So Carlotta was formerly known as MarĂa, but sheâs changed a bit since I first created her and I love her dearly and want to show her off to all of you. Self-made blorbo. This is basically an edited post of the one I did a year or so ago. This post got realllly long hence the readmore.
Description:
As Carlotta:
Carlotta Estrella Suero-Dupain got the Dupain height; sheâs 5âČ11 with waist-length dark brown wavy hair with shorter curls around her face that is always very well-kept. She has very naturally tanned brown skin and is covered in freckles from head to toe. Sheâs curvy and has toned calves and biceps; sheâs an excellent swimmer and got her scuba-diving certificate as soon as she could. Her eyes are dark brown with blue flecks, giving them a violet appearance in certain lighting.
Sheâs covered in scars from various old injuries and treats them like a badge of honour. Everyone always focusses on the massive scar-tissue patches on her forearms, shins, and stomach (road rash from a skateboarding accident), but she insists theyâre the least cool ones. Her favourites are a massive scar on her chest running from her left collarbone to the top of her ribcage and a similar one on the back of her right thigh (both from fishing accidents), one on her left cheek (from being hit in the face with a broken jellyfish tentacle), and one stretching from her right shoulder down to her ribcage (from a much much worse skateboarding accident). Carlotta is visually disabled - the same accident that caused the scar on her shoulder and ribs also caused her to lose chunks of her visual field due to head trauma. She occasionally uses a sight cane on bad days, but sheâs stupid levels of stoic and wonât admit how bad it sometimes gets.
Her hair is up in a high ponytail with a white ribbon that sticks up like a whale spout. She has a single purple highlight, and her ponytail is tied near the bottom so the end splits like a whale tail. Her mask extends down over her cheeks to hide her scar; itâs grey with a black stripe across the top and black eyelids.
She wears a black leotard with attached gloves, silver fishnet tights, and black thigh-high boots with purple soles. On top she wears a grey sleeveless zippered vest with a long coattail that ends in a whale tail; it has purple lining and the bodice is decorated with two thin white stripes and a purple double-looped belt. She also has small purple shoulder pads styled to look like Sperm Whale fins and doubling as extra armour.
Cachalotteâs Miraculous is pretty much the same as when sheâs detransformed, except the gems turn purple. Itâs S-shaped to resemble a sperm-whaleâs blowhole. The irises of her eyes also turn fully purple to help disguise her. The Whale Miraculous weapon is a grappling gun that can be attached to her belt - but Cachalotta rarely uses it in a fight besides to move around the battlefield, preferring to use her size and strength in a fight as opposed to any weaponry. It matches her costume, with a fin-styled purple handle, a grey gun with white stripes, and a silver grappling hook that, like Ladybugâs yoyo and Vesperiaâs spinning top, has an infinitely long and unbreakable string.
Personality:
Carlotta is deeply caring about those important to her; she would throw herself in harmâs way to protect her loved ones without a second thought. She doesnât tend towards thinking things through; she is wild and impulsive and stubborn, and only thinks about the immediate future rather than any consequences. In spite of her caring nature she can be extremely selfish on occasion.
Carlottaâs fatal flaw is her single-mindedness; when sheâs set her mind to something sheâll go through hell to get it with no regard to her personal safety or often the feelings of others. As Cachalotte, she started out as a bit of a Dark Knight: a protector in shadow, who tries to work behind the scenes to reach justice - unfortunately, she was oblivious to City Justice and Law Justice, and more concerned with settling personal scores. Then after a few incidents involving some classmates, Marinette clocked onto her identity and told her to cut out her bullshit or she would personally hand the Whale Miraculous back to the Guardians. Since then, Cachalotte has aided Ladybug and Chat Noir when she thinks they need it, and approaches battles with her normal singlemindedness that becomes utter focus on the situation at hand.
The Guardians have yet to try and retrieve the Whale Miraculous; they believe it to be lost forever at sea. The truth is, a thousand years ago the previous wielder drowned, and the Miraculous became lodged in a living Sperm Whaleâs tooth. The Miraculous unintentionally caused the whale wild longevity until it became dislodged a few months ago, and the whale beached in England. Carlottaâs father, as one of the leading cetologists involved in the unbelievable discovery of the thousand-year-old whale, sent it to Carlotta as a gift, not realising what it was.
Powers and Abilities:
As Carlotta:
Carlotta is fairly powerfully built for a girl; while sheâs no professional weightlifter she can hold her own in a fight against even a faster or more agile opponent. Being a sibling has taught her to wait for the moment to strike to deliver the most powerful blow. Sheâs also sharp-minded and good with noticing and remembering details in stories, personalities, and habits (actual visual details, not so much) (itâs the Dupain ADHD) (her special interest is cetology, the study of whales).
Sheâs deeply informed on cetology, top of the class at general biology, and pretty good at motion physics. In fact, there are few school subjects besides chemistry that Carlotta doesnât excel at. When it comes to sports, sheâs an amazing swimmer and diver, beyond average at strength sports, above average at gymnastics, and a fast runner. (But she falls apart at sports that require good aim or precision such as basketball or fencing.) Sheâs also a very good skateboarder, and regularly terrifies people with stunts sheâs practised so often theyâre practically second nature. Since the skateboarding accident that caused her partial loss of vision, Carlotta has started learning to read Braille.
Carlotta, as mentioned above, plays the violin - sheâs extremely accomplished, helped by being lucky enough to have natural perfect pitch. Lizzy Starling (Miracuverse!Lindsey Stirling) is her musical idol. She can play entirely by finger-memory, and will jam along with anyone playing any other instrument nearby.
As Cachalotte:
Carlottaâs strength, flexibility, agility and speed are upgraded, like all Miraculous wielders. Her style of fighting is similar to her civilian style - fists, kicks, and waiting for the right moment to strike. She prefers to dodge an attack rather than deflect it.
Special Ability: âCODA!â
The Whale Miraculous grants the power of Echolocation. To use it, the user must think of what they wish to find in the fight - the weak point, the area their opponent will be next, their opponentâs power source - even the best path for the user to use themselves. In use, the userâs eyes glow bright purple and they see the thing they want to find highlighted in purple light, invisible to anyone else. The glow only appears for ten seconds maximum, and at its weakest (if the user is badly injured or as an adult after multiple uses) only three seconds.
Whale Add-Ons:
Qualities unique to the Whale Miraculous include mega-upgraded pain tolerance and resistance to air/water/magic pressure. Carlotta wondered if it would fix her damaged eyesight, but it gave her something even better: the ability to view her surroundings through sound, the way whales do. Thatâs not to say her damaged vision doesnât make it hard to Hero sometimes - but sheâs happy enough with things the way they are, because Klikk the Whale Kwami gave her the one thing she never thought sheâd get - the ability to see the world from a whaleâs perspective.
Klikk
Carlottaâs beloved sperm-whale Kwami companion. Klikk is rather mischievous, and can tend to encourage some of Carlottaâs more reckless behaviour (like, um, the time Cachalotte ran headfirst at a brick wall to see if she could leave a human-shaped hole like in a cartoon) (spoiler alert: she couldnât and broke her nose) (which made Carlotta very glad she did it as Cachalotte and not as Carlotta like originally planned) but ultimately gives pretty good advice when Carlotta needs it. Transforms at the words âKlikk, Flukes Up!â and detransforms with âKlikk, Flukes Down!â. Klikk likes to hide in Carlottaâs hair, and despite loving physical contact, Carlotta refuses to let people touch her hair for Klikkâs safety. Klikk enjoys Blue Planet, cuddles, and deep-fried calamari.
I love those posts about the Miraculous holders gaining animalistic habits out of costume (Adrien purring, Alya shrieking like a fox, Marinette eating aphids) so Iâm going to make one about my OC, MarĂa Sugrue-Dupain, who holds the whale Miraculous.
her appetite goes way up. all the holders have an increased appetite but MarĂa is especially affected due to how much whales have to eat to sustain themselves.
interestingly, her appetite goes way down in the winter (when whales live off their fat reserves).
she makes clicking noises all the time. when sheâs hungry. when sheâs eating. when sheâs excited. especially when sheâs angry, and it becomes more of a creak. every time Lila opens her mouth MarĂa just stands there unconsciously making a very loud creaking noise. has the bonus side effect of drowning Lila out if her bullshit is particularly annoying.
sheâs got a bit of a crush on Luka and has occasionally clicked loudly and excitedly upon seeing him. MarĂa shares the hopeless romantic trait with Marinette.
gets very excited when she sees a baby. doesnât matter if itâs a human baby. babies are suddenly more adorable than they used to be and she would gladly adopt/die for all of them.
increased fondness for calamari
sheâs accidentally tried to eat a plastic bag before. so has Klikk (her Kwami).
undisputed breath-holding-contest champion
her bone structure and organs actually becomes a little affected. sheâll take really bad hits in gym class and just walk them off. she also discovers completely by accident that she can collapse her ribcage while holding her breath. she has managed to fit through gaps that no normal-sized teenager should be able to fit through.
once during a school fair she came across an apple-bobbing game and impulsively stuck her head in and tried to hoover up as many apples as possible in one go. they were small apples and she actually managed to fit two in her mouth. the disturbing part was when she resurfaced and just let the water drain out of her mouth. people are still talking about it.
one time Lila made up a lie about knowing a famous marine biologist who is actually MarĂaâs father. MarĂa impulsively head-butted her in the ribs. MarĂa cannot explain why she chose to head-butt Lila. Lila cannot explain how MarĂa head-butted her hard enough to leave a bruise but straightened up without even a headache. Klikk wonât explain anything but finds it hilarious.
AU where instead of being the Whale Kwami Klikk is specifically the Sperm Whale Kwami and thereâs an Orca Kwami whose power is just being a fucking nightmare
