doesn't have it in him to hold a grudge for very long once the other person apologizes.
In turn, this is a trait that makes him gullible and keeps him in contact with people that might not have his best interests in mind. Even though he has a good memory, he'll let things go if he feels like it's been long enough. Hé Míng thinks everyone deserves a second chance, unless they've killed his mother or something. Even then, if they did so because they were desperate or they did in in self-defense, he wouldn't go after them for vengeance. He'd just put them down as someone he doesn't really want to talk to anymore and let them be. If a friend or someone he trusted told him flat-out that so-and-so was an evil, lying bastard, he'd still at least try a conversation with them first. It's kind of a miracle no one's taken advantage of that yet (or just a combination of privilege and special circumstances).
This is due both to the fact that he doesn't generally care about other people enough to try and better them, and also because sheltered as he was from real hardship, he operates on a system of what are basically elementary school rules. Don't lie, don't hurt people unless they really deserve it—and even if they do, you should probably just tell the teacher. Listen to your parents, listen to anyone older than you, sharing is caring, etc.
He feels a heavy obligation towards his parents for giving him a good upbringing and always providing for them. He feels that everyone should have an equal chance at success. He knows what cruelty is, and that everyone should always work hard and play fair but that that isn't always how the world works. For what it's worth, he does his best to do good, he just doesn't go very far out of his way to help people, and he hasn't yet been in a situation that's called for that yet.
Still, what he does have is a strong sense of duty to his family and to 'good'—he never once considered turning down the position of pilot once he passed the test, and after being informed by the CDC the terms of his "contract" he'd take them without a second of hesitation. He wants to protect and do what he can for the better of the human race; he has wanted that since he was young, and piloting was simply a convenient way of doing it. To be honest, he probably wouldn't have been able to find another way on his own. Hé Míng has very little sense of ambition or direction; he passed school exams by having a good memory and the ability to focus in on specific tasks. When he was graduating high school, he figured he'd go to med school or something like it, then move onto a career that wasn't too difficult and made a lot of money (but was still legal, of course).
He became a pilot, instead. As a pilot, he gets a lot of attention. More than he knows what to do with, really, because although he'd always been popular in his age group, being pretty and friendly, he was suddenly visible to people all over the world, and had the responsibility of protecting those people on top of that. He adjusted quickly, more or less, but he didn't mature much. Or at all. It isn't that he's too young to take advantage of his position for something greater. He knows it's important and he treats it with respect, but he just sees it as a duty and not an opportunity. He can't see beyond himself for the greater good and simply assumes that following orders and killing aliens is the greater good.
Ultimately, he's easy enough to have a conversation with, but difficult to stay friends with. The shallowness of his current relationships and general isolation proves that. Even though he feels fine without close friends, it's partially what contributes to his lack of development. No one has bothered pointing out that his habitual chattiness is a weakness as well as a strength; he doesn't talk about himself to people, and he doesn't know that not really caring about people beyond their basic safety and superficial happiness is, at his age, weird. Due to his tendency to just try and please people, he's bad at relationships and good at leading people on by accident. He won't bring up problems if he has them, but if they ask, he'll spill every flaw he's noticed immediately. This has not made him popular for long-term relationships, except in high school, where most people are equally self-absorbed teenagers. He hasn't had any opportunities for romance in the past two years or so, which is probably for the better and also because his sponsors heavily discourage real romantic relationships.
Hé Míng is now a self-absorbed adult piloting a robot with an incredible AI that could blow up a city block with one shot at its lowest setting. This does not end well in the long run, but for the moment, he's just an overly optimistic young man who talks too much.
POST-MEETING
On a deployment into a deeper area of space, He Ming meets the beings so large and great they exist beyond 'this world'. They eat his brain and regurgitate it back into him. Moderate existensial horror etc. ensues. He goes back to Earth, someone new and old at the same time.
He doesn't work for them in the sense that they know he's there. He's just part of them now, and he always knows what they want.
- develops moderate clairvoyance and visions of the future
- what's a moral in the face of the multiverse
- healing + not really killable