Book Title: IN OUR STARS Character Name:  Lieutenant Selene Genji   How would you describe your family or your childhood?     My childhood was hell.  My only real family was my mother, before she was murdered when I was seventeen because she was my mother.  Everyone else treated me as an alien on my own world.  Because in some ways I am.   What was your greatest talent?  Maybe survival.  I should have died a long time ago.  But I keep fighting.  Is that a talent?  Or is it that my mother’s guidance (and that of Marcus Aurelius) has helped me maintain my humanity despite everything?  And despite all of those who claim I’m not human at all?   Significant other?  I…don’t know.  Maybe?  There was never anyone before.  Not for an alloy like me.  But he says it’s real.  Kayl says he won’t leave.  Impossible.  But…maybe?   Biggest challenge in relationships?  I’m an alloy.  Mostly human, but with some alien DNA inserted through genetic engineering before I was born.  I can’t hide that.  Everyone knows I’m different.  Those who don’t fear me because of it are usually still…wary.   Where do you live?  Nowhere, really.  After my mother was murdered,…

Book Title: IMPLACABLE Character Name: Admiral John Geary (also known as Black Jack, a nickname I’ve never liked but one I’m stuck with)   How would you describe your family or your childhood? Normal, I guess.  My ancestors were among the first colonists on our world, and played important roles back then in ensuring Glenlyon remained free, but we were never taught to see ourselves as special the way some First Families do on a lot of worlds.  We were told and shown the importance of service to others, but that plays out in different ways in my family.  Some of us (at least one in every generation) feels the call of space, the need to sail among the stars and see other worlds.  That was my mother.  That was me.  My brother Michael never understood that, though, and was happy to remain on Glenlyon for most of his life.  My father was like that, too.  Now, after I was frozen in survival sleep for a century, they’re all gone.  My grandniece Jane and grandnephew Michael are all that’s left of my family, the rest taken by time or the war.  Mostly by the war, because Gearys were expected to…