+1 Space Pirate (Not really - Wayward Astronaut trying to sound cool...)

[aspacepirate]

Hiiii everyone! It's Teddiursa again and I'm bringing in one last character (and I think I might be nuts considering RL right now, but that's another matter for another time).

This is Mark Watney from "The Martian".  He's an astronaut who is left for dead on Mars after a dust storm causes a antenna to impale him - knocking him a considerable distance away and causing the bio monitor in his suit to go offline  and of course everyone is going to think he died - while he is evacuating the planet with the rest of his crew. So, basically he's left on his own in a habitat designed to last the mission's length (30 sols) and for the most part without any human contact (until later in the novel) and even then that's messages from a very long distance away.

I am playing him from the novel canon and not the movie's canon. I also am taking him from Sol 120-121 (shortly after the habitat airlock fails and launches him another noticeable distance away and causes the hab itself to be destroyed) and he has just fallen asleep within the rover he is taking refuge in. So, basically he's going to be sore and in a bit of pissy/concerned mood when he first awakes up here.

But he will be totally glad to see people. Some may get hugs. (Please tell me if your character is not comfortable with this and I can have Mark high five or shake hands instead, after nearly hugging...he's a bit too excited there. I'm going to do my best to keep his humor in check to be game appropriate but it still will fall under "gallows humor" at times.)

So, if anyone wants to plot or needs to reach me, please send me a message on plurk at wanderinspirits7

Comments

[schrodingersghost]

You know, Danny is probably going to completely fanboy over meeting him.

[aspacepirate]

Is he? That's probably bad because this guy will probably get a huge (a more huge) head from the attention.

[schrodingersghost]

Yup, Danny's a huge space geek. Before the whole superhero thing happened, he wanted to be an astronaut. He was one of those kids playing space shuttle simulators, and spending nights out with his telescope, and building space shuttle models in his room...

[helljumper]

YO SPACE BUDDIES. (kinda. sorta.)

Also holy cow that dude's had it rough. I've never seen the movie or read the book, but jfc that does not sound fun. o o

[aspacepirate]

Sorry, I've been meaning to respond. Meh, I suck.

Yooooo Space buds! (Eh, still counts.)

He has. I think just the fact he's all alone for a good chunk of canon is what sucks most. (It's such a good book, but the movie is like 90% of the book too so it's still good. It's funnier than you think it would be.)

[ninjainviolet]

Fortunately, Sheena's been around long enough to tell the difference between a happy hug and a not so good hug...so he can hug the ninja all he wants. :D

Just expect her to ask a few space questions.

(She's a CRAU, and had friends in Starfleet. :) )

[aspacepirate]

He's definitely going to be doing the happy hugs. So yaaay.

Noted. He'll probably be expecting some.

(Oooh neat. He'd probably like to hear about that.)

[ninjainviolet]

:D Hug away!

Yeah, she knew Jadzia Dax and Julian Bashir in Starfleet. And also spoke to Kira Nerys and Elim Garak a few times.

Then she's got that whole two planets/one dimensional barrier thing going for her...

[justno]

#winning

[aspacepirate]