Life Seekers (Starship Trooper; Yes)

NAME/ORIGIN
Character name	Life Seekers: Starship Trooper, Sister Bluebird, Mother Life
Song/Album	"Starship Trooper"/ The Yes Album
Act	Yes
Writer	Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, and Chris Squire
Release Date	1971
ABILITIES
Powers	The three Life Seekers each have their own powers: 1) Sister Bluebird -Flight, even to upper atmosphere "Flying high above" -Emit light (tops of wings) "Shine your wings forward to the Sun" -Can block minds from absorbing information "Hide the mysteries of life (Life?)" -Is omniscient, as far as living things, but won't reveal secrets "The mysteries of life, though you have seen them [i.e., the mysteries]" "Please don't say a word" -Knows everything known by every sentient being "What you've never known, I've never heard" 2) Starship Trooper -Flight, in starship (possibly light-powered) "Go sailing on by" -Catch souls "Catch my soul" -Capture light "Catch the very light" -Remove the sense of the passage of time, won't reveal what was missed "Hide the moment... please don't tell a soul" -Is omniscient of past events, at least back to the Ice Age "Though you've seen them [i.e, the moments]" "Speak to me of... winters longer than time can remember"  3) Mother Life -Has an inescapable grasp "Hold firmly on to me" -Knows everything you do, but won't reveal secrets "Catch my knowledge... please don't say a word" 4) All three Life Seekers -Instill/remove a sense of isolation "Loneliness is a power that we... give or take away" -Project holograms of one's thoughts (if they accept your version of things) "All I know can be shown, by your acceptance of the facts" -Bestow them ability to project one's dreams/plans this way "As I see a new day in me, I can also show it to you"
Skills	(Isn't all that enough?)
Attributes	Sister Bluebird: is solar-powered
Vulnerabilities	Starship Trooper: is blind to parts or fractions of things "What you can't see can't be very whole" Mother Life: forgets what she reveals, afterward "Lose only what you can show"
Formidability	Knowledge is power, and they have most of it, general and specific. But they are not necessarily physically strong.
Attractiveness	High. Knowing that your secrets can never be revealed makes them easier to share.
Source	N/A
Goals	Seeking life (they call themselves the Life Seekers)
POSSESSIONS
Weapons	N/A
Amulets	N/A
Objects	N/A
Clothing	N/A (Starship Trooper: militarized spacesuit (speculative))
Vehicles	Starship capable of spaceflight
Dwelling	The starship
Milieu	Another dimension or reality, possibly older than our own "Other roads"; This "land" also has access to "water," either a sea or river
BIOGRAPHY
Gender	Sister Bluebird and Mother Life: Female Starship Trooper: Male
Age	Likely immortal, at least in our terms
Physique	Sister Bluebird is a bird-like creature mostly resembling a bluebird Starship Trooper is a space-faring soldier, and is likely very fit Mother Life appears in a form considered maternal in our world
Ethnicity	Alien
Origin	"Other roads"
Ancestry	N/A
Profession	Exo-biologists-- aka "life seekers"
Education	Are near-omnisicnet
SES	N/A
Relationships	Other natives of their home world/dimension "The prouds sons and daughters than knew the knowledge of the land"
Pets	A "wurm," possibly a dragon-like creature
PERSONALITY
Morality	Good
Intro/extrovert	Extrovert. Are "seekers"
Intelligence	Near-omniscience
Emotions	Calm and welcoming
Sanity	Sane
Enemies	None. Even such creatures who do not wish to be discovered can be assured of their confidentiality.
Narrative Function	Protagonists
Other Notes	A portal opens, and a spaceship emerges and lands. Four creatures disembark. One is a menacing soldier, one is a matronly being, one is a worm-like beast, and one is... a bird. They are biologists who seek to find and mentally interact with all the life they can come across; they introduce themselves as Life Seekers. You instinctively hug the motherly one (whom you come to call Mother Life); while she is holding you in her inescapable grasp, she absorbs all your knowledge, but will never reveal anything; if she does, she forgets it. You will be unaware of the passage of time while this happens, and it will be dark all around you. This is the doing of the soldier, whose uniform so resembles those from the movie Starship Troopers you mentally name him Starship Trooper. He is busy capturing, and downloading, your soul. If you do communicate with him, you learn that he knows the entirely of history, down to the minutiae. In exchange for a copy of your soul, he will tell you anything that happened, back to the Ice Age. Last, there is a creature you can only think of as a bluebird. She holds the internal memories of all life on Earth, collected by Mother Life. Even in the general darkness created by the Trooper, you can still see the bird, as she glows. And while you ask your questions, she blocks your mind from knowing things you should not. But they also share knowledge of their world and "people." All this time, the dragon-like beast patrols the edges of the space you all occupy, to scare away the curious. Through holograms, the Seekers reveal to you things about yourself you never realized. You return the favor by projecting images of the one thing they couldn't otherwise know, because it hasn't yet happened-- your vision of your future self. Satisfied at having collected all of the data they could possibly mine from you, they leave in their spacecraft. Light returns, and you are once again aware of time. A record of all that is you has been taken, but you received amazing knowledge in return. Never have you been so intimately known, or felt more accepted; now that they have gone, deep loneliness sets in. No one may believe you... unless they have encountered the Life Seekers themselves.