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[b]Affiliation:[/b] Resistance or Marked One
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Name: Mavis Tiflah-Rih [tee-full-ah ree-ah]
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Affiliation: Neutral (Will most likely join the resistance)
Affinity: Wind - The base of Mavis' powers comes from her ability to communicate with the wind and all her subsequent abilities are formed from their guidance.

• Whispers of the Wind - Mavis has the unique ability to hear and understand what the wind says. The breeze both speaks to her and carries the words of other. As a result, there is no keeping verbal secrets from her. She can also sense things from further away, experiencing sensations such as touch and smell through the wind as well as hearing.
  
• Flight - Having such a bond with the wind, the skies allow her to float and thus 'fly' using their power when she wishes to.
  
• Direct Manipulation - Mavis can directly manipulate the winds around her, causing condensed whirling mists or widespread storms (though the latter would tire her out considerably). She can also condense wind around her limbs to make physical attacks more offensive.
  
• Weather Control - As Mavis can control winds, creating turbulence or slipstreams when she wishes, she can also redirect clouds and the like, giving her small amounts of control over the weather.
  
• Breeze Blades - One of the only truly frightening ways in which Mavis can manipulate the wind, she can solidify it so that it acts like a devastatingly sharp blade, either as one large blade or multiple smaller ones

Personality:
Mavis is a very positive individual, always looking on the bright side of things and trying to help others do the same. She hates to see others sad, or cursing their own existence and so in such a situation will do everything in her power to change that. Mavis is hard working and doesn't mind manual labour, even volunteering to work for free when an employer isn't very well off.

As a result of being raised by the wind, Mavis is very intuitive and perceptive to things, similar to how the breezes are. She is intelligent, but her upbringing also means that she doesn't always appreciate or react correctly to social cues, having spent less time around actual people than most her age. Some might also describe her as rather naive, as she hasn't been exposed to the atrocities that humans can cause, having lived a rather idealistic life alongside her adopted parent and friend, the wind.

History:
Mavis was born into a loving family, her parents both caring for her very much. They had always wanted a child and had tried for years but to no avail, Mavis being their little miracle. They named their daughter after the old name for the Song Thrush, a bird whose cheerful calls would bring joy to them each morning. However, her parents' elation at this miracle would not last, as great illness was cast upon the village in which they lived nearly a year or so later. The illness took the lives of both Mavis' parents and majority of the small, nondescript village; Mavis herself only surviving due to a chance genetic mutation that gave her immunity to the disease.

Alone and afraid, the young Mavis remained in the lonely village for a day and a half, her cries unheard as those who were not already dead had fled the village in the hopes that they would not succumb to the illness. Owing to her affinity for the element of wind, the breeze took pity on her and began to speak to her, helping her as a parent might. The wind taught her right from wrong, what food was good and what things would poison her. The wind even taught her basic language, though it would not be until years later that she would properly adjust to English and not the native whistles of the wind.

As she grew up, the wind became more of a friend to Mavis than a parent, experiencing things alongside her and helping her to grow in a way that a parent normally couldn't. The wind accompanied her on her first journey into another town, helping her translate and communicate with these people as she had no prior experience. As time went on, Mavis learned clear English and by her early teens she was known in multiple small towns for being a cheerful, but hard worker. She would find work wherever she could, earning money to pay for food and shelter so that she would no longer have to live off of the land.

Growing up, the wind also taught Mavis multiple ways in which to use her affinity for the wind in order to manipulate it, giving her a way to both protect herself when it mattered most, and help others when they were in need. Her breeze blades in combination with her ability to manipulate the wind have come in rather handy for harvesting large amounts of wheat crop in a short amount of time for example.

As she travelled, following the wind and where her whims would take her, Mavis gained experiences from living in almost all of the realms, some for shorter periods than others. Most recently she has entered the realm of Lord Chronis, the wind having kept her away from the area for the past few years due to being unsure if it was entirely safe as a result of Chronis's corruption. However, now that she has reached the age of 17, the wind has deemed that she is responsible enough to handle herself and so explained to her the situation in the realm.

As was part of her nature, Mavis immediately wanted to try and help, but currently is unsure how to go about doing so. Having been advised by the wind's whispers, she searches for members of the resistance, hoping to lend a hand in the bid for restoring Chronis's purity.

Other:

• Tiflah-Rih is rough arabic for wind child or child wind. Since Mavis doesn't know her own last name this is the name the wind gave her and I hoped that the arabic would reflect the difference in the wind's language when compared to English.