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Name:Your high and mighty overlord to whom all monies and tribute should be paid. Chicklet
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Number of Characters in the Kingdom: Apping Mal and possibly one other this round.
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Character Information
Character Name: Mal
Age:Late teens
Canon: Descendants 2/Isle Of The Lost
Canon Point: Second movie (so after books 1-3) as she is racing away from Auradon.
Gender: female
Character History
Character History: Not loving the grammar, but here ya go.
Canon Example: What better?
Character Motivation: Growing up, her motivation was always to earn her mother's love, to make her mother proud of her. To earn the rest of her name and make up for the mistake her mother had having her. She failed at this. Over and over again. She was also driven by revenge as a child, anyone who slighted her, anyone who stood up to her... a friend who fell over laughing at her rather than helping her... the little evil princess who didn't invite her to a party as kids...
When she first came to Auradon she had to fake goodness while continuing to do her mother's bidding. Or trying to. But the more she pretended to be good, the more she started to enjoy it. She was falling in love with Prince/King Ben hard. More, she saw her friends loving this life. Carlos away from his abusive mother, Evie who loved the princess life more than she had loved anything back home, and her oldest friend Jay who had been as ready to stab her in the back as she was to stab him in his... had joined a sports team and was loving it. He had learned teamwork and loyalty. Carlos had gotten over his lifetime fear of dogs. Evie might have found true love. So she turned her back on her mother. For her friends and for herself. At least, she thought she did.
Then her motivation was helping out at Auradon and trying to fit in. She and her friends had to go back to the Isle to look into what they thought was a threat - the Anti-heros club, and from there had to collect their parents' evil talismans to be destroyed and Mal... couldn't help but hold on to hers. Along with her Spellbook, even though her friends all handed over their magical items for destruction or to be put in the museum. She was conflicted. She wanted to be good, but couldn't give up her roots.
When she thought it was her mother somehow destroying things in and around Camelot she begged Ben not to hurt Maleficent as he stopped her and was relieved when it turned out to have not been her mother at all, but the mother of a former friend on the isle who had just betrayed her.
Then when things started going wrong all over Auradon, Mal suspected it was her fault because she still had the Dragon's Egg, and tried to help. She was relieved to find out it was because King Triton's trident had been stolen. She helped get it back, but felt guilty enough to hand over the egg. She decided that from then on she was done with evil (for real this time) and done with the Isle. Her mother was now living in a tank in her room as a lizard, and Mal... focused on trying to fit in. That was her primary motivation, be the perfect Auradon Princess, be the perfect girl to be dating King Ben.
But as the pressure built it was all too much. She started relying in magic more and more to get by. Spells to tweak time so she wasn't late to classes, a blond hair spell, a speed reading spell, even a cooking spell to make a feast for Ben on their date. When he discovered she was using magic, they fought and then she had one motivation... Escape.
She shoved her mother in a necklace box, changed into leathers, packed a bag, hopped on her vespa and was fleeing back to the Isle, back where she "belonged" at the time she joins this game.
Personality:
Personality? Ha! What day is it today?
Mal's core personality trait above all others is that she keeps trying to live up to unreasonable expectations at one extreme or the other. When she is trying to live up to her mother's evil expectations she pushes herself to be as bad as possible. This is a girl who got scolded because stealing candy from a baby wasn't evil enough. Who was told to redo her homework because trapping Evie in Cruella's closet where she almost lost a leg to metal hunter traps wasn't evil enough. The girl who bullies Carlos into having a party so she could trap Evie in the first place, despite hating parties.
After discovering her love for Ben, her meter shifts to trying to match the unrealistic expectations she presumes he has for her, while constantly being tempted by the low expectations everyone else seems to have of the VKs. She tries so hard to be good for him, but it is a struggle that constantly leaves her feeling like less. While this isn't THAT different from when she was on the Isle, what is different is that now she has something to compare herself to. Before she only had the Isle, now she's had both. And with her tendency to see things in extremes, the more she fails to be a perfect princess, the more she becomes convinced she was meant to be a villain after all.
After her canon point, but not by much, she will have a revelation that it is okay to be in the middle, a little of both. That it isn't all or nothing. But while she is poised for that as of pull point, she's not there yet. I thought it would be fun to see her get there in game.
One constant with Mal throughout is her art. She LOVES to spice things up with color, and spray paint is her favorite medium. One telling thing we see as she struggles to be the perfect princess is that she does her art less and less. When she daydreams about being evil again? Spray paint features heavily. When she goes back to the Isle just post canon point? The first things she does is she has her hair dyed back to purple and then she goes and works on wall murals in her hideaway. Color. And post canon point, when Ben proves that he sees her in the middle, that he loves the girl who is part Isle and part Auradon, he does it through art. And it is mainly the colours (like her eyes being the bright green they get when she is closer to evil) that make her realize that he's seen her, clearer than she has, all along.
Another thing with Mal that starts at the end of Book 1 and then becomes a core to her, and not a rotten one, is her tie to her friends. She doesn't have many people she cares about, by the end of book 1, she has exactly three friends that are ACTUALLY friends and not the casual backstabbing she used to think friendship was. By the end of the first movie, one person is added to that. Ben. But no one else really gets into her inner circle. But once someone is there? She would kill for them. She'd die for them.
But that doesn't mean that she really gets them. Mal gets so wrapped up in her own head and issues, she doesn't always see the people around her as they are. Even her best friends. Ways To Be Wicked is the best example of this. Her day dream that kicks off the second movie is her and the other VKs letting loose and being their old selves in Auradon, making everyone else more like them. Except that what they are doing in the scene? It is out of character for pretty much everyone but Mal. Carlos even points this out to her face later when she asks doesn't he miss yelling at people and bullying them into giving up whatever he wants, and he points out that he was usually the one on the receiving end of that, so no, he doesn't miss it. She does have flashes of insight into her friends, like at the end of the first movie. But she managed to miss that Evie would have given up her Auradon life which she LOVES to go back to the Isle with Mal if that was what Mal really wanted. And she constantly fails to understand Ben. She chalks it up to their different backgrounds, him being from Auradon and her from the Isle, but the truth is that she is as clueless about Evie, Carlos, and Jay at times.
When Mal is trying to be bad, she's a bully girl with a hidden good heart. She's a jerk and a thief and a prankster. A vandal and a swindler. When she is trying to be good, she is a perfect princess on the outside being polite and smiling and remembering her manners and not snarling at anyone while secretly abusing her magic and seething.
Basically Mal has yet to figure out who she is, and how to make peace with that. She is a very conflicted teen girl.
Canon Strength/Weaknesses:
Strengths: Magic. Art. That good heart deep down that she can't quite shake. Her love for Evie, Carlos, Jay, and Ben. A natural seeming confidence that hides all her insecurities.
Weaknesses: Not knowing who she is, constantly needing approval, that good heart deep down that she can't quite shake, her love for Evie, Carlos, Jay, and Ben. Being too clever for her own good, and not nearly as smart as she thinks she is.
Apprentice Sorcerer Application
Class: Princess: I would have actually gone for her to multiclass into this as that fits her arc more, but the pages said this can't be a secondary, so going for it here, because overall she really is a Disney Princess for a new generation. (though really she's going to be Queen, after being a lady of the court.) Just ahead of canon point she will actually save someone else with True Love's Kiss (Ben, naturally.) and she spent so long in Auradon trying to be the perfect princess. So her being labeled a princess here with that power, and more that EXPECTATION? Fits her so well and will lend to so much wonderful spiraling self doubt over if she could live up to that. Over if she WANTS to. Also? "Negative energy is drawn to you. They want to snuff out your light (or add to your darkness)" seems like it was written just FOR HER. Things of the Isle and her are drawn together like magnets. It takes a lot for her to let go of evil artifacts, and evil is constantly trying to lure her to darker and darker deeds, both when she was trying to heed them and when she was trying to fight them.
Otherwise both Mystic and Fairy would suit her well though she would throw an unholy fit at being labeled a Fairy.
Edit, as requested: How does Mal inspire those around her into action?
Mal is a born leader, and was raised to take her mother's place, if she could ever live up to the expectations, to be the new big bad. At least, in her mother's eyes. To this end, Mal started building small groups where she was the leader. This... had minimal successful results until the time she was sent to fetch her mother's scepter.
Back then she had one follower, Jay. Except Jay at that point was planning to betray her if the opportunity arose, and she was aware of this. It wasn't a real partnership. She dragged Evie along as part of her evil schemes homework, planning to make Evie touch the scepter so she'd be cursed to magical sleep. And Carlos... well, he's Carlos. He had been useful when she had ordered him to throw a party for her first scheme against Evie. Back then Mal's main way of getting people to do what she want was intimidation, threats, and reputation for being someone you did NOT cross.
By the end of that adventure, however, the four had become actual friends and her leadership was more natural. They respected her, for one thing. They were also fine to let her do the thinking, despite not being the smartest in the group. Carlos was used to being pushed around and was thrilled that Mal listened to his ideas and was happy to be part of a group. Evie was hiding her intelligence and was glad to let someone else take the lead. Also she was thrilled to have friends and for Mal to not want her dead or worse anymore. Jay was having more fun than he ever had before and was willing to go along with his new friends. And for a time, they ruled their side of the Isle of the Lost.
When the time came to go to Auradon, Maleficent ordered the four to get her FG's wand. Mal was automatically the leader of their group because it was her mother's orders and because she had been leader for a while. While at Auradon the first few days Mal came up with plans that they put into action and knew when to not bother - like not trying to stop the boys from acting like fools in the limo. She stepped up and handled interactions when the others were unsure what to say and do, and each plan to get the wand was hers. Even when the plans failed, no one was left behind and they all had roles. They all even helped make the spelled cookies, despite baking a batch of cookies not being the kind of thing that generally needed four people. (Five if you count Lonnie's unwitting contribution.)
When Mal decided she wanted to be good, she made the argument to her friends. She didn't just order them to change with her. She appealed to them and convinced them. And when she had to face down her mother, she got the four of them to stand as one.
In Auradon, among the people born and raised there, her first method of getting people to do as she said - them being afraid of her - worked against her. What worked for her were skills she had so long suppressed she didn't even know she had them. Talking to people and connecting with them. At first it looked like she had some followers for superficial reasons. magically spelling hair to look better certainly found her some favour among the girls, like Jane and Lonnie. But when that took a hit, what got them back was more than hair. It was connection. Specifically connecting of hearts. Mal talked Jane out of trouble with her mother, Lonnie saw - as did everyone else - that the VKs chose good in the bravest and most dramatic way possible.
Honestly, standing up to her mom won Mal a LOT of loyalty, and not just on Auradon as she expected, but on the Isle too, as evidenced by the Anti-heroes club. She showed the world that she is brave enough to stand for her convictions and strong enough to survive it. And that she protects the friends that stand with her. Mind, she doesn't see this in herself, at all. She thinks that her friends follow her because they're friends, and that everyone else looks to her because she's dating the king. Mal's strength as a leader isn't from trying to convince large groups of people to do as she says, but that by leading by example people want to follow her.
Magic Style: If one of the mage classes... a wand or a scepter would be cruel. But actually if she has a choice? She's going for a plain metal ring, flat and boring looking that can be hidden under a pair of fingerless gloves so that no one realizes that she needs a focus. Because really, her mother was lost without her scepter, and how many times did Fairy Godmother lose hold of that wand? A physical thing that can be stolen is a risk. So sliding under the radar is the way to go, clearly.
Element: Surprise. (take that as surprise me or the element of surprise. Obviously this is only if mods decide Fae over Princess or mystic.)
Prince/Princess:Spoken words with a gesture, since that is how she does her magic generally. Possibly a green trail following her fingers, which could stand for Maleficent's magic... or one of the traditional colours of healers.
Sample Section
First Person Sample:
[Mal stared at the magic mirror she'd propped up on her desk. Seriously? A magic mirror? Evie would be losing her little blue mind over this place. Well... why not? Worth a shot. And she wouldn't tell Ben or anyone where she was, right? I mean, Mal totally didn't want Ben to know where she was right? Right. Of course right.]
[Time to do this before she lost her nerve. She tapped the mirror, seriously missing her cellphone.] "Mirror mirror on the desk show me my blue haired friend, best."
[She wrinkled her nose. Not her best verse, but hey... could be worse.]
[Ugh.]
Third Person Sample:
TDM of an angel on her shoulder
TDM of a devil on her shoulder
Mal stretched out in her new room, starting to get settled in. This whole place seriously gave her the creeps. At least, she told herself it did. First thing she did, she closed all the window shades, remembering only after that she had done the same thing when she saw her dorm at Auradon. That she had shared with Evie. Evie... was probably hurt that she'd left, but she'd understand. She didn't have a choice anymore. She had to go back where she belonged.
And instead she ended up here. Auradon Jr. No spellbook, no mother, no vespa, no... anything. She needed to settle a few things, stat. She needed to figure out how magic worked here, since it clearly did. She needed to carve out some turf. And she needed spray paint. Lots and lots of spray paint.
She was thinking purple walls, green ceiling. And then of course there was that interesting guy she met with the black wings... the one who clearly needed lessons in theft. He said they were going to tag up that castle. Green and purple for sure there. And tons of black. Plus the look of his hair was impsiring her to add some reds and oranges as well. Maybe mix the turrets in real fire and magical, red orange yellow fire and deep greens. That could be something for sure. But for that she'd need a lot of spray paint.
Which meant figuring out where to steal some. Well, more than some. And looking for a barber shop to get her hair dyed back to purple. Even if this place was like Auradon, it wasn't Auradon. She wasn't the king's girlfriend here. And if she was trapped? Well she was going to become herself again and let them see just who they had trapped.
She felt a twinge of guilt over that. She knew Merlin and a Villain were working together on this place, which should make it feel like home. Should make this place perfect for her. It didn't. In fact she was avoiding both. Merlin especially. She could go toe to toe with any villain, but Merlin? His magic had sent her back to Auradon once before. And she could lie to him for a while, she was sure. But the moment Ben let his advisors know she was missing? She'd be higgity jibbited and bibipty boppitied back. But she did have an ace up her sleeve for Merlin that she would play if she had to... Her mother was missing. And that was a far bigger crisis then dropping her back in time for cotillion...
Player Information
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Age: Adult
Preferred Method of contact: PM the journal in question or Plurk
Contact Info:
Number of Characters in the Kingdom: Apping Mal and possibly one other this round.
Timezone: GMT-4/5 (EST.)
Character Information
Character Name: Mal
Age:Late teens
Canon: Descendants 2/Isle Of The Lost
Canon Point: Second movie (so after books 1-3) as she is racing away from Auradon.
Gender: female
Character History
Character History: Not loving the grammar, but here ya go.
Canon Example: What better?
Character Motivation: Growing up, her motivation was always to earn her mother's love, to make her mother proud of her. To earn the rest of her name and make up for the mistake her mother had having her. She failed at this. Over and over again. She was also driven by revenge as a child, anyone who slighted her, anyone who stood up to her... a friend who fell over laughing at her rather than helping her... the little evil princess who didn't invite her to a party as kids...
When she first came to Auradon she had to fake goodness while continuing to do her mother's bidding. Or trying to. But the more she pretended to be good, the more she started to enjoy it. She was falling in love with Prince/King Ben hard. More, she saw her friends loving this life. Carlos away from his abusive mother, Evie who loved the princess life more than she had loved anything back home, and her oldest friend Jay who had been as ready to stab her in the back as she was to stab him in his... had joined a sports team and was loving it. He had learned teamwork and loyalty. Carlos had gotten over his lifetime fear of dogs. Evie might have found true love. So she turned her back on her mother. For her friends and for herself. At least, she thought she did.
Then her motivation was helping out at Auradon and trying to fit in. She and her friends had to go back to the Isle to look into what they thought was a threat - the Anti-heros club, and from there had to collect their parents' evil talismans to be destroyed and Mal... couldn't help but hold on to hers. Along with her Spellbook, even though her friends all handed over their magical items for destruction or to be put in the museum. She was conflicted. She wanted to be good, but couldn't give up her roots.
When she thought it was her mother somehow destroying things in and around Camelot she begged Ben not to hurt Maleficent as he stopped her and was relieved when it turned out to have not been her mother at all, but the mother of a former friend on the isle who had just betrayed her.
Then when things started going wrong all over Auradon, Mal suspected it was her fault because she still had the Dragon's Egg, and tried to help. She was relieved to find out it was because King Triton's trident had been stolen. She helped get it back, but felt guilty enough to hand over the egg. She decided that from then on she was done with evil (for real this time) and done with the Isle. Her mother was now living in a tank in her room as a lizard, and Mal... focused on trying to fit in. That was her primary motivation, be the perfect Auradon Princess, be the perfect girl to be dating King Ben.
But as the pressure built it was all too much. She started relying in magic more and more to get by. Spells to tweak time so she wasn't late to classes, a blond hair spell, a speed reading spell, even a cooking spell to make a feast for Ben on their date. When he discovered she was using magic, they fought and then she had one motivation... Escape.
She shoved her mother in a necklace box, changed into leathers, packed a bag, hopped on her vespa and was fleeing back to the Isle, back where she "belonged" at the time she joins this game.
Personality:
Personality? Ha! What day is it today?
Mal's core personality trait above all others is that she keeps trying to live up to unreasonable expectations at one extreme or the other. When she is trying to live up to her mother's evil expectations she pushes herself to be as bad as possible. This is a girl who got scolded because stealing candy from a baby wasn't evil enough. Who was told to redo her homework because trapping Evie in Cruella's closet where she almost lost a leg to metal hunter traps wasn't evil enough. The girl who bullies Carlos into having a party so she could trap Evie in the first place, despite hating parties.
After discovering her love for Ben, her meter shifts to trying to match the unrealistic expectations she presumes he has for her, while constantly being tempted by the low expectations everyone else seems to have of the VKs. She tries so hard to be good for him, but it is a struggle that constantly leaves her feeling like less. While this isn't THAT different from when she was on the Isle, what is different is that now she has something to compare herself to. Before she only had the Isle, now she's had both. And with her tendency to see things in extremes, the more she fails to be a perfect princess, the more she becomes convinced she was meant to be a villain after all.
After her canon point, but not by much, she will have a revelation that it is okay to be in the middle, a little of both. That it isn't all or nothing. But while she is poised for that as of pull point, she's not there yet. I thought it would be fun to see her get there in game.
One constant with Mal throughout is her art. She LOVES to spice things up with color, and spray paint is her favorite medium. One telling thing we see as she struggles to be the perfect princess is that she does her art less and less. When she daydreams about being evil again? Spray paint features heavily. When she goes back to the Isle just post canon point? The first things she does is she has her hair dyed back to purple and then she goes and works on wall murals in her hideaway. Color. And post canon point, when Ben proves that he sees her in the middle, that he loves the girl who is part Isle and part Auradon, he does it through art. And it is mainly the colours (like her eyes being the bright green they get when she is closer to evil) that make her realize that he's seen her, clearer than she has, all along.
Another thing with Mal that starts at the end of Book 1 and then becomes a core to her, and not a rotten one, is her tie to her friends. She doesn't have many people she cares about, by the end of book 1, she has exactly three friends that are ACTUALLY friends and not the casual backstabbing she used to think friendship was. By the end of the first movie, one person is added to that. Ben. But no one else really gets into her inner circle. But once someone is there? She would kill for them. She'd die for them.
But that doesn't mean that she really gets them. Mal gets so wrapped up in her own head and issues, she doesn't always see the people around her as they are. Even her best friends. Ways To Be Wicked is the best example of this. Her day dream that kicks off the second movie is her and the other VKs letting loose and being their old selves in Auradon, making everyone else more like them. Except that what they are doing in the scene? It is out of character for pretty much everyone but Mal. Carlos even points this out to her face later when she asks doesn't he miss yelling at people and bullying them into giving up whatever he wants, and he points out that he was usually the one on the receiving end of that, so no, he doesn't miss it. She does have flashes of insight into her friends, like at the end of the first movie. But she managed to miss that Evie would have given up her Auradon life which she LOVES to go back to the Isle with Mal if that was what Mal really wanted. And she constantly fails to understand Ben. She chalks it up to their different backgrounds, him being from Auradon and her from the Isle, but the truth is that she is as clueless about Evie, Carlos, and Jay at times.
When Mal is trying to be bad, she's a bully girl with a hidden good heart. She's a jerk and a thief and a prankster. A vandal and a swindler. When she is trying to be good, she is a perfect princess on the outside being polite and smiling and remembering her manners and not snarling at anyone while secretly abusing her magic and seething.
Basically Mal has yet to figure out who she is, and how to make peace with that. She is a very conflicted teen girl.
Canon Strength/Weaknesses:
Strengths: Magic. Art. That good heart deep down that she can't quite shake. Her love for Evie, Carlos, Jay, and Ben. A natural seeming confidence that hides all her insecurities.
Weaknesses: Not knowing who she is, constantly needing approval, that good heart deep down that she can't quite shake, her love for Evie, Carlos, Jay, and Ben. Being too clever for her own good, and not nearly as smart as she thinks she is.
Apprentice Sorcerer Application
Class: Princess: I would have actually gone for her to multiclass into this as that fits her arc more, but the pages said this can't be a secondary, so going for it here, because overall she really is a Disney Princess for a new generation. (though really she's going to be Queen, after being a lady of the court.) Just ahead of canon point she will actually save someone else with True Love's Kiss (Ben, naturally.) and she spent so long in Auradon trying to be the perfect princess. So her being labeled a princess here with that power, and more that EXPECTATION? Fits her so well and will lend to so much wonderful spiraling self doubt over if she could live up to that. Over if she WANTS to. Also? "Negative energy is drawn to you. They want to snuff out your light (or add to your darkness)" seems like it was written just FOR HER. Things of the Isle and her are drawn together like magnets. It takes a lot for her to let go of evil artifacts, and evil is constantly trying to lure her to darker and darker deeds, both when she was trying to heed them and when she was trying to fight them.
Otherwise both Mystic and Fairy would suit her well though she would throw an unholy fit at being labeled a Fairy.
Edit, as requested: How does Mal inspire those around her into action?
Mal is a born leader, and was raised to take her mother's place, if she could ever live up to the expectations, to be the new big bad. At least, in her mother's eyes. To this end, Mal started building small groups where she was the leader. This... had minimal successful results until the time she was sent to fetch her mother's scepter.
Back then she had one follower, Jay. Except Jay at that point was planning to betray her if the opportunity arose, and she was aware of this. It wasn't a real partnership. She dragged Evie along as part of her evil schemes homework, planning to make Evie touch the scepter so she'd be cursed to magical sleep. And Carlos... well, he's Carlos. He had been useful when she had ordered him to throw a party for her first scheme against Evie. Back then Mal's main way of getting people to do what she want was intimidation, threats, and reputation for being someone you did NOT cross.
By the end of that adventure, however, the four had become actual friends and her leadership was more natural. They respected her, for one thing. They were also fine to let her do the thinking, despite not being the smartest in the group. Carlos was used to being pushed around and was thrilled that Mal listened to his ideas and was happy to be part of a group. Evie was hiding her intelligence and was glad to let someone else take the lead. Also she was thrilled to have friends and for Mal to not want her dead or worse anymore. Jay was having more fun than he ever had before and was willing to go along with his new friends. And for a time, they ruled their side of the Isle of the Lost.
When the time came to go to Auradon, Maleficent ordered the four to get her FG's wand. Mal was automatically the leader of their group because it was her mother's orders and because she had been leader for a while. While at Auradon the first few days Mal came up with plans that they put into action and knew when to not bother - like not trying to stop the boys from acting like fools in the limo. She stepped up and handled interactions when the others were unsure what to say and do, and each plan to get the wand was hers. Even when the plans failed, no one was left behind and they all had roles. They all even helped make the spelled cookies, despite baking a batch of cookies not being the kind of thing that generally needed four people. (Five if you count Lonnie's unwitting contribution.)
When Mal decided she wanted to be good, she made the argument to her friends. She didn't just order them to change with her. She appealed to them and convinced them. And when she had to face down her mother, she got the four of them to stand as one.
In Auradon, among the people born and raised there, her first method of getting people to do as she said - them being afraid of her - worked against her. What worked for her were skills she had so long suppressed she didn't even know she had them. Talking to people and connecting with them. At first it looked like she had some followers for superficial reasons. magically spelling hair to look better certainly found her some favour among the girls, like Jane and Lonnie. But when that took a hit, what got them back was more than hair. It was connection. Specifically connecting of hearts. Mal talked Jane out of trouble with her mother, Lonnie saw - as did everyone else - that the VKs chose good in the bravest and most dramatic way possible.
Honestly, standing up to her mom won Mal a LOT of loyalty, and not just on Auradon as she expected, but on the Isle too, as evidenced by the Anti-heroes club. She showed the world that she is brave enough to stand for her convictions and strong enough to survive it. And that she protects the friends that stand with her. Mind, she doesn't see this in herself, at all. She thinks that her friends follow her because they're friends, and that everyone else looks to her because she's dating the king. Mal's strength as a leader isn't from trying to convince large groups of people to do as she says, but that by leading by example people want to follow her.
Magic Style: If one of the mage classes... a wand or a scepter would be cruel. But actually if she has a choice? She's going for a plain metal ring, flat and boring looking that can be hidden under a pair of fingerless gloves so that no one realizes that she needs a focus. Because really, her mother was lost without her scepter, and how many times did Fairy Godmother lose hold of that wand? A physical thing that can be stolen is a risk. So sliding under the radar is the way to go, clearly.
Element: Surprise. (take that as surprise me or the element of surprise. Obviously this is only if mods decide Fae over Princess or mystic.)
Prince/Princess:Spoken words with a gesture, since that is how she does her magic generally. Possibly a green trail following her fingers, which could stand for Maleficent's magic... or one of the traditional colours of healers.
Sample Section
First Person Sample:
[Mal stared at the magic mirror she'd propped up on her desk. Seriously? A magic mirror? Evie would be losing her little blue mind over this place. Well... why not? Worth a shot. And she wouldn't tell Ben or anyone where she was, right? I mean, Mal totally didn't want Ben to know where she was right? Right. Of course right.]
[Time to do this before she lost her nerve. She tapped the mirror, seriously missing her cellphone.] "Mirror mirror on the desk show me my blue haired friend, best."
[She wrinkled her nose. Not her best verse, but hey... could be worse.]
[Ugh.]
Third Person Sample:
TDM of an angel on her shoulder
TDM of a devil on her shoulder
Mal stretched out in her new room, starting to get settled in. This whole place seriously gave her the creeps. At least, she told herself it did. First thing she did, she closed all the window shades, remembering only after that she had done the same thing when she saw her dorm at Auradon. That she had shared with Evie. Evie... was probably hurt that she'd left, but she'd understand. She didn't have a choice anymore. She had to go back where she belonged.
And instead she ended up here. Auradon Jr. No spellbook, no mother, no vespa, no... anything. She needed to settle a few things, stat. She needed to figure out how magic worked here, since it clearly did. She needed to carve out some turf. And she needed spray paint. Lots and lots of spray paint.
She was thinking purple walls, green ceiling. And then of course there was that interesting guy she met with the black wings... the one who clearly needed lessons in theft. He said they were going to tag up that castle. Green and purple for sure there. And tons of black. Plus the look of his hair was impsiring her to add some reds and oranges as well. Maybe mix the turrets in real fire and magical, red orange yellow fire and deep greens. That could be something for sure. But for that she'd need a lot of spray paint.
Which meant figuring out where to steal some. Well, more than some. And looking for a barber shop to get her hair dyed back to purple. Even if this place was like Auradon, it wasn't Auradon. She wasn't the king's girlfriend here. And if she was trapped? Well she was going to become herself again and let them see just who they had trapped.
She felt a twinge of guilt over that. She knew Merlin and a Villain were working together on this place, which should make it feel like home. Should make this place perfect for her. It didn't. In fact she was avoiding both. Merlin especially. She could go toe to toe with any villain, but Merlin? His magic had sent her back to Auradon once before. And she could lie to him for a while, she was sure. But the moment Ben let his advisors know she was missing? She'd be higgity jibbited and bibipty boppitied back. But she did have an ace up her sleeve for Merlin that she would play if she had to... Her mother was missing. And that was a far bigger crisis then dropping her back in time for cotillion...
