Margaret Douvey's Questionnaire

Currently? Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the city in which I was born, as well as my parents. I moved away to study abroad in the interest of independence and "expanding my horizons", but all I really got out of that was a load of debt and a strained relationship with my family. Not that I regret studying watercraft engineering in Halifax, but it certainly wasn't cheap! I moved back to Belfast in the hopes that I could attempt to rebuild the relationships with the people I left behind, but I have come up with zilch. My actual place of residence is a basement suite about a 15-minute walk from the nearest dock that I keep as clean as possible. It is not very hard with how little I own.

I work as an engineer at a private dock. The pay is decent, but not enough to give me any amount of spending money. Rent is expensive and maintaining a full set of tools is also expensive so needing to pay for both of those things is an annoyance. I like my job, I think. It comes easy to me, likely because I have spent several years mastering the skills utilized. I have always found the sea very alluring, and enjoy working alongside it. Though, other than getting my boating license, I have not actually been on it that much.

I would like to build a haven amidst the seas. Very fanciful, I am aware, but the brass tacks is this - there is a lot of open space on the ocean. Near the surface, there is little going on, hence why transoceanic trade is so prominent. You could, in theory, have a floating city in the middle of the sea with little consequence to the surrounding ecosystem. It would not take the much work to have it be self-sustaining, and then would become a proper nation within itself. Small enough to be intimate, large enough to be powerful. To save everyone from the perils of the world. Of natural disasters. Of war. Of Strife. I will accomplish this all. But I will not harm to do it, for that would be counter-productive.