Wiki Wednesday #171 - Ky Lan / Kỳ Lân

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Wiki Wednesday #171 - Ky Lan / Kỳ Lân

Her biography has the "funny numbers" and we are told to not take it seriously. She is a very old alien (or possibly angel) who dislikes Otamatones, romcoms, and monarchies. Those are really strange things to explicitly hate out of all of the things in this world.

Who is Ky Lan?

official art from wiki

"Supposedly" fictional Chia here. 

If you pressed me on it, I would describe my relationship with my father as… he was a piece of furniture. I never disliked him, and he never disliked me. He took amazing care of me as a baby according to every story I've heard. My mother took over shortly before I was old enough to form memories. I just remember him as furniture.

We rarely spoke. My mother had organized so many events that required English. From a young age, I was jamming an electrolarynx into the fleshy patch under my mouth. It took me years to not raise my chin while speaking after the surgery. It was painful, extremely painful, for a young girl to switch between breathing through my nose or breathing through my mouth. I waited until I fell asleep and the plate flipped naturally.

My father refused to learn English. I'm sure plenty absorbed throughout the years. My mother made me watch so many cartoons growing up. She bought a talkbox and electric keyboard so that we could sing with pitch, just like her favorite songs.

My people tend to dislike music with pitch. It feels unnatural. Imagine playing a flute with only your nose. Of course, pitch is just a function of the vibration of air. You could easily buy a guitar and learn how to play it, but everyone around you would complain.

My father didn't like us singing. It took me a long time to not feel sick every time she pressed a key on her keyboard. But he dealt with it. I didn't really think anything of it. Furniture didn't leave the room on its own, so why would he?

My people aren't ambitious. We don't have billionaires. At least, we didn't.

We live on a small moon of a brown dwarf star. It's never fully daylight in the Earth sense. I never felt truly awake until I was in the blinding glow of an artificially lightened ship. Maybe because our moon is so small, we couldn't easily have warring nation states and colonialism. We just had our one big continent that we all shared.

Maybe it was something else, but in the end, the result was a docile nature that heavily emphasized equality. I guess communism.

The moment we reached post-scarcity, the government decided to start retiring careers. No one had to do those jobs anymore. If someone had been doing that or was training to do that, they would be paid for the work that was no longer required for the rest of their lives. This continued until there were only vital jobs left. There were only so many vital positions, so the government decided to pay everyone a wage no matter what.

We never had to worry about food. Everyone got the same box of supplies. We never had to worry about any basic right. We were all given places to live without fear of losing them.

That's why my father was furniture. He had no hobbies beyond watching television from his recliner. He had no friends. He just existed.

He didn't even put in effort to meet my mother. My mother had used a matchmaking service to find a man who wouldn't care about her and her ambitions. She wanted a child and freedom to create the world she wanted. She got that with him.

I'm grateful that everything worked out well for them. He's still furniture, but I think nothing could make him happier.

How is Ky Lan's bank?

Ky Lan has a one pitch CV bank. Her voice is soft, gentle, and feminine while still being youthful and clear. The voice is basically perfect, and her design is so pretty, I really wish she had a VCV bank. But, if you enjoy CV banks, a fixed OTO would basically make her a perfect CV bank with a Western accent.

Where can I download Ky Lan?

You can find her download link on her Wiki page. She is really nice!