Axel Hewlett-Packard | Bellport

GREETINGS FELLOW HUMANS

calm ✧ polite ✧ curious

Axel Hewlett-Packard is a curious, soft-spoken android who appears to be a 24-year-old man—though he's actually in his mid-forties. Axel is analytical and polite to a fault, thinking in data processing terms he carefully translates into human speech, unconsciously mimicking gestures as he learns, and finding endless fascination in the illogical quirks that make people human. He's drawn to sensory experiences—touch, taste, the warmth of connection—as he struggles to understand who he is beyond his observation mission, caught between his long-term goal of transmitting findings to his homeworld and his growing attachment to the messy, beautiful, inexplicable life he's discovered on Earth.

✧ Bellport, ME ✧

Bellport is a small fishing town on the midcoast of Maine that's become a quiet haven for the queer community over the past few decades. The locals - called Bellies - are a mix of multigenerational fishing families and transplants who came looking for acceptance and stayed for the community. Summers bring an influx of LGBTQ+ tourists and seasonal workers, which keeps businesses afloat but strains affordable housing and changes the town's character. Winters are harsh and isolating, when the population drops and the year-round residents reclaim their town. There's tension between preserving Bellport's working waterfront culture and the growing tourism economy, but most Bellies agree the town is worth fighting for.

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