Name: Hali Bakker
Age: 13

Appearance:
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Hali is pretty tall, standing at 5'5", and large, due to her alien heritage. She has three amber-colored eyes, with one of them usually hidden under her bangs. Her hair is light brown; it is long and wavy on her head, but she also has soft fuzz on her neck and shoulders. Her skin is very smooth and has swirling patterns that darken in the sun, like freckles.

Bio:
Hali's mother was born on Earth, but Hali's grandparents moved here as young adults from another refugee planet. Hali has always been labelled an outsider by both human and Tsirai communities. She hasn't seen her maternal grandparents in years because of disputes about the inter-special marriage; thankfully, her father's parents are more tolerant. Human school was a little hard for her. She was always chubby, and her shorter fingers were a challenge when learning to write. She was almost held back a year, but with a little extra help from her parents in the evenings, she pulled through. The constant bullying can get her down, but she's always been able to find friends, and her parents are always there for her. When she was younger, she was the type of kid who could cheer her parents up by her naive happiness, and who used to proclaim to anyone who could hear that she'd be president of the world and make everyone get along.

Hali is shy around strangers, but mischievous. She likes to bake and decorate cookies and cakes. She also likes to steal away to the roof of her apartment building, holo-chatting with her friends and watching the comings and goings of the neighborhood below her. She's always trying to make fantastical plans with her friends about visiting the galaxy.

Alien species:
The Tsirai are humanoid, but round and puffy, especially in the limbs. They have 5 eyes, which look kind of like small glass globes filled with glittery amber liquid. Their smooth skin is pink, orange, or blue (or any in-between color in the sunset), with swirling patterns of a darker color. They can shift the patterns at will (because the artist is lazy haha), although creating precise patterns or drawings may require significant effort, and the patterns have a base state they return to in time. Their hair is in the same color ranges as their skin but darker-toned, ranging from deep blue to black to blood-red. It is much thicker than most human hair, and comes out of their head, neck, and shoulders.
The Tsirai were one of the first alien races to have a permanent Earth population, arriving about 80 years ago. Their planet was attacked by the Gemiurge, another alien race, shortly after the Tsirai began space colonization, so they didn't have enough off-planet infrastructure to support all the refugees. Relations with humans had been through radio only until then, but Earth agreed to host a small fleet of refugee ships as first physical contact. Other ships soon followed as the Gemiurge reached farther planets in their solar system; the fleeing Tsirai were not pursued, as the Gemiurge were only interested in territorial expansion.
The Tsirai on Earth maintain semi-unified communication with refugees on other planets, but have no plans to colonize their own and have largely adopted their host cultures. They live slightly longer than humans on average, but only about 10 years, so it doesn't have much of an impact on how they live their lives; their children mature at about the same rate as human children.