Thing is, I hc Naib as being half-Nepali. That doesn't mean he's WHITE though. I do this because a) we don't know anything about his dad and b) my life experience is as being half-Mexican/half-white and it makes it easier for me to write because I'm writing my experience.

That's legit why I hc Norton as half-Mexican as well. It makes sense because a) his name is Scottish and b) he has a LOT of Mexican influence in his life, just like me. Thus writing that for him plays into my own life experience and I think that's more compelling.

There's this imposter syndrome you feel when being half because you're living in two different worlds but not able to fully immerse yourself in either. My Mexican experiences don't translate when talking to whites, and vice versa with my white experience. It's not fun.

You feel isolated and don't feel like you belong in either space because you have to lie in order to be in one space or the other, and I'm bad at lying. So I exist in a weird limbo space. AND THIS IS WHY I MAKE EVERYONE ONLY HALF. Because that struggle is my life.