Character Applications

[yhlee]

Please post character applications as comments here.

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Comments

[zuhrovet]

Yes, I meant colonized by another group on the planet (Sasha's mother is fully whatever-ethnic-group-this-is; her dad is mixed).

Probably the war was first and the organized slave trade second? Perhaps a war is happening now, in Sasha's timeline, and she doesn't realize how bad it is because she's not talking to her family much.

I like Kirr/Kirrish! Sasha probably uses a variant, like Kirtoi or Kiryevit or Kiryet. Her mother's ethnic group's name should probably sound a little bit Russian?

[yehan]

All sounds good to me! I'll leave it up to you to name Sasha's mother's ethnic group, since it will affect your character more directly. If you have any other thoughts on the colonizers' culture and history, let me know, as I haven't thought too deeply about that yet. Or anything you want to include in the colonized group too!

[zuhrovet]

Let's say Naxorian, singular Naxar!

[zuhrovet]

Also, were you envisioning the Naxorians (or Senna) as looking any particular way? I think Sasha's mother was fair-skinned and tall compared to her father, but that's not very specific. Here are some "maybe" images:

• A woman in Tokyo
  
• A Russian woman in Finland
  
• A woman near Moscow
  
• Another woman near Moscow
  
• A woman from Iran
  
• A different woman from Iran
  
• A Finnish-Iranian woman with a really cool interpretation of hijab
  

[yehan]

I didn't have anything particular in mind, so any of that is good with me!

[zuhrovet]

Fair enough!

I'm thinking Naxorians (all? in some genders?) did traditionally cover their hair in public, and Sasha's hat is an uneasy compromise with that tradition. I'll let you decide whether the hexarchate liberators considered this a tool of oppression, or just didn't care.

[zuhrovet]

[Actually Sasha's mother is 3/4 Naxorian and 1/4 Kirrish, just to get the bookkeeping straight.]