She was once a young pupil to a well trained teacher. Her master had primarily trained on the land rather than in a school, teaching her pupil some odd but effective methods of survival and magic. Though one day while traveling together they came across an unnaturally large giant centipede. Her master always hated those things even when they were small, let alone giant, or in this case, super giant. "Too many legs, it gives me the ick" she used to say. She took it down but it took her as well. So the young pupil would go on to have a small urn of her teacher wherever she would go. Then came the day something else truly wondorous would happen. THEY visited her. Beings so strange and alien to her, with slimy tentacles. They tattooed the back of her neck, as they had several others around her. The first step. Later you would see these same people not acting as themselves as they had done before. She learned soon though, that this was after the second step. Her day came for that step, as well as for her brother. She at this point felt as though she had nothing to lose, except for the small urn she kept close. So she agreed willingly to go through with the second step, as had her brother, but with the condition that it happens with each of them in a coffin and with the urn around her neck forever. The entities agreed, surprised that a human would ever agree so willingly to giving up their body and consciousness forever. This was an easy deal to make since it would not matter soon and the victim would go without protest.

So the pupil climbed into the coffin and they put what appeared to be a Blue Sea Dragon slug onto each of them before it climbed into their eyes. That was it, everything went dark, until she stood up. She wasn't in control, her body moved on it's on but why was she still conscious? Wasn't she supposed to lose that? Did it take time for the process to finish? Was she lied to, was her conscious still needed for the slug to control her body? No, she was able to lift her own hands, take her own steps. Whenever she stopped controlling though, her body would start moving on it's own. This was weird and not what was expected. Everything seemed normal, the tattoo on her neck changed when the slug entered her, but she shouldn't still be there, yet here she was. The slug obviously told the entities it only had partial control which fascinated them to no end. It was decided she would remain with some control of the body, as a form of experiment. It was either this or dissection, and there was still plenty of time for dissection later. This way, they could learn as much as they could while the test subject was alive. How much magic could they learn? Would this wear out the mind quicker? Will she eventually lose control? All they had to do was wait and study, no matter where she was, they would be watching.

Without knowing what truly became of her brother, and nothing else better to do. She eventually found herself practicing magic at an academy and becoming a teacher to younger minds. She could at least do something good with her life beyond this point and help out others who needed it. She of course, told no one of the little "friend" in her skull, people would look at her a little different after that. So she kept the tattoo mostly covered up and began shaping the minds of the future.

Important notes:

She casts Nystul's Magic Aura almost every morning to hide the "friend" inside her head.

Is used to camping in the wild, albeit with using magic now to make towers, huts, and the like.

She has a demiplane with a clone of herself at about the age of 21 in a very nice coffin and 2 sapphires linked to her urn necklace and grimoire, thanks to Drawmij's Instant Summons. She was taught to do this by the entities as another experiment. She is unsure if the slug will resurrect with her if she dies. She is unsure if the entities know either. She also views this as the furthering of her own studies as to not lose somebody the way she had before. It could be the ultimate defense if it works.

She has focused a lot on conjuration, with supplementary spells like counterspell being taught to her by the other teachers at the academy.

The slug has preferred spells such as chill touch, while Orchid prefers spells such as ray of frost.

She trained to use light armor with her teacher in the wilderness.