Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Two: Character Creation (section)

===Step Nine: A New Genius Is Born===
Once Sanjula has all her Traits in a row and a few wonders, Kirsten looks at her character and makes a few final touches. She decides that Sanjula dreams of studying mad geometry. She wants to find a master of that science, but first she needs to improve her Science Skill, pick up one or more relevant Specializations, and improve her knowledge of Apokalypsi.

Those are her professional goals. Sanjula's personal goals involve, eventually, reuniting with her father in India, who is both a talented mathematician in his own right and a conservative politico with attitudes that disgust his daughter. The chronicle starts in the summer after Sanjula's freshman year, so eventually she will have to decide whether or not she will return to college, and what studies she will pursue when gets there. Kirsten thinks that Sanjula will try to return, though she expects that the Storyteller will put plenty of obstacles between Sanjula and a normal college education.

Kirsten also selects an aesthetic for Sanjula, though the young Scholastic is mostly defined by her approach, rather than her appearance. Her family was largely Westernized, but during her Breakthrough she found herself studying Greco-Buddhist art, the result of Alexander the Great's forays into India. The statuary fascinated her, but so did the works of Rucker and Gibson she read in high school, around the time that she found her older brother's collection of David Bowie and Sex Pistols CDs. Her aesthetic, which she calls Circuit Statue, is a mix of Digital Chrome and older clay-fired styles. She favors lots of traditional jewelry, a bright green plastic raincoat for labwork, and wraparound mirrorshades under a thatch of neon pink hair. It's not exactly cutting edge, but it works for her.

Finally, Kirsten decides that Sanjula will use her normal name. No "Dr. Parabola" for her; the young mad scientist wants to maintain some level of normality in her life.