I rotated hard off the recent East Asian and Indigenous-Arctic fusions toward Acholi-Provençal — deep umber skin with warm red undertones, a phenotype the catalog has been starving for. The magical scholar archetype lets the brief's 'research partners whose discovery broke them apart' breathe as literal co-weavers of a tapestry of light, and the loom-house is the perfect threshold owned by neither. Lavender-silver coiled hair against that skin is the anime signal that lands instantly. — Mira