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Lanai, Hero (and Attention Seeker)

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Name
Lanai

Age
Excellent question! Appears young-adult-ish.

Gender
Female

Species
Siren? Harpy? Something like that.

Ethnicity
Unknown. Possibly non-applicable. Could probably pass as Yoreiqi if she looked more human.

Height
6'2"

Occupation
"Hero". AKA suddenly inserting herself into people's lives, hopefully helping them out in some way, then disappearing just as suddenly.

Residence
Wherever there's people in need!

IN-DEPTH STUFF

Physical Description
Lanai could generally be described as... somewhat humanoid. She is tall and considerably well-built, certainly enough to pick up and carry most people out of danger or fend off an attacker in a fight. Dark skin, black hair, and a set of swirling tattoos snaking up from her right hand to her neck suggest potential Yoreiqi heritage, although it's easy to overlook these features in favour of some of her more... unique ones. She has large, animalistic ears that are covered in black feathers, giving them a fluffy, almost catlike appearance. Her nails are sharpened to the point where they could almost be considered claws, and her feet closely resemble those of a bird's- they are dark, scaly, and digitigrade, with toes ending in sharp claws (or, perhaps more appropriately, talons). Given the general lack of suitable footwear, she basically never wears any.

By far her most striking and unusual feature, however, would be the absolutely absurd four pairs of feathered wings emerging from her back. The feathers are coloured various shades of yellow, orange, and blue, reminiscent of sunlight reflecting over a body of water. Her wings are far more than what would be necessary for her to achieve flight, and can often be more trouble than they're worth. It's common for them to get tangled and messy over the course of a day, although they always seem to somehow be in miraculously pristine condition whenever she shows up somewhere new. Interestingly enough, the amount of wings she has at a given time seems to be somewhat mutable- she initially only had one pair. Then, after intervening to rescue a particularly imaginative child, she started showing up with two pairs. A while later, it was three, then four...

Personality
To put it simply, Lanai is the kind of person who thrives when she's the object of people's attention. She has few reservations about making her presence known in any particular situation, and it can be difficult to get rid of her once she's decided that someone- or something- is worth her time. She has a high opinion of herself in many ways, and she's willing to go to great lengths to get others to think similarly highly of her. To that end, she'll adjust her behaviour slightly over time as she gets to know someone, shifting in whatever way she believes they would respond well to. There do appear to lines she's not willing to cross in this respect- she has little interest in acting outright evil or mean-spirited even if it would appeal to someone in particular, although it's debatable if this is due to her own moral code or if it's out of a desire to maintain a generally positive image. She doesn't seem to be particularly receptive to insults or otherwise negative comments, instead seeing many of them as an opportunity to disprove "mistaken" opinions about her.

Abilities
Lanai has no need to eat, drink, or sleep in order to survive, although she may choose to partake in those things if the situation calls for it. Instead, she receives energy by interacting with others, holding their attention and eliciting generally positive emotions from them. Helping to turn someone's negative emotions into positive ones is highly energizing for her, hence her particular fondness for swooping in to rescue people from dire situations. She seems to have the uncanny ability to appear exactly when people need her the most (well, in her opinion, at least).

...she can also fly, is decent with a spear, and has a really pretty voice.

History
Honestly, there's not too much to say. Nobody seems to have a clear idea about who she is or what she is, let alone where she came from. She doesn't have any sort of traceable family or history, or at least none that are known to members of the general public. To those who have experience dealing with her, the truth seems to be that she just sort of... showed up one day and started doing her thing. Even then, accounts of her appearance vary considerably enough that some chalk her existence up to the product of exaggerated rumours and overactive imaginations...

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