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OC October: Day 11 - Bodhi
Day 11: Bodhi
BODHI. I'd forgotten I was doing Bodhi today. Okay, so, Bodhi.
Bodhi is also part of Turing Shrugged, with Saudade, since I'm doing more recent characters for OC October I guess. Barring some of the early ones. Bodhi, in sharp contrast to his friend Ananda, is generally serious and grave and does not have a sense of humor that anyone is aware of. (He does, it's just very dry and in some ways very stereotypically British.) For the purposes of this book Bodhi is played by Ben Kingsley.
I don't actually have a real name for Bodhi other than that. I'm not sure why Ananda's real name is Noah, for that matter. But I do know that Bodhi grew up with a public school education some place like Shrewesbury or Westminster, one of the original bunch. He didn't mind it so much, didn't fit in quite as enthusiastically as some others but he did blend with the kind of ignorance of his own privilege in some ways, and then in other ways being aware of how much he didn't look like your usual public school boy. He did make fast friends with Noah, who didn't look like them either and who after a few minutes was content to let him sit and read and just spend time with him, finding other pursuits. They eventually also went to university together, kept in touch while they explored different schools of mathematics and computing. And as irritating as it is, as far as I know they were quite attached, never dated, did fool around some, and I do not actually know if they were lovers when Ananda/Noah did the thing or if they were simply housemates and old friends. They're remarkably closed-lipped on that point. When I bring the novel to print I'll have to come down one side or the other or leave it out entirely, but for now I'm content to shake a fist at them and be sullen that they aren't talking.
Bodhi is a very serious person, treats everything as though it were serious business. Not life and death serious, but worthy of grave consideration, as a result he can also be a slow and considering person and sometimes he takes too long to act. On the other hand it also means when he does, he rarely regrets the decisions he makes at least as being unconsidered. Sometimes he doesn't have all the facts, that can lead to regrets. But he's also aware, more aware than most, that this is not his fault if he doesn't have all the facts. His parents probably instilled this considering in him, not deliberately but because this is how they also were. He prefers to have plans and backup plans for things, and gets restless and cranky when he doesn't know what to do. He feels very certain about things and takes it as a flaw in his character, or a flaw in himself, when he can't see at least several paths, one of which he can analyze out as the right one.
For all this he is also very emotionally vulnerable. No, he doesn't mistake emotions for things he can control, he allows for that, but it also means he's slow to reach out to people he cares about for fear of being disappointed or hurt, or simply because he doesn't know what to do with all these strong emotions and it paralyzes him. Often this is when Noah shakes him out of it, or another of a couple of close friends, there's at least one woman who is close to him, who there was a brief chance of romance with at one point long in the past, maybe at university? But who eventually found him tiresome and in need of too much emotional maintenance, so they never continued their relationship. He doesn't regret this either, entirely, admitting that he was kind of a pain to put up with then. He is at least more emotionally intuitive now and isn't particularly looking for a romantic relationship. (Is this because he's in one with Noah? WHO KNOWS. Not me.) And a couple people have said that if he does decide to start looking, he'd be a much more considerate and capable lover than he was when he was younger. But, still, not looking. He finds the rest of his work, his friendships and his research, fulfilling enough that he doesn't feel a lack.
And then the thing with Ananda/Noah happens, and he feels very much torn apart and set adrift, and now it's an open question what he'll do next as the project wraps up the first phase and moves on to the second.
BODHI. I'd forgotten I was doing Bodhi today. Okay, so, Bodhi.
Bodhi is also part of Turing Shrugged, with Saudade, since I'm doing more recent characters for OC October I guess. Barring some of the early ones. Bodhi, in sharp contrast to his friend Ananda, is generally serious and grave and does not have a sense of humor that anyone is aware of. (He does, it's just very dry and in some ways very stereotypically British.) For the purposes of this book Bodhi is played by Ben Kingsley.
I don't actually have a real name for Bodhi other than that. I'm not sure why Ananda's real name is Noah, for that matter. But I do know that Bodhi grew up with a public school education some place like Shrewesbury or Westminster, one of the original bunch. He didn't mind it so much, didn't fit in quite as enthusiastically as some others but he did blend with the kind of ignorance of his own privilege in some ways, and then in other ways being aware of how much he didn't look like your usual public school boy. He did make fast friends with Noah, who didn't look like them either and who after a few minutes was content to let him sit and read and just spend time with him, finding other pursuits. They eventually also went to university together, kept in touch while they explored different schools of mathematics and computing. And as irritating as it is, as far as I know they were quite attached, never dated, did fool around some, and I do not actually know if they were lovers when Ananda/Noah did the thing or if they were simply housemates and old friends. They're remarkably closed-lipped on that point. When I bring the novel to print I'll have to come down one side or the other or leave it out entirely, but for now I'm content to shake a fist at them and be sullen that they aren't talking.
Bodhi is a very serious person, treats everything as though it were serious business. Not life and death serious, but worthy of grave consideration, as a result he can also be a slow and considering person and sometimes he takes too long to act. On the other hand it also means when he does, he rarely regrets the decisions he makes at least as being unconsidered. Sometimes he doesn't have all the facts, that can lead to regrets. But he's also aware, more aware than most, that this is not his fault if he doesn't have all the facts. His parents probably instilled this considering in him, not deliberately but because this is how they also were. He prefers to have plans and backup plans for things, and gets restless and cranky when he doesn't know what to do. He feels very certain about things and takes it as a flaw in his character, or a flaw in himself, when he can't see at least several paths, one of which he can analyze out as the right one.
For all this he is also very emotionally vulnerable. No, he doesn't mistake emotions for things he can control, he allows for that, but it also means he's slow to reach out to people he cares about for fear of being disappointed or hurt, or simply because he doesn't know what to do with all these strong emotions and it paralyzes him. Often this is when Noah shakes him out of it, or another of a couple of close friends, there's at least one woman who is close to him, who there was a brief chance of romance with at one point long in the past, maybe at university? But who eventually found him tiresome and in need of too much emotional maintenance, so they never continued their relationship. He doesn't regret this either, entirely, admitting that he was kind of a pain to put up with then. He is at least more emotionally intuitive now and isn't particularly looking for a romantic relationship. (Is this because he's in one with Noah? WHO KNOWS. Not me.) And a couple people have said that if he does decide to start looking, he'd be a much more considerate and capable lover than he was when he was younger. But, still, not looking. He finds the rest of his work, his friendships and his research, fulfilling enough that he doesn't feel a lack.
And then the thing with Ananda/Noah happens, and he feels very much torn apart and set adrift, and now it's an open question what he'll do next as the project wraps up the first phase and moves on to the second.