Ariel Rucker/Trivia


 * Ariel was created in 2017 along with characters like Caligula (who are under review) and Oma (who obviously aren’t).
 * He was initially just meant to be a lazy take on The Robber Bridegroom, but ended up becoming a major character in my personal narratives.
 * Ariel’s blasian (black and Vietnamese).
 * This choice is partly inspired by both my more openly blasian (and Arabic!) family and my own grappling with my identity as being such, though my personal experience with cultural identity is far too complex to get into here. Notably, I say partly because my family is Indian and not Vietnamese. Sorry for the paragraph.
 * Ariel’s had a few casual relationships that he’s ended whenever they got more serious out of nervousness.
 * As stated, Ariel and Oma are from Vicksburg, Mississippi.
 * The water spirit story is inspired by the Mississippi mermaids.
 * His mother used to be in the witness protection program, but she’s dead.
 * Ariel lives with his dad, if one can really call it ‘living’.