Mistral Rivera-Hwang

**Mistral Rivera-Hwang** is a creative, independent teenager and a compulsive hoarder who loves to stir up trouble.

She appears in the roleplays Forum City: A New Chapter and Forum City: Remodeled, as well as being featured in the first chapter of First Things First. She has also been adapted to a fantasy setting as the human/siren hybrid **Mystrala Vaeris**, where she appears in The Lost Realm. (trivia: this was actually her original form). She has also been adapted into the Fictini wielder **Plunderstorm** in Magical Fiction Heroes, where she is partnered with Razar from Legends of Chima.

## General Information

### Quick Stats

Gender: demigirl (she/they, AFAB)

Sexuality: asexual demi/panromantic

Stereotype: The Contrary Hoarder

Age: 18

Likes:

* Animals of all kinds
* Pranks and chaotic fun
* Adrenaline, adventure, and discovery
* Self-expression, standing out
* Dinosaurs, dragons, ninjas, trucks, etc, she has the interests of a stereotypical 10-year-old boy
* Any sort of sweet things

Dislikes:

* Rain and snow
* Boredom
* Vegetables
* Rules, being told what to do
* “Adult things”- responsibilities, chores, college, getting a job, etc

### Physical Appearance

Mistral appears to be all skin and bones, with a slight and scraggly build, but with a surprising amount of wiry muscle in her limbs. Her small stature, combined with a flatter chest and overall boyish look, makes her seem like a younger teenager. Her hair is jet black, and would reach just to her ears if brushed straight, but it is normally very spiky and unruly.

Mistral typically wears a blue and black plaid button-up flannel over a white tank top, black leggings, and beat-up purple sneakers, but will go barefoot whenever she can get away with it. They wear a number of faded glow stick bracelets and a twine necklace with a red charm fashioned from a bottle cap. She also always carries around a bright purple backpack that looks very old and worn, almost to the point of falling apart. It has a glittery, but faded, design of a cartoon princess on it, and is very small for them, showing that it was meant for a much younger child.

### Personality

Mistral is a temperamental person that often acts very petty and childish. She is very sarcastic and has somewhat of a dangerously brash arrogance and entitlement about her. She is self-serving, and gets bored easily so her primary motivator is her own amusement, usually at the expense of others. She is mischievous and enjoys causing chaos, and can sometimes accidentally overstep people's physical or emotional boundaries, but she does have some morals and will back off when told. Overall, she’s more of a nuisance than someone who actually aims to do others harm.

Mistral has a unique and creative mind, and she takes great pride in her artistic style and individuality. She is a scrappy survivor and problem-solver who doesn’t let obstacles slow her down, and isn’t afraid of trying out unconventional or risky solutions.

Mistral is a very private person who is highly paranoid and suspicious, while being obsessive and clingy to the people that she gets close with, as she has a visceral fear of betrayal and abandonment. While she can superficially be friendly and sociable when meeting people that she finds interesting or entertaining, she is slow to trust new people and forge genuine relationships with them. Her distrust of others causes her to not open up about her own past and feelings, and she’ll often blow off more serious topics of conversation.

### History

Mistral is in her own words, "only here thanks to some really bad decisions." She was the product of a teen pregnancy and a messy breakup, left for adoption at birth by her eighteen-year-old father and sixteen-year-old mother, and spent most of her early childhood floating through the foster care system.

Mistral was very reserved as a kid and ended up isolating herself from others. She feared getting close to someone only to have to move away again, and eventually internalized that people didn't want to be around her either. She began to see all others as a threat, and would lash out whenever people tried to approach her. So it was no surprise that nobody wanted to adopt her, and people played hot potato with her, shuttling her from place to place.

When she was thirteen years old at orphanage number four, she finally met a caretaker who was patient with her when she lashed out and made an effort to understand where she was coming from. He frequented the orphanage as a volunteer, and as he watched kids come and go, Mistral was still there, and he kept reaching out. There were at least two incidences of scratching and biting and countless temper tantrums, but she eventually began to open up. Soon it was clear that she had grown fond of him, and he made the decision to adopt her. For the next four years or so, she lived with her Papa. He worked as a live-in nanny for a rich family, so she was mostly left to her own devices in the guest house.