Memory Book/Fractal Confusion (Kevin Breeman): Difference between revisions

 

I believe that I would do well to provide a kind of modus operandi rather than a personal history here.  Through this I hope to give the reader a feel for who and what I am.  I am not as good at straight-up telling people about myself.  Instead, I suppose I am better at demonstrating myself.  I'll let my actions tell their own tale and people can judge from that whether I'm a good person or not, a smart person or not, etc.

I have done my best to create in Breeman a character who produces a rich thought life.  In writing his thought life I have tried to give my readers some food for thought (excuse the pun).  I've given Breeman a good imagination that serves both him as a computer programmer and me as a writer.  I have been able to capitalize on his imagination in creating extended metaphors by which to carry themes through multiple sims.  The major example I can think of now is Breeman's 'crying issue' in some recent posts, in which the images of the planet Venus and of supersonic flight were presented as lines of thought accompanying the main storyline.

The [[smiley]]s have also served me in this capacity.  While also providing a readily deployable engineering task force to grant Breeman greater mobility (consider for example, Breeman's electing to join the boarding party aboard the [[USS Phoenix]] the [[USS Independence-A]]'s retaking of that vessel).

In Breeman I have tried to create a voice of moderation.  Whereas many of my PNPCs show some kind of extreme Breeman will try to correct these flaws.  Though when he encounters such flaws in himself I use the opportunity to produce interesting metaphors.  It is my hope that through Breeman's voice I can provide inspiration to others both through the character's flaws and through his strength.  In short, for me simming is not only an exercise in entertainment but it is also an excercise in exploring the way things could be both in the world at large and in the internal world of the self.

I have devoted some posts exclusively to exploring social or philosophical issues.  For example, a recent post concerned [[Jan Droogendyk]] attending a service at the 'chapel' aboard DS-17.  I employed [[Patri Jia Kom]] in order to look at neuro-plasticity in greater detail.  I had her brain somewhat damaged by the effects of a botched [[Grendellai]] attempt at tagging her as a slave.  The effects of this slave tagging included an almost psychic ability to sense the transmissions of data abroad and more broadly it led to Patri's having a very unstable personality.   

As mentioned previously, metaphor has played a large role in my sims.  However, I have also employed dramatic irony.  I worked with another member of my group to produce a sim which explored the problem of occasional drops in self esteem as they are experienced by most of us.  This sim made use of irony in that Breeman was attempting to hide his own emotions while the person with whom he conversed believed him to have been witness to a failure on his part.