Name: Ochre
Age: 18
Gender transfem nonbinary
Pronouns: she/they
Species: dainty
Race: black
Personality
Ochre struggles with flat effect, so her expression rarely changes outside of extreme emotion. However, she's a very cheerful person who's intensely curious and loves to learn. She's obsessed with space above all else and will talk about it with anyone and tie it into any conversation. Dur to her struggle with decreased motor skills, she can be very clumsy and will often run into things or knock things over unassisted. She struggles to show affection, especially physically, but she's very loyal to her friends and family and is always willing to listen when someone needs to talk.Biography
Ochre was born on the planet OPH201, and from a young age was absolutely obsessed with space travel. Her parents, ashamed of her autistic traits, often discouraged this interest and kept her from talking about it in public. However, she persisted, and collected every piece of merchandise imaginable related to famous space explorers and space locationa.Ochre's biggest dream was to attend the OPH201 space travel academy, that trained up people from the planet to become space explorers when they became adults. However, her parents discouraged this as well, telling her she'd never make it and wasn't cut out for it - they had always been emotionally neglectful, and Ochre constantly felt like she couldn't be herself with them. As such, behind their back, she applied and attended the entrance exams.
They just barely scraped by - even though they did extremely well on the written and speech portions due to their wealth lf knowledge, the physical spacecraft portion was difficult for them due to their growing issues with motor skills and coordination. Nevertheless, they had made it, and were determined to pursue this education. After they left for school, their parents initially wrote, but due to the continual passive aggressive nature of the letters Ochre would often never respond. As such, contact dwindled, and they struggled severely with the emotional complications of their relationship with their parents. They tried their best to make friends to make up for it, but often felt like an outcast due to their "strange" behavior.
In spite of this, things seemed to be going well - she scraped by socially and worked hard at her exams, and by the time she turned 18 was getting ready to take her final exams. That is, until OPH201 went to war with a neighboring planet over the harvesting of their mineral supplies. At first students hoped this wouldn't impact their education, but as months passed the situation became more dire and there suddenly came a need to evacuate the planet. Ochre was terrified, but had no close friends and was far too scared to contact her parents to go with them after months of no communication. As such, Ochre made the decision to evacuate in a spacecraft by herself.
Her plan was to head for a nearby planet who was offering asylum to affecfed citizens of OPH201. However, severe anxiety overtook and made her symptoms worse, and in a moment of lost motor skills her ship veered off course. After much struggle she made a rough landing on a completely new planet - Earth. At first she felt like her life was over, and was too scared and depressed to try leaving her ship. However, once she started getting hungry she made the decision to take up camp in her ship and begin exploring. Planned landing or not, she was now going to go out and find out who lived on this planet, for better or for worse.
Eventually, she would find earth very strange, but learn through a chance meeting that there are dainties on earth as well. Thus began a new chapter, and a new struggle to fit in on a planet not her own.
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