Ashvini “Ash” (Protagonist)
Being a wife was something she fell into as it fell in line with how she expected things to go. She’s followed the path of expectation, and fulfilled her duties of her role. But despite just turning 32, for the past year, she’s been feeling, so, very, old.
Her husband Andrew 45 is kind, spontaneous and makes her feel safe. They talked about leaving the city for a while. To be able to put proper nails into the walls or even tear one down. Andrew, who’s getting older, has been dreaming about finally becoming a father.
Is she being honest to herself planning a future getting a house? Is she telling the truth to her loved ones and herself? Or has she been lying for a while? Why does it feel like she’s only able to breathe when Andrew has fallen asleep?
If she decides to stay at The Station she has to admit that she has been lying to Andrew for a while. She will abandon him and cause tremendous harm to someone who’s done nothing wrong, and rob him of the life he’s been dreaming of.
Mosse, 25 year old graphics designer, – The one that wants to be pretty
Mosse was always drawn to aesthetics, art and beauty but grew up in a home where eccentric behavior and standing out was frowned upon. He once came home from Art class where he’d caked color on his nails and was promptly corrected by his mother that boys don’t do that.
Instead he looked at women with both envy and desire. He was particularly intimidated by those who embody visual expression and are able to act and play out the role in whatever they are wearing.
The body he grew into upset him, feeling it’s something that should be hidden and kept away. So he hid himself online where he can wear faces that’s not his own. It was so unfair that he wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t a male ‘job’ to be pretty, to make himself pretty would be to stand out and break a social contract he didn’t dare to break.
The break to his terminally online life is his dog ‘Luffsa’ who keeps Mosse to a routine. She barks when it’s time for a walk, and lets him know when it’s time for them both to sleep. Mosse would never deny her.
When he wakes up on The Station his form is elegant. He is first shocked by his new body when he wakes up, but unlike the others that are disturbed by their new shapes, he’s captivated by this new body.
“I’m so pretty, I’ve never been pretty”
Gabrielle The one that talks in maths.
She’s a 35 year old data scientist and cosmologist. She sorts and filters the raw data gathered by sensitive telescopes orbiting earth.
When she was young she dreamt of space travel. But while science has taken as close as she can get to understanding the universe, it’s also a cruel instrument to dreams and fantasies. She’s not put her own eyes on a telescope for years.
Gabrielle values truth and fairness. She hates politics, influencers and big egos. People that present a moral and emotional argument that are only really interested in themself and their fame. She’s even more disturbed by the idiots that fall for it.
She relishes maths, science & her cat. Getting to the truth is the moral right thing to do, even if it’s inconvenient and she has closed several relationships in her life in the spirit of being right and doing it correctly.
She imagined herself as highly flexible as long as there is empirical grounding. But when she wakes up on The Station she struggles to rationalize this space as anything other than absurd, and she becomes highly inflexible even as the evidence mounts to its authenticity.
If she’s to reject this place and return home, it means she isn’t who she believed herself to be. She’s just like the people she rejected.
Matt, 43 Public Radio Producer – The one who cherishes love
His adult life was a long struggle to find purpose and he worked himself to the bone chasing a larger purpose in his career. Trying to carve himself out and a reason to be.
But it wasn’t until he became a father that he finally understood that it’s our relationship that defines us. He exists because his daughter, (Tilda, 2) can depend on him, he is there to love her, to bed her and to kiss her goodnight.
His partner, Saga 35, is a teacher and they have gone through a stormy relationship that settled into something more mature as they started trusting each other more. Mattias has come to know that doing good to family isn’t just about the immediate but teaches love and care to humanity.
When waking up on the Station his objective is clear, He needs to get back. There is no choice here, just escapism.
More than than disappearing from his loved ones and the grief it would inflict, he could never reckon with the state confusion his disappearance would cause. How could his loved ones ever trust again?
To leave for a personal request, causing so much hurt and destruction would unequivocally be a cruel and selfish act.