Tender Sky is a mean catgirl and digital architect portrayed by Ali Acampora.
She an architect who designs and builds environments in The Mesh, which is the digital environment that is an augmented reality space established in COUNTER/Weight.
Tender Sky is a cat girl. She's also mean--and living her best life.
On the weekends she runs a digital lounge, called the Steady; a jazz club with the aesthetic that changes weekly. Its tagline is "Nothing stays at the Steady."
Though Tender's cyberbrain was removed from her, she can still use the powers that it gave her previously. It feels like fate to her; it feels Divine. She keeps this information a secret.
With her abilities it's possible for three things to "bleed" over into world should things go awry: Memories of the By and By, Open Metal (her ex-partner), and unworthiness; guilt about having these powers still.
Appearance
Tender Sky is a thicc "big tity catgirl with incredible tailor", has a sweet face, calculating eyes, cat ears, and a tail. She has light brown skin and long thick curly light purple lilac hair that falls to chest length height. Ali has compared her appearance to that of the actress Ciara Renée.
Vogue runway shows are an inspiration for her along with the Gucci body suit , a fondness for coats that are cropped jackets with short capes on the back. "Capes all the time."
During the Beloved Dust's time in the Steady during "We Want You to Come Home", Tender is wearing a velour long-sleeved bodysuit with no legs (like a long-sleeved bathing suit), somewhat sheer teal thigh-high stockings, white heels, and a capelet with a built-in collar with stiff pieces that rest on her shoulders. There is light embroidery and bejeweling on the collar, and the cape's lining is a pastel that transitions slowly from yellow to pink to purple to green. Her hair is pulled back into a single round bun high on the back of her head, wrapped in a ribbon with a jeweled clip.
She can change her appearance with her abilities but the above description is as she presents normally without doing so.
Beliefs
"Never take a shortcut."
"Controlling The Mesh must be my purpose and so I will either strive to protect it, or I can determine what can be seen and what shouldn't."
TBA - possibly about building a home for Fourteen-Fifteen to die in?
Origin
Tender's name stems in part from a serendipitous moment during the season's planning stage. While in LA with Jack, Austin, and Janine for Art's wedding, Ali told them she had thought of naming her character 'Tenderness', but couldn't think of a good surname, and was thinking of going by 'Tender' followed by a one-syllable word such as 'Sea' or 'Sky'[1][2]. Shortly afterward, they came across a pencil case in a store with "Tender Sky" written on it, which Austin tweeted a photo of from the official Friends at the Table account[3][4].
History
She had been dispatched to a planet as part of a team where things went wrong. Anticipation, the Divine, died while she was down there.
The other architect, Open Metal, attempted a plan where Tender and her would combine their cyberbrains (tech that enables their talents within The Mesh) so they would become a Divine. Tender refused this plan and Anticipation was killed.
As a reaction to their failure she was sent back to the Divine Fleet and the program where they would give people these cyberbrains in order to do work in The Mesh, was scrapped entirely.
She also has a Mercy Officer assigned to her because of her involvement with the death of Anticipation, named Helena Vex.
References
External links
- Ciara Renée on Wikipedia