Cesare Domitilla's Questionnaire

Lives on a beach near Tijuana, Mexico. Ended up here while wandering, star gazing for multiple nights. Light pollution actually dissipates around the Tijuana night sky, and I can get cheap boat rides out to the ocean, where the stars are even more vibrant. 

My house is a standard beach house, but rough weather has removed portions of ceiling. Hurricanes and other adverse weather keeps the mega real estate developers at bay, so I can maintain a cheap but uninsured beach side property. I have a couple of neighbors that seem to rotate seasonally, a lot of hippie types that travel for fun. No HOA to complain about the no roof in some spots, but I do take efforts in maintaining my room and kitchen.

Currently employed by the Tijuana Regional Airport as a night shift air traffic controller, weekdays only. Used to work security down near the docks, were I caught the eye of a vacationing pilot, shared a common interest in the beauties of the night sky. Studied up to meet the minimum qualifications for air traffic controlling, submitted night shift as preferred option in order to admire the sky through the drudgery of work. 

Paycheck goes straight to savings, whats left of it anyway. Housing costs are pretty cheap, but I do have to pay a premium for daily utilites, as the house has sub standard ones which arent worth to upgrade. Not particularly well built or large, so appetite is fairly standard, and the local eateries are very cheap and accessible. 

My ultimate ambition is to be a living astro map, in that I will have memorized the location of every celestial body and event in perceivable space. I wish to be so resolute in my knowledge, that all statements I do make no longer have a chance to be false, that I can will the truth into being by simply stating it. I wish the universe to know this feat, once it has been accomplished, but don't really care for admiration or subservience, just an acknowledgement that I have become a fundamental force in the universe, eternally. I believe I would kill for it, and bring my body to near death to accomplish it, but only because I have doubts that my current body would be able to holdup to the intergalactic stature I wish to impose, hence it being expendable. 

Probably my belief in almost getting abducted by aliens. I have a distinct memory of aliens descending down to possibly abduct my family, but instead only abducting my sibling, Caspian Domitilla, before knocking me out with some alien technology. When I came to, my brother was back in his bed next to me. I ran over and woke him up, begging him to explain what happened to him. He then went into great detail about the aliens and their ship, and how he was transported across the vacuum of space, watching all light refract around him. He claims to have reached out and formed new shapes with the light, making stars appear where none used to be, and as he gestured his arms he began lost all color and distinction from his form, as all his color saturation muted to a dull point. He screamed when gazing upon his arms, and ran out of the house, and I never saw him again. 

Sofia Domitilla, my younger sister of 3 years. She is currently studying to be a nurse, is doing a residency in Phoenix, Arizona. We converse semi-daily over the phone and social media. Last christmas, she contemplated running away to South America, as the nursing lifestyle and responsibilities were getting to her, but her partner, Dakota, talked her out of it. 

Anatoly Petrinov, main coworker and smoke buddy. Thirty something bachelor living a comfortable life after constantly moving goalposts on his dreams. Started of wanting to be a cosmonaut, then pilot, and now air traffic controller. Moved to Tijuana to respark soul, as it was the last place he experienced joy before the torment that was flight school and academy. Swears he will go back someday soon to finish out his studies. 

Tia Bea, full name Beatriz, but all locals call her Tia Bea. Proprietor of the corner shoppe, El Esquina, which is a part grocery, part restaurant, part bar and part surf shop. Nobody knows her age, but all her hair is ghostly white, but extends past her armpits in a thick braid. She is my closest friend and deepest confidant, as well as being my emotional compass. After having a quite strained relationship with my own now deceased parents, she has filled the void and brought the necessary guidance I was lacking. Notorious carnitas recipe, that she makes twice a week.

Childhood was as normal as all the other military kids'. Constant moving and relocating led to some isolation, and parents were to stressed to be present in day to day lives. Parents named Hector and Filipa, but they weren't particular bad or good. They were more caught up in hitting the parental benchmarks than taking an active roll in any of our lives, which was only elevated after my brothers mysterious disappearance. We were on base at the time, and he managed to vanish from all levels of intense security we were under. Both took up degenerating vices to balance out the stress, Hector picked up booze and Filipa smoking, until both passed away soon after my 18th birthday. The funerals were short, but my sister went into foster care to finish out high school, and has been utilizing some semblance of the GI Bill to pay for nursing school and college. 

Due to military kid status and just my aloof nature, didnt particularly excel in school, socially or academically. Made it to senior year before finally breaking free and running away for good, believing I had cracked the code to my brothers disappearance and light warping, but actually had a terrible acid trip. Began taking up odd jobs as I worked my down and across the border before settling in Tijuana.  

I don't believe I have, in the Hallmark sense. I think I realized pretty early on that I wasn't traditionally attracted to what everyone else around me was, going through puberty. It wasn't until later on that different forms of love were explained to me that I realized that none really applied to me, allowing me to calmly state my asexuality whenever it is brought up, which is not often. My main fascination has always been the sky, the stars and everything beyond what I can glean from the surface, and with my goal formed I found peace in not having any worldly attachments to hold me back.