Description

Personality

She is generally a happy and optimistic girl, and tries not to let things get her down. She also does her best to not let what she is hamper herself. She's a friendly person, outgoing and easy to talk to. When she becomes friends, she's been known to be fiercely loyal and protective. She can be very helpful and soft spoken, having a gentle demeanor. She hates seeing those that she cares about hurt...which is why she often tries to keep herself from getting too close to anyone. While it may seem like she's very close to you, she actually tries to hold herself at a safe distance - one that would allow her to up and leave without hurting the other. She knows what she is, and even though she tries not to let it get her down, she can't always deny the truth. This truth is always in her mind, though she tries to keep it shoved in the back of it. The other side of her personality is more playful and mischievous - so much so that it can sometimes be described as manipulative and seductive. She often brings this side of her personality out to prevent getting too attached to an individual, and this is when she is more likely to introduce herself using a nickname or alias. This side of her personality has also proven useful in, you know, spreading the virus of her kind. This side of her personality is also more cocky, her speech often filled with more attitude.

Equipment

She is generally seen wearing an olive colored cloak with golden lining and trimming, though she more often than not has the hood down. She wears a leather baldric and scabbard over her left shoulder (she's left handed), which holds a dagger. She usually wears a tunic of some sort that goes to just above the knee, along with comfortable leather boots. She wears a leather belt around her waist, where she keeps a hunting knife. Around her neck she wears an emerald pendent in the shape of a rose on a golden chain. By now, it's out of habit, the original sentiment lost after the trauma of turning.

History

Meiya was born in a small village, hidden deep in the woods. There was only one road in, and one road out, it was that isolated. Everyone in town knew each other, and every family was close. Her own family consisted of her parents and her older brother (who was five years her elder). Her family owned a bakery, though they also farmed the wheat and ground the flour that they used in their baked goods. It was at a young age that Meiya and her brother helped in the family business; Meiya would help her mother bake, while her brother helped their father in the fields. It was a modest living, but not one that would be described as particularly rough or terrible. This isolated town had been this way for decades; it was self sustaining, and people would rarely come or leave. When they came, they mostly stayed, and when they left, they were usually never seen again. The news of the lycan virus was first brought in by an outsider, but since neither the outsider nor any of the townsfolk had seen a lycan themselves, they wrote it off as a legend or a myth. More people would arrive in the town, but most of them had never seen a lycan before either. The few that had were often written off as crazy.

When Meiya was fifteen, a male perhaps two years her elder walked into the store, which she was currently overseeing as her mother was sick in bed. She didn't recognize him, so she knew he was from out of town. The two struck up a conversation, and he introduced himself as Cossil. Cossil was the kind of outsider who never left, and he and Meiya became close friends. Though much of the rest of the village thought he was not entirely "there" in the head, Meiya really liked him. He told her stories of lycan attacks on other towns and villages, and it was then that Meiya started believing that these things might be real after all, though she never allowed anyone to know this. After spending so much time together, she fell in love, though she was much too shy at the time to ever confess it. Two years after meeting, Cossil gave Meiya a rose pendent, claiming it had once belonged to his sister who had been killed by a lycan. She wore it every day since, though she never knew if he noticed or not. The next year, Cossil proposed to her, which she happily accepted. It was only a week after becoming engaged that it all went downhill.

Only a week after becoming engaged, the village was attacked by a group of lycans. Meiya, who was never particularly strong, was practically unable to defend herself. At this point, she had been living with Cossil. When the two heard screams from outside and pounding on the door not long after, Cossil reminded Meiya that he loved her before telling her to run out the back door, as fast as she could. Of course, she wasn't able to outrun the lycans. After biting Meiya, they dragged her back to her village, where she witnessed the dead bodies of her fiance. The sheer shock caused her already sickened body to collapse. The lycans stuck around, even though it seemed like Meiya wouldn't make it through the wounds she had sustained. Eventually, though, the virus set in and she was one of them. She found it extremely difficult at first. The trauma of the whole ordeal made her nearly forget about her past love, though she can remember that there was once someone she loved deeply. As the virus grew and evolved within in, living as a lycan became easier, especially as she forgot what life was like before. Now, she and her pack wander the woods, though she does occassionally stray. When once they might have charged a village head on, they have since become smarter about spreading their virus.