RuneTrantor

Gee, a tag?

Oh well, out of lurking for like a year at last.

Goddammit Yuli. >_>

Rules are pretty simple:

• 1. Post 8 facts about your character
• 2. Tag 8 characters and their creators (Implying I have friends)
• 3. Post the characters names and their creator's avatars. (Implying said non-existing Friends have OCs I know about)

Fine, she asked for Rahnor. A nice change of pace to be sure.

So 8 facts…

1. Rahnor is an orphan, never knew his parents, only the back streets of the city he grew in. A small petty thief, his abilities and cunning made him a gang leader relatively fast, and later on his gang hijacked a freighter with the materials to build a space station, which they then used to make their stronghold in orbit around a pulsar, away from any authority.


2. Despite his current devotion to Rune, their first meeting was far from ideal, Rahnor's gang attacked the star liner Rune, in incognito, was in. When in captivity, Rune managed to calm down the other hostages to avoid a bloodbath, which caught Rahnor's attention, and he rapidly realized who he had in his hold.
He would surrender to Rune as an enemy gang approached to destroy their base and Rune seized control and defended the base until his fleet arrived. By then Rahnor was outgunned, yet was grinning ear to ear.


3. Rahnor is the greatest sharpshooter of the galaxy, and can use all sort of weaponry with deadly accuracy.
This is both due to the centuries he lived as a space pirate and a street thug, but also once he became Rune's Prime Guardian he devoted to master even more weapons and skills to protect him. Being taught by Merrill, the Void Queen certainly helped.


4. As a Ninkan, he holds Rune to semi Deity levels, seeing him as not only a key participant in his race's creation, but as the sole responsible for helping them avoid genocide at the Gene Purge of Earth.
He acts carefree and uninterested in his race's history, but deep down he still catches himself staring at Rune wondering how the hell he got to met a historical figure, let alone be his friends.


5. In a galaxy where immortality is possible, yet everyone chooses to end their lives after a thousand or so years, Rahnor is among the very few that seem to be capable of true immortality.
While most end their life due to fatigue, feelings of having done enough, or just a sense of being from a world now gone as the galaxy advanced past them, Rahnor and the others live on, making them sort of living historical relics, with ages ranging from 4.000 to Rune's own 20.000 years of life.
He remains happy with life, and sees no reason to end it. Though he can understand why Rune feels differently, having spent his first few centuries befriending people that died in the blink of an eye (Life extending medicine not yet developed for everyone else) and then choosing to isolate himself from the rest of the galaxy for over 3.000 more years after that.
He met Rahnor on his first, forced, vacation into the open since then, as if destiny had ordained it. (She probably did)


6. His slightly arrogant, yet carefree and cheerful demeanor is, to a degree, a mask he dons when with Rune, to make him lower his defenses and relax, and to make his life more amusing and memorable, thus pushing the suicidal thoughts away, as it shows that life is worth living still.
In reality he is much more serious and smart than he leads on, but he does still enjoy his mask, as it's also a time for him to relax and enjoy life like he never could.


7. His position makes him be in a great amount of formal events and such, and has learned all high etiquette and how to handle all the fancy dishes served in these parties.
Yet he would much rather rest by the beach or a pool, under the sun, and enjoying a good steak or other meat.
A dog at heart, despite his own protests.


8. As a child, when living in the dark alleys of a capital city, one eventful rainy day, he stole the wallet of a man that seemed important, having guards and all. A balsy move, but one that rewarded him greatly, as the wallet was full of money.
As he was absorbed in his victory, he failed to notice someone approaching, the man he had just robbed had followed him into the alleys, against his guards' security concerns.
Cornered, Rahnor stood to fight, yet the man showed no ill intent, instead kneeling in front of him and asking why he stole.
After a small chat, the man stood, took off his coat and gave it to Rahnor, along with his umbrella, and a promise that he would fix that which had abandoned him, and that he hoped he would give them a second chance.
Days later a galactic wide scandal erupted as data as leaked that the organizations that were tasked with finding and caring for orphans, to help them survive and integrate into society, were corrup to the core and a massive purge ensued.
Rahnor knew the man had kept his word, but he couldnt bring himself to trust those organizations again, so he remained an outlaw, but still kept the coat and umbrella, grateful of the man that helped him when no one else ever did.

Over a thousand years later, a casual remark on his part and an old memory on Rune's made them realize that their first meeting had not been Rune's capture.



Hope you are happy.
If this is too Rune centric, it's because Rahnor's life is basically tied to Rune's, he rarely leaves his side.
Not in vain he is called 'Rune's Shadow' by the other guardians.

• 1. You must posts these rules
  
• 2. Each person has to share 10 things about them
  
• 3. Answer the 10 questions asked to you and invent 10 questions the people you tag will have to answer 
  
• 4. Choose 10 people and put their icons on your journal
  
• 5. Go to their page to inform them they are tagged (we have mentions now, using that)
  
• 6. Not something like " you are tagged if you read that"
  
• 7. You have to legitimately tag 10 people
  
• 8. No tag-backs
  
• 9. You can't say that you don't do tags
  
• 10. You MUST MAKE A JOURNAL ENTRY
  

Yokufo's questions for me:

2) Give me a short description of your most favourite book and explain in a few words, why this book is so awesome (NO I AM NOT GATHERING READING ADVICES HERE, NO WAY)
The Mars Saga (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars) the colonization of Mars, the struggle to terraform it, and the political disaster that is trying to gain independence from Earth and it's megacorps ripping the planet apart.
It's said that mars is the main character, if you read it, you will understand, and actually feel it as alive.

Rune: I have plenty! Have read all sort of books in my boredom, and own the largest physical book collection of the galaxy, paper books are extremely rare now, and such old ones as mine are invaluable.

3) You've been accidentally (hoho) teleported to an ongoing battlefield. What is your first thought? And what'll be the first thing you'll do?
Me: "AW CRAP." I would duck and act dead I guess, running would make them think I am a soldier.
Then once it's over try and reach on of the camps, and hope I got the god guys. (Because wars are black and white! /s)

Rune: God dammit, AMI screwed her teleporting experiment again...

4) As simple as that; What makes you happy? :')

Me: Being in peace at my room, reading, using the internet, playing games, when no homework is looming over me, which is totally not what is currently happening, nope.

Rune: Not being at the Company's HQ, I love taking my ship and exploring beyond the galaxy, as far as possible from responsibilities.

5) When was the last time you legitimately sat down and read a newspaper?

Me: Two weeks ago, looking for an article to place in a homework. (Why would I read them willingly? I have the internet for news).

Rune: A few days ago, the Galactic Eye was running an interview with Merrill, a sight to behold, the poor interviewer was terrified, not that I blame him, Merrill IS the Queen of Pirates... (She is way more easy going and friendly that she looks like though).

6) What's your most favourite series?

Me: As in... TV shows? Damn, it's been a while since I watched TV series and not Dsicovery Channel documentaries stuff. Errr... I WILL be watching Game of Thrones soon-ish, possibly after I finish the first book.

Rune: My favorite television show? 'A Galaxy of Blunders' is a compilation of people doing silly things and recorded by cameras from the CT-AIs that oversee said cities. Sort of like a real life bloopers.

7) HODOR?

Me: HODOR! (FUN FACT, his great grand mother said in the book his real name is Walder, he just started saying Hodor and no one knows what does that mean, but since it was all he could say, it became his defacto name).

Rune: ... What? *checks translator to see if it missed an alien word*

8) It's an emergency! Would you rather call a person? Message him/her? Or write an email?

Me: Maybe I am weird, but calling someone makes me nervous and gives me stomach aches, so I tend to stick with mails if it's long distance, or messages to people I talk to daily. BUT if it was an emergency, I would call them to be sure they got it.

Rune: Call them, I have a holophone with me all the time. Also, message? What year do you think this is? 2100?

9) Let's say, you've been granted with the power to put an end to the world. What would be your most favourite scenario of an apocalypse? Explain in a few details.

Me: Errr... destroy the world....? I rather not... I kind of like living.
I dont like the idea of a long and painful death, so I will go with a gamma ray burst hitting Earth, it would instantly kill us, we would not even see it coming.

Rune: A world? How cute, I have a few bombs that can sterilize entire galaxies sitting in storage. (AMI went and invented them without permission).

10) Link me your most favourite song~
Me: What's my favorite song...? Currently I have none so I will instead link you a beautiful song, which is the menu music for a game, and the first game music to be nominated AND win a Grammy, Baba Yetu, a song version of The Lord's Prayer, in Swahili.
[link]

Also enacted by the Dubai Musical Fountain: [link]

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I will not tag anyone (Yeah, yeah, breaking the rules), because I dont have enough people for that, nor I can make decent questions. ("If you could be a bath object, which would you be?").

Only did this due to being tagged.

Anyone is free to grab it and add their own questions though.

(Taken on the year of 12000AD)

001. Real Name → Rune Trantor.
002. Nickname[s]→ Runy, Ru, Sir, and more recently, master.
004. Male Or Female → Male.
005. Elementary → I can’t remember for the sake of my life.
006. Middle school → Neither.
007. High School → Sorry, too old of a memory… I could check the files though…
008. Hair Color → Light Brown, slightly orange.
009. tall Or Short → On the shorter side, I am ‘perfect sized for a woman’ according to Tear, the main problem being I am not such.
010. Loud Or Quiet → Tend to be quiet during official work, but in private with my friends I can get pretty talkative.
011. Sweats Or Jeans → Jeans are comfortable.
012. Phone Or Camera → Nowadays phones are the ones with cameras, dedicated cameras exist, but only for professional work, the phones have more than enough detail.

013. Health Freak → On the contrary, I once in a while inject myself with the flu or something, a big dose, so I can feel slightly bad while my nanobots cure me, helps me reconnect to being human. Not that anyone gets sick anymore.
014. Drink Or Smoke? → I could, with said bots keeping everything in order, but I only drink in official parties and such due to protocol.
015. Do You Have A Crush On Someone? → A crush? Not really, but I certainly like Rahnor a lot.
016. Eat Or Drink? → Are you asking if I eat? Yes, I do, even I need energy from somewhere.
017. Piercings? → An earring, which doubles as a microphone and camera.

018. Tattoos? → Could consider one eventually. A galaxy would be fitting.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN...?
019. An Airplane → When they exited, yes, a lot, now planetary traffic goes through the gates, free of charge and in minutes you can reach any place on the planet, or the whole star system if your planet is in a more developed area of the galaxy.
020. A Car Accident → A spaceship crash counts?
021. A Fist Fight → No, I do not fight willingly, and for safety I am armed always.

FIRSTS:
022. First piercing → Said earring.
023. First Best Friend → Of those that are still here, AMI would be it, if I could count her as a friend. If you mean ever, Melody.
025. First Award → Not mine but for the company, a Physics Nobel thanks to the gates, has the inscription ‘Thank you, you have just kicked physics in the nuts.’
026. First Crush → A woman reporter back at Earth, meaning Melody again.
028. First Big Vacation → When I went back to Norway with my mother, I hadn’t been there since I was born.

LASTS:
029. Last Person You Talked To → Rahnor is right here, and commenting about all this, he says hi by the way.

030. Last Person You Texted → A message to AMI to see how her last project is coming along.
031. Last Person You Watched A Movie With → Rahnor, Tear, Jade, Merrill, and Telos.

032. Last Food You Ate → Wernian Berries, a fruit from the Anliour homeworld.

033. Last Movie You Watched → A comedy, ‘When Galaxies Fight’, Andromeda and the Milky Way are sentient, and basically scream as they crash into each other.
034. Last Song You Listened To → ‘The Company’ by Starburst.
035. Last Thing You Bought → What was it… hey Rah, what was the last thing I bought? No, that was last year… oh right, that cruiser I commissioned to our shipyards.
036. Last Person You Hugged → I have not hugged anyone in a while I belie… hey!... okay, Rahnor...

FAVES:
037. Food → Pizza.
038. Drinks → Devil Elixir, it is less evil than it sounds, and just as delicious as you would expect from a drink straight from Satan.
039. Clothing → A pair of jeans and a shirt, I do not like over complex clothes.
040. Book → Science Fiction, gives me ideas for what to make, just got the Ninkans to consider building a Ringworld as their megaproject! It is not THE Ringworld, it orbits a star, but that is only due to material limitations. I like all books from the First Golden Age of Scifi specially, the one with Asimov, Clarke, Niven, and many others, have all their books in my library, each worth a fortune due to both how old they are and the fact that physical books are rare nowadays.
041. Music → Classical mostly, extremely relaxing after work.
042. Flower → Star Tear, a crystal flower, grown in selenic planets.
043. Colors → Orange and Purple.
044. Movies → Not many good movies lately… So I will just say the one they made about me, without telling me by the way, and be done with it.
045. Shoes → My Firan hide boots, which sounds terrible until you know that the Firans use their skins after death as gifts of great value, that is a cultural thing of theirs, and their skin is just as one would think a Dragon skin is, awesome.
046. Subjects → None honestly.

IN THE PAST YEAR I...
047. [] Kissed In The Snow (I have not been kissed in a long time… I know what you are thinking, and my answer is no, Rahnor.)
048. [] Celebrated Halloween (That festivity died LONG ago)
049. [] Had Your Heart Broken (I try to avoid that by simply not dating… Shut up Rahnor)
050. [] Went Over The Minutes On Your Cell Phone (I do not have ‘minutes’)
051. [x] Someone Questioned Your Sexual Orientation (Telos, having been cut off from the galaxy for 8000 years, he is pretty backwards in many regards, sexually he is pretty strange, he is a purist, meaning he only wants to date his same race, gender non withstanding)
052. [ ] Came Outta The Closet (Did that when I was like 200 years old. Not that I am gay, I am omnisexual)
053. [] Gotten Pregnant (I COULD, in a twisted, complicated way, but I have no desire for kids)
054. [] Had An Abortion (Less likely)
055. [] Done Something You've Regretted (Not last year, but I have done that)
056. [] Broke A Promise (Hmm… nope? … What? I never promised you a date!)
057. [x] Kept A Secret (OH BOY…)
058. [x] Pretended To Be Happy (For diplomatic meeting, it is terrible for the others to see you in one of your maniac-suicidal phases)
059. [] Met Someone Who Changed Your Life (People I meet that are as important come once a thousand year approximately)
060. [] Pretended To Be Sick ( No one gets sick remember? SO it would be as bad of an excuse as saying I grew a third arm. Also, I am the boss here, I can simply stop working)
061. [x] Left The Country (If we consider my nationality is ‘Galaxian’ then when I went to explore the Magellanic Clouds, I left the country.
062. [] Tried Something you normally wouldn't like, and liked it (I have not… Rahnor, I have tried that… yes, I liked it, but I expected that)
063. [/] Cried Over The Silliest Thing (Some would consider me going nuts once in a while due to my fate of staying alive to keep everything in order to be this, immortality stops being fun after a thousand years, rarely anyone passes that number, and everyone could theoretically be as ageless as I am, so you can see something going on)
064. [x] Ran A Mile (To pass time I ran from one side to the galaxy to the other through the gates in my mansion, the distance was over a mile yes)
065. [x] Went To The Beach (Went to Earth, which is now free of people, much nicer nowadays)
066. [x] Stayed Single (Oh yeah, much to Rahnor’s chagrin)


CURRENTLY:
067. Eating →  Would be rude of me to eat while I do this.
068. Drinking → Devil Elixir.
069. Getting Ready To → Nothing, I am free for this year.
070. Listening To → Starburst, just got their new album as a gift from them.
071. Plans For Tomorrow/Today → Probably walk around the courtyard, and maybe in a few days I will take my ship to explore, one of the best thrills I have left.
072. Waiting For → This to end?


YOUR FUTURE:
073. Want Kids? → Not at all.
074. Want To Get Married? → I have already been through that, I am a widow. But if we mean with someone that has not been dead of almost 10000 years… Maybe, many simply just live together nowadays. Hmm? Yes, just like us Rahnor… wait… NOT like that!

075. Careers in mind → Explorer when I feel like it.

 

WHICH IS BETTER ON A BOY/GIRL?
076. Lips Or Eyes → What? Eh… I rather have my boyfriend/girlfriend to have nice eyes… Yes, you do have nice eyes, shut it.
077. Shorter Or Taller? → Taller, Tear says it is because it makes me feel safe, I call BS…. You are taller than me huh? Good for you.
078. Romantic Or Spontaneous → Can I have both?
079. Nice Stomach Or Nice Arms → … Stomach… I guess you mean abs… in a girl I would say arms and legs, in a male… both, muscular, but not too much, I find bodybuilder too hulky.
080. Sensitive Or Loud → Loud, I rather have an hyperactive couple, keeps things alive… For the last time Rahnor, shut up.
081. Hookup Or Relationship → … I tend to go on one night stands anonymously, as relationships are hard to get being ageless, but if I had to settle down for one, I would say a long term relationship, as the other person would be someone I love. Yes, I have known you for 4000 years, why?
082. Troublemaker Or Hesitant → Troublemaker, makes for some interesting things, and I can always pull strings if things get too problematic.


HAVE YOU EVER:
083. Lost Glasses/Contacts → I used to use glasses, so yeah, I lost a few.
084. Ran Away From Home → Nope.
085. Held A Weapon, For Self Defense → I always carry a concealed gun in my ring, a gamma ray burst laser. Overkill, but better safe than dead.
086. Killed Somebody → A few times, not proud of it.
087. Broken Someone's Heart → Anyone I have been with was aware I was not looking for a relationship… not that they knew it was me they were talking to. (Meaning I use a pseudonym while I go in public)
088. Been Arrested → Never.


DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
090. Yourself → I better do, if I did not, I would have already blown my head off.
091. Miracles → No, destiny seems to be sentient, but is being a douche at its work; the universe cannot be left to fend for itself. Tried it once.
092. Love At First Sight → I believe in lust at first sight, but love? You need to get to know the person first, all you can see with sight is the body.
093. Heaven → Built a digital one.
094. Santa Claus → A few people have taken the task of being him for some planets with their nanobot factories.
095. Sex On The First Date → Sure, that’s what one night stands are, no diseases to speak of can kill many social traditions.
096. Kiss On The First Date → If I consider sex okay, what do you guess?

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
097. Is There One Person You Wanna Be With, Right Now? → … *looks at Rahnor* … no…
098. Are You Seriously Happy With Where You Are, In Life? → I guess so, just don’t ask during my mad phases.
099. Do You Believe In God → No, and if he exists, he sucks at his work, just like Destiny.
100. Post As 100 Truths And Tag Ten People → ‘’As 100 truths’? Also, anyone who want to try this?