Reasons to vote Ivy Alexandria:
"Ivy will try to retire, spend her final centuries on a small library planet with those books that mean so much to her. Unfortunately, the library will do what they are so prone to and burn in a pointless war. Ivy falls launching an escape pod piled high with ancient texts that scholars will someday say were actually... quite a dull read."
Ivy was born in a library and raised surrounded by books. According to the website, "for her birthday every year, she was given a book [...] She kept them all in a carefully separated pile, in the nest of blankets she slept in, in a cubby-hole made in the corner between two long bookcases [...] [she] grew up there, climbing bookshelves as other children might trees, reading cross-legged on top of them, or curled under a desk, or in a chair, or leaning against a shelf. Books were her companions, her friends, her lovers."
She originally died during a library fire where she refused to let go of the books to save herself and hated her assailant not for attacking her, but for letting the books burn.
She describes herself as "search engine, encyclopaedia, almanac, index. She is not the reader, but the book, a library of books, each waiting its turn on the dusty shelves of an endless archive, centuries in the building."
She remembers her past as a "catalogues of names, lists of dates, archived footage in the library of her head"--she knows the facts, but she not the emotions connected to them. According to her official story "Archive Footage," "the present, she sees, she hears, she touches, tastes, smells, feels: that is what the present is for, the moment that is the only moment, the only experience, that she must absorb every facet of, because it is the one, the only now. There is no past but the chronicles, no future to speak of: there is only now, and she lives it to its fullest and is glad of it." She knows all the data, but she forgets herself every day, so she gleefully spends every day learning and understanding as much as she can.
She's an immortal space pirate musician archivist. Fuck yeah.
FUCK YEAH LOVE HER <3