toten_sie: (lip biting)
Corporal Randel Oland ([personal profile] toten_sie) wrote 2018-04-02 03:22 pm (UTC)

[ He doesn't know how to start with that prompt, because the war was...

It was all encompassing. So he tries to start at the beginning, as early as he can think.]


My father was a doctor.

His family had originally been from the Republic. The Empire's enemy. When people found out, he had his license taken away and he was forced to go to District Zero to practice medicine.

[ He pauses, because this is too far back, and he's not sure what the man wants to know. He tries again.]

I was a part of the 901st Anti Tank Troop.

[ No, that doesn't tell much of anything either. Everything requires so much context, and he's not very good at talking about things that are this abstract to him. He can talk about the war with a focus, what it does to people, what he remembers, every scar and how it came to be. But the whole thing is just... too big for him. ]

What do you want to know about the war?

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