records show that HWA SOHWI is a 27 year old WEREDEER who has lived in yeonghae for A FEW MONTHS. they are currently a TICKET BOOTH ATTENDANT at the BUTTERFLY THEATER, but other parts of their reputation must precede them β their faint aura of PALE SUNGLOW, or how they remind others of THE FIRST FEATHERS OFF WAX WINGS and RESTLESSNESS ITCHING BENEATH SKIN. β (kim hyeyoon, she/her, ICARIAN in BLOOD TIES)
hi, you can call me ruvi (21+, she/her) and i bring sohwi, weredeer who once dreamed of being a witch and now simply dreams of being human again, if only it didn't come with a demand for blood on her hands. you can find her info and connections below, like the post to plot and i'll send a message here or send you my disc β‘
sohwi grows up quite human, with all the longing to be something more than that as humanity is wont to do, even when her birthplace is removed from the rift and magic and all the realities of what that entails. when she's nine, someone from the woods tells her about magic, mana, and those who have them. they even show her the broomstick they arrived on. she's just young enough to believe them, and old enough to know there must be explanations and how-tos for it.
so she goes looking, when she's old enough. she doesn't find a fairytale. it's quite the opposite, because she got turned 3 years ago. this is a big plot point that i'm leaving open as a wanted connection for plotting, but suffice to say it's a traumatic experience for her. she learns, not by choice, that a herbivore isn't necessarily harmless when she's on the goring end of their antlersβand when she's the beast itself soon after.
she ends up running from her birthplace with her sibling, seeking refuge or revenge or something else, anything to outrun the animal under her skin now. (she's also filling in for the turned sibling in the river runs red subplot!) their travels have taken them to yeonghae, one way or another, with a darkspawn picked up along the way from one night of desperation and helplessness.
she summoned serpentine out of anger/confusion and to fix things, to give her magic and power the way she had thought it ought to be like, and agreed too quickly to their deal. i think she's desperate enough to have been willing to kill but too naive to know what that actually means.
keeps trying to get her humanity back, but this might be a sisyphean task for her. either way, she's working in the most mundane spots of yeonghae, listening to stories at the theatre and wishing for simpler times (and trying to meet serpentine's condition).
sohwi is sweet and naive, but life experiences have turned her sharp. tends to have a quick tongue now to guard her heart, though she still gets carried away with good mischief and easy promises. kinder than she has the resources to be. she makes hasty choices on naivete or idealism, despite the fact that she should know better by now, and tends to regret them.
wanted connections
companions on witching hours, or someone similarly superstitious/magic loving
possibly the sorcerer/magic species who inspired her witching aspirations
a reprieve from being monstrous. human again for a moment
a reminder that she still is a werebeast, perhaps an acceptance for that side of her
an old friend who can't reconcile who she is now with who they remember
believer of the deer god who's mistaken her for it
comfort that helps keep away the loneliness. sometimes she wants to be seen (and sometimes she doesn't, make of that what you will)
a sensing that she's not as sweet or human as she seems, which unsettles her
the sun to her moon heart (pining from afar!)
