Erynn Manalia

TheLadyAnatola

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Created
8 years, 7 months ago
Creator
TheLadyAnatola
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Basic Info


Name

Erynn Zaran Manalia

Age

Unknown, appears to be in twenties

Species

Medru Dalindran

Element

Darc

Occupation

Assassin

Gender

Female

Sexuality

Pansexual

Creation Year

2004

Family

Zaran Manalia (alter)

Birthplace

Aminali - Dalindra

Current Home

No permanent home, always traveling

Profile


Physical Appearance

  • Orange hair worn exclusively in pigtails that trail to her hips
  • Aqua green eyes
  • Fair skinned
  • Medium in height
  • Medium to large breasts
  • Physically fit with a deceptively strong build
  • Red triangle marking on forehead

Clothing Style

Erynn's outfit when acting as a normal girl consists of an aqua green tank top with a heart on the front, a jean skirt, and orange boots with shin-high socks. She wears her hair up in pigtails tied with blue beaded elastic bands.

Although she can work in any outfit that provides mobility, when on assassination jobs she tends to wear a full-body black bodysuit with light armor built into it, various belts/straps for her supplies and weapons, and a full mask to hide her identity. (specifics TBD)


Personality

Most first impressions of Erynn paint her as a shy and soft spoken young woman with a bubbly appearance and somewhat innocent demeanor. She seems a little uncertain of most things and can be rather fussy, but even though she's very quiet she's certainly not passive. She is very firm when her boundaries are pushed, and she's not afraid to confront anyone who is causing her problems. She tends to avoid people in general though, and she doesn't talk about herself much other than her liking the outdoors and frequently traveling.

Around her alter or when on the job, she shows her true colors as a ruthless assassin. She is cold-hearted, relentless, remorseless, cunning, and will eliminate anyone that gets in her way. She often uses her innocent facade to get her targets to lower their guard before striking them down. Although she seems to carry out her missions with complete conviction, her loyalties and motives are hard to pin down. She speaks harshly toward Zaran and opposes anything he does, especially when he has specifically followed her to thwart her plans. However, their lives are intertwined, and although she repeatedly claims she would love to strike him down if not for their connection, she legitimately cares for his safety and will destroy anything that harms him. She will reject any suggestions that her protectiveness of him is for any other reason but protecting her own life. 


Abilities

  • Darc rifting - rank 3/5
  • Skilled with various weapons, including swords, firearms, and others
  • Skilled with various stealth and espionage techniques

Strengths

  • A skilled actor, never cracks under pressure, and is focused on her goals
  • Confident, relentless, thorough, and unabashed
  • Stealthy, flexible, agile, well balanced, and has quick reflexes
  • Sensing, observant, organized, and always well prepared

Weaknesses

  • Amoral, self centered, and only interested in her own goals or what benefits her
  • Does not make emotional attachments to anyone and treats others as disposable
  • Unpredictable, feels little purpose to her life, and lives from one mission/goal to the next
  • Connected to Zaran through a shared lifeline and must keep him alive to survive

Backstory

Little is known about Erynn and Zaran's past since neither of them are willing to speak of it. However they are apparently alters that suffered a strange disconnection in their link, to the point where neither of them feel any sort of connection to the other save for when one is close to death. For unknown reasons the two went separate ways, Erynn turning to serve Yashana's doppelganger, Shana, in the War and Zaran turning to Lord Dalia's forces. Although Erynn doesn't appear terribly convicted to any cause in particular, she only seems interested in jobs that pay well and involve assassination. It is not clear where she received her training if she received any at all, and most information about her is only known by questioning Zaran, since her job as an assassin requires the utmost secrecy about her personal information.


Trivia:

  • Erynn's original name was spelled as Erin instead, but I changed it much later on to better differentiate her from another character of mine, Erin Mercury. Erin Mercury came much later than this Erynn, but I figured this Erynn was in a more fantasy setting and could better get away with a strange spelling variation.
  • Erynn and Zaran originally came from a short comic I tried to start in either 3rd or 4th grade. I think the comic was titled after some Japanese characters I saw in an origami day calendar. It was something overly flowery and semi-deep like "heaven and earth" or something to that effect. I only remember it was two words like that, and it was supposed to have symbolism to Erynn and Zaran's character. I don't remember what the significance was supposed to be anyway, and I know for a fact that I was making up the plot as I went. I only got like 9 pages through before I got tired of it. I did format it like a manga to be read right to left though.
    • They weren't Dalindrans at that point and had no connection with each other in the sense of them being "related." Or at least I don't think they were going to be. I didn't get that far with the plot. I just know they were normal humans, or at least normal anime humans.
  • In the original comic, Zaran was supposed to be 15 and Erynn was 13. This probably seemed "old enough" considering I was in grade school at the time.
    • In his original comic bio I wrote, she is described as: "She is kindhearted but very emotional. Everyone she knew in the past deserted her and nobody likes her. Everywhere she goes, disaster follows, but there's more than just sadness inside of her broken heart."
    • From the first 9 pages that I managed to write, apparently I did indeed set up the twist for Erynn to be more sinister than Zaran despite how sketchy he seems. The very first page sets up some kind of killer who has killed countless people for no reason other than money and glory, and they regret nothing about it. When Zaran first encounters Erynn, it's set up to imply he is this killer and going to kill her after he earns her trust, but the twist was ultimately going to be that Erynn is the killer. I even set it up by doing a close up on the eye color of the kill in the intro, and then Erynn and Zaran both have this eye color so WHOOOO COULD IT BEEEEEEE? XP