Okapi

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Mentions of **violence**, **mental illness**, **depression**, **anxiety** and **character death**

## Biographical Information

### Deaths

* Accidently killed by Leaf while hunting creepers with Dave
* Killed by Streamless while helping Adder and Ro to escape

## Other Information

### Builds

* Okapi's House
* The Bunker

### Major Events

* The Dreamworld Party
* Arrow's Party
* The battle against Streamless

*“A mother will love her kids unconditionally until the end of time, no action or words can stop that.”*
— Okapi to Adder and Ro

**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.

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## 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.