◯ Akwaline's Oceans ◯ Name: Ballena Gender: Female Age: 17 Habitat: Abyss Role: Wanderer Magic Wand: Yes Stats Strength: 2/10 Speed: 2/10 Intelligence: 7/10 Magic: 9/10 Personality: Ballena is a determined akwaline, knowing what she wants and thinking carefully on how she will get it. Though she's reserved in her emotions and how close she gets to others, she'll happily share her ideas and thoughts on issues with anyone who will listen. Ballena tries to be open-minded, only wanting to have an opinion or plan on something once she has evidence on both sides of a story. She tries not to, but can't help becoming distant towards those who try to become close friends+ with her. Once she has an belief, she likely won't budge on it. Backstory: Ballena grew up in the Sunlight Zone with a lot of pressure to learn magic. Her sisters, Tibua and Harika had close to no talent in magic. Tibua was completely devoid of any magic ability. So that put all the attention on her which left her sisters to be unrecognized. Though for the first few years of her life the orca patterned akwaline could never tell. She was just happy with the attention her parents gave her and her near perfect talent of magic. She started trying to learn immediately, having her parents give her informal test after test. But besides the magic, the favorite part of her day was Tibua. Sometime when the sky above was painted gold, her older sister would come home and would always listen to how her day went. She told her stuff she could never tell her parents, like how she would struggle with a spell or two or about a crush on a cute tom at Pisces. But it wasn't until she was 12 and Tibua was about to take her magic test, that she started to doubt her whole world. The older akwaline had obviously been sad when she was incapable of using a wand to even levitate a pebble, but what she had saw really tormented her sister was when her parents looked twice as disappointed as Tibua. They never took Tibua to Pisces to get her magic test simply because they wouldn't wish their own daughter to the Abyss Zone, but it was after that Ballena started to notice something. All of the akwalines in the Sunlight Zone seemed to have wands. When she asked about it, she heard from her peers that some scary akwalines known as the predators are just banished akwalines. Banished because they had no magic. She couldn't image never seeing the light of the sun because she couldn't life a rock! It disturbed her. It was the only thing she wouldn't consult Tibua about. But she DID tell her about how she thought her parent's attention was unfair. The only thing during that conversation was she noticed it was one of the few conversations her sister seemed... distant. Tibua would catch some fish Ballena wasn't convinced she couldn't catch if her life depended on it... but her parents never seemed to care. Finally, at the age of 15, ,she was going to ask her sister to teach her how to hunt. She was doing great as a magic student, always getting praise, but she wanted to know what a day was like without being expected to use something she knew her sister couldn't. Besides, it would probably make her sister feel great she wanted to learn something from her! But on that same day, she was betrayed. Her sister told her that her best friend and crush, Assassino, wanted to meet her by the borderline of the Twilight Zone. Maybe Assassino had been too shy to ask her himself! Her friend had always been really shy. So with no reason to believe that her sister would ever do anything bad to her she bee lined to the deeper part of the ocean. There she waited. And waited. And waited. Maybe this wasn't the exact spot her friend had wanted to meet... so she explored deeper and deeper until she couldn't see the light of day. She couldn't tell what time it was by the time she had gotten lost that day, but she knew it had been hours at minimum. As she was ready to turn around and get back she ran into an akwaline. They seemed to be eyeing her wand;even from the minimal light granted she could see a snarl of disgust and hostility on their face. As soon as she was reaching to pull her wand on the stranger, she felt jaws around her throat and she slowly blacked out as being unable to fight the other akwaline off. But miraculously she had lived, having been only held prisoner by the two attackers. One had explained they were going to keep her hostage until some akwalines in the Sunlight Zone would talk. But having gotten her head together, she used her wand to slowly tear apart an exit in her make-shift stone cage. But as she was in the dark for awhile she realized what had happened to get her down here in the first place. Her sister, the only family member she felt she was friends with, had tried to get rid of her. At first she was going to go back home and tell her parents what had happened. But as she thought about it more she thought back to all the times she had used magic, all the time she complaine
about everything her sister had ever wanted. The looks on Tibua's face had always been the same. Jealous. How she was just noticing when she wasn't even there to see was a mystery to her, but she felt too guilty about it to go back up and tattle on her. But that didn't mean she ever wanted to see her again now that she was self-assured her sister hated her. And she didn't exactly appreciate being possibly killed. Ballena thought back to all the times she had heard stories of savage akwalines who had no magic, who attacked those with magic. Her sister could have been one of them. With that thought, she decided something in an instant. She would do whatever it takes to make sure no other akwalines like her sister would ever be in eternal darkness. Never again. Presently she tries to find akwalines in the Abyss Zone as a wanderer who will help her make the Sunlight Zone more tolerant towards non-magic akwalines. She's thinking about trying to do it peacefully and gathering up an organization to help her, but resorting to perhaps acts of minor crime to get her point across isn't below her. Notes and Credits: Ballena was super fun to make! I probably should have simplified her backstory so people wouldn't have to read as much, but I think it fits well with her role and personality anyways. If you actually read her whole story... you are amazing and have a unrealistically long attention span. So I thank you for that.
