â I AM HOMESICK FOR A PLACE I AM NOT EVEN SURE EXISTS. ONE WHERE MY HEART IS FULL. MY BODY LOVED. AND MY SOUL UNDERSTOOD. â
GENERAL INFO
NAME: Yindi Perkins GENDER/PRONOUNS: CIS Female, She/Her DATE OF BIRTH: November 24th, 1994 PLACE OF BIRTH: Sydney, Australia CURRENT RESIDENCE: Staten Island OCCUPATION: Conservation Biologist FACE CLAIM: Madeleine Madden
SUPERNATURAL INFO
SPECIES: Fae SUBCATEGORY: Phoenix MEMBER OF THE FAE COURT: Member AGE THEY APPEAR: Twenty-Seven
BIOGRAPHY
Trigger Warnings: Neglect
The youngest of a large fae bloodline, as well as the sole Phoenix amongst them, Yindi always had trouble trying to find her place and purpose. Her father was a diplomat and king of the fae court in Sydney, while her mother was a dryad, leading ecological restoration efforts there. As a result, the two were often too busy to spend much time with their children. Most of her siblings were sirens or dryads, like their parents. While she was still close to many of them, she never really got the opportunity to explore her own abilities. It didnât help that most of them were decades or even centuries older than her. So, she followed their influence, becoming deeply connected to nature and the ocean like the rest of her family, letting her phoenix side remain almost entirely dormant.
The only time she really got to explore her powers was when she was alone with fire. One cold winterâs night, when she was around 5 years old, as she sat by the fire and gazed through the flames, she saw a girl around her age. The girl was a bit surprised to see someone in the fire, but not nearly as much as someone who had no knowledge of magic. Yindiâs first impression was that she had a funny, fascinating accent, though the girl probably thought the same of her. The girl introduced herself as a witch named Livia and the two became fast friends. She visited her through the fire whenever she could and was even there for her when the witch lost her magic. After that, though, contact became scarce. Eventually, she couldnât find Liv at all. With the loss of her fire friend, the use of her powers fell by the wayside almost entirely.
So life went on and she blended back into her family. Desperate for a relationship with her parents, she started to get into wildlife conservation through her motherâs work and tried learning about politics through her father. It didnât make them as close as she hoped, but at least they started to see her as an individual with ambition. Even if that ambition was theirs, not hers. When she was in her teens, she found out her father was going to Washington DC on business and saw it as an opportunity to get some one on one time with him. So she begged him to bring her along. He agreed and of course raised her hopes for all the American adventures they would go on when they were there. In reality, almost as soon as they got to America, she was left to her own devices. Her father was far to busy with meetings to spend time with her outside of a meal a day if she was lucky.
Still, with so much to discover, she instead explored the area with her bodyguard, offering very few complaints. In that time, she ran into a girl who called her by name, which was strange because the only American she knew was⊠it was Livia, after all those years. Of course it was her, she was unmistakable. Despite the the amount of time theyâd lost contact, it quickly became just like old times, except this time in person, so clear and tangible. They spent as much time together as they could and soon enough it even started to seem like maybe they could be something more if there werenât a million factors standing in their way. Her time spent in America was the closest sheâd ever been to feeling like she was finding herself. But all good things must come to an end and some donât even have a chance to begin. Soon enough, it was time to return to Australia.
However, something had changed within her by the time she got home. She began to notice all the small things in her life that dulled her flame â the parts of herself she sacrificed to be accepted and included. She began to realise, as much as she cared for her family, it wasnât enough to pretend to be a siren, a dryad, or anything else. She needed to get away and find what it meant to be her own self. So when it came time for her to go to college she applied over seas to schools all across America and ended up going to Colombia University, majoring in environmental biology. Of course, some family influences she just couldnât shake.
Sheâs been in New York for nearly ten years now and is currently working as a conservation biologist at the Bronx Zoo. Everyday she gets to know herself better. Sheâs gotten in the habit of staying in touch with her family through fire and uses her powers whenever the opportunity presents herself. There are still certain things missing from her life, but sheâs secure in the knowledge that she has plenty of time to find them and that no more of that time will be wasted trying to be anything other than herself.
