Wood

## History

### Past life/Background

Wood was born to her mothers Stone and Glacier in a small taiga village called Minto. This village resides on a coast and is on a decently sized island. However, Wood was isolated from their moms due to a series of unfortunate events, and went to live with their new sister Marine. She later lives by herself, and meets Sprocket.

### Early Life

Wood struggled going outside when they were a child, unable to see and couldn’t bear to stay out for longer than a few minutes without getting overstimulated by the bright light from the sun and the reflection of the snow. Squinting up until she was 6, her parents built specialized green goggles that would filter out the light and make her able to see. The first thing Wood saw outside was icicles frozen on tree branches, then their moms.

Wood helped on fishing trips with their mom Stone in the morning, and then helped their other mom Glacier in the evening with duties around the village, with Stone and Glacier being the leaders. The village trades seafood and other goods derived from the ocean to trade with the mainland.

### One Thing After Another

On an off day with nothing to do, 17 year old Wood was building snow bunnies for fun while their moms were taking care of tasks around the village. Without warning, an avalanche began, with Wood at the start of it.

They ran as fast as they could, warning their village of the incoming disaster. There wasn't much time to react, as many who tried to run were crushed under the snow. Wood managed to keep up, but slipped in the process, injuring her leg. She got caught with a sudden slam of snow, which caused a chunk of ice to break off with her on it. When they came back to reality after a ton of pain, it was already too late; they were too far off land to swim back without drowning. Wood cried for help, but no one answered, with everyone being buried under snow. The impact caused her to drift off without any way to get back, no matter how hard she tried to paddle back or slide off the ice sheet. With Wood having no ability to swim and nothing to use as an oar, she was caught in the ocean current.

Wood was lost at sea for 2 days, eventually getting caught in a thunderstorm with high waves. Her large ice sheet had melted down and was now just big enough to fit her on it. A massive wave struck Wood off their one way of staying afloat, and they began to struggle staying above water. Having no swimming skills, she quickly got exhausted and began to drown. However, before they blacked out, a herd of Polysio found her. Since the species is mutualistic with fishermen lagos, they scooped up Wood and took them to shore. Wood could barely see what was happening, goggles smashed and sounds all around them, but they could at least tell some sort of creature had picked them up. They passed out before getting to shore, with a Polysio setting them down in the sand.

Wood wakes up the next day, being poked in the face by a young Marine. After some hesitation, Wood joins Marine and they live together, becoming sisters.

### Some Time Later

Wood spent a lot of time with Marine, teaching her basic skills to take care of herself. There were a lot of learning curves together, but eventually Wood wanted some more space to complete their current interest of work, blacksmithing.

## Trivia

* Wood is autistic and has ADHD. She suffers from PTSD.
* Wood dabbles in many different hobbies. This includes cooking, drawing, blacksmithing, inventing/building, exercising, star mapping, and scavenging.
* Wood, Washer, Sprocket, and Bolt were all made on the same day.
* Wood is based off of a lionhead rabbit.