Lettie Wormwood

Lettie Wormwood, more formally Leticia Wormwood, is an apothecary and planeswalker from Feanav. Following her spark's ignition, she was estranged from her home plane, and spent the next year conducting business through several fly-by-night establishments and illicit businesses throughout the multiverse, before settling into a more permanent network centered on The Arena.

Early Life
Lettie actively suppresses knowledge of her life prior to becoming a planeswalker. As a result, only sparse details are known. She was born the eldest daughter of an apothecary, and trained to inherit the role.

Her odd behavior as a child made many suspect her of being a fae changeling, and on occasion, she was attacked by other children. Her burgeoning interest in natural science such as biology earned her the backhanded nickname of "Little Doctor".

At an unknown point, she moved from the countryside to the imperial capital, and would eventually be embroiled in tragic events that culminated in the ignition of her planeswalker's spark.

A Year Without Peace
Lettie was disoriented following her ignition, and struggled to survive. She soon recovered her old tools and library, and frequently inhabited abandoned buildings throughout the multiverse. Estranged from her home and family, she took on a new name, Wormwood, the name of the first fae on Feanav. The tale of The Fallen Bitter Star had resonated with her, and she swore that she would never be ignorant to the suffering that permeates the multiverse.

With this moral resignation, she began establishing shops throughout the multiverse, selling potions, poisons, plants, alchemical reagents and weapons, and any excess stock she could acquire during the manufacturing process. Unfortunately, conflict on the planes would often disrupt her business. As such, Lettie began establishing networks of informants, and would use aggressive tactics to curtail any potential threat to her power and continued operation, including contracting mercenaries, funding terrorists, personal threats, and use of alchemical weapons. She often conducted this warfare simultaneously across multiple planes.

Inevitably, Lettie's preemptive approach would place her at the center of more conflict, and on at least one occasion, she was driven from a plane of existence by the local populace.

The Arena
Approximately half a year after her ignition, Lettie would establish her first shops on The Arena. Shortly after arriving, she encountered Pidge, and established a long term working relationship with her. She was also approached by the Eternity Project for Interplanar Cooperation, which she would come to rely on, despite her immediate distrust for a state entity. She soon learned to exploit The Arena's temporal anomaly in order to more efficiently conduct her business.

The Witch and Entelan
Despite the intentions of her new allies, Lettie's established methods pushed her to prepare for the worst, and undermine those close to her. When cursed chain mail was circulated through PB&J delivery, Lettie considered it an opportunity to overtake Pidge. She similarly profited when EPIC's letter caused their outpost to be filled with cats; Lettie offered to house them, on the condition that several aether tunnels would be built for her. Lettie also sold information on local interplanar societies to Kei during the latter's hunt for EPIC.

Lettie found the situation less convenient when she was delivered a letter of her own. She delayed her response for as long as possible, while attempting to investigate the original sender, J; she briefly suspected and investigated Pidge. At the same time, EPIC was attacked by Kei, causing Lettie to regret her decision; she still took the opportunity to sell her services to the Eternity Project, developing a capture poison alongside Ani. Guilt concerning Kei and Pidge drove Lettie to recklessly challenge J, contaminating all of her properties in the process, including her home. She attempted to seek lodging at the PB&J outpost, which she found to also be under attack. After helping rescue Pidge, but letting slip a hint that she had been spying on her, Lettie recovered at Skalor, and admitted to a shallow portion of her personal struggles. Though Pidge would leave the Arena, the two kept in contact, both as business owners and friends.

Personality
Lettie Wormwood is conniving and ruthless, willing to profit off the misfortune of others, and in many cases, has had a hand in indirectly causing that misfortune herself. She feels guilt for the suffering that results, but feels that she has no other options for ensuring her continued survival, a sentiment reinforced by her distrust for others. She also resents the need for her survival, considering herself cursed, and doomed to bring misfortune on those around her, with no escape. Her secrecy is motivated by the fear that anyone who discovers her past would be rightfully motivated to seek her destruction.

As a result of her tumultuous life, Lettie has developed a cynical worldview; she believes that the sincere capability to do good is eroded by suffering, and that the entire multiverse is infected by mortal life, along with the suffering inherent to it. It follows then that planeswalkers, who she has often known to be created through traumatic experiences, are vectors of this infection.

Lettie is autistic, though she would have had no means of being diagnosed on Feanav due to its society having no concept of mental disability or disorder. Since mental illness was regarded as a moral failing, and her behavior made others suspect her of being a fae changeling, she was forced to mask from a young age. Her methods became more effective when she began to think of her occupation as a theatrical role for which she could rehearse a script.

Lettie suffers sensory overload from eye contact, physical contact, and overlapping sound. She acquired speech late; her speech is halting unless rehearsed, and if rushed she will accidentally insert words from her stream of consciousness into her intended statements. Her ability to read expressions is inconsistent; when uncertain, she is likely to judge others as hostile or disgusted by her, which is often confounded by the discomfort she feels interacting with them.

Lettie has discussed her needs with a select few, though she has only accepted accomodation that is in-line with her home plane's system of manners, such as refraining from physical contact, or respecting private matters. She has refused to be accomodated in communication, implying that she would rather try to act as any other could.