Gattie Gourami is dwelling R24-5 First Floor’s Helical Energy Team Leader. At 27 she has been in the Roller Tunnels more than a few crossings too many. She is competitive, hardworking, and happy enough to either trade in contraband or just outwork all the other Naiads in her stack.
Gourami-pretty enough to hold her own in looks comparison to her roommates and neighbors, she still overcompensates by working circles around everyone mostly due to her height. She is by no means weirdly short at 5’2 but Pootz and Danio are leggy, and Acara is a little taller and buxom. Gattie can do basic chemistry and has fermented wine and elixirs for trade. She’s bi-lingual as she can speak Atinlay and keeps her ears to the pipes, so to speak, to keep tabs on what’s going on in other apartments. Gattie is athletic and has developed a full lower Naiad leg pattern that resembles giraffe hide (according to Joy) though neither Gattie nor any of the others have any idea of what a giraffe is. Her pattern is, in fact, that of the Venustus Chichlid, which in turn gets named informally as a Giraffe Fish on “normal” Earth. But on Terra Aqua, no Giraffes exist. Okay, well… Maybe like, a dozen, on some small island somewhere. But if they do, they haven’t been named yet by any mer-zoologist.
Though upbeat usually, Gattie can be sad and stress easily. At 27 she’s beginning to worry that she may never become a mermaid – that her window for change may have passed her by.
Fun Fact: When Acara does something clumsily, Gattie likes to call her a “Devil” in Atinlay which comes out as “Ɛvil-day.”
Another Fun Fact: It’s a huge hassle to get that backwards 3 epsilon symbol to show up anywhere.