Safia

**General Info:**

* **Species:** Crisalli
* **Gender:** Female
* **Personality:** Outspoken, headstrong, confident
* **Powers/Abilities:** Portal creation, energy manipulation, telekinesis, able to summon objects
* **Weaknesses:** She is very outspoken, often rash, and self-focused
* **Important Design Notes:** Pink gem in forehead, scar on side of neck. Her fur is actually crystal, so she always appears shiny.

**Relations:**

* Grold (Best friend)
* Vixquen (Enemy)
* Eight (Mate)
* Opal (Friend)

**Short Backstory:**

Safia is a crisalli, a species of interdimensional creatures that reside in a small pocket dimension known as Mid-Way. She was well known throughout the pocket dimension for two things. One, for being the most powerful magic user in her dimension, able to master all forms of crisalli matter manipulation. Two, for her sarcastic attitude, temper, and outright opposition of their ruler, Vixquen. Safia was never afraid to speak her mind, openly insulting the queen whenever she felt like it. Of course, no one could oppose her, and instead groups would listen in a mix of shock and awe as she shared her mind in taverns. There were no laws against her speaking her mind and, even if there were, who in their right mind would challenge her? The only crisalli able to stick by her with her uncensored thoughts was Grold, her loyal best friend. They had met back when they were students training in magic, and had bonded over the way that both seemed to be consistently disliked by the teachers and the fact that neither of them had any familial bonds the way most crisalli did. They stuck together since then, even as Safia excelled farther than anyone else in the classes and ended up dropping out to pursue her own interests. One day as the two friends were having a drink, they were approached by one of the royal guards, a crisalli named Scorp. He attacked Safia on the spot. There was a scuffle and, due to Scorp summoning magic-dampening chains, Safia was taken down and arrested. She was thrown in prison awaiting trial, and soon discovered that she was the prime suspect for the murder of Syma: Vixquen’s sister. She seemed like the most logical suspect… she was always speaking against the rulers, and she certainly had the power to carry out an assassination. Safia, of course, knew she was innocent. She had a big mouth, but she had never wished for the death of Syma, or even Vixquen. When the trial came, Vixquen pronounced Safia guilty, which only angered her more. In a rage, Safia managed to shatter her chains, escaping imprisonment. With the whole royal guard after her, Safia had no choice but to make a risky decision; She used her abilities to create a portal, and closed it behind her before she could be followed. She intended for the portal to take her far across Mid-Way, but instead she accomplished something that had not been done in hundreds of years; she ripped open the void of reality and created a portal to another dimension. She tumbled out into a strange world, foreign and alien to her. She made herself a life there, on earth, knowing that she would be hunted if she ever tried to return to Mid-Way for long. At first her determination to stay on earth came from a source of spite, but eventually— after meeting Opal and Eight— she grew to love the new world she had been forced into.

Nowadays Safia lives just outside of the city with her mate, Eight. Grold has joined her on earth, drained of his crisalli abilities. She has to return to Mid-Way once a month in order to recharge her abilities, but despite Grold’s warnings and the obvious decline of her old society, she tries to avoid the conflicts there. She has created her own life on Earth now, and she prioritizes that over anything on her old home world.

**Fun Facts:**

* There are no rivers or lakes in Safia’s dimension, so when she came to earth she nearly drowned when first encountering a river (though thankfully Eight was there to pull her out). Safia isn’t scared of water. She’s just very wary of it in large quantities.
* Safia found Eight extremely annoying when she first met him. It was his persistence and bright nature that eventually won her over.

**Main Theme Song:** “Everybody Loves Me” by OneRepublic

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