{Character Interview} Elliott of 'Day Moon' by Brett Armstrong
We’re thrilled to be talking to Elliott from Brett
Armstrong’s Day Moon. It is a
pleasure to have Elliott with us today at Pimp That Character!
Thank you for your
interview, Elliott. How old are you and
what do you do for a living?
Well I’m seventeen and I’m part of a special work/study
program for kids identified as “exceptional”. I’ve been in the program since I
was nine, but in the past three years I’ve been doing my master’s work on
Project Alexandria, the global software initiative meant to give the whole
world equal and unencumbered access to all accumulated knowledge.
Can you tell us about
one of your most distinguishable features?
Um, I don’t know. I’ve never considered myself
“distinguishable” from most others out there. A couple time I’ve been told my
eyes are “pretty”. They’re a kind of sage color, if you can tell. And I have
long lashes, but I really hope that doesn’t get through the editing room.
Maybe I should say something more meaningful? Like about
myself? I’m a Christian, and I’m the only one I know. There aren’t many of us
left. It was my grandfather who really started me on that path, though my
parents did too. I just never have seen much of them. Work keeps them at arm’s
length so to speak.
What makes you laugh
out loud?
I have a roommate who’s pretty crazy. Shane Parsons. He, uh,
he’s just out there, you know? He’s big on video games and he’ll do the
silliest things in them like run off ledges he knows he shouldn’t or sneak up
on enemies and run past them even though he could’ve taken them out. Shane
jokes a lot, though I won’t torment you by trying to replicate one of them. I
could never tell it the way he does anyway. There’s just an intangible quality
about how he does it that makes you laugh. Sometimes cringe or sigh, but mostly
laugh.
What is in your
refrigerator right now?
Oh man, I haven’t been to the store! It was my turn to pick
up the groceries for the week. Ugh. Shane is probably plotting all the ways to
torment me over forgetting. I’ve just been really distracted with school, and
then there’s this girl, Lara, and the book my grandfather left is about to be
recycled like all the others…I’ve just had so much on my mind lately, I suppose
groceries didn’t make the cut. Hopefully there’ll at least be cold pizza for
Shane. That should keep his griping to a minimum.
What is your most
treasured possession?
For a little while longer, anyway, my grandfather’s book of
Shakespeare’s complete works. He left it to me in his will. We lost him a few
months ago to a car accident. You know those almost never happen anymore with
the cars being controlled by the city networks. It’s really impossibly high
odds that something like his crash would happen…But um, yeah. That book is
probably my last tangible link to him. Beyond DNA of course, and his house. My
cousin John is living there now, so I suppose I could visit it, but I don’t
think I’ll ever want to go there again now. It won’t feel right without him
there.
What is your greatest
fear?
We’re really hitting deep with this interview, huh? Sure.
Ok…If I’m honest, I guess it would have to be failure. Failing those I care
about. It’s been on my mind for a while now with my advanced placement program
ending soon and Project Alexandria nearing its full go-live date. I can’t say
I’m in love with the work I’m doing now or will be doing. Art has always been
my thing, you know? I could spend hours just sketching. That doesn’t pay the
bills though and my aptitude tests placed me on the engineering/sciences track,
so I guess that’s what I should focus on, but I just don’t feel as comfortable
with it. I don’t want to let anyone down, but I don’t know I’m headed the way I
should be right now.
Are you a loner or do
you prefer to surround yourself with friends?
I don’t know when it started, but I guess I’m kind of a
loner. I’m not by choice or anything. I guess I just never had a huge friend
pool to start with and then my first roommate, Terrance, and I kind of drifted
different ways a bit and Shane works a lot on top of school, so I don’t really
hang out with anyone. I mean there’s Lara, but she, uh, she I don’t spend
enough time with. To be considered surrounded by friends. That is. Erhm.
Someone is secretly
in love with you. Who is it and how do
you feel about that?
Are you serious?
I can’t believe I’m talking to you about this.
Ugh, if I tell, make sure this goes nowhere, okay? Because I
can’t have her knowing. Not like this. But…if I had my choice of who is
secretly in love with me, it would be pretty great if it were Lara. She’s been
in my art classes I take on the side for a while now, and she’s, well she’s
beautiful, of course, but she’s just everything you could hope for in a girl.
The way she smiles you’d think you didn’t know what beauty was before and she’s
so clever. And she’s kind and thoughtful and incredibly opinionated. Like
feisty even. I don’t know, it just makes her more endearing to me. Not that she
knows that, because I’m pretty sure it would take an act of God for me ever see
us become more than friends. I think sometimes she knows I like her, maybe I’m
goofy when I’m with her or something, but I feel like she knows. Anyway, she’s
a friend and if it turned out she wanted to be more, then I would be all for
that.
When you were a
child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
What didn’t I want to be? I mean they pretty much coined the
term “dreamer” for me. Or at least that’s what I’ve been told. I know I’ve
always loved art. Maybe be an architect or an illustrator for graphic novels,
because I really like reading as well. Something creative I’m sure. I mean I think an archaeologist a ’la Indiana
Jones was in there somewhere, but it’s been a pretty long time since I’ve had a
say in the matter, so I don’t know. For most of my life that I can remember
I’ve been training to be a programmer or analyst so everything else seems kind
of fuzzy. Give me enough time and I might be able to piece something together,
but even then, it’s all just very hazy.
If you knew you were
going to die tomorrow, what would you do today?
Wow, it’s not something I’ve really thought about before. At
least not in terms of what I’d want done right before it happens at least.
I don’t know, maybe I would finally tell Lara I like her.
Maybe not even then though, because who wants to find out someone loves them in
that kind of scenario?
Whatever I did on that day, I would want it to matter, you
know? For my life to mean something, to accomplish more than pushing bits of
data around. I’d like to play a part in saving someone else’s life, physically
or spiritually. And I’d definitely pass on my grandfather’s book to someone
else. Maybe then they won’t be able to recycle it. That way we’d both be living
on in a way.
About the Author
His latest book is Day Moon (Tomorrow’s Edge Book 1).
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DAY MOON (Tomorrow’s Edge Book 1)
Author: Brett Armstrong
Publisher: Clean Reads
Pages: 389
Genre: Christian/Scifi/Dystopian
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Publisher: Clean Reads
Pages: 389
Genre: Christian/Scifi/Dystopian
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