Bentha

### Unique Features

Heavy, jagged jawline, dark blue fins, angler lure and glow spots that change color based on emotion

## Biographical Information

### Current Residence

An artificial mini-island not far from a railway that is surrounding a conduit called Relgna.

### Past Residences

The territory of her family in a deep sea, a small mossy boulder near the coast of a plains island

## Relationships

### Friends

Whisket, her four axolotls, Relgna the conduit

### Kin

An unnamed family of other angler merlings

## OOC Information

### Discord Username

UmbreonRogue#7717

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### Appearance

Bentha is a cyan-eyed merling with a heavy set of jaws, a fleshy lure on her head, and grey hair. Her skin is scaly and pale blue, and there are dark blue fins on the back of each limb and a set of gills on her neck. She wears a violet shirt with a white flower on it and a pair of jeans, both faded and torn from the wear and tear of the water.

The color of her lure depends on her mood.

#### Personality

Bentha is a very curious individual and very eager and enthusiastic. However, she is overly trusting and naive, and it's easy to deceive her, as the Blights vs Keepers war proved. She also heavily dislikes fighting--not strictly a pacifistic as she will do what it will take to protect herself, her loved ones, and the ocean, but attempts to avoid conflict to the point of making it an absolute last resort.

### Backstory

Bentha was the descendant of anglerfish that were mutated by the Aberration, that and natural selection overtime led to merlings that looked heavily reminiscent of their anglerfish ancestors. She was born to a pair of mothers, and growing up heard of myths relating to people on the land and of the Aberration event itself. Curious by nature, as soon as Bentha was old enough she set off on a very long trek to any kind of land. She finally arrived at a little shore, enjoying the first sights and meal only those on land can experience: a sunrise and a singular peach.

### Current

Bentha was quick to sort out her living situation, mining into a mossy underwater boulder by a shore to hollow it out and convert it into her home. In the middle of the process, she befriended an eternal tadpole. After some time of living in her boulder, Bentha ventured out to other islands, and discovered a lush cave holding axolotls. She turned four of those into her pets: Muddy, Sunny, Berry, and Jelly.

Bentha arrived at **an eventful dinner party**, at first just there to enjoy a proper surface people's meal and meet new friends, before it came to the revelation of the host discovering a meteor. In short, Talbot sought to destroy Aberrant, and Cambire wanted everyone to buy time until Cambire himself could come back. Bentha quickly agreed to aiding in the fight against the forces of evil, as after all her family lives on this planet too, resolving to prepare herself as much as possible.

Bentha scoured the seas for ways to prepare to delay Talbot. Many drowned came after her, some with tridents, and at one point located one just barely intact enough for Bentha herself to use. Continuing on, she found an ocean monument, not the first she found. **But this one was different**, as it held **living Elder Guardians**! She only knew of them from myth, and assumed they were extinct. Their combined might with standard Guardians forced her to retreat, but not before she managed to rip out one of the **Elder Guardians' eyes** before fleeing. She swam all the way home, finding that the eye reacted to her trident. For now though, she'll have to accept it as a loss and find more ways to ready herself.

As she did, she found more and more bits and pieces to aid in her endeavors. Bentha found a Heart of the Sea which, to her surprise, seemed to heavily resonate with her. She had the idea to make a protective layer for it out of nautilus shells. Revealing itself to be called Relgna, it told her she should move out of the mossy boulder. Although it was an okay home, she wasn't happy in it. So she obliged and took her axolotls, swimming far away until she placed down Relgna, which created a structure made of coral and prismarine. Relgna revealed a bit more, in which it is loyal to Bentha 100% no matter what she does, and encouraged her to make the place her own. So Bentha did, building up a mini-island made of wood and prismarine. Relgna also allowed her to breathe on the mini-island without being submerged, and infused her recently upgrade Elder Trident with the power of Sincere Loyalty, so no matter where it is or who possesses it, it will always return to her hand.

Continuous traveling without break has its consequences, however. The combination of consistent traveling and swimming, fighting undead hordes at night from overextending her stay on land, and being forced to breath air without a conduit, even with the assistance of a ring to keep her from suffocating on land, took its toll on her body. She was wracked with a terrible fever that left her somewhat delirious on arriving home a day before **a scavenger hunt** took place. Concerned for its friend, Relgna urged her to rest until she fights off the illness, finally recovering four days afterwards.

Sometime after recovering, Bentha opened up a stall at a market. **During the fair to welcome its opening**, Bentha bore witness to the attending Blights and a fairly violent battle. It should have made them less scary to her, but if anything, the fact they turned on each other so quickly amidst a crowd made her more afraid of them. After returning home on the first, Relgna made a proposition. Bentha could gain the respect of the ocean to aid in the battle against Talbot and his blights. She had to retrieve the treasure from an ocean monument, face ten drowned zombies in trident to trident combat, and fish every extraordinary species of fish. While awaiting further instructions from Relgna, Bentha found herself with new glow spots on her space, arms, legs, and fins.

After some time, she had a new instruction: restock the chests in the sea with new resources and treasures. So she went mining for ores, and fished up rare treasures from the sea, before going around to refill the chests. After doing so, she found that her scales turned a dark blue. And one day, Bentha woke up, and it turns out she became a Leviathan! Given a title for the change, Bentha embraced her new role as an sentinel of the oceans, starting with gathering resources to help kick some blight butt.

But everything came crashing down around her. **On the penultimate battle**, the truth was revealed. Cambire was lying to everyone, and Bentha was one of the ones who fell for the lie the hardest. After all, she was new to land at the time, and only knew of the Aberration event as a legendary myth before she was thrust into the Talbot vs Cambire conflict at the fateful dinner party. She was angry with herself, and nothing but apologetic and filled with despair that she failed so many people, including the ocean she was meant to protect, by falling for it. However, after a pep talk from her conduit, Bentha chose to take on a new goal alongside being the Ocean Sentinel, which is to catalogue the map of the land she roams on.

After cataloguing all she traveled through, she decided to open the South Aberrant Museum, not keen on letting history repeat by leaving others with no context for current events themselves. She decides to achieve this by gathering artifacts and putting them on display. After being a spectator to the **Rackaseum**, she began her first tour of the museum, and will host it at the end of every other month.