User:Sorien

In character, Sorien was once a middle aged human male from Minneapolis, Minnesota. That changed when the Promethian Nanites were released. Many of his friends... Simply vanished. They may have simply fled, or perhaps something more dire occurred; regardless, he doesn't know what happened. Some though, he knows what happened. They went feral almost before his eyes, and he doesn't know what their current fates are. His family, for the most part are safe, having not been in Minneapolis. His parents and brother, along with one niece fled to the shores of Leech Lake, and are safe.

In his own case... He did not remain untouched by the nanites. One lonely morning he woke, and simply wasn't male anymore. Now a woman, and apparently significantly younger she looked at her situation and realized that there was simply nothing keeping her where she was. Lonely and depressed, she packed everything she truly found important into a U-Haul trailer and... Drove.

Months passed, and she traveled generally west, usually avoiding places that seemed to be heavily infected, sometimes driving through to see how bad things were. Eventually her winding path took her to the outskirts of Fairhaven, California. Her car made the decision to stay for her by dying, an unnoticed oil leak and a bad sensor leading to her engine locking up.

She was found by Zephyr personnel, who assisted her by getting her now-useless car, trailer and self into Fairhaven, and let her decide what she wanted to do. After encountering RSX personnel, who were rather rude, and some of the Promethian recruiters she decided to stay and work for Zephyr, and maybe make a new life for herself.

Since then, she's been reinfected. Her preferred form is that of an anthro skunk, though she has learned to adapt her form to any creature she's thoroughly been exposed to. Her life is improving, and she's finding some semblance of happiness now... But she misses her lost friends terribly.

Out of character, Sorien is Michael Heinsohn of Minneapolis. Sorien is the usual name he uses for online Avatars of himself, and he is just as middle aged as Sorien-the-character. He is a longtime gamer and conventioner, and has been a part of science fiction, fantasy, comic, gaming and furry fandom since the early 1980's He is also Sorien on FurryMUCK and Tapestries, and the character Sable on Altered Realities MUCK.