This season in Trinity Universe history
Aug. 29th, 2004 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aberrantangelsThere are reasons why this needs to go out before September.
The two novas were like an embodiment of Cartesian mind-body dualism. Santiago's powers are almost purely cerebral — he percieves the world as a flow of equations and probabilities. Orzaiz' powers, on the other hand, tend toward the physical, with only his posthuman social skills as exceptions to his general development into "an accomplished athlete of my species."
The direction of their discussions was subtly influenced by early contact with Divis Mal and his life-partner Jeremiah Scripture. The two would stay in touch with the couple, though the others who joined them would have more contact with Scripture than with Donighal.
1999
summer [Aberrant] — Chilean nova Pedro Santiago, "The Mathematician," who may have erupted before the Galatea explosion, meets with Count Raoul Cristobal Orzaiz, a young Basque nova who has recently made quite a splash in the European press by vociferously declining to enter a Rashoud facility after his eruption. At Villa Orzaiz near Valencia, Spain, they talk late into the night about the possibility of a "new way" for a new species, an alternative to what they see as Utopia's attempts to turn novas into the slaves of baselines.
The two novas were like an embodiment of Cartesian mind-body dualism. Santiago's powers are almost purely cerebral — he percieves the world as a flow of equations and probabilities. Orzaiz' powers, on the other hand, tend toward the physical, with only his posthuman social skills as exceptions to his general development into "an accomplished athlete of my species."
The direction of their discussions was subtly influenced by early contact with Divis Mal and his life-partner Jeremiah Scripture. The two would stay in touch with the couple, though the others who joined them would have more contact with Scripture than with Donighal.
