Giva Joshi

## Voice Actor

Giva Joshi (24) is a curious, self-sufficient meteorologist who's received a grant to study Fairhaven's weather. She moves in once the bridge to the mountain pass is repaired.

She's determined to crack the island's secrets: she's discovered an air pressure barrier around the island, and she loves to comb Fairhaven for historical artifacts that might serve as clues.

## Life Before Fairhaven

Giva studied at a conservative British boarding school, where she met her first serious girlfriend, Alice. They couldn’t be very openly affectionate, at the risk of the school—and potentially Giva’s parents—finding out she was gay. After boarding school, Giva attended graduate school to become a meteorologist.

Giva’s parents set her up with the most prestigious matchmaker in Mumbai. When she told them she was never interested in marrying any man, their pride was hurt. The tension was such that Giva is no longer on speaking terms with them, though they write to her in Fairhaven and want her to answer back.

## Personal Schedule

Monday: Weather station 9am-6pm.
Tuesday: Weather station 9am-6pm.

Saturday: Weather station 9am-6pm.
Sunday: Weather station 9am-6pm.
Likes to hangout in Sophia’s diner. Likes to hangout by lighthouse.

## Relationship Cutscenes

**New Acquaintances** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: After gaining one full heart, visit Giva at her observatory
Dialogue:

Giva: Ooh! Come in, come in, Tara! Care for a muffin? I’m celebrating! I’ve just finished analyzing my first set of barometric readings. They suggest there’s some sort of – pressure barrier? – around the island. [Gives 1x Muffin.] There really is something odd happening here. Tell me, have you noticed anything dodgy about the weather since you arrived?

--[Choice: I guess…]

-Tara: Well, yes… but I’m just a simple country farmer, ma’am, couldn’t tell you a thing about the weather.

-Giva: A simple city-girl-turned-farmer, you mean? I know you came here in the Spring…

--[Choice: All weather is strange]

-Tara: Well, yes... but global warming is causing strange weather everywhere, right?

-Giva: Not like this. I've never seen anything like this pattern before.

--[Choice: No, I’ve noticed nothing]

Giva: I have to get to the bottom of this. What was grad school for otherwise? Sometimes I wasn’t certain I’d make it. But now here I am, in my own weather observatory! Oh, listen to me ramble. You’re very kind, Tara. Come back any time!

**Casual Friend** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: After gaining two full hearts, visit Giva at her observatory
Dialogue:

Tara: Are you in the middle of something?

Giva: Just finishing my meditation! And not that yuppie ‘yoga’ rubbish, by the way. This is my… hmm, how to explain it? My Hindu version of reading the Book of the Mind that Cameron talks about.

Tara: Oh! Is this something you learned back home? From your parents?

Giva: Sort of. We don’t talk, my parents and I. It’s fine, you couldn’t have known. Um. What about your parents?

--[Choice: Problems with Dad]

-Tara: It's hard for me to relate to mu dad. He kept me away from Fairhaven for twenty years.

-Giva: That sounds painful. I'm sorry he did that, Tara.

--[Choice: Hard to explain Fairhaven]

-Tara: I relate to them okay, but I can’t get them to understand why I moved to Fairhaven.

-Giva: I understand. Fairhaven does seem to pull people to it.

--[Choice: No problems]

Giva: In my experience, it’s only gotten harder and harder for my parents and me to relate as time goes on. I wonder if it will ever get easier. But in the meantime… I’m quite happy here on the island.

**Good Friend** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: After gaining three full hearts, find Giva standing outside the Town Hall
Dialogue:

Giva: My parents sent me a letter. I can’t believe it. They’re congratulating me for winning my grant. And – and they want me to write back.

Tara: Is that a bad thing?

Giva: They had me signed up with the most prestigious matchmaker in Mumbai. I tried so hard to get out of it. I told them I wanted to finish college first. But finally I had to tell them that I was never going to marry a man. Any man. It wasn’t me liking women that upset them. It was the loss of prestige… that I wouldn’t make a match. So they cut me off and I don’t know if I can forgive them.

--[Choice: Setting boundaries is okay]

-Tara: If you do decide to write them back, which is up to you, it’s okay to go slow and set boundaries.

-Giva: That’s a good point.

--[Choice: Parents might have changed]

-Tara: It's been a long time. Maybe your parents have realized how badly they hurt you, and they want to make it better?

-Giva: Maybe. Or maybe they're just trying to draw me back home.

--[Choice: But family is important]

Giva: I need time to decide whether or not I’ll reply, but it’s been so kind of you to listen. I haven’t had a friend like you in a long time, Tara.

Tara: Listening to each other is what friends are for.

**Intimate Friend** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: After gaining four full hearts, find Giva on level 1 of the Mine
Dialogue:

Tara: Wow, I didn’t expect to see you here.

Giva: Tara! You’ve caught me at the end of my little expedition. I’m terribly intrigued by Fairhaven’s history, so I wanted to know if I could find any clues to its people in the mine. Besides, I dated a fellow grad student – she was a geologist – for a bit, and she took me on cave exploration dates. Though… perhaps people who aren’t earth sciences grad students wouldn’t find caving enjoyable? What do you think?

--[Choice: It’s an adventurous date]

-Tara: A good date should feel like an adventure, so a caving date would be a double adventure!

-Giva: My feelings exactly.

--[Choice: It’s unconventional, but cool]

-Tara: I've never thought of caving as a date activity, but it sure would make a unique date.

-Giva: It does, I assure you!

--[Choice: It’s too scary]

-Tara: Oh no! I've seen enough horror movies to know that's not a good idea. Horror and romance do not go well together.

-Giva: Tara! You should know better than to let fear control you! Besides, look at me! I made it out fine.

Giva: I haven’t been in a serious relationship for quite a while, but I enjoy thinking about one-of-a-kind dates. They’re such a delightful way to get to know another person. In fact, maybe you and I could…

Tara: We could what?

Giva: Do absolutely nothing! Would you look at the time?! I’ve got to head out!!

Tara: Giva…?

**Dating** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: After gaining five full hearts, talk to Giva and she will ask you out on a date.
Dialogue:

Giva: I was hoping to run into you today.

Tara: Really? What’s up?

Giva: Well, I would be delighted if you would give me the pleasure of your company at dinner sometime.

Tara: Sure, I’d love that!

Giva: Perfect. I’ll arrange something intimate.

Giva: Goodness! Sophia is making something impossibly delicious, isn’t she? Those smells! There’s something else I want to tell you, Tara. When I came out to my parents, I was also partying. A lot. After they cut me off, I cleaned up my life. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and I’m always afraid of a relapse. But with you, I’m not afraid. I’m excited. When I see you, my stomach feels like an extratropical cyclone! What I mean is – I really like you.

--[Choice: I feel the same way]

Tara: I’m not great at weather metaphors, but… you make me feel like a sunny Spring day. What I’m trying to say is that… I really like you, too.

Giva: It’s simultaneous cyclogenesis…

Sophia: You two are like the weather channel, but with more flirting!

--[Choice: I don’t feel the same way]

**Partner** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: After gaining six full hearts with Giva, Giva will tell you she has a surprise and ask you for 3 muffins before telling you to meet her at the outlook the following day.
Dialogue:

Giva: Dear one, I have a surprise for you! But I’ll need some muffins to pull this off. Can you bring me three?

Tara: You requested muffins, milady meteorologist?

Giva: Oh, these are perfect! I’ll need a night to work on my surprise. Meet me by the overlook tomorrow after 3pm!

[Meet Giva at the mountain lookout between 3pm and 5pm tomorrow.

Giva: You came! Here’s some raspberry orange herbal tea that I’ve been saving and your lovely muffins. And as the piece de resistance – one of my radiosonde balloons. Count down from ten…

Tara: Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one… [Giva releases the balloon, it floats away while raining flower petals] … woah!

Giva: I used so many balloons testing my theory that the air current up here would catch the petals. But it was all worth it.

Tara: I can’t believe you did all this for me!

Giva: I care about you so much, Tara. And that’s unusual for me. My only serious girlfriend, other than you, was back in boarding school. I couldn’t put on spectacles of affection like this for Alice.

Tara: Why not?

Giva: The school was quite conservative. That’s English boarding school culture for you. I couldn’t run the risk of administration telling my parents. But nobody in Fairhaven gives a fig about who I love, as long as I’m happy! I can express my feelings however I want! So I will! I love you, Tara Wylde!

Tara: I love you too, Giva. Give me your cup? I’ll pour you some tea…

Giva: And there it is, proof that you love me.

**Engaged** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: After gaining a seventh full heart, a letter will arrive in the mailbox that starts a quest line to get engaged.
Dialogue:

Tara: Giva, I have something special for you.

Giva: Oh. Oh my goodness. Lina told me what this kind of ring means…

Tara: Will you marry me, Giva?

Giva: Waaah! Yes! I never thought this would happen for me!

Tara: Where do you want to get married?

Giva: The forest will do. I don’t need anything fancy when I’ve got you!

**Spouse** *(expand)*

**How to initiate cutscene**: 7 days after proposing, Tara and Giva will have a marriage ceremony in the woods.
Dialogue:

Gloria: Though I haven’t known Giva and Tara very long, I have witnessed their joyful, adventurous spirits come together. I can see that as partners they are able to draw strength from one another and that is a beautiful thing. I am honored to preside over their wedding today so that they might offer that support to each other for all of their lives. Tara, do you take Giva to be your wife?

Tara: Yes!

Gloria: And Giva, do you take Tara to be your wife?

Giva: Of course!

Gloria: I now pronounce you married! I wish you both all the happiness in the world.

Giva: I’m so happy! What a beautiful little wedding!

Tara: Hey! The entire town turned out for this little wedding.

Giva: Right, that’s true. Still, it’s a little wedding compared to where I’m from! I want to show you off to the whole world!

Tara: Aww.

## Quotes

The full list of quotes for this character can be found here.