Aenwyn

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Aliases: Ae, Alien Chica Status: Supporting

Aenwyn is the alien crewmember who takes a shine to Chino. She opens the hydroponics bay for him, smokes alien weed with him and Homeboy, and ends up under a space blanket with him. The Alien Captain later reveals, mid-dressing-down, that Aenwyn is male. Chino never recovers.

Description

She first walks past “in a short skirt, all long legs, curves, and old-school space-babe confidence,” with large dark obsidian eyes. She speaks no English and no Spanish beyond a few borrowed words, which she deploys with feeling: “No mames,” “Pendejo,” “Mas puto,” “No seas guey.” Her warmest line is whispered against Chino’s ear: “Aye Papi.”

Role in Volume 01

• Uncle Rob and the Aliens: Her only appearance. She stops when Chino calls out “Hey! Alien chica! Wait up!” and lets him lead her to the hydroponics door, where she guides his palm onto the invisible hand panel and opens it. She joins the smoke circle, picks up “No mames” as a catchphrase, and winds up tangled with Chino under a space blanket while he wonders “if this is how Captain Kirk felt all the time.” When Uncle Rob bursts in to loot the weed room, she lends a hand stuffing bags. The security team seizes her with the rest. On the bridge, the Captain chews her out for dereliction of duty, and his pronouns land like a second airlock: “he.” The security footage confirms it in terrible angle and worse clarity. Her parting wave to Chino: “No seas guey.”

Relationships

• Chino: one-night stand, with an asterisk the size of a spaceship.
• Alien Captain: her commanding officer, and the man who outs her mid-tirade.
• Uncle Rob: shipmate; she helps him loot his own hosts.

Notes

• The author’s master character list gives this character as “Ae”; co-author Sabino Cruz confirms her name is Aenwyn. The prose never names her; Chino calls her “Alien chica” throughout.
• The text genders Aenwyn female in every beat until the Captain’s “he,” then never resolves it. The dossier follows the text: she, until he.