Q & A Your character's greatest obsession

[Patty]

What is/was your greatest obsession, and what was the catalyst?

 

[Nevon]

I collect comic books. I guess you can say I'm obsessed with super heroes. It started when my aunt used to give me a vintage comic book every year on my birthday.

 

[Contessa]

I have quite the weakness for anicent jewellery, especially Roman Legionary rings. I just can't leave a museum without them.

 

[Omar]

I enjoy playing with people's attention. There's a certain satisfaction to watching people try to puzzle out a simple sleight of hand.

 

[Tanya]

I've fascination with aeroplanes and mounted firearms. My father was a pilot and being in Russia, he also taught me how to fix parts of plane for emergencies. The guns come second, because war planes with mounted firearms always looked much nice. ACME Moscow confiscated parts of old Russian planes once, identifying the weapons was interesting.

 

[Neb]

I'm usually obsessed with the wellbeing of whoever I perceive to be in my care, regardless of whether they actually are or not. Besides that, I get easily absorbed by puzzles of any sort, and collect as much VILE propaganda/paraphernalia as I can come by.

I'm also obsessed with @Flag 's hair.
So pretty....

 

[Chase]

Inverse arches. Catalyst -- the forms in... architecture... and a very educational trip to Barcelona...

 

[Suhara]

Tea ceremonies and the art of doing nothing. It is quite complex, if I may say so.

 

[Elsa]

Stories and lore! I love the mythology and legends. Every story tells about our own history in different ways that even history cannot dictate. My father purchased books for me about Greek mythology as a child, so I looked at the pictures when I could not read.

 

[Nace Bilby]

The study of history. This is largely due to how history had shaped my family. My grandfather apprenticed as a gamekeeper as a young man after the First World War where my great grandfather served but never returned. After 1939 my grandfather immigrated to Britain, serving with the British army in North Africa finding his way into the Long Range Desert Group and later the SAS.

After the war he moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where the SAS would again call on him to serve in Malaya in the 1950s. After Malaya he returned to Rhodesia and after my great grandmother's health began to fail he returned to South Africa in the 1960s where he finished as a gamekeeper. He still has a ranch near Kreuger National Park and still remains keen to hunt.

Dad served in the South African Army for thirty years, to include a substantial portion of those years in the South African Recce Regiment (South Africa's answer to the SAS). He and grandfather taught me to appreciate history. As a result of the story of how my great grandfather, answering the Crown's call, left grandfather to grow up fatherless as a lad I journeyed to France and even volunteered a DNA sample to see if remains discovered from World War I to this day in Europe were those of my late ancestor. Just before I left Britain for Afghanistan last year they found the remains of a soldier from the British Army in France. It was my late great grandfather. And Dad and Grandpa were able to repatriate to South Africa my Great Grandfather's remains after nearly a century and finally burying him on my grandfather's land.

History to me seems as alive and relevant today as a result of knowing my family history.

 

[Eartha]

I've recently gotten into paranormal romance novels. I was watching the news and they were talking about illegal aliens and I wanted to see what the fuss was about. I really think people would legalize aliens if they knew how romantic they could be.

 

[Joe Kerr]

I have a soft spot for old gags and pranks. It's why I chose a jester gimmick for myself.

Travelling on the road with my late mentor, I collected old pranks and gags from around Europe, studied them and modified some of them to be used in my heists.

I still study pranks and gags when I have the time nowadays.