THERE'S STILL BAGOAS, RIGHT? I STILL STAND A CHANCE OF BEATING BAGOAS TO THE FINISH LINE.
How does your character feel about being in Taxon -- 1) In general, do they like it here? Rosalind just got here, so she's currently neutral-to-positive on Taxon. She's tried out a lot of realities, and this one's new and interesting and still a mystery, and that's exciting. She hasn't managed to locate her missing other half yet, but she has yet to start really worrying about that. As someone who doesn't fully acknowledge the bars of their cage, and who has no home reality to return to, Taxon's as much her home now as anything might be, and she's still exploring it.
2) Do they want to stay here? Do they want to leave? Do they have mixed feelings? Do they not much care either way? Rosalind's main deciding factor on whether or not she wants to leave will be what's on the other side of the door, and if it's more interesting, or has a greater number of Robert Luteces than this reality does. What she does want, however, is to find the door itself, so she can peek around the other side and decide whether or not to stay.
3) Is there any reason they might want to stay in Taxon? Is there any reason they might not want to go home to their own reality? Is there anything or anyone they would miss from Taxon that might make them hesitant to leave if they had the chance? Rosalind's just gotten here, so no, there's nothing yet that she'd miss -- except perhaps her own programmed possession, Lutece Labs, but she has no home reality to return to, so that's not a consideration.
4) Does it bother them that Taxon isn't like their home reality? Hahahaha no. Back when her home reality existed, she lived in a floating city full of evil cultists. But she's become quite used to adapting to new realities, so for her, reality-surfing is like backpacking through Europe.
5) Is there anything or anyone they particularly miss from their home reality? (Is it pizza? Be honest, admit it, it's probably pizza. Just kidding.) Rosalind misses her double, Robert, profoundly, or at least she will. She also grudgingly misses the pathetically endearing Booker Dewitt -- and she misses the 30-foot marble statue of herself, commemorating in the form of a public monument her remarkable scientific achievements.
6) Do they wish Taxon had more fully sentient citizens? Does it particularly bother them that there aren't many people to talk to? Are they lonely or lacking the ability to socialize with large numbers of people, or is this something that doesn't much impact their life/happiness? Or do they prefer it this way? Rosalind hasn't usually spent much time talking to people who aren't herself, but being absent the version of herself that she's accustomed to talking to, she now finds herself with more things to say than she has listening ears to say them to. She doesn't think of the lack of intelligent Extras as being a big annoyance in Taxon, but it's much more of an annoyance than she realizes.
7) Do they like living in this particular environment (climate/urbanity-wise)? Would they be happier if Taxon looked/felt like someplace else, or does this not much matter to them? There's always a city. This is one of the constants between realities that she's come to expect. It would strike her as odd if she wasn't in some kind of city, and this one is as good as any other.
8) How do they feel about the Taxonian economy? Do they enjoy the financial security of Taxon's job/income system? Do they dislike the limitations of the sorts of jobs they are forced to take and/or the boredom inherent in doing them, or do they not much mind? If Rosalind can get paid to spend her time running experiments/research in her laboratory, then she'll be perfectly fine with it -- thrilled, in fact, to live in a universe where she can get funding with so few strings attached. If she has to take some other kind of job to get money, she'll be miserable about it.
9) Are they interested in solving The Mystery of Taxon? Are they only interested if they need to solve it in order to escape? Or do they not particularly care what the fuck Taxon is? Do they think there's any point in trying to solve it, or trying to escape? Rosalind is more interested in solving the mystery of Taxon than she is in trying to escape. Whether or not she can escape is, to her, a forgone conclusion -- she's certain she can -- but he question of what Taxon's deal is is still full of so many delicious and exciting question marks.
10) What's their current guess/theory about what Taxon is? A controlled city in a reality where alien beings can pull things out of other realities and contain them, but she doesn't see how any of that's a theory, as it seems to be fairly common knowledge. She assumes they have a quantum contraption of their own by which they accomplish this -- that part is her own theory. Perhaps Taxon is a city composed of an alien's souvenir collection.
Will I be the last to answer my own survey? MAYBE
How does your character feel about being in Taxon --
1) In general, do they like it here?
Rosalind just got here, so she's currently neutral-to-positive on Taxon. She's tried out a lot of realities, and this one's new and interesting and still a mystery, and that's exciting. She hasn't managed to locate her missing other half yet, but she has yet to start really worrying about that. As someone who doesn't fully acknowledge the bars of their cage, and who has no home reality to return to, Taxon's as much her home now as anything might be, and she's still exploring it.
2) Do they want to stay here? Do they want to leave? Do they have mixed feelings? Do they not much care either way?
Rosalind's main deciding factor on whether or not she wants to leave will be what's on the other side of the door, and if it's more interesting, or has a greater number of Robert Luteces than this reality does. What she does want, however, is to find the door itself, so she can peek around the other side and decide whether or not to stay.
3) Is there any reason they might want to stay in Taxon? Is there any reason they might not want to go home to their own reality? Is there anything or anyone they would miss from Taxon that might make them hesitant to leave if they had the chance?
Rosalind's just gotten here, so no, there's nothing yet that she'd miss -- except perhaps her own programmed possession, Lutece Labs, but she has no home reality to return to, so that's not a consideration.
4) Does it bother them that Taxon isn't like their home reality?
Hahahaha no. Back when her home reality existed, she lived in a floating city full of evil cultists. But she's become quite used to adapting to new realities, so for her, reality-surfing is like backpacking through Europe.
5) Is there anything or anyone they particularly miss from their home reality? (Is it pizza? Be honest, admit it, it's probably pizza. Just kidding.)
Rosalind misses her double, Robert, profoundly, or at least she will. She also grudgingly misses the pathetically endearing Booker Dewitt -- and she misses the 30-foot marble statue of herself, commemorating in the form of a public monument her remarkable scientific achievements.
6) Do they wish Taxon had more fully sentient citizens? Does it particularly bother them that there aren't many people to talk to? Are they lonely or lacking the ability to socialize with large numbers of people, or is this something that doesn't much impact their life/happiness? Or do they prefer it this way?
Rosalind hasn't usually spent much time talking to people who aren't herself, but being absent the version of herself that she's accustomed to talking to, she now finds herself with more things to say than she has listening ears to say them to. She doesn't think of the lack of intelligent Extras as being a big annoyance in Taxon, but it's much more of an annoyance than she realizes.
7) Do they like living in this particular environment (climate/urbanity-wise)? Would they be happier if Taxon looked/felt like someplace else, or does this not much matter to them?
There's always a city. This is one of the constants between realities that she's come to expect. It would strike her as odd if she wasn't in some kind of city, and this one is as good as any other.
8) How do they feel about the Taxonian economy? Do they enjoy the financial security of Taxon's job/income system? Do they dislike the limitations of the sorts of jobs they are forced to take and/or the boredom inherent in doing them, or do they not much mind?
If Rosalind can get paid to spend her time running experiments/research in her laboratory, then she'll be perfectly fine with it -- thrilled, in fact, to live in a universe where she can get funding with so few strings attached. If she has to take some other kind of job to get money, she'll be miserable about it.
9) Are they interested in solving The Mystery of Taxon? Are they only interested if they need to solve it in order to escape? Or do they not particularly care what the fuck Taxon is? Do they think there's any point in trying to solve it, or trying to escape?
Rosalind is more interested in solving the mystery of Taxon than she is in trying to escape. Whether or not she can escape is, to her, a forgone conclusion -- she's certain she can -- but he question of what Taxon's deal is is still full of so many delicious and exciting question marks.
10) What's their current guess/theory about what Taxon is?
A controlled city in a reality where alien beings can pull things out of other realities and contain them, but she doesn't see how any of that's a theory, as it seems to be fairly common knowledge. She assumes they have a quantum contraption of their own by which they accomplish this -- that part is her own theory. Perhaps Taxon is a city composed of an alien's souvenir collection.