For the first time in 10+ years, I FINALLY have a design for the mother of Azul/Chester and Reuben. I took notes from her father Amir/Amaros' outfit.
Rest of the fam: Dad I Uncle I Hubby I Son 1 I Son 2 (& the adoptive fam) I Dad's new LI
Bio Below:
Name: Saba Samaros
Nicknames: Soul Guide (official Deity title) Soul princess/princess of Souls (less official but often used - she dislikes this one) Lady Saba.
Age: Old. but she roughly appears as someone around their thirties as that's when she died and was resurrected as a Deity.
Height: 172 cm
The Daughter of Soul Eater Deity Amaros, typically taking the shape of a Panther familiar. She also performs the task of guiding the souls of Soul Eaters and those connected to their families (spouses,children,etc. who aren't naturally S.E themselves) into the afterlife.
Family: Father Amir (now known as Amaros), late mother Theya, hubby/partner in crime Shaell, sons Azul and Reuben, uncle Samar.
Role: A companion to her father/guide for her sons later on.
Love interest: Shaell (An orphan raised by the Witch Covenant who was adapt with extremely rare and powerful magic type called the Void - he became known as the Void God later on)
Rival: Shaell (in a playful manner)
Powers:
Flame magic: Saba inherited very powerful fire magic from her late mother Theya, and her powers still take the shape of flames even when she's not using actual fire.
Immortality: being a Deity essentially, she does not age from the moment she was turned, and doesn't get sick either. Like her hubby, she is also incredibly difficult to damage.
Swordsmanship: She was always an excellent swordswoman, trained by her uncle and continuing to practice with her hubby later on.
Soul Eater powers: Being a Soul eater deity essentially, Saba can manipulate souls near freely like her father (telepathy, possession, blocking abilities, devouring them, etc), though she cannot grant Soul Eater powers to anyone like Amaros can.
Transformation: Saba is capable of transforming between her human form and the panther, with panther being her current default.
Weaknesses:
Saba cannot remain in her human form for too long, and her life-force is tied to her father currently; if he is hurt, so is she.
(MORE TBA)
Personality:
Saba is quite strong-willed and passionate, known for being impulsive. She is quick to think on her feet and generally able to compensate her impulsivity with her sharp wit. She has very good intuition and can tell quite fast what kind of person someone is. (an ability her younger son Reuben inherited)
She has little patience for politics and what she finds needless chit-chat, preferring to take action over waiting for permission to do things. (a trait she shares with Shaell)
While very fiery in nature, Saba is also known to be empathetic and having a very strong sense of justice, where she is willing to even go against her loved ones if necessary. She had a lot of arguments with her father and uncle about their actions during the war-times she lived in, shortly before dying/being resurrected as the Godly Panther.
Like Shaell, she can be quite mischievous as well, known for pulling harmless pranks on people since she was a child.
BG Story
Saba was born to two powerful sorcerers of high status in her Kingdom at the time, Amir and Theya. Sadly her mother passed away in childbirth, leaving her father rising her alone, though he had help from his brother Samar. Saba as a result was very close with both, learning how to use her wit from Amir, and her strength from Samar. During a crisis with tensions rising between her kingdom and another, Saba ends up meeting a man from the nearby Witch Covenant known to raise a lot of orphans with potent magic in them. They end up working together to foil a secret assassination coup that could've triggered a war. Her and Shaell remain as close friends for a while, before they actually fall in love. At some point, Saba gives birth to their first son Azul, whom she births in the Covenant grounds as Shaell had been concerned for her health, thinking it'd be safer for her, as the witches understood the dangers and troubles of pregnancy far better than the doctors in the kingdom (who were often male). Some years later their second child is born, but shortly after that a war breaks out. During an invasion and battle, Saba is fatally wounded by the enemy and her soul is almost destroyed. Her father performs an ancient forbidden ritual to try and save her life, which ends up transforming her soul into something akin to a Deity - but with the cost of her human form. She is also separated from her family, as her husband and children get thrown into the flow of time, seemingly dying in the process. She finds out eons later that Shaell is actually alive during a battle against her now insane uncle - and then seemingly dies again, until she finds out her sons are ALSO alive and Shaell ALSO did not die either and is guiding their older son to rescue him from the prison he was put in.
FUN FACTS
Saba is bi
She doesn't mind her father's relationship with Helias, glad to see him happy with someone again after so long.
In the beginning Saba didn't even ask Shaell's name at first upon finding out he could help her foil the conspiracy coup; She just called him "The covenant man" (he went along with it thinking she was ignoring his name on purpose due to her higher status, only realizing later she just....forgot to ask in the heat of the situation.)
Saba is a lil salty neither of her sons inherited her eyes, but also really loves the sunrise-look of Shaell's so she can't be too mad. (Reuben at least got her glorious hair color)
Saba's uncle didn't really approve their relationship as he had a biased negative opinion of the Witch Covenant men, who tended to prefer using their heads and be strategic (I.E "be deceitful and full of trickery" in Samar's eyes) rather than facing things head on.
Saba's first reaction to finding out her hubby had semi-accidentally created a following was "I turn my back for FIVE seconds and you're already starting personality cults - without me." (it was a joke of course)
While her and Shaell tend to be very witty and sarcastic towards each other, people can still tell they are very much in love from just the way they tend to look at each other.
Their love language in general tends to be more physical affection and acts of service rather than words.
Saba is especially fond of the daughter of one of the Soul eaters more directly related to her through her uncle's affair with the last person ever that her father turned into Soul Eater;the distant descendant of a woman known as "Lady Araknos," a little girl called Hitomi Blackthorne. She often visits her and helps her learn more about her abilities.