Name: Io

Occupation: Musician

Actual Age/Apparent Age: 20

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Pansexual

Race/Species: Human

Appearance: If you asked Io what she looked like, she would not be able to tell you. She had never seen herself. Being born completely blind, her eyes are mostly closed, but when she opens them, a milky white film can be seen over what were supposed to be brown eyes. She has lightly tanned skin, a slightly wider nose, and full lips, set on a pleasantly oval face, topped with a shoulder-length tumble of windswept brown curls.

Standing at 5'5", her form is lithe, perhaps a bit on the thin side and obviously not toned from any sort of combat or hard work, likely due to her inability to see.

She usually wears non-restraining clothing, composed of a loose-fitting top and linen skirt, usually in light colors. Her underarms, fingers, and ears are decorated with rustic-like jewelry.

Scent: Under the normal scent of a human, Io seems to naturally carry a scent of summer. Something associating one with the scent of swaying wheat, water carried in a clay pot, cricket song, afternoon naps in the shade and bare feet on warm grass.

Sound: https://vocaroo.com/i/s1KwvvEkduAO
While being a musician and her voice having a pleasant quality to it, Io never sings, merely hums. Due to her ability, the music she can hear has no lyrics to it, because the world has no words. Only emotion, rhythm and varying consistency and that is exactly what she can convey through the music and the humming.

Personality: Now, here, should you ask Io what she is like, she can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that she is downright blessed. Perhaps one would not conclude that, due to her inability to see, but Io is just happy as a clam. Friendly, lighthearted and imaginative, she seems to have an endless source of positivity and humor. She laughs openly, loudly and contagiously, and always somehow seems to be able to read people, regardless of what they are, despite the fact that she cannot see them at all.
Abilities/Skills:

Musician - Io is something her people call an "Oenoe"; someone who was born with one sense lacking, but another "blessed" with enhancement beyond human capabilities. Io personally possesses a unique ability to hear and tune into what she calls "the song the world makes". She can literally hear music in everything. People, rocks, grass, animals, the weather overhead... Everything one can perceive with their eyes, Io can "hear" through the unique tune they all release, rhythmical and distinct. She can even tell people's mood's just by listening in a bit more carefully.

Alongside that, she carries an instrument called a kantele, which is most likely enchanted, because she can produce music on it in great variation, though most of them similar to the sound of a guitar, lyre or even a piano. Sometimes even making it sound like multiple instruments are playing at the same time. If she gets a bow made, she could draw out the sound of a violin or a cello as well.

Echolocation - Via short, sharp clicks she can make with her mouth, Io has developed the ability to roughly echolocate, which helps her move around quite a lot. The sound returns a rough estimate of any objects set in her "peripheral vision" area, to about 10 ft away. She can get a sense of how big and far away they are and if they are stationary or moving.

Mild Atmokinesis - As one of her "blessings", Io has control over the air on a very basic level. (Odds are she would be able to use it more, if she had someone to teach her how.) So far, she can make herself float a few feet off the ground, push small and light objects out of the way, create air pockets and call warm or cold breezes.

History: Despite her disability, Io had a very happy childhood. Born into a large family, as second to youngest among her 7 brothers and sisters, she never truly felt as if she lacked anything. Her family lived in the country of the Summer Isles, Io's days filled with her mother homeschooling her and her sisters, while her father and brothers worked the fields, growing grain and produce, to be sold in the markets down by the coast.

They never went hungry and the last war they had has ended when her grandfather was still a boy. The land was ruled by a benevolent royal family and it didn't happen once that Io herself was called to court to hum her ethereal music, ever since the word spread of a new Oenoe living in their lands.

As she grew, Io's skill grew with her and soon, she was asked to move to the palace permanently, as the royal orchestra master expressed the desire to teach her the skill of playing the kantele, only later informing Io that the instrument was enchanted and she would be able to do so much more with it, if she put some effort into it.

So she did. Io had spent 6 years with the orchestra master, as his enthusiastic pupil and could often be seen at the royal gardens, where she played the kantele for a gaggle of court dignitaries.

Other information:

• Her ability of echolocation gets severely hindered during heavier rains and thunderstorms, as the sounds get too mixed together and the "songs" become too jumbled up and difficult to differentiate. Such weather actually scares her, as it renders her truly blind, as she can't really "see" anything that's not in very close proximity to her.
  
  
• When it comes to daily life, Io is a creature of habit; everything has it's specific spot, she always takes the same pathways to the places she wants to be and can very rarely be seen roaming the outside of the palace walls unaccompanied, though she longs to venture outside more often.
  
  
• Though she has some ability to cook and tend to herself, Io has all but been forced to be a "guest of the palace", the staff forbidding her to move around the kitchen or do any of the cleaning or clothes washing by herself, afraid that she might hurt herself somehow and they would have to answer to the royals who invited her here. Io is somewhat annoyed by this, as, with a little time, she's certain she could find her way around and do it all on her won, but after being told 'no' about a dozen times, she eventually gave up.
  
  
• Io uses no lights whatsoever. The lanterns in her room are there strictly to be used when someone comes to visit in the evenings. Even then it can happen that she simply forgets to light them, unless someone asks her to do it.