#giouna;

  A sound stirred the Hyur from her lazy sketching, a rustle in the brush beyond the tree she leaned against. Curious, she shifted her weight to peer around its edge, pencil temporarily forgotten. Nothing over there... She craned her neck further. Listened.

  The movement had ceased. Was it a skittish animal?

  Giouna straightened her position once more to return to her work -- and froze. A stranger stood a yalm to her right. Judging by their clothing -- and the obscurity of the location, so far from standard roads or paths -- it must have been an adventurer. Looking at their face, though...

  Giouna is the daughter of Highlanders who took on the lifestyle of Midlanders, moving to Ul'dah, etc (long before Ala Mhigo’s fall). Thus, she grew up with an excellent education and two, somewhat obnoxiously, protective parents. Academia could not retain her interest past a certain point, until she realized that she could incorporate her art. Now, she is charting a path through the continents in hopes of creating a complete Bestiary for each.

   When Giouna is running low on gil, she offers her services to many varied clients, typically painting the kinds of portraits that get handed down in families for generations. It isn’t necessarily the kind of art she’s most passionate about, but it pays for her room at the inn and keeps her fed. She has come to do this in bursts, staying in place and working for several clients at once, before leaving on the next leg of her journey.

  Giouna is a lesbian. She does not currently have any canon romances.