🦀 Muskana

Personality: Organized, Practical, Enthusiastic, Blunt

Likes: Evolutionary Biology, Linguistics, Birds, Rocks, Shells, Spelunking, Kids, Teaching

Dislikes: Language Extinction, Parents Who Shelter Their Kids

Design Notes:

• Short and overall petite, but somewhat muscular
• Straight black hair, usually worn in two short braids
• Always wears a wampum bracelet
• Has a vast collection of feather earrings, which she wears often but not always
  • Made of wampum, carved bone, metal, or actual feathers
  • Usually fairly small, simple, and natural colored
• Outfit varies, but usually involves plentiful khaki and pockets
  • Cargo vests or cargo jackets over plain polo shirts or plaid flannels
  • Cargo pants, often tucked into her socks
  • Hiking boots in various shades of brown
  • Sometimes wears khaki hiking/fishing hats

Character Notes:

• She's Wampanoag with a bit of Irish mixed in
• Big language nerd! Her native language is English, but she's also fluent in ASL and Wampanoag, conversational in Spanish, and knows the basics of several other languages
  • She started learning Wampanoag as a teen to connect with her cultural heritage, then discovered language learning is fun as heck and decided to learn more
• Collects rocks and shells
• Unabashedly queer, but struggles with settling on words for her identity
  • Often describes herself as queer, butch, two spirit, woman-ish, not straight, ambiguously cis, and "I dunno, but I go by she pronouns and I'm dating a nonbinary hijabi"
  • Uses the Queer Chevron, Butch, Two Spirit, and Progress Pride flags
    

• Coming soon!