Prepare the new members for the fifth generation.
Name: Maggie
Your previous stamp(s)/do you agree? Crawford; Boss; yes, mostly.
What is your dream home? An apartment in a big city, or maybe a house in some silent place? A secluded mansion in a forested area with an enormous library, a bunch of computers and other high tech awesomeness, and a big four-poster bed. Mm, I love those beds.
What do you expect from your teammates? Do you want to be friends with them, or only to be professional and capable? Foremost, the latter, I’d assume. It’s a job, isn’t it? That’s the main point here. It would be acceptable if we at some point become friends, but competence comes first.
What role can you see yourself fulfilling in your team (boss, assassin, strategist, someone behind the scene, etc.)? Strategist, or at some point boss if I had to. I’d prefer not to be responsible for a bunch of people, but I am relatively good in leadership positions when it’s necessary. I like strategy and planning, weighing risks, calculation. I'm also efficient, but not physical enough to be a good assassin.
Favorite beverage: Water, tea (green, black, white, herbal), red wine, juice, espresso, Italian cream sodas, lemonade.
Favorite food: Any kind of food that is exotic to me: Greek, Mexican, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, French--I especially love Thai and Indian food. Pad Thai is quite possibly my most favorite dish in the world.
Realistic or idealistic? I am realistic in that I have a good understanding of reality and have enough healthy cynicism to be wise and careful, but I am idealistic in that, though I recognize and deal with the imperfect nature of reality, I will never accept what I find unethical, unjust, or just plain ridiculous.
Egoistic or altruistic? I don’t think these things are necessarily mutually exclusive. I have both in me, though my outer layers definitely say I'm egotistic, but I understand the purpose and benefit of altruism. I also think it's helpful to emotional and mental health in general.
Kind or mean? Neither and both. I try to be kind, and I am to most people, but I can be pretty damn mean if someone severely angers/offends me or just pushes the limits of my patience.
Gentle or rough? I can be either as the situation demands. If there’s no reason to be rough, I’m usually more gentle, but not in an ingratiating way.
Do you think you are able to kill someone? Yes. I could, but I wouldn’t unless it was in self-defense or defense of someone deeply important to me. In those moments it would come down to “me or them”, basically, and allowing oneself to be killed is no more or less ethical than defending oneself by killing the offensive party. Self-preservation is a completely natural thing.
...to protect yourself or your beliefs? See above.
...to protect people who are important to you? Yes.
...to protect society? This is kind of vague. Are we talking about killing criminals here? What are these people doing to society that I would need to protect it? I do not believe it is ethical to kill criminals when you can simply remove them from harming society by imprisonment. But if it's a situation like "Oh shit, that guy is going to blow up thousands of people unless I shoot him!" I'd definitely shoot the scum.
Would you use someone in order to get what you want? No. My ethics don’t allow that. I might be tempted, especially if they had before treated me badly and had shown a lack of honesty/respect toward me. But I don’t think dishonesty is a justifiable reaction to dishonesty.
One of your teammates ends up getting captured during a mission. Would you try to rescue the member, even while it means jeopardizing the mission? Depends on the mission. But generally, yes, because I value human life, though if there was no reasonable chance of saving the person and it still jeopardized the mission, I probably wouldn't go for it.
What if you are the captured member? Do you expect your team to rescue you? I would hope they would, of course, but depending on how important I was to the team and the nature of my teammates, I might or might not actually anticipate being rescued. Probably not, knowing me.
What do you think would be a reason of your joining any team (money, power, ideals, vengeance, loyalty, etc.)? Probably some mixture of those, but never vengeance. Vengeance is pointless to me. It's a waste of energy. My main motive would probably be that it just interested me (if it did, that is). I like having new experiences that keep me stimulated.
Would you give up your freedom in order to reach your goal (money, revenge, etc.)? No. My ultimate goal IS freedom.
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Danke!