((So @powderpeacock100 posted Gok’s backstory so I figured I’d post Vera’s. It’s kinda long so I’ll apologize right now if this clogs up anyone’s dash.
Vera was born and raised in a city far away from These Sands. She lived in a nest on the top of an apartment building and spent her youth being doted on by her adoring mother. She was an only child, as her siblings had never hatched, so her mother was incredibly protective of her darling Vera and rarely let her leave the rooftop. Vera as content with this, though, because she loved her mother dearly and had no real desire to leave her home anyway.
Vera lived a very sheltered life. Her interactions with other animals were rare. The only time she ever saw mammals were when the apartment maintenance workers came up to the roof, or when the odd squirrel ran across a gutter. To this day, she is still unsure of what exactly a mammal is, as she is confused by the variety they come in.
Her life of seclusion ended quickly, however, when she met Jebediah, a male crow that lived in the park across the street from Vera’s apartment building. He stopped by her nest for a quick rest one day while flying home, and the two were immediately smitten with each other. By this point, Vera was an adult crow. She and Jebediah were married within the year and she moved into his nest, where she got her first real look at the world her mother had been so afraid of.
She and Jebediah had three sons: Maxwell, Albert, and Benson. Vera loved them more than life itself and was completely happy with her life. However, it didn’t last long: Shortly after her three boys learned how to fly, horrible news came to the park: Jebediah was dead. Apparently, he had met his fate under the wheels of a passing car while trying to grab a penny off of the street. It was going to be a gift for Vera, who, as a crow, loved anything that shined.
Devastated, Vera took her sons and left the park. Together, they flew out of the city and into the countryside, where they found an abandoned nest that had apparently been found by a hungry predator: it was filled with broken eggs and feathers. Tired, the four spent the night there, only to be awoken later that night by the sounds of cracking. Apparently, one of the eggs had survived!
The hatchling was a very small chick, a boy, who instantly won Vera’s heart. She took him in as her own son and named him Jeb, after her husband. Jeb was actually a raven, not a crow, but that did not matter to Vera and her boys, who treated Jeb like one of the family. However, Jeb was born prematurely, and with a lame wing. Vera knew that he would never fly, and so she carried him on her back for the remainder of their journey.
What happened next is a mystery. Vera and her sons somehow found their way to These Sands, where they set up a shop and sold what every crow loves more than anything else in the world: shines. Maxwell, Albert, and Benson made themselves useful by working as delivery boys for the shop, while Jeb stayed with his mother and helped fill out orders. Vera is still sad about the death of her husband, but she is happy with her life in These Sands and could not be more proud of her sons.
So basically, what we learn from this is that Vera is sort of naïve when it comes to the real world, she was doted on as a child and treats her children the same way, she has loved and lost but still overcame, and that her sons mean the world to her. She’s a tough momma and I love her like that.))
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