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IC INFORMATION
NAME: Sasasul Quetzalcoatl, also known as Sasu-sasu or Suu-chan.
AGE: Unstated, likely mid-teens. Can’t be determined by looking.
CANON: Centaur’s Worries
CANON POINT: Chapter 62
CANON INFORMATION: There isn’t a good comprehensive source of canon information that I could find. Here’s a lowdown. Centaur’s Worries, or A Centaur’s Life, is a slice-of-life manga taking place in a heavily worldbuilt fantastical but nonmagical reality. In a world where ‘human’ is the blanket term for a variety of related species (Centaurs, fauns, imps, satyrs, angels, cat-eared people, mermaids) there are also the nonhuman Antarcticans, sometimes called Serpentines. Isolated on their icy continent they had little contact with humanity until the modern age, though they have meddled using their superior technology.
Sasasul was raised by older ‘sisters’ and helped to raise younger ‘sisters’ in her turn. One of these was a troublesome child who ran off after an animal; following her, a young Sasasul chased her through ventilation systems, tried to carry her away from adults doing something confidential, and ended up in the sewage system, where a guard had to save them from a giant crocodile.
An older Sasasul took psychological exams, and wound up assigned in a quasidiplomatic position, which first meant some training in how to speak and act. Some countries are hostile to Antarctica, but Japan is friendly and has very strict laws about respecting people regardless of their species - she chose a decent high school in Japan and enrolled in order to learn more about humans and teach them about Antarcticans in turn.
Sasasul had a rocky start as one of her classmates feared her. She and the classmate both made an effort to work around it. Finding out that the fear stemmed from a B-movie about killer snake people she vehemently denied that Antarcticans were anything like that and took the whole thing as a learning experience. She and her classmate, the centaur Hime, wound up friends after this.
They did a bunch of slice-of-lifey things after that, spending time together. Sasasul came to the public pool with Hime and a number of Hime’s friends, one of whom had small children. She was pleased when they took to her quickly. While she was too afraid to enter the shallow pool herself, when the children took her hands and pulled her in she screamed. It didn’t kill her though, and she wound up splashing around and playing.
Seeing a news report spreading a rumor about Antarcticans attacking American ships made Sasasul fearful of reprisal. She tried to blend in using a head scarf, which… did not work. Assuring her that no one would blame her, her friends took her on an outing for clothes and ice cream, and a mindless blockbuster movie that she found fascinating. Later an old friend visited, to Sasasul’s exasperation as she didn’t know how to act and whether or not media was true.
In Home Ec she participated in a girls’ cooking class, not fully understanding how classmates could just roughly estimate instead of carefully measuring things. Boys flocking to beg food off the girls didn’t flock around her, but when she offered her food they were interested. Later she went on a ‘date’ with one of them, wandering the city and experiencing modern art and a used bookstore.
Several months after coming to Japan her ‘little sister’, the one who’d led her into the sewers when they were both children, came and visited and showed herself to have an extremely skewed view of humanity. Sasasul wished to try and gently correct her views while she was there.
PERSONALITY: Antarcticans are explicitly not human, which shows in their culture. A single Queen produces all children, who raise each other and don’t consider their interpersonal bonds to be quite like human love and friendship. They have a far more measured, communal outlook than humans do, with little emphasis on individuality, relationships, or art. Sasasul’s not used to making choices for herself and will generally go happily along with whatever other people decide. Her understanding of social protocols and interpersonal relationships is highly rule-based and she tries to logic out everything. Much of the time she comes off as very formal and she expresses the desire to become friends often. She is dutiful and conscientious about what people think about her and her kind.
Still, she’s also a bit abnormal for an Antarctican. Sasasul is introspective and has a desire not simply to fulfil her duty, but to learn about herself and her own mind. Learning about others is an excellent way to start on that path, so she’s very curious about people, always asking questions and seeking to understand. Nothing delights her as much as when someone attempts to understand her back and she patiently shares information in return, though there are classified things that she keeps concealed.
Sometimes she finds speaking to her own kind exasperating. They tend either to be more standoffish and suspicious of human culture, finding Chuck Tingle-level erotica alarming, or very credulous and overly trusting of media. She has her own understanding and enjoys human company and human perspectives even if she stands a little outside them most of the time. Oddly enough it’s more restful.
Even though she looks like a snake Sasasul is roughly as threatening as a wet paper bag, which is intentional. She keeps her neck in a sharp enough question mark that while she’s very tall her head isn’t particularly high, and her tail and limbs arranged to try and take up less space. Her body language tends towards shy, and she emotes little unless shocked, at which point her mouth opens.
When she first enrolled in a human school she ‘smiled’ when she felt it was appropriate, but since this alarmed people she stopped. Sasasul is abashed whenever someone fears her and tries to reassure them; she similarly is alarmed whenever she thinks she might be causing offense, such as when she says something and realizes it could be construed as rejecting someone’s beliefs.
In Antarctica water is dangerous, and besides that a young Sasasul once ended up in a sewer and attacked by a crocodile. Consequently she’s afraid of water, less of drowning and more of just being in it. After being hauled into a children’s pool she rapidly became comfortable enough to wade around and play, but was unwilling at the time to go deeper. She could learn to go out into the water. It’ll take a while if she’s not just shoved into the deep.
ABILITIES: While Sasasul’s got a very serpentine appearance - she looks like nothing quite so much as a big-headed snake with three eyes and humanlike limbs - she’s only superficially snakelike. She can’t strike hard or constrict and her jaws, while alarming, have nonvenomous teeth and a weak bite. Large as they are they aren’t big enough to eat people, nor would she want to do so. However she has trained herself to eat any of a huge range of items that don’t need chewing. Common poisons and contaminants won’t hurt her, and she doesn’t really mind old or spoiled food.
She has a mathematical bent, some mechanical aptitude, and can do quite complex sums instantly. Rules and procedures are easy for her to grasp. Sasasul would probably enjoy assembling IKEA furniture. She can clean things, hem, and cook adequately if there are clear instructions and measuring tools.
Her enormous wide-set eyes give her a wide, sharp field of view, all the better to observe things without seeming to stare. Her tail can grasp somewhat, and her feet are somewhat handlike, with hips similar to her shoulder joints. Free of the need to stand on them she could probably use them as extra arms, though her hands would be more dexterous than her feet. She has trouble with extreme heat and extreme cold, though she's warm-blooded.
INVENTORY: Her clothes, a cellphone with pictures of her friends and her sister. No charger.
MEMORY ALTERATION: Sasasul thinks she was suddenly reassigned, as the Antarctican who best understands humans, to a very peculiar and possibly extrareality-based, uh, base. She protested, but it was out of her hands. She thinks her superiors performed something to keep any Antarctican secrets from her memory so they could not be shared, which is useful because this way I don’t have to pull together the confusing unrelated threads about the ways her people are meddling with humanity, fighting aliens, and opening portals to alternate realities. (None of that is given a whole lot of focus and I don't know how much she knows about it.)
She thinks she’s here to learn as much as she can and bring back reports, and is not at all happy about the underwater aspect of the setting. The memory of being sent here is really fuzzy, but she'll put that down to the belief that her superiors are suppressing some secrets.
SAMPLE: I don’t have any single thread with 15 comments from Sasasul, but I’ve got several shorter ones.
Here, Here
NAME: Sasasul Quetzalcoatl, also known as Sasu-sasu or Suu-chan.
AGE: Unstated, likely mid-teens. Can’t be determined by looking.
CANON: Centaur’s Worries
CANON POINT: Chapter 62
CANON INFORMATION: There isn’t a good comprehensive source of canon information that I could find. Here’s a lowdown. Centaur’s Worries, or A Centaur’s Life, is a slice-of-life manga taking place in a heavily worldbuilt fantastical but nonmagical reality. In a world where ‘human’ is the blanket term for a variety of related species (Centaurs, fauns, imps, satyrs, angels, cat-eared people, mermaids) there are also the nonhuman Antarcticans, sometimes called Serpentines. Isolated on their icy continent they had little contact with humanity until the modern age, though they have meddled using their superior technology.
Sasasul was raised by older ‘sisters’ and helped to raise younger ‘sisters’ in her turn. One of these was a troublesome child who ran off after an animal; following her, a young Sasasul chased her through ventilation systems, tried to carry her away from adults doing something confidential, and ended up in the sewage system, where a guard had to save them from a giant crocodile.
An older Sasasul took psychological exams, and wound up assigned in a quasidiplomatic position, which first meant some training in how to speak and act. Some countries are hostile to Antarctica, but Japan is friendly and has very strict laws about respecting people regardless of their species - she chose a decent high school in Japan and enrolled in order to learn more about humans and teach them about Antarcticans in turn.
Sasasul had a rocky start as one of her classmates feared her. She and the classmate both made an effort to work around it. Finding out that the fear stemmed from a B-movie about killer snake people she vehemently denied that Antarcticans were anything like that and took the whole thing as a learning experience. She and her classmate, the centaur Hime, wound up friends after this.
They did a bunch of slice-of-lifey things after that, spending time together. Sasasul came to the public pool with Hime and a number of Hime’s friends, one of whom had small children. She was pleased when they took to her quickly. While she was too afraid to enter the shallow pool herself, when the children took her hands and pulled her in she screamed. It didn’t kill her though, and she wound up splashing around and playing.
Seeing a news report spreading a rumor about Antarcticans attacking American ships made Sasasul fearful of reprisal. She tried to blend in using a head scarf, which… did not work. Assuring her that no one would blame her, her friends took her on an outing for clothes and ice cream, and a mindless blockbuster movie that she found fascinating. Later an old friend visited, to Sasasul’s exasperation as she didn’t know how to act and whether or not media was true.
In Home Ec she participated in a girls’ cooking class, not fully understanding how classmates could just roughly estimate instead of carefully measuring things. Boys flocking to beg food off the girls didn’t flock around her, but when she offered her food they were interested. Later she went on a ‘date’ with one of them, wandering the city and experiencing modern art and a used bookstore.
Several months after coming to Japan her ‘little sister’, the one who’d led her into the sewers when they were both children, came and visited and showed herself to have an extremely skewed view of humanity. Sasasul wished to try and gently correct her views while she was there.
PERSONALITY: Antarcticans are explicitly not human, which shows in their culture. A single Queen produces all children, who raise each other and don’t consider their interpersonal bonds to be quite like human love and friendship. They have a far more measured, communal outlook than humans do, with little emphasis on individuality, relationships, or art. Sasasul’s not used to making choices for herself and will generally go happily along with whatever other people decide. Her understanding of social protocols and interpersonal relationships is highly rule-based and she tries to logic out everything. Much of the time she comes off as very formal and she expresses the desire to become friends often. She is dutiful and conscientious about what people think about her and her kind.
Still, she’s also a bit abnormal for an Antarctican. Sasasul is introspective and has a desire not simply to fulfil her duty, but to learn about herself and her own mind. Learning about others is an excellent way to start on that path, so she’s very curious about people, always asking questions and seeking to understand. Nothing delights her as much as when someone attempts to understand her back and she patiently shares information in return, though there are classified things that she keeps concealed.
Sometimes she finds speaking to her own kind exasperating. They tend either to be more standoffish and suspicious of human culture, finding Chuck Tingle-level erotica alarming, or very credulous and overly trusting of media. She has her own understanding and enjoys human company and human perspectives even if she stands a little outside them most of the time. Oddly enough it’s more restful.
Even though she looks like a snake Sasasul is roughly as threatening as a wet paper bag, which is intentional. She keeps her neck in a sharp enough question mark that while she’s very tall her head isn’t particularly high, and her tail and limbs arranged to try and take up less space. Her body language tends towards shy, and she emotes little unless shocked, at which point her mouth opens.
When she first enrolled in a human school she ‘smiled’ when she felt it was appropriate, but since this alarmed people she stopped. Sasasul is abashed whenever someone fears her and tries to reassure them; she similarly is alarmed whenever she thinks she might be causing offense, such as when she says something and realizes it could be construed as rejecting someone’s beliefs.
In Antarctica water is dangerous, and besides that a young Sasasul once ended up in a sewer and attacked by a crocodile. Consequently she’s afraid of water, less of drowning and more of just being in it. After being hauled into a children’s pool she rapidly became comfortable enough to wade around and play, but was unwilling at the time to go deeper. She could learn to go out into the water. It’ll take a while if she’s not just shoved into the deep.
ABILITIES: While Sasasul’s got a very serpentine appearance - she looks like nothing quite so much as a big-headed snake with three eyes and humanlike limbs - she’s only superficially snakelike. She can’t strike hard or constrict and her jaws, while alarming, have nonvenomous teeth and a weak bite. Large as they are they aren’t big enough to eat people, nor would she want to do so. However she has trained herself to eat any of a huge range of items that don’t need chewing. Common poisons and contaminants won’t hurt her, and she doesn’t really mind old or spoiled food.
She has a mathematical bent, some mechanical aptitude, and can do quite complex sums instantly. Rules and procedures are easy for her to grasp. Sasasul would probably enjoy assembling IKEA furniture. She can clean things, hem, and cook adequately if there are clear instructions and measuring tools.
Her enormous wide-set eyes give her a wide, sharp field of view, all the better to observe things without seeming to stare. Her tail can grasp somewhat, and her feet are somewhat handlike, with hips similar to her shoulder joints. Free of the need to stand on them she could probably use them as extra arms, though her hands would be more dexterous than her feet. She has trouble with extreme heat and extreme cold, though she's warm-blooded.
INVENTORY: Her clothes, a cellphone with pictures of her friends and her sister. No charger.
MEMORY ALTERATION: Sasasul thinks she was suddenly reassigned, as the Antarctican who best understands humans, to a very peculiar and possibly extrareality-based, uh, base. She protested, but it was out of her hands. She thinks her superiors performed something to keep any Antarctican secrets from her memory so they could not be shared, which is useful because this way I don’t have to pull together the confusing unrelated threads about the ways her people are meddling with humanity, fighting aliens, and opening portals to alternate realities. (None of that is given a whole lot of focus and I don't know how much she knows about it.)
She thinks she’s here to learn as much as she can and bring back reports, and is not at all happy about the underwater aspect of the setting. The memory of being sent here is really fuzzy, but she'll put that down to the belief that her superiors are suppressing some secrets.
SAMPLE: I don’t have any single thread with 15 comments from Sasasul, but I’ve got several shorter ones.
Here, Here