Zemer
| Zemer | |
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| IC Info | |
| Race: | Human (Anamlu biology, with some rose ancestry) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Sexuality: | Lesbian |
| Age: | 23 |
| Date of Birth: | Summer 1990 |
| Place of Origin: | City of Zim, Anamlu. |
| Height: | 5'9" |
| Eye Color: | Hazelnut Brown. |
| Hair Color: | Dark Brown. |
| Hobbies: | Loves to run and explore. |
| Likes: | Books |
| Dislikes: | Clothes |
| Romantic Status: | Single |
| Romantic Identification: | Polyamorous, Open |
| Religion: | Telzu animism. |
| Residence: | In Rockpath's house. |
| Occupation: | Ex runner. Now, busy helping her people catch up technologically. |
| OOC Info | |
| Source: | Original Character. |
| Player: | User:Zemer |
Zemer arrived in Yuriba in April 2013 and after a brief period of confusion, has settled in as a resident.
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Physical Description
An athletic, tall, boyish young woman who looks to be about 20 years old. Her dark brown hair is cut short and spiky, and her rose-stem-green skin is marked with simple hand-poked black tattoos of lines and dots on her face, shoulder and breast. Her eyes are hazelnut brown. Her nose is quite broad and her lips, although small, are soft. She's muscular but lightly built, and very lean. When she moves, there's something slightly feral about her grace.
She's naked, and looks comfortable with it. Her breasts are small, and perk upwards. Her chest is muscular, and her waist is rather broad over a tight behind, an athlete's body. Between her legs, dense uncut pubic hair hides the detail. Her legs are slim but very defined, and her feet are dusty, as of one who habitually walks barefoot.
Biography
| OOC Notes |
| Mini-glossary Anamlu: Zemer's world. Telzu: Zemer's culture. Zim: The city Zemer grew up in. Mother: parent who had the baby. Mama: parent who donated genes. Runner: carry official messages by foot from city to city. |
Zemer was raised on a family farm a mile or so outside the Telzu culture city of Zim by her mother Ushar and mamas Imzi and Ninda. Deciding her vocation was to be a runner, she trained herself with some help and was accepted into the runner corps as a student, and graduated to full runner at age 18.
On a running mission, she found the road ending suddenly in forest - and turned back to see the road behind her had vanished. She was trapped in Yuriba! She realized she could talk the language, but the taboos and customs were quite new to her. After a period of settling in, she has found ways to keep her Telzu identity while accepting Yuriban conventions about such things as sometimes wearing clothes.
Early after her arrival, Rockpath offered her a room to stay, and she gratefully accepted, becoming good friends with the young Earth girl. With Rockpath's technological help, she has been able to return to her homeworld, and is now something of an interworld ambassador.
Different Biology
| OOC Notes |
| The Anamlu setting's different biology was actually inspired by Yuriban memetic exchange, but works in a physical way. |
Zemer is Anamlu-type human, parallel in almost all ways to Earth-type human woman but very different at the cellular level. Where Earth biology went from asexual to sexual reproduction and split into male and female, Anamlu biology went from asexual to "borrowing parthenogenesis" and stayed all-female.
In humans, this means that all Anamlu-type humans have the sense aji, which detects genes on touch. (Like touch, sensors are all over the skin, but much more concentrated in some areas, especially the genitals and tongue.) It's an abstract sense in the same way that smell is, and like smell, an aji can be good or bad, familiar or unfamiliar, and its meaning can be learned. Aji is how sex on Anamlu causes gene exchange (although mere physical touch causes gene exchange too, just much less so).
On Anamlu, the most common family unit is the triple, not the couple, and Zemer's family was normal in that regard, she has three mamas. However she also has significant rose ancestry because her mother liked the aji of her favourite rose bush a little too much.
The only major impact of Zemer's rose ancestry is her skin which instead of being the usual dark brown of her people, is a dark green instead. She can photosynthesize, although it makes her thirsty. She prefers to eat real food, because sunlight is flavorless and no fun, but it has been useful to her on long runs.
Cultural Differences
Zemer grew up in a hot country, where people generally wear a lot less clothing than on Earth, usually a waist-length tunic to protect against the sun, and nothing else. Nudity is common in the Telzu culture, and the runners in particular make an issue of wearing no more clothing than absolutely necessary. Typically runners wear a laced up leather band as a sports bra when running, and nothing when not. Zemer is fond of the more technological blue synthetic sports bra she bought on Yuriba, although she has lately been seen a lot without even this one garment.
Telzu culture is very openly sexual, and Zemer finds she fits in well in places like Leona's Bar and Girl, particularly on naked Sundays which remind her of Telzu taverns (where public sex is just part of the normal fun). However she's willing to borrow some pants when visiting places that enforce a wear-clothing rule, like The Baby Seal.
Not only are all people on Anamlu female, but all life is. In this regard she finds Yuriba quite normal. She has never met a male and finds the concept of needing a second, different shaped, childless kind of human as a necessary precursor to make babies a very odd thing. Because life on Anamlu is mutually fertile, humans tend to have a lot of animal mixed in, and so she finds animal-people quite normal, but finds the concept of changing your ancestry via springs to be very startling, and somewhat disturbing. She has deliberately avoided contact with any jusenkyou even despite having already found several.
Zemer finds it a bit odd that people in Yuriba tend to sleep one-per-bed and misses the communal Telzu sleeping style (all together in a puppy pile, usually bundled in hay) which she thinks is more sociable and comforting.
Relationships
Rockpath - room mate and friend. She met Rocky early on and has huge respect for her kindness and open mindedness. Rocky has been very helpful both by offering her a place to stay and by helping her re-contact her homeworld.
Beth - new friend. She met Beth while out exploring one day, and found her great company. Invited back to Beth's place, she was amazed at her awesome library, and moved by the art created by Talmara. She hopes to run into Beth more often.