Vier

Vervain Periklis (Vier)

## Job

Vier makes money by selling flowers.

She also makes money by being an informant, a much better business idea than being a florist. During the day she can just sell information while Phodel is unaware. At night she, instead of sleeping, goes to forge connections and to gain more information. There are people who pay her to spread certain pieces of information and people who pay for the information she's paid who spread, it's easy money.

If she has to spread false information, she makes sure the person she spreads it to gets ruined soon so it doesn't harm her reputation as an informant.

## Personality

Vervain is the type to prefer business relationships over sentimental ones. She will always do her best to forge new business relationships and feels comfortable doing so. There is however a part of her that prefers normal friendships because she's a person and people get lonely but she's not as good at handling these. Always tries to leave a good impression either way.

She has some amount of empathy and is somewhat sentimental but she'd prefer to not have these feelings. She tries to rationalise these feelings by thinking it's only (human??? humanoid???) to have these thoughts. Doesn't really care for literature, philosophy or art in general unless she can make money off its existence. Lacks any artistic creativity. Despite her usual lack of care, she will probably get invested in stories and hates stories without a clear ending because she's incapable of filling in the spaces. Doesn't care for religion either because she doesn't care what happens when she dies.

Likes to have an organised schedule to stick to and will have contingency plans in case something isn't possible on a certain day. Doing something against her schedule brings great pain to her heart even if it has to be done. Might be a control freak and dislikes inefficiency.

She tends to look calm on the outside but she lacks confidence and doubts her abilities (not knowledge) a lot. On that note she's also paranoid and often assumes the worst so she does her jobs as soon as possible. Her paranoia leads her to, despite being a control freak, avoid leadership positions.

## Equipment

Her clothes are made of her own spider silk for the most part just because she can change the shape that way so it's convenient for transformation. Since it's a pain and she usually doesn't gain from it, she doesn't make any for other people.

Pocketwatch hanging off her sleeve by a single thread because I thought it'd look cool but in hindsight a normal watch would've worked more conveniently.

## Backstory

Her first memory was the regretful faces of her parents when they were forced to leave her at the orphanage. She didn't chase after them, she simply stood there until a nun took her in.

She was always scared of what would happen if the orphanage were to get rid of her early like her parents did so she decided to get a job as soon as she became eight years old. She got a job as a shoe shiner which wasn't anything special. A lot of the time it seemed as if someone richer only wanted to flaunt their social status, to spit at a peasant who'd do something so low as cleaning shoes. Despite this, there was a chance she'd get tips depending on her reaction so there was some value in it. After a while she learned the value of information and sold rumours to her customers along with shoeshining services. These rumours might've been overheard or it could've been small talk she had with customers. At some stage she became a respectable informant and the amount of customers who looked down on her decreased.

During puberty, Vervain started transforming and growing extra limbs when she did. This led to her hiding in her room on certain days until she learned how to control it. It was disgusting. Spiders were disgusting. Everyone at the orphanage thought so; Vervain thought so too. Even if demi humans in general weren't discriminated against, it's because most of them weren't something so hideous. Due to this assumption, Vervain decided to never show her extra limbs to people around her. The hair colour change didn't bother her as much as it happened to some other orphans too.

As for relationships, this transformation didn't change much. Vervain was someone who naturally put up a wall around others after all. Of course, she did her best to forge relationships with others when possible but they'd be shallow, skin deep, the type that would end with the slightest inconvenience. This was also because Vervain was unlucky, whenever she became slightly close to someone, they'd be adopted. At some stage, everyone close in age seemed to have already been adopted and she ended up being the oldest in the orphanage.

That was the case until Vervain was seventeen. Due to financial reasons, a lot of children were transferred from another orphanage.

Due to the influx of people, all of her friends naturally drifted away after finding people they connected with more easily. It was obvious but more options meant they didn't have to stick with people they were only close with out of convenience.

She was the same. She found it easy to talk to Phodel, one of the transfers from the other orphanage. Phodel was the same age and because of that, also soon to leave the orphanage. Vervain ended up only talking to Phodel for the most part. Eventually they were even close enough that Vervain had the confidence to show Phodel her extra limbs.

They ended up getting an apprenticeship in the same flower shop although Vervain was still selling information on the side when possible.