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Magical Ability:

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Light - Invisibility. Melaenia has the ability to bend light protons to make herself completely invisible. The can be strenuous at times, though she has taught herself to hold it easily enough even if she only uses it as a defense mechanism. She can also use this gift to make other things of creatures invisible, which she often does with her daughter Rosalia in order to protect her. If she wishes to make something or someone else invisible, it has to be within her sight range. This can be even more strenuous than making herself invisible, and dangerous if she tries to hold it for too long or the object is too big. It gets easier the closer the person is to her, and she can hold the invisibility over something or someone else as easily as she can conceal herself if she is touching the subject.
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Appearance:

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Much like the rest of her elven kin, Melaenia holds a rare beauty and more youthful appearance. She has smooth, clear, pale skin, contrasted by long black hair and piercing blue eyes that could entrance someone without her even meaning to. Her hair is naturally long and wavy, though she tends to cut it back and keep is straight and loose around her shoulders instead of her waist. She is quite slim and tall, and where she was once lanky and a little awkward as a teenager, she has grown into this perfectly and can move with absolute grace. Like her elven kin she has those same pointed ears, though hidden by her hair. In all outward appearances, she looks like a beautiful elf, and one could imagine her in a shimmering court with a beautiful dress. Yet she is not that sort of girl. She prefers clothing that can conceal her figure and allow her ease of movement, caring little for beauty even it wasn't past memory that she would have loved the adoring compliments.
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In her werebeast form, she is no less graceful, though looks far fiercer. She is a lean and beautiful panther with sleek black fur to match her hair, and those same piercing blue eyes with that icy tint. In this form she looks as fierce as she is, and has no qualms about using this to her advantage, adorned with sharp teeth and claws that could rip a man to shreds if she willed it.
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Personality:

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Once Melaenia was a sweet, charming young girl, quick to love anyone and anything. She was naive, yet far from stupid, and was kind to anything from plants to people. Yet this all changed when she lost her family. Now she has smartened up, hardenened up, and many would say she's gone cold to the world. Its as though she's turned her back on everything, insistent more on living her life without other people, and raising her daughter where she'll be safe. While she is not cruel, she conceals her emotions and would sooner turn her back on someone in need then risk the safety of her and Rosa in order to help them. It still pains her, of course, not to aid someone that needs her help. In fact, she hates herself for it. Yet her daughter is the centre of her world, and everything around that is far less important to her. Mel doesn't trust, and hardly even understands love anymore. However, should someone acquire her love or trust, she would be endlessly loyal to them and protect them at all costs, with the exception of her daughter's safety. She may seem friendly if she tries, or cold if she doesn't, but she is not evil. However, this may not seem the case should you pose a threat to her daughter. If this is the case, do not doubt that she will kill you.
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History:

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Melaenia was born to a nigh forbidden couple of an elf with hair like the sun and eyes like the sky, and a werebeast with hair like the night and eyes like ice. The two were basically opposites, yet they loved each other so much that they didn't even care when their families all but disowned them, casting them out on their own. Mel's elven mother refused to let anything get her down, and the pair found a home in a secluded section of woods. Eventually Melaenia's mother became pregnant, yet nearing the end of her pregnancy she fell ill.
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Her lover scoured the land for a healer, but by the time he found one of use his love was beyond saving, and it was predicted that neither mother nor child would survive the sickness. However, it would seem fate had its own way of smiling down upon them. While his elven wife did not survive, their daughter was able to be brought into the world just before her sickness came to an end, and the mother got to hold her newborn daughter for the first and last time before she passed. Still, it was not expected for Mel to survive either, but the child was still granted a name and cared for night and day until, eventually, she grew stronger.
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Mel was a fighter. This proved from the time she was born and on throughout her early childhood. She had a few problems as a baby, though by the time she could walk all of this was gone. She was fine from then, and quickly picked up walking and talking, making her father proud. She was a delicate child in the sense that she loved flowers and music and dancing, and could more with the grace and beauty of a goddess. The family that had neglected the couple adored her, only accepting her as she was half elf and her mother was dead. Her father could not cope with raising the young girl as she reminded him too much of her mother, and so he handed her over to his inlaws and left when she was still too young to understand.
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The child grew up confused and lonely other than her mother's family, knowing that they were not her truest family and always feeling that something was missing. As they were still opposed to Mel's father, the child grew up knowing her mother had died after her birth, and believing her father had abandoned her as she was told. And so, when she was a teenager, though sweet, forgiving and kind, she was not happy to meet a new intruder on her life. This man claimed to be her father, and when Mel finally came to believe him she accused him of abandoning her, and questioning him as to why she wasn't good enough for him, why he'd throw away his own child only to come crawling back. She'd refused to forgive him, and so he'd left.
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Not much later, Melaenia was arranged to marry. While she did not hate the man, nor love anyone else, she hated the idea of marrying for anything other than love and companionship. However, she understood her duty and so accepted the marriage without falter. By now she'd already discovered her shifter ability, yet only took the form of a panther when she was alone as she knew she would be shamed. Everyone thought she was an elf, including her future husband, and it had to stay that way. Not long after her wedding, Melaenia got news, her father had died. Mel wasn't sure what to think of it, and hating the idea of feeling sorrow for someone assumedly so unfeeling themselves, she had hardened her heart to it and refused to weep for him. Still, she was no happy, and her refusal to grieve made her begin to turn her back on all her prior interests.
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In fact, Mel was not seen smiling and laughing again until she had grown to love her husband and found herself to be carrying his child. By then she was said to almost glow with pride, as well as having become fixated on being better to her child than her father was to her. By the time she had the child, however, it was proven that her husband was not as ready to have this child as she was, and when Rosa was born he wanted nothing to do with her. In fact, when she showed more interest toward her daughter than him due to his ignorance, he threatened to leave, and so she insisted her did. Now raising her daughter by herself, Mel felt more burdened than she ever had. Yet she felt a strong connection to the child, and grew fiercely protective of the little girl.
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One day, Mel went back to visit her family, only to find the entire village empty. Many homes were burnt to the crisp, including theirs. It had turned out people had made their way into the village, pretending to be of the people for a long time until they were trusted, before burning it down from the inside and attacking everyone, killing their way through those that didn't manage to escape into the woods. Hardening from this, Mel moved far away and taught herself never to trust anyone unless she needed to, and never to give her heart to anyone other than her daughter. She'd been fooled not once, but twice, and she didn't intend on making that mistake again.
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Miscellaneous:

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She has a five year old daughter named Rosalia, who is the only person she'll sing to on occaision. Sometimes bounces from place to place depending on how many others are around. Actually hates it when people are hurt or upset, though hardly ever helps them if she can stop herself.

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OOC Notes

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