Kadija: The late 80s were not kind for travellers of any flavour (The Battle of the Beanfield was '85) so a young Kadija would have been very aware of the general dislike from both the local population and the government. Moving around would cause potential issues with education, but I suspect in the long run she fell more into the festival-running crowd (the little odd ones with a strong flower-child vibe) than anything else, maybe fairground folk.
Mistral: Would not have been born as the one-child policy came in a few years earlier. If she had been the eldest child, then her earliest memories would have been Tianamen Square and its aftermath, although at least her mother might still have been around. Being part of the Chinese rural poor of that era it's likely that she would have either stayed on the land, got married, and had a child, or gone to work in a factory, got married and had a child.
Alitae: Blue blood and blue collar, Alitae is probably in her 20s in human terms. Popular culture only had a bearing on her life as examples of how not to do things; Tyr'Urdrenn would be the sort of noble house that has enough money to look down on the newly wealthy and the breeding to not do so obviously. She almost certainly had a pony and a dancing master as a child and went to a boarding school in Switzerland to meet the right people; her family was likely militantly atheist (but again too well-bred to be obvious about it), and she almost certainly studied pharmacy or an acceptable science at Cambridge.
Meredith: Started life as a baby in the fostering system, probably near the Welsh border, towards the end of the 90s. Did relatively well due to a generally happy disposition but didn't establish that Felicity was her sister until they were both 18 and had access to sealed records about her parentage. Most likely went to community college and studied counselling (if available) or some sort of physical therapy otherwise.
Kavara: This is the interesting one; in human terms, Kavara is (and don't tell her) probably in her 70s and a great grandmother. That places her as a end-of-WW2 child; I see her as having happily been part of the hippy movement, although she would likely have fought her way into the sciences as part of the feminist movement too - while juggling a family life (although not spectacularly well). These days she's the sort of grandmotherly figure with the mischievous twinkle, definitely a bit Oggish.
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Mistral: Would not have been born as the one-child policy came in a few years earlier. If she had been the eldest child, then her earliest memories would have been Tianamen Square and its aftermath, although at least her mother might still have been around. Being part of the Chinese rural poor of that era it's likely that she would have either stayed on the land, got married, and had a child, or gone to work in a factory, got married and had a child.
Alitae: Blue blood and blue collar, Alitae is probably in her 20s in human terms. Popular culture only had a bearing on her life as examples of how not to do things; Tyr'Urdrenn would be the sort of noble house that has enough money to look down on the newly wealthy and the breeding to not do so obviously. She almost certainly had a pony and a dancing master as a child and went to a boarding school in Switzerland to meet the right people; her family was likely militantly atheist (but again too well-bred to be obvious about it), and she almost certainly studied pharmacy or an acceptable science at Cambridge.
Meredith: Started life as a baby in the fostering system, probably near the Welsh border, towards the end of the 90s. Did relatively well due to a generally happy disposition but didn't establish that Felicity was her sister until they were both 18 and had access to sealed records about her parentage. Most likely went to community college and studied counselling (if available) or some sort of physical therapy otherwise.
Kavara: This is the interesting one; in human terms, Kavara is (and don't tell her) probably in her 70s and a great grandmother. That places her as a end-of-WW2 child; I see her as having happily been part of the hippy movement, although she would likely have fought her way into the sciences as part of the feminist movement too - while juggling a family life (although not spectacularly well). These days she's the sort of grandmotherly figure with the mischievous twinkle, definitely a bit Oggish.