Age: 8
Mana Line: Water
Caster Type: Natural
Origin: Commonwealth coastal region, port-side district
Living Situation: State orphanage
Vivi is the social geometry of the trio.
Reaper maps threats.
Baby moves obstacles.
Vivi moves people.
She understands how emotions flow through groups the way water flows through terrain. Where others see arguments, tension, and noise, she sees pressure gradients. She doesn’t overpower conflict. She redirects it. She does not dominate rooms. She stabilizes them.
In Ossirian Deep, this is not a soft skill.
It is survival infrastructure.
Vivi’s parents died in a head-on collision when she was three.
No conspiracy.
No mystery.
Just bad timing on a wet road.
She grew up in a state-run orphanage near a working port city in the Commonwealth. The building is old but functional, crowded with kids who cycle in and out of temporary stability. The staff is overworked, well-meaning, and perpetually tired. Vivi learned early how to be small without being invisible.
She does not remember her parents clearly.
She remembers the sound of rain on metal roofing.
She remembers the smell of antiseptic.
She remembers being held by strangers who meant well.
This shaped her into someone who listens before she speaks, who reads rooms before acting, who understands that people break quietly long before they break loudly.
She does not crave attention.
She notices when others do.
Vivi can speak to animals.
Not metaphorically.
Not emotionally.
Literally.
She does not command them.
She understands them.
This manifests as instinctive, quiet communication. She hears intent, curiosity, warning, hunger, comfort. Animals do not see her as dominant. They see her as understandable. This ability developed before she had words for it. As a toddler, she calmed dogs no one else could approach. Birds lingered near her windows. Stray cats slept on her bed.
She knows she is different because animals treat her differently.
She does not know why.
Vivi already has a familiar.
She doesn’t know that’s what it is.
The Wind Shrimp is a tiny, rare mana-fauna that uses Ambient currents to suspend itself in air. It is so small that most Mortalkin cannot see it with the naked eye unless it moves against light or dust. It hums softly when content. Its body refracts air like heat shimmer.
Wind Shrimp are not powerful.
They are not combat creatures.
They are rare because they do not survive polluted air or unstable mana environments.
Vivi first noticed it because she heard the hum.
She answered it.
They have been companions since.
The shrimp perches in her hair when resting.
It drifts near her face when curious.
It hides when she is frightened.
She thinks it’s just a strange, tiny bug that follows her.
Ossirian Deep will know exactly what it is.
That will matter.
MPI: 77
Classification: Prodigy Threshold
Vivi’s MPI expression is not raw output.
It is resonance stability and precision.
Her mana is quiet.
Her shaping is efficient.
Her presence alters emotional environments without visible casting.
She is dangerous to unstable social systems without ever raising her voice.
Vivi is gentle without being fragile.
She is:
Calm
Observant
Empathetic without being naive
Quietly stubborn when it matters
She believes people mean well more often than they succeed.
She gives second chances.
She does not give infinite ones.
She is emotionally brave.
She is physically cautious.
She does not like loud arguments, but she will stand in the middle of one if someone is being hurt.
A small girl with soft features and expressive eyes.
Dark hair worn short for ease of care in the orphanage.
Always a little wind-tossed, even indoors.
Her posture is relaxed but alert.
She looks like someone who learned early how to make space for others.
The Wind Shrimp is almost always near her, catching light like dust motes when it moves.
Tilts her head when listening deeply
Stands between people who are escalating without raising her voice
Touches window glass or water when thinking
Whispers to animals when she thinks no one is watching
Smiles first, but watches closely after
The academy does not just recruit power.
It recruits stabilizers.
Vivi prevents collapse before collapse happens.
She neutralizes emotional volatility.
She forms bonds across faction lines without trying to.
Her familiar marks her as a rare ecological anomaly.
Her animal communion marks her as a potential conduit for mana-fauna research.
Her MPI places her firmly in prodigy territory.
She is not a weapon.
She is infrastructure.
@Reaper Estes — Tactical clarity, threat mapping, precision under pressure
@Baby — Structural force, endurance, material manipulation
Vontrese “Vivi” Vale — Social geometry, emotional stabilization, interspecies communion
Together, they don’t just survive Ossirian Deep.
They become a functional system inside a city designed to fracture people into factions.