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I wrote Nestly to be more relate-able, I hope, to the readers. She is an "undead", in school she studied to become a specialist in cataloging aquatic animals. Thoroughly dissatisfied she accepts the humiliation of returning to school when she is 33 (with very few exceptions, the school teaches children from ages 3-12), Nestly suffers from a severe stutter; it gets increasingly worse when she feels stressed or pressured. I talked a little about how the MI people feel about handicaps, but I really didn't get into the full weight of it.
You see, the MI believe in a cause-effect world. The natives believed that if they didn't follow their religion and did as their hearts desired, they would be obliterated by the island's volcano. Likewise, all negative things lead to negative outcomes. When someone gets sick, it is assumed the sickness is a sign of a weak will. Someone with a strong will would be able to fight it off. Now imagine having a permanent disadvantage and everyone you know has this mind set. Needless to say she feels like an outcast, despite her dreams to be a televised reporter, she goes back to school to look for another option that will end in less ridicule.
She then meets her edgy, highly-controversial teacher who insists that she follows her dreams and to hell with what everyone else thinks or says, and does whatever he can to convince her to do so. As cute as that thought is, all she can imagine is people laughing and scorning her as she tries to do something she loves to do.

I don't know how her story will end, I wanted to do a lot of philosophical debating since primarily the characters are pretty young in comparison. I wanted to work in some fun concepts and all that jazz, but I need to get in some research to get the right inspiration. -.-* homework follows you, even after school is over.
On that chipper note, I'm done uploading for a bit. orz
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