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Names: Full name - Naiiri of the second house of Simaru; latterly, Nai (“Nye”)
Appearance:
Naiiri is fairly plain in terms of looks and colours, for a Kiravai, but more than a little unusual. Her skin is a soft “manganese beige” in colour, her feathers a deeper brown, and her eyes a probing pale royal blue. She is a little taller than average, but otherwise not unusual.
Her feathers are what make her distinctive – once luxuriant and soft and slightly curling, they were “genetically clipped” and are now short and bristly, almost “buzz-cut” in appearance. This causes her great shame and has led to her spending a great fortune on wigs and hats and pieces of jewellery to hide what she calls her “baldness”.
Persona:
Naiiri is a soft-hearted individual, very strongly driven by her conscience; since she was a child she saw it as her moral duty to help those who could not help themselves, and since almost all modern Kiravai are at least moderately affluent this (in her case) meant the highly oppressed Leriivai.
A review of how she saw her world was in order after seeing (and experiencing firsthand) some of the very worst her people were capable of, however – working for “the good of the people” was no longer enough once it became crystal clear to her that the “animals” were not so stupid as doctrine suggested, and that her own species were capable of equally cruel, animalistic behaviours. These days she sees everyone as equal, whoever they are, and is happy to help anyone that asks.
Like all her kind, Naiiri is a little vain – for Kiravai, it comes with the territory! – but this too has been moderated by the time she spent as part of the Herd on Shuuva colony. (After all, it is hard to be very proud of your appearance when all you have to wear are dingy, over-laundered over-repaired clothes that have passed through a dozen owners already.) Her behaviour stems mostly from her desire not to let on about her baldness; she spends 99% of her waking hours wearing wigs and/or hats, even when alone – she does not like being reminded of her secret shame, and wearing a hairpiece lessens the impact of seeing her reflection.
Brief history:
Although most Kiravai are genetically predisposed to be fairly intelligent, Naiiri is the archetypal “child prodigy”, and (as the daughter of an influential government minister and respected cardiology consultant) the money was readily available to buy the best education for her.
Her parents recognised her potential very early on, and she was intensively schooled from the age of two; she attained a doctorate in general medicine and specialist degrees (both with honours) in advanced genetics and reproductive sciences at only thirteen years old. *
By the age of eighteen, she had attained a consultant’s position in Shuuva colony, where she was responsible for the general health and reproductive wellbeing of the Herd, much to her parent’s disappointment. They had hoped she would have been earning a phenomenal wage as a consultant to childless, infertile Kiravai on one of the older, better established colonies, but she saw it as her duty to care for the “animals” that no-one else wanted to look after.
It was while working on Shuuva colony that she made the one critical error that triggered her painful fall from grace; she refused the advances of High Commissar Diheevi’s personal guard, a cob (with a list of offences after his name as long as he was tall) by the name of Nivill. He took great offence to it, saw it as a challenge to his virility, and with his close friend Hinvii decided to teach the “overpriced, impudent little Breedling” a lesson. The two males fabricated a long list of supposed “offences and deviances” that they would later claim Naiiri had done, to prevent her from arguing her corner, then cornered her in her lab late one evening, where they sexually assaulted her. Claiming it was a “punishment” for her behaviour, and that she had not only approached them but been “playing with herself with her equipment” on the evening in question, she found herself without ground to stand on.
Master Riiva – the well-respected and moderate older cob in ultimate control of the colony – found himself trapped, and forced into making an unpleasant decision. Should he let her off, the High Commissar (the notorious Dominae Diheevi, a vicious rival) would have immediately moved to have Riiva removed from office, which would have led to far greater civil rights violations across the colony as a whole. Necessity dictated that the unproven and untrue allegations against Naiiri be taken as truth (especially with the wealth of “evidence” the two guards supplied), and she was “reassigned” into the Herd, where she spent a good few months as a labourer in a cobalt mine.
She currently works at the University of New Life on Ondra, where she is a teacher-practitioner and professor at (and major sponsor of) the Institute of New Genetics, teaching advanced IVF and techniques in promotion of fertility. She is also a medical practitioner at the university hospital, where she works in Maty&Gynae.
Notes:
Although she has no current partner, Naiiri has two children; fraternal (nonidentical) twins, one male and one female. The boy is an Heiramu cob (mixed blood), silver of skin with pale brown eyes and brown hair, called Shemiru (or just “Shemi” for short). The girl is a perfect Kiravai pen, with pale gold skin and blue-green eyes, called Mhairi (“VAA-rhee”), which is in fact an Ondran name meaning “born of sunshine”; she has yet to grow in her adult feathers, instead having downy beige fluff like most infants.
She has no partner, and currently has no desire for one; past events have rather soured her to the idea.
* years are given in Imperial time, i.e. each year is 1.5 times the length of an Earthly year. Thus, she would have been almost 20 at completion of her degree had she been on Earth.
Names: Full name - Naiiri of the second house of Simaru; latterly, Nai (“Nye”)
Appearance:
Naiiri is fairly plain in terms of looks and colours, for a Kiravai, but more than a little unusual. Her skin is a soft “manganese beige” in colour, her feathers a deeper brown, and her eyes a probing pale royal blue. She is a little taller than average, but otherwise not unusual.
Her feathers are what make her distinctive – once luxuriant and soft and slightly curling, they were “genetically clipped” and are now short and bristly, almost “buzz-cut” in appearance. This causes her great shame and has led to her spending a great fortune on wigs and hats and pieces of jewellery to hide what she calls her “baldness”.
Persona:
Naiiri is a soft-hearted individual, very strongly driven by her conscience; since she was a child she saw it as her moral duty to help those who could not help themselves, and since almost all modern Kiravai are at least moderately affluent this (in her case) meant the highly oppressed Leriivai.
A review of how she saw her world was in order after seeing (and experiencing firsthand) some of the very worst her people were capable of, however – working for “the good of the people” was no longer enough once it became crystal clear to her that the “animals” were not so stupid as doctrine suggested, and that her own species were capable of equally cruel, animalistic behaviours. These days she sees everyone as equal, whoever they are, and is happy to help anyone that asks.
Like all her kind, Naiiri is a little vain – for Kiravai, it comes with the territory! – but this too has been moderated by the time she spent as part of the Herd on Shuuva colony. (After all, it is hard to be very proud of your appearance when all you have to wear are dingy, over-laundered over-repaired clothes that have passed through a dozen owners already.) Her behaviour stems mostly from her desire not to let on about her baldness; she spends 99% of her waking hours wearing wigs and/or hats, even when alone – she does not like being reminded of her secret shame, and wearing a hairpiece lessens the impact of seeing her reflection.
Brief history:
Although most Kiravai are genetically predisposed to be fairly intelligent, Naiiri is the archetypal “child prodigy”, and (as the daughter of an influential government minister and respected cardiology consultant) the money was readily available to buy the best education for her.
Her parents recognised her potential very early on, and she was intensively schooled from the age of two; she attained a doctorate in general medicine and specialist degrees (both with honours) in advanced genetics and reproductive sciences at only thirteen years old. *
By the age of eighteen, she had attained a consultant’s position in Shuuva colony, where she was responsible for the general health and reproductive wellbeing of the Herd, much to her parent’s disappointment. They had hoped she would have been earning a phenomenal wage as a consultant to childless, infertile Kiravai on one of the older, better established colonies, but she saw it as her duty to care for the “animals” that no-one else wanted to look after.
It was while working on Shuuva colony that she made the one critical error that triggered her painful fall from grace; she refused the advances of High Commissar Diheevi’s personal guard, a cob (with a list of offences after his name as long as he was tall) by the name of Nivill. He took great offence to it, saw it as a challenge to his virility, and with his close friend Hinvii decided to teach the “overpriced, impudent little Breedling” a lesson. The two males fabricated a long list of supposed “offences and deviances” that they would later claim Naiiri had done, to prevent her from arguing her corner, then cornered her in her lab late one evening, where they sexually assaulted her. Claiming it was a “punishment” for her behaviour, and that she had not only approached them but been “playing with herself with her equipment” on the evening in question, she found herself without ground to stand on.
Master Riiva – the well-respected and moderate older cob in ultimate control of the colony – found himself trapped, and forced into making an unpleasant decision. Should he let her off, the High Commissar (the notorious Dominae Diheevi, a vicious rival) would have immediately moved to have Riiva removed from office, which would have led to far greater civil rights violations across the colony as a whole. Necessity dictated that the unproven and untrue allegations against Naiiri be taken as truth (especially with the wealth of “evidence” the two guards supplied), and she was “reassigned” into the Herd, where she spent a good few months as a labourer in a cobalt mine.
She currently works at the University of New Life on Ondra, where she is a teacher-practitioner and professor at (and major sponsor of) the Institute of New Genetics, teaching advanced IVF and techniques in promotion of fertility. She is also a medical practitioner at the university hospital, where she works in Maty&Gynae.
Notes:
Although she has no current partner, Naiiri has two children; fraternal (nonidentical) twins, one male and one female. The boy is an Heiramu cob (mixed blood), silver of skin with pale brown eyes and brown hair, called Shemiru (or just “Shemi” for short). The girl is a perfect Kiravai pen, with pale gold skin and blue-green eyes, called Mhairi (“VAA-rhee”), which is in fact an Ondran name meaning “born of sunshine”; she has yet to grow in her adult feathers, instead having downy beige fluff like most infants.
She has no partner, and currently has no desire for one; past events have rather soured her to the idea.
* years are given in Imperial time, i.e. each year is 1.5 times the length of an Earthly year. Thus, she would have been almost 20 at completion of her degree had she been on Earth.
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Date: 9 Sep 2006 03:22 am (UTC)Hmm... how many characters do you have without troubled pasts, anyway?
She sounds both bitter and merciful. Interesting. Thanks for the notes on relative time and such.
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Date: 9 Sep 2006 11:20 pm (UTC)Um, I'll have to get back to you on that. But let's fac it, they'd be BORING... ;)
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Date: 10 Sep 2006 04:59 am (UTC)Just keep in mind not everyone can have a tortured past. It gets hard to keep them original after a while.
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Date: 10 Sep 2006 10:28 am (UTC)