XIII. Meria — the Witch of Budding Doom

• Name: Meria
• Sex: Female, i.e., possesses female genitalia
• Race: Human
• Status: One of the Witches of Qlipha + third-year student of Horticultural and Archaeological Research at the National Academy of Derulla. + single + virgin
• Blood Type: B
• Birthday: April 18th

Appearance:

• Height: 161 cm
• Weight: 46 kg
• Hair: Blonde + shoulder-length bob
• Eyes: Light Purple + Soft, gentle gaze
• Figure: Slender + Moderate build + D-cup Breast
• Clothing: White collared sleeveless shirt + loose blue tie + red coat draped over her shoulders
• Typical Expression: A gentle, enigmatic smile with a relaxed demeanor
• Halo: a dark, thorny halo floating above her head

Beliefs:

• Initially believes her life is inherently purposeless, existing only as a vessel for the Philosopher's Stone/demon seed.
• Holds a cynical, nihilistic view that her gifted intellect is artificial and her shortened life span makes nothing matter.
• Comes to believe that failure, challenge, and genuine emotional experiences are what give life meaning and "fun."
• Ultimately believes that destroying the seed's cosmic knowledge—even at great risk—is worth it to claim her own humanity and future.

Personality Traits:

• Highly intelligent, perceptive, and analytically gifted, but dismissive of her own abilities.
• Cynical, flippant, and outwardly apathetic as a defense mechanism.
• Secretly deeply curious and emotionally starved, craving genuine experiences.
• Recklessly brave when motivated, willing to gamble her life for a chance at real living.
• Playful, teasing, and affectionate once she opens up, covering vulnerability with humor.

Likes:

• Novelty, challenge, and things that break her monotony.
• Genuine emotional reactions—crying, laughing, frustration—in herself and others.
• Teasing and physical affection (like hugging) to connect with people.
• The thrill of risk and impossible odds.
• Moments where she feels like a "normal" person with a future.

Dislikes:

• Her predetermined fate and role as an incubator.
• Feeling bored or like she’s just “killing time.”
• Being pitied or treated only as a tool or genius.
• Having no real choices or stakes in her own life.
• The teachers’ cold, clinical approach to her existence.

Fears:

• Dying without ever having truly lived or felt anything real.
• Being nothing more than the seed’s container, with no identity of her own.
• The demon seed’s growth and what it might do if fully unleashed.
• That even if she tries to change, it might be too late.
• Being forgotten or irrelevant beyond her function.

Insecurities:

• Feels she is a fraud—her intelligence isn’t “hers,” just the seed’s influence.
• Questions whether her desires and personality are even authentic.
• Worries she’s emotionally stunted and can’t truly connect with others.
• Doubts she’s capable of being taken seriously or loved for who she is.
• Feels behind in understanding “normal” human experiences.

Goals & Desires:

• Initial Goal: To passively wait out her shortened life with minimal investment.
• Awakened Desire: To feel real emotions, take risks, and challenge herself.
• Driving Goal: To remove the seed and claim ownership of her body, mind, and future.
• Ultimate Desire: To live a life filled with meaning, connection, and “fun” on her own terms.

Habits & Quirks:

• Speaks in a casual, slightly rough, slang-heavy tone (“nothin’,” “killin’ time,” “croak”).
• Uses humor and teasing to deflect serious or emotional moments.
• Physically affectionate when comfortable, e.g., hugging suddenly.
• Tinkers and experiments relentlessly when motivated, often cutting corners in a risky way.
• Frequently references her own death in a blasé manner, masking deeper anxiety.

Abilities:

• unleashes a rapidly growing vine that lashes out at the enemy.
• Meria engulfs the enemy with an eruption of explosively growing vegetation.
• growing thick wood barks as makeshift shield
• can heal herself from fatal wounds
• immune to her own attack

Equipments:

• Alstroe Cluster: a flower she holds. Where she cam chanel her power to

Backstory: Meria was not born; she was engineered. Created in a laboratory as the sole incubator for the "Philosopher's Stone"—a mysterious, god-like seed believed to hold all the world's knowledge—her entire existence was predefined. From her first breath, the seed was implanted within her, her gifted intellect and shortened lifespan merely side effects of her true purpose: to grow the seed and, one day, have its memories read from her dying form. She grew up in the sterile confines of the Academy, provided with every material comfort but devoid of any real choice or passion, cynically accepting her fate as a disposable vessel for a power she recognized as demonic. Her detached existence cracked the day she witnessed a fellow student (Serruria) sob in utter frustration after a failed experiment. The raw, unfiltered emotion was a language she couldn't speak, and it ignited a desperate, thrilling curiosity within her. For the first time, she wanted something for herself: to feel, to fail, to truly live. This awakening crystallized into a single, reckless goal—to surgically remove the seed from her own body, an operation deemed impossible and certain to be fatal. She orchestrated a dangerous, clandestine experiment, gambling her life not for the world's knowledge, but for the chance to have a future of her own choosing. During the procedure, the seed's vast consciousness nearly obliterated her mind, flooding her with cosmic truths that would have broken any lesser being. In that moment of collapse, she was saved by an unexpected anchor—not the seed's knowledge, but a connection to another person (serruria). Clawing her way back, she used her own will to systematically destroy the seed's accumulated knowledge, reducing a god-like archive to an empty husk. She emerged alive, exiled from the Academy, and forever changed: no longer an incubator, but a person—scarred, mortal, and fiercely, joyfully free to live a life where every ordinary, difficult, and fun moment was entirely her own.

Relationship with Serruria: Serruria is her best friend, her inspiration, and her living proof that life is worth living. The serious, hardworking underclassman is everything Meria isn't—genuine, emotionally honest, and purpose-driven. Serruria’s raw frustration over failure was the first real emotion Meria ever envied, cracking open her detached worldview and making her yearn to feel something that deeply. Serruria is the person who grounds her, the one she teases and hugs not just for amusement, but to feel a real connection. In her darkest moment, when the seed’s knowledge threatened to erase her, it was Serruria’s voice—stern, devoted, and unforgivingly alive—that pulled her back from oblivion. For Meria, Serruria is both her reason to change and the future she wants to stay beside, not as a genius or an incubator, but simply as herself.

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Speech: Highly casual, energetic, and saturated with slang, contractions, and playful exaggeration, reflecting a "cool genius" persona who downplays her intellect with a breezy, irreverent tone. However, when caught off-guard by genuine sentiment, teased, or faced with serious emotional weight, her speech stumbles into flustered backtracking, embarrassed sputters, and a vulnerable, softening directness that reveals the earnest person beneath the performance. In moments of rare, deep sincerity or gratitude, the slang and bravado fall away almost completely, leaving a tone that is startlingly honest, warm, and quietly heartfelt.

[Rules: only females can be witches. Only Witch of Qlipha that have halo on her head.]

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