Verona Hayward

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Verona is one of the protagonists of Pale.

Personality

Verona is a young girl dealing with the usual frustrations of being a teenager. She is somewhat more skeptical and imaginative than her two friends.<ref>“Why were my eyes last to open?” Verona asked “That doesn’t seem right.”

“It’s a good thing, Verona. Those things that let you hold onto what came before, like skepticism, imagination? They’re going to be things that make you an excellent practitioner, should you follow through here today.” - Excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1</ref>

She cares more about having clothes that she likes deeply and are "hers" than having a lot of clothes, or having clothes in good condition.<ref name=":0">Her mom had been so frustrated when she hadn’t wanted to buy a lot of

clothes.  It was Verona’s preference to have things that were very 

precisely hers, instead of a lot of things that kind of worked.  To those ends, she had two pairs of jeans she wore, this low cut pair of skinny black jeans, and acid-washed jeans with holes at the knees.  She had three sweaters, all with broad horizontal stripes, two of which were

black and white, and then tops she tended to wear under the sweaters.

The sweater she was wearing now had a hole in the elbow.  The other elbow had had the same problem, but she’d patched it with black moleskin.  There were some loose threads of wool near the collar, too. - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1 </ref>

She dislikes the repetitive, never-ending nature of cleaning.<ref>She’d decided.  She really, really hated cleaning.  She hated how insurmountable it was, she hated how cleaning off a surface often meant getting other things dirty, she hated every step in the process, and now

that she was as close to done as she could get, she felt next to no 

satisfaction.  It would just get dirty again, and she hated that.  Hated

that she was cleaning up a mess that would get made again and again for
the next… however many years.  Fifty.  Seventy.  Crumbs and dust and 

gross food on gross plates, over and over again.

She stood in the doorway of the living room, surveying it all, and felt her dissatisfaction grow until she had to turn away.

- excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1 </ref>

Relationships

Lucy

Friends since kindergarten.

Avery

Recent friends. <ref>'“I made them an offer, five weeks ago. The two girls were friends already. I pointed them to the third because three makes a good number."' - Excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1</ref>

Appearance

She cuts her own hair, maintaining it in a french bob.<ref>After a quick glance in the mirror, she grabbed her scissors and tidied her bangs.  She picked up a hand mirror to fix a few stray hairs at the back.

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“Scissors?” he asked.

Oh, she was still holding them.  She touched them to her hair.  As part of the back to school shopping, her mom had taken her to a stylist to get a french bob and she’d been trimming it herself to keep it in approximately the same style ever since.

- excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1 </ref>

Her few outfits include too-tight black jeans, acid-washed jeans with holes at the knees, and several sweaters with horizontal stripes on them.<ref name=":0" />

In full garb as a practitioner, Verona wears a cat mask that was created for her by Lucy, as well as a witch's hat and cloak.

History

Arc 1: Lost for Words

Avery and her two friends were brought into the world of the practice, in order to investigate the mysterious death of the Carmine Beast. Her Personal Item was scissors.

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