[Krylo]

Let Me Tell You About Myself!
Q: What is your job?
A: High class social escort and bodyguard.

Q: Any particularly interesting hobbies you have?
A: Bodysculpting, though nothing too non-standard, singing, and thrill-seeking in general.

Q: What's an average day/week in your life like?
A: Is too intense for you. Alternatively: The average week involves many days of wandering around mars, shopping for new clothes (well new clothing blueprints), and keeping his social contacts happy with plenty of mingling where he can. A good week involves being shot at by one or more would be assassins, muggers, or terrorists. Though it's fun to pretend that he's saving lives, Marius is aware that with all the new technology he's generally only saving monetary assets for people with too much anyway. All the same, he enjoys the excitement when it happens.

Q: Where do you live?
A: Mars. Elysium. Though he travels to other martian (and off planet, on occasion) habitats in the line of duty.

Q: Any particularly strong views on anyone?
A: Marius has something of a mild loathing for everyone. Not that he lets any of it show, too much. Wouldn't work well with his line of work. But he finds the scum and crime syndicates/pirates juvenile, the anarchists naive, the hypercorps to be greedy and immoral, scavengers are pathetic, and the Jovians are assholes. If he were to have strong views on one, it'd be the Jovians, but even then he mostly just tries to avoid them.


Q: What is your muse like?
A: A muse is a muse. Marius tends to treat it something like a person, but only out of familiarity. As someone might call their car a she, or curse at their computer for not working as though it understands their threats. He's very much aware that his muse has no feelings. The muse, itself, however, acts like very proper, for the most part, and tries to keep itself as unobtrusive to Marius's life as possible. Like a secretary kept just outside of your office. It buzzes in now and then when necessary, but usually it does its job invisibly.

Q: How much do you use Augmented Reality?
A: Marius blocks all the advertisments and what not that he can, and uses it exclusively for information, though he uses that aspect of it quite heavily. Adblock Plus of the future, more or less.

Q: Do you frequent simulspaces often?
A: Not often, but he's been known to go into grittier more violent ones when he's having a slow week.

Q: Ever edited your own personality?
A: Marius tends to view personality editing on the same level as the Jovians do. It's the one thing they have in common. A man's mind is more than just the only thing he truly owns--it's the only thing he truly is. Editing that detracts from the truth of the individual. Even if the individual is objectively 'better', they aren't who they once were anymore. They're someone else. Someone fake.

The Past, Another Country!
Q: Where were you during the Fall?
A: SPACE! More specifically on a pirate ship. Yar har fiddle dee dee.

Q: What's happened to your friends and family?
A: He cut most of his ties with most of his old friends when he moved to hypercorp space, but what feelers he does keep out there tell him that they're still doing what they had been doing. A few retired to anarchist communes or scum barges. As for family? He couldn't really say.

Q: Have you travelled much?
A: He lived on a space ship for much of his adult life. He's been in lots of places. Notable exceptions include the Jovian republic, and anything past Pluto. In the former because it wasn't worth the risk and the latter because it wasn't worth the fuel.

Q: Any reason you can put a finger on how ended up where you are today?
A: Marius just wanted more than the life of a space pirate. It sounds romantic in the vids, and maybe it even is for awhile. Moving from place to place, taking what you want, taking no orders from anyone but your captain. Like a scum barge but more violent... but Marius wasn't happy being poor. He wasn't happy waiting for the big score that would let him retire to a private space station... and he wouldn't have been happy on a private space station, anyway. He wanted the good life, but he didn't want safety. In the end the first half of that led him to hypercorp space, and the second half led him to protecting the very people he had hoped to rob not long ago.


Death and Beyond
Q: Do you still have your original body?
A: Hahaha. No. His original body? Some splicer, of course. That's what all the originals are, aren't they? It caught a hypervelocity round between the eyes on a boarding operation. He hardly even remembers it.

Q: Do you die often?
A: Yes. Marius is a thrill seeker, and in the superfuture thrill seeking often means things that could wind up with your morph getting killed at a moment's notice if even a single thing goes wrong. Not to mention the fact that he finds true combat morphs unnecessarily expensive when you're throwing them into the line of fire constantly, and as such he often ends up losing morphs taking a bullet (or hail of gunfire, or knife, or monofilament wire) protecting a client.

Q: How do you view resleeving?
A: He's pretty used to it by now. And most of the weirdness, new face etc. are mitigated by the fact that he likes to, when he gets to choose his own morph, get skinflex and chameleon skin in it. Which he uses to change his appearance from day to day. He also likes to have sex swtich, for that matter, and, while he normally stays a man, he's been known to spend weeks as a woman without ever switching morphs. He prefers not to resleeve, though. It's an uncomfortable period getting used to the new body and all.

Q: Why do you have the morph that you do?
A: He mostly uses augmented pleasure pods, for two reasons: The first is that they are, indeed, so very pretty, and that helps in his line of work--as does the fact that they are often worn by prostitutes and rarely actual gunslingers. After all, he's supposed to be able to blend in to the crowd at fancy soirees. The other reason being that they are cheap and easily replaceable if need be. He usually adds 'morph replacement' into contracts with his employers, so they have to replace his morph if he dies protecting them, but it's also something he occasionally has to cut to make a sale, and something that he occasionally has to argue about, and it's just easier, and better for business, at that point to just get himself a new morph out of pocket.

When he has some extra money, or expects to be in a morph for awhile, however, he'll get himself an exalt. Or a sylph if he's really doing well for himself.


The Conspiracy Has You
Q: What do you think the Fall was really about?
A: Marius believes the party line, for the most part. TITANs were created by the military and unleashed in response to increasing aggression, and then turned against their masters. He hasn't really thought too much about it.

Q: TITAN agents, do they live amongst us?
A: He's heard of them popping up now and then, but it's such a remote threat he more or less ignores it.

Q: The Factors, what's up with those jerks?
A: They're arrogant assholes. That's Marius's opinion, anyway. They shouldn't be telling humanity what to do, especially not when they couldn't be assed to show up before we nearly pushed ourselves into extinction.

Q: Pandora Gates, what's up with those jerks?
A: Marius has no idea what's up with them.

Q: Are the Jovians actually right about everything?
A: Define 'everything'. Are they correct in that the fall was caused by unmitigated use and advancement of technology without proper safeguards? Yeah. Probably. Are they correct in that the opposite extreme, that is to say bioconservatism, is any better? Not at all. Plus, they're assholes.

Q: Who else probably has some big schemes going on?
A: Everybody has an angle. Marius tries not to think about it too much, though. He's a hedonist, just out to have fun.

Q: THE MESSAGE CONTAINS NO RECOGNISABLE SYMBOLS
A: Delete. Maybe have the muse, or someone with better knowledge of virii and hacks take a look at him (and his muse) after the fact to make sure nothing went sideways.