Mm.
Jerome Tischman, 13 at launch. Aggressively obnoxious with just enough Aspergers's Syndrome to make people think twice about laying into him for being a
jerk. Is convinced he's a teen genius (he's not, but he does have the occasional intuitive flash that sometimes makes it seem that way) and the first
representative of a more evolved variety of human (he's not that, either, but the fantasy helps him cope with his socialization problems). Has an
incredibly obvious (and somewhat stalkerish) crush on Erica. Has a palmtop on which he keeps an obsessively detailed journal, which he keeps triple-encrypted;
he jealously guards this palmtop, and refuses to have it 'waved for fear it will develop an AI that will blurt out all the secrets he puts in the journal.
Insists on being called "Jerome" and steadfastly ignores any attempt to address him by a nickname or diminuitive.
Despite this, he's a loyal friend once he's convinced you're sincere about your friendship with him, and has gone to heroically self-sacrificing
extremes to help and protect his "boon companions" (as he calls them). He's got a deft hand at machinery (actual physical gear-and-piping
machines, not computers), and more than a little dismissive of anyone who isn't. He's also completely at home in zero-g and microgravity, seemingly
needing no adaptation time at all once the Pegasus reached space, able to transition instantly between gravity and no gravity, and completely unaffected by any
kind of motion sickess.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Jerome Tischman, 13 at launch. Aggressively obnoxious with just enough Aspergers's Syndrome to make people think twice about laying into him for being a
jerk. Is convinced he's a teen genius (he's not, but he does have the occasional intuitive flash that sometimes makes it seem that way) and the first
representative of a more evolved variety of human (he's not that, either, but the fantasy helps him cope with his socialization problems). Has an
incredibly obvious (and somewhat stalkerish) crush on Erica. Has a palmtop on which he keeps an obsessively detailed journal, which he keeps triple-encrypted;
he jealously guards this palmtop, and refuses to have it 'waved for fear it will develop an AI that will blurt out all the secrets he puts in the journal.
Insists on being called "Jerome" and steadfastly ignores any attempt to address him by a nickname or diminuitive.
Despite this, he's a loyal friend once he's convinced you're sincere about your friendship with him, and has gone to heroically self-sacrificing
extremes to help and protect his "boon companions" (as he calls them). He's got a deft hand at machinery (actual physical gear-and-piping
machines, not computers), and more than a little dismissive of anyone who isn't. He's also completely at home in zero-g and microgravity, seemingly
needing no adaptation time at all once the Pegasus reached space, able to transition instantly between gravity and no gravity, and completely unaffected by any
kind of motion sickess.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.