Marelyn Bagot

While on Star City, or anywhere not her homeworld, Marelyn has the ability to shape-shift into a human form. She is fairly tall, though not extremely so, with deep golden skin, a narrow, still feline-esque face, the same gold eyes, and a fall of thick, straight, black hair that comes nearly to her waist. Though her preference would be for exotic, desert-type clothing, she usually wears typical Kilandaian skirts and tunics. 

Marelyn isn't a bad person, really-- though not many people would call her a good person, either-- she's just a difficult one who sees too clearly and makes certain to point out at least some of the things she sees. When she thinks there is gain to be had, she will gladly insult someone into a rage-- or compliment them into complacency-- even if they are "friends". A friend, to Marelyn, is merely someone with whom she argues on a regular basis and who she respects enough to not insult too much, and only point out shortcomings that can be fixed. She almost enjoys riling other people up, friend or foe, and she is perversely proud of how well she pushes other people's buttons. No one has ever seemed to find her own buttons, however, for she cannot remember being angry for a very long time. Really, Marelyn is always nearly always smiling, whether in amusement, smugness, secrecy, or even sadness and disappointment. Her smile is her shield against the world.

The Bagot family took the orphan in, raising her amongst luxury and privilege, but never let her forget that she was less than they and always would be. She was not allowed much contact with those of lesser rank, trotted out among other noble families as a show of how generous her family was to keep her safe, well-fed, and well-groomed despite the shame she represented and her difficult nature. Even young, she was prickly and prone to inciting arguments, even fights-- in fact, younger, she was much worse, with little care for tact or hiding behind pleasantries. She was unhappy, and everyone around her was going to know it.

When she hit adolescence, Marelyn slowly learned the benefits of being pretty, flattering, and demure in addition to being intelligent, and she lost some of her reputation for being the child of a demon instead of a commoner. She learned to be charming, how to smile at insults, how to listen without appearing to, and how to be overlooked or accepted as she needed to. Before long, she knew so many of the nobility's dirty secrets that her disillusionment was complete: bitterness, neglect, and disgust sent her, on her twentieth birthday, to the wild and her cat form. Very few people missed her, and none of them were her family.

For several years she drifted, learning to look after herself and putting her skills of observation to use in tracking and hunting game to eat. After being a part of the goprin nobility, however, she found that being alone with nature not to her liking. It took her over a decade after that realization to be accepted into the secret of a "wild" village, and another couple years past that to actually be invited to join it. Since then she has been invaluable, but always not entirely trusted, because though she is social she is still not honest, and she is still difficult. By then, it was habit, what she was most comfortable with, and simply easier. No one in the village knows where she came from, or that she has royal blood-- hiding it, after all, is far too easy.

When off her home planet, however, Marelyn can shift forms into a human shape and use magic controlled by speech in an old language. She loves her human form as much as her cat form and shifts often while away, and is a subtle and clever mage rather than a powerful one.

Marelyn's Story

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