Chekka and Lurch are a pair of resident Kir ambassadors to Sanctuary Crater (It is Kir custom to have diplomats work in pairs, usually one significantly more senior than the other, which is believed to improve their ability to relate to a wider variety of people of any given foreign populace.) Though they are assigned to travel together, they are very different from each other, and do not get along particularly well personally, even though their personalities tend to round each other out well when working.

Lurch is 50 years old, old enough that most people would think he should be retired years ago by now, and he is very much one who represents the old customs. His pelt is very pale from age, and he is defanged (a cultural practice becoming less common in the last few generations.) Defanging historically represented being more civilized than other leucrocotta that had to kill their prey like wild animals, but today it's beginning to be seen as a strange custom without any purpose or even a symbol of weakness by younger Kir in the changing world today. Though he would be considered the conservative one, he is rather quiet and soft-spoken, affable and approachable. Whether Lurch is open-minded to the very different ways of life of the crater people, or just used to it, is hard to say, but he is inoffensive and polite at all times. Hard to not get along with, interactions with Lurch can nonetheless seem very surface-level and symbolically pleasant but to have little actual depth, and this is considered typical of the Kir who do not wear their feeling on their sleeves.

Chekka is a younger adult, 15 years old, with an outspoken personality and tendency to argue. Chekka retains her fang teeth ("as all Kir should, if they are to ensure they can always care for themselves"). She believes it's important for the individual to speak their mind on important issues, even if it means going against the flow. This is a position that continuously puts her at odds with Lurch but actually makes her more relatable to many of the far less homogeneous leucrocotta in Sanctuary Crater, who are currently in the midst of increasing tension toward their whisperwing partners who may not be treating them as equitably as long believed. It is partly for this reason Chekka was assigned to join Lurch, and maybe also because no one else in the Kir nation wanted to work with her anymore. However, Chekka can be seen as intimidating and distant, and so Lurch functions well as her counterpart. Chekka is mixed-race with a non-Kir maternal grandfather, which would subject her to some level of discrimination in some aspects of her society but is also being exploited by her superiors because she may be believed to more resemble the locals (she doesn't - they only fixate on the differences, and still view her as fully Kir.) Chekka still dyes her mane and a line of black hair beneath her eyes, while wearing long clothing to cover other dark markings on her body to conform to Kir standards, even though this is not common in the crater where much less emphasis is put on fur color. Chekka is aware she is a "diversity hire" in the context of where she was assigned and may not have been selected for her other merits, which may lead her to be extra ambitious and work hard, if only to prove her skill is real to herself.

Within Sanctuary Crater, these two serve mainly to assist and protect other Kir travelers, and to supervise and approve trade deals. Less openly, they collect information about the inner workings of crater people's governments and distribute it back to their superiors. Chekka particularly comes to genuinely like the crater and its people. Though Lurch would be reluctant to interfere at all with the politics of these foreigners, Chekka would also express support to Karzavraz for the idea of integrating the sylvanspark immigrants, personally considering them a much more trustworthy neighbor than the whisperwings (she has her own biases, as do most Kir, and it just happens that sylvansparks are much more integrated in their own society already whereas whisperwings have been their suspicious rivals for centuries.)

New Leucrocotta Characters: Cheka and Lurch (300 Million Years PE) by Sheather888.