- She and her sister Lucia’s names are an homage to Bram Stocker’s Dracula (Mina and Lucy).
- Her vampire mother is named Lia’thaena, Lia for short, and she belongs to the Nobility. Her lineage is descended from the Sacred Ancestor (like most vampires are) through Mhina’s grandmother.
- Her whole name is Mhina’thaena, but she rarely ever goes by the whole thing. She prefers Mhina, it sounds more human. I guess dhampir hunters like to shorten their names. ^^;
- She has her mother’s beauty but not her personality. They’re diametric opposites in terms of character.
- Mhina isn’t naive; she knows that anyone who expresses feelings for her or attraction to her is just under a spell. Once she’s gone, the spell will be lifted. As a dhampir, and her mother’s daughter, she could easily use her looks to get what she wants from people, but she refuses to. It’s unethical to her. The last thing she’d do is take advantage of someone who is vulnerable to her.
- On the other side of it, Mhina also feels loneliness because she doesn’t think anyone would want her for herself. They only see the superficial.
- Mhina’s lineage is shown in her eye color, violet. It was engineered by vampires centuries ago with the blend of science and magic they’re known for. And some experimentation along the way. Anyone who knows vampires will recognize her branch of the family by looking at her.
- She also inherited the Super Tall Vampire genes, standing at 6’1”, not much shorter than D. A lot of people remark on her height, which is unusual for a woman. A human woman, at least.
- Through her father, she has a human half-sister, Lucia. Her mother had several children by different vampires before her, but Mhina has never met her vampire half-siblings.
- Her sister Lucia will tell people that Mhina’s mother abandoned her, and she’s not wrong. That’s essentially what happened. Lia used her sex appeal and charm to hook onto Liam, Mhina’s father, but after she was born, she left the two to fend for themselves. She got with him to further the Sacred Ancestor’s bloodline, not because she wanted a child.
- Mhina grew up in a small town in secrecy, her father knowing that she’d be mistreated or worse for being a dhampir. He wasn’t naive, he knew what would happen to her because he’d heard stories.
- After the disaster that was his relationship with her mother, Liam raised Mhina with his wife, Sara, who was a rare human not completely disgusted by or afraid of vampires. Sara agreed to keep the secret as long as they could.
- Mhina was cast out of the town when they learned her secret. Scared and alone, she found her way to the Barbarois, one of the only communities to openly take her in.
- Sadashi is a werewolf and her adopted mother. She took one look at the orphaned little dhampir and accepted Mhina as her own. They’ve been inseparable. Sadashi is fiercely protective, proclaiming that she’ll end anyone who tries to hurt Mhina.
- Because she grew up among mutants and demons and everyone else, Mhina not phased by the strange and macabre. Other people are weirded out and she just shrugs it off as normal. To be fair, she doesn’t know what “normal” means. She’s never been normal from the day she was born.
- She was raised by the Barbarois, but she has good relations with humans from how well her father and sister treated her. In fact, she treats humans with affection, as long as they don’t treat her like an outsider.
- Her father and sister never stopped looking for her after her exile. Mhina reunites with her sister in their adult lives, and she meets her father in his 80s, shortly before he dies. She forgives him for everything.
- Mhina feels the thirst for blood, but she doesn’t like feeding from other people. She prefers animals if possible and chooses to kill them before she does the deed. It’s more humane. If she has no other choice, she will go without for as long as she can, even though it weakens her.
- She isn’t as stubborn as D when it comes to avoiding sunlight, but she does push herself too hard sometimes. The first time she nearly died was the last time. If she’d died, she would’ve left the child in her care defenseless, and that’s something she wouldn’t forgive herself for.
- It would take a while to get past his walls and mistrust of other people, but I can see Mhina being friends with D. It wouldn’t be romantic. She would more be a close friend who understands what he experiences as a dhampir, and someone who treats him with genuine kindness when few people do.
- I have a feeling D doesn’t encounter many people like himself, and Mhina hasn’t, either. Finding a friend with similar life experience and pain would be cathartic.
- I can see her getting along with Doris Lang and even Layla — once she got past her “I hate vampires and dhampirs” mindset like she did with D.
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