I'm Ready To Taste The Swamp!
Kin Name:
Zesty Star
Role within tribe and why: Taster, also happy to collect, mainly he wants to eat the stars, and watches the night sky for any falling to the swamp. He'd be delighted to expand his tasting journey, however.
Specialty: He's able to get around decently well in the pitch of night.
About your kin: He's curious, and excited by life. He tries to be cautious, which has him yo-yoing back and forth between being overly cautious and forgetting caution all together. His journey to eat the stars has given him a desire to see every possible thing he can.
I'm Ready To Taste The Swamp!
Kin Name:
Sorrel
Role within tribe and why: (honorary) Collector and Hunter, she hunts to help her mom's tribe, and collects things for another tribe already, as well as bits for her own gardens and just generally has a passion for plants and food.
Specialty: Sorrel has a garden in her part of the swamp, and knows the edible and toxic plants there well. She can point out what plants are good to eat, which ones are mind altering, which will make you sick, and which she suspects are lethal, based on observations of animals eating them as she hasn't yet tasted those ones herself. She even has a growing knowledge of what animals (mainly amphibians and insects) have mind altering properties or are toxic.
About your kin: Sorrel adores her family, which is absolutely massive. Even if you count only her own children, there's a lot of kin. She's fairly relaxed, sort of a dreamy quality about her. She loves her garden, and creating things, especially combinations of food. She is not opposed to partaking of mind altering substances, mushrooms being her particular favorites, but how she views it has changed a bit. She used to be fully carefree and do it just for the fun, but now she's been using the altered state of mind to try and commune with the MotherFather. She's got a bit of wanderlust, and will periodically leave her garden (being sure someone will take care of it) to go wandering the swamp in search of more plants, or even just a friend.
Sorry that Sorr has like, a whole novel in her's. I've had her for so long, she's got an enormous amount of back story and character development. And I've done very little with Zesty Star so far, so he's really just got a smol idea ready to take form.
Other mentions, kin who really aren't into tribe life but if the tribe ever crosses paths with them, they'd be willing to help.
Fish Bones weaves baskets and would be more than happy to give some to the tribe, or you can find one/more of his caches, all labeled "Take them" so kin know they are free to have.
Fish Bait lives near the sea and if the tribe ever finds their way there, she'd be happy to help them fish up ocean fish. So long as they don't mind that she uses herself as bait for bigger things. She's gotten very good at it, and has even managed, with help, to catch mediumish sharks. (like almost as long as a kio is nose to tail tip, not sure what counts for shark sizes) She also knows what tide creatures are good to eat, and which ones will make you sick. Though, you'll have to question her extensively there, as she counts mind altering as sick too. She does not enjoy those experiences.