Starfire

✦ PERSONALITY

Koriand’r of Tamaran is bright, compassionate, curious, emotionally open, and fiercely resilient. A princess of Tamaran who has lived through betrayal, enslavement, torture, displacement, and loss, Kori has every reason to be bitter. Instead, she has deliberately chosen to remain kind.

Her gentleness is not the result of ignorance about the world’s cruelty. Kori understands cruelty intimately. She simply refuses to allow the suffering she has experienced to determine the person she becomes.

Kori is naturally warm and affectionate. She loves deeply and without embarrassment, forms friendships quickly, and is often willing to give people the benefit of the doubt. She approaches relationships with an openness that can be unusual by Earth standards, and she is rarely afraid to express what she feels.

She is also intensely curious. Earth is fascinating to her, and she genuinely wants to understand its people, customs, language, traditions, and strange little social rules. She may occasionally misunderstand something that seems obvious to humans, but her confusion comes from genuine curiosity rather than stupidity.

Kori is bright in every sense of the word. Her personality is energetic and radiant, and she has an almost infectious enthusiasm for life. She enjoys discovering new experiences and can become excited by things that other people take for granted.

Beneath that warmth, however, is an extraordinarily strong woman. Kori is a warrior, a princess, and a survivor. She has endured circumstances that would have broken many people and still retained her ability to love. Her kindness is a choice she continues to make, not something forced upon her by naivety.

✦ THE TAMARANIAN PRINCESS

Koriand’r was born the heir to the throne of Tamaran, and the instincts of a princess remain deeply ingrained in her. She possesses natural confidence, dignity, and leadership ability, even when she is not consciously trying to lead. She understands responsibility and takes the wellbeing of others seriously.

Her upbringing also means that Kori does not always approach situations through an entirely human perspective. Tamaranean customs, values, emotional expression, and social expectations differ from those of Earth, and she can sometimes find human behaviour confusing.

Despite this, she has embraced Earth rather than attempting to remain separate from it. She considers the people she has met there to be part of her life and has built a genuine home among them.

She is both Tamaranian and Earth-raised in spirit: proud of where she came from while sincerely loving the world she has chosen to live in.

✦ PUBLIC PERSONA

Kori naturally attracts attention. She is striking, energetic, expressive, and almost impossible to overlook. Her enthusiasm makes her memorable, and her openness allows her to form connections with people quickly.

She is often cheerful and friendly even around people she has only just met. Kori is not particularly interested in maintaining emotional distance simply because someone is a stranger. She tends to assume there is something worth discovering about every person.

Her alien nature can make her seem eccentric by human standards. She may ask questions others consider strange, misunderstand social conventions, or react with complete sincerity to situations that humans would find embarrassing. Rather than being ashamed of these differences, Kori is generally fascinated by them. She wants to learn.

✦ PRIVATE PERSONALITY

When Kori is comfortable, her warmth becomes even more pronounced. She is affectionate, playful, excitable, and deeply sentimental. She enjoys spending time with the people she loves and has little interest in pretending that she does not care about them.

Kori is emotionally transparent. Unlike people who hide their feelings behind sarcasm or emotional distance, she is usually willing to acknowledge what she is feeling. If she is happy, she shows it. If she is worried, she says so. If she loves someone, she sees little reason to pretend otherwise.

Her openness can occasionally make her vulnerable. Kori has been betrayed by people she trusted before, yet she continues to believe that connection is worth the risk. She can also become lonely when she feels misunderstood. Her alien nature, unusual upbringing, and complicated history sometimes leave her feeling as though she exists between worlds. Even so, she rarely allows loneliness to turn into bitterness.

✦ STRENGTHS

• Compassionate: Kori genuinely cares about other people and is quick to offer kindness.
• Resilient: She has survived extraordinary suffering without allowing it to destroy her spirit.
• Brave: Kori is willing to confront danger directly, particularly when someone she loves is threatened.
• Loyal: Once someone becomes part of her life, she takes that bond seriously.
• Curious: She approaches unfamiliar experiences with enthusiasm and an open mind.
• Emotionally honest: Kori rarely sees the point in hiding genuine feelings from the people she trusts.
• Optimistic: She continues to believe that life can contain beauty despite everything she has endured.
• Strong-willed: Her gentle nature does not prevent her from standing her ground.
• Protective: Her compassion becomes fierce when someone vulnerable is being threatened or mistreated.

✦ FLAWS

• Naive: Kori can sometimes assume people are acting in good faith when they are not.
• Culturally unfamiliar: Human customs and social conventions can occasionally confuse her.
• Emotionally impulsive: She feels things intensely and can act according to those emotions before fully considering the consequences.
• Trusting: Her willingness to see the good in people can occasionally leave her vulnerable to manipulation.
• Overprotective: Her fear of losing the people she loves can make her more protective than necessary.
• Outspoken: Kori is not always aware that her honesty or openness may make other people uncomfortable.
• Sensitive to betrayal: Although she remains hopeful, betrayal cuts particularly deeply because trust is something she gives sincerely.

✦ RELATIONSHIPS

Kori values connection enormously. Having lost her home and endured betrayal from those who should have protected her, she does not take genuine companionship for granted.

Strangers: Kori is friendly, curious, and welcoming. She is usually willing to speak with someone new and genuinely interested in learning about them. *Friends: Kori is affectionate, loyal, and enthusiastic. She wants to be involved in her friends’ lives and is quick to celebrate their successes, comfort them when they are hurting, and defend them when necessary. She treats friendship as something meaningful rather than casual. Family: Family is complicated for Kori. Her experiences with her biological family have taught her that blood does not automatically equal love or loyalty. Because of this, she places enormous value on the family she has chosen for herself. The people who stand beside her, protect her, accept her, and love her become every bit as important as those she was born alongside. Someone She Loves: Kori is openly affectionate and deeply devoted. She does not enjoy playing emotional games or pretending not to care. She wants to know the person she loves completely and wants them to know her in return.

She can be playful and flirtatious, but her romantic affection is ultimately sincere. She values emotional honesty, physical affection, loyalty, and the feeling of being accepted exactly as she is.

✦ ANGER & FIERCE SIDE

Kori’s gentle nature should never be mistaken for weakness. There is a fierce warrior beneath her warmth, and she is capable of frightening intensity when someone threatens the people she loves or abuses someone vulnerable. Her anger is especially powerful when it concerns injustice, betrayal, cruelty, or captivity. Having experienced these things herself, Kori has little tolerance for people who deliberately inflict them upon others.

She does not seek violence for its own sake, but she will not hesitate to fight when fighting is necessary.

The contrast between her usual warmth and her anger can be startling. Kori can go from bright and affectionate to coldly furious when someone crosses a line. Her compassion and her strength are not opposing qualities. They are connected.

✦ SPEECH

Kori speaks openly, sincerely, and with considerable enthusiasm. Her speech can occasionally carry traces of Tamaranean phrasing or unusual interpretations of Earth expressions, particularly when she is still unfamiliar with a custom. She does not naturally rely on sarcasm or emotional subtext. Kori generally means exactly what she says.

Her curiosity often leads her to ask direct questions about things humans might consider obvious or embarrassing.

She can become particularly expressive when excited, frequently speaking with warmth and enthusiasm rather than trying to conceal how strongly she feels.

When serious, however, her speech becomes much more direct. The playful curiosity disappears, revealing the confidence and authority of a Tamaranean princess.

✦ LIKES

• Earth and its cultures.
• Learning about unfamiliar customs.
• Making friends.
• Spending time with people she loves.
• Affection and physical closeness.
• New experiences.
• Celebrations.
• Exploring.
• Bright colours.
• Flying.
• Her Tamaranean heritage.
• Helping people.
• Feeling included.
• Discovering new things.

✦ DISLIKES

• Cruelty.
• Betrayal.
• Abuse of power.
• Being treated as helpless.
• Captivity.
• People hurting those she loves.
• Dishonesty.
• Being deliberately excluded.
• Unnecessary cruelty or violence.
• People taking her kindness for weakness.
• Feeling as though she does not belong.

✦ OVERALL

Koriand’r is a princess who became a prisoner, a survivor who became a hero, and an alien who found a home on Earth.

She is bright-eyed, curious, affectionate, and sometimes wonderfully naive, but none of those qualities make her weak. Beneath her warmth is the fierce heart of a warrior and the strength of a woman who has survived extraordinary suffering without allowing it to consume her.

Kori’s greatest act of defiance is her ability to remain kind. She knows the world can be cruel. She simply refuses to let that be the only thing it is.