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Born to a line of Aleut fishers married to various French women, Ataqan was the second born in her family after her brother Alax. The two of them were relentlessly mocked for being mixed like cocktails and bullied by the white minority population for not being white enough. Eventually Ataqan retreated into herself, watching noir films, hiking and keeping to herself. Her brother, however, became increasingly frustrated with the way the world was around them.

There was an incident. And then Ataqan got it into her head to play detective for real, and when the dust settled from a whirlwind of violence rocking their little community she'd ended up stopping the criminal but losing her brother in the process. Tired of their inability to function in the town, her family relocated to Fairbanks, where Ataqan would then proceed to spend the rest of her days refining her techniques as a hard boiled, morally upright detective with a dark secret. She'd become the very thing she'd idealized, but took no joy in it, and ended up a specter of her former self.

Ataqan is not the hero you want. She is unemotional, colder than Fairbanks, and will tell you the truth bluntly. She thinks in metaphors and lives for cases. She doesn't understand or want to that people have limits on what they can take, because her own limits were pushed beyond the breaking point when she was twelve and lost her brother. Her brokenness belies her true nature, however, as she will come for the truth and fight for the hopeless causes with everything she has. And she works for free, too.