<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> 21. GOLD STUDENT. THEY/THEM.</span></span><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 30pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;"><strong><br/>STORM (ITʻS A SECRET) NIGHTSONG</strong></span></span><br/>(https://data.whicdn.com/images/61724603/original.jpg)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">         The Two-Spirited One         </div><div class="spoiler_body"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"> <strong>FACE CLAIM »</strong> willy cartier</span></span><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong> OCCUPATION »</strong></span> Major: Visual Arts Minor: Media arts</span></span></div><hr/><hr/> <br/><br/><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"> <strong>TELL US MORE »</strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">Alberta, Canada was Stormʻs home, for twelve years. It wasnʻt the most perfect conditions, but it was home, and there was a ton of family around. Their mother and father met through strange circumstances. Huritt Nightsong worked at the small airport on the reservation. Stormʻs mother, Nora was taking pilot lessons from her fiance at the time. One day, the couple had to make an emergency landing at Hurittʻs airport. Hurrit and Nora locked eyes, and it was love at first sight. From that day forward, she never left, or so the story goes.<br/><br/>Not long after they married, the couple had Storm, and three more children. But it was from womb time, that the tribe knew that Storm was different. All of the family, closest to Huritt and Nora would have their turns with nightwalking dreams. They all dreamed the same dream, that a being from another realm came to them at the end of their journeys, always with a raging storm behind them. The couple decided to name their baby Storm. They kept Stormʻs middle name a secret, as their tribal power name, and they were honored in a ceremony. Given the title "Two-spirit," Storm was one of few to carry on the tradition of being, not of male or female genders. A set of different songs and dances were reserved for two-spirited relatives, to contact ancestors with wisdom that men and women could not access on their own.<br/><br/>When Storm was eleven, his father was in a horrible accident that took his life. Since Their mother wasnʻt of the Blackfoot tribe, she declined their offer to stay. Moving four of her children to Richmond, Virginia, where her family was from. Nora hated the idea of living with her parents again, but she didnʻt know where else to go. She let her parents know of the honor Storm was raised with. Noraʻs parents did not accept it, and gave her an ultimatum; to live by their rules or leave. So, Storm grew up being able to adapt. At home, they answered to whatever their grandparents called them, while in the outside world, they went by they/them. To Stormʻs motherʻs dismay, Storm and their siblings were enrolled in Jamison Preparatory Academy. There they learned how not to be, in spaces that they werenʻt welcomed in.<br/><br/>The western term "nonbinary," resonated deeply with Storm, once they learned it. For a school that ran a strange conversion program, Storm felt it odd that the school taught so many forms of gender identity and sexual preferences. They decided besides being nonbinary, that demisexual was the best way to describe the way that they felt about relationships. Never really one for instant attractions or romances, dem was what they were. To this day, at twenty-one, Storm still attends the University area of Jamison. They lose themselves in their art, create custom gifts and dorm walls for their friends, and at times, make activism posters. Theyʻve been dappling in media arts as of late, but nothing gets them, quite like a blank canvas, or recycled junk to remake into something else.<br/><br/>Storm is of Siksikaitsitapi decent, on their fatherʻs side, and Lebanese on their motherʻs side. They stand at a slouching 6ʻ0", 183. Long dark brown hair, darker brown eyes. Sometimes theyʻre into facial hair, sometimes not. Their long hands and fingers are usually what people notice third, aside from "Your hair is so long," or "I didnʻt know you were tall." Because they always see Storm leaning against something.<br/></span></div></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> SKYE. 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