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Name: Mhairi
Personal Journal: deathwailart 
Contact: aim: deathwailart, deathwailart email: starkhavenmalt[at]gmail[dot]com
Other Characters Played:
Veles||ligbrynedraca ||Original
Wakahisa Isamu||oldfireturkey ||Original

Character: Hyaeni
Age: 19
World Information:
and from ashes did they come, monsters bathed in blood, nightmare shapes that mirrored our own but with twisted thoughts, hungry for blood and for destruction chaos, darkness. We knew folly then.

- grafitti outside and abandoned school

The world is not Earth and it is not a world that looks like Earth either. Humans - they call themselves the First but to the monsters they are food or pest - all have magic and their creation story that the monsters have never really cared to learn. Really, they look more or less human, taller in general, a range of skintones depending on where they're from, a tendency towards lean muscle, using their magic for crops and technology - everything in this world is a result of magic because it and science are more or less the same thing and in a world with weak and little sunlight, magic is useful so that people can grow things and live.

The best and brightest of the First gathered to use their blood magic - the magic all the First possessed that allowed them to learn such things as fire, ice, water, earth, healing, spirit and everything else so long as a blood sacrifice was offered - to create life in their image. Playing God backfired. Badly. Yes, they made life but they made monsters of magic who looked so very much like them that they rushed to make more before they knew the thoughts the monsters held. The monsters were strong, they were meant to help hem but they rebelled, showed the shed their First skins and become monsters: this is all the monsters have ever been known as, no other name given before they turned on their creators.

The world became a world of fire and ash, blood and carnage.

A world where hungry monsters could grow, could become strong.

The monsters hid after the first attacking, resuming their First forms and dispersing amongst the First to keep an eye on them, to keep safe as they tried to grow their numbers. The monsters wanted to have fun. And the taste of flesh was enough to have them wanting more. It's fun to watch the First trip all over themselves, terrified of their children. Fun to see just how untrusting they're becoming with all the rumour running wild. Even funnier to gain their trust, betray it and rip them apart.

The monsters live in packs, breeding quickly and reaching maturity far quicker than the First due to the fact that they are made of magic. They live in female dominated societies with males below the ruling caste of each pack or roaming around. The monsters don't need First flesh to survive but it's tasty, it's filling and it makes them feel strong because the First themselves have magic in their blood too, simply less of it than the monsters. The monsters are beings of magic, specifically blood magic so as long as they don't exhaust themselves or bleed too much? They don't have any real requirement for food. They can survive and thrive perfectly well by just sleeping off the effects of magic use, regaining their energy.

This was how the First learned that playing God can come back to bite. Hard.

History:
.early life
Hyaeni was born to mid-ranking members of a monster pack, among the first monsters to be created by the First with two full siblings, a brother and sister

.proving herself
At fifteen, like all monsters of that age she was sent off to go prove herself to the clan.  This process involves leaving and hunting down members of the First to provide food for the pack and for information or other items that they might need


.rejoining the pack
After ten years of hunting, Hyanei rejoins her birthpack where she is accepted back after a successful ten years out hunting.  Her childishness is gone, all the jokes and tricks learned from

The monsters remain in their pits and nests, waiting for the right time to fully rip the world from the First, making it theirs so they can have a new dawn.

Canon Point:  age nineteen; four years into the period of proving herself

Personality:
Hyaeni is young by the standards of monsters - the oldest known monsters are the very first monsters made by the First, not even a hundred years old, being created fully formed so no one quite knows how long they'll live or how they'll age, indeed, if they'll move into old age at all, but nineteen is still very young by most standards. She is a born monster, raised among her pack with several siblings, full and half on either parental side. As such, Hyaeni is accustomed to shows of dominance and submission: baring teeth, snapping and snarling, biting and clawing, that happens in both her First form and her monster form and baring her throat is the ultimate gesture of trust or submission depending on the circumstance.

Due to how monsters often go among the First, pretending to be them, Hyaeni knows how to mimic their behaviour or at least earn their trust, using her looks to garner sympathy or at least some sort of urge to protect - she claims her scars are from escapes where her other companions were killed or dragged away and then stays with the group before killing them, leading them to an ambush or alerting her pack to her location. She feels absolutely no remorse for doing this or for the amount of lies she tells to gain trust only to kill people but if they do not fall for her acts or are hostile she can lose interest, quickly becoming aggressive in return, resorting to threats or trying to dominate them. However, if they seem nervous she might step up her game to make sure they take her in, proof at how talented she is at deception when the pack learn of it.

Hyaeni is loyal to her pack or those she considers to be her pack. The pack look out for one another, keep each other safe and they do care in their own way. She would never dream of questioning the commands of those who lead the pack and will hasten to do what they say although those who are just above her in rank she will question and worse as she tries to gain position, climbing the social ladder. However, as she is young, her squabbles are mostly among her siblings.

Hyaeni displays some behaviours that mark her out as different, something that carries over from her monster form: when she's excited, her laugh tends to become a high, hyena-like yelp (aka the hyena 'laugh'), if she's backed into a corner (literally or otherwise) she will bare her neck and avoid eye contact as a last resort and takes direct eye contact as a challenge. Whilst she can mimic how the First react, suppressing her natural behaviour is hard because she's young. She growls, really growls, deep in her chest, when she's angry and she paces back and forth too. She is very uncomfortable walking ahead of those she doesn't know or trust and will look back often if she's made to lead. She prefers to be the one behind so she can attack or escape - she at least prefers to walk in-step with someone if she can't walk behind them.

In terms of Hyaeni when she's being herself, she's actually pretty playful, making jokes and more physically - she's used to rough housing with her pack. With some of the First, she has even come to enjoy their company although she will hotly deny, if asked, that she cares for them. She asserts instead that she likes to play with her food first. Hyaeni likes to learn new things, considering them to be challenges and if she sees something interesting someone else can do she will whine, bargain, plead, pester and so on or even go out of her way to prove that she really wants to learn said skill. However, she dislikes if someone offers to teach her right away; this comes from the pack mentality where you must prove yourself worthy of learning something ie a new spell. She will still learn it but it will mean less ot her. A problem she still has is with physical contact - the First are very tactile but to her, it is an invasion of personal space and it's something she oftens shies away from . This has caused issues with her blending in well with First groups unless they assume she is traumatised by her experiences. Reading body language comes easily to her - she notices how a person moves because it keeps her alive. It lets her know how easy it will be to overpower them and lets her know if she's trusted or not. Her sense of smell plays into this too but she finds it harder to read expressions or she misinterprets them badly ie direct eye contact or baring of teeth are aggressive, yawning is a distraction etc so she can come off as sort of strange to people which in turn makes her defensive.

Whilst so much of Hyaeni's survival depends on others trusting her, she does not trust them. Only one monster can really successfully integrate within a group of First who are on the move unless it's a particularly large group so she is very much alone with with people who hold so many superstitions. She knows that she can be killed - her magic alone will not stand up against a group of people attacking at once. Her monster form is big and strong but it can be subdued with crude means; cages, traps, chains etc. Being isolated makes her fearful which can make her more likely to lash out. Failure, or her perception of it or someone pointing out something she hasn't done well, upset her to the point of being extremely anxious. She is driven to be the best, to be able to help her pack grow strong because failure means punishment (which in some cases can lead to death) or it could get her pack hurt of exposed. There is also the fear of being at the very bottom of the pack if you don't show that you're worthy or worse, being outcast if you're a danger or a liability. The outcasts band together but they are wild and savage, cut off from all other packs and even though they're far more vicious, attacking First on sight, they tend not to live very long.

Skills and Abilities:
First and foremost, Hyaeni can change between her monster body and human body at will with wounds transferring from one to the other.

The nature of blood magic, and of blood sacrifice, can seem inconvenient but the size or depth of wound doesn't matter and blood mages often purposefully leave little cuts or scrapes or grazes in places so that they can easily start to bleed whenever they have to - Hyaeni's hands, notably her fingers, are often peppered with knicks and grazes and around her nails and the skin is red and raw. She also tends to bite her bottom lip or worry at it.  For a big spell though, Hyaeni has to cut or bite herself deeply - this is how she came to have the bitemark scar on her wrist.  There are blood based spells that she likes to use, notably nasty ones:
poison: this spell makes someone sick with a fever and vomiting, it is dependent on how much blood is shed for severity and how often she makes herself bleed for duration.
boil: a nasty spell, this is really blood magic with fire added to boil someone's blood in their veins.
pain: pain, when cast, will have someone writhing in agony until Hyaeni chooses to release them.
the special: this spell is one Hyaeni created herself, combining a normal fire spell with poison, the fire accelerating the effects of poison until the target combusts violently.

Spells: These spells are spells Hyaeni has learned that can be used when she has used her blood magic
Spell classes: In addition to the general blood magic mentioned above, spells are split into categories:

• Fire
• Earth/stone
• Ice/Water
• Lightning
• Spirit
• Healing

Aside from blood magic though, Hyaeni does not name her spells.
Fire: Fire magic allows her to produce flames in bursts or as projectiles of varying sizes that she can direct at her enemies.
Earth/stone: Earth magic involves summoning things such as vines to constrict an opponent as need be.  Stone involves shaking the ground or summoning rocks to hurtle at people.
Ice/water: Ice and water go together for her; she can summon up water either in a fine mist or a small but powerful blast of water.  She will then often cast ice by freezing the water as she projects it so it's a solid ball of ice or she will freeze the victim.  She can also freeze their blood if she focusses hard enough but she has only managed this once, alone with another of the First because it's likely to get her killed.
Lightning: Lightning magic works in much the same way as fire magic for her but it is more powerful.
Spirit: Spirit magic usually allows her to create illusions that often prey on fears, mocking the victim of the spell, making them go after the illusion rather than her.  She actually likes to play around with this one in little doses to crank up the paranoia of the First.  If she finds out someone's fear?  Then she'll really go to town, just for fun.
Healing: Hyaeni and most monsters sleep off their wounds resulting in the scars from the natural healing process but the First are pretty obsessed with it so she can heal up most wounds but she can't do much about illness or very serious life threatening wounds - her skills here are the magical equivalent of first aid, stitches and slapping on a bandaid.

abilities in monster form
Magic is impossible when she is in her monster form which means she is vulnerable to magical attacks.  However, she is muscular and strong, with an amazing bite and a person's cunning.  She can move fast when she needs to.  Her sense of smell and sight are much improved and if she's sneaking around?  She does it as a monster.

Weaknesses:
Monster: magic.  Magic and any conventional weapon if the attacks keep coming.  Being a monster relies on simply overpowering a foe or making them too frightened to do anything but they can be killed the same way anything else can be killed, no special conditions apply.
First form: Again, no special conditions apply but she has much stronger magical defenses in this form and can attack better if facing larger groups of foes.

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