Name: Coral Gatha
Nicknames: A'Gatha, CG, Orca (Killer Whale)
Age: 21
Gender: female
Sexuality: sensualist
Height: 6'5"
Build: thick
Hair: copper
Eyes: copper
Skin tone: tanned
Voice: whispering, crooning, purring
Scars/Birthmarks: slowly fading scars of all kinds of 'sea accidents' (Suction cups of octopus, teeth and fin marks,
Tattoos/Piercings/Other:
Traits: thick skin, insulating fat, strong legs, near sighted in air
Quirks: does not eat meat except seafood, faster and more agile in water
Likes: sounds of nature
Dislikes: most humans
Secrets: she is just too intelligent, but downplays it as she knows she is not wise enough
Fears: knowing the problem and the solution but unable to make it happen the right way
Role: scientist, water expert
Background:
For almost a century, there was
plans to compensate for the rising levels of the seas and oceans. All over the world, creative minds, architects and engineers worked on the future. Still, there was just few prototypes before the climate change really became a reality. With water covering almost three quarters of the planet's surface - and just as polluted as the other quarter - it was not the first time that humans lived on the water. Also, building new architecture and whole cities had a cost. A cost, that needed to be paid in money (but people finally realized that money was on the way of the dodo), resources (even the newest material had to be made from something), and time. Time was something that they had less and less.
With wars breaking out all over the globe the rising levels of the sea flooding and making people homeless, and the climate getting worse, only a few places remained where humanity could and did built their new cities on the water - and
under the water. This did not meant that people all over the globe did not tried to survive in
their own ways.
But the new cities had finally became a reality. People with money, knowledge, or just the right skills found their places onboard, there being a hope when the so-called apocalypse happened. Yes. They was safe... for a while... But these new water cities was also 'green'. It just took time before the pollens and birds found their way to the artificial floating islands. The ones closer to the shores or in a fixed point fallen around the same time as the islands - the few old ones still abowe sea level and the new ones too.
But there is always an exception.
Floating cities with biodomes, or their greenhouses under the water still stay and flourish as safe havens. They are just overpopulated, have to fight off pirates and mutated animals, have to be on the watch for their plants mutating... But as in any wars, science and technology tried to keep up. And people started to find ways to get changed to this new situation. The old ones had no chance. The grown ups had problems adapting. But the children... or more than that, the future children had a chance. A rapidly growing chance.
For the past twenty-ish years, a new race was starting to born. Calling themselves the
Merpeople, or Merman and
Mermaids, it was a kind of hype to try to live in the water. Using equipments and biotechnology, of course, for they was not that different from other races of humanity. For now.
Personal background:
Born to parents that could be considered new hippies, XX grown up with two constants in
her life. Water and Science. Spending her
childhood with not only able to experiment herself, but being the experiment too... Reaching adulthood also meant she reached a point in her life when she had to choose.
Getting adapted to sea life fully (with changes being made to her body and even genetics) or to live her life only dreaming about living full time in - and under - water.
Of course a great and scientific mind like hers had to have all variables to make a choice like this. And that meant she needed experience. Already having experience with underwater and on sea life, she just needed the other side of the equation. And that meant joining a longer expedition to the 'jungles and deserts'. XX and the group took their time to get ready, and finally left the city on an amphibious flying machine. Four scientist and three outriders for security and skills with the right equipment... They survived for a while.