Writing an intriguing character - character creation: At'toock
This deals with my science fiction/science fantasy eBook - The Freelancer Chronicles Vol 1: Apex Predators
I'm going to take a look at one of the catalysts for change within my book, a character by the name of At'toock.
First a little bit of his background.
At'toock
is an alien of the Arglois race who was put in place to try to keep the
past buried. He also came to hate human beings through the histories
that he was taught and the acceptance of his race's social stigma and
ban on practicing complex sciences.
According to history
the Arglois race wanted genetic diversity so they introduced human DNA
into their blood and created a race which they could conceivably breed
with and use as assistants in their scientific endeavors. This race was
named Targlois.
The Targlois are considered to be
failures with each generation becoming more and more intelligence
deprived. The Targlois race breed like jackrabbits, have been blamed for
the destruction of multiple planets and are now considered the brutes
of known space.
How does this affect At'toock's personality? From chapter one of my book:
"...At’toock
despised Humans. He hated their violence and their lack of
self-discipline, both traits which are obviously genetic. Both traits
were passed down to ‘The Great Mistake’: the Targlois race. The Targlois
were to be the saviors and the breeding stock of the Arglois but the
Targlois destroyed so much, they were so stupid and dense. The Targlois
destroyed three entire planets and now the high crafts of the ancients,
of At’toock’s own ancestors were forbidden."
At'toock also
feels inadequacies and worry about performing his job of keeping the
past buried. He had successfully done so for a long time until a family
of xeno-archaelogists showed up.
Also from chapter one of my book:
"... Humans
were always a bad mix. The only good Humans were the dead ones. Dead
Humans could only do so much after all. His overly large purple eyes
registered sudden fear. Dead Humans, Delezerians to be precise, were
what has led these new Humans here. Humans always went for the
Delezerian crystals. Strange, that, no Human alive could do more than
make the crystals hold light and display images and that the Delezerian
technology was far above what Humans currently possessed and the Humans
could do nothing with it. Fools. All of them. Then again some mystic
guardian he made. He couldn’t even do his job and keep these secrets
here buried forever as he was ordained to do by the high council. Too
many rumors left this planet because he couldn’t kill the Humans which
came here before."
This starts At'toock off in a place
where he is emotionally stunted in his views and his grasp of humanity.
He is an antagonist at the start of the book, yet later on has to depend
upon some humans for his survival.
Does he learn? He
does to some degrees. At one point he becomes an honest friend to some
humans while one of them is waiting to exact vengeance on At'toock.
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