Selene Pathalassa Vega de Ekaterine Flores

Selene Pathalassa, full name Selene Pathalassa Vega de Ekaterine Flores, is a second year student in Octavinelle. An odd blind lady who’s caught the eye of many students for her strange appearance. She’s become the topic of conversations and gossips for her controversial ruling in her kingdom.

## Appearance

Selene has overflowing long, reddish brown hair. Her reindeer antlers are white and the mask that covers her eyes is light purple, though it is opaque from the outside but transparent from the inside. She wears black lipstick.

Her top consists of a little purple ribbon tied onto a frilly blouse with her shoulders exposed, displaying her splattered out freckles. She also dons a purple gown that has a transparent petticoat underneath.

To connect with her environment more, she is barefoot.

## Personality

Selene is quite the contrast to what people would assume. One may assume that she has a proper way of living, with fancy manners and a very royal demeanor. Others who have heard the gossip would assume she’s a ruthless, unforgiving dictator who selfishly ignores everybody’s problems for her own personal welfare. Neither of which hit exactly on how Selene actually is.

In reality, Selene is quite awkward in her conversations. She dislikes direct questions and confrontation, usually answering these situations with a long list of trivia. She is highly perceptive and often bluntly voices these perceptions. This can make her sound really bossy and rude. She oftentimes orders people around or disapproves with an idea a bit too harshly.

A heavy problem Selene has that causes many brutal rumors is her trouble with cognitive empathy. She can pick up when someone is upset but often has trouble discerning why. As a result, she may make a decision that is rational and by the rules, but morally wrong or viewed as apathetic. She has trouble conveying reaction so she could be seen as a rude person overall.

Selene is pretty literal in everything. She has a literalist point of view which makes figurative speech make absolutely no sense to her. She can’t help but compare fairy tales and stories to real evidential nonfiction, which makes her a terrible movie date.

## Unique Magic

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Selene’s unique magic is the ability to make whatever she touches (or directs her magic pen towards) freeze into place. The frozen item or person do have their temperatures decreased but not to the point where they just instantly died by hypothermia. When a person is frozen, they still regain consciousness. If dropped or pushed violently however, the object or victim can shatter. Of course, the frozen victim can be unfrozen at any given time, but it cannot have that effect when broken into pieces.

## Backstory

The Queen of Elafi Basilea had two sons of deer heritage, but secretly had an affair with another high ranking executive whom was of reindeer descent. This affair led to the Queen giving birth to Selene, who was essentially half reindeer and half deer. Her mother unfortunately passed away due to deprivation of oxygen in the brain after being in a vegetative state until Selene was four. The Queen’s affair already made the family tense but with her passing, there was no one else to blame but Selene. Her brothers and “father” were extremely strict on her and often ignored her existence as much as possible. They didn’t expect anything useful from her, planning to arrange a marriage for her just to continue the royal line.

It is till one day, the King decided to bring her to one of her brother’s meetings which was another average day of planning military affairs. That is, until Selene interrupted the meeting and explained for half an hour on why the planning was bound to fail and what they should be doing instead. Ultimately, the plan Selene made was beyond successful and everyone saw her potential in military strategizing. The King actually looked up to her at that point and depended on her with battle, trade, and diplomacy affairs. This however urged her brothers to dislike even more. They thought she stole the spotlight after doing nothing for the entirety of her life, while the two brothers actually had to train and experience what’s on the battlefield.

After some time, the King eventually passed away, leaving a will instructing Selene to be the next ruler of Elafi Basilea. This of course infuriated the two brothers, in contrast with Selene’s indifference on the situation. The jealousy harnessed from the two began a plan to betray Selene’s reputation by sending corrupt orders to blame on Selene. Soon, taxes rose, poverty grew, and conditions of the nation grew worse. Eventually rumors started spreading as well, the conspiracy with foreign powers against the security of Elafi Basilea, heedless spending of public funds, counterrevolutionary conspirer, unbridled libertine, and many more. All of these events happened under her radar, as she was kept hidden from the public’s well fare discreetly by her brothers.

That is, until Selene visited the town for her 13th birthday without heavy security. After a one sided argument against one of the townsfolk, a civilian threw corrosive liquid at her eyes in hopes of a revolution against the monarch. Selene became permanently blind after the event, which helped with her brothers’ evil plot even more.

After popular demand, Selene was sent to NRC to let her kingdom regain their natural order once again without the help of their corrupt teenage ruler. Unfortunately for Selene, there were some students that actually lived in Elafi Basilea and saw the opportunity to take revenge for their ruining home lives by constantly bullying her.

## Relationships

 Crystal Medulia | Crystal and Selene are classmates in 2-E. Some students (npcs) are unfortunate enough to have the same class as Selene, which stirs up conflict. Selene yet again, becomes the center of attention to many bullies. But Crystal is actually kind of enough to stop any paper balls thrown at Selene, though Selene doesn’t or can’t notice her selflessness half the time. Selene wishes Crystal would focus more on her assignments than trivial matters, but appreciates it nonetheless even if Selene doesn’t express it.

## Trivia

* Like all reindeers, she has really good sense of smell and can most likely sense another person just by their unique smell.
* When walking near dangerous parts of a mountain, one mountain club member has to hold her hand.
* She has a very big collection of lipstick. She actually doesn’t know what color she chooses so that’s why shes wearing black rn.
* Selene does have a nice caretaker back in her kingdom and its one of Mindy’s dumbo octopus relatives.
* Despite being half reindeer n half deer, she is much more similar to a reindeer.