Dilanne

## Appearance

Along with an average height and slim physique, Dilanne possesses graceful womanly features. The rest of her appearance is not something very special, although one must remark that she does have subtle elegance surrounding her figure. Her skin is a pale peach color, darker on her cheeks where she has a good amount of freckles along with a faint perpetual blush. Dilanne has rather large eyes with long lashes and lilac irises. Although her face is rather expressive when it comes to emotions, her eyes don’t always match these looks. They’re always a bit watery and shiny, almost as if Dilanne were to burst into tears at any moment. This grants a sort of melancholy look to even the brightest of her smiles. A tiny beauty mark lies on her cheek under her right eye but it blends into the rest of the freckles and isn’t always noticeable.

The most eye-catching thing about her looks is her hair color. It is red—not the natural reddish-to-copper hue found on certain people, but a pure and intense shade of saturated red. Thanks to shadows, it doesn’t look as bright as it usually would. Dilanne tends to wear her hair in loose styles. Most of the time, she has some strands tied back to hold the hair in place without much decoration, because the natural waviness of the tips are enough to make it look cared for. She doesn’t have many bangs on her forehead. Some strands of hair are there but they don’t really touch her skin.

Her clothing is entirely in shades of green and lilac, her favorite colors. Still, Dilanne wouldn’t mind wearing other colors now and then. She has an apple-green dress shirt with sleeves that reach to her elbows and lace on the borders. A purple short skirt with layered ruffles is her choice as well. She also wears a tiny mauve cape over her shoulders with a purple ribbon tying it around her neck. As for shoes, they’re black lace-up boots. A pair of small silver hoop earrings on her ears is all she wears as decoration.

The monstrous looks that should be her true main self, her secondary appearance, are ones that Dilanne has not used in a long time due to the effects it would cause to her being. These looks are not quite shapeshifting, and it isn’t that her human appearance is a fake, so any of the two would make her classify as looking “normal”. Dilanne does not hate this appearance for what it looks like—she accepts to an extent what she is—but because of what it means to others. And yet, if circumstances led her to transform into her real siren appearance, she would be fine with that.

Her whole body goes through a change. Her skin color shifts to light lilac, glossy scales appearing on select parts of her body. As for her eyes, Dilanne’s sclera become black and her irises dull down to lose their reflective property. Her pupils also thin enough to look like a cat’s. Interestingly, she cannot stop “crying” while in this form. A clear liquid is always running from the sides of her eyes. It’s often just a few tears falling constantly, but it may turn into actual never-ending streams.

Feathered wings appear on her back. These are neither like an angel’s nor like a bird’s, instead having a structure that logically shouldn’t allow Dilanne to fly. And, true, she cannot fly by flapping her wings, but just their being there appears to grant her some gravity-defying properties. The feathers can fall off at times. They’re an extremely dark shade of purple, sometimes only noticeable because of their sheen in light. These feathers aren’t exclusive to Dilanne’s wings, as they also grow on her hips, shoulders, and behind her ears (though not as wings).

As if all of these changes weren’t enough, some other things happen as well. These include Dilanne’s ears becoming slightly pointy, her canines turning to fangs, black lines appearing underneath her eyes, her nails sharpening into claws, and a mark of sorts showing up on her forehead. Her hair color changes too, earning a tarnished fade in the color of dark orange at the tips and from halfway up.

Most of the clothing on her would be ripped to shreds if worn during the transformation, but her scales cover enough that Dilanne won’t feel ashamed of this.