#hu08

Sherry Oswald Slater

Human

17 years old

Why should I care what happens to other people?

A young brilliant robot builder, with hopes for world domination. Sherry comes from a well off family that indulges her whims to build robots despite their hopes she’ll shelf this out of control hobby and take over the family’s pharmaceutical company.  

Sherry began as someone who cared very little for those around her, straining her relationship with her older sister until they were basically two strangers occupying the same space who never acknowledged each other’s presence. Someone who did not care that she just sent the local annoying brat to a government base in her search for aliens. Someone who did not care if that brat died. Until that brat did.

Or at least, Sherry swears Charlotte died. How charred and mangled her body was from the electric fence she thought she could launch herself over. The smell of burnt flesh she swears she could still smell.

But when that brat came around the next day? Was it the next day? The same day? Just earlier? When Charlotte came around the next day hunting for aliens again and seeking the help of the “local scientist who could totally be building anti alien weapons”, she couldn’t send her to the base to get rid of her. Couldn’t turn a blind eye to the fact that this kid kept coming to her house instead of going home everyday after school. Couldn’t look away from how much she didn’t want to go home.

She planned to take Charlotte and run. A quick thrown together plan like this should have fallen through immediately yet, surprisingly was supported by her father. He’d thought about a business proposal she had given him earlier in the month- a start up for helper robots and companion androids- and pointed out she’d need a few... “unpaid interns” to help her out with this at first. So long as she took the family name and left him a silent partner, he would fund her through this and further schooling.

Charlotte Baash (+ a bonus Xander bc I drew them together once)

Revived Human

13 yrs

Short, Stubborn, and Loyal

A human child who died while alien hunting and came to a place known as “The End”. Her amber eyes becoming black empty sockets, and a third more painful eye opening in the middle of her forehead- allowing her some sight. Denial about the fate of her older brother led her to traversing the The End to find some escape back to life to continue her hunt for his extraterrestrial kidnappers.

On her journey, she met and made two friends, Gem and Norton. And though the events that led them all to escape The End robbed her of her memory of her time there, if she ever met them again she would know and trust them completely. Such was the case with Norton, when she met him again shortly after returning to “the real world” and running away from home with Sherry.

There she lived with Sherry, an alien named Peri, and an android named Kris that Sherry was trying to rebuild an arm for. Norton lived across the street, and new neighbors seemed to be moving in quite a lot. Everyday was filled with laughter and the ongoing hunt for aliens.

When her third eye reopened suddenly, Charlotte ran off in a panic off to the surrounding woods where her new found sight gave her the ability to elude her rescuers until Norton was alone so she could confront him. Memories of The End had come flooding back and she knew he was the only one who stood a chance of believing her. It took time for her to be able to sort through everything with some clarity with his reluctant help.