Arista Mendoza

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Arista Mendoza is one of many characters of Kingdoms. She is a key character in all of the main series.

# Etymology

The name Arista is used in astronomy and means "ear of corn" in latin, and is also the name of a star known as Spica in the constellation Virgo, according to behind the name.Her last name, Mendoza, is of Spanish/Basque origin, derived from a Basque place name mendi, meaning "mountain," and hotz, ironically meaning "cold".

# History

[To have her storyline written here as kingdoms progresses]

# Appearance

Arista has floor length red hair and wears a sheer grey veil that is over the back part of her hair and goes down to her waist. She has one sharp tooth and wears a red velvet dress with a high slit on the right that shows grey thigh highs and light pink heels.

# Personality

Arista is quite the causer of chaos and destruction, as her title describes. Though she does love the chaos and destruction she creates, she also realizes the harmful affects it has on people and regrets it a lot but she can't help it, it is her job to destroy things at the end of it's lifespan. She tries to remain happy and joyful, so as not to lose her cool and destroy all she loves. She is open to helping people, though she is certainly not as great at helping others like Arsene would be. Arista doesn't like sharing her fears with others much so she tries to keep them from everyone, even the people she considers the closest, because she doesn't want them to share her burden and worry about it as much as she does.

Chaos and fears aside, Arista is a great friend and actually is quite nurturing to most people. and while she believes first impressions are important, she also does believe that anyone can change, even the most horrible people.

# Abilities

* **Destruction Powers** - Arista has the power to destroy anything she touches as long as she has it set in her mind she wants to destroy something, so while accidental destruction can happen, it's not as bad as it could be.

* **Scythe Abilities** - Arista's scythe has a similar ability, and to make sure it doesn't harm people she simply has to store it away. Throughout the years it has been replaced due to accidents. Arista's scythe is the only thing that Arista cannot destroy when she is destroying anything, if the scythe was made correctly and not accidentally destroyed of course. Her scythe is also a channel of her destruction abilites and makes it easier to control. Of course, she is great at wielding a vanilla no destruction ability scythe as well.

# Relationships

### Lucifer Satanel

Lucifer and Arista are so similar that they used to be friendly rivals that had would duel. Later on they stopped being less rivals and more friendly, to the point where in modern days Lucifer and Arista are chaos partners, and are also subtly hinting to one another their feelings they'd been harboring.

### Satan Satanel

While their relationship is currently strained as they haven't talked in many years, a long time ago, Arista and Satan were friends as Satan was the first of their social circle to have to watch Lucifer and Arista train and fighting each other but in a friendly yet some type of unexplored tension between the two. They were decent friends though weren't extremely close, though Satan had brief feelings for her he quickly ditched just seeing the two together. While Arista hasn't seen Satan in years she is suspicious but also wishes the best for him. Satan on the other hand hasn't thought much about her in a long time.

### Takahiro Koizumi

As of kingdoms 1, they have yet to meet each other, and while Takahiro does not know Arista exists, Arista does and does not approve of him much or his actions. She does think he's kinda cute but don't tell anyone she thought that.

### Katherina Astraia

They have yet to meet in person, and while Arista is quite angry about Katherina and her doings, Katherina quite frankly does not even know she really exists.

# Backstory

Arista was the first born of the Mendoza sisters, being goddess of destruction and evil. She was born of nothing and has no parents, unless you can count nothing as her parents. Despite the titles she was born with she seemed quite happy and chipper. They were one of the first beings in their pantheon, american mythology as coined by someone amongst their group.

Arista was gifted a scythe and the veil she wears and was trained by the forces, each ghost-like mysterious deities that were the first of their pantheon. They taught her that to destroy she can either think in her mind "destroy!" and either use the scythe as an outlet or simply with her hands, and taught that her power is dangerous and something to be feared, and should only be used for her job of destroying things at the end of her lifespan or some dangerous situation. The forces seemed to not like touching her which began her fear of her powers and destructiveness, and for the longest time refused any type of touch even everyone, even her sisters.

As pantheons found each other and began to interact, Arista found two demons of hell and became their first friends of other worlds. She learned from the demon brothers that they were princes to hell and there was a war that had been going on for many years that dwindled as they got older. Arista and Lucifer harbored some sort of feelings toward each other, but also fought as friendly rivals, and Satan she was friendly with but not extremely close, and she introduced them to her sisters eventually, and had many of their own adventures.

Arista met a naga and they became lovers, and while it was just a not so serious relationship, he became controlling towards her to the point he held her captive and kept her wound up at his house. Her sisters and the demon brothers quickly noticed how long she was gone, and rounded up their friends to find her, but they got back to see Arista destroy the naga and she got upset at her using her powers to hurt people, because even if she didn't like how he acted, part of her was still in love with her, and while her sisters were concerned they concluded that they just needed to leave her alone for awhile, and slowly she got back to her old self, but she also didn't want to use her powers in self defense or while in danger much, and for the longest time she didn't use her powers at all.

Now in more recent times she's remained mostly the same, but she got in touch more with her chaos part of her godly title with the help of Lucifer, and they became chaos partners, causing chaos together, which also helped their relationship start. As of Kingdoms 1 Arista hasn't interacted with her family in awhile, and they also don't know about her relationship with Lucifer.

# Trivia

* Even though Arista has to specifically think her head if she wants to destroy something, Arista is afraid that something in the back of her head wants her to destroy something and if she were to touch her loved ones in anyway, she'd destroy them like she destroys things on the daily.
* Destroying humans, even the ones that are at the end of their lifespan has always been uncomfy to Arista, and avoids it whenever she can, but eventually she can't avoid destroying those that have been living long enough and will end their suffering, but she tries to prolong lifespans because she feels like a monster destroying people, despite whatever the circumstances