"I run barefoot, shoes at the door.
The air so sweet, I gulp and gasp for more.
A night so still, I dance, I soar.
Oh, this is what I'm living for."
- Air So Sweet, Dodie
BASICS
NAME: Iovi (ee-yo-vee), often goes by Yovi (yo-vee)
GENDER: Cis Female
PRONOUNS: She/Her/Hers
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
BIRTHDATE: Spring 2757
AGE: 18 as of 2775
LOCATION: High Reaches
OCCUPATION: Wherhandler
WING: Windsong
APPEARANCE
EYES: Green
HAIR: Brown, short
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 6'7", build for manual labor
PLAY-BY: picrew by elenaillustrate
EXPY SOURCE: N/A
FULL APPEARANCE:
In a few words, Iovi is strongly built. In many more words, her stature, broad shoulders, and impressively sized muscles give her almost an imposing sort of presence. Combining that with her angular features, defined jawline, broader (and slightly crooked at the bridge thanks to a childhood incident) nose, and fuller eyebrows, gives her an incredibly masculine appearance. Her brown hair is cut short, her eyes are a deep green color, and her naturally pale skin has a slight tan to it from being out in the sun so much.
Iovi has a penchant for collecting little tiny scars from being just a tad too unfocused on things she should be aware of. There is a small smattering of freckles littering her cheeks. Her hands are rough and calloused from years of farm work. Clothing-wise, the girl greatly prefers wearing layers over anything else. A jacket over a shirt over another shirt? Perfect. Sure, she'll shed the outer layers in the warmer months, but as soon as the air gets even a little bit cold, on go the layers.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Iovi is a good-natured woman to her core. She truly has an enthusiastic zest for life and does her best to remain optimistic in all circumstances, even under stress. She is festive- not in the holiday way, but in the spontaneous, lighthearted way. Her years on the farm have taught her the value of hard work, productivity, and cooperation. She is able to think things through both thoroughly and quickly.
She loves to chat and talk with others, being an excellent communicator. She is sensitive to others' feelings and is quick with a smile to cheer others up. She is curious and eager to learn everything about weyr life and more. While she cannot read nor write, she plans to learn that in due time. She has never felt more self-doubt in her life until she moved to the weyr, continually feeling a sense of being less-than and not-in-the-know.
She is easily affected by others, their emotions can quickly send her own into a tailspin. She is both overly optimistic and accommodating. She always sees the best in people even if it isn't there, then she's just creating an idealized version of them in her head. She'll stretch herself thin for others because she thinks that she has to and that they'd do the same for her. People-pleasing is in her nature and she'd sacrifice her own needs to please others. She is restless, easily bored, and can fall victim to disorganization due to her own lack of focus.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
- Zensa
-- Hedrun of Green Drusk (great maternal grandfather, deceased) [+67]
- Sarun
-- Calista (grandmother, alive) [+44]
- Lissa
-- Jogovi of Green Govisk (father, alive) [+23]
- Vilissa (younger sister, alive) [-1]
- Ivoss (younger brother, alive) [-2]
- Livi (younger sister, alive) [-3]
- Silovi (younger brother, alive) [-4]
- Plenty of aunts, uncles, and cousins
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE: A small cothold way way up north (just north of Lewis Hold)
HISTORY: [TW DEATH]
Iovi was born as the eldest of 5 children. The people of her cothold, descendants of beastcrafters and farmcrafters alike, ran a cold climate farm. Crops and livestock were all hardy and adaptable to the cold weather they were farmed in. Iovi's parents, while both farmers, were also wherhandlers. They used them both to protect their cothold, but also to help till the fields. While her father's wher was young, her mother's was quite old. Zerusask was originally Iovi's great-grandmother's wher. Upon her passing, her son bonded to him. Upon his passing, Iovi's mother bonded to him. It was always assumed that if her mother passed, Iovi would end up bonding to the bronze herself. Iovi hoped that day would be far, far in the future.
Iovi began learning the ropes of farming from a very early age. Why hire people to come to your cothold when you could get your kids to do the work? She and her siblings spent every day working on the fields, working with the livestock, or thinking about working. Iovi loved every second of it. Her parents also taught her a few things about wherhandling here and there whenever a free moment came up.
When Iovi was 10 turns old, her parents surprised her with a firelizard egg. The egg hatched quickly to reveal and orange-y gold flit. Iovi promptly named her Sundrop and began training her to run errands and complete small, flit-accessible tasks around the farm.
There was always one downside of their cothold, though. They did not have a healer. Due to their incredibly northern location, the winters would be quite rough. Traveling was nightmarish through the snow, and the next healer was a fair distance away. If a sickness worse than the common cold found its way to the people of the cothold, it could take them out quite easily.
This was unfortunately the case for Iovi's mother, Lissa. She had gotten sick with pneumonia during the end of Fall, 2774, and passed quickly in her sleep. Iovi only had a few moments to mourn before she found herself bonding to her mother's bronze, the creature taking a part of her name to become Zerusavisk. Her father, instead of mourning, distracted himself from his feelings to teach Iovi the basics on how to be a wherhandler.
While Iovi loved her life on the farm and adjusted to having a wher fairly quickly, something had changed. She no longer thought living at her cothold was safe, and wanted to go somewhere wher she would at LEAST have easy access to a healer. After talking it over with her father, Iovi came to the decision that she would move down to High Reaches wher and join up with their ground crew after she turned 18. It was definitely a much more dangerous profession, but there were plenty of healers there. If something bad happened, people were there to fix her up. Not to mention, she did want to explore the world. After her 18th turnday, Iovi packed her things and travelled down to High Reaches. She's still been getting used to everything, but is enjoying all the new experiences she's had!
