Qangata - Character Index

[Louanne Learning]

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by @Louanne Learning	by @ps102	by @Username: required	by @takadote26	by @Pending
Malina Ivalu	Ioanna Markopoulou	Briar Cole	Camila Lestrane	Jericho Pascal
Joshua Kalluk
Ian McCarty

 

[Louanne Learning]

Character created by Louanne Learning

Name: Malina Ivalu

Male or female: Female

Age: 25

Inuit-Canadian, Non-Inuit Canadian, American, or Other (please specify)? Inuit

Physical appearance (no images please):

Malina is an attractive young Inuk woman, with long, straight black hair, round face with full lips, a button nose, and sparkling dark eyes that squint when she smiles, which is often. Of medium height and slender, she tends to dress down comfortably, preferring yoga pants and loose T-shirts. Her movements are slow and graceful.

Backstory:

Malina has lived in Qangata all of her life. She was raised in a typical, low, square bungalow, by loving parents who infused the story-telling tradition in her. She loved hearing about her ancestors and their exploits, and soon began to write her own stories and poetry, using similar themes.

At the age of twelve, her mother signed her up at the local community gallery—The Aputik Gallery—for ceramics lessons. Malina never looked back. Hooked on sculpture, bringing both spiritual and visionary gifts to her artwork, her skills developed rapidly, and she now splits her time at the gallery between creating and teaching art.

Personality:

Introspective and thoughtful, Malina never rushes. She is loyal, kind and generous, and a good listener, but tends to lose patience with those who do not learn from their mistakes. She is fiercely attached to her heritage, and she credits her wicked sense of humour to it.

She is the oldest of six siblings, so that has tended to give her a take-charge attitude.

Other information:

Malina is unattached, and doesn’t make a lot of time for dating. Between writing, creating sculptures, and running classes at the gallery, her days are full.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Character created by @ps102

Name: Ioanna Markopolou

Male or female: Female

Age: 24

Inuit-Canadian, Non-Inuit Canadian, American, or Other (please specify)? Greek

Physical appearance (no images please): Ioanna is on the tall side with a slender build. She has brown-shaded dark hair, hazel eyes and olive-toned skin.

Backstory:
Ioanna was raised in the Peloponnese peninsula. She had what she considers an okay and normal childhood there. She left when she turned 18 to study computer science in the University of Athens, something her parents were firmly opposed against because they wanted her to run their family bakery. Five years later, however, Ioanna graduated with honours and left Greece for America in hope for well-paid IT work.

She was able to find work maintaining various IT systems in the University of Michigan. Ioanna was sure that it was all smooth sailing from there. But after a series of unfortunate and traumatizing events that completely destroyed not just her entire world view, but that of her very self, she quit her job and decided to never trust humanity ever again.

On that end, she heard of Qangata, an isolated and remote town where she'd be surrounded by as few humans as possible. To her luck, she learned that NORAD had an open position for a junior IT system administrator. She made an application and to her absolute shock, was accepted very quickly.

With just one suitcase containing what is most important to her, Ioanna left for Qangata. She arrives just as the story starts.

Personality:
Quiet and reclused, she prefers to keep to herself. This became especially true after her brief time in America. Now, she attempts to avoid others as much as possible.

Other information:
She possesses a number of mysterious memories she can't explain or make sense of. Neither she nor her parents have any answers for them.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Character created by @Username: required

Name: Briar Cole

Male or female: Male

Age: 32

Inuit-Canadian, Non-Inuit Canadian, American, or Other (please specify)? - American

Physical appearance (no images please): A quiet, calculated man with no hair at all besides the crude beard growing from his chin. He almost always wears a Bowler hat no matter how cold it is outside.

Backstory: Didn’t go to school. Has never had a job. Doesn’t need one. He knows something most people don’t, and from a young age, he left his parents and went to fend off the world by himself in the Colorado mountains. Specifically loves the cold, so he illegally passed the border into Canada and got himself to a place called Qangata, where the people there seem the nicest. Makes a living by working in a restaurant... for the time being.

Personality: Numb. Helpful. Intriguing. Has many secrets, perhaps of his past misdeeds. He can cut through a person with his gaze alone.

Other information: There is no chance of surviving, so why not make surviving harder?

 

[Louanne Learning]

Character created by @takadote26

Name: Ms. Camila Lestrane

Male or female: Female

Age: 26

Inuit-Canadian, Non-Inuit Canadian, American, or Other (please specify)? Australian

Physical appearance (no images please): Camila has blonde hair in a bun and wears spectacles over questioning blue eyes. She wears ballet flats and gold hoop earrings. She has a pear-shaped body and dresses in cream-coloured belted dresses, often with a white lab coat overtop.

Backstory:

Camila was born in the Whitsunday Islands of Australia, and got out as soon as she could. Her search for freedom led her to Qangata. She worked at the police-station briefly (as a psychologist) before moving onto the medical-clinic, then took her many talents and opened up her own practice where she could share non-traditional methods. She has talents in tarot cards and hypnotising others, and specialises in retrieving past lives of the subjects involved.

Camila now runs her own wellness clinic – “Camila’s Care”

Personality:

Camila can be frosty and rather no-nonsense, but her playful attitude surfaces sometimes. She is a bohemian by nature, and wants nothing more than to be free of rigid rules and convention.

Other information

Camila can only speak English and she also likes the colour aquamarine.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Character created by @Pending

Name: Jericho Pascal

Male or female: Male

Age: 27

Inuit-Canadian, Non-Inuit Canadian, American, or Other (please specify)?: American

Physical appearance (no images please):

He’s just over six foot. His skin is tanned but a little dry. Slightly above average looking. Blond-haired, his eyes are green and he wears glasses. He covers up a little more than other people because he isn’t used to the cold. Typically he prefers layers.

Backstory:

He grew up at the edge of the desert in small town. His father was an exterminator, and without a mother to watch him on the weekend, Jericho typically got dragged to jobs. The city was around an hour away so they weren’t hurting too bad for cash. He enjoyed reading and learning far more than socializing. He got scholarships to university and studied microbiology. He worked at a lab in Nevada for a couple years. Cut funding made the lab close down, but one of his superiors put in a good word for him and Jericho managed to snag an open position as a microbiologist at PARS, Qangata. He recently arrived.

Personality:

He’s fairly blunt, but not out of cruelty. He also has a dry sense of humor. He greatly enjoys learning new things, but dislikes socializing. He somewhat ties his self-worth into the amount of knowledge he has on something. Jericho typically hides his actual emotions until he becomes comfortable around someone.

Other information: His name comes from the rose and he is far-sighted.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Character created by Louanne Learning

Name: Joshua Kalluk

Male or female: Male

Age: 32

Inuit-Canadian, Non-Inuit Canadian, American, or Other (please specify)? Inuit

Physical appearance (no images please):

Joshua is tall and well-built. A handsome Inuk, with prominent cheekbones and dark eyes that turn up at the outside corners, his black hair is cut short and he is clean-shaven. His usual expression is a thoughtful frown. When not dressed in his constable uniform, he wears jeans and T-shirts.

Backstory:

As a child, Joshua lost both of his parents in a tragic drowning accident. They were intoxicated, and Josh became determined to do better for himself. He won a scholarship to the University of Manitoba and earned a degree in sociology. Then, following a recruitment initiative of the federal government, he completed the four-month training course to become a constable with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). He is now a law officer in Qangata.

His friends and family are proud of all he has achieved, but still good-naturedly tease him by calling him Qallunaaq—which translates as “Southerner.” But all Inuk know they can call on him night or day. Feeling committed to the entire community, he bristles at making any kind of personal commitment—like marriage—to one person.

Joshua was raised by his grandmother, Lusa, with whom he still lives. He credits her for all good things that have happened for him.

Personality:

Joshua is on the serious side, and is always observing. He tends to look for practical solutions to all problems, rather than living in the past. He needs to be moving. Stasis increases his anxiety.

Other information:

Joshua plays the guitar. His favourite musician is Gordon Lightfoot.

 

[Louanne Learning]

character created by Louanne Learning

Name: Ian McCarty

Male or female: Male

Age: 30

Inuit-Canadian, Non-Inuit Canadian, American, or Other (please specify)? Non-Inuit Canadian

Physical appearance (no images please):

Ian is five-foot-seven, and of a stout build. His red hair is thinning on top, and he is clean-shaven. He is average looking, neither beautiful nor ugly. His best feature is his big, blue eyes. He likes to wear khakis and buttoned shirts.

Backstory:

Ian was born and raised in Toronto. His mother and father were both lawyers, and encouraged Ian to follow in their footsteps. When he announced he wanted to be a teacher, they did not hide their disappointment. When he finished his education, teacher jobs were few and far between in southern Ontario, so he took the big step of accepting a position in Qangata. The North was always recruiting teachers. Secretly, he thought it might be a good thing to get out from under the thumbs of his parents. He now teaches grade 5 at Ulaajuk Elementary School.

Personality:

Ian is quiet and bookish. He never looses his temper. His storytelling talents come alive when he is with his students, but he is shy around adults. He has a big heart, and tends to take everything to heart. A people-pleaser, he is also prone to second-guessing himself.

Other information:

He is working on a novel based on his experiences in the far North.