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| ==Alana Toro== | | ==Alana Toro== |
| *Main Character | | *Main Character |
| *ATIC ID - AT152BE9014
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| ===Pronouns=== | | ===Pronouns=== |
| *she/her | | *she/her |
| | ===Job=== |
| | *ATIC guard |
| ===Traits=== | | ===Traits=== |
| *No friends – except Gaiang who is one of her oldest friends and supported her in her dark ATIC days when she feared it wouldn’t work out. Alana sometimes feels Gaiang is too much in close quarters
| | *Integrates with the AI Cora to allow her to sit the ATIC guard exam |
| *Has an interest in the planet Gaia
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| *Awkward with people
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| *Good at deduction
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| *Drinks lots of coffee and mai
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| *Clothes
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| **In Alana Alone
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| ***Wears a t-shirt, sweatpants and hoodie
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| ***Wears a space suit rolled down to the waist, over a singlet
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| ***Wears ATIC officer dress jacket – starched, black, stark white logo
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| **In the novel
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| ***Has identical utilitarian jumpsuits for work, dull greenish gray, except for one in bright cerise, pockets
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| *Alone, Still:
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| **Integrates with the AI Cora to allow her to sit the ATIC guard exam – this is removed when she leaves ATIC
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| *By the novel:
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| **Used to snap awake on a morning and bounced to her duties, which were both calling and sustenance. This is no longer the case.
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| **Finds showering boring
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| **Is used to living in compact, utilitarian spaces, finds decoration irritating.
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| **Does not like to socialise with colleagues outside of work. Gets annoyed by enforced fun in the office.
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| **Music helps her relax – specifically Suite no.3 in D major by Bach
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| **Regularly eats alone at ChowDown
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| **Grew up with ‘service through work’ ethos
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| **Likes to rub her finger over the coin/disk/medallion in her pocket
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| **Good at finding use for objects that weren’t envisaged
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| **The process of making mai helps her slow her brain and think through things
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| ===Family===
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| *Father – Officer Toro - ATIC Guard – has an air of mystery for Alana as he was away a lot when she was young – Alana harbours resentment that he was away, but grows up to hold him as her hero. He died when Alana was nearing her majority
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| **Mother – medic – estranged from Alana by the time of the novel
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| *The Trials of Alana Toro - Her parents aren’t good at filing things and cannot find Alana’s birth registration form for her ATIC officer exams.
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| *Uncle – Officer Sura Polo – got her the role in Investico when she left ATIC
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| *Pets
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| **Early life – Sylvi (kittex, now deceased), Polwa (minnabird, now deceased)
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| **Episode 1 (one called Frana)
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| ***3 x dog-sized squirrels
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| ***1 x squirrel-sized dog
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| ***2 x cat-koalas
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| ***Fish tank
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| **Novel
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| ***Tinko - kittec
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| ===Job===
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| *Clerical work for a while
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| *ATIC guard, then an officer in ATIC
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| *She trained as a fighter - her job in ATIC was not just about physical combat, but also mental toughness, breaking prisoners and a whole host else
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| *Court martialled by ATIC Guard 4 times.
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| *By the time she leaves ATIC she can pilot anything from a ketch to a research pod.
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| *Leaves ATIC after a big, exciting disaster
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| *Joins Investico as a team lead in office 432 – her juniors are Jaini and Trete. She investigates insurance claims with the aim to deny as many as possible.
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| *Given an opportunity to return to ATIC
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| ===Early life===
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| *Her fondest memories are of her pets
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| *Her earliest memory is of being on Atopia and visiting the Tirwan zoo
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| *Spent her early years in Tirwan with her mother, while her father was on a top-secret job off-world.
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| *Cared little for Tirwan, other than the zoo
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| *When her father returns, he takes Alana and her mother on his next job – Alana only misses Tirwan after years of moving around with grey insides of spaceships and remote towns on rock planets
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| *Wanted to do what her dad did from a young age. As she grows up she views the travel and sacrifices as worth it for the excitement.
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| *Alana’s mother decides to separate from her father and bring Alana back to Atopia , but she doesn’t get the chance as Alana’s father is killed in action as Alana is nearing her majority.
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| *Alana and her mother returned to Tirwan where Alana repeated a lot of her schooling, eventually sitting the ATIC Guard exams much later than expected and failing.
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| *Education focused on business, with elective courses “combative negotiation” and “security of tangible and non-tangible assets”
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| ===Adulthood===
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| *Took clerical work to get by, got another kittex, spiralled into isolation and turned to spirituality as a last resort
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| *This brings back her desire to serve her planet as ATIC Guard
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| *She failed the exams again, taking them the maximum number of allowed times and scraping through on the last one – at which point she questions her dream, but continues with it – her last exam is seen in the film Voidance – a simulation during which she sees her first corpse
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| *Takes her ATIC officer exam – this is seen in the web series The Trials of Alana Toro
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| *Alana goes on many quests and adventures including:
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| **SQ34292 - Her first solo mission – going to Norris to collect samples – she has been to four or five planets before this in her life – this mission is seen in Alana Alone
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| **SQ34331 - Returning Hisperia to Atopian control in her 40s – this mission is seen in ATIC episode 1 TV series
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| **The disaster on Terra (which she doesn’t talk about)
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| **The success on Bia2
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| **Weird planet with the portal to elsewhere on that MInak base.
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| **Terrifying mission on TF-993
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| *Has lost colleagues, including Yulua, her closest friend
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| *Left ATIC Guard after a big, exciting disaster
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| *Returns to Atopia and takes a job in Investico which she is overqualified for – this is seen in the novel. She finds her peers to be excellent but aware of their superiority to Alana. Her boss is unimpressed with Alana’s haphazard brilliance. She doesn’t walk much, but doesn’t have her own vehicle. Her apartment consists of:
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| **Sleeping area – bed with a blackout sleeping cushion, SleepKwik (creates swirling patterns across the walls and ceiling), separated from the rest of the apartment by a curtain.
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| **Kitchen area - Food prep counter with utility cover rolled open over it, kitchen counter, hygienic wash section to the right, cubby with mai, individually-wrapped biscuits in silver foil, packet of dried sweetening flowers. Water heater. General storage closet next to the hygiene wash (containers full of childhood mementos, housewares and décor gifted to her, a starched black jacket with a stark white logo [ATIC guard uniform] on top of a container with a battered handheld from her ATIC days).
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| **Bathroom area – shower in a cubby next to the sleeping area
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| **Living area - Large corner sofa, small dining table that struggles to seat 4. View from the sofa of Tirwan through a picture window that takes up almost the whole of the opposite wall. Black wall next to the apartment door – giant screen. Connector in the corner of the room.
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| **The apartment is close to Tirwan Zoo and Office 432 (walking distance). The street is lined with attractive, matching buildings, all built fairly recently, the larger apartments are considered swish. The building has a delivery lift and passenger lift
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| **She has a Floorbot (vacuum cleaner), HeatVec (microwave), FreshNSafe TastyNHealthy (ready meals)
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| *Her boss gives her an opportunity to go back into the ATIC Guard – Alana can’t face it, but it might be just what she needs.
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| ===Religion===
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| *Turns to spirituality as a last resort in her despair before joining ATIC
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| *Goes to local Magi temple weekly – before joining ATIC
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| *Does regular meditation, spiritual guidance and contemplation in The Trials of Alana Alone
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| *Over time her spirituality lessens
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| ===Appears in=== | | ===Appears in=== |
| *Alone, Still
| | *Voidance |
| *Voidance | |
| *The Trials of Alana Toro
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| *Alana Alone
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| *Episode 1
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| *Novel
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