Claiming:Dreamscape Claiming/Maialen Euria

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**Please write your answers in bold.**

1) What is your character's personality?

**Maialen Euria is a fiery spirit at heart, just like her mother, Alazne — but rather than the reckless path her mother took, Maia prefers to divert these energies into understanding the world, and into taking in as much knowledge as she can possibly garner, to become the best mage she can possibly be. This often, of course, leads to accusations of Maia being a people-pleaser, a nerd, or a teacher's pet, but she's not the sort of person to allow people's words to impact her, because that's just what they are — *words.* They're said, and then they're gone, so what sort of person would she be if she allowed them to severely impact her when she has the will to brush them off should they not befit the path she wants to take? However, she fails to understand that not everyone has this same idea of the futility of the spoken word, and often assumes others will brush off her opinion if they do not agree — leading to her near-constant blunt nature when asked it. She misses social cues that hint at people wanting a specific answer, and outright refuses to sugar-coat. This bluntness often leads to her being perceived as bitchy, which really does no justice to her as a person.**
**Often you might see her lose her grip on the physical world and fall into thoughts. In these moments, she becomes ethereal in a sort of way that makes you wonder if she is still physically present, if she's astral projecting, or indeed make you curious whether, if you try to put your hand through her, you'll succeed. (The answer is no, you won't, but one really couldn't be blamed for trying.) She's a curious person, really, willing to do things just to seek answers to her own, or even to life's greater, questions. If she seems high-strung at other points in life, it is because her mother always told her she was greater, that she was meant for more, and she aims in her heart to emulate Alazne Euria as best she can, or even surpass her. When working, she moves at a million miles a minute, and will often shut out others' attempts at help (you couldn't be blamed for assuming she has a superiority complex. She might.) Either she's firmly on the ground with concrete boots on, or sky-high, there's no in between, and she can swing — wildly.**
**Her MBTI type is ENTJ.**
2) Summarize the history of your character in a maximum of two paragraphs.

**Maialen Euria is the sole daughter of Alazne Santiago Villanueva and her husband Juan Euria, the joining of two magical dynasties that had for many years attended different magical schools. She has no less than seven brothers, however, two elder and five younger, and it had always led her to feel a grand amount of pressure to be the best of them. Her mother was a professional dragon racer and a rather amazing mage, and from a young age Maialen wanted to be just like her, rather than her father, involved in the Council.**
**Fighting with seven others for attention meant she always had to find a way to stand out, which is perhaps why her personality is so focused around being the best mage she can make of herself. Being born in the Mirrorworld to two mage parents, she has always had her amulet. Through being friends with mages born in the Otherworld she has learned she has somewhat dodged a nightmare-shaped bullet with her birthplace, and it's one of the things she's more grateful for.**
**Wanting to spend as much time under the tutelage of her parents as she could (read: where they could see her achievements) Maialen stayed at the family home until her parents insisted she began to attend an academy at the age of thirteen; they offered her the choice between her father's family's alma mater of Capital Academy, or her mother's, September Peak Academy. Both elder brothers had chosen Capital, so, due to a combination of that and her inherent desire to emulate her mother, she chose September Peak — where she is now in her fourth year.**
3) Write a personal account of your character's first time in the Dreamscape from their perspective.

**Hovering in the limbo of sorts, between wakefulness and sleep. The loud chaos of the physical world gone, but the relaxation of sleep not yet there, it was hard at first for Maialen to understand where she had ended up. At first she assumed one of her dorm-mates had played a trick on her, but then she recalled what she had read of Dreamscapes. It was a rare ability amongst mages, and few of those who had it learned to wield its prowess properly. She found herself wondering what was there to see...but there was no light, so she closed her eyes (though it made no difference) and made an attempt to bring forth a torch. It was a torch made of wood and fire, rather than the electrical one she'd assumed she'd get, but it was a torch, all the same.**
**She looked around and saw a labyrinth of sorts, with dragons, some of which seemed to resemble her mother Alazne's, and when her thoughts lingered on riding one, one of many landed at her feet. Her head, quite frankly, spun with the possibility of it all, but in the moment of distraction her steed-to-be had taken back off to the skies. Maialen swallowed, throat dry — what if she was stuck? Could people become trapped in their own Dreamscape if they arrived unwittingly and didn't know how to leave? Would her parents be able to get her out again? That fear and panic seemed to take hold of the environment around her; her torch had burned down without her noticing, and she dropped it with a hiss of pain, leaving her in the dark again with nothing but the sensation of falling, falling, falling...**
4) How recently has your character discovered their ability to enter the Dreamscape?

**Maialen discovered it three years ago, at the age of fourteen.**
5) Is your character experienced at using the Dreamscape?

**Moderately. She can navigate her own, but has difficulty using her power against others.**

This character is a Dreamscape User.