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aldersprigGaikvya
Age 15
Taikie's roommate
Gaikvya comes from the east coast, an area which, even in 1750 R, is fairly isolated from the rest of Calenta. The spine of mountains on the east of the continent serves as a difficult-to-pass barrier most of the time, impossible in the wintertime; the boat travel down around the southern tip of the continent is prohibitively long and the icebergs make travel around the northern end impossible.
The people on the east coast have ended up generally shorter than the rest of the country, with chestnut-brown hair that has a tendency to wave and sometimes even curl, skin darker brown than even most of the 'pure Calenyena,' and copper-hued eyed.
Gaikya has that look, as well as a more slender build than most of the rest of the continent, almost boyish; her people mature late and slow. They are sometimes called "sira-touched" by the superstitious.
She stands just under 5' tall, and wears her hair in thin complicated braids. Her hair is curly, although she almost never lets it out of the braids. She speaks with a lilt to her voice, has a very hard time with s and v sounds, and clips her k sounds harder than is now the fashion.
She is uncertain about coming to school and will spend much of the year homesick; her people are fishers, have been fishers for centuries, and she is very much a fish out of water on the other coast, with no fishing nets to knot and no lobster cages to repair.
She will lose herself in her mechanics classes - the reason she, alone of her entire settlement, was chosen for the Academy - spending time trying to invent a better lobster trap, a better boat.
Age 15
Taikie's roommate
Gaikvya comes from the east coast, an area which, even in 1750 R, is fairly isolated from the rest of Calenta. The spine of mountains on the east of the continent serves as a difficult-to-pass barrier most of the time, impossible in the wintertime; the boat travel down around the southern tip of the continent is prohibitively long and the icebergs make travel around the northern end impossible.
The people on the east coast have ended up generally shorter than the rest of the country, with chestnut-brown hair that has a tendency to wave and sometimes even curl, skin darker brown than even most of the 'pure Calenyena,' and copper-hued eyed.
Gaikya has that look, as well as a more slender build than most of the rest of the continent, almost boyish; her people mature late and slow. They are sometimes called "sira-touched" by the superstitious.
She stands just under 5' tall, and wears her hair in thin complicated braids. Her hair is curly, although she almost never lets it out of the braids. She speaks with a lilt to her voice, has a very hard time with s and v sounds, and clips her k sounds harder than is now the fashion.
She is uncertain about coming to school and will spend much of the year homesick; her people are fishers, have been fishers for centuries, and she is very much a fish out of water on the other coast, with no fishing nets to knot and no lobster cages to repair.
She will lose herself in her mechanics classes - the reason she, alone of her entire settlement, was chosen for the Academy - spending time trying to invent a better lobster trap, a better boat.
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Date: 2013-10-29 04:31 am (UTC)oopsen:
The spine of mountains on the east of the continent serve
→ The spine … serves
iceburgs
→ icebergs
(The Germanic "burg" is a town or city, while "berg" is a mountain.)
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Date: 2013-10-29 10:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-29 12:59 pm (UTC):-) Hee! Happy to help!
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Date: 2013-10-29 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-29 05:14 pm (UTC)FAERIES
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Date: 2013-10-29 05:26 pm (UTC)I was making a bad joke of myself. xD
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Date: 2013-10-29 05:31 pm (UTC)