#minbari

When the darkness comes, if you ever have doubt about your actions, all you need do is look into the face of a Vorlon. Once you see that, all doubt is erased forever.

Putting 'em all together in one post, my Babylon 5 watercolor triptych is done! I had originally just done the Delenn one, but inspiration struck and a G'kar followed, and a Londo soon after. It's never too late to get into a show that's been off the air for decades! Bonus: They look so nice hanging on my wall, I might actually get some frames one of these days :')

Name: Aurora Tar

Age: 25 years old

Race: Human-Minbari hybrid

Speacial features: Albino

Medical conditions: Strong and frequent migraines, an excessive amount of allergies.

Speacial abilities: Very strong intuition (closer to a prophetic sense)

Character: reserved, peaceful (but will fight if necessary), courageous, altruistic, passionate about her interests, cautious, poetic, sligtly cynical, honest, loyal.

Languages: English, Minbari

Skills and talents: Space craft piloting, dancing, Denn'bok fighting.

Caste: Warrior (self-identified)

Fears: Arachnophobia (fear of spiders)

Favourite colour: Violet

Romantic attraction: Straight (Neroon)

This character was created as an attempt to imagine a human-Minbari hybrid who would be an actual combination of different genes and not a result of self-inflicted transformation like it happened in Delenn's case.

Aurora is a biological experiment commited by her parents who met far before the official date of the first contact while being stranded together on a far away planet after each of them crash-landed there (later discovered by Humans). She is quite self-conscious about her origins, especially since neither of her parents' species seems to be happy about her existence. She is used to being insulted and even refers to herself as an "abomination" at times, believing her creation was a mistake. However, deep inside, she yearns for true connection and love.

This is, obviously, partly a problem with the Earth ship going out there without adequate preparation after the Centauri told them not to, but it's also not just a human problem; the Minbari very clearly have been so isolationist for so long that they simply don't understand how to interact with other species very well. The Centauri consider them too dangerous to mess with, and leave them alone. (Which also means that Londo, Vir, et al would've grown up thinking of the Minbari as Those Scary Weirdos Over There, not too different from the Vorlons, which must have made it interesting to suddenly be living next door to Delenn and working with her ...)

But like, aside from just leaving them alone like the Centauri do, there's no way the Earth delegation could have learned enough to interact with them safely, because the aliens simply don't talk to each other. Which of course is the whole point of Babylon 5 ...