Melinda Templeton

Melinda Maria Templeton, otherwise known as Meli, is destined to be the next Temple Girl from the Little Mermaid. In the destiny conflict, she is a flat out Rebel, she has no desire to live out any possible part of her story.

Appearance
Melinda has long blue-black hair worn lose and down to her knees, with a dark blue beanie on top. She has teal eyes framed by long dark lashes and pale skin. She wears dark lipstick.

She wears a dark blue leather long-sleeved cropped jacket, a royal blue shirt, ripped dark blue leather leggings, and knee high dark grey boots.

Personality
Meli seems to the world like a happy teen, eager to go on with her life, nothing keeps her down for long, you know the type. The ones that seem like their world is all cupcakes and rainbows and nothing can ever change that.

Meli wants people to always smile, and she hates when someone frowns in her presence. She has a big heart and wants to love the whole world, and sometimes wishes her arms were big enough to hug everyone that needs it.

That's the type of person Meli is to the outside world. In reality, there's a reason she wears a long sleeved jacket, even in the hottest weather, and a a reason she never goes to the beach. She...marks herself every night you might say, and should people see these marks, they'd just get upset and worry.

Meli is pretty good at hiding behind a fake smile. She has everyone, literally everyone, fooled when she smiles really big and tells them that "I'm fine".

Family
Melinda was just a simple villager, living her life blissfully unaware of any destiny. Until her parents died at sea during a storm, when she was about ten, and then her life changed. She was adopted by the royal family of her kingdom, who had recently lost a daughter her own age who looked like her, and their first child was named Maria. Melinda is only called Maria at her house, they almost are trying to morph Meli into being their daughter they lost. And it always felt wrong. She started marking herself every night, one for each time she had been called Maria throughout the day.

So when she learned of her destiny and moved to the school, she decided to openly rebel and be nothing like Maria. She ran to the Hair Salon, demanded they dye her hair something wild, like blue, and then went on a shopping spree, buying leather and such.

Interests
She used to love swimming, and wanted to be a champ, but since her parents' death, Meli is absolutely petrified to go anywhere near the water. Instead, she paints. She tries to paint things like people or animals, but always some element of the water she loved sneaks it's way into her art.

Friends
TBA

Romance
TBA

Enemies
Meeshell Mermaid

Meli sometimes wishes Meeshell would just crawl back into the water where she belongs. It's nothing against her personality, it's just that every time Meli sees her, she's reminded of that day where she had been playing on the beach, before being found by an adult and informed of her parent's death.

Pet
A tortoise. She has a pet tortoise named Shelly. Shelly is the closest thing to a water animal Melinda will ever feel comfortable around ever again. Shelly is green and of course is slow, but Meli loves her anyway.