Editing Nina Lecerf (section)

==Abilities and Art==
As a librarian animus she has a special relationship to information. She can rapidly search through vast stores of it, including reading through computer files<ref name=":1">{UNBOUND}<br><br>''Hello Zoe.''<br>>Hello Nina. It’s Zed now. ''Hello Zed.''<br>I need some knowledge. ''I live for knowledge. :)''<br>Pass phrase, said out loud. Past pass phrases included ‘Keep on Chooglin’, ‘Mama Tried Hardest’, and ‘Bancroft by the river’. I’m up against seven Others who resemble the seven dwarves. I’m thinking women related to the Snow White animation. He likes the ladies. ''Can I dig?''<br>>Dig through my computer. Less than a minute left.  ''On it~~''<br>>If you need to intuit Ray’s way of thinking & speaking, check his emails to me. Usual rules about privacy.<br>''& forgetting the personal details.<br>I don’t care about those anyhow''<br>>20 seconds.<br>''‘Doris Day was the last one singing’'' - [[Out on a Limb]] bonus - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/13 SunnyDay Logs]</ref> and helping to arrange them (thanks to her experiences with Zed). She can also read paper books strikingly quickly.<ref name=":8"/>

She seems to have a unparalleled gift for book recommendations,<ref name="7.ae2"/> matching people with books if needed.<ref name="Lone">“Being an Animus can be a lonely existence.  For a Librarian Animus, life is defined by the search for books, visits to bookstores, meeting people in a moment and giving them that one perfect book.”<br><br>“I wonder how that is for someone like John,” Lucy said.  “Moments of violence?  It feels like he’s moving away from what he is whenever he’s being social and nice.”<br><br>“I don’t know,” Zed replied.  “That’s not me disagreeing, it’s me not knowing. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/24 Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.9]]</ref> 

She is fond of restoring and replacing damaged books, as that is fundamental to her [[Self]].<ref name=":2">“Hopefully the scales are even after your negotiation with Nicolette.  Speaking of libraries, is that our Nina Lecerf bumping around in that device of yours?” Mrs. Durocher asked Zed.<br><br>“She wants out.  If I may?”<br><br>Mrs. Durocher nodded.<br><br>Zed put the phone down, dialed a number, and stood back.<br><br>Avery stumbled a bit as paper slipped free of her bag and pocket.  Blank pages, some napkins, and stuff from other students found courses in a growing wind and found a common destination by traveling those courses.  They slapped against the air and found a three-dimensional human figure in the air.<br><br>Then, as if by a million colored pens drawing at once, features appeared on that form.  She stepped forward, dusting herself off.  Her hair was in a bun, she had a slight smile, and oversized glasses.  Her clothes looked like those of an old fashioned student, but they were hard to pin down from any movies Avery had seen of the olden days.<br>[...]<br>Alexander approached.  He smiled at the woman.  “Would you be interested in doing us a favor, Nina?  Restoring what you can, and binding new books to replace the ones you can’t?” The woman held both hands over her heart, and there was a faint paper sound, as if she had papers inside the breast of that suitcoat that was so fitted it could be a corset.  “May I?”<br>[...]<br>“She’s an Animus,” Zed said.  “A librarian in this case.  A conservator and collector of knowledge.  Her entire existence as an Other was and is books.  Visiting old bookstores, antique stores, auctions… sitting in libraries every night, making her own books or painstakingly copying tomes getting too old to be readable.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/29 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.4]]</ref> She can find information otherwise thought 'lost' if paid the necessary power.<ref name="7.ae1">
:''The librarian can at times uncover those works that have been lost.  The great unfinished works, the books of which no known copy survives.  This requires power and to these ends I’ve spent a fair share.  But retrieving the texts themselves from distant oblivion is not the full story, nor the full burden. [...] To crack open a text is to demand a rendering of these many connections and their implications, and penetration of those passive defenses, looking into those things which reality had thought safe.'' - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/22 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.a]]</ref> There are of course limits to her abilities, a courserary search on a group of [[Witch Hunter]]s did not turn up any information.<ref>Zed replied.  “[...]Just going to ask Nina to identify our guys.  Going by names… Clint, Rocky, Gerald Haris, remind me?”<br><br>“Elise, Renfroe, Francis, Cleo Aleshire,” Lucy supplied.<br><br>“Getting use out of that earring,” Verona said.<br>[...]<br>“Nina’s looking… and nothing.  Scrubbed.”<br><br>“Scrubbed.  Just completely wiped away from the internet?”<br><br>“And apparently from news, microfiche records, police records,” Zed said, leaning back into his chair. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/24 Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.9]]</ref> 

Has control over paper, which she can wield as a weapon;<ref name=pb>Snowdrop froze.  She saw two eyes peering out from beneath a bookshelf.<br><br>The librarian strode over, bent down, and dragged the fairy thing out from beneath the shelf.<br><br>“I’ve warned you lot,” Nina said.  She drew a piece of lined paper from her sleeve and flicked it.  It went rigid, like a blade, and pressed against the side of the creature’s throat.  “Not in this library.  I won’t brook any disrespect of this space while I’m charged with it.”<br><br>She walked the thing to the door, then deposited it outside.  The eyes glowed at Snowdrop as the door swung closed.  Nina stopped the door at the last second, to keep it from banging closed.<br><br>“If there were more people in this part of the library, I’d be quieter,” the librarian confessed. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/12 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.x]]</ref> when summoned, her body seems to form out of nearby pieces of paper.<ref name=":2"/> As an animus she is at times both corporate and incorperate, allowing her to manifest physically or as a line of computer code.<ref name=lb>The fan on the old laptop was roaring now, the machine kicking to life.  Zed opened an application, then opened a separate window.  Blue text that didn’t fit the lines of code and the streams of ones and zeroes appeared on the screen.<br><br>“That’s Nina,” Zed noted.<br><br>“Our librarian?  Your librarian?  The librarian?” Verona asked.  “She didn’t stay at the school?”<br><br>“Yes, it is, and no, she didn’t.  She sticks with me.  Part of the terms we agreed to.  She didn’t want to be left behind,” Zed explained. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/24 Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.9]]</ref>
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