#davuna

  She enjoys the conferences because they’re a chance for her to learn new things from the people most (usually) enthusiastic about the topic.  And Lialva is completely charming - she unabashedly loves what she does and hasn’t picked up any pretentious academic nonsense.   Davuna was not expecting to get hit upside the head with the “Oh no she’s cute” brick though.   Normally she’s pretty good at talking to people and being an excellent listener and sounding board but she has to keep biting down on the urge to just blurt out that she thinks Lialva is adorable.  It’s really quite distressing especially because the only “romantic” things she can think to say are cheesy lines from her father’s romance novels.  (For his sake she won’t admit to ever reading them.)

After a few days of this and frantically asking her parents and Ghilan’nain for advice (which is an adventure in and of itself - Andruil chimes in at one point) she finally asks her out for lunch somewhere and tells her.  Then she promptly turns bright pink and starts muttering about the weather.  Ghilan’nain is in a corner somewhere observing this interaction and is honestly expecting her niece to start changing colors like an octopus.  

Should Lialva return the sentiment and the pair begin dating or courting, it would proceed fairly comfortably I think?  Though it would likely include such adventures as 

I Know I’m a Marine Biologist But I’m Here to Study Butterflies For REASONS.

and

Come Look at All the Potential Butterfly Food Plants I have Over Here That Are A Complete Coincidence.

and also

Oh No! A Very Special Hedgehog Escaped Ghilan’nain’s Territory We Have to Go on a LONG Hike By Ourselves to Catch It Before Things Happen!  (Nevermind that I Put It There Myself Conveniently Next to a Nice Pool.)  Hey a Pool!  We Should Go Swimming After Our Hike.  (And if other things happen, well, other things happen.  Yes there is a full-body blush to go with all those freckles.)

There might also be How Many Pearls Can I Cover My Girlfriend In Before It’s Too Much?  

Let’s not forget Did That Person Upset You? They Will Have Nightmares For Months.  

All in all, very cute, very fluffy.  

She’s generally a result of Passion and Thenvunin successfully raising a time-travelling angry Tabris and deciding to attempt making another kiddo.  This requires Passion at least to be in a more stable frame of mind and so would only happen if she’s not currently working for Andruil.  In modern AUs, the father is usually an anonymous donor. 

Ghilan’nain may be unusually interested in her sister’s pregnancy and provides both her own medical expertise and the expertise of every healer she can get her hands on.  Nothing is going to happen to this baby.  Fortunately, nothing does.

She is a sponge for information and is curious about everything.  She listens attentively to anyone going off about their professions or favorite things and stores trivia like a magpie.  

Her first and favorite animal form is a giant crocodile and this change set off her interest in and studies of the ocean, strange as it might seem to most people.  Ghilan’nain encouraged all her interests and as an adult she leads a research team posted on whatever bit of coastline Ghilan’nain has in her territory.  Given the proximity to Nameless territory, she may or may not get herself in political trouble.

The easiest way to piss her off and be subjected to limb loss, nightmares about limb loss, and/ or yet more nightmares of too many teeth crunching on too many bones, is to insult her parents.  She may be more approachable than they are, but her temper in some things is just as short.