Reina Maledi

Reina Maledi (she/her) is the successor to Nabote from Fairer than a Fairy. Cold, harsh and ambitious, Reina is a good fit for her role, as well as being the leader of the Villain clique, a group of students recognised for embracing their villain roles.

Personality
Initially, Reina comes off as very cold and collected. As a future queen, she maintains a soft spoken dignity. It's rare to see her be overtly emotional. She maintains an emotional distance to everyone she talks to. Even when she's being friendly, the facade is hollow.

Perceptive, Reina is very good at understanding people's weaknesses and using them to suit her own desires. She's rarely forceful, and instead prefers to manipulate people verbally, making subtle digs at their insecurities in order to undermine and exploit them. She's a rather ruthless person.

She loves to maintain the upper hand with others. She switches between being warm and cold towards others, keeping them uncertain. However her villain status means this tactic gets seen through very easily by anyone other than people in her inner circle. Bringing others down lets her feel superior, which is why she loves doing it.

Although her fairy tale implies that she should be obsessed with beauty, she isn't. She claims that beauty doesn't matter to her, and instead says that people should focus on her merits, which are more valuable than looks. However in truth, she's extremely fixated on her appearance and not in a positive way. She is overwhelmingly self conscious and insecure in how she looks. Any focus on her appearance, whether good or bad makes her extremely uncomfortable which is why she tries to divert attention away from it.

Her apathetic behaviour conceals the fact that Reina is an extremely emotional person. She cares a lot, perhaps even too much, about a lot of things, including how people view her. She is prone to angry outbursts when things don't go her way, and she'd likely burst into tears a lot if she hadn't cursed herself to make crying impossible.

Since she's destined to be an Evil Queen, she desperately wants to be seen as mature and confident, and so powerful that she cannot be hurt. However she doesn't always know what maturity should entail, and frequently feels out of her depth. While her behaviour doesn't show it, Reina is fully aware of how fake her persona is and that prevents her from ever feeling secure. She can be quite nervous, and not knowing what to do deeply terrifies her.

Reina struggles with finding a place in the world, since her villain role implies that she doesn't have one. This makes her stubbornly dedicated to maintaining a personal integrity. Although this doesn't make her nice per se, it does make her behaviour consistent. For instance, she won't fake affection, she won't discard anyone randomly, and most of all she won't display any of the traits she's exploited in others. However this severely limits how she expresses emotion. Even if she wanted to, pride prevents her from opening up to others.

Deep down, Reina truly wants to be liked, or at the very least, popular. She's obsessed with gaining popularity, and the fact that she isn't is endlessly frustrating for her. However no amount of popularity seems to satisfy her, and she always wants more.

If there's one good thing about Reina, it's how much she cares about Fairy rights. Although she feels like an outcast compared to other fairies, she views them with a sort of wistful affection. Despite being an antagonist, Reina cares a lot about her future role as the Fairy Queen, and even if she's not going to be seen as the true ruler, she does want to be a good queen to her future subjects. As of now, she will defend any fairies who get mistreated. Anyone who exploits fairykind automatically attracts her ire.

Fight Club
Reina can't seem to grasp any sort of popularity in school, so instead she settles for things outside of school.