A fossilized fish rostrum of a Miocene to Pliocene aged marlin or Makaira sp. from the Yorktown Formation at the Lee Creek mine in Aurora, Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. These sharp rostrals or bills are used by these fish to injure and hunt prey.
Yo, check out my Isekai OC! (art by @lionindenial, check out their blog, they do lots of cool stuff!)
A few weeks ago, a friend and I were joking about how pretty much every op RPG-Isekai protag is a light-skinned dude and how it would be cool if an RPG themed Isekai had an op lady protagonist and from there the brainworms started developing.
For more info on Miss Isekai Protag, check below the cut!
Makaira Gushiken
Age 17
November 15th
Scorpio
6′0/1,80 m
Uses a war scythe in combat and to channel her powers
Dark Magic User
Backstory
Makaira grew up in Okinawa as the child of a Japanese salarywoman and her husband, who migrated from Mexico. She didn’t have it easy, both due to being afro-Japanese and living in perpetual poverty. Makaira dropped out of school to support her family, despite having good enough grades to go for higher education.
One late evening, when she was walking home from work, Makaira witnessed a mugging. Due to her phone’s battery being empty, she couldn’t call for help. Unwilling to just let this happen in front of her, Makaira intervened - and ended up getting stabbed by the mugger and bleeding out while the victim tried futilely to help her.
When she died, her soul was snatched up by the deity of another world and transported to said world, Gehenna.
The deity in question is Nyx, the God and personification of Death. Years prior, he was betrayed and banished into an abyss by his siblings, the Gods of Life, Nature, Wealth and Light specifically. As a result, no one in Gehanna has been able to die for over a century.
While the rich have enjoyed this state of being, the poor, those who cannot afford things like healers and healing or youth potions, are suffering immensely. People are often left to age into oblivion until they can no longer move and are eventually buried alive, to make room. Slavery and human trafficking are also blooming, due to slaves dying from being overworked or starving no longer being an issue. You can hit, starve or otherwise mistreat a slave, and the most you’d have to do afterward is spend some money on a cheap healing potion or hedgewitch to get them back on their feet.
Non-human races aren’t having a particularly good time either, as humans are no longer scared of dying when hunting them down.
Nyx felt all this and tried to reach out to a mortal, in order to right things, but his imprisonment made it impossible for him to affect the mortal realm of Gehenna in any way.
So he used his powers to reach through the veil between worlds for a vessel. And he found Makaira.
Makaira was resurrected as Nyx’ vessel and an Angel of Death, basically a Grim reaper. She’s nearly impervious to physical and magical harm. Only extremely high-tier weapons or spells can even get a dent on her. She herself is a wielder of literal god-tier dark magic. Her new body has also enhanced her physical srength, speed and durability. She could deadlift a horse with one arm and not feel tired at all. Some of her other powers inculde the ability to set trapped souls free, or in other words: Grant death to people who are desperately waiting for it, and reading the surface thoughts of any person if she concentrates a bit.
Due to Nyx not ressurecting her quick enough, her right eye has rotted away. In her new body it’s been “replaced” by a will-o’-the-wisp like light blue light, that she usually covers up to avoid attention. Once she makes a name for herself, the eye becomes her iconic feature that other people use to identify her.
Personality
Makaira is of the ruthless anti-hero sort. She won’t hesitate to strike someone down if they pose a threat to her or those she cares about. Due to growing up working class, she has a bunch of emptahy for the poor and none for the rich. She’s fiercely loyal toward her party and her friends. And also just a teeny bit traumatized from, you know. Dying in her old life.
