What do you imagine the characters' ethnicities are? And welcome back!
This one is gonna be a little vague because half the cast is . . .not human?? So they don’t necessarily have human ethnicities, but I’ll do my best!
I uh. Accidentally spoiled things here though whoops!
Right off the bat, though, Nymbostratus is mixed latino/white. I’m not sure what kind of latino they are? I don’t think they’re going to be Mexican, though now that I’m thinking about it I do generally go towards Mexican traits when I’m thinking about them, so they might be Mexican! Since they’re a book two character I haven’t really finalized them. Technically, it would probably be mixed Mexican/Italian. . . their biological father is an Italian mobster *sweats*, but their mom and stepdad were/are both Mexican. That means that Harper is also mixed Mexican/Italian, even though “Reed” is not an Italian surname.
(Sidenote: The romance between Nymbostratus’s parents is loosely hung on the very famous Lancelot/Gwenivere/Arthur love triangle and I’m very excited about that. Which I think makes Harper a Mordred analogue . . . . ??)
Rosewood is a little confusing, so bare with me -- over time, they’ve turned out to be Chinese ethnically? This is not currently reflected in the demo, but we’ll see how it plays out over time. They were given up for adoption and taken in by a white family in a small Southern Town, so culturally they relate more to your Being White + Racism + Queerphobia, yay, and they feel very estranged from the Chinese part of their culture. They might also be mixed white, but they’re visually very much East Asian. I’m not actually 100% sure if they know they’re Chinese or if that’s just their “best guess”. They were definitely very white at the beginning of the project, but . . . that changed.
The Agent of Heaven is obviously whatever you the player decide the Agent of Heaven is.
Abaddon is roughly Greekish. They’re an offshoot of an offshoot of Apollo, if that makes sense? So you could consider Apollo to be like their past reincarnation + grandpa in one + older brother. They aren’t culturally anything, and have spent time all over the world, but they look Greek and they kind of come back to Greek culture when they’re stressed out.
Lapis’s people simultaneously “predate” known history, and grew up alongside ancient Sumerian cultures, in the same area. It’s sort of like an entire genre, but basically Lapis’s people existed alongside the Uruk that appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh, but was wiped out from history later I guess; appearance wise, they’d appear Iranian the most. Culture-wise, I mean. . . . Sumerian. . . .?
If you’re wondering about their name, it’s because du Mirage is a francophile and renamed them with a rough translation of their previous name (Lapis Lazuli of House Obsidian being the English version). Phantome du Mirage herself is literally the ghost of a cave woman, so I guess maybe a neanderthal. . . ???
And then finally, for Iriel, I’ve struggled the most with them, but as I’m writing this it has become pretty obvious that they’d appear to belong to a similar background as the MC, and I’ll flavor the text going forward appropriately -- they were a rabbit, and when they took on a human form they’d probably take on a form that made the MC most comfortable, so that’s definitely a thing. They did have a previous experience with someone during the middle ages that will be gotten into, and for that they were a lot more grounded in roman/celtic sorts of cultural touchstones I think? But that would probably be easiest viewed as a previous incarnation of sorts or a past life, rather than their current life.
