CHARACTER QUESIONS

Who am I?

Captain David Collins- Colonial Judge and advocate General.

I’m Captain David Collins, aged 50 and of high ranking within the camp. Unlike many others I feel that my personality enhances my job and personally I feel that it makes more suited and better at my performance rate. I’m clam, quite maybe to some, but collected most certainly, ruled by my head I try to understand all that I can and am constantly aware of consequences. Legal is my passion, not to use a rash word, but I see the importance and the need for such a social construction to keep all under Gods view and love. I’m soft hearted but alone, on this island, I find comfort within my books and feel transported, almost as if I can smell and taste home within that book. Solitude comes from shooting, able to take a moment away from work and just to focus on one thing as I time.

Where am I?

It’s nothing like England. My room; comfort is far from my mind, I can’t tell if it’s the conditions that surround me or the mere face that I am so far from home that all comfort is gone. I’ve tried to make a home; I’ve covered this god-forsaken place with my books, globes, and writing, anything that could send me back to where I wish I could be. After being out in that dirty, rat-ridden, dusty hovel, all I want is to be at home, in England where I can relax and not be concerned with Australia, just being happy in my own place. But the smell, the taste, the feel of this place just clings to me, I try to wash, to cover myself in other smells, anything to feel like home when I close my eyes and sleep, but its as if it follows me as soon as I forget where I am, a fresh whiff comes and I’m reminded of my reality.

What do I want?

Most of all I want home, I want my bed, my house, my life. I’m existing here in Australia but not living. I want to be comfortable in the world that I know and love not in this place that I can’t comprehend. If I have to stay in this place I want to be able to create a place where I can find some comfort, some tiny piece of home to feel safe again and not an outsider. However while I am here I want to do my job and to do it well and successfully. I want to do what’s right, I’m in a position of power and I want to be able to make changes that will benefit those and will actually change lives. I want to do what’s right, that’s all; I want to be able to say that I did the right thing in the eyes of the lord and the government.