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Name: Tama

Age: 14

Gender: Bigender (He/They)- They is used in the profile for ease of reading.

Class/Job: Ghost

Height: 5'1

Weight: ???

Birthday: August 3rd

Perfect Gift: Their Diary

Loves/Likes/Dislikes/Hates:

Loves: "Really?"
+ Fresh Flowers and Live Plants
+ Hard Candy
+ Art Supplies

Likes: "Wow."
+ New Books
+ Seeds and Pressed Flowers
+ Comfy Clothes
+ Dried Sweet Potato

Dislikes: "Uhhh."
- Fish
- Cash/Gift Cards/Coupons
- Jeans
- Coffee

Hates: "Yuck."
- Nuts and Legumes
- Single-Use Plastics
- Meat/Broth

Horror Gift: "..."
- Turmeric Tea

Personality:
+ Hard-working + Creative + Empathetic +
/ Inquisitive / Adventurous /
- Hard-Headed - Dramatic - Bored -

Tama is diligent and artistic when working on something important, fun, or for someone they like. They often doodle on any scrap paper they can find, and when boredom really sets in, they add drawings and notation to some of the library books. They love romance and adventure, and because most of their experience with both are through fiction nowadays, they get easily bored of the lack of excitement around them and make their own intrigue. Tama is still somewhat a child/teenager at heart, not above setting up pranks around the library, or eavesdropping in their ghostly form to learn secrets.

In the hours that the library is empty or closed, they read, draw, stage plays, and snoop around the grounds. Despite their interest in dramatics for the sake of entertainment, Tama is rather attuned to other people's emotions, and recognizes when their antics should be set aside or someone needs a little brightening. They leave gifts in the form of drawings in the favorite books of people they like for them to find, and mend books and possessions left in the storage or lost and found areas. At any given time, they are pressing at least one stolen flower in the pages of a rarely-borrowed volume.

Background:
Tama was born and raised in an ice-fishing family in Tacoma. They were educated by their aunt as the family wove fishing nets and fashioned hooks, taught to read their native language and about the fish and fauna around the island. They learned to descale and clean a fish so the scales and organs could be sold as plant food, and how to recognize edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants gathered from Spokane.

One particularly tumultuous Winter, the family traveled to Spokane to wait out a blizzard that was damaging shelters and preventing fishing and hunting. Puzzled but intrigued by the balmy clime, Tama wandered off with the journal their Aunt had provided for their birthday, drawing whatever they found and coming up with names for them. While following a deer through the brush, Tama ran into a Spokane hunter only a couple years older than themselves. After the boy determined the doe to be better left alive, he introduced himself as Kip, giving nothing but his nickname and an offer to join him fishing.

Tama accepted, eager to see the types of fish in the warmer climate where their parents often traded their own sea creatures for plants and herbs. They drew several new species and wrote what facts Kip could offer. The two children spent a few days like this, gathering fruit and mushrooms and logging their details, and talking about the uses for materials from each side of the island. The two worked well as a team, teaching each other techniques for catching and cleaning fish, and preparing meals without a fire.

The excitement of this cultural connection faded a bit after the weather eased, Tama's family traveling back to Tacoma. Tama didn't forget about Kip, but things were busy with the necessity to rebuild tools and cabins in their settlement. In the Summer, however, Kip and his sisters traveled to Tacoma, meeting with Tama's family to trade and commune. Again the pair spent a few weeks collaborating on work and play, Tama adding a drawing of Kip in their journal with subtly teasing notations. When the time came for the duo to separate, Tama gave Kip the journal so that he could add information about any new species he came across in Spokane in the late summer and autumn. Kip's drawings were more cartoonish and silly, but he always included surprising facts for Tama to read.

Things continued this way for years, the pair trading Tama's journal back and forth with each visit until they had to add more pages. When Kip got his coming of age tattoos, Tama did a special drawing of him and slipped it into the journal together with a confessional love letter. Their plan was for Kip to find the letter as he read through their new additions to the unofficial wildlife encyclopedia, and hope for a positive response when they saw each other next in midwinter.

Tama never found out if Kip felt the same way- as Winter settled in following their 14th birthday, mainland adventurers looking to escape the Spanish flu came to Tacoma with their families. Illness followed them, however, and half of the settlement fell ill, including Tama and their mother. Their aunt and father remained well enough to work, and administered all the cures they could devise, including hearty soups, turmeric tea, and dried poppy flowers. For all the ease the medicines provided, the flu was stronger, and battling fever with snow, and chill and dehydration with broth and tea, didn't reverse the progression of symptoms.

Sometime later, Tama found themselves in an unfamiliar place- the Spokane public library. They thought at first that their new reality was a fever dream resulting from their illness, unable to speak to the people around them and wavering from invisible to transluscent to their own eye as well as others'. After some weeks of experimenting, Tama was able to produce speech at an audible volume, and with more practice to pick up or sit on objects for short periods of time. They found that despite their improving skills, they couldn't make it far from the exit of the library, however. Their corporeal form of sorts would fade with each step until they fell faint and woke up back within the walls. Over the years, they've become more adept at appearing human when they want to, donning their poncho (and for the past 15 years mask) to hide any inconvenient transparency, keeping repeat interactions to a minimum as years passed, learning to speak, read, and write in changing languages and patterns, and searching for the journal they believe holds the key to their freedom to roam about the islands.

Fun Facts:

- Tama stole their mask from a library event which people attended in book/manga cosplay. They wear it whenever the library is open, unless they are close with all the people around them, as at times they may appear slightly see through. (They also wear gloves and their hood in public, hiding their form like the invisible man- they got the idea from the book). They feel bad about stealing someone's hard work, but they did leave some money they found in a book in its place.

- They can possess objects to leave the library, but after a day or two, they run out of steam, and get drawn back.

- They believe that their journal (the personal item they think tethered them to the library) was hidden or buried by Kip after their death, and that pieces of it could be scattered in the earth around the library or it could in sum be found somewhere within the walls- they don't know whether the library stood when they were alive, and they haven't seen it in their repeated scouring of the bookshelves and storerooms.

- They can eat (sort of) as when their form is most stable, they can feel and taste things, but the sensation is muted, and they are mostly able to taste sweetness (which they particularly enjoy) and bitterness (which they hate). As a result, they have a weakness for hard candies, which they can keep on hand until their senses allow for their enjoyment.

- They don't typically feel heat and cold unless it's extreme, but they're aware of the concerned looks they get for their Tacoma garb and playact at being a devoted cosplayer or unbearably shy to divert attention when it's particularly sweltering out.

Description

Name: Tama

Age: 14

Gender: Bigender (He/They)- They is used in the profile for ease of reading.

Class/Job: Ghost

Height: 5'1

Weight: ???

Birthday: August 3rd

Perfect Gift: Their Diary

Loves/Likes/Dislikes/Hates:

Loves: "Really?"
+ Fresh Flowers and Live Plants
+ Hard Candy
+ Art Supplies

Likes: "Wow."
+ New Books
+ Seeds and Pressed Flowers
+ Comfy Clothes
+ Dried Sweet Potato

Dislikes: "Uhhh."
- Fish
- Cash/Gift Cards/Coupons
- Jeans
- Coffee

Hates: "Yuck."
- Nuts and Legumes
- Single-Use Plastics
- Meat/Broth

Horror Gift: "..."
- Turmeric Tea

Personality:
+ Hard-working + Creative + Empathetic +
/ Inquisitive / Adventurous /
- Hard-Headed - Dramatic - Bored -

Tama is diligent and artistic when working on something important, fun, or for someone they like. They often doodle on any scrap paper they can find, and when boredom really sets in, they add drawings and notation to some of the library books. They love romance and adventure, and because most of their experience with both are through fiction nowadays, they get easily bored of the lack of excitement around them and make their own intrigue. Tama is still somewhat a child/teenager at heart, not above setting up pranks around the library, or eavesdropping in their ghostly form to learn secrets.

In the hours that the library is empty or closed, they read, draw, stage plays, and snoop around the grounds. Despite their interest in dramatics for the sake of entertainment, Tama is rather attuned to other people's emotions, and recognizes when their antics should be set aside or someone needs a little brightening. They leave gifts in the form of drawings in the favorite books of people they like for them to find, and mend books and possessions left in the storage or lost and found areas. At any given time, they are pressing at least one stolen flower in the pages of a rarely-borrowed volume.

Background:
Tama was born and raised in an ice-fishing family in Tacoma. They were educated by their aunt as the family wove fishing nets and fashioned hooks, taught to read their native language and about the fish and fauna around the island. They learned to descale and clean a fish so the scales and organs could be sold as plant food, and how to recognize edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants gathered from Spokane.

One particularly tumultuous Winter, the family traveled to Spokane to wait out a blizzard that was damaging shelters and preventing fishing and hunting. Puzzled but intrigued by the balmy clime, Tama wandered off with the journal their Aunt had provided for their birthday, drawing whatever they found and coming up with names for them. While following a deer through the brush, Tama ran into a Spokane hunter only a couple years older than themselves. After the boy determined the doe to be better left alive, he introduced himself as Kip, giving nothing but his nickname and an offer to join him fishing.

Tama accepted, eager to see the types of fish in the warmer climate where their parents often traded their own sea creatures for plants and herbs. They drew several new species and wrote what facts Kip could offer. The two children spent a few days like this, gathering fruit and mushrooms and logging their details, and talking about the uses for materials from each side of the island. The two worked well as a team, teaching each other techniques for catching and cleaning fish, and preparing meals without a fire.

The excitement of this cultural connection faded a bit after the weather eased, Tama's family traveling back to Tacoma. Tama didn't forget about Kip, but things were busy with the necessity to rebuild tools and cabins in their settlement. In the Summer, however, Kip and his sisters traveled to Tacoma, meeting with Tama's family to trade and commune. Again the pair spent a few weeks collaborating on work and play, Tama adding a drawing of Kip in their journal with subtly teasing notations. When the time came for the duo to separate, Tama gave Kip the journal so that he could add information about any new species he came across in Spokane in the late summer and autumn. Kip's drawings were more cartoonish and silly, but he always included surprising facts for Tama to read.

Things continued this way for years, the pair trading Tama's journal back and forth with each visit until they had to add more pages. When Kip got his coming of age tattoos, Tama did a special drawing of him and slipped it into the journal together with a confessional love letter. Their plan was for Kip to find the letter as he read through their new additions to the unofficial wildlife encyclopedia, and hope for a positive response when they saw each other next in midwinter.

Tama never found out if Kip felt the same way- as Winter settled in following their 14th birthday, mainland adventurers looking to escape the Spanish flu came to Tacoma with their families. Illness followed them, however, and half of the settlement fell ill, including Tama and their mother. Their aunt and father remained well enough to work, and administered all the cures they could devise, including hearty soups, turmeric tea, and dried poppy flowers. For all the ease the medicines provided, the flu was stronger, and battling fever with snow, and chill and dehydration with broth and tea, didn't reverse the progression of symptoms.

Sometime later, Tama found themselves in an unfamiliar place- the Spokane public library. They thought at first that their new reality was a fever dream resulting from their illness, unable to speak to the people around them and wavering from invisible to transluscent to their own eye as well as others'. After some weeks of experimenting, Tama was able to produce speech at an audible volume, and with more practice to pick up or sit on objects for short periods of time. They found that despite their improving skills, they couldn't make it far from the exit of the library, however. Their corporeal form of sorts would fade with each step until they fell faint and woke up back within the walls. Over the years, they've become more adept at appearing human when they want to, donning their poncho (and for the past 15 years mask) to hide any inconvenient transparency, keeping repeat interactions to a minimum as years passed, learning to speak, read, and write in changing languages and patterns, and searching for the journal they believe holds the key to their freedom to roam about the islands.

Fun Facts:

- Tama stole their mask from a library event which people attended in book/manga cosplay. They wear it whenever the library is open, unless they are close with all the people around them, as at times they may appear slightly see through. (They also wear gloves and their hood in public, hiding their form like the invisible man- they got the idea from the book). They feel bad about stealing someone's hard work, but they did leave some money they found in a book in its place.

- They can possess objects to leave the library, but after a day or two, they run out of steam, and get drawn back.

- They believe that their journal (the personal item they think tethered them to the library) was hidden or buried by Kip after their death, and that pieces of it could be scattered in the earth around the library or it could in sum be found somewhere within the walls- they don't know whether the library stood when they were alive, and they haven't seen it in their repeated scouring of the bookshelves and storerooms.

- They can eat (sort of) as when their form is most stable, they can feel and taste things, but the sensation is muted, and they are mostly able to taste sweetness (which they particularly enjoy) and bitterness (which they hate). As a result, they have a weakness for hard candies, which they can keep on hand until their senses allow for their enjoyment.

- They don't typically feel heat and cold unless it's extreme, but they're aware of the concerned looks they get for their Tacoma garb and playact at being a devoted cosplayer or unbearably shy to divert attention when it's particularly sweltering out.