Aegle Vitus Interview

Aegle Vitus, as of being approved.

• What is your name, and do you have a nick name?
M'name's Aegle, and I don't really have a nickname anymore. My family used to call me things like 'Speed Wobble' and 'Turbo', but that hasn't really been a thing since I was eight. S'real weird, now that I think about it, how they all just stopped callin' me those things all at once like. S'like they got together an' agreed not to call me it anymore.

• How would you describe your hair?
It's brown, it's straight, and it's real thin, and I hate it. That's why I fixed it. Now it's orange and stands up taller than I can! Y'can see it from the moon, I reckon~

• What about your eyes?
They're green? They're alright, I guess. I don't need glasses like Daddy and Paeon do, so that's pretty cool. S'the one part of me that works properly~

• What kind of distinguishing facial features do you have?
Distinguishin' what? Like my nose? S'not that small, alright. It's a perfectly normal sized nose. And afore y'ask, no, nobody has ever stolen it.

• Do you have a birthmark? Where is it? What about scars? How did you get them?
I got a mole, but I am pretty sure I'm not allowed to show it to anyone. As f'scars, yeah, got plenty of those. Gotta real gnarly one under my ribs, from when they put the kickstarter in. D'ya wanna see it? S'like I got bit by a dog~

• Who are your friends and family? Who do you surround yourself with? Who are the people you're closest to? Who do you wish to be closest to?
I had some friends in primary school, but I haven't seen most of 'em in ages. Not real sure what they're doin' now, if I'm honest. I'm pretty close with my family though. Used to be my brothers found me real annoyin' to be around, but it's not like that anymore. Started changin' right around the time everyone stopped callin' me Speed Wobble, now that I think about it...
Aaron's some big shot soldier, workin' with some private group and protectin' Atlas. Vulcan works with Daddy, developin' stuff for the army. They're both real clever. I think Mommy's a scientist, but I don't really know for sure. She's always talkin' about trials and junk. Maybe she's a lawyer? She doesn't really talk about work very much. Paeon's still in school. He's gonna be a doctor, I reckon. He's always been real good with helpin' people...
I dun'rilly know 'bout who I'd wanna be close with. I love my family, and I think we're pretty close already. Would be real hard t'be what I am without them~

• Where were you born? Where have you lived since then? Where do you call home?
I was born in Tome. S'a small village on the edge of the Howlin' Plains, between Atlas and Gnarl's Fjord. S'an alright little place. There's an army base there. We had a real big house and a huge open yard for makin' snow grimm in. The walls around the town were so tall...
We had to move when I was eight though, to this smaller house in the city. Paeon an' Vulc had t'share a room, but I got one all to myself. Everyone is super squashed together in that part of Atlas, and y'can see into other people's houses at night; I missed the big yard and the tall walls.
Then I had to move into the hospital. Then I did have to share my room, but not with my brothers. There was this sad girl named Arjenta... Then I got moved to the other part of the hospital, where everyone talked quietly and I had to wear a wrist band so they
knew where I was. I got my own room again.
Then they moved me to another hospital, and they fixed me, and I stayed there for a little while as well.
Now I'm livin' at Beacon. S'not really a home, I s'pose, but I get my own room, on account of startin' so late in the year. I guess it's alright.
Still miss Tome though, and the big yard and the tall walls. I wonder who's livin' there now...

• Where do you go when you're angry?
This one time, I took off my bracelet and hid in the linen room. I was gonna try and sneak out with the laundry, like I saw in a prison movie, but I got tired and just sat underneath the baskets instead. After I took my bracelet off, it started flashin' red and makin' this loud beeping noise. Kinda freaked me out. Then, while I was hiding, I could hear all the nurses lookin' for me. They were callin' out, sayin' how they weren't mad, just worried. I didn't do that again...
Now, whenever I'm real angry, I just go to the trainin' hall, and punch the bag or do jumpin' jacks until my chest hurts and my alarm goes off.

• What is your biggest fear? Who have you told it to? Who would you never tell it to? Why?
I dunno. Sometimes I think about stuff. About how I am what I am and how I won't ever be strong like Aaron, or smart like Vulcan, or get people the way Paeon does. How I'm not even gonna get the chance. I dunno if I am scared of that or not, I dunno if I can even be scared of stuff anymore, but I feel like I ought'a be, y'know? Scared I mean. Who wouldn't be? Ya'd have to be crazy not to be terrified, wouldn't you? I dunno. I've never really talked to anyone about it. I don't know if I even wanna.

• Do you have a secret?
Sometimes I think stuff and wonder why no one's ever thought it before. Then I wonder if someone has. Maybe everyone has. Then I wonder how people can go on, actin' the way they do, knowin'... Then I think maybe it is just me. That I'm the weird one, y'know? That somethin's wrong in my head, I guess, and everyone else doesn't think the way I do.

I wonder how that can be though. Everyone else is so much smarter'n me, yeah? If I can figure out it, why can't they?

Maybe I'm just crazy. Hope I'm just crazy.

• What makes you laugh out loud?
A lot of stuff. I laugh a lot, and not always when I'm s'posed to either. Like this one time, when my dad was tellin' me how they were gonna put the kick starter in me, I just started laughing. And I mean like really, really laughin'. Laughin' so hard, my alarm went off an everything. I can't even remember what he said t'set me off. Must have been real funny though...

• When have you been in love? Had a broken heart?
It was once, but it's alright now. They fixed it, yeah? Now it's just a bit cracked.