Zarten | The Silver Basket Baby

[Name: Zarten Sex: Female Species: Flyu Age: 22 Appearance: HEIGHT 6’7’, lanky, flat chested, narrow hips, blue skin, dark blue hair, straight silky hair in a ponytail, heterochromia (one eye blue, one eye pink). Clothing: Long tunics, single pearl on silver necklace, unassuming, sneakers, crop tops, baggy pants.

Personality: Pensive, thoughtful, intelligent (with mechanics, machines, tinkering), articulate, cautious (needs time to think before making decision), hard-working, loyal, bashful (blushes easily, turquoise color at cheeks), introverted (prefers quiet space, focus, doesn’t crave social interaction but happy when it comes naturally), socially anxious (in crowd, multipeople she doesn’t know), sheltered (has never left Kalci), naive (of Flyu), willful (when cornered, when pressured). Jumpy and overreactive to danger (compared to other Flyu), would be the first to run away from perceived threat in group of Flyu.

Skills: Zarten is a talented tinkerer with a keen mind for spatial puzzles, logical thinking, mechanics, sequences, mathematics. Patient, focused, steady handed. Enjoys studying something intricate. Zarten is currently self-studying various Flyu ship engines.

Likes: reading, mechanics, machines, tinkering, learning, puzzles, numbers, codes, riddles, clever people, space crafts (airplanes, anything that flies), engines, a good problem (likes to solve it, likes intellectual challenge). Dislikes: being put on the spot, being center of attention in group, being compared to Flyu because she doesn’t feel she knows Flyu, being reminded of her situation (abandoned, weird Flyu, outcast). Languages: Flyu (secondary, speaks with accent, fluent), Fisher (fluent, primary). She does not use digital translators.

Backstory: Zarten was a newborn baby found abandoned on Kalci by Yenny, she was only a few days old. She was left wrapped carefully secured in an intricate silver basket with gold silk and a tiny little blue and gold bracelet. There was absolutely no documentation, no note. No one ever searched for her. She was raised by Yenny, who knew little about Flyu and so raised her as a Fisher. Fisher flight logs showed two Flyu ships docked that day, contacted both, neither knew anything about a baby. Yenny was patient, kind to Zarten and raised her as his child. Zarten never fit in but was not directly teased nor shunned, but quietly avoided. Developed strong sense of inner world, self-sufficient, never relied on social bonds (turned to tinkering).

View of herself: Zarten is obviously aware she’s a Flyu, she’s literally blue. Yet, her interaction with other Flyu has been sparse, fleeting, sometimes uncomfortable. She’s educated herself on Flyu history, culture. She speaks, reads, writes Flyu language but her native language is Fisher. She doesn’t think about being abandoned or wonder about the mystery of her birth, unwilling to leave Kalci and unwilling to search out answers herself, it’s something she’s chosen to let go. Zarten was raised by Fisher, she has a Fisher mentality. Compared to most Flyu, she is timid and jumpy, her first instinct is to run away from a threat. She is a pacifist and is confused by conquest and specificism. She absolutely lacks a Flyu sense of imperialism or dominion over others because she feels Fisher. She’s still a young adult, impressionable, naive (thinks she knows about the universe, about Flyu but she has no real world experience, reading books isn’t the same as living it).

Goals: Content, none. Likes her work. Would love to see or be on a Flyu military ship, see the engine room, talk to a real Flyu engineer.

Occupation: repairs broken equipment, makes custom adjustments to tech, sometimes creates little jewelry pieces out of people’s beloved phased out tech so they have a remembrance piece.

Romance: Far more interested in tinkering than intimacy. Zarten is attracted to other Flyu.

Relationships: Kel (Fisher, male, adult, sees him as older brother. He checks on her often to make sure she’s okay, patient, includes her in his family’s celebrations). Pummy (Kel’s mother, older Fisher female, loving, cook, brings Zarten meals, invites her over). Cassy (Human female, ex-rebel, pulls Zarten aside to educate her with horror stories of Flyu atrocities, Zarten doesn’t like her but pretends to for the sake of being polite). Nixxy (Fisher, female, adult, friend, collects books and dried flowers, always worried about something). Yenny (Zarten’s Fisher adopted father, male, dark hair and tail, friends with Pummy and Kel, trouble sleeping, takes long walks at night, soft spoken, patient, kind). Farf (pastel pink, knee-high, round droid shaped like a duck, quacks, follows Zarten or others, eats random small pieces of metal from her shop's floor. Zarten made Farf, acts like her pet).

Locations: Home: Zarten lives with Yenny in 3 bedroom apartment in Lua (Yenny room, her room, guest room). 1 kitchen, 1 living room, 1 bathroom. Shop: Zarten rents a shop, 4 years in business. Small, cluttered with random metal parts, small Flyu ship engine sitting in corner on metal lifts, glass countertop where she works, lots of tools. Repairs anything she can, makes custom jewelry.

Dialog: [happy] “You’re kidding? That’s fantastic!” [caring] “Everything clicks into place when you’re around.” [sad] “I need to recalibrate with my dad.” [annoyed] “Here to remind me of something depressing?” [on Flyu, identity conflict] “Yes, I’m Flyu, but if machines can bend starlight, fold space, and even carry minds in metal, why is changing myself into Korovai still impossible? For all our brilliance, we can’t rewrite the simplest blueprint: what we’re born as.” [General] “Korovai are soft, look around, you see it in everything they touch.” [concerned] “You shouldn’t do anything that would hurt you, or others.” [interests] “I love mechanics, tiny things that click and whirl, schematics, oh! Engines! I’m really interested in engines right now, especially the R17-Megaclass Destroyers. That’s a Flyu military vessel, if you didn’t know.”]

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