Reika Voclain

Reika Voclain is the reclusive ogre from Puss in boots, destined to be tricked, eaten and her castle stolen. A successor who was chosen rather than inheriting her role, Reika holds very little interest in fulfilling her role. In fact, she's completely disillusioned with all fairytales as judgemental tales where everything can be solved by 'being good'. After all, she's just a hideous ogre who deserves death.

Personality
A recluse by nature, very little is known about her. She spends all her time in her room, occasionally leaving to go to the library, or to detention because she skips every single class and social event. Instead she dedicates every waking moment to the study of magic. Reading and practicing obsessively, it's done to such a degree that it is almost as if she's using it to ignore life. She avoids leaving to such a degree that she neglects to eat, sleep or even take care of herself, relying on her ogreish vitality to remain alive.

This obsessive study seems excessive, but to Reika, it's pretty much the only thing she hasn't done. She already feels as if she's done with life and holds an intense feeling of world weariness that makes her a complete nihilist. At this point she's given up on a happy future or any sort of acceptance. As such, social interaction is something she's never in the mood for, and she reacts with irritation at any forced conversations. To avoid this, she'll even resort to shapeshifting into some creature to sneak around unnoticed if hunger eventually drives her out of her room.

If walking around, she'll react to random jabs and insults with anger and hostility. Rather than the content, it's using her as a punchline that irritates her. I suppose in attitude to others she's a bit like a wounded beast. She distrusts absolutely everyone and holds absolutely no faith that anyone will ever fulfil any promises they make. If someone tries to approach her politely, however she'll tone down the hostility and at least be polite, if still suspicious. Reika speaks in the rough manner she had throughout her childhood and puncuates her sentences with terms of endearment, such as 'honey' or 'dear' without any sentiment. She speaks with a pessimistic honesty. She won't be dishonest but errs on the negative side of the situation. Another thing she finds irritating is bullying of others, at which point she'll probably yell at the bullies. She's rarely physically violent, despite what her physique would suggest, but she isn't opposed to decking someone in the face either. She doesn't really bother with remembering anyone's names or faces, so doesn't really consider anyone an enemy, however. Social interactions make very few impressions on her.

Once upon a time, Reika was a foolhardy but cunning and proud person with talents in smooth talking, tricking and manipulating people. A people person, she could soothe a dragon out of its hoard, imitate a princess or trick a giant. Though uneducated, she was still highly intelligent with an ability to pull off complex plans without suspicion. In another universe, she probably could have been a doctor knowall, jack the dragon killer, or even her own story's puss in boots. However, bitter and angry, she no longer uses these traits. They're obviously not befitting of an ogre. Now, Reika avoids introspection and her life has kind of shut down. If she really examined herself, she'd find a twisted feeling of bitterness, rage and shame, unresolved shock at betrayal leading to inability to trust and an intense loneliness. Having no intention of examining these feelings, however, means that instead, she's a ball of rage and resignment with indiscriminate lashing out as her only outlet. If pushed too far, she'll eventually snap and these abilities will resurface. However she'll use these only to create an indiscriminately destructive scheme whose sole purpose is hurt.

Interests
Reika has always wanted to become a sorceror. Now that she attends EAH, it's her sole interest, having abandoned pretty much everything else. She's self taught, having learned from various texts, spying on witches and any way possible. She's scarily good.

Reika

Story
Yall know this one, dapper cat skillfully tricks everyone into thinking his master's rich, nicks a castle off an ogre and wins.

Reika's backstory
Reika was once human. A random street kid in some motley band of thieves that no one would ever care about. Her life was entirely competition and survival of the fittest. She learned these skills quickly, gaining some sort of standing. Known for surprisingly daring but successful heists, her recklessness grew. Her feats included orchestrating a feud between two noble houses and stealing and undermining everything they owned, doctor knowalling their way through a rich guy's illness and tricking numerous giants.

They eventually concocted a plan to sneak into the castle of a powerful witch to steal her legendary treasures. Going awry, she was caught and abandoned by her cohorts. The witch cursed her, turning her into an ogre and imprisoning her as manual labour for a number of years. Ever resourceful, she filched various magical texts, teaching herself both magic and reading. She befriended the witch's familiar, the inugami Nobuko and eventually she made her escape, stealing the witch's treasures as revenge.

Travelling across the country, she disguised herself as human and pretended to be a healer, but old habits die hard and she started conning others again. Eventually it was discovered that she was an ogre and she was driven off, losing everything once again.

Eventually in a forest, an older ogre found and adopted her. Now she lives in their castle, though she still has trouble trusting the ogre as family. One day some fairytale authorities came, announcing her as the next Puss in boots ogre (among sword waving. Ogres get a bad rap.)

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