@Jayslacks @mikebrew BTW: #Makkari is deaf for the one simple reason "to be representative" of other humans. The SAME reason #Sprite was young, #Sersi Asian, and #Kingo Indian, etc.

I really really don't think there was a decision behind it, but I will say that it fits in with THEM fitting in with Earth.

Okay, maybe not so much when being deaf meant you didn't hear the lion creeping up behind you on the African veldt - and they ate you ::shiver::. But fitting in w/today.