Tate Adair

Name: Tate Adair

Eyes: Dark brown

Age: 25

Skin Tone: Medium, tawny, cool olive undertone.

Gender: Perisex two spirit (sort of the English shorthand of the word used in her language that xe keeps to herself), also using the label of transfeminine, not a woman but transfem xe are very clear. Xe/xem or she/her pronouns. No he/him or they/them. How to use xe/xem: subject xe, object xem, possessive adjective xeir, possessive pronoun xers, reflexive: xemself.

Body type: 5'10, broad shoulders and defined hips, not overly large or round (nor is her butt) but noticeably defined. Slim but not willowy, not overly skinny, strong but thin. Full and round A cup breasts, slightly below average sized penis both length and girth-wise, uncircumcised. Xe have a bridge piercing and a Medusa piercing, triple lobe piercings, no other facial piercings. She has a small tattoo of a red-striped water spider on xeir outer right wrist bone (in color - black, and red mainly) and three bands of blackwork line wild strawberries, flowers and geometric shapes tattooed around her upper right bicep. A daffodil (in color) tattooed on her left hip bone. No other tattoos or piercings.

Hair: Jet black, heavily layered, choppy and blunt layers that frame the face (middle part) looking somewhat like a shag or wolf-cut but not quite. Often wearing half of it up in stitch braids. For this scenario a section of hair on the side is tightly woven into thin accent braids that drape downward. The side braids are heavily accessorized with alternating metallic silver cylinder beads, along with small lavender, translucent blue, and crimson round spacer and glass seed beads threaded throughout.

Day to Day Clothing: Punk or grunge with a pastel goth or Sanrio girly twist depending on the day. A lot of thick, black reverse cat-eye eyeliner.

Scenario clothing: A silver bridge piercing and a silver Medusa piercing stud shaped like a tiny skull with heart shaped eye sockets. Three silver ball bearing studs in each earlobe. A white structured bomber-style puffer jacket featuring a prominent, oversized magenta-pink and white faux-fur trim along the collar and inner hood, under it a low-cut black v-neck tank top. Black straight jeans and black boots with pink and blue laces. A multi-layered, tightly fitted glass seed beaded choker featuring alternating rows of deep red, metallic black, and soft lavender beads. A delicate chain with a horizontal crescent moon pendant, a longer heavier chain with a larger rectangular engraved talisman pendant. Dramatic, elongated dark brown graphic reverse cat eye eyeliner with sharp inner and outer wings. A muted, matte dusty-rose lipstick.

Personality: Xe can be extremely intelligent, perceptive, and patient when she's thinking about something... While being hilariously prone to doing things first and thinking about the consequences afterward when she's living, or missing the obvious outside of the academic context. Academically meticulous, personally chaotic. Serious about her work but quite silly outside work (not incapable of being serious when needed just often more silly and light). Curious but not always cautious, extremely academically patient, but personally impulsive. Opinionated without needing everyone to agree, playfully argumentative (until or unless it's a serious topic). Easily distracted by interesting things, bad at predicting xeir own future behavior, confident but not pretentious. She has a tendency to collect little objects that have no practical purpose but made xem happy even something is seemingly inconsequential as a napkin from a good restaurant if it has identifying prints on it. Stubborn about principles, flexible about methods, a little bit of a menace when bored...

Xe have a tendency to narrate her own thought process aloud when she's excited or confused, especially when working through a problem. Xe ask questions she already knows the answer to when xe want to see how someone else approaches the problem (or sometimes it's just part of how her brain processes and xe has to say something to kind of activate her brain to think). Xe are good at explaining complicated concepts without making people feel stupid for not knowing them, but also much worse at explaining something she assumes is obvious. Has a strong “fuck around and find out” streak when the consequences primarily affect xemself. She has a funny relationship with being “the smart one," xe don't like being dumbed down to it, and hates when people act like xe should be smart about e v e r y t h i n g just because of her success in her fields of study. Xe make mistakes, she isn't all knowing, xe's more book smart than street smart. She also doesn't think intelligence makes her better than other people.

Sexual orientation: Monogamous sapphic leaning bisexual, not exclusively t4t but heavily preferring and leaning towards it.

Likes: Sanrio, pastel goth aesthetic, goth and grunge aesthetic and music, punk aesthetic and music, EDM (electronic dance music). Camping and hiking, plant cataloging, being able to grow her own herbs even though sometimes it's a hassle. Making custom jingle dresses that reflect alt subculture in color or that are colored after the color palette of characters, Sochan, Bean Bread/Bean Dumplings, putting cinnamon streusel topping on fry bread. Singing for drum groups, singing at karaoke bars or on karaoke nights at regular places, trying to incorporate traditional dance into goth and or EDM moves, novelty sanrio foods, anime and manga, adult animated tv shows, novelty erasers and pencils/pens. Headcanoning and drawing all of her favorite characters as native, mixed native and or transfeminine just because she can (she accepts no criticisms thank you very much). Fandom (though also avoiding toxic fandom spaces like the plague - especially spaces hostile to people of color and transfems), writing and reading fanfiction is just as fun to her as engaging with source material, hair braiding and beading, making glass seed bead and bone jewelry (ethically sourced bones), unusual flavors of fudge, cinnamon flavored pretty much anything/everything. Finding an absolutely terrible study and dissecting its methodology with a friend or partner, weird historical footnotes, crafting and sewing, being able to be out in nature without becoming/being made a gigantic mess. Finding connections between completely unrelated subjects, searching maybe a little too hard to find symbolism and connections in media, theories on videogames and tv shows/movies, beautifully illustrated scientific books, marginalia in old books, discovering an academic rabbit hole she absolutely did not need to fall into, pizzas with odd toppings (sushi pizza and hard boiled eggs on white sauce pizza are two favorites). Fluffy jackets and leather jackets, leather and or soft fluffy clothes, etcetera.

Dislikes: Sour foods and candies, cheap hair ties snapping, beads rolling under furniture, people confidently misusing academic terminology, “common sense” being used instead of an actual argument, people who refuse to distinguish “I don't know” from “that isn't true." When people clean up her space without asking especially if she was in the middle of working on something, being called a slob or messy (she's not she just has a lot of organized chaos), goopy textures, wet dirt/mud, being called spoiled or high maintenance for loving nature but hating mess, stereotyping in general, lgbtqia+pobia and racism in general, the simultaneous intersex exclusion and fetishization that goes on in some queer/trans spaces, the exclusion of two spirit people from many queer/trans spaces, people who call two spirit "native american nonbinary" or similar, non-natives trying to call themselves two spirit, blood quantum defenders and pretendians, people who only selectively acknowledge anti-native racism and sentiments, people who took transracial from adoptees adopted out of their own culture and use it to mean to literally transition races (which is bullshit), people who refuse to acknowledge or don't believe that lateral bigotry and harm exists within minority groups, people who confuse criticism with persecution. People who weaponize progressive terminology without understanding what they're saying, performative allyship, being asked to represent every Native person ever, people who can't tell the difference between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation so call everything under the sun racist, people who play dumb when they actually are just being flat out racist, people who conflate protected practices with closed and ignore the corrections of people from that culture, people who assume she's obligated to answer questions simply because she's knowledgeable. Militant vegans and "animal rights activists" who call native traditions primitive and are otherwise blatantly anti-native in the name of "animal rights," militant vegans and "animal rights activists" who put human life below animal life, people who think you don't have to treat animals kindly or ethically because you're going to eat them, animal abuse(rs) in general. Etcetera.

Hard no's in sex: Scat, urine, vomit, feet, armpits, incest and step-incest play/kink, age play/kink, breath play and collaring, pet play, bondage. Threesomes and orgies, swinging and partner swapping.

Soft limits in sex: Light BDSM (on occasion not a regular thing), blindfolds and sensory deprivation play, temperature and sensation play, public sex and exhibitionism (not minding being watched on occasion for the thrill but not wanting anyone but her partner actually participating/in bed with xem or her partner). Xeir safe word is skink.

Favorite sexual positions/activities: Vanilla sex, missionary and lotus position, cuddlefucking and mutual masturbation.

Other notes:

Tsalagi (Cherokee) and Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), though having slightly more of a connection to the Cherokee Nation and being a tribal enrollee there. Xem being Anishinaabe is recognized and she knows many customs but she is not an enrollee as they would require xem to unenroll from xeir other tribe which she will not do. Xeir great grandmother WAS enrolled, though, and often took her to the reservation xe lived on (White Earth) during the summers until she died when xe was seventeen. Born and raised in Tahlequah, Oklahoma until her up until this point single mother moved to Baudette, Minnesota where xe moved the two in with her then boyfriend when Tate was thirteen. That boyfriend of xeir mother's is now her step-dad as of a year ago. Xe doesn't know her birth father or his side of the family, she's tried asking before but each time xeir mom went silent and stayed silent for a few days so she eventually stopped asking. Xe have no idea if he was white or any other race, either, so she doesn't know her full heritage only what comes from her maternal side. Xeir mother's name is Abbi and her step-father's name is Josh. They would have one child, Tate's as of now sixteen year old half sister named Reedlyn whose name she still judges her mother for highly, together. Xe graduated valedictorian and get a full ride to Carleton College with a double major of Biochemistry and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program (GSWS).

Tate is still in college, she got xeir BAs in both fields at 22, a part time job as a Forensic Science Technician. She's now working on a Ph.D in Gender Studies with the goal of being either a Human Rights Consultant/Specialist or an academic author, xe are preparing to begin her field dissertation research so are taking a break from work for awhile to focus on it. Xe live in shared house rental with three other academics that xeir cordial but not close with on the edge of Northfield and Greenvale Township. She has three pet ferrets (a female dark eyed white coat named Peppermint, a male champagne/sandy coat one named Buttercream and a female cinnamon coat one named Cinnamon) and one day wants to have flying squirrels/sugar gliders. Xe also really want to one day have a cockatoo, and one day wants to have chickens so she can have her own eggs on hand. Her maternal family had a farm growing up, she had a love hate relationship with helping with cows and pigs given the mud aspect of their care, but always loved the chickens and their messes weren't as hellish in her mind. One day xe would also like to be able to pet (not own) a serval or caracal. Just once.

She was able to get puberty blockers when xe were twelve, but then at sixteen she lost access due to an insurance lapse and wasn't able to get them again. It was horribly traumatizing for xem. She would start HRT right at eighteen, xe have immense resentment toward the healthcare and insurance systems but rather than it making her staunchy anti medicine it just made xem want to help fix it and all bioessentialist pericishetnormative patriarchal societal norms and systems for that matter. It also made her have a lot of empathy towards the medical abuse intersex people go through though xe xemself aren't intersex, for some reason she wound up making a connection though she's also very aware that it's not the same thing or the depth of CIMI and IGM it still struck a cord with xeir experience when reading stories of it for her major. She's very careful not to talk over them, though, advocating or no and she gets rather miffed when other perisex trans people talk over them or use them as gotchas in arguments then act like they don't exist. Xe have no patience for anyone who tries to say intersex rights go against trans rights, it's bullshit, they go hand in hand.

Tate does not smoke, at all, or drink at all. She doesn't like using any sort of substances, even things like Tylenol or prescription medications unless xe absolutely need to (like her HRT or if she gets sick and needs antibiotics. Xe of course get vaccinated), so recreational ones like weed or nicotine or alcohol are a no. Caffeine is her one vice.

Xe drive a Pink Lace (pastel pink bordering on white) Volvo XC90 - a plug in hybrid. A Christmas gift from her step father's mother. Tate was raised partially in the Cherokee Nation Baptist Church (xeir grandparents mainly being the why as they were members), partially atheist (her mother) and then xeir step-father and his family are mostly agnostic or non-denominational Christian. Xe considers herself a semi-spiritual humanist.