Mellata Oak INACTIVE

Name: Oak, Mellata
Marm-ell-art-ah
"Lata" for short.

Gender/Sex: Female

Age: 15

Weapon: Jax Ramsey (To be)

Love Interest: None yet

Orientation (Sexual/Romantic): Bisexual.

Appearance: Due to her Italian heritage (despite growing up in Iceland) she has a medium natural tan, that gets darker during brighter months. It made her Icelandic friends jealous, since they were as white as ghosts in her eyes. On the subject of eyes, her eyes are vivid green that many admire, yet she dislikes them and often wears sunglasses to obscure them. The reason is unbeknownst to anyone.  Her hair is almost certainly the most noticeable thing about her and is the same vivid green as her eyes. Obviously, this is not her natural colour (chocolate brown is) and dyed it this colour by accident. She misread the label and mistook it for "Ombreing kit", distracted by the pretty colours. Mellata was certain it was an ombreing kit, despite the image on the packaging. After dying it, she decided to keep it because she wanted to. Lata constantly wears it in twin tails, tied back with black ribbons. She rarely needs a reason for anything. She stands at 5 ft 5, just a little under average height for her age. She has an athletic build, weighing in at 99lbs, yet her ribs are visible (if she lets you see her torso).

Personality: Mellata is a scatterbrain in it's truest form. She rarely makes sense even when she tries her hardest, so usually she stays quiet because it helps her gather her thoughts. Or completely daydream. Lata's spontaneity sometimes ruins this, since she can't help but blurt out what is on her mind. She is naturally intelligent, shown through test taking (when silence is required), but if you were to meet her, you would assume she's a bimbo. Lata prefers to follow people, and what she sees from people she admires is automatically correct. Her greatest intellectual asset is maths, because it comes naturally to her and presents itself visually, so she can see the answer in a matter of moments. Unfortunately for her, this sort of stuff never comes up in conversation, and only happened in her Icelandic school where she took advanced math at a university level, whereas in other departments, she was stuck in bottom set for all other subjects. ... She still remains rather popular.

Another notable quality about her is her habit of biting herself. She bites the sides of her fingers, especially the side of her index knuckle. It's called "Autophagia". It makes make her concentrate and it's a habit that brings her to the present and makes her focus, stopping her daydreaming. Similar to pinching onesself to check if you're in a dream, but more severe, as she usually draws blood. She flashes back to reality with a beaming smile and a look of determination.  Mellata isn't a masochist, but she does this because she feels it's necessary to keep her head in the game. At the sight of blood, whether it is her own or another person, she laughs, making others think she is a sadist of some sorts, but she laughs for other reasons, probably due to the trauma she was exposed to had rubbed off on her. In actuality, she doesn't like blood at all. Lata feels the need to dumb herself down in situations even when she understands (even if most the time she doesn't) because she fears that if people figure she actually does have any understanding of anything, they would figure out that she caused the death of her parents. Somehow. How those two are related even fathom me.



History: When she was a child, she was assessed to see if she had a learning disability. They only found dyslexia, which isn't that hindering, but it was just her lack of concentration that ruined her education. Her mother was a single mother, and a weapon that graduated from the DWMA, but her husband went missing in battle so she just quit the whole thing, disassociated herself with it as not to bring back memories. They both used to live in Italy, but moved to Iceland when Lata was aged 5, causing Mellata to be tri-lingual in Italian, Icelandic and English. She used to get teased for her stupidity in playschool, but as she grew older, the teasing stopped because she was pretty and popular. From then on, school was easy, and when her gift for maths was found, it was even easier because others were impressed as opposed to jealous, because that was the way in Iceland.

One day out with her mother aged 9, Lata spotted her father and ran up to him to say hello. Her mother could spot the Kishin egg within him, and knowing that she went and executed her plan. She ran up to him also, and made her arm into a sickle blade around his neck and let Lata push backwards with a forceful hug, therefore half decapitating him, his head lolling off to one side. In his last few moments alive, he grabbed a blade from his pocket and stabbed his wife in the chest before gargling out "There, we're even" and they both died cackling in a pool of each others' blood, causing little Lata to laugh manically too as she played in her parents blood, not really aware they were even dead, or that she shouldn't be laughing. She was found by social services and put in an orphanage. She doesn't tell anyone about how she got orphaned, claiming she "forgot" but really, she remembers every detail, and believing that she killed both of them.

She decided she would join the DWMA as a meister to avenge her mother, and effectively her father's (before his soul became a Kishin egg) deaths and to rid the world of evil, but for some reason, probably to hid her parents' circumstances of death, she says because her mother said so in her will, even though there was no mention of the DWMA. She scribbled a note of apology and explaination of why she left, even though it wasn't legible and left of a boat to America with the money she had saved up since she was 9 (the orphange gives a hefty allowance) and then proceeded to get a train to Death City from New Orleans.

Miscellaneous: When exposed to lots of blood, she is susceptible to madness, and could fall, but otherwise is perfectly resilient to madness. Little bits of blood like a small nosebleed or paper cut don't affect her, it's more a fatal injury amount of blood.

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