Cuna
| Cuna | |
|---|---|
| Groups | Department of Species Integration of the Superiority |
| Homeworld | Starsight |
| Universe | Skyward Universe |
Cuna is a dione who lives on Starsight and the head of the Superiority's Department of Species Integration.[1]
Appearance and Personality
Cuna is a tall, slender dione[2] with vivid blue skin. They lack hair and have prominent eye ridges and cheek bones. Cuna has androgynous featured, so their gender is indistinguishable. Cuna wears a set of robes a shade of blue just lighter than her skin tone when she first meets Spensa.[1]
Cuna is a nonaggressive dione, like most of the other races of primary intelligence in the Superiority. Cuna is cold and calculating, analyzing everything people say, making her a skilled politician and an excellent schemer.[3] She is quite smart, engaged in a power struggle with Winzik and the Department of Protective Services. Cuna is also quite caring and affectionate, trying to smile at Spensa, a non-dione facial expression, to be welcoming and make her species' transition to Superiority life as smooth and comfortable as possible.[4]
Although she publicly holds the common Superiority view that aggressive species should not be deemed of primary intelligence, she is more tolerant than many of her colleagues, believing that there is room in the Superiority for species of different temperances than the races of primary intelligence. She conceived the Delver Resistance Program in the hope that when a delver threatened the Superiority, a member of a so-called aggressive species from the program would save the day and convince the races of primary intelligence that some aggression is useful, and that the different ways species act is the strength of the Superiority, not its weakness.[4]