Quill Minkin

Quill has short, shoulder-length hair that’s wildly curly.  She’s Onneno and has the chestnut-dark skin the rest of the race has been gifted with, but no one (aside from her) knows if she’s from [cliff city].  She has striking dark eyes and a constantly-angry expression, despite her age, and she stands at three-foot-eleven-inches — though, once she’s full grown, she’ll be five-foot-six-inches tall.

Quill is mute.  Since she was found by her current carers after she lost her voice, no one she lives with currently knows what her real name is, what her birthday is, where she’s from, if her parents are even still alive, and any other important information about her.

## Attire

Quill wears whatever clothes the adults give her — usually plain, and somewhere in the grayscale.

## Personality

While Quill is most certainly quiet and doesn't like talking with strangers, one thing that she isn't is shy.  She's one of the most stubborn kids on the face of the earth, and if she decides that she wants something then she isn't going to let up until she gets it or it's been made abundantly clear (probably more than once) that she won't be getting whatever it is.  She doesn't have much patience for people that try to get in her way, and she's liable to snap at them — rather, she would snap at them.  One of the most important things to know about Quill is that she's mute — as much as she wants to, she can't actually speak.  The fact that she can't annoys her to no end, and she is far from adjusted to it. Often, she'll open up her mouth and try to speak, only to be greeted with a weak croaking sound that makes her even more frustrated.  She only sees her new disability as another hurdle to get over, and the way she sees it, she's either going to get over it or die trying. Quill also has some breathing issues that she was born with, and she's already developed a hatred of being underestimated.  At times, she can be a bit reckless in her quest to prove that she shouldn't be treated as any less capable than anyone else. As a consequence of this, insults get under her fur easily, and she's likely to lash out however she can at anyone who speaks poorly of or to her.  If she still had the ability to talk, Quill would be lashing tongues with the best of them, dishing out insults as easily as breathing. Now that she can't speak anymore, though, she's liable to resort to launching herself at whoever's opposing her — or, if someone's getting on her nerves, then she's likely to swat at them or shove her hand in their face to shut them up.  She doesn't necessarily have a short temper, she's just very touchy about certain subjects. Other subjects she's touchy — and more than a little hypocritical — about are being lied to and being the butt of a joke. However, she has no problem with lying herself, and her sense of humor can be brutal towards others at times and more than a little dark at others. She also doesn't like it when other people are trying to beat around the bush — she could be called impatient when it comes to just about any aspects of her life, but it shows the most when people are obviously trying to avoid telling her something.  She, herself is a blunt person, who wants to get to the point as quickly as possible, and she doesn't understand why others would want to waste their time dancing around the subject. She also has a problem with people trying to make things sound nicer than they are, as she'd rather be told something plainly than have to figure it out by herself. She has a distaste for most people around her, most of the time only dealing with the people around her rather than actually enjoying their company. Most of the time, she simply puts up with others, rather than actually deal with them, and as she grows more used to her inability to speak she will often take advantage of it, acting as if yes, she's totally listening to what you're saying, but she’s really wondering what's going to be for dinner — duck, maybe? She hopes it's duck.

## History

Quill was born with her breathing issues, making her a bit weaker than other children around her, particularly her sisters.  However, she’s always refused to let that get her down, even if she’d push herself too hard sometimes and have to be forced by her parents to rest and recover.  Other than that, she lived a pretty normal life, until her parents brought their three daughters out on a day trip. Quill fell into a river that had swollen with the recent rains and was swept away by the current, and when she was washed ashore and found by the people she now calls her carers her voice box had been injured, keeping her from talking and telling them that her parents were still alive, and any attempts she made to try and find them were aborted by the orphanage staff.