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Name: Honor Watson
Nickname: Honey
Age: 18
Birthday: 20 July
Sign: Cancer
Gemstone: Ruby
Blood Type: A+
Fav. Food: Every single flavor of Mountain Dew that was ever discontinued, ever. Peanut M&Ms. Cherry Limeade Sunkist.
Hated Food: Cotton candy, fried twinkies, twinkies, kitkat bars, spicy food.
School: DCU (computer science major)
Honor dreams of being an astronomer, but in reality is a poor college kid who gets by on work-study, odd jobs, and scholarships. She can't pay for her own tuition if her parents won't support her, and she really wants a college degree. They won't support her if she pursues astronomy as a career field, so she settles for computer science, which she's passably good at and does enjoy, just not as much as she would astronomy.
Hobbies: Reading Science Fiction-- Honor has an almost slavish worship of the Science Fiction Greats. L. Ron Hubbard, Asimov, Frank Herbert, Scott Card--she's read at least one of their books each, usually the most popular, and has picked a favorite from each of them. Her bookshelf at home is remarkable simply because it is so goddamn full of this genre of books. Her nightstand is entirely consumed by novels. While she has no real interest in writing science fiction, she may or may not have occasional fantasies of being the characters. She tries to live her life as she imagines Gurney Halleck or Duncan Idaho would, but often ends up more along the lines of Leto II--at least, as far as her DnD group is concerned!
She also watches Star Trek and loves it like her firstborn child, particularly The Next Generation. Picard is her God. She also likes Spock. The reboot she thinks is pretty cool. She would give her virginity to Reboot!Spock, and also aspires to be like him. Ideally she would be smart like him, know all kinds of inane facts like him, and never be caught off guard, like him. Impossible, really, since she has a reactive personality rather than one that plans ahead. Her hair is cut the way it did from a flawed attempt at a Vulcan haircut, but if anyone asks she was inspired by Emma Watson.
Astronomy-- Honor wants to go to Space. She wants to be an astronaut
really, really bad. So bad, she's expressed that she would cut off her legs if it meant she could go to space.
Since that's not going to happen any time soon, she makes do by reading about astronomy, learning about astronomy, wishing she was majoring in astrobiology or astronomy or astrophysics and just learning everything she can about space in the meantime. Want to know why you can't get pregnant in space? She knows. The temperature of the sun? It's about 30,000 degrees Kelvin. Did you know that a pinhole sized fragment of the sun can incinerate the average adult male at 160km?
Honor actually does not own one single telescope, besides one a little cousin jumped on and broke before she headed off to school. She DOES go out at obscene hours to watch meteor showers--any time the ISS does a pass over Destiny City she's outside at least an hour early, all bundled up and ready to watch them. Because of dormitory rules, she just has glow-in-the-dark stars on her walls in the shape of her particular favorite constellation (Cassiopeia and environs!) and also a few posters--a log scale chart of the universe, a subway map of the Milky Way, and also some legit pictures of space dust.
Dungeons and Dragons-- The year she moved to Destiny City, Honor wanted to make friends. The easiest way to do this, she thought, would be to take something she knew she was good at and turn it into a socializing activity. So she posted up bulletins around town to collect herself a group of adventurers. Not all of them panned out, but the others play with her to this day.
She is the DM of their happy little band; her favored guide character is the Lady of the Green Kirtle, a character name not so secretly yanked from the Chronicles of Narnia. Honor is much happier being out of the action and directing it herself, though she can be as much a PC-killer as anyone. She has a disturbing fondness for siccing flatbears on the party.
Virtues: Reliable-- If Honor says she'll do something, she'll do it, just as promised. Ask her for a ride? She'll be there. Need snacks for the DnD game? She'll bring them. Need help with an essay? Honor's your girl. Though she will always, always, always pull through for you, it probably won't be exactly what you expected. She won't blow you off. She probably doesn't even know how to. And she will
get her s**t done. It will happen, but it probably won't be impressive or amazing in any way.
Organized-- She isn't
determinedly, purposefully organized, but she is still organized. It's sort of a passive trait in that she habitually puts things back where they belong, and has become used to things being where they should be. It's not a sweep-through-clean-the-house-
it-must-be-where-I-put-it sort of thing, she's not exactly a vigilant neat freak who will eat your face if you move a snowglobe eight inches to the left, it's just a ho-hum-look-that's-out-of-place-let-me-put-it-away thing. Or a "well we're assigning parts of this project to get done, let's make a chart so everyone knows their part" thing.
This is because at heart she is pretty lazy, and likes having things be smooth and easy. It's easier to expend a little more effort at the beginning and not have to go through and clean up everything later--especially when she often doesn't have time to go through things twice!
Protective-- And how! Honor is not just protective of her friends, but of random people she sees on the street. Because she views the natural human state as happiness, she absolutely abhors seeing people in pain or afraid and does her best to alleviate anything she views as suffering. Honor cannot bear seeing people being disrespected, even if it's just a classroom debate. She gives five dollar bills to homeless people and helps peers with homework. When she comes across people being teased, she
will get up in the bully's face and probably stomp on their feet and generally b***h at them, regardless of the consequences to herself.
This extends to physical objects, too, but only hers, and only certain of them. The list is: Laptop, books, iPod, wallet. You touch them without her permission, and she will try to eat your face. She's reasonable about it--if she dropped it and you're giving it back she won't accuse you of stealing. But she views messing with her personal possessions as immensely disrespectful, and thusly very
do-not-want.
Flaws: Unmotivated-- She just doesn't care all that much about classes. She can't achieve her dream--she's never, ever gonna go to space, because she's in the wrong career path--and she doesn't particularly care about computer science or programming, so why
should she apply herself? Why should being a B/C student bother her? She's getting it done, she'll get a
degree. Isn't that the important thing to everyone else?
Because she's unmotivated, everything she does is rushed. Papers are always done the night before, three-month projects bullshitted in two days before the due-date, journals meant to be written over a semester completed overnight. This makes her an expert at bringing ideas to fruition fast, but it also means she works
way below her ability level. Those overnight papers, projects, and journals are B+ quality at tops, and C quality at worst; she squeaks by, when if she applied herself she could pull high As. She is actually really not bothered by those low grades. She got it done, didn't she?
Anxious-- Her last-minute attempts to get things done are motivated intensely by her own feelings of guilt and anxiety. The anxiety happens because she naturally likes to see people happy and feels like they depend on her to stay that way. She's naturally kind of lazy, though, and is pretty happy to stay on the internet until the clock starts winding down. This is why things that don't have grades, parental approval, or a paycheck riding on them happen at all. It gets to the point where she cannot think of anything
but the things she is supposed to be doing, and then she will dash out and get things done.
Impulsive-- Honor doesn't really look ahead to the future. She tends to go with what sounds like the best idea right then, and go on with that. This happens with just about everything she does; something occurs, she goes with the first idea she has without stopping to think about it. The charts she makes to work out her time are mostly ignored because of this; if she gave things a little more thought, doubtless she'd be a lot better grades- and responsibility-wise. Her Dungeons and Dragons group has also had a disproportionate amount of unwinnable encounters with flatbears and the Borg because of this. It's entirely likely they cannot count the number of times they've been assimilated.
Self-righteous-- Remember how she's incredibly protective of everyone? This extends even to times when it's nowhere near appropriate. Honor will take a critique given to another student personally and disagree with it
just because she thinks you're being mean. In her Dungeons and Dragons group, she will scold a player whose character is antagonistic to another's--even if it's completely IC because those two characters hate each other. She thinks because she is so reliable and nice, everyone should be just like her. And if they're not… it's entirely within her rights to b***h them out!
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Eyes: A striking sapphire blue.
Hair: Ash-blonde, worn cropped very, very close to her head.
Face: Heart-shaped, thin face.
Clothes: Heavy sweaters and jeans, very college kid couture. Almost always has a scarf.
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