Maelyn Visenya

“Sure, I think I can handle that,” - Sir Maelyn Visenya

## Appearance

Maelyn is about five feet and eight inches tall with what has often described as an athletic, feminine build. Though his build is slight, he has a wiry strength and a physique that suggest martial skills. As a marble cat, he carries a distinctive fur pattern common to his breed. Tans, browns, and blacks pattern a marbled set of markings all around his body, and very prominently on his back. He has a small flat pink noise, a rather small mouth for his breed and big copper colored eyes that transfix those who gaze upon him. Though male, he Merely has a particularly girlish and delicate face. Often mistaken for a woman, many remark on his exotic and feminine beauty. His ears are slightly wide and pointed as they stand perked up on his head and his hair is a long tumbleweed brown, with bangs that frame his face. His face carries a distinct pattern of markings that draw themselves around his eyes and often times draws others into his stare.

Maelyn has been long regarded by all genders as beautiful, but in a very womanly way. Constantly propositioned by nobles, lords and knights of all genders, Maelyn has a tinge of arrogance about his appearance. While his feminine appearance is disarming, giving others the idea that he’s ‘mostly’ harmless, Maelyn is anything but. Using his looks and cunning as a weapon, he’s maneuvered for years through the odd social battleground of the nobility.

## Personality

A man of wit, sarcasm and unflappable directness, Maelyn often comes off as rude or dismisive to others. Socially, he’s very used to speaking his mind having grown up hand and hand with the Lioncourt Royal family, but without lessons in social grace and humility that were taught to the princes and the princess. Having very little interaction with those outside the nobility also adds to his matter of fact way of speaking to people. Having been looked down upon as a stray the King happened to pick up, Maelyn had to develop a thick skin growing up. His defense was his sarcasm and his unwillingness to feign social niceties with those who looked down upon him.

Though he’s mostly a calm and rather even keel person, Maelyn enjoys teasing others a great deal. He is quick to mock friends and strangers alike for their various shortcomings or misfortunes. He deflects negativity with humor and is never sinister or mean about his teasing and will stop if someone is genuinely offended by him. Though he is not the type who would apologize for such an offense.

Rather indifferent about his appearance. He is well aware that he isn’t the most manly of individuals, but is fond of his look. He isn’t easily offended by insults about his looks or sexual orientation and often times enjoys using them to his advantage. He isn’t flirtatious, but does have an understanding of how to be quiet and let others project what they think he’s like on to him and roll with it. He isn’t a moody person nor a cheerful one. Though he does smile often in the company of those he cares about.

As a fighter his fierce determination and ruthlessness come to the fore. In battle Maelyn is nothing short of vicious. He shows opponents no quarter and fights as fiercely in a bout or proving as he would in a life threatening situation. His aggressiveness is a sight to behold as he prefers to outmaneuver and then overwhelm opponents. Often his calm and unflappable demeanor melts away in battle revealing a hidden rage just beneath the surface.

Despite his personality quirks however, Maelyn is a honest and dutiful man who is largely misunderstood. He loves his kingdom and it’s people and refuses to abandon other knights who are in trouble. He has a sympathetic side to those who have grown up in difficult situations because of the nobility and he shows respect to those who have earned it. He has true loyalty to the Kingdom and the ideals that it was based upon, even if that loyalty conflicts with orders and ideals of the current nobility.

## Childhood

Born during the frenzy of Valdis’ invasion of Pandorica, Maelyn was born to a Valdinian soldier names Rasha. The boys father was named Orto Visenya, one of the five generals serving under the command of Prince Baelin Argyllian. A rather average soldier, Rasha’s only remarkable feature was her uncanning beauty. A beauty to which Orto had ordered be in his company many times. Though there was no love between Rasha and Orto, the young warrior gave herself completely to her superior. When it was found that she was pregnant, Orto ordered that the baby be killed, a bastard child would not be welcomed in House Visenya. Orto however did not punish Rasha, whom he commanded to follow out this order, sending her away from the front lines. Though this was stated to protect her through child birth, the real reasons was to hide her pregnancy from other Valdinian Nobles. Confined to her tent and under guard of the elite soldiers, Rasha gave birth to Maelyn one snowy day in the spring of 234 AC.