Date mistake.
In an alternate universe, you are the opposite of who you are. What’s your story like there?

A roughly human shaped hole in the reality or the ground? A eagle eyed moul living in the opposite of northern Germany?

Hard to say may time runs backwards in that universe or our digestive functions are inverted?

Maybe humans are flipped inside out? Or is the universal constant for live left spinning Amino acids? How opposite do we talk here?

Maybe I'm a full blown robot with a functioning biological pancreas (I think that was the English term for Bauchspeicheldrüse).
So an Anti Diabetic?

A fictional version of mine exists in the SR:SIRAU...

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01.01.2026
What are your wildest (writing-related) dreams for this year?

Finding a real death note...

Getting into regular writing (and reading) again.

Buying all the books from the people here.

Going self publishing, landing a number one bestseller after another, selling TV/Streaming/Cinematic and Gaming licenses, while being in full ownership and control, surpassing Star Trek, Star Wars and everything else, etc, going internationally viral becoming a trillionaire, buying AI companies, dismantling them and putting their CEOs behind 'swedish curtains.'
Dismantling corrupt politicians, CEOs, billionaires, shooting them all to Mars, setting up thousands of thousands of Mastodon servers and hand them over to private people to self host
Getting the Irish ground income for artists running globally.
Bringing world peace, ending world hunger, and curing cancer by beating up assholes.

If you're aiming for the stars why go for the closest?

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02.01.2026
How does your MC talk? Describe their voice and speech.

1/2
What a rabbit hole answer. Took me 3+ hours to dig something up as an example.😅

Kira has something smooth and smokey, a hard edge at times but an incredible depth I imagine her some where between Jenifer Hale, she has done several female protagonists in different video games one of them was female commander Shepard in in the Mass Effect Trilogy, which is one of the original sources Kira resulted from (her name Originally was Kira Shepard and she was my Player avatar in the series) and Flavia Vinzens the German Female V from Cyberpunk 2077.

Take a listen here Jennifer Hale
https://youtube.com/shorts/DBzocVT3U2A

And a very rare interview# with Flavia Vinzens (30 Min)
https://youtu.be/N0jWS4byL_0?si=dY0M2vUppWziKPnB

For Arkham I imagine something like the female German version of Ranma Saotome (Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2)
Angela Wiederhut*
https://youtube.com/shorts/lAxV9acjwYE
for the ➡️

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02.01.2026 2/2
⬅️ fire she brings to the character, the mix between temperament and quieter moments is exactly what I think Arkham is in her core.

For Ash I imagine her a) to be able to assume any voice after a short sample but b) a lot like Edit from Mass Effect too. Played by Tricia Helfer (English cast) here in a dialogue with Fem Shep Jenifer Hale from earlier in this answer.
https://youtu.be/f4QMBEVNBVA
On occasion a bit of Brent spinners Data (Star Trek the next generation) slips in
https://youtube.com/shorts/Cgs5OcZ8oew

And yes this is mostly do to the fact that half the universe started as a Mass Effect fanfiction and the other half as a Star Trek ff.

*Kudos to the Netflix team for recasting the old cast in its entirty if possible. The old male Ranma Voice sadly died in 2007, Clemens Ostermann and had to be recast to Florian Korn

(4 hours total thanks to interference. I am a capable time wasting specialist)
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@AnnaSaultron
03.01.2026
What does the way your MC talks reveal about them?

Kira: That she is used of giving commands but also that she cares for her crew.

Arkham: That she is as fast with her mouth as she is with her piloting skills but sometimes a bit faster than her brain. She has a lot of passion.

Ashlei: Well she is an A.I. on board a space ship. She struggles with concepts like "I" because when does a program become a person?

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@AnnaSaultron
04.01.2026
Describe an uncomfortable situation a character experiences.

Kira & Arkham have to deal with the 'ecstatic fandom' of Mondira who has to deal with the fact that unfiltered fandom might get people to have a weird first impression of you. Especially the ones you are faning about in their proximity...

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05.01.2025
Tell us about something funny that happens to a character.

Like in Heh?! Or Haha? Or like "Haha and then ... You wouldn't believe it Hahahahahaaaa" 🤣?

Nope, sorry total blanking for all three scenarios, blank as much as an empty plate in a 5 Star restaurant that hasn't served food yet...

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06.01.2025
If your antagonist played video games, what would be their favorite kind?

Well nothing about Ayanami is known despite their name (AI, Antagonist Infernale). So I guess it would be chess or something like Domino Day simulator but I guess that's something that whoever is behind it may enjoy more in reality than virtually.*

Ariaene doesn't remember well but as a trained soldier they has angood ability in 3D shooter games.

* How I imagine AI playing dominoes.
https://youtu.be/yde6t4WG5uY

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Kira:
Biological Mother & Father died at the friendship station catastrophe.
Bigger and smaller sister died at the same location at the same time.
2./adoptive Father K.I.A. on mission for the Alliance.
'Twin'-Sister declared dead by command after mission went down badly.
Last surviving family member her 2./adoptive Mother - "The Ice Queen." It's complicated really complicated. The ice queen is Terran Minister for outside affairs, has a some would say dark history others would say the perfect example of a reformed Union citizen and a damn good "(sub) zero to hero story."

Arkham: Father died in Alliance Service, Mother died later after Arkham fled her oppressiveness & lived on the streets on a close rim Union colony which had hard problems with upholding Union standards. Her mother died relative recently & Arkham hates that she can't rub her own success into her face.

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07.01.2025
What’s your MC’s family like?

Ash as an A.I. has no family to speak of, the scientist that developed and raised her could be considered her family but only one survived the attack on the research outpost on which she was developed.
To a degree she considers the leading female scientist to be a mother figure, her basic unmodified voice setting is basically the voice of that scientist. She has spent most of her active run time before installation into the Ghoz'Tarc with said scientist. Now she considers her Crew something like a family and she is their protector. But a real family like bond only develops as she and Commander Knox merge more involuntarily than willingly.

Her and the commanders/captains relationship becomes symbiotic/parasitic. It's hard to pin down what this merge actually does from funny side notes like the Ghoz'Tarc's Strawberry tasting better or not so funny ones like the Captain becoming colder.

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08.01.2025
Antagonist POV: What advice would you give to people 10 years younger than you?

Ayanami (Antagonist Infernale): "Dear 'friend' you should know, you cannot protest the Eltaryn, ignoring them does not work, they may have roughly humanoid forms but all they think of is killing of everything you know. The Alliance is a good beginning but the Union sleeps a risky slumber & let them sleep through their own extinction. I know the truth, I have seen it first hand, once they arrived in a location they do not hesitate, they seem endless & relentless, killing everyone you know, destroying everything you know. Make no mistake they captured people alive but even I can't imagine for what purposes. We know nothing about their physiology or their mental capabilities other than that they are perfect for war & stand out against almost everything in nature with their blue color.
Do not retreat, kill them!"

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08.01.2025 2/2

Ariaene Johnson (Antagonist Junior): "Revenge is best served cold. As long as you have one memory left of your enemies monstrosities, you can make them pay."

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09.01.2025
Have you invented any words/sayings/swears etc. for your story?

Most prominent definitely is SWEX! It's a curse instead of f*ck or the German sch**ße, but als as Swexer it's origin (from sex worker exploiter).
It took a life of its own and people running with it.
Don't swex me! - Cut the bullsh*t!
Swex off! - P*ss off
Swexer means all kinds of not so nice names for someone.

I have a whole document about sayings of different worlds curses etc but I am not so happy with it so I don't like to share anything from it...😅

A very common insult between Terrans that don't like a certain behaviors/acts is "How human of you."
Something especially the still calling themselves humans in the Rim territory do not appreciate.

Disclaimer since Terran standard and Union Standard are completely artificially introduced languages all writing about it and using certain terms boils down to the best translation in our time languages.

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Kira walked up the small gangway to the dressers at the Cargohold, her shift had ended 5 minutes ago & she now wanted to release some steam. Jenkins had just finished his training as it seemed, wearing a towel around his hip, upper body free & giving of this sence of a freshly showered human with a decent smelling aura of freshness, Standing, one hand on the lockers door that covered his face, sorting stuff inside.

"Not unpleasant," she thought than said; "Jenkins, how was the training?"
The XO almost jumped, grabing his chest as his towel started to slyde, he barely catched it while simultaneously slamming his locker shut. Startled he looked at her: "SWEX, Captain... Huh! You scared the hell out of me." He took a releaving breath and smiled only to see in horror as ➡️

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⬅️ the slammed shut door started squeakingly open itself again and a printed picture fell out, gently waving down like a leaf in the wind.

Fir Jenkins this was a slow motion moment as he jumped forward, aiming for the picture only to slam his head into the locker door. "Ungh SWEX. He stumbled backwards the hand holding his towel tight the other trying to balance his body. Kira reacted in no time closing the locker with one hand, diving forward to prevent the XO hitting the ground face first and even managed to snack the picture out of the air as the XO stumbled forwards covering her back with his body.

Kira got a look at the picture and suppressed a smirk, which wasn't difficult thanks to the pain in her back through the second in command. He pushed himself back to ➡️

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⬅️ his feet. He leaned himself against the locker before sliding down still grabbing his towel. Kira in the mean while stood up, took a second look on the Foto while rubbing her back. She smiled at the First officer. "No worries your secret is save with me."
He moaned frustrated: "It's not a secret... Well not in general, that part however."
Kira kneeled down & sat next to him handing him the picture.
"Is it from a convention?"

"No."

"Jenkins, I promise not to laugh or to judge. On my rank as acting Captain & under XO's, let us talk like adults, you are always making a secret out of your private life."

He shock his head looking fairly annoyed.
"If you insist it was my second wedding & of course I make a secret out of it because all this family stuff has no place on ➡️

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⬅️ a military vessel. Your all acting like we are a party bus while people die outside fighting this blue pests. I wish you would take this mission more seriously, especially... Well... Sorry... I have no..." Kira boxed his shoulder gently to interrupt him.

"We are sitting in this tin can, sorry Ash, for 6 weeks by now, the mission is scheduled for 6 month, the ship usually for two weeks. Anika made it clear that she choose this constalation because we are tight knit like a family & you for your ability to make everything works, that doesn't mean you aren't allowed to open up & make friends."

"I just don't want to be dragged into all this drama that can unroll, I made myself enough enemies as you where down. Can we not just make this a usual mission?"

"It's not an ➡️

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⬅️ usual one, we are going into offense, that's a new one for everyone & some are not going home... So I think having friends or family around you isn't the worst thing that can happen."

"By the books half the crew needs to be regulated after the mission."

"Is that while you file so many complaints about FC Paktii's dresscode violations?"

"So you do read my complaints.
Yes obviously, this is work & we need to be professional."

"Arkham is professional. Her results are always extremely good if we just let her do it in her way, put her into uniform & you wish I was the FC."

"No offense captain I know your flying skills," he couldn't fight a feeling of ease coming over him.

"Agree," Kira smiled; "so who is the other skunk on the picture? That doesn't wear a furkini?" ➡️

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⬅️ "It's my husband, we are the only two skunks in our group."

"And he is your second husband so you where married before or have poly relationships?"

"No we married once officially for our families & a second time with our friends." He smiled genuinely at this thought.

"Can I ask some maybe stupid question?"

"Shoot."

"Is it kind of sexuality related for you?"

"Not really my husba an I... We have our yiffie moments but it's mainly relaxing, just be a big cuddly plush for someone else & enjoy this proximity."

"So there can be a sexual part but it's not the main focus? Like in every relationship?"

"Yeah absolutely."

"But why a furkini, that leaves so much skin free & all the paint must be horrible to wash off?"

"Because he likes my body."

"Well I can see ➡️

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⬅️ that you take the training seriously. But how the heck do you get so smooth 'underneath'?"

Jenkins burst into laughing.
"Are you really asking how I wear my penis in a skimpy outfit?"

"I didn't say it's skimpy, but I'm curious, I know some people that would love to know that secret." Kira looked so innocent in this moment and Jenkins couldn't feel anything but genuine interest in his secret.
He hesitated a second before he decided that it was genuine interest.

"Well it has to do with the tail. It helps tucking away... Spacial anomalies."

Kiras view went inwards as she focused her inner eye. Her eyes widened in a genui appreciating and impressed way.
"Oh oh... that's a clever way to put it." She stood up, reaching out to the XO. "Here soldier let me help you up."

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