Appearance

Verena is a young woman with an athletic physique, being tall in stature at about 6' with a slender yet toned build, coming from her long hours of venturing around New Berk and the many islands nearby. She has a light complexion, slightly tanned from spending most of her waking hours outside, with dark hazel green eyes and sharp facial features, a few faint scars marring this including a faint jagged scar over her left eye. Verena's hair is blond in color, generally kept short or shaved underneath and pulled back in a short ponytail with a few longer strands to frame her face.

Attire wise, Verena's clothing is a mix of wool, flax, and tanned animal hide leather, worn down, weathered, and torn up from her many misadventures, usually consisting of crop tops and trousers, with the occasional short sleeved tunic shirts. Paired with these, Verena can often be found with leather armbands on her forearms dyed black, dark tan, or dark blue, with thin leather strips sown in or elaborate designs etched and painted into them. Often on her left arm, thicker brown or black leather bands usually are wrapped on her upper arm. Some of her clothes can be found lined with brown or black fur as well as fur sleeves bound to with gold buttons. Sometimes, Verena also layers her clothing with skirt-like pieces or shoulder covers, held by thick twine lined with animal bone decor or animal fangs as well as leather and flax boots. 

From time to time, Verena also has jewelry she wears such as earrings with wood beads and feathers, a simple leather choker with a thinner twine piece hanging down with a dragon carved from ivory hanging on it, and wood beads hanging from parts of her hair. Often when she is hunting, riding, or traveling, Verena also tends to wear elaborate painted patterns or war paint in blues and whites.

Personality

On the surface, Verena is generally quiet and the type that prefers keeping to herself much of the time. She can be a woman of few words, preferring to silently watch and observe others in her downtime, and expresses a calm persona. She can be level headed and easy-going, with a polite and respectful attitude towards others especially those above her in rank or her elders. In this regard, Verena can be seen as dutiful and responsible, usually trying to carry out her duties to the best of her abilities even if that means being flexible in her morals and upholding rules and village protocol, with a considerate and compassionate side that she shows both verbally and silently.

However, Verena is not always quiet. When she grows to trust and warm up to others, she can actually be humorous and competitive, that silence falling away to glee and energetic vigor. She has a love for adventure, exploration, and discovering new things, being good natured, fearless, and courageous, something of which her quietness seems to hide showing a fiery, adventurous spirit within. Deep down, Verena is a woman who loves action and having her hands busy, finding being idle for long periods to make her feel lazy and bored, so even when quiet or vocal, she is always keeping herself busy even with the smallest of tasks. A thrill seeker and dare devil at heart, Verena is one that sets her heart to tasks and sometimes will do even the most wildest of actions and missions.

Despite the quiet dutiful nature she has, Verena has a track record of generally being a loner and working alone. Though she can be a team player, there are times she feels she works better alone along with Venapple when situations call for it in which case her fiery personality takes greater root to foolishly tackling situations her way, sometimes being reckless and brash. With certain matters, such as the situation involving the Hysterians, Verena becomes obsessive and single-minded, determined to find a solution or gaining revenge and holding a grudge which she may not reveal right away. Instead, she prefers to hide her negative emotions and keep things to herself until they blow up out of proportion, and sometimes at her own health mentally and physically. With this attitude, Verena can become cold, harsh, and indifferent, more concerned with her main focus at the time than anything else.

History

Family Tree
Gervais Hohlt (Father, Deceased)
Sigrid Kolbeck (Mother)

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Verena's heritage is a bit of complicated one. Her father comes from the Hooligan tribe, born and raised, just as her mother Sigrid is originally from the Hysteria Tribe also born and raised. While surviving constant dragon attacks was the primary goal of the Hooligan tribe, Sigrid's heritage involved hunting them for sport and profit, a goal she came to question as she got older and eventually became disillusioned enough she eventually abandoned her tribe, disagreeing with their goals. Two years prior to Berk's change of heart regarding dragons, Gervais met his future wife during an outing to search for the dragon nest, Sigrid gladly giving them aide where she could to the Hooligans while she was given a chance to prove herself to become part of their tribe.

In the years following, Gervais and Sigrid became closer, eventually marrying and having Verena roughly about the time of the events when Hiccup and his fellow young vikings proved that dragons were not what Vikings thought of them, changing the hearts of the older of their tribe as well as defeating the dreaded Red Death. Compared to the lives of her parents, Verena grew up in a time of relative peace between Vikings and dragons, initially knowing nothing of her dragon hunting heritage as her mother wished for her to never be burdened by this knowledge as she already was. So, Verena grew up like any other child among the Hooligans including having a close proximity to dragons.

Growing up, Verena naturally took to combat from the moment she could begin walking on her own, often being with her parents for training, hunting, and gathering missions. When she was about 5 years old or so, she joined in the many training classes offered by her elders to begin her path to becoming a proper Viking warrior. When not involved in these classes, she also spent many hours exploring the wilderness and islands around Berk, playing and rough housing with friends, and helping in her father's bakery. But, her time with dragons was short lived when they were taken to the Hidden World for their safety, dropping any aspirations she initially had of becoming a rider, but she still turned her attention to doing her best to make the Hooligans proud. Life changed but still went on, the young female gradually blossoming into the warrior she pictured herself to be.

At the age of 15, everything was shaken up again when the Hysteria tribe was discovered still hunting down the stray dragons that never went to the Hidden World, and her mother herself became a nervous wreck. It wasn't until that Verena began pressing for what was bothering her mother did she discover the hidden side of her heritage, finding herself appalled and disgusted at exactly what the Hysterian tribe stood for, but vowed she would never follow that path. Feeling her daughter was ready to come of age in her own way. Sigrid and Gervais gave Verena family heirlooms passed down for generations: a dragon carving made from ivory and a short sword made from the tooth of a Screaming death carved with the hysteria tribe insignia. In her own way though, Verena decided to take it further and decided to track down a dragon of her own, coming across an adolescent Grapple Grounder on one of the distant islands, deciding to use her bare hands, rope, and a net to wrestle the dragon.

A long week away, Verena fought fiercely to wrestle the dragon into submission, eventually pinning the dragon's head down once she tricked the flustered grapple grounder into knotting itself up. With a silent, mutual respect built between dragon and rider, Verena returned to New Berk successful, confident she could finally help in the years to come as plans were made to help save the dragons being hunted down. Though Verena could do little until a year later, she gladly took up the mantle as a next generation rider, taking part in the battles between the Hooligan Alliance and the Hysterians and their allies, facing tragedy when her father was one of the many casualties in their war. Though her and mother mourned the loss of Gervais, it spurred mother and daughter to fight harder until the capturing of one of the nightlights resulted in a stalemate.

Now at 22, Verena continues to be a dedicated, hard-working rider striving to help the Hooligans and their allies to take down the Hysterians and bring peace back to the Archipelago.

Appearance

Venapple is a fully grown broad wing Grapple Grounder, a smidge longer than the average length of its species with a long, flexible serpentine body. Color wise, this male dragon is a deep grassy green in color with russet res strips running from the back of the head to his tail tips, legs, and wings. A thicker russet red strip runs down the spine of his neck and from the base of his tail to the tip, going into a full russet red tipped tail. His wings are roughly as long as his body and fade into lime green towards the tips while the due-claws on the elbows of his wings are a foot long and russet red like those of his foot claws. The crown-of-thorns around the back of his head and running down his spine are likewise lime green in color. His eyes are ruby red with russet red markings circling the eyes.

Personality

Compared to his rider, Venapple is far more fierce and wild. Though he has been tamed since being an adolescent, he is very much territorial, suspicious, and harsh at times like many of his species, sometimes to the point of being excessively violent and snappish. He has an attitude and can be possessive, causing others to give him a wide girth as he can be short tempered. Given his name, his attitude can be venomous and hateful, rarely showing kindness towards others as he prefers his alone time or simply being around his rider whom he has bonded with due to their shared love of thrills, danger, and competition. It was Verena's fierceness and unyielding nature that won over the Grapple Grounder after a long wrestling match.

But, once Venapple does eventually warm up to someone or expresses respect, he can become calmer and almost lazy at other times. When he does trust someone, he will become much more playful and friendly, but also jealous, possessive, and protective of them to the point it can become a problem unless told to settle down. Though Venapple comes off as almost unapproachable, deep down he cares for those weaker them himself and will stubbornly look out for his own flock to the bitter end.