Character
Name: Zeetah
Race: Ampharian
Gender: Androgynous
Age: 15
Description:Zeetah is a young Ampharian acrobat originating from the Froggila tribe who lives in a forgotten covered alleyway near a cracked canal wall that constantly leaks, providing a nice, comfortable, moist (if moldy) environment. He dresses as a human male, has light green skin with blue-and-black tree frog-like stripes on his back, long legs with large webbed feet, and big, bulging, red-orange eyes.
Zeetah has lived in Areapolis his entire life, but was kidnapped when he was very young, before he had learned the culture of the Froggila tribe. His kidnappers, a foreign circus who had never seen Ampharians before and did not know how common they were in the city, dressed him as a human boy and trained him as an acrobat in another part of the expansive city. Every day, Zeetah longed to return to his parents, and one day, during a particularly busy day at the circus, he sneaked away, hidden in a small crowd of other Froggila. He searched for his parents by asking the Froggila until he learned that they had gone far away to search for him, assuming his kidnappers had taken him to some faraway country. When Zeetah realized that he could never fit in with the Froggila community, he left to live on his own, using his acrobatics to earn a living performing and stealing when there was no audience.
Race
Name: Ampharian
Description:A race of amphibian-like people with appearances ranging from that of frogs to salamanders. Because of their slimy skin and their need to remain moist, they dwell in the sewers, canals, and rivers of Areapolis and are generally rejected by the other residents of the city. The majority of Ampharians have long, webbed fingers and toes, broad mouths, and various shades of green skin, though some (the salamander-like) have primarily black skin with bright accents of various colors. Biologically, Ampharians are androgynous, each one producing both eggs and fertilization, though they can only fertilize eggs of a different DNA makeup. Due to this androgynous nature, Ampharians are encouraged to consistently dress and act in a way that fits in with neighboring races, whether it is stereotypical male/female attire or something inbetween does not matter, as long as these races can comfortably identify what gender they intend to portray. The Ampharians need to study their neighboring communities to learn what their personal favorite style of dress would be and what gender that style fits into for that community. This has led to problems and confusion in the past, especially since within each tribe there is no gender-based dress, most members choosing only to dress for the weather and many members choosing instead to remain unclothed while in their homes.
The Ampharian race is split among several tribes based upon appearance, separated based on what amphibian they most resemble (eg. frog, toad, salamander, etc.). In general, the Ampharians are a highly curious and carefree race, but they tend to be uneasy when interacting with other tribes because it seems the problem of prejudice based on appearance is not only a human problem. In spite of this artificial separation, the Ampharian are all one race and are biologically all the same.
Organization
Name: The Froggila Tribe
Description:The tribe of Ampharians with the appearance of frogs. The most outgoing of the Ampharian tribes, the Froggila tribe spends most of their time in marketplaces, returning to the canals and rivers infrequently to restore their moistness. In spite of their outgoingness toward other races, they are deeply prejudiced of Ampharians from other tribes and will rarely interact with or even trust them, and they are frequently seen going far out of their way to avoid non-Friggila Ampharians. The Froggila prefer the pronoun "xe/xer" but are mostly tolerant of "he/him", as they are frequently called by other races.