What's It Like Being One In a Million?
It's Her Job To Find Out

LONDON - Nova documentaries are a dime a dozen, but there's only one Miranda Skye.

The young London-born nova, recently erupted in January, formally announed the formation of her own production company today. Clear Skyes Productions, Ltd. has partnered with BBC Films to produce a series of documentaries on the lives of novas worldwide.

The series, entitled "One In A Million" has had thirteen episodes ordered for its first series. Each one-hour episode will be shot and edited by Miranda Letchford, AKA Miranda Skye, and each episode will focus exclusively on one nova.

Documentaries on famous novas are common on the N! worldwide network, of course, but Miranda Skye is confident she can bring a fresh face to the subject.

"I'm a nova. Not much of one, of course, but I believe that other novas will open up to me in a way that they won't to an anonymous camera. Clear Skyes Productions is, at present, me and several fact-checkers and experts on call through the OpNet, which allows for a certain clarity of vision. At the very least, the wings mean I'll be able to keep up better than Michael Moore's lard-raddled arse can."

Miranda refers to her gifts from eruption - angel wings growing out of her back that allow her to fly. Her eruption was triggered after a near-fall from her apartment balcony after taking down Christmas lights.

"Straight after, I felt a headache and went for a lie-down. I woke up the next day with a great big pair of sodding wings coming out of my back. The bus trip across town to the Rashoud clinic was the longest of my life, I'll tell you for nothing."

Miranda came up with her project while adjusting at the Rashoud clinic. She initially considered the N! Network, but ultimately went with BBC Films.

"The BBC has a reputation it well deserves, as a maker of top-notch documentaries on just about everything on this big blue ball. On N! this would run the risk of being just another series lost in the shuffle - but with BBC Films I feel the work will stand out in a crowded field. They've been stellar of course. Utterly supportive."

The subject roster for the series is being assembled. No broadcast date has been announced.



So that's why I'm here.

If any of you want to be involved in this series as a subject, let me know in this thread. If you've any question for me, this is a good place to ask.

If you're interested in me, then I'm interested in you.

*Raises her hand.* I will I will!

I would want to discuss some of the specifics with you beforehand Ms. Skye, but I think I have a few openings available in my schedule later this summer for shooting. That is if you haven't already filled up your available slots of course.

This is something that appeals to me. You can contact me at your earliest convenience.

Really? Well damn, that could be promising.

Miranda, I mentioned this to my mom and dad, but they said no. They had a couple of bad experiences with the press around here, and they try to keep us out of the spotlight as much as possible. It's kinda stupid, really - N! hangs around the school all the time, trying to talk to me, so it's not like I don't get covered by the press.

Sorry I can't be one of your million, or I guess that'd be your one of thirteen.

I'd certainly be interested in discussing the matter further; it isn't as though I lack for free time at the moment. You can find my contact information in your private message box.

Has anyone heard back from Miranda about this yet?

Lots of stuff to sort out yet, everyone. But thank you for your patience thus far.

I'm sorry, but I don't think the BBC would be too interested in me. It'd be just footage of me reading, tinkering, and going to school.

You posted just to tell us you're boring?

Yeah... I think that's how that reads. I am boring as watching paint dry.

As an avowed corporate shill I have a professional duty to get face-time on international broadcasts.

As an avowed proponent of the BBC I have an ethical duty to refrain from being a corporate shill on their programs.

If I can get my brain around that dichotomy, I'd be happy to participate.

Fair warning: In terms of excitement I'm probably in about the same category as Ms. Hideyoshi. Though, not many people are aware, paint drying actually can be fairly interesting on a chemical level.

Hey! If you still need some vict- er, subjects, color me interested.

I'd be interested in doing this too.

I'll be in your show if you can save me for the later part of the season, I don't want to come out as a nova just yet. I'm still having too much fun milking the reactions that the kids at school have had to me. At first I didn't have any powers at all when I erupted, I only got a little better looking and stronger, and smarter, but not really all that much, and people around here haven't clued into the fact that I'm a nova yet. It was like one of those movies where the girl gets a makeover and suddenly all the guys are drooling, only in my case it's the girls drying their chins.

Keep it in your fucking pants, Romeo. The kind of power you've been handed is some of the most dangerous one can have. The law is already turning a rather unkind eye to the idea of novas with "enhanced social attributes" building fucking harems around themselves. Just some friendly advice: there are already jurisdictions where getting your mack on with babes under the influence of quantum will get you the same sentence as feeding them pills and liquor.

As someone living with, as you put it, "enhanced social attributes," I both agree with your advice to Mr. Fox and find myself slightly offended by your turn of phrase. The inevitable consequence of possessing quantum enhanced beauty or charm is that "harems," as you put it, are going to assemble themselves around you whether you want them or not. Men or women walk up to you on the street, press their card or their phone number on you, or flatly beg you for dates; your choices, at that point, are either to "take advantage of them" or engage in "cold-hearted discrimination against dating baselines that suggests a nova-supremacy agenda." I'm quote both of those from common media sources, by the way.

For many of us, it isn't a gauge you can flip on or off, so much as a blinding light that's bound to attract flies in the same way any baseline celebrity does. And some of those jurisdictions you so casually throw around are writing laws that make it nearly a crime to possess quantum-boosted social talents or looks, which begins to tread dangerously close to the idea that novas are only acceptable so long as they don't make baselines too jealous of their superiority. So, William, I think you might want to be a little more careful just whose corner you're putting yourself into.

No, I don't. I know what I said, and I said what I meant. I was cautioning the kid against racking up a few dozen sexual assault charges. Frequently "powers" don't even enter the equation: you find some lass to shack up with, and as soon as the night's over she decides that maybe the encounter wasn't so consensual, and you're suddenly up to your eyeballs in shit. It doesn't take being nova beautiful or nova charming for that to happen. Mind you, I've got nothing but sympathy for rape victims and nothing but hatred for rapists, but this does happen, and a young guy who can get any girl he wants may find those young ladies not quite so excited about the encounter the day after. Even if you can dodge the legal ramifications of that, do you want to have to go through the process? The charges still get filed, you still get arrested, you may still go to trial. And being found 'Not Guilty' of aggravated sexual assault is only a cunt hair better than being found 'Guilty', as I'm sure you know already. More to the fucking point, how are you going to feel after you find out that Cindy Lou Who only let your uncircumcised nova dong into her tender, pink, virginal, baseline vagoo because she was under the effects of quantum and now feels cheapened and disgusted with herself for what she did?

Bottom line, I'm telling him exactly what I said: keep it in your fucking pants. This line of bullshit sophistry you're giving me about freedom and rights may work with an adult woman, but we're talking about a teenage boy, here. I know that you got virtually no grasp on what that's like, but trust me: given the opportunity to nail every broad in the world, most of us are weak enough to do just that.

On consideration, I concede I probably over-reacted. Your advice to Fox remains sound: restraint, especially for a teenage boy, is almost never a bad idea. A great deal of unpleasantness about this sort of thing, including having my career put on hold because of it's implications for oral arguments in court, has perhaps made me a little too quick on the trigger with defending against wider implications.

Mr. Fox: Pay very careful attention to what William just told you. Trust me when I tell you that your good intentions are of exactly zero interest to the United States legal system, and that you will definitely not be holding the best cards should a situation like that arise.

First of all, get your mind out of the gutter! I meant that they were wiping drool off their chins.

Second, I don't have ANY enhanced social powers or anything like that, except for a little extra Strength I have nothing at all that would even prove that I am a nova. So the girls that are into me right now are because I'm pretty decent looking and I display a little self confidence, more so than the average boy my age. Nothing sinister about it. I'm not using any evil mojo to get into some girls pants. I'm not the most popular boy in school, or the captain of the football team or anything like that.

I do hear you though, and even though I can do something doesn't mean I will. I have enjoyed myself a few times since I erupted, but then I did a little before eruption too so, there's nothing new there. I am always careful though and wouldn't ever take someone against their will, that's just wrong. 'If a girl wouldn't mess around with you when she's sober, you shouldn't mess around with her when she's drunk.' That's something my uncle told me once and it seems pretty wise to me.

Of course, there is this one girl that I do want, and I am going to have her eventually, in fact I think I will start a new thread asking for advice about that. Feel free to chime in with advice there, especially if it is constructive.

A little extra strength libido...

Look, I made a funny.

Wow, guess I'm lucky I didn't get superpretty. I'm still good ol me. Does that mean my collection of trim and tail is law-abiding?

That'd be funny as fuck.

Sound thoughts, kid. Sorry if it seemed I was cutting your balls off, there. I just meant to strongly caution you against maybe getting yourself into a world of trouble and hurting a lot of other people in the process. It sounds like you've got a decent head on your shoulders, so make of mine and Rena's advice what you will. It's good advice to anyone who escaped their eruption with exaggerated social attributes.



"Power is the great aphrodisiac."
-Henry Kissinger

You know, I saw a picture of that Kissinger guy in History, and the crazy thing is the teacher said he actually had women throw themselves at him just because of his position, even looking the way he did. That's some crazy shit right there.

Not as crazy as you think. As men, we're biologically hotwired to chase after young and beautiful woman with good birthing characteristics, which is why you generally see men checking out younger women. When we cheat, it's usually with younger women, too. It makes sense: we're compelled to breed, and to breed with the fittest mates possible. In the case of women, our species selected for traits like big asses, big breats, and youth - so you could be more assured that you were the first one planting your seed.
Conversely, broads select for things like intelligence and attraction to some extent, but most of all, what they're looking for with their lizard brain is a thug who can defend the cave. That's why nice guys finish last and guys in their fifties can still hook up with girls in college. Women generally are attracted to a man with power, then money, then physical fitness and intellect.

Natch, none of this is a solid rule. Just a guideline based on thousands of years of natural selection. But I tell you, Fox, when I paid attention to this shit in high school, it made the rest of my dating life in high school a lot easier. You don't have to be a bad guy: but understanding what most women are subconsciously attracted to helps.

Odysseus is right about natural selection and its effects on human evolutionary developement. He left one part out for a male, and that is that men have an urge to spread their seed to as many females as possible. This increases their chances of producing offspring before some other male kills him to do the same thing.

Women select a man who will ensure the survival of her and her offspring...At least from an ingrained biological approach. A man with power and money and physical fitness (healthy), and intellect are all affirmative factors in ensuring that the children will reach maturity and be fitter than their competitors. To quote Odysseus "a thug who can defend the cave". I would say that in the modern human society, intellect has become a bigger factor than in the past.

To my female readers: It's not personal, it's just evolution.

Right you are, doc. I didn't think it necessary to include the uglier parts, but there you are.

In fact, just because it's what genes prompt us to do doesn't mean we have to. One of the cool things about being sentient is having a choice about whether to obey our genes or not. Biologically speaking, no man would ever have step-children, ever, and I wouldn't still find Cybil Shepherd painfully hot.

It turns out that trying to shoot a documentary when you can fly and everyone knows it is difficult. Getting people to act natural and pay no attention to the camerawoman has proven difficult.

That said, I'm interested in (from this thread, and in no particular order)

Fianna
Flicker
Salamander
Ryusei
Whoever Mister Fox might be

I've also lined up one or two other novas, which I'm keeping mum on at present. I'm also going to assume that people posting in this thread that haven't specifically mentioned interest have none.

Bearing in mind that nothing personal is intended by anyone being left off of the list; this is a series, after all, and I'm trying to capture a wide variety of subjects. The BBC has thankfully been lovely in my choice of subject matter but they do still have to account for this being my first major project. (I shot a ten minute student film on the history of bookbinding. Don't bother looking for it on YouTube because it's terrible.)

Fantastic!

I'll send my contact info to you ASAP, and I'm really looking forward to meeting you.

When do we begin?

I'm Daniel Fox, and I live in Dallas, Tx. The only thing secret about me at the moment is that I am a nova. Thanks for including me in your list. I think it will be fun.

You are fortunate that we respect your privacy here. With the information that we have, one of us could easily track you down and expose you to the media. They pay very well for a breaking story like that.

I can only shoot one person at a time, and Fianna was the first to respond, so she'll be the first one on the shooting schedule. I'll work things out with the rest of you later on. Thanks for responding, all of you.

Well, folks, things have changed. The head of BBC Original Programming has resigned and his replacement isn't too keen on trying to compete with N! - especially with a first-time filmmaker. They've exercised my buyout option and I've been paid for the work I've done, but I'm out of a job.

I'm sure I can land on my feet - there's lots of things to shoot in this world. But I'm sorry that I've let people down by building this up.