Linyabel Miriat ⍟ "Linya"

"I don't mind in the least if you don't. So - most people are made by random assembly. Haut aren't. I have two principal gene contributors, who in my case are one woman and one man, but together they only supplied about 75% of my genome. The rest is inclusions from other people, handmade sequences from no one in particular, and adjustments made to bring me up to the state of the art as of about eighteen years ago - for instance, all haut who are currently age twenty or younger can see more colors than older haut or non-haut. The woman who designed me is one of those principal gene contributors, but I was brought up on a separate planet from her, encountered her only when she was in the area for a speed chess tournament, and have effectively received no mothering whatsoever. My other principal gene contributor has been dead for several decades now; my designer's arrangement was with his - and consequently my - constellation, which is sort of like an extended family, not with him personally. You could describe my designer and my constellation-selector as my mother and my father, and sometimes haut relationships are summarized that way for simplicity in explaining who's related to whom, but I feel that it's misleading to describe me as having parents. It might be less so if I were a within-constellation cross, because then my designer would have been more easily accessible to me, but the relationship still wouldn't have been socially parental."