Valida

FIRST IMPRESSIONS::   Cold, emotionless, Vulnerable 
PERSONALITY:  Filled with Patience and a silent rage, A calm demeanor often hides the bubbling sadness, and want of companions, a family. 
SPEECH HABITS: Short clipped words, often blunt.

Appearance
HAIR COLOR:    Jet Black   
HAIR STYLE AND LENGTH:   Long, disheveled, kept up in a messy ponytail with a green vine used as a tie.  
EYES COLOR:   Clear, Glazed. Blind
SKIN COLOR:    Umber, Brillant golden stones jut out on various parts of her body, while smaller red gems seem to shimmer across the rest.
BODY TYPE/BUILD:    Stalky, on the larger side of the scale
PIERCINGS:  Golden gems take the place of peircings on her ears.
HEIGHT:     5'9
WEIGHT:    220lbs
DESCRIBE THEIR VOICE:    Gravelly, low, unusued (becomes clearer in tone later with more use)  
EYESIGHT:    0/0 
EXTRA: Can sense her surroundings much like a bat; See below for more information.

FAMILY: Murdered when she was a small child by a necromancer whom is also the source of her blindness
COMPANION: Seeker; A Warforged (Race of Sentient Robots that were created for a war, eventually winning their Independance.) 

Seeker's Personality For Kidcha
Curious, friendly, Inexperienced with the world. This is as good as I got for a Daz character. lmao. 

Do they have any disabilities/physical handicaps? How did it happen?

Valida is blind. Over the years, she slowly became able to sense her surroundings in a rudimentary way. Thanks to this, she can perceive things similar to a bat's Blindsight. A necromancer killed and then turned them into undead minions. After noticing the tiny Valida watching, they turn to kill her as well, casting Contagion on her. Before they had a chance to torture and kill the girl, a screeching echoed through the forest from a distance, sending the Necromancer running for the hills leaving the now blind girl to pass out on the ground. The spell blinded Valida for the rest of her life. (I don’t want restoration skills to undo this. So; Let’s say it was some kind of altered contagion spell or something. VOODOO MAGIC.)

What sense do they most rely on?

Valida relies heavily on her sense of hearing and touch. Her bare feet help her find her way on the ground, while ungloved hands help her see the different plants and foilage.

What is their lifestyle like?

Valida lives a simple and minimalistic life. Her tiny home consists of 4 rooms; a neatly organized kitchen, a bedroom containing a single bed, a work room where most of her belongings lay, filling it to the brim with plants and various tools, and finally a small bathroom with a single towel folded neatly on the counter of the sink.
She spends most of her time grooming the garden she curates outside of her home, and the rest of it mixing concoctions to sell for a meager living in the town closest to her humble abode. Not many venture to her home, but when they do, they're often there for more nefarious reasons than a simple medicine.

What do they think is the worst thing that can be done to a person?

Having been blinded as a small child and left to wander a once familiar territory turned frightening, she often thinks that maybe, that's the worst that one can do to a person. Other times she thinks that anything done to a child is probably the worst. Too cast them into orphanhood, left to fend alone. To strip a person of all that they were or could have been, was there really a crueler fate? If so, she couldn’t imagine what it was.

What is their view of ‘freedom’?

For Valida, freedom means to live with her disabilities. As a child, she never considered how difficult it must be to live without her sight. Nor, did she think about how fulfilling it might be to continue and live despite a loss of sight. But after that fateful night, she struggled, faltered, and stood up again and again. The loss of her sight left her vulnerable at first, but soon, she fell into a rhythm, found herself using her ears to pick up the difference between stepping on dirt and grass, her touch to feel the rough texture of different barks, of flowers and herbs. Soon she learned what was edible and what wasn't. She built her life, learned ways to be independent. And for her, this was freedom, gone was the stick, the lowered head. She could stand tall, and be free to do anything she wanted. She was free. Freedom was living with what she had, flaws, disabilities and all.

What haunts them?

The voice of the being who blinded her. It reaches out to her in her deepest slumber, the eerie chanting of words she couldn't understand, the dead bodies rising from the ground. "You shouldn't be here little one." The screeching in the distance that saved her life.

Do they make snap judgements or take time to consider?

Valida tends to rely on her instincts to make judgements more than not. Being blind for so long left her with a sense she couldn't quite explain to anyone. This pseudo sense seemed to keep her poisoning herself back when, but it also kept her aware of things she never really noticed before. The sound of a twig breaking, the scent of something toxic. Things she couldn't remember being so keenly attuned to. Her judgements are not often wrong.

How do they perceive strangers?

Strangers are met with a weary demeanor. Though she interacts with a few, not all who come her way are trustworthy, or pleasant. Sometimes that stranger is out for more than they say, and it's best to be careful than foolish. Foolishness already took something from her.