1st APPEARANCE: Chapter 1
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
AGE: 23
HANDEDNESS: Left
HOBBIES: Ringette, athletics, gardening
FAVORITE FOOD: Snow Bison Stew
HOME PLANET: Pasque
FAMILY: Mother (Amaryllis), Father (Mallow), Sister -deceased (Evette)
ABEILLE is outgoing, energetic, and friendly. On her icy homeworld, Pasque, she would play Ringette. After her sister’s death, Abeille left her world for the nature planet, Monotropa, hoping to live out her sister’s dream of having a garden of her own. Abeille works at Eyebright Industries, starting in the Cafeteria and eventually gets promoted to the Gardeners.
1st APPEARANCE: Chapter 1
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: He/Him
ORIENTATION: Hetero-flexible
AGE: 28
HANDEDNESS: Right
HOBBIES: Collecting printed books, Tree Climbing
FAVORITE FOOD: Pakora, Apples
HOME PLANET: Monotropa (since age 8)
FAMILY: Mother (Cordia), Amma (Jasmine)
MIEL is a botanist at Eyebright Industries, Taxonomy (Logging) Department. He is a workaholic, but starts to loosen up a bit after meeting Abeille. He is a very kind person who tends to babble when he discusses a subject he’s passionate about. He collects old printed books and loves to be out in nature.
1st APPEARANCE: Chapter 1
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her
ORIENTATION: Pansexual
AGE: 30
HANDEDNESS: Right
HOBBIES: Dancing, cross-breeding fruit trees
FAVORITE FOOD: Githeri
HOME PLANET: Heliotropa
FAMILY: Mother (Vera), Aunt (Laurel), Sister (Verbena), Father
IVY works in the Horticulture Department at Eyebright Industries. She is practical, friendly, and honest. Ivy starts her story not looking for a serious relationship and even scoffs at the idea, but soon finds she might want something that’s more than casual and convenient. She is afraid of thunderstorms and loves to dance.
1st APPEARANCE: Chapter 2
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: He/Him
ORIENTATION: Hetero-flexible
AGE: 47
HANDEDNESS: Right
HOBBIES: Model-building
FAVORITE FOOD: Jam Roly-Poly
HOME PLANET: Ilex
FAMILY: Father, Mother
HOLLY is senior member of the Horticulture Department at Eyebright Industries. He is serious, gentle, dislikes complications. He and his work partner, Ivy, formed a close sexual relationship out of convenience due to their mutual lack of a social life.
1st APPEARANCE: Chapter 5
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: He/Him
ORIENTATION: Gay
AGE: 28
HANDEDNESS: Right
HOBBIES: Flight simulators, dressing up in cute clothes
FAVORITE FOOD: Dutch Poached Pears
FAMILY: Older brother
CLOVE works in the cafeteria at Eyebright Industries. He is quiet, shy, and gets easily flustered in social situations, but is a good friend and always has your back. His stutter has made him self-conscious about speaking too much among people he does not know, but will slowly open up to friends he trusts.
1st APPEARANCE: Chapter 6
GENDER: Androgynous
PRONOUNS: Zie/Zir
ORIENTATION: Pansexual
AGE: 34
HANDEDNESS: Right
HOBBIES: Cooking,
FAVORITE FOOD: Courgette balls & tzatziki
HOME PLANET: Compositae 3
FAMILY: Mother (Olive), Father (Apios), Sister (Tulip), Brother (Coriander)
ASTER is a counselor at the Monotropa Welcome Center and is a very compassionate, encouraging, and caring person. Zie comes from a family that practices touch and understands the importance touching has when it comes to comforting someone who is hurting. To zir dismay and disappointment, zir research in touch has been used to further simulating artificial means of affection.
1st APPEARANCE: Chapter 8
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her
ORIENTATION: Lesbian
AGE: 25
HANDEDNESS: Right
HOBBIES: Weightlifting
FAVORITE FOOD: Raspberry Chocolate
HOME PLANET: Hellebores
FAMILY: Mother (Petunia), Father (Cedar)
POPPY is a Gardener on Botan’s team at Eyebright Industries. She is independent, stubborn, bossy, and impatient which can be both a strength and weakness. She loves to go to dance clubs and craves social scenes. She left her planet when she came of age and traveled to many worlds before landing on Monotropa. Her homeworld, Hellebores, is in the same solar system as Abeille’s homeworld of Pasque.
1st APPEARANCE: Chapter 9
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: He/Him
ORIENTATION: Gay
AGE: 35
HANDEDNESS: Right
HOBBIES: Painting, Calligraphy, Apple picking
FAVORITE FOOD: Avocado Toast
FAMILY: Father, Mother (deceased), Sister (Tsubaki), Grandma & Grandma
BOTAN is senior Gardener at Eyebright Industries and hosts the annual company camping trip every year. He and his team tend to the wheat harvests as well as the herb fields. He is eager to please and a bit of a flirt. Botan suffered the loss of his mother and withdrew from his family until recently. He is on the path to rebuilding his life.
1st APPEARANCE: Chapter 16
GENDER: Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her
ORIENTATION: Lesbian
AGE: 35
HANDEDNESS: Right
HOBBIES: Cooking, baking
FAVORITE FOOD: “How can you choose just one?”
HOME PLANET: Compositae 3
FAMILY: Mother (Olive), Father (Apios), Sibling (Aster), Brother (Coriander)
TULIP runs the Sugar x Spice Bakery with her younger brother Coiander and is an enthusiastic baker. She loves to throw dinner parties and tease her siblings every chance she gets. She comes from a family that practices touch and understands the importance touching as well as respecting those who choose not to touch, like her mother.
