Meleys Aerendyl

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Meleys is a typical Aerendyl. Blessed with silvery white locks, dark expressive eyebrows, piercing dark blue eyes, a tall figure, and a set of pointy ears. She is beauty, grace, and serenity, though, deep inside a hot blue flame burns. Her hair is always done to perfection, no matter if she wears it up or down. It's one of her biggest prides within her appearance, and therefore only her younger sister is allowed to touch it.

Similar to her hair, she strives for perfection in the way she dresses as well. You will never see a missed button, a crooked collar, or a spot of dirt. Nothing is out of order. In case she can't avoid some disorder while horseback riding or hunting, for instance, she'll never stay that way for long and always seem to carry a spare outfit.

She adores jewelry, particularly diamonds and gemstones, which she frequently flaunts.

Meleys is filled to the brim with duality, but the biggest one she always struggles with is the person she is, and the person she wishes everyone to see. To the outside world, she is a model citizen. A perfect Aerendyl descendent. She is sociable and polite at the right moments. She is amusing and engaging when she needs to be. She is quiet and calm when it is expected. She is straightforward and able to demand obedience without acting bossy. She keeps up certain feminine appearances and is alluring enough without coming across as too forward or even slutty. This picture, this reputation of this perfect Lady Aerendyl, is something she has worked hard for and still does her absolute best to maintain. Meleys is a perfectionist, and thanks to this stubborn trait, she has been able to do so for many years.

But there is another side. A side she barely shows nowadays. Dark and wild like the unpredictable Adelian Rain forest of Avalon or the mysterious and deep trenches of the Ever-reaching ocean. A side that will make her do anything, and I mean absolutely anything, if it gets her closer to whatever goal she has set.
She had lived a life with this side of her in control, or rather, out of control. She had to learn the hard way that this wasn't the right path for her and so she fabricated that perfect image of herself in an attempt to erase that life. But it is still a part of her, and it still resurfaces now and then.

Meleys does expect a lot of herself and has a hard time when she can't excel in something, especially when it's out of her control. It'll frustrate her, which will make her push harder forward or backward, (depending on which side she is). She is bold and never backs out of a challenge. She has a lot of stubbornness and quite a big ego too, and occasionally she can be quite a hothead, though these are all things she tries to hide most of the time.

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The Aerendyl family and the value of that name are very important to Meleys. She has a love for her close family members, but you can't really call it a warm kind of love. She'll protect them, stand by them, and help them if need be but she'll also be brutally honest. Especially towards her father and sisters. In that tough love kind of way. Even with the occasional lover, she can be quite cold, but she knows that she is capable of that fiery, passionate love. She just hasn't met her match yet.

She does have respect for the senior members of the family, her father, grandmother, and some of her cousins. Her uncle, in particular, because she began to share many of his expectations of this family. Her primary goal is thus to expand the next generation, as soon as she's able. Sometimes, however, she wished she had been born the firstborn son. It would make her life so much easier.

It took some years for Meleys to discover her specialty, and it took her even more time to get the hang of it, but once she did, her expertise in it grew fast. She initially used it as a teasing tool. Conjuring small fears like a spider on the butler's hand, making him drop the silver plates, or pimples and other unwanted beauty marks on the nose of some snooty ladies at balls and gatherings. As she got older, she realized the potential and began to practice more seriously.

When she ran away from home (see history), it forced her to practice and use her magic daily by altering her appearance. She started with just a hair color change, but over time she sometimes altered her own face (or that of her partner in crime, since he was quite recognizable), so that they wouldn't be recognized at all. Which was a very handy perk in the life they lived. Because of the time she spent doing that, she has mastered the skill. Nowadays, she mostly uses it to her own advantage by altering any and every imperfection she could possibly find in her appearance. That is why she always looks so perfectly dressed, with perfect skin and perfect hair. Meleys can even create the illusion of her own scent. She could be covered in mud or blood and still smell as fresh as a daisy.

Bigger illusions are of course more difficult to create, and she is still practicing them even now. You can often find her sitting in the middle of a room, in an almost meditative state, altering her surroundings into beautiful or frightful scenes of nature or from memory. This costs her a lot of energy and she wouldn't be able to just do it anywhere or in every situation. Hence the meditative state. In this state, you will often see her eye change color to a pale white. It doesn't just ask a lot of her; it also makes her quite vulnerable and a more easy target. For this reason, she won't use her magic in battle.

Childhood

Meleys was born on the 6th of the Harvest moon, as the second daughter of Evandyr and Lyrassia Aerendyl. Dispite her fine upbringing in Silvercrest, as a young Aerendyl, it was clear from a young age that Meleys was going to be a handful, with her wild and unpredictable nature. As a child, she had a mean streak, often teasing and bullying the younger children in the family, which sometimes led to physical fights. It wasn't like her family just let her bully the others, as her older sister and cousins would bully right back, but it didn't stop or scare her. She was often reprimanded by her parents. When her mother died, Meleys was just six years old, but her behavior only got worse. Not knowing who to blame for the tragic loss she felt anger toward everyone. She often ran away from her childhood home, though never for long.

Teenage years

Once she entered her teen years, she finally seemed to calm down. Being more obedient, but only just enough to not get into trouble. She started to focus her energy on archery, which turned out to be one of the best things she could do. After she turned fifteen, Meleys ran away one last time, but this time it was for good. Her wild nature had always made her feel like a trapped animal in Silvercrest; she wanted to see the world. Do whatever she felt like doing, without the correcting hand or interference of her family. And now that she knew how to use a bow, she would be able to survive on her own. At least that was what she believed. With her magic, she altered her silver-white hair into a dark brown, so she wouldn't be so easily recognized. She took on a fake name and started her travels through Odiria. After a year or so, she met a man. A traveler from Xaila, Kaius the Burned they called him, thanks to the burned marks on his face. He was a huge, frightening man, and, for as long as she knew him, he was her best friend. They traveled together for years, doing whatever they wanted, taking whatever they wanted, and hurting whoever got in their way. It didn't always end well, but they could handle themselves, and over time they became a marvelously dangerous criminal duo.

Adulthood

When Meleys was twenty, she and Kaius robbed a town of its sacred gem; the bloodstone of Fenumë. The jewelry was just a relic, important to the villagers, but no-one else. It possessed no real power or magic aside from beauty. It was a beautiful piece, and Meleys had to have it. That criminal act, however, was the one that changed everything. Because of it, she was ambushed, held prisoner, assaulted, robbed and eventually lost the only friend she had known for the last five years. Meleys finally realized that she couldn't continue down this path. So, after she escaped, (she had some help but that is a long story) she did the hardest thing she'd ever done. She returned home.
It took her eight years to gain back the trust of her family. In that time she completely turned her life around. After some time she started working for her Uncle Andreas in Silvercrest's Goverment. She grew into a well respected lady and did her absolute best to erase her past.

Now

Thanks to her disguised appearance and the fake name she used, nobody ever found out who she was and what she had done those five years of her life. The world only knows her as this perfect, clean, and virtues Aerendyl now. Especially since her side of the family had a bit of a reputation themselves.
Meleys is now engaged to a distant cousin, Sylvar Aerendyl. A man plagued by rumors of his life before Silvercrest and the mysterious death of his father. To the world he seems to be attentive and kind, but deep down Meleys knows there is more going on. Everytime she looks at him she feels a strange recognizing sensation. Is it all show or.. has she finally found her match?