Meridia Alptraum

**Meridia Alptraum** is a 15 year old Succubus and multi-track student at Hexside School of Magic and Demonics, being a member of the Construction and Potions Track. Meridia will be a character in the *Not Like Other Girls* fanfiction; where she will become friends with Diana Maccabee. Meridia Alptraum is a former bullying victim of Amity Blight and is currently good friends with Luz Noceda. Meridia grew up discriminated against on account of her race.

## Appearance

Meridia Alptraum has parrot pink skin, red eyes, pink and purple hair. She also a serpentine tail extending from her lower back. Her Hexside uniform has the traditional gray tunic, it's leggings and sleeves are a mix or orange and brown to represent the Potions and Construction track.

## Personality

Meridia Alptraum is an artistic and multi-talented girl. Meridia enjoys designing and sewing clothes and stuffed animals, cooking meals, and crafting weapons, armor, and other artifacts. She also writes short poems. Being able to carve her own Palisman has been a life-long dream for Meridia, though it's a dream she never expected to be able to fulfill.

Her creativity and talents however aren't what Meridia is most well known for at Hexside. Meridia is most well known for her willingness to make out with pretty much anyone as long as said person lets Meridia consume some of their energy. Meridia is frequently referred to as a "slut" (despite the fact that she hasn't actually had sex with anyone). Meridia pretends this doesn't bother her but it does. Meridia is both objectified and slut-shamed; even other Succubi sometimes police her behavior. Meridia steadfastly defends that what she's doing isn't wrong since 1) she never feeds on anyone without their explicit consent 2) she always stops when she's asked to stop, 3) she never feeds on someone she knows is dating someone else, 4) she's a succubus so she needs to feed on somebody 5) dividing her appetite among multiple partners reduces how much life force she needs to consume from each one, and lets here eat her fill without taking enough from anyone to hurt them.

Succubi/Incubi are looked down on as a lesser race of demons. Meridia has grown up being discriminated against on account of her race. Having experienced systemic prejudice, Meridia resents Amity Blight for her privilege. That same experience also helps her empathize with Luz the Human instead of looking down on her. Meridia has other reasons for disliking Amity Blight. The most basic is that Amity bullied Meridia for years.

Meridia figured out relatively quickly that Amity had a crush on Luz. What Meridia expected to happen was that Amity was going to keep on simping but never confess her feelings for fear of rejection. Meridia considers Amity to be a "selfish coward" It's worth noting that Meridia has moved the goalposts at least three times in regards to what it'll take before she accepts Amity has changed. Meridia bet that Amity wouldn't stop hanging out with Skara and Boscha; Amity proved her wrong. Meridia bet that Amity would never stand up to her mom; Amity proved her wrong. Meridia bet that Amity would never ask Luz out or let Luz know how she felt; but Amity proved her wrong.

## Relationships

### Amity Blight

#### Luz Noceda

Luz and Meridia become friends very quickly after Luz starts attending Hexside.

The two have a lot in common

### Perdita

Perdita is another Succubus at Hexside. Perdita refuses to indulge her hunger as a Succubus; consequently Perdita's magic is weaker, her body is weaker, and she's suffering from depression. For a Succubus, this kind of voluntary abstinence is basically a form of self-harm.

## Trivia

* Meridia first name is after Meridiana, a benevolent succubus from the satirical story Trifles and Courtiers who supposedly helped Pope Sylvester come to power. Alptraum is a german word for nightmare, literally translated as "Alp Dream", Alp's being an Incubus-like demon or fairy who causes nightmares.