Tanya

Basic Information:

Name: Tanya Hathaway 

Nicknames: N/A

Gender: Female

Age: Around 120 (Looks 20)

Birthday/Creation date: 17th June

Species: Sweetical (CLOSED SPECIES)

Occupation: Fruit farmer, Magical-girl-in-training

Nationality: N/A

Residence: North Confisea on Arcanum Sucreum

Relationship status: Single

Powers: 

• Ability to grow or accelerate the growth of fruits, as well as preventing them from spoiling
• Attacking and Defensing through her Sweetical Movesets (details listed below)

Personality: Kind, compassionate, quiet, mild-mannered, soft, air-headed (at times), gentle, trusting, distracted, scaredy-cat (at times)

Likes: 

• Fruits of all kind
• Her 'sister' Sabrina
• Making pies and tarts, especially if fruits are involved

Dislikes: 

• Rotten fruits
• Rude individuals (regardless of their alignment)
• Unable to grasp the customs of Sweeticals or AS in general (due to being a newbie)

General appearance:

Hair: Blonde and short

Eyes: Blue

Skin: Fair

Outfit: Wears a Lolita dress with a light green striped bodice and a layered skirt with fruit patterns with blue ribbons at the back. Pastel rainbow colored headband worn around head

Other: Carries an oversized pie-slicer dagger called a Sweeticalware with her at all times

Sweetical traitlist:

Sweet / Dessert type: Fruit tart

Rarity: Common

Alignment: Rein 

Traits: None

Mutations: None

Sweeticalware: Pie-slicer (Common)

Sweeticalware Traits: Oval gems (Common)

Sweeticalware Sub-weapon: A scythe

Sweetical Movesets:

• Fruit Avalanche: A cascade of various fruits rains from the sky, crushing anyone undeneath
• Color Minefield: Summons bombs in the form of watermelons, pineapples, and (oversized) cherries which dose the enemy with fruit juice, blinding their vision. A bit of flame is also thrown in for good measure
• Crumble Chaos: Summons a whirlwind of crumbs which can take a target away. Perfect for escaping the battlefield or inflicting it on enemies

Connections:

Sabrina Ames: A Sweetical who came along to her farm one day and revealed that Tanya was also a Sweetical, like her. They quickly developed a sisterly-like bond, where Sabrina often teaching Tanya her abilities as a Sweetical, and Tanya...well...teaching Sabrina how not to kill her fruit plants, which is honestly ironic considering she's a healer and all...

Backstory:

There was no doubt about it: gone were the kind and generous Ames that created and nursed good-hearted sweeticals that mostly became Reins against the Fallen, rather in their place rose a new generation, a generation that cared more about human desires and wealth and power. Some of the younger family members, in particular, forgot about the kindness their servants and bakers had provided, finding their words long-winded and boring and meaningless and so in one swift move, fired most of their staff and replacing them with new ones, ones that would speak words more suitable for their ears. One such baker being fired happened to be the one who created a certain Sweetical from a gold foil chocolate cake; shortly after she was fired, she went to pack her belongings, only to find an unfamiliar bundle resting on top of it all. She took a peek at it and gasped, realizing that it was a Sucre Core. Smuggling Sucre Cores was a highly dangerous activity, one that could mean much more than expulsion if caught. She had no idea who had gifted this Core to her, but she didn't think much about it and hid the bundle among her belongings, just barely so before she was forced to leave from the residence. She met up with a few Sweeticals, most of which she had contributed in creating to give them advice, but she never told any about the Core she had. Eventually, she and her husband and her sons left Arcanum Sucreum to another planet, where she started a fruit farm along with a baking business. She continued to keep the secret about the Core though, placing it under lock and key in a chest and tucking into a corner. She kept her head down, withdrawing herself from anything involving Sweeticals, and focused on maintaining her fruit farm as well as the occasional cake baking. 

Some generations passed, and whilst the fruit farm grew and blossomed into a bustling business, that particular chest was slowly being forgotten, tucked away in a corner where no one realized the treasured within. Six generations later, the old baker was no longer a resident of the farm, but rather her great-great-granddaughter and her children now took up the family home. One particular day, when the mother went on a long trip to town to get supplies, the children decided to surprise their mother when she came back, and the oldest child suggested they made her a fruit tart for her to enjoy when she returned. The children then got to work by choosing as many fruits they could find around the farm: apples, oranges, lemons, mangoes, kiwis, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, peaches...the list went on. As they placed the fruits on the pastry though, it seemed like...something was missing, something that lacked that extra spark to show their love for their mother. The siblings searched high and low for anything that could make the fruit tart prettier, and the youngest stumbled upon a particular chest. It was locked, but the wood was so rotten they were able to pry it open and gently nestled within, was a pink heart-shaped gem that gave off a sweet smell. The siblings had no idea what it was (no one had told them anything about Sweeticals) but they thought the 'gem' would be perfect on their tart, so they placed it on top of the fruits and placed the tart into the oven.

The siblings had baked loads of cakes and tarts with their mother before, but nothing could ever prepare them for what happened next. For the first few minutes, nothing out of the ordinary was happening, but gradually a faint glow could be seen radiating off the 'gem', a glow that was surely becoming brighter and brighter until it matched the sun streaming from the windows. The siblings screamed, unable to process what is happening and scared they bolted from the kitchen and out of the house. It was a good thing they did though: shortly afterwards a small BANG was heard from the house and smoke billowed out the windows. The younger siblings cried in fear as the oldest tried to understand what was going on when she heard it: a faint crying sound amongst the chaos. She thought she was hearing things but no, the crying came again and instinctively she ran back into the house and into the kitchen. Miraculously, it didn't seem like a lot of damage was done to the kitchen, save for the oven: the cover was completely blown off and the interior was completely blackened but the strangest thing of all was that the crying sound came from inside the oven. The sibling peered inside and there, curled up in the middle, was a baby girl with a mop of blonde hair, bawling her head out. The sibling hadn't got the slightest idea what happened, but she wrapped the baby up and took her outside, just in time to see her mother with an absolute shock on her face return from her trip.

It was a shock for the mother to see the baby girl all alone, but it was a bigger shock knowing that the little girl appeared out of nowhere without a clear explanation. The mother asked the siblings to carefully retrace their steps of what happened leading up to the explosion, which was when they realized the fruit tart they were baking had seemingly vanished. The family returned to the kitchen, where they not only confirmed that the fruit tart was indeed gone, but lying in the ashes was a tiny pie-slicer, which when taken out the baby started bawling, and only calmed down when the pie-slicer was handed to her. The family had no idea what had happened, but seeing the kid all alone, the mother took her in, naming her Tanya and raising her as the youngest sibling in the family.

Tanya was raised like a normal child, but when she became a young adult, it became clear that she was different from her siblings. For starters, although she continued to age and celebrate birthday after birthday, her physical appearance remained the same, her youthfulness staying year after year. She also found herself unable to ingest savory foods without being really sick, but she got on with eating fruits just fine. The differences were also shown when she was out working on the fruit farm with her siblings, for some reason she's able to grow bigger and juicer fruits, and they seemed to last longer after being picked. She enjoyed working with her family though, and when the oldest daughter took over the farm business and had children of her own, Tanya volunteered to stay, and the same happened for the next two generations she observed on the family. 

While Tanya continued to work with her family on the farm, the worlds changed around them. Some time later, a particular visitor had come to the farm, a young woman with flowing brown and golden eyes wielding a giant spoon-like staff. She came across the fruit farm and saw Tanya, and instantly...she felt there was something different about the young girl, that she was different from the rest of her family members. Meanwhile, Tanya caught sight of the stranger's 'Giant Spoon' and gasped, and without thinking held out the pie-slicer (normal sized) from her pockets, in which the stranger gasped in return. The stranger pulled Tanya to the side and starting asking lots of questions, in which Tanya find strange but somehow she felt she had more in connection with the stranger, more than her family even. 

Turns out the young woman was no other than Sabrina Ames herself, who had taken up on travelling after her baker had been fired from her position all those centuries ago. She had just started out from Arcanum Sucreum, having heard the news that the Ames family have gone broke and into ruins, and was going on another visit around the worlds to help others in need. She introduced herself to Tanya and said she might be a Sweetical, like herself. At first Tanya thought the stranger was joking, but they talked about it the more it made sense: the way she was created after the oven exploded (in her memory anyway), the way she got herself sick with eating savory food, the way she stopped physically aging, the way she was able to manipulate fruits to her will via magic...it all made sense. Meanwhile, Sabrina was more than ecstatic learning Tanya was created from the descendants of her baker, and offered to teach Tanya how to home in her Sweetical powers at the full potential. Sabrina offered to take Tanya back to Arcanum Sucreum, aka the world where she truly belonged. Tanya hesitated for a moment, but her family, seeing how out of place she was on this planet of theirs, persuaded her to take the journey, thinking it might be better for her to learn more about herself. Tearfully, Tanya left the fruit farm and started on the journey to Arcanum Sucreum with Sabrina guiding her.

Now Tanya resides in North Confisea, where she has taken residence in a house with a sizable patch of land surrounding it. Old habits die hard I suppose, because before long, Tanya started building up a fruit farm of her very own, containing fruits native to the planet she was born on and also those on AS. She soon became a successful fruit dealer known on AS, but she very much enjoys spending time with her sister figure Sabrina every time she visits and teaches her more on what it is like to be a Sweetical.

Trivia:

- Tanya is a Sweetical, which is a Closed Species by ScarletDestiney on DA. You are NOT allowed to make one without permission.

- Although she looks 20, Tanya is over 100 years old. She stopped physically aging at around her young adult years like most of her species.

- Due to her being raised by a human family with no knowledge of Sweeticals, Tanya had no idea she was a Sweetical herself until the arrival of Sabrina. 

- The color of beads on her headband follows a specific rainbow pattern, and it wraps around her head.

- Her sub-weapon is a scythe, since she is a farmer and this seemed like one the the tools they would use. That and also the image of a sweet girl holding a scythe is too good to pass up. XD

- Because her dessert is so heavily fruit based, Tanya is able to affect fruit plants with her sugar magic even without the use of her Sweeticalware. This is the reason why although this is one of her magic skills, she doesn't list it as one of her Movesets.

- Even though Tanya and Sabrina are more than 600 years apart in age, they consider each other sisters due to being born from the same batch of Sucre Cores originally from the Ames household.

- Although she is born a Sweetical, due to her not knowing her true identity and potential she is still a novice at her skills.

- Tanya does not come from Earth: the planet I haven't thought of a name for yet tho it is similar to Earth apart from it being almost completely covered in water and with no Winter weather at all.

- Tanya got into Lolita culture upon arrival on AS and started wearing more dresses: before she arrived most of her clothes were work clothes more suited on working on the farm.

- Although she identifies as a Rein, unlike her sister Sabrina, Tanya doesn't hold too much ill will towards Fallen for the time being, since she hasn't been on AS for too long. She does tend to shy away from rude and distrusting individuals though.

- Knows how to make amazing fruit pies: it's probably in her blood since she's created from a fruit tart and all.