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Malya Riza Vereaux
"The Shadow Rose"

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Name: Malya Riza Vereaux (Mal-ee-a R-ee-za V-ir-oo)

Title: The Shadow Rose

Gender: Female

Race: Fae

Age: Unknown but appears to be the age of a young adult woman of about 21

Appearance: Malya has the figure of a dancer, a skilled dancer at that. Her body frame is rather slim, attractive and in good shape but under this physical appearance, she's much stronger than she looks and even faster too. She's also very healthy, aside from the fact that she has a bad habit of smoking. She has very short dark chest-nut colored hair, reaching down to about the bottom of her chip and her eyes are the same color, only a much lighter color. Her normal wear is that of a short sleeve pink st ripe shirt, a green mini shirt, along with small brown buckle shoes, long green stripe socks that are usually pushed down to be around her ankle and a collar around her neck, a single silver pendent of a fancy designed heart hanging from the front of the collar that holds a picture of herself and another young man with dark red hair. The picture was that of an upper body head shot, showing her smiling while wearing that of a white short sleeve shirt, laughing a bit as she had her arms wrapped around the young man. He was smiling as well, laughing a bit, wearing a black cloak around him that covered his upper body. In the background is that of a mountain in the distance with a clear sky, a single small figure in the sky with white wings off to the side. As a Fae, she has one set of wings that look like that of angel wings.

Equipment: Her usual stuff is that of a travel bag she keeps with her, hanging from a strap that she can rest on her arm and allow the bag to hang on the other side. She usually keeps it on the right. The bag can hold quite a lot of things if she is able to stuff them in there. At the moment, she has a good amount of money, bandages and medicine for wounds and poisons, a lot of matches, a lot of tobacco and some clean leaves she has cleaned when coming across them. She also has a pipe she uses to smoke with as it was a gift from her brother. The pipe isn't much, just a standard wooden one but there are rare times she uses it. Besides what's in her bag, she also has with her two cloaks, a green one and a black one. The black one she never wears, keeping it in her bag and never showing it to anyone. The green one is the one she wears daily and is mainly what you see on her. Her only two weapons against others are two kodachi swords into a single sheath, a duel-kodachi. The design of the sheath is rather simple. You have one blade with the hilt and all at one end but the sheath is longer for at the other end, another blade is within the sheath, the hilt being the same appearance as that of the rest of the sheath. Because of the actual design of the weapon itself, she has to hold it by her hand and make the end of the sheath point upward so that the bottom blade doesn't come out due to gravity. When looking at it, you'll think its a odachi or something like it until she uses her kodachi.

Abilities/Skills/Magic:

• Physical power: Her strength and speed are pretty balanced between each other. She is like any other Fae, being able to over power most her own size with the strength and speed to back it up.
• Swordsmenship: As a swordsmen, she is pretty good with handling a blade and even better when using both of her kodachi. As she is more of a kodachi person rather than a fan of longer swords, she uses shorter swords more than longer ones. She wouldn't say that she was a master of swordsmenship but she is well above your average swordsmen.
• Fae Abilities: As she is a Fae, she was also taught powers widely used by them while some just came to her natural.
  • The red: A quick trick to get out of harm's way. Her body dissolves into a spray of blood or smoke and then reforms away a distance.
  • The black: A basic use of raw energy in manageable and randomly sized spurts.
  • The Belanotre Shield: A barrier of her energy that can keep but the most powerful at bay while she heals, or think of a plan. It can affect her own power as well, not allowing her to attack while she has it up. Movement is still enabled though. This shield however doesn't last forever.
  • Acute senses: Heightened hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch and 'sixth' senses allow her to keep on the lookout at all times.
  • Flight: Since she has wings, she is able to fly in the air and move about with them at good speeds. But that's not the only thing they are used for. Their wings also give the Fae an increase in power and speed, allowing them to over-come an enemy she might not have been able to before.
  • Psychokinesis: This ability ranges from many different things but the most she's been able to do with this ability is move things with her mind as well as putting a shield up around her, even though it isn't like the Balanotre Shield.
  • Telepathy: The ability to read the minds of others, block others out, speak to others with her mind as well as other powers.
  • Glamour: The ability to make her wings appear and disappear at will unless her wings are wounded or something like that.
• Water: Malya's control over it is near perfection, almost complete mastery over her element. She is able to turn water into a weapon against another to something to throw at an enemy to water in the shape of weapons, as real as the weapon itself and very condense. She can use water as a shield against attacks, forming objects or shapes to block attacks. If any body of water is within a range of ten meters of her, she can use the water as she wants. If need be, she can take the water out of her own body or anyone's body but to do that would require a lot of her own energy and most of the time, she doesn't want to.
• Darkness: Now this is really Malya's element, her most powerful and mastered element of use. There are more things she can do with the darkness around her than you can count the stars, from forming shadow weapons, to shields and armored skin made of darkness to being able to hide her very presence and body in the darkness around her. She can also control the dark energy of a living being, being able to make it form into its true form or shape of what ever it really is or destroying it with a single thought, ridding the world of that shadow of darkness. Making the darkness take its true form from another's heart is sometimes not the best thing in the world as she's found that by doing this, it requires almost all the energy she has and you might very well awaken a Beast of Power, otherwise known as a Darkian by the Fae. Darkians take the form of many things, from humans to beasts, but they are the true form of darkness itself to the Fae race. They have minds of their own, usually the darkest side of the person they came from. Some don't have a mind but instead take the form of the darkest intentions of the person they are from, from wanting to get revenge on someone to wanting to kill hundreds of people. If that is the case, they would do that until it is done before disappearing, returning to the person they are from. Many of them are so powerful that only people that are true masters of light itself are able to destroy them. Its because of this power that she has been hunted countless times, by those that want to kill her, and those that want to use her power for themselves for one reason or another. To get rid of darkness though is a much harder task. She has found that by seperating the darkness of a person, bit by bit, they are taken over by the light side of the person as time goes on. It's a long process but in the end, the person would be free from darkness. Doing so screws the personality of the person in question, changing them from the inside out. They change entirely to that of someone who is of good...or at least some of the times. It can sometimes drive a person insane. Though she can use the darkness, she doesn't use it for dark intentions. Instead, she uses it for the more positive stuff, such as destroying the darkness of another's heart and just hiding herself with the darkness. However, she only rids the darkness of another if they truely wish it and if they still do after Malya tells them of what will and could happen, then she will go along with it. What ever it is, it's helped her a lot in some cases.

Personality: Malya is a women of many talents and hidden emotions. She likes to hide things from others naturally, being that she has learned to use darkness to hide herself. Other than her hiding habit, she's a sweet girl, kind and gentle to everyone she meets. As an outward personality, she appears naive, too kind for her own good and doesn't appear to know how to fight. On an inner personality, she is still a kind and sweet person, although she can be ruthless and cold in battle. She's also a very smart girl, even smarter when it comes to battle. She has a certain charm about her, being able to charm any boy or man she wants to talk to. She can't influence people worth crap though, seeing as she's too kind to really do such a thing. She can't stop smoking for some reason, finding that she got into it long ago. She also likes to drink every now and then but she doesn't want to make a habit of it, finding that she only drinks when she is really happy or it is just needed for the situation. She likes to gamble too, finding that she has won countless amounts of money, losing countless more too but she keeps on going whenever she is able to. She's also a hopeless romantic, dreaming of one day finding someone that she might actually want to fall in love with, be married to, settle down and have kids. Of course, that's one of her dreams for later on seeing as she's certain on getting a single goal of her's done before any of that even comes about. Finding her brother.

History: Malya's early history as far as anyone knows is a complete unknown fact. No one knows where she's from or where she's been before. She has had a habit of wondering the world, looking for people and places and the such for many years now. She's had many friends and boyfriends, losing everyone at one point and finding that the more she meets, the harder it gets to her when she loses them. There was one man she really liked and thought that she was in love with at one time but that was taken away from her before it really got anywhere. He was killed somewhere in the mountains though his body was never found.

As time moved on, a new mission of her's came to light. For you see, she's had a brother that's been missing for some time now. She doesn't know where he is but she's determined to find him because she's found out that he is trapped somewhere. How, she has no clue for she was unable to find out but she knew she had to find him and help him out. Only problem is that she can't do this alone. She'd need help with this and so, has wandered the ends of the ground she walked on for people to help her and to gather information on where she can find her brother. No luck though so far as everyone she has meet that she's asked for help are either killed, missing, or are just not someone she wants to be around with.

RPs: None at the moment.