Jan 12 2010
Too Deep: Characters: Brad & Sam
I’m expanding my knowledge on the main characters for “Too Deep”. I know I still have “Sanctity” in the pipeline but the way my muses work I have to go with what I get, and what I’m getting for the past couple of days has been Sam and Brad.
One of the main differences is the environments they grew up in. Brad grew up on Earth with a stable, loving family and good prospects. The war didn’t touch him directly, but still he grew into a conscientious thinking individual who wants to rebuild and help make things right for the future.
Sam on the other hand grew up on the Lunar Colony with little to nothing, his parents were killed in a drug raid, his older brother looked after him in the slums for a few years until the government tried to wipe out the slums with a viral outbreak which killed the older brother and then he gets taken in to an orphanage, but works out of their as a courier up ’til and after the place that was leveled, when he got roped into working for the rebellion to get out of going to jail, and probably winding up dead.
After the war he meets up with Brad at college. While he had no formal education he was able to take courses and basically “clep out” of high school. I’m working on how to do that. Most of the world is centered around Eurasia the way I have it envisioned. So, they don’t have the same sort of high school equivalence tests that I’ve become used to in the states. Rather than try to do something I figured I would just research some others, I’ve found some help looking at
LSAT prep courses. The way it would work with Sam given he has an eidetic memory is that if he took and studied the preparatory courses he would be pretty much set to take the tests and get a good grade. So, the futuristic equivalent of Knewton would be something he would wind up very familiar with, and when I research their way I find they’re extremely thorough. They have a great program, some times research gives you strange gems. I can’t believe that they offer online classes to prep you for your test, syllbi, study guides, quizzes, practice and even text alerts.
That’s very different to the way it was for me where I was basically given a huge boring book and had to slog my way through. It makes me wonder by the time that Sam is doing this how many more advances there would be. There’ll probably be computer games to help him study and information beamed directly into the living room on a virtual program. I figure the Wii style of system would have been expounded upon, where computers will be very VR based.
