Aludra the Mew Hybrid

## Personality

Unlike her primary façade, Maria Rossi, Aludra is significantly less teasing and mysterious. She tends to be soft-spoken, blunt, and to the point, as well as extremely empathetic and honest. She cares deeply about her guildmembers and existing Mew family, holding them in equal importance, and willing to fight to the death or do anything in her power to protect them. While she held a sense of mystery and grandeur in the past due to the secret she had to keep, in the present, Aludra is just tired and wishes to show her true face once and for all.

## Appearance

Aludra retains a generally Mew-shaped form and color, much like her mother - However, instead of feline characteristics, her appearance is generally more canine. Due to the amount of fathers she had, she doesn't have the specific characteristics of any single canine, vulpine or lupine characteristics, instead just appearing in a more generic, canid way. Aludra wears a large, blue ribbon around her neck at all times for sentimental purposes, although she can remove it at any time she wishes without any ill effects. Rumors state that she becomes extremely shy whenever the ribbon is removed.

## Backstory

For thousands of years, Origin Island floated in the sky - Aludra was merely one Mew in the latest of a history, a culture that spanned generations upon generations, thousands of years since the very Cataclysm itself. This culture was singular and unique, separated from the world below, and held human history and culture in much higher regard than how it was below, the destroyed species largely forgotten. However, much like many, if not most of her brothers and sisters before them, Aludra eventually got bored.. Bored of her idyllic life on Origin Island, bored of never seeing day or night, only sunset. So, when she came of age, she jumped, as many had before, falling to the earth below. At first, when she landed, she was lost. There was an entire new world, and she didn't know what to do, where to go. She fell in the mountains, and eventually made her way down to a small town surrounded by beautiful flowers, and made a home there. She found Redpetal. For at least 36 years, she lived in the town, watching it change, watching it grow, building a reputation for herself. When she had fallen, she had taken a new identity, that of one of her fathers - a Furfrou. She posed as an amnesiac, not knowing her name or where she came from, and the people of the town grew to accept her and even embrace her as one of their own citizens. They helped her come up with a new name for herself - Maria Rossi.

Crime was present in the town, and the area around it, though.. It troubled Aludra - now Maria - and one night, she had a fateful run-in with Astrea's most famous criminals, at the time. Savio Bugardio. Being relatively young and inexperienced in combat at the time, Aludra failed to stop his theft utterly, and was soundly knocked unconscious. It was at that time, that she noticed there were other guilds, far more established elsewhere, but Redpetal had none. Maybe, one day, she would make her own. This wasn't to be Savio and Maria's last meeting, though. She started to wander, to learn of other guilds and how they were organized and run, and she'd invariably interrupt his heists at different places, different times, over and over. Sometimes she'd drive him off, sometimes he'd knock her out, and rarely.. They'd just talk. Maria and Savio got to be familiar with each other, know each other, and develop an odd, growing bond, heist after heist, place after place. And then something horrible happened. Something unthinkable.

In a heist in Lightpoint, the theft went horribly wrong. Savio paused to meet Maria when he was stealing an artifact of Everhope - The Eye of the Sea. Inadvertently, however, Maria distracted him long enough for Everhope's current guildmaster to stumble upon them both. In the ensuing chaos, Savio and Maria were both severely wounded - and the guildmaster was killed. Escaping from the town, In the moment, Savio and Maria desperately planned on what to do next - And Maria came up with an idea. Plant a false corpse, burn it, and fake Savio's death. He would go into hiding, take on a new identity. Savio, severely shaken by killing another for the first time, ever, agreed, and returned to Redpetal with Maria, the latter having promised to give the former safe haven. Savio came up with an idea in return - He had amassed an immense fortune over his years of thieving and scattered it throughout the region. He could draw on it.. And Maria could use it to develop her own guild, once and for all, with his help. Maria agreed.. and La Casa Monstro was born.

## Present

After Origin Island fell, Maria returned home for some time, helping her siblings get settled. She still runs La Casa Monstro, but is less hesitant to show her true shape or shapechange in front of others than she once was.. She hopes, that with time, Mews will become an accepted and even mundane part of Pokemon Society, but she knows that time is still far off.