Renata Revenir

## *Monster High Student*

### Nicknames

"I have no nickname, it is undignified as a lady of the undead court of Luxembourg....through I am not opposed to being called Rena."

### Age

"I am biologically almost 18, my chronological age is confusing....uhh when was the High Middle Ages?"

### Monster Parent

"My parents were human peasants who sold me to be a seamstress....I then was a witch...now I am a Revenant of the Undead."

### Killer Style

"I love to mix aristocratic clothing with a modern edge."

### Monster Quirk

"When I get confused, my soul sometimes get's split from my body....I'm learning to get a hold of it."

### Pet

"I have a pet ghost cat....who happens to be my original familiar!"

### Favorite Activity

"Well...out of the many activities I am force to participate in....I do enjoy sowing."

### Biggest Pet Peeve

"When people ask If I'm a ghost or a zombie....I'm technically both..."

### Fav School Subject

"I love Hauntonomics...I'm currently head of the class."

### Least Fav Subject

"I hate physical deaducation....a lady shouldn't sweat....besides my skin starts rotting and my soul starts drifting."

### Favorite Color

"I love the beautiful combination of purple and teal."

**Renata Revenir** is a 2023-introduced and all-around character for the Third generation of Monster High. She is a human turned Revenant. She come to Monster High from beyond the grave to learn what it means to truly live. She is a senior.

## Character

### **Background**

Renata was not always a Revenant. She was originally born a human, living as a peasant during the beginning of the aristocratic era in Luxembourg. Her parents were not wealthy in any way and they often struggled to get by; they even sold her when she became too old for them to take care of. Which allowed her to become a seamstress for the local duke. Yet she desired more from her life, wanting to be free and see the world. She thought the best path to freedom was through the pursuit of witchcraft. Her work focuses on the pursuit of Necromancy to gain money and knowledge from the afterlife; yet she fell ill to a plague and perished. Yet her soul lingered, eventually her soul returned to her body through the help of a fellow Undead Necromancer. She was reborn as a Revenant and invited into an adopted family of the undead. Since her resurrection into a brand new time period, she has had trouble adapting and was sent to Monster High to learn more about the modern world.

### **Personality**

Renata is described as a quite and refined young lady. She holds herself with pride and poise, keeping her emotions in control and her temper cooled. She is not one to speak first and only acts after thinking. Her insight and wisdom is based on experiencing the lowest of poverty and the highest of status, yet she has not let it corrupt her desires and wishes. Instead she acts as a stalwart guardian of attitude and grace. Yet despite her stalwart and kind persona, she still holds sadness and misery within her heart, she still holds bitter feelings of her parents and of the humans who persecuted her. She is mournful about her lost life, but deep down she is happy to experience a brand new life and a new chance at Freedom.

### **Appearance**

Renata doesn't have any picture or clearly remember what she looked like as a human, but from what she remembers she had brown hair before her death and the centuries turned it yellow blond. Currently Renata has a unique fusion of a zombie and a ghost given her nature as a Revenant. Renata's skin is a pale silver lilac coloured skin, with her hands and feet being semi-transcalent teal muscles and bones. She has a diamond shaped face with, with a pair of purple eyes and teal sclera. Renata's hair is a pale yellow blond colour with the ends being coloured with teal and lilac. When she takes on her ghostly form she gains a pale teal aura around her body and her eyes start to glow as a result.

## Monster Features

### Monster Type

In folklore, a revenant is an animated corpse that is believed to have been revived from death to haunt the living. The word revenant is derived from the Old French word, revenant, the "returning" (*see also the related French verb revenir, meaning "to come back"*). Revenants are part of the legend of various cultures, including Old Irish Celtic and Norse mythology, and stories of supposed revenant visitations were documented by English historians in the Middle Ages. The term "revenant" has been used interchangeably with "ghost" by folklorists. While some maintain that vampires derive from Eastern European folklore and revenants derive from Western European folklore, many assert that revenant is a generic term for the undead.

In the case of Renata she is both, similar to that of the Phantoms and Banshee's, both physical creatures with additional spiritual natures. Renata in fantasy terms would be a Lich with the ability to transform into a ghost. Her ghostly soul inhabits her undead body, yet she is able to transform into a ghost to gain further powers.

### Monster Abilities

Renata is a Revenant, and technically a fusion of both a ghost and a corporeal undead. As such she possess both powers and skillsets. Given that Renata was originally a spirit before begin reunited with her body, she has a harder time using her ghostly power's given her desire to stay as an undead and not go into the afterlife. She is told her power's will improve as she ages and becomes more experienced.

* **Revenant Physiology**: Renata is both physically and spiritually a Revenant as such she possess unique powers from both the corporeal and incorporeal undead.
	+ **Fear Inducement**: Renata can evoke and increase fear and horror in others causing the target’s brain to release fear-inducing chemicals.
	+ **Mode Switching**: Renata is able to switch between her physical and her spiritual form. Acquiring different powers and abilities based on each different forms. It takes her a longer amount of time to transform into her incorporeal state than it is to transform back into corporeal state. This is due to her young age is experience by all Revenant's, some have trouble transforming into a corporeal state.
		- **Corporeal Undead Physiology**: Renata has a corporeal physical form which is her primary form. In this form she possess primary physical powers compared to her spiritual ones.
			* **Defunct Physiology**: Given her undead nature she lacks any physical weaknesses of an organic, living body including the need for rest, sustenance or other physical requirements. In addition she cannot feel pain and cannot be poisoned or get ill.
			* **Enhanced Condition**: Renata as an undead has a physique that has no natural constraints. As a result, her body benefits both mentally and physically. Moving at speeds comparable to rapid mechanical creatures, the capacity to lift weights and output strength that even the greatest weightlifters could not hope to reach.
			* **Tunnelling**: A power possessed by all physical Revenant's is the capability of tunnelling through solid matters, such as the earth, snow and sand.
		- **Incorporeal Undead Physiology**: Renata can take on an Incorporeal form, changing her physical nature into that of a spiritual one. This form grants her a different existence, removing her previous powers in return for new ones.
			* **Afterlife Traveling**: Given her undead nature and her revenant existence. Renata can travel between the living world and the land of the dead, freely and safely navigating both the life and afterlife side and any adjacent dimensions connecting the two
			* **Disease manipulation**: Revenant's have long held the power to control diseases while within their spiritual state and were responsible for many diseases cause by death in the medieval ages.
			* **Flight**: Renata becomes weightless and is then able to fly around by combining that state of personal zero gravity and a form of unsuspended locomotion to travel in mid-air.
			* **Intangibility**: Renata in her incorporeal form can move through solid objects and ignore most physical effects in her way such as all ghosts.
	+ **Punishment/Curse Inducement**: Renata can place a curse, a negative supernatural effect, on whatever they wish (people, places, objects, etc.). The exact effects can be nearly anything she desires, ranging from minor annoyances to horrible accidents. However this takes a lot out of her and she becomes sluggish and weak afterwards.

### Personal Skillset

Outside of her skills acquired as a Monster, Renata possess a large number of skills from both before and after her transformation into a monster.

* **Magic**: Renata is able to utilize magic, using certain actions such as gestures, rituals and thoughts as well as symbols, language and formulae to utilize mysterious and/or supernatural forces that don't abide by conventional science or laws of reality to achieve any effect or phenomenon imaginable. Renata originally practiced Witchcraft before graduating to Necromancy, the science and magical practice relating to the undead and by extension shadows and communication. When she cast spells her magic manifests as a swirl of lilac and teal ghostly face

## Relationships

Renata did not have a good relationship with her original parents. Given the cultural views of women and young girls at that time she wasn’t treated very well. They eventually ended up selling her to make ends meet, despite their selfish actions and desires. Them selling Renata was the greatest gift that they ever gave her, even if it ended in her death and resurrection.

Her newly adopted family is better in regards to their care despite their underlying personalities and insidious desires. Her guardian and the one who raised her from death is a high class lady who has trained Renata daily to reach her true potential. Encouraging and educating her in all manners of monster society. Such as history of monsters, etiquette, rules and is responsible for continually encouraging Renata to practice magic.

Renata’s other family members have a history just like her. They were rouge revenants who longed for a home and eventually came together as a large adopted family. She thinks they are nice despite the small amount of contact she has with them.

## Doll Lines

***Doll Lines from Current Generation of Monster High***
 ***Creepover Party*** | A funny thing about Renata is that she isn't a big fan of sleeping, she spent so many years in a death like sleep before she was resurrected. So she prefers to stay up and do an occasional nap, but sleeping is something that scares her. She keeps her hair in a right French braided bun with a bone themed scrunchy. She wears a long lilac coloured night dress with pale teal bones decorated over the top and teal coloured ruffles and ribbons. She had a pair of fluffy teal coloured slipper and a matching purple fuzzy eye mask. Over the top she usually wears a black coloured dressing gown with a teal and lilac dressing belt which keeps the outfit together.

## Trivia

* Renata would technically be classified as a Lich.
* Renata's transformation between physical and spiritual is a combination of the concept of a revenant being a ghost or an undead.
* Her Magia Monstrum grimoire is a purple book with teal flourishes and a bone mask on the front.