#mayrah

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i rarely ever posted them here but my deviantart used to be full of my hs fancharacters lol

also a trollsona i realized I NEVER MADE ONE?? i only had a kidsona but that’s weak

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The Grand Finale! Mayrah Mobula

I gotta say I love that this character is a breath player who has to keep her head above water, a seadweller who can only breathe air. 

Alternia or Beforus or some type of AU?

Alternia

Name (preferably include how you came up with it and why): Mayrah Mobula

‘Mayrah’ is an Australian Aboriginal name that means “the wind” or “spring,” which fits with her associated element of wind.

‘Mobula’ comes from “Mobula mobular” aka the devil fish or giant devil ray, which is Mayrah’s lusus. They get their name from how their gill covers/fins point downward when they’re not feeding, making them look like devil horns.

Ooh, I get it, because rays are known for leaping out of water. Pffff 

Age: 8 sweeps (~17 years old)

Strife Specibus: 2xfankind, fankind, hairdryrkind

Mayrah’s weapons of choice are tessen, bladed war fans that can also be closed and thrown as dagger or used to deflect projectiles. If she needs a less delicate approach, she switches to her gunbai, a giant solid metal fan that can be used to create massive gusts of wind or swung around like a club. She will use hairdryers to fuck with her enemies by blowing her hair nonchalantly or just blowing it in their face. She will sometimes yawn and fan herself with her tessen to taunt her foes.

You could probably just say fankind and 2xfankind, because a hair dryer is also called/is composed of a hair fan! 

Fetch Modus: I’m not sure where to go with this one. Any ideas?

How about a Wind Tube? You know like, those Cash Cubes where someone has to stand in a glass box and air blows around wildly while you attempt to catch the cash you want? Want if she is forced to stand in a wind tube trying to grab the specific item(s) she needs? 

Blood color: Violet

Symbol and meaning: Aquius, The Whimsical

I definitely agree, but we’ll analyze that fun stuff more later.

Trolltag: mercurialMadonna

“Mercurial” means “fickle or unpredictable” and can be attributed to Mercury/Hermes, Roman/Greek god of messengers, travelers and tricksters. He was famously known for his quick wit.

“Madonna” can mean an idealized or beautiful woman. Mayrah is pretty self-absorbed!

Hmmmmm. When you hear Madonna you usually think of either the entertainer or the Virgin Mary, though. And while I think it’s a fun reference, she really doesn’t carry the vibes of either. I hate to break up the alliteration, but maybe mercurialWindbag (mW)? Since Windbag means boaster or blowhard and is a fun additional wind reference? With the added benefit of the bag of wind being like… a spongebob reference. Tenuous connections to the sea. 

Quirk: {~ ur always worryinn bout everyfinn mmann juST HAVE SUMM FUNN!!!!!! XD

Starts sentences with {~ to represent a devil ray. Makes fish puns. Doubles m’s and n’s. Uses a lot of abbreviations and slang because she talks quickly and doesn’t want to bother writing stuff out. Doesn’t use punctuation of any kind except exclamation points, which she will use liberally. Will gradually switch to all caps for emphasis or when excited but doesn’t capitalize anything else. Uses smilies and variations of XD or :D

I love the devil rays emojis… The m’s and n’s I don’t really understand, though. ….Hm. What if she replaced k’s with |< instead. It looks like the symbol from the side!

Ex: {~ don’t get so wor|<ed up! 

Special Abilities (if any): I guess this is technically the opposite of a special ability, but Mayrah actually has defective gills. She is unable to breathe water at all. Her fins look normal but essentially serve no function. But, she is extremely good at holding her breath and can stay underwater for about 30 minutes before having to resurface. Otherwise, she’s a pretty okay swimmer but actually doesn’t like water all that much. She can, however, run extremely fast and jump way higher than what one expects.

Highbloods are pretty strong and this is another subtle ray reference, the jumping thing, so I accept.

Lusus: A giant devil ray. Aside from being really fucking big (like the size of a small airplane), there’s nothing particularly special about her. She’s just a gentle giant, although her shadow strikes terror into land-dwellers. However, she spends most of her time roaming the skies. Mayrah doesn’t mind as raymom always comes back, in the rare occasion that she isn’t tagging along. She will use her lusus as a mount to patrol the skies of Alternia while posing dramatically (think Kamina from Gurren Lagann).

I l o v e this giant enormous fucking terrifying ray. Beautiful. 

Personality: Impatient, easily distracted and often gets carried away, Mayrah is the girl Hemati affectionately (hatefully?) refers to as “tHat fligHty brOad.” She’s the kind of person who will grab your hand and drag you across the world if she think it’ll be fun. She’s particularly longwinded and will happily talk over you if you try to interject because SHE has something to say. She loves to try to motivate her friends and pushes them to do their best at whatever it is they’re doing, whether that means bullying Hemati into making her clothes and jewelry, helping Varune hide his misdeeds or buying Lelaps a fuck ton of instruments and dumping it all into their hive. Mostly, she comes off as annoying and overbearing. In truth, she’s not really sure what to do with herself, so she occupies her time by bothering her friends and delving into their interests as a substitute for her own without realizing her effect on pushing them around. Woe is those who tell her she’s interested in something or something without being ready to actually do something about it. If you told her you’ve always wanted to try rock climbing, she’d likely push you off the top of a mountain! She is pretty generous, however, and will typically buy people whatever on a whim.

I like this a lot, especially because it emphasizes how ungrounded she is. She’s such a flighty person, that she doesn’t even have a stake planted in anything of her own. She’s self-centered and driven to do what she wants to do, but she’s lacking even a bond to any hobbies or even herself… Someone help this poor girl get her head out of the clouds and get a little direction! Breath’s all about some sort of quest, so it’s a good title to press her on some sort of adventure… and she’ll drag everyone else along behind her, true breath-style. 

As a seadweller, and a defective one at that, she knows that she is not well liked and can never find a place with her water-based kin, lest they discover that she’s essentially a phony and be culled. So, she avoids the seas altogether. She started keeping away from her hive (which is built into a cliff face right next to the water) by necessity, she quickly became infatuated with the escapism provided by her night rides with raymom. She loves the feel of the wind blowing through her hair and the weightlessness that flying provides. Mayrah also finds the lower castes better company, even though her mere presence renders vast majority of them uncomfortable. She enjoys ignoring the responsibilities her royal blood demands and would rather be out and about, bothering her friends and strangers alike. That being said, she is aware of the privileges of being royalty and will often try to make things go her way, as she believes that she knows best. If you deny her, she will quickly turn nasty and malicious, really putting the hurt on if she wants to.

I like the idea of bringing her up in the air even more than usual, taking her away from the ground, so maybe… when she starts feeling less comfortable around the water, she just moves onto her lusus’ back? I mean, her lusus is the size of a small airplane, so I bet it can handle a tent and some stuff. Maybe she doesn’t have too many possessions she’s all that concerned about, so she is able to travel light?

Flirting is also one of Mayrah’s hobbies and she’s quick to notice the better qualities within people. And her advances are often not rejected; she’s vain and is always dressed to the nines. She even perfumes her hair so that a light breeze would waft the scents to whoever she’s talking to. She hates the idea of commitment though and would rather be free to flirt with whoever she likes rather than be tied down by closed relationships. That being said, she talks big game but wouldn’t really know what to do if things actually got serious, so she’d rather just brush it off and not worry about it. In fact, she’d rather worry about your love life than her own. She’s nosy but will deflect any attempts to uncover her own feelings on the matter.

The flighty natures just keep on rollin!

Interests: Getting into everyone’s business, flirting, going on joyrides, perfume, flying kites, fanning herself in a dramatic manner

Maybe she could like skydiving too. Make her a casual thrillseeker! Wild activities fill the void when she’s not pestering other people or gossiping about pestering other people.

Title: Maid of Breath

Mayrah is a leader, even if she doesn’t really know what people should work towards. She spends a lot of time trying to create Direction in others, but really should be trying to figure what she wants rather than just pushing people towards things nilly willy. Although she’s only providing others with goals for her own benefit.

I do like this a lot, bc she is so actively involved, but she also isn’t really embracing her aspect totally in a way the maid would. She’s allowed the vast expansion of air to get a hold of her and isn’t channeling it in an actual direction. So learning to selfishly generate direction is kind of a good goal for her, development-wise. Of course the issue is her inverse would be Bard of Blood, which means she’d start passively breaking down connections and relationships… maybe once she started on the path she’d end up accidentally alienating her friends and needing to drop back down to earth. Find a healthy balance. 

Land: Land of Smog and Whirlybirds (LoSaW)

I’d imagine that the land would be like a giant meadow planet filled with lovely flowers and windmills. There are also a lot of trees dropping those winged seeds (whirlybirds) that travel with the wind to find new places to sprout. However, Typheus sucked up all the breeze and spit out a choking layer of smog that is killing everything.

Thanks a lot, Typheus.

Dream Planet: Prospit

Mayrah is a reactive person who lives in the moment. She’s an optimistic person who is very focused on getting things done and gives very little thought to the possible consequences.

Appearance: Mayrah LOVES jewelry and would likely wear a lot of it. Her favourite metal is gold, so I’d imagine she’d wear gold bracelets, necklaces and rings. She fully embraces the luxury of being a seadweller; there’s no way you could mistake her as anything else. Especially since you’d likely be blinded by her bling. Her horns would probably look like stereotypical devil horns to really hammer in the “devilfish” imagery. She would be really proud of her hair and keep it in long, flowing locks, free to dance in the wind. I’ve always imagined her wearing mullet/high low dresses like this one: https://www.luckybridals.com/uploads/product/1/E/1E044/Strapless-purple-high-low-ruffled-chiffon-prom-dress-1.jpg

That way she’d have room to run comfortably AND look stylish as hell. She’d have a lot of her blood color in her outfit, but would also incorporate a lot of yellow because yellow is actually her favourite color.

Design:

Horns: Nice and simple demon horns, as you said. Just a mild curve and all. 

Hair: I wanted to make it have like, the floaty naturey of clouds? Because of how often she flies, but I also wanted to pull the ends up into a flipper-like look. So here she is, with a long and bouncy hair look. 

Face: Her eyes aren’t anything special, just some shiny cute. Her mouth is meant to look a bit like a ray’s mouth. 

Jewelry/shoes: I’m putting these in the same category since they’re all gold. She’s got a necklace and earrings, a little ray shaped pendant, and then some gold sneakers (edited from fan-troll’s base). 

Outfit: Her top is a really simple no sleeve black shirt with her symbol. There’s a sash/belt combining it with the violet high/low skirt that I edited from fan-troll! 

Thank you guys so much! I’ve had a lot of fun making my trolls and I really appreciate all the advice and ideas you’ve given me. I hope they were fun to review!

They were all really fun to review! Thank you so much for taking the time to share. <3

-CD