Okapi

Okapi officially joined the AstralSMP on 06/23/2021 and was one of the very first residents on Midnight.
She mainly worked with Dave, Leaf and Asight in the beginning and quickly became friends with many other residents, including Adder, Skye, Scuorge and Ro. Okapi has been involved in nearly every large event on Midnight, and found her way to Dawn in order to partake in the battle against Streamless.
Since then, she has become a mother to Midnight, along with working as a town medic. She is platonically married to Wynter.
==Biography==
===Appearance===
Okapi is a tall hybrid. Her legs are those of an okapi, purple with light blue stripes and blue hooves. She has the striped ears and horns of an okapi, along with a tail, as well as large blue feathered wings that are burnt beyond repair on the edges, so that she can no longer use them to fly. 
She has pale skin with purple stripes on her cheeks along with freckles on her face, shoulders, arms, and knuckles. A set of blue goggles rests on her head in front of her horns, and her ash-blond hair is always in a ponytail. She has large, blue doe eyes.
==Personality==
Okapi is very kind and forgiving, never holding grudges long, if at all. She is the mom of Midnight, and takes in any injured person she finds. She’s well-versed in the medical field and when she isn’t spending time helping someone directly, she’s researching medicines or building new sections in her bunker to house and protect injured members of the server. 
She’s one to put others before herself, and when she’s not doing anything she deems productive to the other members of the server, she feels lazy. Despite this, she’s not afraid to stand up for and protect those she cares for, even at the cost of her own life.
===Background===
Okapi came from a poor family, living with her sister and parents. Her parents went away on vacation, and an accident occurred that caused her parent’s death. She is left alone to take care of her little sister, and when bills cannot be paid, she drops out of school and carries everything she can with her sister out of the house. The two fare relatively well for two kids living alone in the woods, and Okapi is able to bring some money in by helping others around the nearest town. 
Years pass of this, until Okapi finally lands herself a job where she can raise enough money to rent an old, unused apartment. She and her sister move in. Another unfortunate accident, and Okapi loses her sister and her wings to a creeper explosion and fire. Overwhelmed, Okapi runs. Runs until she hears an ocean over a cliff, runs until she can’t feel the ground anymore, until she’s drowning in icy water. 
Wynter, a fisherman out on the ocean on her boat, sees Okapi hit the water and saves the hybrid from drowning. Okapi is reluctant to accept the help at first, but soon the two become friends. Wynter offers to take Okapi sailing across the ocean with her crew, and Okapi agrees. The two sail together until Okapi hears the news of a small town being built inland of a port they’d stopped at. Wynter is indignant about Okapi leaving, but Okapi promises to go there and start a place for them to live together, when Wynter decides she is done leading her crew. Okapi also promises to write to Wynter every two weeks.
==Major Events==
===The battle against Streamless===
Okapi arrives to help fight Streamless. She’s there during the entire battle, though doesn’t do much besides help fight the withers and occasionally get a hit on Streamless. At one point, Streamless did notice Okapi. He says that it was funny seeing her there on Dawn, as this had been the first time it was revealed she could travel to Dawn, and then attacks her. She cowers in a corner of ice with her shield until Skye can jump in and take Streamless’s focus away.
=== Arrow's Party ===
Leaf, Dave, Sanic, Okapi, and Adder are all at the campfire talking peacefully. Arrow arrives, mentioning how stressed out everyone on the SMP had been, and how he had planned a party for everyone. Opia arrives as well, offering to take care of Adder while everyone was at the party. Okapi is immediately on edge, not wanting to let Adder go with Opia, and not trusting Arrow. However, Adder seems willing - and even happy- to stay with Opia, so Okapi relents. Arrow leads everyone else to the party, which turns out to be a massive decorated dome structure. For a long while, Okapi and Dave stick to the outskirts of the building, talking nervously about how they did not trust Arrow. The fox however invites everyone to sit down to watch his firework show that he had planned. He presses a button, unleashing a show of fireworks that distracts everyone from the TNT fuses ignited beneath the floors of the structure. Dave yells for everyone to run, and they all dash for the exit- but explosions cut most of them off. Okapi comes back to reality in a smoking crater, two of her hollow ribs having been broken in the explosions. Many others were injured, and Sanic had been killed. Arrow had hidden himself in an obsidian box, quickly darting away before anyone could catch him. Dave and Okapi help each other walk back to town, where Okapi tends to everyone’s injuries as quickly as possible. 
Okapi, Sanic, and Leaf are eventually the only ones left in Okapi’s inn room, and are unpleasantly greeted by Streamless walking through the door. Sanic cowers behind Okapi and Leaf as Streamless aims a crossbow at them- but in the end, he leaves without any injury. Okapi helps to calm Sanic down.
=== The Dreamworld Party ===
Okapi wakes up in the Dreamworldand ends up finding several other people she knows in the castle, greeted strangely enough by Skye and Streamless. Okapi is left uneasy with the entire party, especially during the games that they were all eventually forced to play. She is in fact the first person to be caught by Fake!Adder during hide and seek. At the end, Okapi becomes greatly suspicious with the burning tree and Skye and Streamless’s relationship to Fake!Adder, but wakes up back at home before she has time to question it.
==Relationships==
Relationships	Relationships 	Relationships 	Relationships
Name 	Status 	Notes 	
Ro 	positive 	Okapi doesn't know what happened in their past, what they're thinking when they freak out, or honestly much at all about them as a person. All she knows is that she'll protect them with her life. Gods, she built an entire bunker dedicated to protecting them and Adder from Streamless. When they ran away, it absolutely shattered her heart, and Okapi spent days on end searching the outskirts of Midnight for them before losing hope of seeing them again. 	
Adder 	positive 	Okapi wishes she and everyone else would have been there to protect Adder all the times she'd been hurt or kidnapped. She's a child, she should never have been roped into everything. Okapi has done so much in an effort to keep her safe, including building the entire bunker in preparation for keeping her back from Arrow. 	
Leaf 	neutral 	Okapi wishes they were still as close as they used to be, and while she does think they are getting closer to it, Okapi still feels like Leaf is so far away. She feels like Leaf has said and done some questionable things, and doesn’t know if she should continue to trust her. 	
Dave 	positive 	Okapi wishes he'd stop hurting himself, and realize how much he meant to everyone and how much he helps everyone. No matter what, she'll always keep helping Dave. She feels like a mother to him, and would drop anything she was doing to help him. 	
Skye 	positive 	Skye is kind, and nice, at least to Okapi, and Okapi knows she struggles between both the Dawn and Midnight trying to keep everyone safe and everything planned out. So she trusts Skye, and would always offer to help out when she can. She knows Skye has made some wrong decisions, but she also believes that Skye is not a bad person. She’d even consider her a close friend on the SMPs, having helped her on multiple occasions. 	
Streamless 	negative 	Okapi hates thinking this, but Streamless is the only person she seriously would ever want to wish death upon. 	
Fake!Adder 	negative 	While at first Okapi had a neutral perspective on the cat, after hearing everything that she’d done to Skye, Okapi will not stand for it anymore. Okapi fully plans to give Fake!Adder an earful next time she happens to show up in the Dreamworld. 	
Rattlesnake 	positive 	Okapi didn't exactly dislike Rattle to start with, but to be fair Rattle did attack her when she told Rattle she needed to be helped. And Rattlesnake was a good fighter, even injured as she was. But Okapi also knows that deep down, Rattle is good. The cat had proved it time and time again, and now Okapi is happy to know that Rattlesnake trusts her enough to live in the Bunker at her home. 	
Fox 	positive 	Okapi doesn't like how Fox doesn't think for himself and follows orders blindly, especially from Rattlesnake. But she knows Fox means well and cares for his friend greatly. He’s too innocent for their server, and Okapi would always protect him if she could. 	
Siren 	positive-neutral	Siren has done nothing to wrong Okapi, and on multiple occasions, Okapi has helped the bat. After hearing that Okapi had been temporarily working on medicines to help Glitch, though, Siren grew angry. While Okapi has so qualms against the bat, she wishes she could understand her reasoning for helping the people she does. 	
Alastor 	neutral 	Okapi has only met Alastor once, and that was when he’d asked for help after Glitch had attacked them. He did not do anything to wrong or harm Okapi, and said nothing to raise suspicions. 	
Wynter 	positive 	Okapi would do anything for Wynter. They’ve both helped each other through horrible times in their lives, and nothing could ever pull them apart- not even thousands of miles of ocean between them. 	
Glitch 	negative 	While at first Glitch had seemed more nervous being around Okapi, what she’d done to Rattlesnake, Fox, Ink, Siren, and many others is inexcusable. Okapi originally had been working to find medicines to help Glitch, but has since dropped these projects after hearing what she’d done. 	
Arrow 	negative 	Okapi still hates him for what he did to everyone at the Party, but after seeing his reaction to being captured, she knows that there's more than one side to his story. She still believes he needs to pay for his actions, but also knows that first they need to help him. Despite knowing this, she is absolutely furious with him for keeping Adder. And even ended up having a large fight with him trying to get Adder back, assisting Skye later on in fighting him as well- though neither fights ended with her getting Adder back.	
Scuorge 	positive 	Okapi knows Scuorge can be trusted, and is kind. Scuorge helped Okapi take care of Ro and that action permanently stuck in Okapi's mind. She's so glad she had someone like Scuorge around. 	
Opia 	negative 	She knows Opia played a part in kidnapping Adder, so she immediately thinks down on her. Opia is not a good person and will not be treated as such by Okapi. 	
Achlys 	negative 	Achlys helped kidnap and keep Adder. Achlys lied to them, when they asked if she knew anything about Adder. And for that, Okapi WILL NOT hesitate to absolutely divebomb Achlys the second she gets the chance. 	
Vincent 	positive 	Even though Okapi knows Vincent is related to Achlys, she's aware that he has no affiliations with her actions. He got Okapi the information that Achlys had Adder, so Okapi was immediately trusting of him. 	
Asight 	positive-neutral	Asight was Okapi's first friend on the server. So while she may not support a lot of Asight's decisions or opinions, she still cares for Asight and knows Asight only usually means good. 	
Rasp 	positive 	Okapi knows Rasp just struggles and doesn't know how to get help or doesn't want the help. She worries for them, but she trusts them, considering they trusted her to keep their secret. And she will. She'll always keep caring for them and helping them. 	
Nova 	positive-neutral	Okapi has only met her once, but she seemed nice. She made no moves to harm Okapi and did not say anything to threaten anyone else. 	
Sanic 	positive 	While Okapi hasn't had much interaction with Sanic, the ones she has had are all positive. She trusts Sanic, and will always offer her careful advice and healing when needed. She feels bad, after what happened at the Party. She’s glad though, that she could help Sanic with her injuries after the Party. 	
Bobsight 	neutral 	Bobsight is chaotic, but Okapi knows they do not mean harm. 	
Daxi 	neutral 	Okapi only really knew her from the battle with Streamless. She’s heard mixed opinions on her, and does not really have a true opinion of her own. 	
Jax 	neutral 	Okapi only knows Jax from a small party they’d had on Midnight, where she did not interact with them. 	
Infinity 	positive-neutral	Infinity seemed very nice the few times Okapi met her, and Adder trusted her. 	
Radio 	neutral 	Met briefly, did not do anything to seem untrustworthy 	
Lathrai 	neutral-negative	Met briefly at her house- Lathrai did not make himself seem very trustworthy, but did not do anything bad. 	
South 	neutral 	Notes 	
Ghostless 	positive 	While at first Okapi did not trust the ghost, they sounded genuinely sorry for what their counterpart Streamless had done. And after a while, Okapi trusted them. 	
==Items==
Personal items 	Personal items 	Personal items	Personal items
Name 	Notes 	 	
Okayeet 	Okapi's trident. 	 	
Patience 	Okapi's netherite sword. 	 	
Protection 	Okapi's shield. 	 	
Faith 	Okapi's netherite axe. 	 	
Choice 	Okapi's bow. 	 	
Reason 	Okapi's netherite pickaxe. 	 	
Bunker Progress Log	Okapi’s journal on the progress of the bunker, since she started building it in October 2021.	 	
Bunker Map Log 	Details what rooms are on each floor of the bunker. 	 	
Vigilance 	Part of Okapi's armor set. 	 	
Vigilance 	Part of Okapi's armor set. 	 	
Vigilance 	Part of Okapi's armor set. 	 	
Vigilance 	Part of Okapi's armor set. 	 	
==Pets==
Pets	Pets 	Pets 	Pets
Name	Status 	Notes	Canon
Name	alive/dead	Notes	Yes/No
Name	alive/dead	Notes	Yes/No
Name	alive/dead	Notes	Yes/No
==Trivia==
* Okapi is secretly very strong. When finding resources to continue building her bunker, she can use her legs to help kick down a tree. She’s also got strong shoulder muscles, as she hauls around two large wings that she can’t even use to fly anymore.
* Okapi’s main fears are not being there or being enough to protect those she loves, and fire.
* Okapi’s goggles are not there for design purposes. Using them and a special mixture of potions, she’s able to focus and see a sort of ‘x-ray’ of others’ bones and muscles, allowing her to quickly and accurately diagnose their symptoms.
* Okapi’s hooves are not good for walking on smooth and slippery surfaces, like ice. During the battle, she had to specially make her boots with spikes on the bottoms to not slip on the icy ground.
* Okapi’s weapons are all named after her values.
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Category:MidnightSMP
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