SkunkyArt | LadyPep — Genesis Dissentire: Nestor and Hestia

Hestia is the leader of a large “tribe” in the Badlands

I’m not sure if I mentioned the Badlands yet, so I’ll give a brief synopsis about that: the Badlands on Genesis is basically a strip of the planet where the war was fought and a massive weapon discharged that cut a huge swathe in the crust. Later, destroyed pieces of ships, vehicles, and robots were deposited there. It’s now a massive junkyard roughly the size of the Himalayan Mountain Range where people wanting to escape the technological society of Genesis’s cityworld live

She lived in that area prior to the coup led by Ducard and watched as her home and a majority of the continent was destroyed around her when the supermassive weapon was discharged. She, her husband, and their three young boys made it out of the burning city to a district that was cooling off from the destruction. A lot of people were displaced and without everyday supplies for months before the new government of Unity sent in support

Hestia’s husband got a bad gash during their time scavenging around, looking for a safe place to sleep everyday. The wound was left untreated because they had no medical supplies readily available, and he didn’t want to alarm anyone so he didn’t let on how bad it was. The injury got septic and he died while battling a fever, leaving Hestia a widow with her boys

She helped to organize the people in her district and they started to act like a community. They were able to make do with older tech as Unity’s relief program petered out, and eventually denied Unity soldiers from entering the Badlands without a fight

When they got older, Hestia’s eldest boys–twins Castor and Pollux–went off to try to find less contaminated areas so that the tribe can set down permanent roots instead of being constantly on the move. Hestia still has a teenaged son, Myles, who she babies to no end. Castor had a kid with his girlfriend, Aella, which his mother doesn’t know about. It’s a secret he only shared with his twin, Pollux

Myles wanted to join his brothers but he’s still young and not very strong, so they told him to stay with their mother. Hestia caught him trying to sneak off and follow the twins and has since kept a close eye on Myles

Hestia has sustained a lot of wounds during the time when she and her family were living hand to mouth following the aftermath of the explosion, and in fights with other tribes. She lost her right eye and had it replaced with an implant, along with her right ear, which she also has an implant for, in the same fight. She lost her left arm when it got sliced off during the explosion by burning hot debris, fortunately cauterizing it

Her right hand man is Nestor, (pictured here) a big guy who got slashed in the throat with a shocker during a fight, cutting his vocal cords. He never opted to get an implant so he could talk again because he doesn’t care enough about speaking and thinks that other people could use the tech for more important things. To communicate, he uses sign language and holotexts. He also lost his wife in the initial explosion of the weapon. He’s a bit sweet on Hestia in his own gruff, stonily silent way