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Created on 2006-12-02 20:03:41 (#11742100), last updated 2007-03-03
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Basic Info| Name: | Elaine Thompson |
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BioName: Elaine Thompson
Age: 37
Ability: To reduce the friction between objects
History:
Elaine Thompson was born into a moderately well-to-do family in upstate New York: well-bred, predictable, boring. To someone in such a situation, there is no choice but to find one's own amusements or drown in the ennui.
Elaine's mother chose fortune telling as her method of choice and frequented a succession of astrologers, hoping for news of some upcoming excitement to her life. Her favorite, a Romanian woman who baked excellent baclava, asked her to bring in her daughter one day for a private consultation.
When Elaine visited the old woman, she was pulled into the back room and informed that she was destined to help destroy the human race, it would happen within the next three decades, oh, and have a sweet, dear.
After the meeting, she spent a long time trying to understand why anyone would choose to start the destruction of their own species. Eventually she came to the conclusion that humans were, for the most part, unhappy, miserable creatures that were, to put it bluntly, not exactly good for the survival of the rest of the species that inhabited the planet. Elaine was 15 at the time. (It was shortly afterwards that Elaine realized that opening recalcitrant jars was suddenly significantly easier.)
Still, thirty years is a long time, and Elaine was determined to make the best of what time she had remaining. She went to college, majoring in English. She found a job as a copy editor at a small magazine, working her way through the hierarchy as the magazine grew, until one day soon after Elaine's 26th birthday, the advice columnist had a sudden, fatal heart attack. She had, unfortunately, died a day before her deadline, leaving a half-finished column and a dismayed editorial staff.
The rest of the editorial staff agreed that, as the office busybody, Elaine was the most suited for the job, and thus, the unfinished column was dropped into her lap. The letters were unsorted and the task took all night, but Elaine managed to have a column ready by 8 am the next morning. There was a favorable response, and as Elaine enjoyed the task, she was chosen as the replacement for the recently deceased writer. It meant that Elaine had to cut back on her editing duties, but, she feels, the opportunity to help others in such a profound way was well worth the step down in prestige.
When she was 29, Elaine fell in love. It was a whirlwind romance, which saw a happy couple wedded the next spring; it was on her birthday, for sentimentality.
7 years later, the marriage has cooled to a comfortable sense of companionship. It isn't particularly passionate, but it is stable, and they say that they are happy. The only real bone of contention is the topic of "children." He wants to start a family. She would like to have kids. He says that they probably should start before it's too late. But, she wonders, would it be right to bring children into the world, knowing that they are soon to die? The end of the last decade is swiftly approaching, and the fortune teller had never specified exactly when the world would end. So she continues to make excuses.
It is then that her husband company asks him to expatriate in order to manage their expansion into Brazil. Elaine has managed managed to wrangle a two year sabbatical based on the popularity of her columns.
Three months have passed since they moved into their Rio de Janeiro apartment. Elaine lets the maid to all of the cleaning and most of cooking, while she goes through the letters that interns would have normally sorted out. Her magazine has begun an online version- she is taking email submissions in preparation for a switch to a daily column.
Her husband spends most of his time at work. He doesn't believe that Brazil is a suitable a good environment to start a family, so the argument is on hold, for the time being. Still, she feels her biological clock ticking. And doubts about the fortune's veracity are beginning to form.
Studies have shown that women with small children adapt best to living abroad.
Age: 37
Ability: To reduce the friction between objects
History:
Elaine Thompson was born into a moderately well-to-do family in upstate New York: well-bred, predictable, boring. To someone in such a situation, there is no choice but to find one's own amusements or drown in the ennui.
Elaine's mother chose fortune telling as her method of choice and frequented a succession of astrologers, hoping for news of some upcoming excitement to her life. Her favorite, a Romanian woman who baked excellent baclava, asked her to bring in her daughter one day for a private consultation.
When Elaine visited the old woman, she was pulled into the back room and informed that she was destined to help destroy the human race, it would happen within the next three decades, oh, and have a sweet, dear.
After the meeting, she spent a long time trying to understand why anyone would choose to start the destruction of their own species. Eventually she came to the conclusion that humans were, for the most part, unhappy, miserable creatures that were, to put it bluntly, not exactly good for the survival of the rest of the species that inhabited the planet. Elaine was 15 at the time. (It was shortly afterwards that Elaine realized that opening recalcitrant jars was suddenly significantly easier.)
Still, thirty years is a long time, and Elaine was determined to make the best of what time she had remaining. She went to college, majoring in English. She found a job as a copy editor at a small magazine, working her way through the hierarchy as the magazine grew, until one day soon after Elaine's 26th birthday, the advice columnist had a sudden, fatal heart attack. She had, unfortunately, died a day before her deadline, leaving a half-finished column and a dismayed editorial staff.
The rest of the editorial staff agreed that, as the office busybody, Elaine was the most suited for the job, and thus, the unfinished column was dropped into her lap. The letters were unsorted and the task took all night, but Elaine managed to have a column ready by 8 am the next morning. There was a favorable response, and as Elaine enjoyed the task, she was chosen as the replacement for the recently deceased writer. It meant that Elaine had to cut back on her editing duties, but, she feels, the opportunity to help others in such a profound way was well worth the step down in prestige.
When she was 29, Elaine fell in love. It was a whirlwind romance, which saw a happy couple wedded the next spring; it was on her birthday, for sentimentality.
7 years later, the marriage has cooled to a comfortable sense of companionship. It isn't particularly passionate, but it is stable, and they say that they are happy. The only real bone of contention is the topic of "children." He wants to start a family. She would like to have kids. He says that they probably should start before it's too late. But, she wonders, would it be right to bring children into the world, knowing that they are soon to die? The end of the last decade is swiftly approaching, and the fortune teller had never specified exactly when the world would end. So she continues to make excuses.
It is then that her husband company asks him to expatriate in order to manage their expansion into Brazil. Elaine has managed managed to wrangle a two year sabbatical based on the popularity of her columns.
Three months have passed since they moved into their Rio de Janeiro apartment. Elaine lets the maid to all of the cleaning and most of cooking, while she goes through the letters that interns would have normally sorted out. Her magazine has begun an online version- she is taking email submissions in preparation for a switch to a daily column.
Her husband spends most of his time at work. He doesn't believe that Brazil is a suitable a good environment to start a family, so the argument is on hold, for the time being. Still, she feels her biological clock ticking. And doubts about the fortune's veracity are beginning to form.
Studies have shown that women with small children adapt best to living abroad.
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