Maris de Megekhali
Cordelia Reynolds
Female | Age 24 | Princess | Amber Pendant

Maris had always been a bit of a tomboy, to the great amusement of everyone but the tutors who were meant to teach her proper decorum. Energetic, outgoing, as well as absolutely pants at the womanly arts -for a lack of interest mostly-, nobody had expected a seven-years-old to excel at, or even just like the latter lessons anyway. She'd much rather go for a swim, which happened to be a common 'fault' amongst the populace of the underwater kingdom of Megekhali.

(Coincidentally, 'I should have gone for that swim...' pretty much summed up her initial reaction when everything went to hell at that birthday party.)

While a sense of disconnect is common amongst the princesses-in-hiding, there are few, if any that feel it more than Cordelia. Due to the change in her physiology the transition was all the more jarring to her. It doesn't at all help that her pendant is Amber, a stone that supposedly has the power to protect against mental intrusion.

Everything feels wrong to her, even her own body, and until this very day she just blames herself for it. It very obviously isn't the world, so it must be her, right? There's been no one to get her out of that mindset so far. She was adopted, but got back into the system soon after, as her adoptive parents died in an accident. Figures of authority always seemed to fail her, and friends? What friends? Nobody seemed to want to be friends with the gloomy kid, even if she was the star of the swimming team. (it got her a scholarship)

In the meantime she'll just continue drowning on dry land, because what else is she supposed to do?

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