max_guevera (max_guevera) wrote in voicesinmyhead, @ 2007-06-11 22:53:00 |
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Entry tags: | max guevera, prompt #01 |
Prompt 1 - Who Am I?
Who am I?
If you saw me on the street, or at Crash, or maybe if I delivered a package for you or to you, you’d think I was just an average girl trying to make her way in a world that’s broken because of the Pulse.
You’d think I was just a girl by the name of Max Guevera and you wouldn’t think me any different from my friends or co-workers. And maybe you even if you got to know me, you’d still think I was just an average girl.
But I’ve never been just an average girl, much less normal. I was created in a lab by a group of scientists at a top-secret facility called Manticore. These scientists were trying to create the perfect soldier. Well truthfully they were trying to create an army of genetically modified perfect soldiers. The lucky ones, like myself, can pass for normal; the unlucky ones look like monsters cooked up by some crazy scientists in a lab.
I won’t bore you with the long details of how I went from being X5-452 to being Max. The short and simple story is that on a winter’s night in 2009, twelve of us escaped from Manticore and made our way into the world. That night, I tasted freedom for the first time and I also lost my family and was on my own for the longest time.
Things were going good for me until I was recaptured by Manticore, however I managed to escape again. This time, I took the whole place down with me and released all of the soldiers.
Now I am a soldier again, not a girl trying to blend in and appear normal. This time I am a soldier in a war where the other side is either opposed to us because we’re different from them and we frighten them. Or the other side is opposed to us because they’re a bunch of cultist freaks that want to kill us because transgenics pervert their perfect world order.
Yet at the same time, I still long to be that normal and average girl that you might have once mistaken me for. I long to be just me, and not a soldier in a war that I never wanted to fight.