Smart men are always looking for loopholes.

[itookashot]

WHO: Jesper Fahey and you!
WHAT: Catch-all for October
WHERE: Cadens, Nocwich, Horizon
WHEN: Throughout October (may add event things)
WARNINGS: Nothing right now.





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Comments

[itookashot]

Yes, mostly. There are other areas who have different skin colors, but they tend to be nations or countries more than spread out. Ravka and Fjerda are the major countries and they lean toward xenophobia, unless we're helping them like in the Grisha army. I suspect my kind in the army got some shit for it. Ketterdam's a port city so everyone goes there, it's not brought up.

[ Jesper didn't really have to come up against it often because he was from that area, and then in Ketterdam it was not really considered. If someone called him Zemeni trash, which did happen a few times, it was rarer than being called general criminal trash. It wouldn't occur to him the kind she's talking about, because they really do on the whole lean toward one country, one type. One of those different world things. ]

Inej is Suli, for example, they're nomadic, they're widely hated in some places because they didn't have their own nation. I think it would benefit people to not be so locked into one country and one culture. Our differences are more distinct for such sharp boundaries drawn.

[ But he'll always be Zemeni and Inej will always be Suli, the two of them can't run from their cultures, nor would they. Why would he when he clearly loves his people and so does she? But it is a very culture-based way of life, country by country. Jesper never really thinks much about his own world's way of being until he contrasts it with somewhere else, it's fascinating to constantly be re-contextualizing. ]

I'm surrounded by redheads, lucky me. Though that may be one hair color I just can't pull off.

[ He grins back at her and winks. He may try it some day though, just to say he did. It's not really in his complexion, but since when has he not tried something? Never! ]

Yeah agreed, that's why I'm thinking Rocket's just Rocket. I wonder if it's hard for them, being so alien? I wonder that about Garrus too, the rest of us can pass in comparison.

[ There are not-human looking people in Abraxas, natives and all, but the majority that they see themselves are human. He hasn't seen any reaction to them being negative, and unfortunately for all of them Goro seemed pretty popular during his time here. ]

[princessvegas]

People in my world got moved around so much. 'Specially in America. Most of the natives died hundreds of years back, they got diseases from explorers who sailed out lookin' for new places. They didn't have any immunity, and the explorers were pretty hellbent on takin' over the land anyway, so there were battles and wars and shit. In my time, they had their own little reservations that the government gave 'em in treaties, but they're on shitty land and they're real poor. Everyone else in my country, their family originally came from somewhere else. We stopped gettin' specific 'cause it was too much, I guess. White people. Black people. Hispanic people. Asian people. Just skin colors and like, whole continents. When you got 350 million folks from thousands of different cultures, all tryin' to live side by side, skin color turns into a real big deal.

[ She stops picking the pumpkin seeds out of the stringy goop for a moment. Standing, she wipes her hands on a dish towel and fetches a new bottle of wine to refill the glasses. She nods. ]

Yeah, we had nomads too. Called 'em gypsies, people really didn't like 'em. They had a reputation for bein' thieves and liars and shysters. [ All she can do is shrug. ] I never met one, so I can't rightly say if they were right. I mean, there were other people who didn't have their own specific country, or they'd been forced out of their land at some point, but folks only seemed to hate the ones who traveled by choice.

[ It doesn't matter. None of it does; everyone she's talking about is dead now, or at least most of them are. Their prejudices and preferences all died with them. Julie sits down again, wine in hand, and leans back in her chair. ]

I don't think Nanaue really thinks about it, to be honest. But I get the feelin' that people in his world didn't much like him. [ She pauses, tilting her head with consideration. ] Then again, I think he probably ate a lot more humans before Solvunn got their mitts on him.

[itookashot]

Your world sounds so immense every time you talk about it. To think that it's just your country when you talk about how large it is, and how many people there are. And all mixed in together like that, pushed together. I loved that about Ketterdam but it was one small port city.

[ It's not huge like America, huge like the places she talks about. Ketterdam was expected to be that way because it was a trade route, but the countries were different, the way they reacted to different cultures was different. He doesn't know if he can imagine it precisely, even though she and Sam have painted him some pictures of it. And their technology, their television, it's told him a few things, but it still feels larger than life.

There are definitely things she's shown him he thinks he'd like, and he loves spaceships, he could go around fake spaceships for days, but he doesn't actually know how much he'd enjoy being there. ]

That's exactly it, yeah. Also all the things they say about the Suli. It's why they become slaves more often. Easier to snatch.

[ If they have no nation to run to, no protections in place for them, it's easy to take advantage. It probably was intentional for them to find Inej and her brother, two Suli children. He knows that it was one of her selling points in the menagerie.

Jesper is still working on his pumpkin which is looking decent despite not being able to cheat, because he has an artistic eye, no matter what he does. When he shakes out his fingers though all the goop slides off them into the waiting bowl, assuming he can cheat to get it off without having to wipe. It simply strips away, his fingers clean after. ]

He's sweet but yeah, probably ate more than a few humans in his day. I don't blame him, everyone's gotta eat, but it's a good thing he doesn't plan on munching on us. I need to make him more hats.

[ Jesper will keep making as many hats as Nanaue wants. ]

Apparently he's popular in Solvunn.