FFVII OC: Onyveth

Name:

Onyveth {pronounced: AW-neh-veth}
(Birthname is Cherie Raine Devereaux but is currently unknown to her)

Nicknames/Alias:

Ony {pronounced: AW-nee}

Age:

Twenty

Height/build:

5'7'', athletic/slim

DoB:

Unknown; considers April 20 to be her birthday

Race:

Human

Weapon:

Katana

Special Skill(s):

- natural escape artist - growing up most her life running away from home, Onyveth became adept in escaping (make-believe captors!) and how not to get caught.. When she learned how to pick locks later in life, Onyveth became a force to be reckoned with.

- excellent dexterity - although not physically strong, she makes up in speed and agility. With perfect balance, good reflexes and perhaps the skills of a champion gymnast, you can bet Onyveth can dodge a few incoming hits before actually taking one.

- skilled at pickpocketting and lockpicking - it wasn't until later in life that Onyveth acquired the skills of thievery Although not quite the master, she is still able to slip out a gil or two...

Magic:

- Cure materia (master) - enables the user to heal all superficial wounds.
- Mime materia (master) - enables the user to mimic any physical and/or magical actions, provided that the user witnesses it firsthand. Mimicked actions cannot be replicated after some time, especially those casted by magic.
- Ice materia (lv4) - enables user to cast a powerful ice-based spell.
- Lightning materia (lv4) - enables user to cast a powerful lightning-based spell.

Summon:

Pheonix materia

Appearance:

Onyveth stands 5'7'' in height and weighs roughly 132lbs. She has short shoulder-length raven-black hair tied in a low pony-tail with long fringes that curtain her heart-shaped face. She has cerulean-blue eyes with a fern-green ring around it. Onyveth has a slightly tanned complexion due to her time travelling. She has pierced ears and a small tattoo of an upside-down butterfly at the back of her neck, below the nape. She also has a small unique scar on her right palm caused by a lilac thorn when she was a baby.

Onyveth has a unique sense of style wich changes accordingly and will oftentimes wear something bold to stand out but at the same time won't restrict her from her own daily misadventures. Today's trend consists of tanned hotpants and a grey tank top with either matching tanned boots or her favorite set of heels for a night out at the town. She will almost always be wearing a black leather jacket which was given to her by a friend and a small locket, inscribed with the name ''Isa'' with a faded picture of her biological family inside it.

Personality:

Selfless, brash, and somewhat irrational. Onyveth could very well be viewed as the emotional human time bomb just waiting to explode, but the reality is that these traits are simply the tip of the iceberg. Whilst respectful in general, she doesn't like to look down on others, unless she has no desire of being polite to begin with. She could be viewed as headstrong, stubborn and outspoken at times, but tends to be rather sensitive when it comes to the subject of family and/or ShinRa. If there is one thing Onyveth is unable to do, it's to sit still - she gets bored easily and easily gets distracted, its no wonder why she gets into so much trouble as she usually does. She's the type who would leap before looking and would make the most out if it for better or worse. She is often quick to laugh, quick to cry, and (unfortunately) quick to anger.

She tends to keep herself emotionally distant from people as much as she can, but the majority of the time it can never be helped. Since she doesn't get the luxury of meeting the same friends on a daily basis, she tries so very hard to spare herself the pain of goodbyes. But let it be known that when one gains Onyveth's friendship she ultimately cherishes it. Although she dons a tough-girl persona, she really is a big softie at heart.

Onyveth has the bad habit of keeping grudges against people. She mentally keeps track of every affliction, whether emotional or physical, she had ever suffered and those were who were unlucky enough to incur her enmity you can be sure she will pay you back tenfold. Just as she never forgave an injury, neither does she ever forgets a favor.

Another bad habit worth mentioning is that she compulsively lies about her wellbeing in fear of becoming a burden to others. Strangely enough, she would never hesitate sacrificing her life when it comes to aiding a friend. A hypocrite, one might say. An act of selflessness Onyveth would curtly respond: ''so I'm selfless - I didn't have a sense of self to begin with, so what does it matter...'' Of course, those who know her well enough would easily see through her fascade... even her weapon of choice is just a ruse to her tough-girl appearance! Although skilled with a blade (perhaps an average sword fighter to say the most), she would hesitate when it comes to taking a life or even doing any permanant harm as a sign of mercy... which usually leads her to more trouble. She only fights as a means of defending oneself and others. But you can be sure that when Onyveth does enter a fight, she will give it her all.

As a child, Onyveth would often runaway whenever situations got too tough or it was something she couldn't emotionally handle. And now as an adult, she still leans on the idea that it would be easiar to run than face the oncoming hardships. The sole thought that prevents her from doing so is that maybe... perhaps she's grown up a bit in these short few years. The thought that she wasn't a child anymore and that she didn't have to run anymore.

History:

A girl was born the youngest of two children to a kind, ordinary, family. Her father was a traveling merchant and had earned quite a wealth doing so. They had moved to Gongaga village before her first birthday, but soon after there was a fire. The children survived the casualty, but had left them as orphans. What happens next nobody was certain...

On the night of the twentieth of April, the baby girl was left on the doorstep of an orphanage in a nearby town, wrapped in a blanket with a locket around her neck inscribed with the name ''Isa''. Thinking the name Isa was too masculine for the child, she was named Onyveth by the same woman who found her. While growing up with the story of that night, the thought of being abandoned by her only living blood-relative tortured and saddened her. It was speculated that her older sibling was too much of a delinquent; such an unstable role-model for someone to take care of a child as young as Onyveth at the time. Another suggested a baby was too much of a burden for another child to carry on. Whatever the reason, it remained a mystery to her even to this day.

During the next nine years of her life, Onyveth developed a habit of running away from families who fostered her, claiming they weren't her "real family". She once ran away from a family only to encounter a lone cactuar. Unafraid at first, the creature attacked Onyveth out of self defence, and thus began her lifelong phobia of cactuars.

She kept herself emotionally distant from people, until one particular family from Nibelheim took her in. It was in this time, everything changed and her attitude improved, finding herself feeling perfectly right at home. It wasn't long until fate dropped by and dispatched a team of ShinRa SOLDIERs to investigate a malfunctioning mako reactor at the top of Mt. Nibel. Unaware of Sephiroth's involvement, Onyveth escaped the slaughter and burning of Nibelheim. For all she knew, it was the ShinRa who burnt down the town... nonetheless, the casualty had left her without a loving family once again.

Having decided that she will never find another family than what she had, at the age of fifteen during all the chaos and panic of Meteorfall Onyveth took this chance to run away a final time and go in search for the only family-member who forsook her all those years ago -- her mystery older sibling. For a while, she made her way travelling from city to city, town to town, performing on the streets as a busker with an ebony-glazed accoustic guitar living off on contributions as a source of income.

One day several miles outside of Gongaga village, Onyveth who was seventeen at the time, was found collapsed on the road due to exhaustion. It was pure happenstance that a woman traversed the same route had found her, took her in and nursed her back to health. The woman's name was Natsuki, and she was a thief for the most part, but unlike one Onyveth had ever known. She was kind, generous, and only stole from those who could afford the loss. Indebted to this woman, Onyveth stayed with her for two years, and was even taught the art of stealing.

At the age of nineteen Onyveth, by happenstance, bumped into a strange man - she accidentally knocked over his hood to reveal his face; shabby raven-black hair, stern cerulean-blue eyes with a tinge of green and he wore an identical locket inscribed with the name ''Bella''. Before she knew who she had found, he ran away without saying a word. Onyveth attempted to follow him throughout the city but eventually lost him in the sea of faces that filled the bazaar.

Upon returning to Natsuki, Onyveth had decided it was time to part ways and return to her goal of finding her only known family member. Natsuki gifted her with a katana for protection and her trademark black leather jacket to keep warm at night. It was one of the hardest separations she had to endure, mainly because she had to leave someone willingly after knowing her for such a long period of time. This time, she feels, this time she'll find the answers she's looking for.

Family:

Biological father - Edward Devereaux, deceased
Biological mother - Isabella Devereaux, deceased
Biological brother - Conner Grayson Devereaux, alive, twelve years her senior