hi! i hope this isn’t a weird question, but I was wondering is meijin’s name pronounced “měijīn,” “méijīn,” or some other pronunciation? thank you in advanced!
Ah, as if it were written in Pinyin? So, I speak a teensy bit of Chinese, but I don’t consider Meijin’s name to have tones. It’s definitely not meant to be an actual Chinese name, just kind of fantasy-linguistics flavored that way. I’d need to do research if I wanted to do something like that.
They have three (or four depending on how you count it)! Though I have hardly any backstory for any of them
Scooter was the very first, a huge helminth charger. Like, as tall as Kohlrabi with his head raised (I had no idea not all helminth chargers are this goddamn big for the longest time). He's a good boy who doesn't realise how big he is, will try to fit on your lap and/or knock you over in greeting
Cotta is a round little baby kubrow and she's a sweetheart as long as you don't mind her chewing on your hands a lil bit. She gets mother hen'd by Scooter a lot
Kag is a panzer vulpaphyla and the only one i have even just a bit of plot for. Kohlrabi brought him back to the Necralisk for rehab and they were offered to take him in as a pet the same day the events of the Apostasy Prologue transpired. I have a lil fic sitting around about this sooomewhere
There's also Shanty who is not technically Kohlrabi's but close enough. She's the ship kavat of Kohlrabi's railjack, the Peregrinus, like how sailing ships had cats back in the pre-war earth days
Shanty is aboard the Peregrinus pretty much at all times but the other three don't get brought on missions bc It's Not Safe
5. What are their likes/dislikes?
Likes:
Being outdoors. You wouldn't guess since they're p pale, but they love being out in nature, esp on earth. They jump at any chance to run errands for Ostron as long as they get to go out onto the Plains about it, even despite the grineer presence. They love to go get covered in mud and help keep track of local wildlife populations
Chimurr (Ostron tea). It's their comfort drink
Touch. They're careful nowadays not to get too close to anyone they don't know well bc they know they can become way too much way too fast, but in a comfortable environment they're p much impossible to pry off. Cuddle bug
Dislikes:
Being called a child/shielded from things. Regardless of intention they usually take it to mean theyre being underestimated or babied and there are few ways to piss them off faster than that. (Cue issues about this with both Hako and North, who have both taken on older sibling roles in their life, and also North has issues for a while about calling Kohlrabi by their name so they resort to "kid")
Reactor sabotages. They're a trigger to Alden, and Kohlrabi adopted his aversion to them through transference. Unlike Alden they can do them, they just prefer not to
Being told to stand straight. They're aware that their posture sucks and they're also a grumpy teenager about it
8. Do they have any hobbies?
Aside from the nature stuff, they're learning to make floofs! Their successful attempts line the shelves of the orbiter. They only make palm sized ones bc anything bigger takes too much focus and dedication that they just can't spare during busier times, but the palm sized ones are fine. Once they're confident enough, they wanna start making them for ppl as gifts :)
They also like what i guess you could call macrame but idk if that's what it'd be called in-universe. Bascially making things from knots, mainly bracelets. It's a good way to keep their hands busy in shorter downtimes without needing much in the way of supplies. So far nothing they've made with it had any function bc they usually just go until they run out of string and end up with something way longer than a functional bracelet (and also usually p lumpy)
