Malachy Norman

### Killer Style

I like to describe my style as thrifted or upcycled. I like taking whatever gets thrown near my cave and turning it into something trendy and unique.

### Biggest Pet Peeve

When monsters dont clean up after themselves. If you drop some trash, clean it up! Animals don't want to eat your candy wrappers.

### Fav School Subject

Astronomy! I love looking up at the stars from my cave in the lake.

### Least Fav Subject

Pre-clawculus. My teacher was no help and loved to embarrass me in front of the whole class!

### Favorite Color

I like that funny color the water turns when normies put the black stuff in it. Its a weird purple-green-blue.

### BFFs

Lorna Mcnessie, Honey Swamp, Viperine Gorgon

## Biography

### Personality

Malachy Norman is an all-around character who is the son of the Scarolina Lake Norman Nessie. He loves to dance and draw and collect shiny things he finds in the water or around his little cave. The sea monster has gained confidence in his years at Monster High after losing it due to his father looking down on him for his height and build.

### Appearance

Malachy is a teal sea monster with shiny blue scales, fins on his arms and legs, and webbed fingers. He has orange hair with lighter peach highlights. Due to hatching prematurely in his litter, Malachy is the runt of his family and has the build of a much smaller ghoul. He's quite insecure and often uses heeled shoes to make up for the lack of height. Malachy sports a grey jacket with bright green sleeves and stitching and a pink collar, with a fishnet top underneath. He wears bright pink fishnet tights and transparent blue boots. For pants, he wears tropical-patterened blue shorts.

### History

#### Early Life

Malachy was the first hatchling in a litter of four. He was three weeks early and the premature hatching led to a much smaller stature than most male sea monsters. His father was absolutely horrified at what hatched out of the first egg, claiming that a son he had created would never be so disgraceful. Caroline allowed herself two months of dealing with her husband after Malachy before kicking him out of the family entirely.

The final straw had been how he treated the other three eggs. Sea monsters were much like deer when it came to hatching in the water: once they had been born, they were already swimming around and learning how to exist on their own to survive. Malachy was already swimming and speaking small sentences when he saw his father poking around his siblings' eggs. The sea monster was treating the shells harshly, berating them and demanding they be much stronger and better than the wimp that had come first. The young boy had intervened once he saw his father pick up the smallest egg and was met with a swift smack to the face, leaving blood in the water. Caroline swam up almost immediately and fought tooth and claw to force her now-divorced husband out of the home.

Without his harsh father, Malachy was left to be himself without punishment. His sisters all hatched and he was proud to be the smallest of the bunch. Lachlan, Ryland, and Finley all playfully teased their brother about being the smallest, but they had always meant it in good fun.

#### Outer Banks Junior High

Once starting school, Malachy was kind of an outcast. No father and three siblings that were all much taller and stronger than him while he was the oldest? Kind of a target for getting picked on. Regardless, Malachy pushed through and managed to enjoy the few classes he had. The favorite had always been astronomy. Looking up at the sky from under the water was always such an exciting and magical experience that the lake monster would never forget.

Malachy had tried out for all sorts of clubs as well. Without any friends, the small sea monster had to find solace somewhere. Dance, swim, and cheer were the top three clubs Malachy aimed for. He only barely made it onto the cheer team since they didn't have enough fliers who auditioned. One day while practicing for the swim team championship, Malachy was doing a few stunts and flew too high, breaching the surface of the lake and nearly missing getting stabbed through the chest with a stray harpoon. Once he made it back down to his cheer team, Malachy swam directly home and packed his things. He was terrified. The small gap between water and air left so much up to debate for what he would see or deal with when he came up, taht Malachy decided he's stay above the water at all times to avoid an experience like that again.

#### Monster High

Starting at Monster High was a blessing in disguise. After the traumatic event with the underwater cheer team, Caroline searched far and wide to find a school for sea monsters that wasn't underwater. After a few months and a full gap year, the lake monster had finally found the perfect place: Monster High.

Paying for her son's boarding, Caroline sent Malachy off with a kiss to the forehead and a family portrait to go spend his last years in high school with monsters looking for a place to belong, just like him.

Malachy became a cheerleader in an attempt to regain normality similar to that at his previous school, having to use the girls' uniforms since he wouldn't fit in the boys, and was completely accepted by the others on the team. He flies the highest at the football games and never fears another harpoon incident while doing so.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Mother

##### Caroline "Normie" Norman

Caroline "Normie" Norman is a hard-to-spot sea monster who teases the visitors of North Scarolina by popping up in the lake about once or twice a month. Caroline is a caring and attentive mother who was worried about letting her eldest go off to Monster High, but recognized it as a big step in the right direction of letting Malachy become independent. The sea monster loves helping her daughters with their personal projects and loves cooking fresh meals every time Malachy comes back home for the summers.

#### Unnamed Seamonster

Caroline refuses to tell her children about their father because he was someone unfaithful and unkind to the family. The monster would berate Malachy when he was first born because while he was the oldest, he had always been the weakest and the smallest. Malachy is the only child in the Norman family who remembers their father.

#### Sisters

##### Lachlan Norman

Lachlan is the second oldest and one of the most active children in the family. She's a light pink sea monster with gills and fins of a darker pink with long yellow hair. She helps out Caroline with teasing tourists in the lake and helps homeschool her sisters.

##### Ryland Norman

Ryland is the third child in the Norman family and has one of the most wild imaginations. She has a pen pal in Scotland, to whom she sends letters about her travels through the lake. The two have been planning to meet up for months, but Caroline worries for her daughter's safety.

##### Finley Norman

Finley is the youngest in the family, but refuses to act like it. She defends her brother when he needs it and loves getting yearly gifts for her family. She's been working on a jewelry shop with her mother and plans to give Malachy the first official piece she makes.

### Friends

#### Lorna McNessie

Nessies of a feather stick together! Lorna was one of the first monsters to welcome Malachy when he started his schoolyear at Monster High. The two bonded over their shared tourism and home life. The two like to talk about their favorite items found in their lakes and how normies always rave when they see even the slightest tail tip of the monsters. Lorna likes calling Malachy "Normie" and acting as if theres a real human approaching whenever the small monster walks by in the halls.

#### Honey Swamp

Honey and Malachy hit things off when the lake monster had to finish a project last minute for his film class. Honey jumped into the conflict immediately and started teaching Malachy about proper camera technique and how to use vintage cameras and keep them steady and all sorts of details. The Scarolina lake monster earned an A+ on his project and became good friends with Honey, often helping out as an extra (or even sometimes a lead!) in her freelance films. Tired of using his full name, Honey often called Malachy just "Mal" for short.

#### Viperine Gorgon

After a hard day at school, Malachy was dead tired and ready to be alone. Make-up artist Viperine, however, had other plans for the sea creature. Grabbing Malachy from the halls and into her studio, Viperine promised to wake up the monster and give him a fresh new look. After lots of glitter and many more sparkles, the gorgon had created a seafoam-inspired make-up look for Malachy which had the sea monster grinning ear to ear. Viperine affectionately calls Malachy "Lake" in reference to the second syllable in his name.

### Romance

An old friend, Ridley Hatteras, captured Malachy's heart a few years ago in his final year at Outer Banks junior high. Ridley transferred to Monster high only last year, so Malachy has yet to meet his old crush in person once again.

## Trivia

* A small (fanon) fun fact about his appearance: Malachy deals with a sea-monster genetic mutation called the Ness Mutation, causing teal skin, reddish hair, and a small stature. It isn't uncommon for sea monsters, as 1 in 5 a year often turn out with the same physical appearance as Malachy and Lorna McNessie. Nothing is impacted in the monster apart from their appearance.
* Malachy was inspired by creating a doll with prepurchased (non-homeade) items
* His favorite rock is seaglass (which he refuses to believe isn't a real rock)
* Malachy's jacket is supposed to mimic plastic bottles, and his shoes are meant to look like water covering his feet. The fishnet clothes are meant to be exactly that; fish nets found in the water. The whole outfit should give the impression of upcycled trash.