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These would be Summer Olympics:
Ari would be doing sailing.
Mira in archery
Ro - long distance running, but not marathon
Lyr - watching
Kir - as far away as possible
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She's amazing with it. Comes from years of friendly competition with her older brother.

Just one. They're not super easy to make at their technology level, so the supply is limited.

Ari is a naval captain and very disciplined. He's proficient with a sword and flintlock barb-shot pistol, passing fair with a longbow. Very strategic. Very deadly in battle. And do not mess with his wife or kids.
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Mira is a spiritual leader, but she's extremely proficient with a longbow, and knows how to use a sword. Forced into battle, she's not someone you'd want to be fighting against. But she hates fighting. Only does it when her family/people are in danger. Afraid of Ari's pistol.
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Yes! For fairness, for grace and compassion, for egalitarianism and for seeing people as precious and worthy, no matter who or what they are.

Her hands enveloped his face and she gazed deeply into his eyes. “You have redeemed the failure of your father multiple times over this day, Ariden. I beg you to release yourself from the bonds that memory has laid upon you and be freed."
Den-Aronel Chronicles, Bk 1
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A lot more than I realized at first, I think. And it doesn't show up in the more obvious parallel ways, but it informs a lot of the worldbuilding and some of the plot.

I haven't set anything in Kulidar yet. Not sure if we'll spend any time there.

There are three -- Eniath, where the Den-Aronel live, Karra, the indigenous one, and Kulidar.

Alien invasions often are. 😉

They so belong together. I love their fleeting romance!

But there are people like that in every generation. A lot of younger people are MAGA. Many of my friends in my generation, and I, deplore what's happening now and all the other awful things that harm people in any country.

Not really, not during the War. He was too busy running the "What-ifs" and thinking about battle plans and such. He slept better at home in Mira's arms.

Oh, yes! The family is still all alive, but they lost hundreds of villagers, including beloved grandparents and friends.

There is an entire continent of harsh desert and another that is polar and too cold for anyone to live on. So two out of five continents are not habitable.
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“It’s all right.” She beamed at him and embraced him more tightly. “I love you no matter what you smell like. You’re the best Fathi in the whole of the universe, and I am so glad…so glad you didn’t die today.”
(Den-Aronel Chronicles, Bk1: The Flight)
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For Ari, "home" is his wife's heart. But also...their coastal village that was destroyed by alien invaders. Now living inside a mountain, he feels acutely the loss of the freedom of their home village and the sea.
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She closed her eyes. The rumble of his voice against her ear—supposing she never heard it, felt it again? She would perish utterly.
(Den-Aronel Chronicles, Book 1: The Flight)
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Mira will bring an egg stir-up with veggies. I'm recovering from GI nonsense so no food from me today.

The scope is wide -- family to village to world to star system. Mostly it's inside a mountain where my characters are taking refuge from alien invaders, but sometimes it bleeds out into the larger world and to nearby planets.
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Or maybe he'd be the crosswalk guy for the elementary school.

Ro just loves learning, anything, but I could see science being his jam.

Yes! Good call

As a "young Boomer" I find this disgusting. Me and my Boomer friend find all this horrifying and are doing what we can against it. Check your biases.

As "technically" a Boomer, I find this disgusting. Me and all my similar age friends are horrified by all that's going on. Check your biases.

Ari's would be Literature or History. I'm not sure what XC club.

Mira - torn btwn Choir and Literature. Key Club

Ro - Science. Academic Decathlon

Lyr - Choir. Drama Club

Kir - would be ditching school to go out in nature.

I know who this is! ❤️

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