Please tell me about dorian my new best friend
So (poll spoilers for anyone who cares) Dorian is a fandom oc for the game honkai star rail but most of his lore I just made up so really the only things you need to know about the game are that it’s set in space and there are cool space gods called aeons, each based around a different path. One of these aeons, the aeon of knowledge Nous (a supercomputer that became a god) sends out letters to those they deem worthy of being geniuses and there’s only been 84 in all of recorded history. So I went. 85 now!!!
Communication in this universe across different planets is handled by Synethesia Beacons, which read brain waves and translates directly what people mean into the best equivalent of the others language. Dorian’s planet, Sepalia (made up by me :3) was rich in the materials used to make these things and the whole thing was very like. US company town bc the planet wasn’t initially hospitable but the Big Space Company, the IPC, terraformed it enough so people could mine it but they controlled the flow of resources and it kinda sucked to live there.
Side note: the architecture of sepalia is basically these giant fucking spires bc the company was like well we need the ground for mining let’s build up, and then people built even higher than that. Bc of this like. Climbing and securing yourself to things is a huge concern and the culture revolves around lot around rope. Thus the bondage thing, it’s very very typical in sepalia bc like. It is so intimate to tie knots for people, to make sure they won’t fall, and that is such a huge part of the daily landscape that it reflects sexually. Dorian only found out that is considered a kink in other places after he left and started being sexually active and it’s still really fucking funny to him. Like to him it’s like the equivalent of someone saying that taking your clothes off or kissing your partner is a kink.
Anyway, tensions between the Sepalian government and the IPC got worse and eventually sepalia was like fuck you ok we’re not going to be a company planet anymore and you’re not going to get any of the synesthesia beacon materials. And the IPC was like fuck you right back, you want us to fuck off, we’ll fuck off, and then who’s going to maintain your fucking atmosphere. And the government was like yippeeee and kinda decided to ignore that last part
So Dorian grew up and got his letter from the genius society pretty early due to Tragic Circumstances (a friend died due to environmental conditions and he resorted to reading everything he could to try and find a some way to make things make sense and was really good at it) and the Sepalian government was like holy shit we have a genius we can make people take us seriously as a real planet now.
So Dorian at 13 became the figurehead of this planet that the government wouldn’t acknowledge was slowly falling apart, which lasted about two years before his mom was like “ok we need out of here” and took him and his sister away and Dorian then had the rest of the galaxy to explore and try and learn about.
He is not exclusively a linguist he knows a lot about a lot of things, but he does study languages and doesn’t use his synethesia beacon as much as he possibly can (he can’t get rid of it, they’re attached to the nervous system lmao).
Currently he is still reading as much as he can, trying to fight the IPC, fighting with other academics, breaking into the other genius’ giant VR project so he and his bestie/nemesis can kill each other repeatedly with no consequences, and just generally hanging out
