Yes, having two characters being representative of similar concepts has both up an down sides and, while I agree with Cryyptic's argument as well, I don't think it completely nullifies your points, Phantom.

Firstly, without going into much detail for the sake of retaining character mystery, the whole race thing was going to be a big deal for my character and a central point of her development and I do feel like having another weird creature from an isolated culture would impose on that and I do feel that, as Phantom said, we could be dealing with very similar situations. I know that Cryyptic said that our characters aren't similar except for them being non-human and I agree, however, from the human's side, they'd be much the same.

Additionally, Atrayen's arch nemesis is rather similar to certain aspects of what I had planned for my character's past, which would indeed be bland.

Looking on the bright side, though (I mean seriously, virtually anything can be made to work in Rp land) depending on Atrayen's general demeanor and opinion regarding humans, I could see our characters being interesting foils. I can see Aglaia's part in Atrayen's pursuit of his tribesman being quite interesting and I'd be interested to see how our characters react to the same situation. For example (a question for Shard) what would Atrayen do if he and Aglaia were walking down the road and someone started abusing them? Because Agalaia would probably try and rip the guy's head off. If Atrayen had a cooler head, then their interactions could be interesting, or maybe they'd feed off of each other's spitefulness, I'unno, I'm just kinda brainstorming and blabbering a bit but I can totally see interest in the fact that our characters are so different and yet Atrayen and his people could be facing similar issues to what Aglaia's people faced centuries ago and how different (or not) people are.

Then there's the fact that, if this world is indeed like DC, then there's all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures running around heroing and it could lead for interesting development for Aglaia to see the unity. I also don't think Atrayen's presence would interfere with her feeling isolated given that they still can't speak english and I think that the assumption that they'd be buddies just because they both aren't human could leave certain parties very offended.

So, anyway. I guess I stand a bit biased towards my character in preferring that a less similar character was used but, especially if nobody else has a problem with it, I won't kick up a fuss, I'm sure we'll work it all in.

I guess we could both post a second character, leaving Phantom to choose the best combination of the four, but again, if you've dropped the issue, I'm fine with us both just playing who we want to play the most ^_^