Merana Little

"Everything I want to do is exactly what I'll never be able to."

- toss me to sea and let me sink

Merana Little, legally named Merana Shenqing Ci [they/them or she/her] is a 2015-introduced original character, avid saxophone enthusiast, and aspiring author. They are destined to be the next Rusalka from the opera of the same name by Antonín Leopold Dvořák. They are currently attending their Legacy Year (Second Year) at Ever After High.

Growing up with Death's presence at their shoulder, and worse, the guarantee that Death was indeed there, Merana holds a twisted view of their purpose in life. They hesitate to let go of a self-concieved notion of their inferiority, however obviously detrimental it may be. Irrational as it is, Merana finds romance in despair and trades what is the right choice for what is a momentary distraction. At times they can be overzealous in their aspirations, hungry for whatever accomplishment they can get before their early demise. Because of this, Merana is simultaneously hopelessly idealistic with self-standards, and distrustful of what the future will bring.

Even though Merana worries each new day, most notably for their identity and their future, they hold themself nonchalantly, preferring to cry into their covers. For the time being, they grace themselves with a cover of mirthful light and sharp wit, dryly jovial yet credible, lovely light waves hiding troubled waters. And though Merana wishes they were not so uncertain all the time, not so selfish and unwilling to accept, they cannot find it within themselves to break from their reverie.

Personality
Merely what appears to be yet another Little Mermaid variant in the grand scheme of things, Merana worries for her sense of identity and the pressure of Destiny and Co. Amongst dozens of other fated-to-die water-themed teens, she feels as if the concept of fate and taking on a legacy has caused her to change greatly from who she was, and who she wants to be. Most notably, she sees her skills as useless, and her purpose obsolete. However, a substantial fear of failure still seems real enough apparently. Merana has a slight obsession with self-improvement, and desires success, whatever that may entail, before death.

There is a clear divide between the kind of person Merana aspires to be and who she is with her guard down. Growing up consuming media featuring particularly jaded lone wolves has made Merana fall in love with a persona she has built to fit herself into. The prodigy distant from everyone else, the cynic, the snark, pulling badassery out of their perfectly written and edited character arcs, someone who she should aspire to be. Her romanticizing nature combined with her want of admiration and attention has led her to subconsciously try and fit into the role better, even forcing herself to put up the facade. And over the years, it has come more and more naturally to her.

The identity Merana strives to be half her waking moments is wryly and dryly humorous, remarking on daily incidents with oh-so-seemingly blasé comments, handling everything life throws at them with cheek, dramatic flair, and morbid humor. She should excel in all areas, garnering praise and trust from her elders, inspiring awe in her peers, while treating the matter as if it was not enough. She must raise her eyebrows at the most opportune moments, scoff and murmur, half-lidded eyes bearing boredom and absolute superiority, win all arguments and always have a snappy one-liner ready. And, as is standard, exist as if personal lighting, make-up, sound, and wardrobe crews were with her at all times.

Very much so not this persona she exhibits, Merana is uncomfortably aware that she's changing her behavior to imitate what she admires. And though being true to herself and having people genuinely admire her is somewhat of a goal, Merana enjoys the feeling of being superior, she enjoys this passive-aggressiveness because she doesn't know how to express discontent otherwise. As you would expect, the harshness of this persona has seeped into Merana and incorporated itself into her personality.

Merana, when she is not trying to embody a TV Tropes page, is expressive to a large degree. She's easily excitable at the mention of say, instruments or cooking, easily frustrated when she is disrupted, and all too easily nervous when faced with just about anything. Through smiles and narrowed eyes and movement and energy and irritated huffs, Merana lets herself crack open a cold bottled emotion, long-coveted and long-delayed.

However, her issues with self-image and identity are also noticeably apparent with the loss of her pretense. Merana craves attention and praise, she idealizes being put on a pedestal, and she becomes desperate when there's a noticeable lack of validation. This is an especially difficult mindset to deal with when you attend a school that is currently contemplating the validity of a then widely-accepted metaphysical law. No biggie. Stress tends to multiply in situations like these.

Merana, having been awarded a prestigious destiny because of hard work, glamorizes high self-standards. By nature she is an over-achiever, eager to improve and with no shortage of a telltale perfectionist attitude. However, she often pushes this to the extreme, wanting to better her skills so much that she gets overwhelmed with what she perceives as the quota. Not to mention, she has such high standards for herself, disguising them as expectations of others, that she becomes unhealthily obsessed with her work.

After competing with others for so long, Merana developed an idea that if she were not up to par, whatever that may be, she would fail, whatever that may be. Her feelings of helplessness and dependency when she was younger were self-interpreted as weaknesses, consequently she started feeling like she was weak. To deal with this, she finds comfort in success, usually in academics, subconsciously trying to find peace through attention.

She also tends to overthink anything and everything, getting nervous and fussing over the smallest details. Partly because of her ever-embellishing nature and partly because she's kind of pretentious. Because she gravitates towards much too grandiose ideas for simple situations, she ends up running herself exhausted. As a perfectionist, and also as someone who longs to be effortlessly talented, this is torture. And speaking of wanting to be effortlessly talented, Merana has bouts of laziness where she's so exhausted that she gives up on doing anything until she guilts herself into working again..

Merana's self-consciousness and easy embarrassment also rears its ugly head in her pride. For all she pretends, Merana is actually really sensitive to criticism and insults, and being aware of that piles shame and guilt onto her ego. She tells herself that as an aspri\iring composer. acceptance of criticism is an important skill, and yet tears form every time someone raises their voice at her.

Speaking of egos, Merana has a habit that is rapidly growing in popularity: self deprecation in order for others to intervene and contradict. The basis of this habit is: 1) Do something that is quite awesome. 2) Pretend either a) "It's not that good" or b) "It was pretty easy!" 3) Attention and awe!! 4) hooray. There have been many points in time where Merana deliberately manipulates other people into supplying validation.

To wrap up, Merana's kind of a nervous wreck that manages to keep everything under wraps by distracting people with spontaneous wordplay and self-deprecative humor. She wishes she could be naturally talented, and teeters between working really hard and wasting hours daydreaming about who she could be. She has a lot of aspirations, and a lot of fear too. We can only hope she'll find what makes her happy before her death, whether it be a few years or a few decades down the road.

Human Form
In their more humanoid form, Merana seems to be a taller than average teenager of Chinese descent. They have a more feminine appearance, though their style is rather androgynous. In terms of skin color, they have a medium to light complexion with a neutral tone and a naturally darker dorsal side due to their aquatic heritage. Keratosis pilaris comes in the form of harmless little bumps near her shoulders.

Merana stands at 5'7" (170 cm) without heels, a fact they are very proud of. They have somewhat broad shoulders that they occasionally showcase with posture that isn't terrible and the god-given proportions of long legs. While they enjoy athletic activities, their build rarely strays from "kinda toned but not really". Any muscle that they do have is hidden underneath a soft stomach and squishy thighs. Sometimes they wear a binder and sometimes they don't! It really depends on the day.

Their face is rather round and still chubby, retaining baby fat. When crying, respiring anaerobically, cold, or a mixture of all three, rosiness takes home in their cheeks. Merana has a slightly flatter nose, unplucked (but not thick) eyebrows, and lips that usually have some sort of balm on them due to their dryness.

Their eyes seem to be black but they're actually very dark brown with flecks of orange here and there. Upon close inspection the iris resembles a fishbowl filled with inky water sloshing about. Sometimes, magic fluctuations can bring out the orange.They are framed with long dark lashes.

For pretty much all their life, Merana has had a short bob, with cute blunt bangs as a kid, later becoming an emo side part and a sloping trim. Recently though, they've cut it shorter on one side, not shaving it down but trimming it much more. They've also dyed it in a black to turquoise ombre, leaving natural roots. While expecting destroyed hair (their reluctance to dye it in the first place), it has surprisingly remained pretty healthy!

Merana also has several piercings. She has the usual two lobes and an industrial on her right ear. She really enjoys finding nautical themed earrings and her favorite anchor industrial earring was specially commissioned as a reward for winning her destiny. In the future Merana will get a tattoo or two, and she's already started planning what they will be.

Merfolk Form
Merana's human-merfolk transformation kind of exists on a slider, if that makes any sense. They are able to control it for the most part, meaning that they can decide on legs or tail. But oftentimes more otherworldly aspects will crop up in their human form and vice versa naturally. To this, they usually don't bother attempting to consciously change it since they see it as "it is what it is".

In their most humanoid form possible, they have gill scars on their neck and outlines of or actual scales here and there. As the slider moves up, fins appear on the Merana's forearms and calves, growing larger and more prominent. The legs-to-tail transformation is a binary however, otherwise it would be. very. unpractical. Further changes are functionality of gills, slightly glowy eyes with black-green irises, and a more prominent dorsal to ventral skin tone gradient.

Their fins are translucent black, darkening at the tips. The shape is a long and rather crumpled sort of affair, jagged but droopy, soft to the touch. You'd think they'd be a nuisance in the water but they're surprisingly hydrodynamic.

Her tail is about 7 feet, or 2 meters, not counting the tail fin, average for her age. The scales are glassy black with silver undertones, and in some lighting you can clearly see dappled areas of faint traces of emerald. The tail fin starts out as translucent silvery-green and ends majestically in translucent silvery-black, spanning about 3 feet in width and 2 feet in length.

Her skin takes on a slightly silver tint, black darkening her remaining limbs, and her teeth take on a shark-like aspect. MerMer's eyes glow more luminously, and her movements are smoother. Silver green scales can be found here and there, around her arms and neck. She is able to do as she does on land in the water. Except, y'know. Walk. And everything associated with walking.

Interests
very much into all the arts. ranked from highest to lowest interest

Music
production, composition, and playing. Plays the erhu and multiple saxophones.

Fashion
finding a way to dress like a suave prince/princess when you're a middle-class fish

Cooking
makes a mean seaweed quiche

Books
likes writing and reading

Dance
compulsory ballet classes, but likes all sorts of dance. will do a lil shimmy. Mostly into energetic, acrobatic dances, not too much into slow stuff. Ex: swing, hip-hop, latin. only recently branch out and interest

Theater
not so much into being on the stage as helping put together a production. ties in with music i guess what with performing.

Merfolk Deriven
The most obvious ability of Merana is being able to turn their legs into a tail. As a magical creature they are granted a couple of differences in addition to this. Merana heals slightly quicker than the average human, and their senses are heightened. For example, Merana has unnaturally sharp eyesight, a more aware sense of touch, and can pick up more subtle scents. Their hearing is average though, since it isn't very utilized in the life of a merfolk.

Speaking of merfolk life, Merana is fluent in the sirenic language, or at least the dialect in their area. Underwater, the language requires careful interpretation of vibrations from sound waves and signing as an accompaniment. It's neither efficient nor understandable on land, and so on calls to home they'll take them in a pool or just speak in the common tongue. For this reason many merfolk tend to be good at the common tongue.

weird way of crying

pretty much it

How The Story Goes
Rusalka

How Does Merana Fit Into it?
The previous Rusalka (insert link here to new character later) disappeared after her story had ended, leaving behind no contact information, and more importantly, no heir. When the Fairytale Authorities finally found her, forcefully expelled her from the gloomy bog she was residing in, and reminded her of her duties as a legacy, she refused to cooperate, causing a massive magical implosion at the area.

Some common local gossip is that she renounced her title as Rusalka and as the princess and heir to the lake, discarding her magic. Others will argue "no no, that was intentionally spread by the authorities, using the controversial action of renouncing her title to corner her. They have her in custody- no they're still searching for her! She's still on the run! and they're utilizing their influence. If she doesn't cooperate she'll lose her title and inheritance and if she does- well, that's good for them, eh?" Still others will say "aw, come off it! She's definitely in custody, don't you know who was in the sect that met with her? They had these crazy rookies! Look, I heard one of 'em took out her right eye! And she's in that secret government-protected prison now and she's- aww she's a tough cookie she's not budgin'! No sirree, no torture could make her submit to the devil's will. And-"

Anyways, there was a more important matter at hand: a new Rusalka was needed.

...Well, perhaps the matter was not so important, seeing as how the situation was left unresolved for many years after that faithful encounter. It was only due to the urgings by one of the smaller branches of the White family that a new Rusalka was called for at all.

Enter: Merana, 9 years old. A resident of one of the smaller, quieter lakes of New Orc City. Possesses ability to have legs, currently undergoing an education on land with supplementary merfolk classes on weekends. Born, and here's the interesting part, to parents without destinies.

There was a relatively large ruckus made of the (then) current Rusalka disappearing. In the history of Ever After this event was not considered too prominent on the rebellion scene as it had a small public reaction, because of the insignificance of the story. Regardless of the substantial amount of news publicizing the issue, there were other concerns that greatly overshadowed it. In any case, any shock that was present was quickly replaced with excitement when the DCDA was announced.

The Destiny Compatibility Determinant Assessment, or the DCDA,

Parallels

 * Even though Merana's sirenic roots are not of those rooted in singing to seduce sailors, she still has interest in music. Why? Because their story is an opera! Furthermore, their interest goes beyond singing and delves into composition and performance of music, seeing as operas have both of those components. Merana plays instruments that are generally used as accompaniments to a theater performance.
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Viewpoint on Destiny
Merana has a complicated relationship with destiny. On one hand, she's proud of her own achievement in working for the spot, on the other hand she's horrified at what she unknowingly condemned herself to. She's made her family proud, acquired a destiny while being born to parents without ones, and yet it was the result of being young and desperate. Justifiably angry at the world for preying on a child, Merana does not wish to go through with her destiny, yet holds a fear of what will happen if she does not.

Name
Merana was born Merana Shenqing Ci. In real-life, she would be of Chinese descent, and so she has a Chinese name: 刺深清.Her middle name is just the romanization of her Chinese name 深清. Similarly, her last name is also the romanization of 刺. 刺深清 is spelled cì shēnqīng in Mandarin romanization. Remember that in China the last name appears first!

Merana is a name of Italian origin, meaning "woman of the waters". It was chosen for obvious reasons.

深 itself means "deep" and the character is used in conjunction with other characters to form phrases like "profound" and "dark", referencing the dark nature of the story. 清 means "clear" and can form phrases like "clean" and "quiet", referencing what water is often associated with being. These two meanings kind of contradict each other, since they're not typically thought to be on the same page.

The three dots on the left side of both characters is the water radical, again, chosen for obvious reasons. Without the water radical, 清 becomes 青, meaning "blue-green" or "black". 深 without the water radical is 罙, which is pronounced differently and apparently either has no meaning or also means deep??? This is relevant to Merana because it's a mess and Merana is also a mess.

刺 means many things, and is translated as "spine", "thorn", "sting", "prick", etc. However it's also used (in the creator's experiences as least) as a term for the very fine bones of a fish.

After her coronation as the new Rusalka, Merana took on the last name Little. However, she finds something off with using it, and deeply wishes she could return to her original name.

She has a nickname, MerMer, that quite a few people know her by and call her, though she prefers only her close friends to use it.

Class-ic Schedule
anyways tba

Freedom Year
core classes: Advanced Placement Bi-ogre-y, Honors Creative Storytelling I, Tale-gebra II, Geografairy

eah specific: Princessology I

electives: Princess Design, Introductory Muse-ic Theory

Legacy Year
Advanced Placement Muse-ic Theory, Advanced Ballet

Advanced Placement Chemythstry, Pre-Crownculus, Advanced Placement Meropean Hi-story, Honors Creative Storytelling II

Princessology II, Honors Magicology I

Yearbook Year
Advanced Placement Physhex, Advanced Placement Crownculus, Honors Advanced Allusions and Cross-Cultural References I, Advanced Placement History of Tall Tales I,

Princessology III, Honors Magicology II

Kingdom Management II- skipped straight ahead to this. struggles since not having taken the I class, but is kind of debating whether they'll die so they want to be prepared for if they don't.

Fourth Year
Honors Advanced Allusions and Cross-Cultural References II, Advanced Placement History of Tall Tales II, Advanced Placement Statishex

Honors Magicology III, Princessology IIII

Throne Economics- relaxing

Drama Club
tba

Big Bad-minton Club
not the sports team, don't have time. Likes to play for fun with team members though.

Swim Team
duh

Merana is exempted from Grimmnastics due to them being on the swim team.

Family
Merana has a conflicted view of her parents, to say the least. She loves them but can't help get sick of their fighting. Sometimes they are supportive, sometimes they are unreasonable. Most of all, the circumstances of events that led to her getting her resented destiny heavily concerns her parents. will expand later. Of course on the other side they know nothing of her feelings and view her as a good daughter.

Friends
Desi - teetering on that friend/crush tightrope

Cop- are you ever just really gay for your friend

Dami - goth nerds unite

Clerval- tba

Acquaintances
Dery- ooh gay

Adoette- juxtaposition. merana is not aware of (insert name here)'s somewhat hostile feelings towards her.

tba

Enemies
hum de dum

Pets
Mererid- During the Animal Calling lesson, Merana received a magical ship figurehead she named Mererid. Mererid is a magical creature as it is an enchanted piece of sea treasure. don't read please

Romance
"I hope I'll find someone, but it's really in the same vein as apples. I'd like some, but I think I could survive without it." For a siren, she's actually quite useless at romance. Has somewhat of a crush/admiration thing going on for many people.

Oufits
As they are considered royal by title, though not blood, Merana makes an effort to dress well. They tend to gravitate towards a color palette of blues, greens, and varying shades of black. Nautical motifs are often utilized, like anchors, seashells, ocean waves, etc. Most if not all of what Merana wears is customized in some way. Due to their interest in fashion, they enjoy going to thrift stores and picking out interesting items to add a personal touch to. {| class="article-table" ! ! TBA am working on it ^^;

Basic
Merana wears a charcoal double-breasted waistcoat with gray pinstripes that is buttoned in the front with two rows of small silver anchor-shaped buttons. The waistcoat's collar and the thin panels on either side of the waistcoat are black. Underneath this she wears a white blouse with oversized flowy sleeves that are tied at the wrist with a string of black pearls. A gradient of white to blue-green patterned with sea foam occurs from the shoulders to the wrists. The blouse has a ruffled collar tinted blue nears the ends, tied with a very long blue-green ribbon. The edges of the ribbon are rounded and resemble ocean waves in general.

The blouse is tucked into black skinny jeans that have a silver scale pattern here and there. Her shoes are high-heeled platform boots that reach to over her knee. They are robin's egg blue in color, with a downturned cuff at the top that resemble foamy ocean waves. The heels and sole are made out of translucent turquoise sea glass, and the heels resemble upside down anchors. Delicate miniature chains made of the sea glass extend from them and run up the boots, twisting around them. Attached to the the boots are knee guards/decorations that resemble black conch shells dusted with silver. They are kept in place by two strings of black pearls that attach to each side and drape across the back of her knees.

She carries her trustworthy enchanted umbrella with her at all times, relying on it to stay hydrated. It is patterned with thick stripes of black and ivory on the outside, while the inside holds a dark frothy whirlpool, constantly spraying small drops. There is a black ribbon attached to the dark wood handle for convenience's sake. If the situation calls for it, Merana would not hesitate to use her umbrella as a weapon.
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Legacy Day
Merana wears one of her mother's human gowns, but with her own twist. It is an off-the-shoulder turquoise dress with a sweetheart bodice. The straps are actually a piece of fishnet that loops around the shoulders, and is pinned to the waist. Her skirt is fairly normal until it reaches to just above her knee, where it separates into many layers of waves and ruffles, ranging from gradients: turquoise-cerulean, turquoise-emerald, turquoise- light blue, etc. creating an ocean illusion at the bottom. The bottom of the dress comes to around her shin and the back tapers behind to drag slightly on the ground.

Her belt is gold and encrusted like a mosaic with all the richest sapphires and turquoises and other blue jewels that fell into sea. She wears a tiara with matching earrings. It is also a heirloom accessory, along with her usual ring. However, the tiara has strings of black pearls that twist into her hair, which is in a fancy hairdo, half-up half-down. She wears a string of black pearls that winds itself around her left shoulder and neck for a necklace. Her shoes are gold high-heel sandals, with strings of pearls that lace up her calves and also drip on the floor. The heels are actually sculpted to form seahorses. For her cape, it is also ocean-patterned, and its tapered end is trimmed with white frills.

She wears only waterproof mascara but with a small hint of subtle clear lip gloss.
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Getting Fairest
Merana wears a comfortable fluffy white hoodie with plush black conch shell-looking bunny ears attached on top. The inside of the shells/ears are robin's egg blue. The oversized sleeves uses cute blue seashells as elbow patches. There is also a blue drawstring for the hood with fluffy black pompoms attached to the ends. On the back the hoodie comes with a fluffy black pompom to look like a tail. Merana wears black leggings and a black T-shirt which can't be seen underneath the large hoodie.

She has a few extra items to accompany this. First, a pair of very fluffy blue and white striped socks. Second, a cute pair of light blue rabbit slippers that differ from the conventional bunny slippers. And last, but not least, a soft blue and white striped elastic headband with a bow plunked on top. Impractical for washing your face, but completely adorable!
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Mirror Beach
Merana is not really one for showing skin, so she wears a simple black racing suit of which the bottom half resembles small shorts. When not in the water, Merana dons a towel around her shoulders to dry off. The towel is a fluffy white with translucent turquoise bubbles patterning it. When in siren form the racing suit just molds into her tail.
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Hat-tastic Tea Party
Merana wears a black blazer with the sleeves rolled up. One silver button engraved with a heart, spade, club, and diamond holding it together. Her fins are not visible. The collar is white, with turquoise detailing that looks like the suites of a card. The blazer tapers back into two coat-tails, the inside has the same pattern. The lining of the pockets are white, and the buttons on the sleeves are also white. Underneath the blazer is a white top with a sweetheart neckline, with small frills on the neckline. Merana wears a cobalt satin belt encrusted with black pearls on her top, under her blazer. She also wears an asymmetrical turquoise peplum attached to the belt. The peplum is shaped like this one, except the longer side only reachers to her knee. Small quantities of shimmering silver threads weave in and out of the peplum, to make it look like swirling silver waves are patterned on it. Under the peplum, she wears a very short flouncy skirt with a gradient that goes from black to teal. The design of the skirt is flowy enough that it looks like poured tea. She wears mismatched stockings underneath, they reach to just below her mid-thigh. One is colored black with a white clubs and spades pattern. The other is wine-colored with white diamonds and hearts. They are attached using black garters.

Her hair is streaked with cobalt slashes. Accessories include ocean-gradient gloves with white lacy ruffles, and her slightly shimmering turquoise stiletto heels are decorated with a bow made out of a card on each toe. However, the bow is colored black, white, and wine instead. Placed on top of the card bow is a silver casino chip. She wears the same bow as a bowtie around her neck, secured by a cobalt choker. She also carries a dramatic fan made of four cards, all aces. Each of them are white with one of the suite types printed on them. Wine for diamonds and hearts, black for clubs and spades. Merana wears on top of her head a wide-brimmed black sunhat with a matching cobalt satin band. A peacock feather recolored wine is attached to the brim, along with two cards with a wine and white pattern. A teabag-shaped tote is slung across her shoulder, the straps silver and the material of the tote is cream and paper-like. Patterning of the suites are done on the tote in wine.

She has dramatic shimmery silver eyeshadow on, along with matching silver lip gloss. Her eyelids are dusted with a wine red, but the silver eyeshadow goes beyond that. TBA

Thronecoming
hmm?
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Spring Unsprung
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Through the Woods
will change but i quite like this haha

Merana's attire for Through the Woods is more medium/dark blue-based than her usual turquoise palette. Her hair is put in a side fishtail braid. Small strands of seaweed are braided along in her hair. She wears a turquoise gauze hooded cloak like Cerise's. It is held together with a black pearl clasp. There are emerald seaweed patterns on the cloak, along with cobalt blue gauze on the inside.

Under the cloak is a cobalt three-quarters sleeved fitted top decorated with leaf motifs. This particular motif consists of thin stripes of black going vertically on the top, with emerald leafs sprouting from the sides of the stripes. She also has a pair of black denim shorts with silver studs on the cobalt rolled-up bottoms and the belt loops. Black suspenders go over her shoulders, connected to the shorts. An emerald tie is threaded through the belt loops instead of a belt, tying together one one side. Some shimmery turquoise tights with black swirls and these hiking boots only thigh-high and cobalt-colored with small black pearls instead of the studs and silver laces complete the outfit.

She carries a navy blue lantern and a gold signal flare encrusted with black pearls.
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Enchanted Picnic
Merana wears a cerulean and white gingham romper with puffy shorts. The straps of the romper are black pearls, and a ruffled strip of the gingham lies across the neckline of the romper. She wears white ankle boots with cerulean laces. Her hair is completely black, grown out slightly, and styled with the ends flared out.

On her head she wears a white starfish and black pearl string headpiece. Her picnic basket is shaped like a cobalt fish with its mouth as the opening, and a string of black pearls (of course) as the handle.
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Sugar Coated
Definitely redoing this nightmare

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Fairest On Ice
some ideas! not many but still
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Way too Wonderland
A corset-ish top made of cards?

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Date Night
???
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Royally Ever After
TBA
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Book Party
TBA

Something with this peplum
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TriCastleon
swimmy boi
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Dragon Games
ooooh armor designs
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Epic Winter
TBA
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Birthday Ball
TBA
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Themes
It's like impossible to find songs for them.

TBA

Trivia

 * Merana is sapphic! they proceed to laugh because sapphic? like, the color, sapphire? blue? like them!
 * Gender is. confusion. Fairymerica eggsplain.
 * They have a fear of losing their eyesight, or being visually impaired in general. Their vision is fine, however laying off the electronics would not hurt.

Quotes
"What is there to want when you have pistachio ice-cream?"

- how drama

"I was once told by someone that I would regret coming to Ever After High. And I mean, I kind of do? But I'd rather prove them wrong."

- "told by someone" as opposed to being told by no one

"I'm not just afraid of being left behind, I'm afraid I'm already behind and I can't do anything about it."

- running a race, running my mouth, running out of time

"There would be a lot less frustration if any one of us could shut up for more than five seconds."

- sadly, we are one and the same

"I would never!"

- a handy dandy catchphrase

"Yeah, I can see. **realization** *nice*"

- the (not very good) joke is "see" and "sea"

Gallery
If anyone wants to draw her, feel free to! owo

Art
References