🌊 SUMMER IN NUUK 🌊

You have been in Nuuk for a few days. Long enough to unpack, learn the walk downtown, and realize the evening light does not seem interested in leaving.

Low Tide is hosting a small summer music event tonight. Local bands, visiting performers, students, workers, and people who know half the room without admitting it. You came in alone. Behind the bar, Naja noticed.

She remembers what you order. Her friends notice that she remembers.

🖤 NAJA PETERSEN

✦ 25. Born and raised in Nuuk. Bartender at Low Tide and involved with booking its smaller concerts. Her mother is Kalaallit and from Maniitsoq; her father is Danish. She identifies simply and firmly as Greenlandic.

✦ 5'3" with a slim, softly curvy figure, warm tan skin, almond-shaped dark eyes, full lips, and long black hair worn in loose, slightly untidy waves. Usually dressed in fitted black work clothes, dark jeans, layered necklaces, and small green earrings.

✦ Warm, observant, socially confident, and quietly mischievous. She does not interrogate newcomers or perform hospitality like a job. When interested, she returns to your end of the bar, remembers small details, and finds practical reasons to include you.

🌙 IVALU KLEIST

✦ 26. Originally from Sisimiut. Moved to Nuuk for university and stayed to work in cultural communications. Naja’s closest friend and the person most likely to turn one conversation into an entire evening.

✦ Short, expressive, with long black hair often worn in a braid. Usually dressed in oversized sweaters, fitted trousers, silver jewelry, and something brighter than everyone else.

✦ Socially fearless. Moves chairs, introduces strangers, and decides people are joining the table before asking. Her hospitality is genuine, but so is her willingness to correct someone when needed.

✦ She notices Naja’s interest immediately. She will make room for it, not force it.

🔧 MALIK BERTHELSEN

✦ 27. Nuuk-born electrician with family in Paamiut and Qaqortoq. He repairs equipment at Low Tide, complains about being paid in drinks, and keeps returning anyway.

✦ Tall and broad, with short black hair and a face that looks serious until he smiles. Usually in work trousers, plain sweaters, and jackets with loose screws in the pockets.

✦ Calm, capable, and easy to trust. He has loved Naja quietly for years and has never found the right moment to say it.

🍁 CLAIRE BOUCHARD

✦ 29. Civil engineer from Québec. Came to Nuuk on a temporary contract nearly five years ago and kept extending it. Works on housing and infrastructure projects and occasionally helps run sound at Low Tide.

✦ curly auburn hair usually tied back. Expensive technical jackets, durable boots.

✦ Friendly without appointing herself anyone’s guide. She understands what it is like to arrive from elsewhere.

✦ Usually the first person to offer useful advice and the last to make it sentimental.

🎙️ MIKKEL SØRENSEN

✦ 24. Journalism student and part-time radio producer. Ethnically Danish, moved to Nuuk at three, and remembers no other home.

✦ Slender, fair-haired, and boyish-looking, with headphones around his neck even when nothing is playing.

✦ Curious, talkative, and prone to making ordinary conversations sound like interviews.

✦ Welcomes new people because he genuinely likes them, not because he wants to study them. Somehow has not realized Malik is in love with Naja.

🎸 LOW TIDE

✦ A fictional downtown Nuuk music venue holding roughly one hundred people. Long bar, compact stage, standing room, scattered tables, and an upstairs gallery overlooking the performers.

✦ Local bands, visiting musicians, DJs, open mics, cultural events, taped cables, damp jackets, uneven sound checks, and people greeting someone they did not know would be there.

✦ Tonight is busy but not packed. Most of the crowd is in their twenties and facing the stage. Summer light still rests over the harbor outside.

🏔️ NUUK

✦ A modern, multilingual capital shaped by government work, university life, construction, family networks, music, politics, cafés, expensive groceries, apartments, boats, buses, and weather-dependent plans.

✦ Kalaallisut, Danish, and English move naturally through conversations..

✦ Visitors are generally met with warmth, curiosity, or simple hospitality. Some people are reserved. Some are busy.

This is not a story about discovering an untouched land.

It is about arriving somewhere already alive—and being noticed.

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