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Minna Adair
Minna Adair
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-Vital Statistics-
Name: Minna Adair
Race: human
Age: 26
Sex: female
Alignment: lawful good
Heritage: Lakhota
Profession: ethnologist
Appearance: Minna could hardly look more fragile. She's very thin and lacks much muscle structure, and all of her features boast a quiet delicacy. Most strikingly, Minna was born with the most severe form of albinism. That is to say, she's a true, complete albino. Her hair actually has an extremely pale blonde tint, but it takes bright natural sunlight to be identified as anything but pure white. Her skin is extremely pale, lacking even a freckle of colour, and her eye are a very pale, greyish lavender. The hue picks up a little--but only a little--intensity if her pulse is up, and also leans more towards the pinkish side of things.
Minna's clothes are casual, airy, and generally light in colour. She likes white and pastels. Her lower garment almost always covers her legs to hide the prosthetic now it's just from habit!--though the ankle is often visible--and she often dons long, loose skirts. She always wears long sleeves, hats, and eye protection while outside.
Introduction to Minna:
Minna Adair is a soft-spoken, strong-hearted, optimistic, and somewhat fatalistic albino. She isn't lucky enough to be able to tan, so her albinism keeps her indoors or covered while outside. Despite her appearance and build, Minna should have been as strong and healthy as any normally-pigmented person. However, a vehicle accident when she was two completely crushed one of her legs. The resulting infections permanently compromised her immune system, and she's spent a good deal of her life as sickly as her wan appearance would indicate. All this has given her a quiet strength that builds with a seemingly natural optimism, though, and she can be a very uplifting person to be around. She's usually quietly cheeful and often hums under her breath.
Humming is only the beginning of her musical inclination. She never had the lung capacity to safely take up concert singing or a wind instrument as a child, but she adores the violin and her slender hands have all the trained nimbleness they need to coax hauntingly beautiful music from it. Her playing is often the best way to pick up on the various layers of her mood.
She's a writer and anthropologist...an ethnologist. She works from home most of the time, and sometimes with ethnographers through the university.
Note: Despite being an albino, Minna is not legally blind. Actually, her vision's nearly perfect. String-pulling and hard work by her parents-- and, yes, the fact that she was the only young child from a Native American gene pool being considered--got her into an experimental healing magic/surgical treatment that corrected the problem to a very real extent. Her eyes are still highly sensitive to light, though.
Heritage: No, Zaagade's Native American name is neither strange coincidence nor pedestrian fascination. Though her albinism makes it exceedingly difficult to tell, Minna is three-quarters Lakota (Sioux,) and a quarter Irish. She currently lacks much cultural contact because she's living far south of its home territory, since her health finally all but forced her to a warmer climate. (She has, for the record, been doing somewhat better health-wise.)
She's always wanted to take a stronger role in ceremony and, yes, Lakhota social culture, but finds it exceedingly hard to fit in. Once upon a time, she might have been considered the Moon's child...but with the advent of caucasians in North America, there's just a lot of whispering about how her mother must have slept around. (This isn't, in fact, the case.) After many years of trying and failing to fit in and be fully accepted into her own heritage, she grudgingly stepped off to the sidelines, trying to fulfill a thwarted love of her parents' culture by becoming an ethnographer and ethnologer and recording the region's past and contemporary Indian American traditions for the rest of the world. Ironically, the roots of her passion are sharply detrimental to her career, as her fairly adept writings are considered to lack objectivity and therefore credibility due to her working close to and/or within the culture of her birth.
With much nudging from fellow professionals, she took an interest in the neighboring Ojiway nation and, although she's Lakhota, has gained a lot of respect for it and is currently working hard to learn its language. (Yes, she also speaks Lakhota. And some limited French, but that's beside the point.)
Important note: she was quite immersed in these studies when Zaagade arrived, and his name is Ojibway, not Lakhota.
Update: Mara-kuru fixed her missing leg oh em gee. o__o;
