me and my lists. okay. you all know about me and my lists by now lol
since it's Face Equality Week (finished this JUST IN TIME YAY), this is A List TM of characters with facial differences in Aros Against Fate (mostly in book 1, Empires Always Fall, because that's what I'm currently working on and have all/most of the necessary supporting characters made for)
Halek (he/him): a main character. Halek has a big scar on his face from falling into a sharp corner as a young child and has cystic acne.
Rovian (she/her): a main character. Rovian has a unilateral complete cleft lip (and a cleft palate) and a purplish birthmark on almost half of her face.
Sei (she/her or o-mΔ/o-mΔn): a main character. Sei has Fragile X Syndrome.
KaelΓa* (she/it or o-nai/o-nain): a main character. KaelΓa has burn scars on the side of its face and neck/around, below, and on its ear (*subject to change due to her more antiheroic nature) and, visible close-up, dermatillomania scars and wounds (hiiii dermatillomania twins with me lol).
Zhe'Δrani (she/her) or Ε i Arrokhai KjΓΊ (they/them or o-nai/o-nain): main character. ZheβΔrani has vitiligo and achondroplasia.
Jue (ze/hir or o-hΔ/o-hΔn): Main character. Jue has Down Syndrome, a burn scar on hir forehead, and a faint scar from a surgically-closed cleft lip.
ΔvolΓΊ (they/them): supporting character (ZheβΔraniβs friend). ΔvolΓΊ has severe burn scars and skin grafts on most of their body, including their face.
Aedrii-NΓΊ (she/her): supporting character (Halekβs little cousin who lives with him). Aedrii-NΓΊ has Treacher-Collins Syndrome and a fairly recent scar from a closed cleft lip, as well as a tracheostomy tube. (If readers ever see her mother DΓ©las on the page directly, which doesnβt happen in this draft and I donβt have a plan for in the next draft but might occur when she comes to pick Aedrii-NΓΊ up at some point, DΓ©las also has Treacher-Collins Syndrome.)
Taidan (he/him): minor supporting character (Halekβs motherβs boyfriend, host of a rebel radio station). Taidan has Crouzon Syndrome.
Maidallis (she/her): supporting character (Rovianβs mother). Maidallis has a cleft lip (and palate).
Rokhesh (he/him): supporting character (ZheβΔraniβs father and Rovianβs biological father). Rokhesh has a burn scar around his mouth and nose and had part of the outside of his nose amputated.
Saafeera* (she/her): supporting character (Rovianβs mother). *Saafeera has burn scars in various places on her body and Iβm still deciding exactly the angle of the explosion relative to her; especially if I get rid of KaelΓaβs burns Saafeera will have some on the side of her face, and regardless probably in some spots on the back of her neck and head.
Nesyue (she/her or o-nai/o-nain): supporting character (KaelΓaβs sister). Nesyue has Treacher-Collins Syndrome. (In the original draft this was meant to be a bonding point between her and Aedrii-NΓΊ as their relationship developed but they no longer spend time living together or probably even meet in this draft. Alas.)
Guodei (she/her or ai-nai/ai-nain): supporting character (KaelΓaβs sister). Guodei has a ~three-lined scar on one cheek.
LΔ«s (he/they/she/xe/fae or o-nai/o-nain): supporting character (KaelΓa and ZheβΔraniβs close friend). LΔ«s has a scar on his face from an incident with a tree branch.
Miwaanii-ShΓ©melΓΊs (all of them; thereβs at least three of them in there but they all use the same name and vague pronouns) (he/him but honestly itβs whatever): supporting character (main character Daanahβsβ¦ partnerβ¦? of some sort). Miwaanii-ShΓ©melΓΊs has dermatillomania scars and nystagmus (and likely some degree of strabismus when he takes his glasses off).
Juraji (xe/xem): supporting character (Halekβs queerplatonic partner). Juraji has Bellβs palsy.
Diihse (he/him): supporting character (Halekβs close friend). Diihse has Down Syndrome and hemifacial microsomia with a prosthetic eye.
Γgbii (she/her): minor supporting character (Halekβs friend/part of the group as Diihseβs twin sister and Jurajiβs girlfriend). Γgbii has Down Syndrome and a scar from a surgically-closed cleft lip.
NiimfΓ©o-ElΓΊs (she/her): supporting character (Halekβs grandmother who lives with him). NiimfΓ©o-ElΓΊs has some facial paralysis from a stroke.
ChiishΓ©-Faindh (he/him): supporting character (Halekβs uncle who lives with him, Aedrii-NΓΊβs father). ChiishΓ©-Faindh has Down Syndrome and a cleft lip.
Misa (he/him): supporting character (Halekβs cousin and friend). Misa has chemical burns on and around his eyes from a workplace accident.
Qatriong (she/her or o-nai/o-nain): supporting character (ZheβΔrani and KaelΓaβs close friend). After [spoiler], Qatriong has some facial paralysis.
AilΓt (she/her): supporting character (Rovian and Halekβs friend, Rovianβs sisterβs partner). AilΓt has Waardenburg Syndrome.
Fiya (ey/em): minor supporting character (Rovianβs newborn nibling). Fiya has a large birthmark on eir face in a similar position to Rovianβs (possibly mirrored) and Waardenburg Syndrome.
Suinak (she/her or o-pΔ/o-pΔn): supporting character (candidate to be betrothed to Jue or Sei, later part of Sei and Ynaβs court). Suinak has vitiligo and acne scars.
Mkera (she/her or o-mΔ/o-mΔn): supporting character (candidate to be betrothed to Jue). Mkera has hyperpigmentation spots, including on her face.
Jiremau (she/her or o-mΔ/o-mΔn): supporting character (candidate to be betrothed to Jue or Sei, later part of Sei and Ynaβs court). Jiremau has occulocutaneos albinism.
Ynesalinau/Yna (she/her or o-mΔ/o-mΔn): supporting character (candidate to be betrothed to Jue or Sei, later Seiβs wife). Yna has a prominent underbite.
MΓ©rΓw (he/they/she): supporting character (Rovianβs friend and coworker). MΓ©rΓw has facial tumours, alopecia areata, and vitiligo.
FiitsΓ£n (he/him or Ε«-rΕ«/Ε«-rΕ«n): supporting character (Jueβs best friend). FiitsΓ£n has a scar roughly the size of a quarter (though not an even, round shape) on the side of his forehead from hitting his head hard on a window in a bus crash.
Trais (ze/hir or she/her): minor supporting character (Daanahβs colleague). Trais has alopecia areata.
Ngionah (she/her or Δ-ziu/Δ-ziun): supporting character (Jueβs guard). Ngionah has alopecia universalis.
Linoxa (she/her or iao-rΕ«/iao-rΕ«n): possible minor supporting character (FiitsΓ£nβs sister). Linoxa has a severe overbite and ptosis, and possibly other facial differences.
Qaidiao (he/him or Δ-mΔ/Δ-mΔn): supporting character (Seiβs father, Jueβs uncle). Qaidiao has Fragile X Syndrome.
Jaision (she/her or o-mΔ/o-mΔn): supporting character (Seiβs sister). Jaision has Fragile X Syndrome.
JΔn-TajanΔ (she/they/he or iao-mΔ/iao-mΔn): supporting character (Seiβs sibling). JΔn-TajanΔ has Fragile X Syndrome.
[The Gharan doctor] (she/her): minor supporting character (ZheβΔraniβs doctor). She has a βGlasgow/Chelsea Smileβ (which is a kind of scar around the mouth that kind of looks like a very wide grin).
[The waiter in the restaurant in Moghrlai Gurodstadit] (unknown): one-off character. Has Down Syndrome (remarked upon internally by Jue because ze has never seen someone else with Down Syndrome in real life before (which is bad! RaiqiongshΔ et al are shitty ableist parental figures! Which is a Big Thing in-text)).












