Uncle ben's Questionnaire

Due to having grown up in Manchester, Ben prefers the usual sights and sounds of the familiar with the unexpected never occurring. After Afghanistan, Ben refused to move on from his childhood home with all the threats that could be out there. Bens apartment mirrors his old bunkhouse when he was deployed. Messy whilst also somehow being mostly bare, what little Ben has to decorate his apartment has been carelessly thrown up with very little care or attention paid to placement. The only Piece within his home that has been carefully taken care of is the last picture his has of his family, his ex-wife and his daughter Emelia from 45 years ago. 

Whilst Ben has a low income job, working at a local office. Ben stands out among his cohorts, not because of his technical skill but for the very opposite, he lacks any computer skills and has broken the office printer multiple time when trying to put more paper inside. Whilst this would be enough to fire anybody else, what keeps Ben around is his willingness to carry out any small job around the office not matter how disgusting, fixing the clogged toilets or getting rid of dead rats. However, his out of office hours consist of him lending out his services as a sort of handyman to criminal croups, whether as an enforcer or as body disposal. Bens finance ultimately always ends with losses being made from gambling. Ben knows his job prospects are limited so the only way to make a lot of money will be to win it. 

To ben, his life ended years ago with his paranoia resulting in Ben nearly completely shutting himself off form forming any real relationship with anybody else. With the only reason to carry on being to make sure that he's able to leave something for his family, there is very little Ben is not willing to do for money. From intimidation to breaking into parishes for valuables, there's not much Ben has not done for cash. With all this in mind, Ben has no problem with how he'll be remembered after he's dead and buried, as long as he leaves something behind. Whilst ben has not had to kill yet for money, it's a thought that has crossed his mind. The only thing holding him back is the thought of no control over whose life he ends, whether the corpse in front of him will be a thug or a loving father. 

During the conflict in the Afghanistan, Bens unit came under heavy mortar fire. Seeking cover in a nearby building, the bombing caused debris to fall and knock ben unconscious resulting in him falling into a coma for several weeks. At this point of time, medical studies had suggested that is was possible for coma patients to be in a semi-conscious state, aware of their surroundings. With these studies in mind, the tv which was in Bens room was left on, playing a range mix of tv shows and films. This however had an undesired effect on ben as when he awoke from his coma, he started acting in a completely different way. It did not take long for doctors to realise that ben was fully convinced that he had lived a strange life consisting of a blend of movies stories. 

The only three people who have played a consistent role in Bens life is his ex-wife, his brother and his Daughter. While his daughter was and continues to be his primary reasoning for his drive to acquire sustainable funds, due to his delusions, Ben has driven himself to remain distant with her, bordering on estrangement. This has led to Bens closest bond being with his Brother Eric who is the only person truly aware of what Ben is doing and all of the background information behind both Bens current situation and his future plans. This has led to Ben depending on Eric massively, while not in terms of taking care of himself but more as acting as an anchor for reality. Eric is essentially the only person that Ben truly trusts and is the only one that Ben goes to when he needs acquire information that he can trust when Ben becomes confused and paranoid. 

As a child, Ben grew up around the council estates, his parents were working class so while money was always tight for the family, Ben rarely went hungry, as long as he was willing to eat things such as tripe and liver. Despite the times, his father ,Gabriel, never laid a hand on him. What his father was however was cold. It didn’t matter what Ben accomplished, what he achieved, his father never acknowledged it, as if it was always a given. Ben never knew his mother, having either died or ran off when is was a baby, his father never admitted to either. Ben school life was basic except for the fact that he constant got into fights, reviving countless canings for it. It wasn’t until joining Harrogate military school that Ben really came into his own, years spent surprising that natural animal instinct for conflict was suddenly encouraged instead of punished, and Bens ability answer any problem with violence was praised. 

Ben has only ever loved once, a has never loved another since. When he was 19, Ben, along with a few friends, was spending some time in a local pub late at night when he saw a commotion over by the bar, coming over to see the fuss, Ben had learned that another group of lads had harassed a group of girls and one had even touched one inappropriately. This was all Ben needed before smashing one of the offenders head on the bar counter. This of course erupted a fight between the two groups and just for a moment, while Ben looked back at the group of girls, all Ben saw was fear and horror etched on their faces, disgusted with the violence occurring. All except one, Emily. Instead, she wore a small smile on her face. It was right then that Ben knew he loved her.

Uncle Ben lacks mostly any real tangible fears, at least ones that are plausible for reality. With his many varied and different personalities, his fears range from the absurd to the insane. Ask any of his personalities and they’ll give you a different answer. For example, Sir Berthold Benjamin Ruckus (the naval office from the napoleonic wars) has the fear that France will prevail and that the British flag will fall from Buckingham palace where as sweet uncle Benji Ruckus (the southern plantation owner from 1923) his fear was to fall within the leathery wings of Satan and to doom his immortal soul to the fiery pits of hell. Another personality that goes by grandma Ruckus has the great fear of losing her shapely form despite the fact that she indeed a rather rotund elderly woman in her 80s. Other personalities of Uncle Ben have varying fears that usually relate to either there innate character or to something that is deeply involved with their story. The only real personality of Uncle ruckus that actually has a plausible and real fear is the original, Ben Ruckus, which is simply to let down his family, which is likely the main drive and thing that connects all his personalities together in taking on these contracts for money despite most of them not being driven by money. 

Uncle bens most prized possession is the picture of his wife and his daughter, taken when she was born. This picture is so precious to him that even though he always wants it nearby, he keeps it locked away in fear that one day it may be damaged due to his dangerous line of work. This picture has also been one the very few factors that bind all his personalities together as even though none other than the original even know the importance of those within the picture, all of them would kill and die to ensure it’s protection. Other than that, there is the various bits and baubles that each one of his personas feeling is special to them, for Sir berthold Ruckus, it’s the British flag his always keeps on his rucksack, for Sweet Benji Ruckus, it’s his leaf shaped fan and for grandma Ruckus, it’s her favourite fork, just to name a few examples.