My Original Character

Introduction to My Original Character
by Royce Barber

* This fictional original character is heavily based on me in reality, plus some of my goals and near-reality scifi ideas.
I don't really have an underground home, but I have made the basic schematics (Yay Sketchup!) and hope to start actual real-life construction in 2014.
The following rough draft story was written Jan 2013.
Headings of interest are "Backpack contents", "Face Accessories", "Where I Live", and "Ceiling Decorations". Related artwork may come soon. Enjoy!




My Appearance n' Wardrobe

* Clothing Wardrobe at a Glance: Medium size. Bullet-resistant Motorcycle-Armor-style coveralls (one piece) with matte dull darkish-blue finish. Clothes usually shades of blue. With super-thin exoskeleton frame, for heavy lifting (300 lb lift capacity). With infrequent Borg-looking gadgets Velcroed (tm) randomly when doing work. The fit is professional, not tight or baggy.

* Torso Accessories, are a 2-inch-thick boxy backpack containing: Bandaid. Neosporin. Military Paracord. Lighter. Heat-shrink plastic bags. Guest air masks. 12-cell laptop battery pack. Thin tablet screen. Micro projector. Emergency grenade. Vitamin food ration. Beano/simethicone/lexapro pills. Pile of LED's for quick light. Whistle. Scissors/boxcutter on leatherman multi-knife. Superglue. Pen. Sticky notes. Books on 1x1inch microfilm, which can be read by my wrist computer camera. Five TB of Class10 MicroSD cards, to store complex AI software for my wrist computer (different personalities, so to say). Backpack itself is a rain poncho. Small chemical samples for emergency metal welding, and very basic chemical lab.

* Arm Accessories: Wrist computer is usually shattered and smoking, with wires hanging out. It takes a lot of beating so I don't have to. Contains GPS, Tablet linux PC, microscope/camera/video, mic, projector, AI Chat Bot, Body Heater, Body Cooler, Blood vitamin meter, loud speaker/alarm, taser gun, MicroSD reader, smoke/smog/gas/dust/chemical/radiation air detector.

* Face Accessories: Flip-up lenses on my temples, resembling bottle caps, providing night vision and telescopic vision and Augmented Reality data HeadsUpDisplay. Processor is in wrist computer. Also provides radiation/smog/gas/poison alerts, along with seeing through thin materials via shining various kinds of light and the light being reflected back (just like the old Sony cameras). Distance/temp measurements by sonar/laser/heat/echo. Another face accessory is thin ear warmers and dirt-filtering mask built into coveralls.

* Slacks (Pants): Minimal thin belt with one-inch compartments for tiny gadgets or chemicals. Belt can be spun around.

* Footwear: Thick spring on ankles, for safe landings from falling (can safely fall from two stories).



Quick Facts

* Faith: Christ-ian. Faithful praying, Jesus worshiping, Bible studying, traditional values.


* Nationality: American/Caucasian. Complexion: White. Eyes: Blu. Hair: Brn. Height: 5' 7". Body Style: Fit. Beard: Very thin line of hair following jaw line.

* Personality: Sociable gentleman. Playful, optimistic. Slightly awkward comments.

* Education: Highschool graduate, and a little tech school.


* Education Abilities: Organization & simplification, basic Christian history, advanced math, advanced programming, advanced landscape design, home design, advanced electronics repair, advanced robotics, fabrication, sculpting, advanced chemistry, basic world history, basic theology, health. Basic building code. Basic architecture.

* Career: Simplifying and upgrading high tech security systems for mansions and government buildings. AI Chat Bot home automation. Handheld portable rock-digging machines.

* Hobbies: Digging holes. Repairing electronics. Inventing. Exploring jungles. Tiny gadgets, tiny vehicles, tiny sculptures, tiny utility belt gadgets, tiny intricate things, 3D printing, CNC Machine printing, thinking up multi-tools.

* Good Qualities: Healthy Christian gentleman. Very high morals and standards. No drugs, no drinking, no tattoos, no piercings, no sub-dermal electronics.

* Unhealthy Qualities & Disabilities: Rarely finishes an invention. Cracks fingers. Weakness for pretty girls. Sometimes hyper active. Sleeps in. Moderate anxiety. Machines break down around me, often catching fire.


* Allergies: Milk and Alcohol.

* Cuisine: Just about any kind of food. Loving Chinese.


* Music: Classical, Spa Instrumentals, Symphonic Metal (minus the screaming), Dub Step, Techno, fresh Christian music.

* Transportation: RC Gasoline Helicopter. Tuned Smart Car. Tuned Mazda Miata. Tuned Toyota Tacoma. Exoskeleton suits for digging. Military-Style Segway (TM) with large wheels. Dirt-bike Motorcycle.


* Politics: Bleh. Registered Republican. Slightly right-wing. Traditional values.

* Pets: None. Silent robot cat named Myst, controlled by my houses AI Personality Chat Bot.

* Favorite Gadgets: Whatever I'm wearing! See Wardrobe Clothing and Backpack.

* Turn Offs & Dislikes: Excessive purposeful sin. Excessive perversion, poor bodily hygiene. How wood decays. Mean pranks. Bullies. Poorly coded apps (90% of them!). Drama. Lacking sweetness. Peer pressure. Illegal drugs. Smoking. Dog drool/barking/smells. Avoiding an easy good deed.



My Goals, Oaths, Hopes, Motto

* Preach the Bible to those willing to hear it. Allow others to see how I live, as they may join in.

* Keep learning!

* Keep digging! 1,000 huge rooms is the goal.

* Once a Boyscout, always a Boyscout! Serving God and my nation, being healthy, etc.

* Simplify the world, making complex mechanisms easy for everyone.



My Circle of Friends

* Typical everyday nice people, with some wacky scientists and fellow hole diggers. No hardcore gang-bangers or drug dealers. No harmful people. Weird is okay.



Where I Live

* My own land. A "Hobbit Hole" underground mansion in the hills outside Fresno California, USA. 1,000 nicely-shaped underground cement rooms, and one surface level gazebo entrance. Arched ceilings to support heavy dirt. Emergency escape hatches. Light via optical tubes. Water sealed. Air pumped through rooms. Power via river turbine. Satilite Internet. Levitating glass tablet computers via magnets and projectors. AI house chat bot assistant. Unfinished inventions scattered through many rooms. Each room has a 1ft wide x 1/2ft tall duct along the ceiling, with hookups for high pressure water/grey-water/sewage/power/air/internet/propane/vacume-blower. Vehicles are stored in my underground shop with ramp to surface. Numerous unfinished rooms including a small man-made cavern which will *some day* become a vast underground lake with ten football-field size islands for guests to stay at in traditional "normal" style homes.
The rooms are unpainted textured and contoured cement, with elegant cushioned area rugs the dimension of the room. The home has an open feel, very nice luxuries and a water fall hot tub room.



Ceiling Decorations
* Individual rooms have half circle (dome) roofs, to keep the dirt from caving in. Many of the rooms have hanging art pieces including a 20 foot realistic glowing rotatable foam earth held up by a magnet, helicopter, original Mazda Miata upside down, cleaned tree root ball, international coins, a upside down super-realistic model of Fresno CA, a horizontal wheel of ten 30" computer displays; which can be spun. In the grand tool shop is a vertacle grid of 100 paracord ropes, with a knot every three inches, and tools hanging on s-hooks over the knots. The ropes arranged in a circle around the room. I'll describe more room hangings in a future update. I have about 100 rooms with sometimes very heavy decorative hangings.



Hangs Out At

* Fresno Underground Gardens (Are you surprised?)

* Fresno's Fig Garden Shopping Center - Uncle Hairrys New York Bagelry.

* Fresno Zoo.

* Fresno and Clovis Water Parks.



Frequently Says

* "Doh!" (Homer Simpson quote).

* "We seem to have a fire."

* "Fire again? Every freakin' day?"

* "I didn't build you to catch fire."

* "You rude computer. Stop burning!"




Role Models

* Jesus Christ. Savior and doctor to humanity.
* Billy Graham: Christian faith evangelist and leader. Born 1918.
* Paolo Soleri: Italian architect; father of Arcology.
* Likely YOU, if you found the link to this text!


Text to Sort

* Wardrobe/Costume Ideas: PS3 OS Tan. PSP OS Tan. Xbox OS Tan.
Tron Suit. Iron Man Boots and AI. Borg from Star Trek. Wires shaped like on circuit boards. PS3 Tan. Black eyed peas in their various future gear. Steam Powered gadgets, but not bulky like Steam Punk. Additionally, see my "Fake People"  Favorites Gallery on deviantArt.

* Works in the dirt a lot. Obsessed with digging caverns: Uses a rounded square balloon and sprays it with concrete, then buries it. The ceiling is roundish to support itself like an arch. Typical creature comforts.

* Little boxes hanging on him for no apparent reasons, with blinking LED lights and antennas.

* Wrist Computer: "Oven dials" on side of shattered smoking wrist computer. Wrist computer is cylinder shape, which serves as a shield and field lab at the same time, with a screen and electronics and survival junk in it. So when someone bashes it with a sword, it shatters (often looking cracked and smoking), which is GOOD because then my character can piece it back together better than ever! Well...with a continual bill for spare parts. X.x



Footnotes
* Thanks for reading! More to come later. Ask if you would like a link to some of my old short stories.