Vaeic

Vaeic is a character in the book Gift. She was introduced as a nurse in the encampment of the village for those injured.

## History

### Gift

Vaeic managed to escape the village fires very minimally harmed, although her husband was lost in it. In the encampment, he took up nursing injuries survivors.

She is the first person Leiea and Sheyric meet in the encampment, and three give her their extra supplies. Later, Leiea and Vaeic properly meet when Leiea asks to help in the medical tent with her. Vaeic is hesitant but lets her join in. When she sees her fellow nurse Clyra being unfair to Leiea, she has her fired.

Vaeic is invited into Sheyric’s venture team by Leiea. In the tent, she’s disgusted by seeing Therin but enjoys Hania’s company.

In the forest, Vaeic stays away when Sheyric, Therin, and Ailpein attack the Ildful they find. She treats them back in the encampment later on.

When the encampment is bombed by the Ildful again, she escapes and meets back with Leiea, Hania, and Therin. She’s disappointed seeing Leiea walking with a concussion and injuries. When they see Ailpein get attacked, she knows it’s worthless to try to save him. After this, she returns to the encampment.

In the epilogue of Gift, Leiea let Vaeic chose where Raencalia will be built. She chooses a spot in the foothills of the coastal mountains.

## Relationships

### Hania

Vaeic and Hania meet in the encampment during the venture team meeting. Although they aren’t seen talking with eachother again, Hania says she’s “hilarious”. This could make Hania the only known character that likes Vaeic and her dark humor

### Ranulf

Vaeic is shown to have a distaste for Ranulf, such as when she insults his reckless medical techniques. However, she acknowledges that he’s a better and more knowledgeable doctor than herself, and that Leiea would be better off working with him than her,

## Personality

Vaeic is typically very condescending. She was based off the characters Johanna Mason, Perry Cox, and Jordan Sullivan, from The Hunger Games trilogy and the sitcom Scrubs respectively. Like these characters, she can be violent-minded and commonly rants about things involving her.

She is also skilled in medicine like Cox, showing she still cares for people under her emotional armor. She admits that, after her husband died in the village bombing, she took up nursing mainly as a coping mechanism. She also nursed before this event when needed, although she isn’t a professional.

When Leiea and Sheyric first meet her, she’s awestruck by the sight of them and gladly takes they supplies they offer.

## Skills

### Combat

Vaeic is skilled in hand-it-hand combat, especially with knives. She is not afraid to hurt people, despite her job in doing the opposite.

### Healing

Being a nurse, Vaeic is very knowledgeable and skilled in healing people. She uses this in the encampment to help the survivors of the village fires and other times in the village.

## Appearance

Vaeic is 42 years old (37 in Gift), and stands at 5 feet, 10 inches tall. She has black hair usually pulled back in a loose bun, blue eyes, and tanned skin. She had minor burns on her face and walked with a slight limp before it healed. Being a nurse for the encampment, her clothes were usually covered in blood. She often wields a pack of knives for attacking and medical purposes

## Trivia

* Vaeic is very similar to Lorietta in appearance and personality.

## Quotes

> “Salamander, Hay, Rat, if you don’t get over here within the next five seconds I’ll pin you down by the-“
>
> -Vaeic to Therin, Leiea, and Hania, Gift

> “Hey Therin, do you want to touch her blood-saturated hair before I have to wrap up her upper body later and give Ranulf nothing less than hell for being such a disgraceful person to the world of medicine?”
>
> -Vaeic to Therin, Gift