Artwork by my Belarusian friend birb-o-fluff
Dreamwar is a story of characters in time of tense change and eventual war, refusing to idly witness the cruelty of the world around them. Taking place in a different world from our own, one where both humans and anthro animals, called "uprights", exist. Set in a timeframe technologically equivalent to the early 1920s, and with a global war looming on the immediate horizon. Elemme is a female fox upright from Fleuragne (fictional France)
26 at the start of the series, she is married to Andim. She was and still is the primary initiative taker between the two of them, frequently convincing him to go to things he otherwise wouldn’t.
Sociable but not overly extroverted, she enjoys chatting with others and going to smaller social events, but she doesn’t feel the intense need to like a traditional extrovert would. Her demeanor is generally bright and often playful
Becomes close friends with Mepria after the latter’s arrival in episode 2, bonding over both missing home and being culturally and linguistically displaced, even though Elemme chose to do so willingly.
Worked as a translator at various embassies in Fleuragne, where she and Andim met when he was diplomatically visiting. Now she works as part-time translator for Fleuragne’s small embassy in Denali when needed, while also beginning to work as a fill-in teacher for school children. She can speak Fleuragnais (French), Wallaesh (English), and Krentsch (German).
Shares her husband’s moral alignment and strength of conviction about ending all preferentialism, oppression and lingering colonialism, regardless of whether it’s humans or uprights committing it. Though she is not as socially abrasive about it.
Loves the snow and cold of Denali, though she admits she does wish it had more fleursoir or “french things” available, and insists the french bread in Denali’s shops is not up to the true standard of home.
Spends both her own and her husband’s money buying sweets and pastries, or the ingredients to bake them, and bringing them to orphan care schools that otherwise wouldn’t have any. Wants to adopt a couple after the war, as she and Andim can’t physically have any. Is reflexively fearful of Andim flying aeroplanes. Also harbors a quiet but inescapable fear that Andim might actually want to die in the global conflict that is coming.
