Some of these numbers will be off because 61 is a hard number to work with.

Want to be a beautiful and unique snowflake? You'll probably want to start off by being female. 70.6% of characters in the January-July period 2007 were male. However, if you think she can be young and hip and still a unique snowflake... well, you're wrong. 70.5% of characters were in the 15-25 age range although perhaps this is to be expected of a university town.

What's not to be expected is the fact the largest innish town in Canada, perhaps in the world, has more unnish than innish. Not by many, mind you; only 52.5% of characters are unnish. Still, making your male character unnish will add to his beautiful and unique snowflake status.

Unlike in the real Canada, only 55% of characters surveyed were caucasian. (One must bear in mind that due to insufficient information 6.5% of characters had to be put under 'unknown'.) Bayfield has a much higher population of Asian characters than the real Canada (11.5% in Bayfield) but a much lower population of First Nations people (one character. And he's not even Canadian First Nations). When it comes to race, your safest bet for unique snowflake status is to make your character Middle Eastern; none of the characters surveyed came from the region generally known as the Middle East.

Information on sexuality was a bit thin on the ground when it came to character profiles and often I had to go on what I knew of the character or RPs that were linked to. 34.4% still have 'unknown' where this information should go. Of those with known sexuality, straight females were the largest group (42.9% of those with obvious sexuality). There were no gay females and only two bisexual females.

Want to see this data bisected differently? Want to know about how further to make your character a beautiful and unique snowflake using factors such as religion and class status? Ask and ye shall recieve. I've spent far too long on this for someone who should be working so I might as well put it to use.

=D

Dangit, I wish Cat were active; her slew of characters would have really added to Once's lesbian population.

I'm surprised about the unnish thing! I thought we'd got to a lot of 'em by now, heh.

Only 55% caucasian, huh? That's pretty interesting; i'd gotten the impression it was higher.

Neat stuff.

A lot of the time I was half-guessing with race. Unless someone had explicitly put it up there I had to go on their appearance description. That's probably why in my census, Bayfield is 6.6% Hispanic. I think one of those was South American, one Spanish and the rest? Anyone with a dark tan, dark hair and green or brown (sometimes slanted) eyes. The 6.5% unknown really bit. One was a cacti but the rest just didn't go into enough detail for me to make a judgement call.

You can almost assume that they're caucasian, but assumptions aren't good for censuses. =D

There's also the 9.8% mixed heritage. I should probably have put mixed Chinese/Japanese in here too but the survey group wasn't really big enough to differentiate between the different types of mixed heritage.

Fun fact: there are more werecreatures in 2007 than any other class of innish. 18% of those with class or species status are werecreatures.

Remember the thread where we were talking about the characters being like us? D: If I made a middle-eastern female character...it would be way over the top too much like me. I used to do that, but I thankfully kicked the habit.

These are actually really interesting statistics.
I have a tendency towards really long-winded anthropological arguments about race, but putting that aside for the sake of good plain statistics: how many are black? You could pretty safely say that Sylvie is black, despite that 1) she's not an actual Canadian or an American and thus follows a different culture's pattern for race and 2) she has First Nations ancestry. I also read a little of Josephine's profile and she's mentioned to be of unknown/mixed heritage. So I guess it makes it a little harder to count. D:

Including people of predominantly black mixed race? Three. It's the lowest racial group next to First Nations. I counted Josephine as black Canadian as she comes from a Haitian background and might therefore be considered 'culturally black'; her father, whoever he is, I am assuming will be a fae or some other sort of wierd-haired creature. Therefore a little hard to count racially.

Which brings up another point - for the characters who are half god, half selki, half whatever, I put down racial group based on appearance. Censuses don't have a tickbox for 'green and a bit slimy'.

Haha, but in Bayfield? They should.

Oooooo.

I'm one of the newbies floating around, and I've been all 'D:' as to what kind of character I should make first, considering what kind of stuff is overused, etc..

Once is pretty balanced with this ratio stuff, all things considered. Which is pretty awesome.

I thought about some hispanic female with questionable sexuality. In light of all this evidence I wonder if I'll come off as too pushy or something. :/


I wonder how the statistics would look as far as occupations are concerned?
Dunno if there would be enough info, though, because having an occupation isn't really... required, is it? And I don't know how people pay attention to that sort of stuff, but I'd imagine that at least the unnish characters would have to have something along the lines of ... uh criminal mastermind or uni student or bank accountant or grocer. You know. For regular income.



I absolutely am not procrastinating on my character sheet.

How many were college students? Was that counted?

Oh, I bet a ton. This is a university town and all that. Jay and Andrei are both students.

Yeah, I thought it might be a big percentage.

This is so ridiculously awesome! Like the most awesome thing I have ever, ever seen. Dude go you.

<3, Sar

Oh man. Did you manage to find out about religions? I mean, I think those stats would be the most skewed, because I can't really see there being a lot of christian characters on Once. That would be awesome to find out.

Occupation: there wasn't anywhere near enough information to put down.

Religion: 18.4% of those surveyed were either Christian or assumed to be from their beliefs. 18.2% of that 18.4% were Catholics. 16.4% were pagan. Dangerously for a city where gods roam the streets, the same number were either athiest or agnostic. The smallest religious group was Judaism. Only one character surveyed was religiously, as opposed to racially, Jewish.

Haha, I knew we had a ton of catholics. We need some southern baptists up from the States or something!

(I can sympathize with not wanting to play something like a muslim character if you know buggerall about islam and it's a sensitive subject, but if someone had to confidence and know-how, it'd be interesting to see religious diversity in terms of muslims, sikhs, buddhists... I think if you were something like Hindu, you might have an easier time fitting the gods into the pantheon you're already comfortable with?)

(Especially since if you already religiously have a form for them in their heads, it seems likely they'd conform to those ideas. Az likes doing that 'cause it's easy.)

haha, occupation: demon/vampire hunter has got to be a fairly large group. Maybe moreso over the course of time than in the 2007 characters, though.

There were, I think, three Buddhists? From memory since I don't have the sheet with me any more. It was either three or four. A little strangely, it's a popular choice for Japanese characters.

Two people practising the Vodoun religion.

No Muslims, Hindus or Sikhs.

I think the most common occupation was layabout/student. You would be shocked how many Bayfielders in their early twenties are still relying on their parents.

=D My brother and I are both still relying on our parents! it's why I have goddamn dial-up.

Hm. Well, I actually think that there are a lot of buddhists in japan--? i think I remember seeing a census that was, like... shinto and buddhism as the main religions, and then stuff like daoism and christianity.

Yeah, Buddhism and Shinto is pretty popular over there. My grandparents missionary'd over there a while, it's like every five in a hundred people are actually Christian or something.

Oh hey, did you hear about that thing where people in this one part of Japan believe that jesus escaped the crucifixion and walked across russia to japan, where he became a rice farmer? And there are people who are meant to be his descendants, and a big grave.

Ahahaha, I didn't hear about that, no. That sounds like the best facet of Christianity ever, though.

Basically! I read it on the BBC. They interviewed the man reputed to be his descendant, and asked him do you believe? and he said well, I'm a Buddhist.

About the atheist danger thing-- That...is hilarious. Wasn't there something in a Pratchett book that went along the lines of "Being an atheist usually meant a god would come by and smash in your windows" or something?

Hypothetically!

OH GOD. The gods should get drunk at the god party and go smash windows at Keaton University.

Heck yes! That would be HILARIOUS.