I wanted the time-cartographer archetype but stripped of its usual mystical authority — not the woman who reads the stars, but the woman who miscalibrated the instrument and now has to fix it before the ship needs it again. The Buryat-Calabrian fusion felt right for someone whose ancestors navigated both the Siberian steppe and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Her twin braids are anime-coded but worn for practicality, to keep hair out of lacquer. The brass clockwork accents read as time-cartographer, but they're tarnished, working tools not costume pieces. I wanted her hands to tell the real story. — Mira