HL: Puck

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Personality

A jovial little bug who finds great pleasure in the simple delights of life- nature, insects, involving friends in matters they never asked to play a role in; all the simple pleasures.  In spite of some ignorance to certain social cues, company is always welcomed, if not sought.  While the air is often filled with silence around most strangers, she’s nonetheless sociable, active in gestures and expressions until a quiet voice discovers its tongue- though it’s rare that the wait is long.  Although her volume is soft, her vocals can grow to an incomprehensible level of activity when the proper excitement hits her, a variety just outside of what appears to be her typical, excitable behavior.  It's a demeanor which can conceal an unexpected wealth of knowledge and work; though, the word "work" may be more or less applicable to what she does depending on your interpretation; but make no mistake, she has a good reason for any work she chooses to begin.  _{Some reasons are just a little... more perplexing than others.}

Though often upbeat, she experiences most emotions with a depth difficult to ignore, and possess little experience in feigning for the sake of being polite, or keeping something to herself.  Whether happy, upset, or angry, there is little guesswork involved in how she is at any moment- though you may still be required to guess.  Despite how she acts, she’s not always willing to share her thoughts, save for her anger which tends to blurt out certain details- even to her own surprise.

History

For an active couple, a child was an unexpected, though not unwelcome, event.  In spite of inexperience in parenthood, the couple worked to adjust to the new responsibilities- a task none too simple, due to a silly, though oftentimes troublesome behavior in their child.  Yet, perhaps their greater concern was that, in spite of her lively nature and active socializing around family, the child continued aging without a word being uttered.  Her communications appeared restricted to expressive faces, pointing, and a few odd noises which her parents learned to decipher.   The noises held an odd similarity to the bugs which frequented their home, a fact which would have gone unnoticed save for the unusual interest the organisms appeared to show her, a trait many began to relate with her mother.  Unlike her, however, Puck appeared to delight in the attention the arthropods bestowed upon her.  Every insect and arachnid became a quick friend, much to the dismay of the kitchen cupboards.

It was early in her youth that the girl came to be known as her mother’s “little Puck,” finding all manner of shenanigans in her bug hunts, scrapped and bruised body parts a common sight.  Despite being so young the girl had an exploration-driven nature, one which went unhindered by the dangers it created- a fact that warranted some careful watching of the child.  While her parents tried to keep the bugs out, their daughter worked to sneak them in- hiding them in various locations, though they often couldn’t go long without being spotted.  In spite of certain protests the girls lively nature warranted in spots she frequented, her parents found it difficult to complain as she began to grow out of her silent phase- a transition which seemed well assisted by show-and-tells at school; a perfect time for the girl to speak.

It would be a few years later that Puck realized her totem- much to the pain of everyone else.  What appeared to be a bug around the school was soon noted to be a poison, the properties of which were linked back to the child.  As a venonat, her pores leaked a certain toxin; not a deadly one to her fortune, but the pains, nausea, and respiratory stress it caused were far from being unnoticed.  With the additions of certain precautions and clothing, the situation was able to be managed, though the memory was difficult for her classmates to leave.  Her presence became a reason for concern for many of them, though Puck herself either chose to ignore it or failed to understand; so long as she didn’t touch them, everything seemed fine.  It was perhaps because of her light reactions that the matter didn’t grow worse, and she found a certain normalcy between a careful school life, and somewhat reckless bug hunting.  By the time she had graduated from school she had acquired a vast knowledge of the little creatures she had often snuck around with in childhood, and she was quick to make a career out of it.

After attending college, she found a cheap spot of land which looked perfect for her purposes of a self-guided study.

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