Kafadzwa Tendo

Kafadzwa Tendo is a character written by Zahhak for the Requiem in Blue canon.

Early Life
Kafadzwa was born on Ntemba Ayo's first ship when Ntemba was twenty-two years old. Within two years she had been left on the doorstep of the Tendo Trading Company office in Imra-Amkala, and taken in by the Tendo family. She grew up believing that her parents had been killed by pirates, and two months after her seventeenth birthday, Mr Tendo was killed in the Norlan assault on Imra-Amkala. Sometime after this, she encountered Ntemba and Katangi Mboya on the Devouring Wind and, after a short but tragic exchange, ultimately left the ship alone as her parents scuttled it and dropped into the eye of the storm. Since then she has been roaming the Middle Sea searching for a new direction.

Appearance
Kafadzwa is about 5'8" tall, with a lean and wiry frame. She has dark skin, and striking features reminiscent of her mother's. Her hair is almost black and her eyes are dark brown as well. She's somewhat curvy, but tough and strong from growing up on and around ships and learning to sail. She tends to dress in a rough canvas shalwar kameez, belted at the waist with a long, straight, ornate knife sheathed on her left hip. She also wears a rather bulky and outdated altitude mask attached to a filter on her back with a leather hose. Her boots are large and heavy, but not to the extent of Ntemba's.

She has the Z chromosome, which is a setting-specific mutation that causes fertile intersex people.