RttS: Character Identities (Patreon)

An excuse to draw some iconography and talk about aspects of the human and human-culture-adjacent characters I never bring up because it's not super worldbuilding or narrative relevant. Somehow this story ended up as 'oops, all lesbian odd couples' but you write what you know, I guess. 

All these characters go by she/her except for Bip the they/them. Talita is actually unusual as an alien for identifying as a woman (which is a human gender) on a level any deeper than linguistic, but I wouldn't consider her 'trans' for it. It's more like just another part of her identity wrapped up in having been socialized by humans.

The ages are actually from how old they are when Shyam is introduced, which is about 3 years out from the book I'm writing right now (and over 6 years out in real life... yeesh, comics) but the gist is that they are all in their 30s except Bip the octogenarian. Though, Bip would be considered young for an A.I., since some sapient A.I. are over a thousand years old.

The unisex and unisex GMH flags are tentative, but I modified them from the existing most commonly recognized intersex flag. I'm sure I could argue that unisex falls under the umbrella of what we would medically consider 'intersex' but I feel like the distinction is important, in-universe and in terms of lumping my fantasy single-sex humans with real intersex people. 

Also, Bip has some actual identities, they're just incredibly evasive about it.