Níl Gach Uile Fhánaí Caillte

You Are 5: The Investigator

You're independent - and a logical analytical thinker. You love learning and ideas... and know things no one else does. Bored by small talk, you refuse to participate in boring conversations. You are open minded. A visionary. You understand the world and may change it. At Your Best: You are sharp, inventive, and creative. You have the skills to lead the world. At Your Worst: You are reclusive, weird, and a bit paranoid. Your Fixation: Greed Your Primary Fear: Being useless or incompetent Your Primary Desire: Being competent and needed Other Number 5's: Bill Gates, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Bjork, and Stephen Hawking.

...It just compared me to Bjork...

Because Melissa Tweets and writes prompts from it A LOT, and it's such an AU 'verse, here's a better run down of the Four Quartets 'verse with Adam, Peter, Sylar, Lydia & Samuel.

[ooc: Even though we haven't gotten them there in actual play, yet, mun is going to assume they've made it to the carnival for purposes of leaving gift. >.>]

Getting away from the carnival to gift shop isn't the easiest thing to do, especially when she can't really use her credit cards anymore, nor does she necessarily have her old job, and doesn't feel right asking Samuel for money, or Sylar to turn something to gold for his own present. But it turns out there are amazing craftsmen in the carnival, and others with just the gifts she needs as well. Smug, Melissa manages a collaboration, with sketches she remembers from art history classes, and a quick internet cafe visit for the three of them into town for some research time one afternoon. By the time the day comes, they've managed it.

It's iron, not bronze, but it works--in theory--and she's pleased. He needs things that challenge him, things to distract him from all the ticking in the heads around them now, things to fiddle with, figure out how they work, and this...well. This gives him the whole universe to work with, and out here away from the cities, when the lights go out for the evening? Well, they've got the sky for it, that's for sure.

Several of the carnies have telescopes, so she didn't bother with that--it's share and share alike around here, and no one's ever got them all in use unless there's a meteor shower going on, and even then, everyone takes turns looking, she's been assured. If he wants a closer look, he can have that. No, what she's had made, with careful precision from ancient digs around the world, and so many finds, is an iron astrolabe:

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It's wrapped in a box, with a note attached:

I know we've pulled ourselves out of the world, and into one that has to be as difficult as it is fascinating for you sometimes. I thought maybe this would help open up the mysteries and wonders of another one to help. Maybe once you figure out how to work it--and I've no doubt you will--you can show all you're learning to me.

I love you. Happy birthday.

Melissa

1. Your favorite.
2. Your least favorite.
3. One that makes you automatically think of me.
4. One that you think I should TOTALLY use more often.
5. One that you don't get/needs more explanation/you have no idea why the hell I have it.

Go to Google, type in "your name likes" and post what comes up.

1. Melissa likes to stand in front of 33 children banging her head against a metaphorical, and literal, brick wall. (Why the hell would I like that? - though if I had 33 children around me I probably WOULD, but I wouldn't LIKE it)
2. Melissa likes to motivate her clients by giving them intense and diverse workouts. (err...yeah)
3. Melissa likes a ground fresh, fertile, deep, hot and light and she fears the too heavy and too wet grounds particularly. (I got nothing)
4. Melissa likes to spend her spare time horseback riding and enjoying the outdoors with her friends and family. (...sure I do)
5. Melissa likes to play the field, but that doesn't make her a bad person. (I'm so glad we can take moral judgments from Google)
6. Melissa likes to do skydiving, base jumping and rock climbing. (Uh, masochist, not adrenaline junkie. Though rock climbing's fun)
7. Melissa likes to date bad boys. (Well, yes. I think we've established this.)
8. Melissa likes pancakes. (Who doesn't?)
9. Melissa likes to use a documentary approach to her photography work, but she also enjoys the challenge of creating imagery from a concept or idea. (Now that's just creepy)
10. Melissa likes sneaky, butt-kicking half-elves. (I don't know that I'd call Devin sneaky...)
11. Melissa likes to wear waterproof mascara and leather boots. (Well, now, again--who doesn't?)
12. Melissa likes a partner who is mentally alive and keeps her guessing. (As opposed to mentally dead...?)
13. Melissa likes to have a man who's nearby. (Well, that's generally more convenient than one far away)
14. Melissa likes to give back, too. (I'm a giver, yep)
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