Name: Maria Durand.
Age: 1500+ years old. (Appears 19).
Birthday: December 13th.
Gender: Female; she/her.
Species: Undead trickster demigoddess. (Half-undead/demigod).
Category: Citizen.
Career: Street performer.
Appearance Description:
Maria stands at an average height of 5’5, and appears to have a small and delicate build. However, don’t let this fool you into believing she isn’t strong. She moves very fluidly.
She has very pale skin with no freckles or beauty marks. Her cheeks have a natural blush. Her skin is unnaturally cold and very soft to the touch, like it has never received any damage. She has no scars, and her skin is perfectly smooth.
She has perfect, black that hair reaches to little bit above her shoulders. It isn’t styled in anyway, and can be described as a little bit wild if anything. Her hair is very soft to the touch.
She has bright golden eyes which shimmer in light, but has a dead dull look to them in the dark.
Maria’s usual clothing perfectly shows off what she wants people to believe her to be. She has a long black dress with frilled dress hems around her collar and dress straps. On the left side of this, the frills are styled to be a black rose. She has long black gloves which reach a bit past her elbows, and black heeled shoes.
Personality Description: Maria’s personality can greatly change depending the person she is with. With one, she is the friend you can depend on. For another, she is their greatest enemy. She will change her personality according to the people in a room.
But when she isn’t putting on this act, Maria is a mischievous woman. She is fascinated by simple tricks and greatly enjoys showing other people these tricks. She tends to do jokes on other people, but will try to keep it below harmful. She gives off the feeling she’s pretty easygoing.
Maria can come off as being a bit sensitive, or even cowardly. She will do everything in her power to avoid conflict, be it an argument or physical conflict. She doesn’t shy down from an argument herself, but she despises hearing others argue. She tries to use jokes and her abilities to end an argument, or to stop a physical fight. But what happens a lot is she will just outright run away.
She has a distrust of undead, gods and fae. This distrust/dislike was formed when she was a child. Out of the three, she outright distrusts fae the most, but appears to have a dislike of undead the most. However, she will treat a demon like family almost immediately. She is very friendly to demons and rarely lies to them.
Active Abilities: Transformation - Maria is able to change her face, head and hair to look like someone else. This can work on any age, any race, any species, any gender. However, the accuracy of it depends on her memory of the person she is trying to copy. Her body and clothes do not change with this transformation. She can reasonably maintain a different face for several days at a time. However, extended use requires a break before she can use any ability again. Similar to facial transformation, she can achieve full transformation but it usually has more inaccuracies. The face, head and hair will usually be most accurate. With full transformation, she requires more time to do the transformation. She is able to change height, body type, etc. to mimic who she wishes to copy. But, once again, is based on memory. She can only maintain a full transformation for a few hours at a time. Use of full transformation requires a break before she is able to use any ability again.
Clothes Changing - Maria is able to change the clothing she wears with the wave of her hands. It’s unknown where the clothing comes from, or where her old clothing goes, but it requires little energy to do. More complex styles require more energy, and she isn’t able to change to outright armour. If she uses this ability a lot in a short time span, she must take a break before being able to use any of her abilities.
Trick Invisibility - Maria is able to use this ability to make people in a radius just not be able to see her. She is still there, still moving around, but people will not visually perceive she is there. She is also able to apply this to other people and objects with an increase in energy consumption. She is able to adjust the range, but even increasing by a few inches can be a massive increase in energy. The typical radius is 8-10ft around her.
Enchanted Knives - Maria is in possession of two enchanted knives. They are stored nowhere, and appear when needed. They do not dull nor do they break, and are very sharp. The knives appear to have some handiwork from fae. Other than being very sharp, they are not particularly much stronger against anything and can still be disarmed from her. They require a lot of energy to summon, which means once they are gone, she must wait for a while before she can use them again or use a different ability. She has significant trouble maintaining the knives and any of her other abilities.
Passive Abilities: Partial Immortality - Due to be a demigoddess, Maria ages significantly slower than a human. However, her aging will not stop like some other demigods.
Undead - She has an extremely slow pulse. It sometimes appears she has no pulse. She is cold to the touch, and will appear as an undead rather than being alive.
Common Magical Items: None.
Resources: Does not have a place to live, by her own choice. Is a street performer, so she earns a decent enough income to get food and other living comforts.
Biography: Maria was born to an undead father and a minor goddess mother. Her father was a thief and was the one who taught her how to be sleight of hand. Her mother was a weaker trickster goddess who would, despite her surprisingly kind nature, scam people. Maria was raised around demons, half-demons and a few fae for her entire life.
But then, due to the fact that she was half-undead, she got very sick and started dying. Her father made a deal with a fae, who was able to cure Maria of her sickness. The side effects was a decreased pulse, colder skin and coming up as an undead.
Then her father betrayed the deal. He had turned his back on it and the payment for this betrayal was the life of Maria’s mother. She couldn’t help but hate her father who had betrayed her and her mother, and caused her mother’s death.
Eventually, he left and she remained with the people she had been raised around up to that point. As she got older, she got the idea that her father was still alive but she refused to go look for him. Her abilities as a demigoddess began manifesting and she trained how to use them.
Her father being a thief, and her mother a scammer, she became quite adept at tricking people. That was how she made her living throughout the centuries. But, after a little incident recently in which people claimed she was a witch or something, she has decided to come to Manta Carlos.
Additional Information: Has very dexterous hands. Is the daughter of Boniface 'Boni' Durand.
Age: 1500+ years old. (Appears 19).
Birthday: December 13th.
Gender: Female; she/her.
Species: Undead trickster demigoddess. (Half-undead/demigod).
Category: Citizen.
Career: Street performer.
Appearance Description:
She has very pale skin with no freckles or beauty marks. Her cheeks have a natural blush. Her skin is unnaturally cold and very soft to the touch, like it has never received any damage. She has no scars, and her skin is perfectly smooth.
She has perfect, black that hair reaches to little bit above her shoulders. It isn’t styled in anyway, and can be described as a little bit wild if anything. Her hair is very soft to the touch.
She has bright golden eyes which shimmer in light, but has a dead dull look to them in the dark.
Maria’s usual clothing perfectly shows off what she wants people to believe her to be. She has a long black dress with frilled dress hems around her collar and dress straps. On the left side of this, the frills are styled to be a black rose. She has long black gloves which reach a bit past her elbows, and black heeled shoes.
Personality Description: Maria’s personality can greatly change depending the person she is with. With one, she is the friend you can depend on. For another, she is their greatest enemy. She will change her personality according to the people in a room.
But when she isn’t putting on this act, Maria is a mischievous woman. She is fascinated by simple tricks and greatly enjoys showing other people these tricks. She tends to do jokes on other people, but will try to keep it below harmful. She gives off the feeling she’s pretty easygoing.
Maria can come off as being a bit sensitive, or even cowardly. She will do everything in her power to avoid conflict, be it an argument or physical conflict. She doesn’t shy down from an argument herself, but she despises hearing others argue. She tries to use jokes and her abilities to end an argument, or to stop a physical fight. But what happens a lot is she will just outright run away.
She has a distrust of undead, gods and fae. This distrust/dislike was formed when she was a child. Out of the three, she outright distrusts fae the most, but appears to have a dislike of undead the most. However, she will treat a demon like family almost immediately. She is very friendly to demons and rarely lies to them.
Active Abilities: Transformation - Maria is able to change her face, head and hair to look like someone else. This can work on any age, any race, any species, any gender. However, the accuracy of it depends on her memory of the person she is trying to copy. Her body and clothes do not change with this transformation. She can reasonably maintain a different face for several days at a time. However, extended use requires a break before she can use any ability again. Similar to facial transformation, she can achieve full transformation but it usually has more inaccuracies. The face, head and hair will usually be most accurate. With full transformation, she requires more time to do the transformation. She is able to change height, body type, etc. to mimic who she wishes to copy. But, once again, is based on memory. She can only maintain a full transformation for a few hours at a time. Use of full transformation requires a break before she is able to use any ability again.
Clothes Changing - Maria is able to change the clothing she wears with the wave of her hands. It’s unknown where the clothing comes from, or where her old clothing goes, but it requires little energy to do. More complex styles require more energy, and she isn’t able to change to outright armour. If she uses this ability a lot in a short time span, she must take a break before being able to use any of her abilities.
Trick Invisibility - Maria is able to use this ability to make people in a radius just not be able to see her. She is still there, still moving around, but people will not visually perceive she is there. She is also able to apply this to other people and objects with an increase in energy consumption. She is able to adjust the range, but even increasing by a few inches can be a massive increase in energy. The typical radius is 8-10ft around her.
Enchanted Knives - Maria is in possession of two enchanted knives. They are stored nowhere, and appear when needed. They do not dull nor do they break, and are very sharp. The knives appear to have some handiwork from fae. Other than being very sharp, they are not particularly much stronger against anything and can still be disarmed from her. They require a lot of energy to summon, which means once they are gone, she must wait for a while before she can use them again or use a different ability. She has significant trouble maintaining the knives and any of her other abilities.
Passive Abilities: Partial Immortality - Due to be a demigoddess, Maria ages significantly slower than a human. However, her aging will not stop like some other demigods.
Undead - She has an extremely slow pulse. It sometimes appears she has no pulse. She is cold to the touch, and will appear as an undead rather than being alive.
Common Magical Items: None.
Resources: Does not have a place to live, by her own choice. Is a street performer, so she earns a decent enough income to get food and other living comforts.
Biography: Maria was born to an undead father and a minor goddess mother. Her father was a thief and was the one who taught her how to be sleight of hand. Her mother was a weaker trickster goddess who would, despite her surprisingly kind nature, scam people. Maria was raised around demons, half-demons and a few fae for her entire life.
But then, due to the fact that she was half-undead, she got very sick and started dying. Her father made a deal with a fae, who was able to cure Maria of her sickness. The side effects was a decreased pulse, colder skin and coming up as an undead.
Then her father betrayed the deal. He had turned his back on it and the payment for this betrayal was the life of Maria’s mother. She couldn’t help but hate her father who had betrayed her and her mother, and caused her mother’s death.
Eventually, he left and she remained with the people she had been raised around up to that point. As she got older, she got the idea that her father was still alive but she refused to go look for him. Her abilities as a demigoddess began manifesting and she trained how to use them.
Maria remained with the travelling caravan she had been born into after her father left. The situation for the next few years was rather tense, as Maria's mother was a strong tie between the caravan, and her father was frankly the best are dealing with confrontations. Albeit he went against these confrontations with risk to his own health.
Maria aged normally until 15, at which she started aging significantly slower. It was at around this time that a minor god of war, a young man of 19 who had no pantheon or family, joined the caravan. Maria had been close to her mother, and a good reason why was because Maria hadn't met any other demigod or god directly. Despite her mother's own unease about the interaction with them, Maria was still curious.
Her and the god bonded for their common trait of godhood, or at least partial godhood. Maria also liked him because he was the closest age to her out of everyone in the caravan. But he gained her trust, and it would cost Maria dearly. By the time Maria turned 16, he began having a sexual relation with Maria. Maria considered herself a young woman, and so would the time she lived, so she hadn't seen any problems for a little while.
But then he got violent, and when Maria asked for the relation to stop, to go back to the friendship bond they had, he beated her. Maria quickly lost her confidence and brightness she had about the world. She became quiet and reclusive. She never talked back for fear of being beaten, so she endured the god.
But then, one of the few demons who had been there ever since the day Maria was born discovered the relationship. He discovered that Maria did not want this relationship.
He rallied the caravan together, and they tried to throw the god out. Despite being a 'mere' minor god, he was still a war god nonetheless. From spending now around two years, he knew every weakness. He slaughtered them. The one fae member of the caravan attempted to help Maria escape, and tried to graft fae crafted, enchanted daggers to Maria. A process which would allow her to summon the daggers from nowhere to defend herself. But the god found the pair during the process, and they weren't fully grafted.
Maria watched the last remnants of her family murdered in front of her, and she was taken by the god for his own purposes for several more years. She kept the behaviour of submissiveness and fear. Until she turned 18 and she just snapped. Completely, and truly. She wanted to be free, by whatever means possible... and whatever being free meant.
She managed an escape which allowed her to acquire the daggers stolen from her. When the god tried to stop her, he underestimated her. She killed him with the daggers with no expression, a blank and dead look in her eyes.
She was finally free, and she finished the grafting process. It took decades for Maria to gain control of her insanely varying emotions. She was able to use them for acting and trickery. It took closer to a century for Maria to let go of what happened with a heavy heart. Now, when she looks back, she thinks of her family.
Maria aged normally until 15, at which she started aging significantly slower. It was at around this time that a minor god of war, a young man of 19 who had no pantheon or family, joined the caravan. Maria had been close to her mother, and a good reason why was because Maria hadn't met any other demigod or god directly. Despite her mother's own unease about the interaction with them, Maria was still curious.
Her and the god bonded for their common trait of godhood, or at least partial godhood. Maria also liked him because he was the closest age to her out of everyone in the caravan. But he gained her trust, and it would cost Maria dearly. By the time Maria turned 16, he began having a sexual relation with Maria. Maria considered herself a young woman, and so would the time she lived, so she hadn't seen any problems for a little while.
But then he got violent, and when Maria asked for the relation to stop, to go back to the friendship bond they had, he beated her. Maria quickly lost her confidence and brightness she had about the world. She became quiet and reclusive. She never talked back for fear of being beaten, so she endured the god.
But then, one of the few demons who had been there ever since the day Maria was born discovered the relationship. He discovered that Maria did not want this relationship.
He rallied the caravan together, and they tried to throw the god out. Despite being a 'mere' minor god, he was still a war god nonetheless. From spending now around two years, he knew every weakness. He slaughtered them. The one fae member of the caravan attempted to help Maria escape, and tried to graft fae crafted, enchanted daggers to Maria. A process which would allow her to summon the daggers from nowhere to defend herself. But the god found the pair during the process, and they weren't fully grafted.
Maria watched the last remnants of her family murdered in front of her, and she was taken by the god for his own purposes for several more years. She kept the behaviour of submissiveness and fear. Until she turned 18 and she just snapped. Completely, and truly. She wanted to be free, by whatever means possible... and whatever being free meant.
She managed an escape which allowed her to acquire the daggers stolen from her. When the god tried to stop her, he underestimated her. She killed him with the daggers with no expression, a blank and dead look in her eyes.
She was finally free, and she finished the grafting process. It took decades for Maria to gain control of her insanely varying emotions. She was able to use them for acting and trickery. It took closer to a century for Maria to let go of what happened with a heavy heart. Now, when she looks back, she thinks of her family.
Her father being a thief, and her mother a scammer, she became quite adept at tricking people. That was how she made her living throughout the centuries. But, after a little incident recently in which people claimed she was a witch or something, she has decided to come to Manta Carlos.
Additional Information: Has very dexterous hands. Is the daughter of Boniface 'Boni' Durand.
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