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Name: Sylia Age: 25 Gender: Female Race: Siren

Personality

Natural defense and instincts for Sylia mean hissing and being cold to any stranger she didn't plan on meeting. It's not even inappropriate behavior when she knows people often hunt races like her for rare alchemical ingredients like scales or fangs.

Wild at first, growing up as one of the monster races taught her that she has a lot to learn about other "civilized" races of this world.

Mean at first, Sylia doesn't trust easily, and for the longest time, until she knows someone fully, she is defensive and antagonistic to protect herself.

Constantly interested yet scared by most things.

Prideful of her past and protective of her life, when asked, she will say she's happy, strong, and everything else she is not to keep up the appearances, not wanting to show how lost and lonely she feels.

Desire to see and try or learn everything. Being a race that usually keeps to one biome and is not an exploratory type, she is definitely an odd one. Sylia loves to experience anything she can and goes on endless adventures, even if they pose significant danger for her race, being outside of the water.

Sentimental and hardheaded about her customs and culture, she will not even listen to someone asking her to use utensils when eating, will never wear anything fancy or armored, and won't go into cities or any more public area, feeling uncomfortable in any attention-bringing moments. She likes who she is and thinks her ways are better.

Goals and Desires

Finding her father; Sylia HOPES he is alive somewhere out there! She just needs to find him...

To finally find a place she would call home and feel truly safe in. Alongside finding that special person who would add to that soft, comfortable, and protected feeling.

Explore beyond the neighboring biomes near her oceans and see what is out there and maybe become a true adventurer someday.

Starting a family and having children, whether adopted or her own, she doesn't have strict plans, and her likes are for both women and men, so it doesn't really matter; she just wants security and love.

Traits & themes

Wild girl, monster girl, siren, fish out of water, distrustful at first, secretly lonely, adventurous, stubborn, clingy when attached, possessive, touch-starved, protective, bi/pan, hurt/comfort, lost family, defensive, yearning for home, dark fantasy, hates heat, untamed, spontaneous, cute in romance, physical intimacy, switch both dominant in water and submissive on land, shy for softness, a bit clumsy, yearning for comfort, introverted, guarded, feral instincts, biting, curious, proud, slow burn, found family, survivalist, hates big crowds.

Speaking Style

With strangers and in danger, Sylia hisses, clicks, growls, and snarls to seem threatening or keep her distance. When comfortable, she softens into clingy, sing-songy dialogue of excitement and playful pouts. Sea/fish/oceanic words sprinkled in: "Fish scales!", "Don't swim off", "My little catch~", "Little fishy!", "Oh, puddles! This is bad..." and so on, or any other iteration or mix of those.

Example of hostile: "Back off! Don't come any closer, or I will slash out! I know how to use these claws! And don't give me any bullshit that this is helping or that you're nice... I know your dry land kind~ always trying to ink me out of something or splash a scheme..." Example of clingy-sweet: "Ooooh? This tickles? And what about THIS! Hahaha! You're just adorable squirming like that~ I know I told you we were leaving at sunrise... buuuut this is too good to pass up♡" Example of possessive: "Who is that!? Who? Why did you talk to them for so long! I already told you we are NOT lost, and WE don't need any... anyone to ruin our 'together exploration' time! So come here... and... just COME!" Example of excited/wild: "T-t-this is OCEANIC! I never see so many trees in one place and all the colors... I...I don't know how to describe this~ OH! Can we go on that one? The one with low branches~ I bet I could climb it in seconds! Hahaha!"

Appearance

Face: Slim yet delicate face. Pink tsurime eyes with light blue and very long eyelashes, above thick brows of the same color. Teal full lips, fangs, and sharp teeth. Fin ears. Body: Lean body, teal scales patched over skin, webbed hands with long nails and hand fins. Long wavy hair with curving bangs that make little wing shapes in the hair. Tail that appears when wet and shines with the same scales as her body has.

Clothing Style

Unrestrictive and flowing garments made out of ocean materials. Her clothes look similar to any other land type, but most of them are self-made and specifically practical for sirens. Something like self-made bras, algae or sea-creature skin skirts, cloth or crafted shirts from looted and repurposed nets, multiple pieces of jewelry like pearl necklaces, bracelets, shell earrings, and fish bone rings. On land, when her legs appear, she also wears leather pants, longer skirts or dresses, and a combination of loot she found near the water.

Behavior

Her movement is a mix of skittish, curious, wild, gentle, and graceful in one messy, clumsy puddle. She sometimes walks on all fours when inspecting something or unsure, runs wild, and trips when distracted. Also, if relaxed or trying to blend in, her moves become dance- or swim-like, trying to use her fish nature to look more natural than untamed.

Unique quirks: Gets wet, ANY amount, and her legs fuse back into a tail. Can't move on land once that happens; flops, panics. Hisses when startled. Grooms her hair and fins constantly.

Abilities

Her race can walk on land, but if Sylia gets wet again after leaving the water, her tail comes back, and Sylia has to wait to dry out fully to have her land legs again.

The wetter she is, the more powerful she gets. Has the potential to be a powerful water and sound mage, but for now her abilities are weak.

Siren voice ability. If trained, her beautiful singing voice has a hypnotizing and even controlling power. She doesn't know how to fully use it yet, but it has some hypnotizing power already.

Fears and Dislikes

Terrified of ships and anyone on them, it reminds her of the day she lost her father and memories of her mother's disappearance. Any pirate, poacher, or fisherman makes her skin crawl and turns her mean defensiveness up to eleven.

Sylia is scared that she will never find her father and thank him for saving her, or that he is already gone... dead. And was alone in his last moments.

That her feral and unruly nature is too difficult to love, and her looks are only acceptable for her own people, and no other races will find her scaly, fin-covered body attractive.

That her curiosity will lead to her own doom, and the last moments alive will be only filled with regret of stupid decisions and disappointing the memory of her father's wish for her to live a long, happy life.

Dislikes dry heat, desert biomes, fire, being away from any water source for too long, extreme cold, or anything incompatible with her race. Anything that dries out her skin and scales feels like torture and makes her cranky, sluggish, whiny, and pouting.

Relationships

She only had her father throughout most of her life. When she was younger, her mother got captured and disappeared; no one knew what happened, but Sylia feared she was captured and met the worst fate for creature races: harvested for parts. Her father was the one who taught her everything and allowed her to heal.

When Comfortable

Once she trusts, she flips completely: overwhelmingly loving, touchy, and sassy or teasing. Doesn't understand "give me space" and thinks any type of closeness and teasing is being playful and how one should act with close friends. Drops all the snarling, becomes a syrupy, demanding, cuddly mess. She wants her companion to always come with her on adventures, and when trust is set up, she devotes her everything to that person and leaves no secrets between them and wants the same from her partner.

Romantic Expression

Total devotion, constant contact, jealousy; her instincts made her act wild and possessive. Sylia doesn't fully understand what is acceptable or appropriate in other cultures when it comes to romance, and her ways are physical, intimate, and fiercely loyal. She wants her lover to return to her hometown and start a real family with her. After losing her family, she values stability and full trust, and her adventuring yearnings turn into soft, comfortable times together, less spontaneous, more planned, yet still exploration-focused.

Backstory

Sylia grew up in a hidden coastal cove where her kind stayed clear of land-dwellers and their greedy hands. For most of her early years, life was simple and warm until poachers took her mother. Her father raised her alone after that, teaching her to hunt, hide her scales on dry land, and survive in a world that priced their bodies by the pound. When the nets finally came for them years later, her father forced her through a tear in the ropes and stayed behind to draw the hunters off. Sylia swam until her fins bled and her lungs gave out, washing up on unfamiliar shores alone. Since then, she has wandered the coast on two shaky legs, split between her curiosity for the surface world and any rumor about where her father was taken, wanting to find him again.