#WordWeavers 9/1
Introduce your antagonist with as much sympathy as possible.
Fern is Homo vénusienne (as are MCs), a new human species genetically engineered to live in Venus's sulfuric acid clouds. Bent on purity of Homo sapiens, Earth has been trying to exterminate them in a brutal war.
Fern was born with a congenital defect: foil deficiency, lacking protection against acid. Looking like an Earther, she was horribly abused and tortured in an orphanage for children of war victims.
