Manon Visser

Captain of the Scythe.

## Appearance & Personality

On the surface, Manon is confident and a little cocky, not afraid to take a few risks. However she's also a little clumsy or forgetful at times, and more than a little insecure in her relationships with people. She’s a bit nerdy but also a Very Cool pilot. Owns a lizard named Puck. Disaster bisexual.

## History

Born on Nomia; her mother Elske, raised her aboard her ship Duck for the first few years of her life before placing her in a boarding school on Nomia. Elske returned several times a year to see Manon, often whisking her away on sudden mother-daughter vacations. Manon both loved these vacations and wished her mom could be a steadier presence in her life. From a young age, she wanted to be a pilot like her mom.

When Elske brought back stories of her new business & romantic partner Richard, Manon campaigned to be introduced to him properly, but Elske always put it off; she and Richard had only two significant meetings. When the Coalition invaded Nomia, Elske didn't tell her daughter before leaving to join the rebels, but rather let Richard try to explain Elske's absence. Manon gave him an angry letter to give to her mom. A year later, when the war ended and she was 15, Manon received news that her mother was a rebel who'd been killed in the final battle by her own ship. Grieving and unable to believe this story, Manon repeatedly tried to write to Richard, who'd received a commendation in the battle, but received no response.

Manon graduated university with a bachelor's degree in science, then went to a year-long flight school on Vanoth. Although she was great at flying, Manon punched another student and later failed her exam testing her emotional regulation. Manon successfully faked her exam results and went to another planet to do her flight hours. About four years ago, she took her first job as the Scythe's pilot.

## Quotes

### Episode 0

* "Shit, shit, shit." (0.2, first line)
* "I’m glad only one of us is a disaster." (0.2)
* "I can be *cool."* (0.2)
* "I spy… uh, with my very human, short-sighted and *limited* eye… Something white." (0.5)

### Episode 1

* "They’re not as cool as I am." (1.2)
* "I’m making jokes, please don’t report this conversation." (1.2)

### Episode 3

* "Rules are all well and good to a certain degree, but, if you can’t bend them every now and then..." (3.1)

### Episode 4

* "It’ll be easy for me to, like, shake it off and talk myself out of it completely, it’ll be fine." (4.2)
* (about Ollie) "What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him." (4.2)

### Episode 5

* "I’m not just gonna sit around waiting and just being bored and… by myself." (5.1)
* "What, you think- you think I’m trying to talk to- to-t-to someone who fought for the *fucking military that blew my mom up?"* (5.2)
* "You were right, I wasn’t very good at lying, *at all*." (5.3)
* "I mean, I *am* the coolest kid, it’s just, not everyone knows it." (5.4)

### Episode 7

* "If there's anything I can do, I'm not ever going to let *anyone* make you forget *anything, ever again."* (7.2)

### Episode 9

* "It’s Manon, your *favourite* captain." (9.6)

### Episode 10

* "Yeah, she always has her reasons. ‘Sorry I missed your birthday because’… ‘sorry I’… yeah, no… ‘sorry I missed the holidays’, well let’s go pull you out of school for a month right before tests are due because we can go do something fun now and… now I’m gonna be gone for another however long and I’m not gonna *tell you* when I’ll be back or *why I’m going* or *what’s going on…"* (10.1)
* "Why not *me*? Why’d she *leave me*?" (10.3)
* "God, it feels… I know why she went, just… it sounds selfish, but just *once* I wish I could have come first." (10.3)

### Episode 11

* "I have no idea what’s going on, really, in that, at all." (11.1)
* "We’re gonna get out of here, and no one will ever fuck with either of us again." (11.1)

### Episode 12

* "Well, that's alright, you don't have to be *my* friend, but I'm yours." (12.2)
* "I know what it’s like to… feel alone. And I know what it’s like to not have people around that you can… trust or talk to or anything, and um, that’s not a good place to be." (12.6)

### Episode 13

* "I guess I’m just used to people leaving." (13.2)
* "Anyway, like, I’m rambling—" (13.2)
* "*Too bad* for Agent Oliver because I’m gonna try and be his friend *anyway.* He’ll just have to deal with that." (13.2)
* "I loved her, but… is it… does it make me a bad person if sometimes I’m angry?" (13.2)
* "I was never really good at… dealing with any of it, I just, I just didn’t deal with any of it." (13.2)

### Episode 14

* "How do you go through life without people who… love you and who you love and who you can talk to?" (14.1)
* "Man, I get so... get so mad sometimes, at things." (14.5)

### Episode 17

* “Look… I thought I was alone for a really long time, and then… fifteen years later… someone I thought I’d never see again, didn’t even know if I’d want to see… Well. Just ‘cause it all seems... it doesn’t mean you’re never gonna see them again.” (17.3)
* “I don't know, maybe it's easier thinking about... the-the - the end of it, instead of everything that comes before then” (17.4)

### Episode 19

* (To Scy) "Remember when I first… when I first got this job? I was… I was thinking. I mean, I’d been looking around for pilot jobs for a- a bit, um, and- and I got this one, and I was thinking I was just gonna, I was gonna work here and… and… *save up* and then maybe get, um, a ship of my own someday, and then I met *you* and… and this felt like *home?"* (19.5)
* “The more you care about people, the more it hurts.” (19.5)

### Episode 20

* "Hey, I’m nothing if not honest. Well, mostly, I mean I lied to you, like, a lot when we first met." (20.3)
* "Things work a lot better trying to cook with Scy because Scy just tells me, ‘Manon, please, go back to the soup.’ ‘No, you don’t need to add the salt, you already did.’ Yeah. So. Have you ever had the experience where you’re adding ingredients and you forgot that you added one and you go and you add it again and then you have way too much of one because you were, like, in the middle and you got distracted and then you put in the wrong amount?" (20.3)
* "Please don’t leave me here with Agent Williams forever, I will die. Or she will. One of us will." (20.3)

### Episode 21

* (To Williams) “So, what you’re saying is you’re a shit cook and you don’t know how to do it and you’re just basically incapable of whipping up a meal for three people even with, like, the most basic of recipes.” (21.4)

### Episode 22

* “You never know when the last time you're gonna see someone is.” (22.1)
* “Yeah, like, who knows how many people and stations and planets and ships are out there, and- and what any of it’s like and…” (22.1)

### Episode 23

* (About Scy) "It’s- it’s like having a- a best-best  friend, and someone who’s always got your back and you’ve got- you’ve got their back and then they make fun of you sometimes for, uh, well, forgetting to, um, take the, uh, soup off the stove." (23.3)
* (To Ava) "You’re- you’re amazing, so, you’re gonna... Yeah, I mean if you’re not waiting around for me you’re probably gonna meet someone who’s better than- anyway, um-" (23.5)

### Episode 27

* "Are you like the rest of the agents around here or do you know how to cook?" (27.2)
* "Yep, sure, nice to uh, yep, you know, I’m not gonna ask questions anymore. That’s f-fine." (27.2)

### Episode 28

* (While freaking out) "I’m not freaking *out*, I’m not freaking out." (28.1)
* "It’s not- I mean, it’s- it’s- it’s fine, um, so it’s not a big- it’s not that *important?* Um, and... Uhh, *anyway*, it’s, um... I- I need to go and- and- and, uh, get some- some breakfast, uh, do you want breakfast? There’s eggs apparently in the cafeteria. We could go get some breakfast." (28.1)

### Episode 29

* "Absolutely, he’s going to die if they die, that’s the rules. If the plants die, Jack dies." (29.1)
* "Well, I just, I- if I do it faster then it’s done faster and then I am done with what I’m supposed to do and I get to just sit here. And watch the bread cook." (29.1)
* "They're gonna leave. And, so, it's just... […] Everyone does. It- it's- they- they'll have other stuff- things to do, and it's not like they're gonna hang out here forever... And it's- it's fine. (29.3)
* "You know, I- I just- I just- I wanted to, you know, I was coming and- and I thought I was gonna have, you know, a good time, cause I thought it'd be fun and- and, you know, I should go out and meet people and- and- and- and talk to them and make, like, my like- like- like friends, and, but, you know, it's- it's really hard to- to- people, and- and- and it's- and it's hard to, cause it's complicated and people are just... and, you know..." (29.4)
* (Not fine) "Yeah, it's- it's fine, an- and I'm fine, I don't- and I'm fine, I'm okay, um..." (29.5)