⛓MAL⛓
We're all roped into this together, aren't we?
☁ Name: Mallory Seong Pestes
☁ Pronouns: she/her
☁ Age: 17
☁ Favorite Food: Pork Dumplings
☁ Coolest Thing: Birds
☁ Dislikes: Crowds, Loud Noises, White Chocolate
☁ Curse: Miasma
☁ Curse Class: Phenomenon
☁ Pronouns: she/her
☁ Age: 17
☁ Favorite Food: Pork Dumplings
☁ Coolest Thing: Birds
☁ Dislikes: Crowds, Loud Noises, White Chocolate
☁ Curse: Miasma
☁ Curse Class: Phenomenon
A shut-in korean-canadian teenager living in Ryesbake, south of Ambrosia City. Both of her parents are out of the picture, and she has been raised by her aunt. Very reserved and at first doesn't believe she deserves any friendship and avoids people, but eventually learns to care deeply for the connections she winds up making.
The city has Cursed Mal with the ability of Miasma. This power grants Mal with the ability to conjure, using phantasmal energy, an ethereal purple smog. She cannot, however, mold or bend its shape.
Those who inhale Miasma are inflicted with a unique illness. It's not a physical ailment of the body, but rather a type of Hex. It's not fatal, but it will inflict nausea, exhaustion and vertigo.
The curse has also inflicted Mallory with a very mild, but permanent, cold that causes her to be immune to all other illnesses, including her own Miasma. It tends to be manageable, but she has seasons where it's more sporadic and she uses a face mask, while having a lot of her stamina drained. Living with an extremely specific and unknown chronic illness most of her life is one of the things that has fed into Mal's feelings of loneliness, as she is alone in her struggles with it.
After a series of events, a broken piece of a glass key made of pure phantasmal energy has been stuck to Mal's body as a hex. Having taken an energy-based form, it has affixed itself to Mal's soul itself. Removal of the the hex from her body at its current size is impossible without rupturing her own soul.
Likely due to Mal's curse causing her soul to already be entwined with the power of hexes, and/or likely due to the Key Shard's stupidly high energy, while hexed Mal has gained the ability to augment her Miasma abilities by drawing from the power of the Key Shard, drawing power from the phantasmal world itself. Evoked by phantasmal chains loosening from her body, Mal has the ability to "unchain" herself, allowing greater control of her miasma (including the ability to mold it into any shape) and the ability to create glass crystals, at the cost of losing her tether to the corporeal world; her body becoming frail.