Well. Let's get the basics out of the way: he'd be pretty scared with everything going on. Gang violence, terrorists (who WENT TO HIS SCHOOL, who he actually saw ON A DAILY BASIS), violent police raids on his school, people dumping shit into water supplies... that's pretty scary stuff to know is going on in your city. The earthquake would also count, but given that Danny was the cause of it, if he didn't have a number it would never have happened. But uh, yeah. If he didn't have the numbers club to explain so much of this stuff, he probably would have just gone completely overboard on the conspiracy stuff with his parents. It'd be the three of them (plus his sister, groaning in the background) as they wear tin foil hats and triangulate radio wave trajectories and digging through the records of classmates and avidly posting on that conspiracy forum (instead of just lurking on it).
Jovan's life hasn't actually changed much since the numbers. He still goes to school, still goes home on the weekends, still sits around trolling people online when he's not buried in work. At this point, the only difference is that he'd be more comfortable. Like, just in general. Right now, with all the horrible shit he keeps seeing on the network, he's feeling really nervous and uncertain and has started looking over his shoulder a lot more. In the future, though, I imagine he'll get more into the thick of it and start echoing back more and more shit that will simultaneously freak him out more and possibly make him enough of an asshole IRL that he will actually face consequences for his actions. And I guess without that he would just. Continue to be a pretty quiet bookworm, graduate with honors, and then get a job with a local non-profit while his dad nags him about not getting a well-paying enough job or something.
What CR have you had with either of your characters that has come as the hugest surprise to you?
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Jovan's life hasn't actually changed much since the numbers. He still goes to school, still goes home on the weekends, still sits around trolling people online when he's not buried in work. At this point, the only difference is that he'd be more comfortable. Like, just in general. Right now, with all the horrible shit he keeps seeing on the network, he's feeling really nervous and uncertain and has started looking over his shoulder a lot more. In the future, though, I imagine he'll get more into the thick of it and start echoing back more and more shit that will simultaneously freak him out more and possibly make him enough of an asshole IRL that he will actually face consequences for his actions. And I guess without that he would just. Continue to be a pretty quiet bookworm, graduate with honors, and then get a job with a local non-profit while his dad nags him about not getting a well-paying enough job or something.
What CR have you had with either of your characters that has come as the hugest surprise to you?