# Save the Date

**URL:** https://forum.menagerie.team/t/save-the-date/664
**Category:** Summer Time
**Tags:** comic, jason-quill, alycia-chin, octava
**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/save-the-date/664 "2019-03-13T07:20:34Z")
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### Author: ![garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/garrett/32/3_2.png) [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/save-the-date/664/19 "2019-03-14T08:33:27Z")

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Random notes I came up with for writing Octava in the comic:

- She’s an escaped slave, but not someone who had to do hard manual labor - that’s what robots are for (Summer will have _words_ with people about that…)
- Instead, her species was enslaved for their general pleasantness and artistic skill by the Blot, who love beauty but can’t make it
- She’ll come off as a sweet, shy, and innocent girl because she was literally raised to be a Good Girl by bad people
- She rhymes when she talks both out of habit, and to get accustomed to English by forcing herself to construct sentences
- At bottom, though, this is a consequence of the abuse her people were put through, and isn’t a good thing (something Jason doesn’t know, and compliments her on anyway, and will feel guilty about if he finds out later…)
- Getting her to a place where she doesn’t feel threatened to perform any more - where she could talk “naturally”, express unpleasantness or dissatisfaction, or (heavens to Betsy) _swear_ - would be a major accomplishment

Basically, she’s a (very distant) take on an artistic child raised by a dour fundamentalist family, so write her as such.

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