A donation is a term used for Femarctic offspring. An unborn donation gestates within her birther, and upon delivery, her biological maker (or citizen licensed to take her home) collects her.
A newborn donation is called a ‘doe,’ an affectionate term in the Ramaxi language that also applies to lovers, and sometimes strangers. A doe is born with a complete set of small teeth that grow as she matures. She can physically hold her head, sit, and eat solid food within thirty days.
Six months after her birth, she begins to walk and is called a ‘donat.’
Caste-Specific Traits
- Bizakidoe can put both hands together intentionally within the first thirty. Bizakidoe are often the last to communicate, but they are the only donats capable of solitary play.
- Hizakidoe are capable of facial recognition within the first thirty. Hizakidoe articulate sentences faster than other castes because they develop comprehension sooner from constantly observing their makers.
- Subakidoe smile more than other newborns and have a fully developed sense of smell at birth. Subakidoe are the first to communicate verbally; if raised in a pod with Zaxiridoe, they will begin talking to each other before they can articulate proper words.
- Zaxiridoe have crying jags within the first thirty, until skin contact occurs with a maker or caregiver. She communicates more if in a pod with a Subakidoe, but is prone to tantrums and crying more than any other caste.
- Marixidoe are born screaming and kicking; they calm only when the soles of their feet encounter something solid. Marixidoe require constant supervision in their donational years, as they are boisterous before and after they learn to walk, and are often too rambunctious to be unattended with weaker siblings.
At age eight, the brain of a donat develops functional cognitive levels on par with preteen helovx. At this age, Marixi and Hizaki leave home for caste training. For Bizaki, Subaki, and Zaxiri, it is at age ten that they leave home to live and learn with their caste. During these ‘castehood years’ they mature physically and sexually, as their social skills develop within the confines of their caste.
Intellectual adolescence begins at age twelve, but castehood does not end until age eighteen (sixteen for subaki and zaxiri).
A generation enters the citizenry at age 18, and a donation becomes a citizen when she receives or acquires vocational placement and a credit account.
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