Five Quirky Things about Forbes and Oliver from THE BREAK-IN
My characters, like me, are a little interesting, a little
unique. Here are some things you might not know about them despite reading
their first story THE APPLICANT and the new novella THE BREAK-IN.
unique. Here are some things you might not know about them despite reading
their first story THE APPLICANT and the new novella THE BREAK-IN.
Five Quirky Things About Dr. Forbes Pohle
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Forbes prefers to wear pants, not jeans. This
probably has something to do with how he was raised. He was often put on
display by his parents and therefore didn’t have a lot of casual playtime. - Forbes finished his undergraduate college degree
at 14 and had his second graduate degree at 18. He described attending classes
as sitting next to giants who looked at him as if he was the experiment instead of whatever the instructor was
cooking up in the front of the hall. - Forbes has an unfortunate habit of building his
friends instead of making them. He has always been more comfortable interacting
with a robot or even a computer than interacting with humans. That is not to say he’s not competent at
social interaction. He is quite adept at securing research grants and contracts
to fund his work. - Forbes’s house is located outside the city, not
rural, but beyond the suburbs. It’s a very large house with its own attached
laboratory. It also has a garden that he pays landscapers to keep for him. In
the center of the garden is a fountain with a bench beside it where he likes to
sit and think at dusk. - Forbes still has a teddy bear robot shaped dent
in his blast chamber door from when Future Oliver first time travelled back to
meet him.
Five Quirky Things About Oliver Lennox
- Oliver likes to dress in hacker chic: black
t-shirt, hoodie, black jeans, red Chuck Taylors and black nail polish. But he’s
not averse to wearing a leather jacket hand-me-down when he’s out on his
motorcycle in the Fall and Winter. - Oliver’s favorite color is black (as evidenced
by the clothes choices he makes) because he thinks of black like a rainbow.
It’s what you get when all the colors are mixed together. One of his favorite
childhood memories is of making a cake with his mom and being allowed to frost
it himself. He added all the different food colorings in the bowl with the
white icing and it made black frosting. It was the best tasting cake he ever
ate. - Oliver has a tattoo of Newton’s gravity formula on the inside of his
hip. He first read about Sir Isaac Newton in a partially torn children’s book
that he found at the Hill Lake Farm Residential Center. - Oliver lost both his mother and his stepfather
in a car accident when he was a teenager. It was very late and his stepfather
was tired when he lost control of the car and slammed into a concrete barrier. Oliver
still wonders if his stepfather had been drinking that night. - Future Oliver has used Forbes’s time travel
device more than the one time that Forbes is aware of. This will come back to
bite both of them in the future.