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I attended to a small forum roleplay in a Finnish site, with a story revolving around the fallen angels (or their descendants? The wording that the author uses is ambiguous). The angels are unaware of their identities, and they are scattered all around the world and they live very different kinds of lives. However, three things in them are in common: they all were born in the same day (and are currently 19 years old), they all were adopted to another family, and they all bear similar birth marks on their backs. A rich Scottish family Wright has vowed to protect these angels, and resulted by this, the current heir Zachary Wright gathers all angels (voluntarily or not) to his mansion to keep them safe. This is not simply paranoia, since a faction known as Hunters would like to kill these angels...

I got interested in the roleplay, and when I noticed that all the other angel characters were white people from English-speaking countries, I wanted to kick in some variation. Hence, I wanted to make an African character, namely a motswana as Botswana is the most familiar African country to me (via the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels). Her name is Keitumetse, a girl adopted as a baby by an elderly farmer couple who had tried to get a child by their own with no avail. She lived a happy, tough financially limited childhood in the countryside of Botswana. She was influenced greatly by her adoptive parents conservative and Western-hesitant way of thinking; her parents assumed that city dwellers are severely tainted by modern Western values, making girls just to chase boys and vice versa, and that the modern citizens are selfish and disrespectful. Having limited life experience and never questioning her parents' way of thinking, this way of thinking also rubbed onto Keitumetse, making her suspicious towards Western people.

Won't be easy for her when a Scottish moneybag just comes to kidnap her and shove her into a manor stuffed with white people far in north.

It was interesting but tough to draw this, given that my brain is hardcoded to draw Caucasian people. I tried to google pictures of Tswana people and try to tell myself why they looked Tswana. I also tried to avoid just looking any pictures about African people, having heard a few times this complain about "African people are always stuffed into the same narrow stereotype that represents no single culture". Probably there is still something off in my portrayal, both drawn and written, but on the other hand, I don't take this roleplaying game too seriously. Just wanting to get basic lines somewhat right. If I was writing a bigger story or a novel, then of course I would go to hoard all the infoz.

Here is my try, a quickish doodle of Keitumetse.

Description
I attended to a small forum roleplay in a Finnish site, with a story revolving around the fallen angels (or their descendants? The wording that the author uses is ambiguous). The angels are unaware of their identities, and they are scattered all around the world and they live very different kinds of lives. However, three things in them are in common: they all were born in the same day (and are currently 19 years old), they all were adopted to another family, and they all bear similar birth marks on their backs. A rich Scottish family Wright has vowed to protect these angels, and resulted by this, the current heir Zachary Wright gathers all angels (voluntarily or not) to his mansion to keep them safe. This is not simply paranoia, since a faction known as Hunters would like to kill these angels...

I got interested in the roleplay, and when I noticed that all the other angel characters were white people from English-speaking countries, I wanted to kick in some variation. Hence, I wanted to make an African character, namely a motswana as Botswana is the most familiar African country to me (via the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels). Her name is Keitumetse, a girl adopted as a baby by an elderly farmer couple who had tried to get a child by their own with no avail. She lived a happy, tough financially limited childhood in the countryside of Botswana. She was influenced greatly by her adoptive parents conservative and Western-hesitant way of thinking; her parents assumed that city dwellers are severely tainted by modern Western values, making girls just to chase boys and vice versa, and that the modern citizens are selfish and disrespectful. Having limited life experience and never questioning her parents' way of thinking, this way of thinking also rubbed onto Keitumetse, making her suspicious towards Western people.

Won't be easy for her when a Scottish moneybag just comes to kidnap her and shove her into a manor stuffed with white people far in north.

It was interesting but tough to draw this, given that my brain is hardcoded to draw Caucasian people. I tried to google pictures of Tswana people and try to tell myself why they looked Tswana. I also tried to avoid just looking any pictures about African people, having heard a few times this complain about "African people are always stuffed into the same narrow stereotype that represents no single culture". Probably there is still something off in my portrayal, both drawn and written, but on the other hand, I don't take this roleplaying game too seriously. Just wanting to get basic lines somewhat right. If I was writing a bigger story or a novel, then of course I would go to hoard all the infoz.

Here is my try, a quickish doodle of Keitumetse.