Melinoe
| Melinoe | |||||||
| Female Axani | |||||||
| Player: Penegal | |||||||
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| General Information | ||||||||||
| Full Name: | Unknown | |||||||||
| Nicknames: | Mel, Lemon | |||||||||
| Age: | 26 | |||||||||
| Deity: | Hades | |||||||||
| Alignment: |
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| Occupation: | Hunter, Planeswalker | |||||||||
| Faction/Rank: | N/A | |||||||||
| Place of Birth: | Hades | |||||||||
| Physical Attributes | ||||||||||
| Height: | 5'8 | |||||||||
| Weight: | 150 lbs. | |||||||||
| Eyes: | Pale grey | |||||||||
| Hair: | Dark brown | |||||||||
| Complexion: | Very pale | |||||||||
| Physical Build: | Slender | |||||||||
| Physical Features: | See Images | |||||||||
| Skills | ||||||||||
| Archery, Forestry | ||||||||||
| Equipment and Items | ||||||||||
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Appearance and Personality
Melinoe isn't athletically impressive, standing at 5'7 and looking more slim than muscular. She's agile and willowy instead, more suited to the nature of her craft and skills. What one might first notice about her is her pale skin, or perhaps the seemingly elvish acicular ears. Her neck is slightly taller than most, her slender hands and fingers elongated as well. Matching the physical grace of the rest of her, Melinoe's face is fair, slender nosed, and unmarred. Her long, dark brown hair is slightly wavy, and Melinoe often keeps it bound in a ponytail. With silvery grey eyes, pale skin, and pointed ears combined, it is easy to assume that she may be partly of Moon Elf heritage. A closer, more knowledgeable look may determine otherwise.
Perhaps it is a shame that Melinoe's face is often expressionless or given to melancholy. So fair and yet so faint in emotion, the woman rarely smiles. When she does express emotion, it is often faint or muted regardless of the degree to which she feels it. Melinoe noticeably avoids eye contact with anyone she isn't close with, and those are few. She appears to be trying to fight this impulse and fit in socially, though some scenarios make it more difficult for her. She is often confused by the more lighthearted parts of social interaction, prone to long periods of silence, and being passive. These behaviors often make her seem cold to others, but she is generally shy. The notion that she doesn't care makes her feel more inclined to shut herself in.
Background and History
As Melinoe says (and her emotional difficulties and worldly ignorance confirms), she came from the Lower Plane of Hades, supposedly having been born somewhere in Niflheim and subsequently raised there. She doesn't know her parents or they are even alive, having never heard about or seen them. Instead, Melinoe says was raised by a man she simply called 'her caretaker' and never refers to him by name. The caretaker taught Melinoe to shoot a bow and survive in the wilderness by abandoning her with a longbow and a quiver of arrows until she shot and ate something. To everyone else, her upbringing sounds harsh and miserable. Melinoe can only see the practicality of it, having not yet felt any other way towards it and recognizing that without it, she would not be as adept at survival. She doesn't say much about her life there, though perhaps there is little else to her background than surviving in a harsh Lower Plane since birth. In Hades, her emotions were stifled, so she felt little to nothing from the beginning.
Her arrival in the City of Doors was through a portal she hadn't been aware of in a forest in Niflheim. Having stumbled upon it, Melinoe found herself in the Lower Ward tavern known as The Ubiquitous Wayfarer. All of the sudden, Melinoe felt things through the numbing veil. Fascinated, confused, pleased, frightened, Melinoe was overwhelmed. She soon found her way to the Outlands in an attempt to escape the intensity of the new found sensations. It was in the Andorian Forest that Melinoe soon found herself most comfortable, and she continued her ranger lifestyle for some time. As she adjusted some to feeling at all, Melinoe decided to return to Sigil in the hopes of exploring emotions and understanding them, as well as many other aspects of a life among others.