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I LOVE IRIS. She is by far one of my fav ocs of all time she's so precious to me. Since I ended up canceling the series she was a part of, let me tell you her lore.
The snake on her neck is her pet, Eden, BTW.
Iris is an autistic, asexual thirty-one year old woman who comes from another world. A world where all problems have working solutions. All diseases have cures or at least solutions that allow an individual to live comfortably as long as possible. Everyone has all their basic needs met, every disability, mental health, or physical condition is accomodated to the best possible degree to make living with said disability as easy as possible, everyone can express themselves as they are, people talk through disagreements calmly and rationally and if no agreement can be made they agree to disagree and go about their way, everyone can afford to live off a job that they enjoy, stuff like that you get the idea. (If I were to explain an ideal world it'd take forever). As the current oldest society in the universe, they take care of every other species and planet and society that are part of the intergalactic union, that humanity is no longer even aware of due to their societies inability to function on the scale of all the others. Though unlike other banished societies, humanity isn't that much different from Iris's kind. Which is why Iris, her two best friends, and her partner all find this massively unfair, so they strike a deal with their teacher, who was the former overseer of Earth, that if they can get human society up to standard then they have to let humanity join the intergalactic union. Their teacher decides to humor them and allow it.
Earth was extremely difficult for Iris at first. She was split up from her friends, and it was incredibly difficult for her and her partner to find a place to stay. Not to mention just existing in this world that was very very unaccomodating in general was incredibly difficult for her. But she convinced herself that it was permanent, once they showed humans a better way of doing things she was certain they would adapt. But she had as much luck as any person who's trying to bring about change. No one listened or cared. Over time her relationship with her partner soured as the whole situation made them bitter. They started to see humans at the same level of value as we do bugs and believe the whole planet was better off without them. At this point Iris had made some really close friends. Friends she cared deeply for. She didn't want to give up, she wanted to make their world a better place for them to live. Iris and her partner eventually couldn't agree and broke up. Shortly after one of her best friends died in hero/villain conflict (as this story was set in a world of heroes and villains).
Iris went on to share a space with an elderly couple, whom she soon regarded as her family. She tried to stop herself from becoming too close with other humans, but due to her line of work she couldn't help but befriend them and grow so very attached. She loved her friends and family so very deeply. She brought herself to her absolute limit, burning herself out on the regular. Because she couldn't stand the idea of letting her precious friends and family live in a world like this.
I had two endings planned for her arc, never ended up picking one.
The first was after a series of misunderstandings/disagreements with friends especially over her unwillingness to compromise (as she knows her ideas work or at least are "better" for she'd seen it work all her life) and she eventually realizes even the humans she thought were reasonable cannot be fully convinced and when she's finally at her absolute limit she finally gives up and goes home. (This was especially after she risked everything to save her best friends life and said best friend was super off-put by it and they got in a huge fight where in a fit of misplaced anger and emotion said friend says a lot of things she later came to regret). She still cares about her friends in this ending but she finally understands what her teacher who had gone through the same thing was trying to teach her.
The other ending Iris's teacher forcibly takes her back home after watching her give her everything, even allowing herself to get seriously hurt on numerous occasions to save her friends and family from danger (cuz she's immortal and their not and she never wants to lose anyone again). The teacher decides enough is enough and forcibly removes her from Earth indefinitely for her own safety and well-being.
I ended up having her not reach her goal because I felt it was unrealistic for her to. MAYBE humanity might've been able to get better with a lot of time and slow progress but it wasn't Iris's responsibility to tear herself apart to make it happen. Her character was very important to the themes of the story. She was very very important to me. Maybe I'll give her a story of her own someday. Till then, enjoy this VERY WATERED down summary. If you read all this omg thank you so much.