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Name: Nita Callahan
Age: 15.
Series: Young Wizards series, by Diane Duane. (Wiki)
Canon:
In a universe not too far from our own, there exists the small chance that one day, you'll take the wrong turn and find magic waiting for you. Young Wizards is a series about the discovery of magic and about saving the world, again and again, from the influence of evil with the guidance of the Powers That Be, with a healthy side of the slice-of-life experiences of teenagers. The series focuses on tales of science-related magic, exploring the galaxy, building friendships with some of the most improbable things (including trees, aliens and stars) and about growing up a little bit along the way.
Nita Callahan is the main character of the Young Wizards novels. She's introduced as a slightly shy girl who likes reading and talking about what she's reading, sometimes coming off as a bit of a know it all. Nita has grown over the course of the series, developing a greater sense of self-confidence and an outgoing, friendly nature. While she discovers the limits of the impossible, she's also learning how to take the merely improbable in stride, greatly enjoying meeting people and helping them out. She still has her share of mundane problems—a love of sugary sodas and a annoying younger sister among them—but is mostly well-adjusted. Nita enjoys many of the aspects of being a wizard, including theorizing, problem solving, and the unofficial love of wordplay and puns most wizards share.
Note: Dai sithó is a traditional greeting for wizards. Precision in terminology is also a common feature of wizardly discourse, hence Nita's use of the Latin for sweet corn.
Sample App:
Dai sithó, Zea Mays, varietal saccharata. I greet you, for I am on errantry. It's actually more like a summer job, but, if you could lend me your ears for a second, I'll explain. I'm here to talk to you, the common sweet corn in an uncommon situation. You are in a unique position to save people.
You see, I hear that you've been grown in a place without sugar. Here, the residents toil for an solution to the rule that says they have to have Splenda, for some arbitrary reason that seems to be motivated by causing people to suffer. Which is not as bad as it could be, but speaking as a carbon based mammalian life form who happens to enjoy sugar, it's really not the same thing at all. And it causes many residents to have a considerable amount of distress, every year, even if some doctors or dentists would claim it's healthier for them. They crave the sweet taste of real sugar compounds, not the stuff they make in labs.
Now, I know people say that my people, the Americans eat too much of you, and I know that you might feel a little pressured to come up with as many of your brethren to be plucked and added to food. But I think there's some room for a compromise here. Here, you, the corn, are used in really weird soup that I'm pretty sure tried to talk back to me when they served it in the cafeteria. And maybe sometimes someone picks you for popcorn, and for feeding to cows, which probably gives them heartburn. And there's so many of you... you must lie fallow, most of the year, unsure if you will be ever used again.
I propose we find a way to use your sweetness in moderation. A little tweak of your basic proteins here, a little nudge of your electrons there. Suddenly, your growth cycle is shorter and your sugar output is increased. With a little effort, we humans can create some very satsfying syrup, to use in moderation in our tea, in our sodas, in our coffee based drinks and our baking. And you? Well, with that little tweak, that Splenda which we are no longer eating will go to your food supply. A little bit of a win-win situation for everyone, if it works.
Need a little time to think it over? Oh, right, I almost forgot, back to why I'm talking to you. Someone—and I'm not saying it was my little sister, because she knows better now—signed me up for a conflict resolution seminar. In Kansas! I thought it was some kind of joke, but all the assignment paperwork seems to have checked out. And yeah, most kids my age wouldn't be caught dead in a farm for a whole summer, but an assignment is an assignment. Arguing with the Powers That Be can get you in serious trouble. It's easier not to argue with Them most of the time, you know? They seem to have a habit of getting Their way most of the time, and it's bad enough that my dad can ground me without Them helping.
Even if right now it means my summer job seems to be watching corn grow. At least I can talk to someone, you know? Paint's a pretty flat conversationalist.
Name: Nita Callahan
Age: 15.
Series: Young Wizards series, by Diane Duane. (Wiki)
Canon:
In a universe not too far from our own, there exists the small chance that one day, you'll take the wrong turn and find magic waiting for you. Young Wizards is a series about the discovery of magic and about saving the world, again and again, from the influence of evil with the guidance of the Powers That Be, with a healthy side of the slice-of-life experiences of teenagers. The series focuses on tales of science-related magic, exploring the galaxy, building friendships with some of the most improbable things (including trees, aliens and stars) and about growing up a little bit along the way.
Nita Callahan is the main character of the Young Wizards novels. She's introduced as a slightly shy girl who likes reading and talking about what she's reading, sometimes coming off as a bit of a know it all. Nita has grown over the course of the series, developing a greater sense of self-confidence and an outgoing, friendly nature. While she discovers the limits of the impossible, she's also learning how to take the merely improbable in stride, greatly enjoying meeting people and helping them out. She still has her share of mundane problems—a love of sugary sodas and a annoying younger sister among them—but is mostly well-adjusted. Nita enjoys many of the aspects of being a wizard, including theorizing, problem solving, and the unofficial love of wordplay and puns most wizards share.
Note: Dai sithó is a traditional greeting for wizards. Precision in terminology is also a common feature of wizardly discourse, hence Nita's use of the Latin for sweet corn.
Sample App:
Dai sithó, Zea Mays, varietal saccharata. I greet you, for I am on errantry. It's actually more like a summer job, but, if you could lend me your ears for a second, I'll explain. I'm here to talk to you, the common sweet corn in an uncommon situation. You are in a unique position to save people.
You see, I hear that you've been grown in a place without sugar. Here, the residents toil for an solution to the rule that says they have to have Splenda, for some arbitrary reason that seems to be motivated by causing people to suffer. Which is not as bad as it could be, but speaking as a carbon based mammalian life form who happens to enjoy sugar, it's really not the same thing at all. And it causes many residents to have a considerable amount of distress, every year, even if some doctors or dentists would claim it's healthier for them. They crave the sweet taste of real sugar compounds, not the stuff they make in labs.
Now, I know people say that my people, the Americans eat too much of you, and I know that you might feel a little pressured to come up with as many of your brethren to be plucked and added to food. But I think there's some room for a compromise here. Here, you, the corn, are used in really weird soup that I'm pretty sure tried to talk back to me when they served it in the cafeteria. And maybe sometimes someone picks you for popcorn, and for feeding to cows, which probably gives them heartburn. And there's so many of you... you must lie fallow, most of the year, unsure if you will be ever used again.
I propose we find a way to use your sweetness in moderation. A little tweak of your basic proteins here, a little nudge of your electrons there. Suddenly, your growth cycle is shorter and your sugar output is increased. With a little effort, we humans can create some very satsfying syrup, to use in moderation in our tea, in our sodas, in our coffee based drinks and our baking. And you? Well, with that little tweak, that Splenda which we are no longer eating will go to your food supply. A little bit of a win-win situation for everyone, if it works.
Need a little time to think it over? Oh, right, I almost forgot, back to why I'm talking to you. Someone—and I'm not saying it was my little sister, because she knows better now—signed me up for a conflict resolution seminar. In Kansas! I thought it was some kind of joke, but all the assignment paperwork seems to have checked out. And yeah, most kids my age wouldn't be caught dead in a farm for a whole summer, but an assignment is an assignment. Arguing with the Powers That Be can get you in serious trouble. It's easier not to argue with Them most of the time, you know? They seem to have a habit of getting Their way most of the time, and it's bad enough that my dad can ground me without Them helping.
Even if right now it means my summer job seems to be watching corn grow. At least I can talk to someone, you know? Paint's a pretty flat conversationalist.