#gen asks

She’s a child that Kraw has taken upon himself to look after ever since he found her aboard his fishing trawler while he was making a delivery run. She was scuttling about half wasted away by sun, starvation and other mysterious means.

As far as the more mundane stuff goes; Gen enjoys doodling, tagging any surface she can get her hands on, beach visits, creepy crawlers, and spicy, pungent food. She also enjoys taking apart stuff to see how it works, she’s very much a tactile learner.

Kraw notices that she seems to have a slight case of agoraphobia.

When he first had her aboard, she would often sleep in the engine room of the boat because the cramped spaces and sounds were comforting to her, probably reminding her of the city.

She also often has stomach problems, due to nerves. Kraw usually keeps saltine crackers or ginger ale on hand for her.

She has a knack for animals too, often trying to keep pets despite Kraw’s protests. This interest helped her get used to staying with Sylvaine at times whenever Kraw had to make longer trips and wouldn’t take her along at first, since Sylvaine has plenty of interesting creatures around. Gen would rather spend time learning about them rather than on her usual homework. This interest grows when she starts helping Kraw out with fishing more, seeing all the different creatures of the ocean and all.

Despite her having rambunctious, trouble-making tendencies, she shows high intelligence and fast learning capabilities, not that she enjoys sitting and exercising that ability very often. Kraw would notice her quickly getting a good grasp on the boat engine’s inner workings whenever she has to help with such things, since he can’t really fit in the engine room. She has her own names for the parts and jstuff that she made up.

The growth taking up the right half of her face was thought to be a fungus of some sort, assuming that she was a ‘Myce’ or of a fungal fae type race. It turned out she was a newer generation of human. The growth was an inexplicable calcification that Gen said she woke up with after “seeing the eye”. Kraw and Sylvaine were able to gather that she was originally from Piranesi’s Fever; a huge, industrial type city which was built outside the citadel surrounding the impact site of the celestial body. Gen seems to have little to say, or refuses to say, much about it.

She appears to be about 7 or 8 when Kraw finds her (although sometimes I draw her around 11) but nothing is really known about the newer generations of humans born under the Ladder’s jurisdiction. They are thought to be more affected by the isolated biome created by the rotting celestial body. There’s lots of speculation about what Gen is capable of exactly. Despite Sylvaine’s burning curiosity, Kraw refuses to let her run any tests since he’s taken Gen under his wing. He doesn’t want her to feel like a science experiment and he thinks she seems to be doing fine and wants to believe the growth is just a cosmetic thing. He’s kind of in denial, even with obvious signs from Gen’s occasional strange temper outbursts.

Here’s a wip of her from a comic I got in the works. Before her eye was mangled :0