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<p>Actor: [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707476/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Mary Lynn Rajskub], ref: ''24''</p> | <p>Actor: [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707476/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Mary Lynn Rajskub], ref: ''24''</p> | ||
=Concept= | =Concept= | ||
Out-of-Place | Out-of-Place, Nervous Introvert <!--Stowaway--> | ||
=Tropes= | =Tropes= | ||
[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrokenBird Broken Bird]; [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoesntLikeGuns Doesn't Like Guns]; [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InnocentlyInsensitive Innocently Insensitive]; [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProperlyParanoid Properly Paranoid] | |||
=Details= | =Details= | ||
*Unmarried; Lottery | *Unmarried; Lottery | ||
Aurora worked as a programmer for ~10 years at a Chicago satellite-office for "a respectable software company," MetaCortex. Competition for promotion and financial improvement was always fierce, and she was too shy to be any good at "the game." Somewhat recently, her long-time boyfriend, also a partner in the programming side-business they built together for extra cash, suddenly skipped out of town with her best-friend, disappeared to who-knows-where. She was left lost in the corporate rat-maze without the emotional energy to continue, and had retreated inward, until the fateful day she received the notice that she had been accepted by lottery for immigration to [[:Category:Terra Nova Colony|Terra Nova]], coincidentally, on the same day a coworker was arrested for "virtually every computer crime we have a law for." | *Hates guns; won't touch them | ||
*Serious trust-issues | |||
Aurora worked as a programmer for ~10 years at a Chicago satellite-office for "a respectable software company," MetaCortex. Competition for promotion and financial improvement was always fierce, and she was too shy to be any good at "the game." Somewhat recently, her long-time boyfriend, also a partner in the programming/consulting side-business they built together for extra cash, suddenly skipped out of town with her best-friend, disappeared to who-knows-where. She was left lost in the corporate rat-maze without the emotional energy to continue, and had retreated inward, until the fateful day she received the notice that she had been accepted by lottery for immigration to [[:Category:Terra Nova Colony|Terra Nova]], coincidentally, on the same day a coworker was arrested for "virtually every computer crime we have a law for." | |||
=Traits= | =Traits= | ||
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Actor: Mary Lynn Rajskub, ref: 24
Concept
Out-of-Place, Nervous Introvert
Tropes
Broken Bird; Doesn't Like Guns; Innocently Insensitive; Properly Paranoid
Details
- Unmarried; Lottery
- Hates guns; won't touch them
- Serious trust-issues
Aurora worked as a programmer for ~10 years at a Chicago satellite-office for "a respectable software company," MetaCortex. Competition for promotion and financial improvement was always fierce, and she was too shy to be any good at "the game." Somewhat recently, her long-time boyfriend, also a partner in the programming/consulting side-business they built together for extra cash, suddenly skipped out of town with her best-friend, disappeared to who-knows-where. She was left lost in the corporate rat-maze without the emotional energy to continue, and had retreated inward, until the fateful day she received the notice that she had been accepted by lottery for immigration to Terra Nova, coincidentally, on the same day a coworker was arrested for "virtually every computer crime we have a law for."
Traits
Computer programming expertise; Not-great social skills