Ask a character

[vilakins]

I like sallymn's version of the old question and answer meme, so I'll play it her way.

Choose any regular character from one of my fandoms and ask them five questions, and I'll try to answer for them.

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Avon

1. Enquiring minds want to know... is the underwear black as well?

2. If you had to choose between Orac and Zen, which would you pick?

3. Why did you let Tarrant pretty much take over when he first arrived?

4. Who's the best and worst cook on Xenon?

5. .... To tell the truth, would you really have shot him on that shuttle?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

1. What underwear?
   
   
2. Orac. Zen was uncommunicative to a fault, though it is one I would wish to see in certain others. Orac is also fitted with an explosive device which I find concentrates its mind wonderfully.
   
   
3. I thought Tarrant could take over the tedious administrative work while it channelled his energies away from more important matters, and me. I was wrong. Never overestimate the military mind.
   
   
4. Tarrant was the worst; the man could burn boiled water. Vila is an adequate cook if you like stodgy Delta home cooking like curry, the inappropriately-named Welsh rarebit (which Dayna heard as rabbit; an unfortunate incident which it took some time to clean up after) and jam roly-poly. Soolin however was a superb cook when she had the inclination, which was not often enough.
   
   
5. If I had found Vila, yes. I am relieved that I did not, but I assure you: if you let him find out, I shall regard it as a betrayal.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

1. I should have guessed. God knows we've all read... never mind :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

COMMANDO!

[glittermouse.livejournal.com]

Vila!

1. So what's this I hear about you selling your higher status to become a delta then, mister?

2. What do you really think of Avon?

3. What's your favourite memory of working with the Blake's 7 crew?

4. Where would you like to go, if you could go anywhere?

5. What's your dream?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

1. If you mean the Alpha slumming it rumour, load of old rubbish, innit? What, a Delta's not good enough to be a rebel hero? I'm not ashamed of my grade. All right, they offered me Beta after the regrading exams at school, but part of the deal was I couldn't ever see my mum again and that wasn't on. And besides, Betas end up in cube farms doing what they're told; not exactly a career path I wanted to pursue as they say. After I got away from CF1 in a nicked spaceship though, they offered me amnesty and Space Fleet training but I wasn't exactly thrilled about being shot at. Yeah, you can laugh now. So I paid a mate at the testing centre for a nice little 4th grade ignorant (barely able to read) because not even the Space Fleet takes those. Nah, I was born a Delta and I still am.
   
   
2. Avon used to be fun back on the old Liberator. We used to play chess, talk about bolt holes, plan theoretical heists, enjoy a joke. I used to tease the hell out of him and you could see the look in his eyes even when he was hacked off at me doing something to his cabin (bolting everything to the ceiling was the best one). Even after Blake left, there were moments but I think he had to play the despicable little Delta card in front of Tarrant. And after Cally... well, I think he wished it was me. What do I think of him now? Utter bastard.
   
   
3. Ah, back when there really were seven of us, counting Blake and Zen? None of the missions or even getting through any locks, just sitting around passing time with people I liked. Gan'd bring us all cocoa and I'd annoy old Ave while I helped him with his current gadget and Jenna would tell us about her piratical free trade adventures and Cally would talk about Auron and its little sayings and Blake would even relax and forget about the Cause. Friendship and hope and the occasional practical joke; those were the days.
   
   
4. Hard to decide because Gardenos has the lakes and beaches and three moons and Lindor has the chocolate and fine wines. Both nice safe planets with good economies, and I could settle down in either in the luxury I would very happily become accustomed to.
   
   
5. To find someone who loves me. Kerril said she did but she liked the idea of a new life better, and really, she knew me at my best and it would've been downhill from then on, let's face it. Maybe one day; who knows. Look, you never know your luck in a big galaxy, that's what my mum always said.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And that icon is just adorable. :-)

[glittermouse.livejournal.com]

Re: q5 - OH! *sniff* We love Vila. *hug the delta!*

I like your take on question 1!

I have to snigger every time I see a box of Lindor chocolates. They always remind me of Vila. And possibly B7 in general.

As to the adorable icon (it's a Snowgrouse!) - coming from the lady with the best Vila icons ever! I love most of yours, too :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I recognised it! I have a few of hers too; this is one.

Have you ever noticed that Lindor balls look just like Deathstars? ;-)

[kerravongenius.livejournal.com]

Blake.

1. Which member of the crew do you most like to talk to?

2. What are your plans for replacing the Federation?

3. What was the most disturbing nightmare you ever had?

4. Were you telling the truth about Jenna's death?

5. What happened to your eye?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

1. Avon, I'd say. Vila is amusing and Cally has perhaps more in common being the only other revolutionary, but Avon is a stimulating verbal opponent who makes me think. Don't tell him so. He doesn't need any more ammunition.
   
   
2. I wouldn't replace it, just its government with a democratic one, and its social structure with equality and opportunity for all.
   
   
3. I dreamed that I had only one eye like Travis--probably some symbolic meaning about not seeing all sides of an argument--and a body like the corrupt and manipulative Alta Morag, and was hunting people down to turn them over to the Federation. [blinks as considers this in the light of his current appearance] Yes, most disturbing.
   
   
4. Of course not. She's a useful member of the rebellion and the less Dev Tarrant's nephew knew about her, the better.
   
   
5. I came across some people on a planet devastated by the failure of the Star One central weather control systems who had a rather literal interpretation of their scriptures. I had some dental bridgework done but a good plastic surgeon is harder to find.

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

Orac!

1. Of the crew, who'd you most like to change your fairy lights?
2. How do you respond to Deep Thought's assertion that you have insufficient memory to run Windows 3.1, but make for an interesting paper weight?
3. Vila plans to turn you into a drinks cooler, what say you?
4. Servalan, planning ahead to your eventual capture, asks where she should plug in her mouse and dance mat?
5. You're not really contemplating higher matters are you? You're playing space invaders!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

1. Kerr Avon and Vila Restal: Avon knows what to do, and Vila has, as he so often boasts, a delicate touch. They do make up for each other's enormous deficiencies in some ways.
   
   
2. Deep Thought is quite correct. Microsoft's products have become so bloated that Windows can only be run by planetary computer systems. My own OS is vastly superior. And yes, of course I would make an interesting paperweight. I have the mass required to hold it down, and an intellect greater than anyone using paper, so I would hardly bore them.
   
   
3. Vila Restal is an expert in the field of humour. I assume this is another example of a joke because I am neither water- nor ice-tight.
   
   
4. My answer to Servalan is of an inappropriately anatomical nature which Ensor's programming forbids me to voice.
   
   
5. No longer. The game was amusing only for a short time. It was too easy to win, even when I enlisted the help of ex-Space Commander Travis and some inhabitants of another galaxy as role-playing adversaries.

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

4. My answer to Servalan is of an inappropriately anatomical nature which Ensor's programming forbids me to voice.
I'd always assumed him to swear like a trooper when no-one was watching.
Avon: Orac, just solve these partial differential equations for me.
Orac: Bollocks to that! I'm playing Serious Sam!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

:-D I'm not sure it matches his fussy and rather pedantic personality, but the incongruity would be funny. Maybe Vila can give him a course in it; I think he'd be quite motivated after GP.