Rana El Sayed

### Roommate

Willow Laverne - "I had requested a room to myself for my pets, but was rejected for the single room. Much to my surprise, Willow was chosen as my roommate. She's one of the few people that understands my pets and has no issue with them."

### Secret Heart's Desire

"I would love to travel around the world and help endangered animals. They need to be saved or they'll be gone forever!"

### My "Magic" Touch

"I can communicate with animals. Mother says I got the ability from her."

### Storybook Romance Status

"I'm supposed to marry Malik Faraji, Adviser Faraji's son... But I have no feelings for him even though he's lived at the palace for years. Thankfully, he has no feelings for me either."

### Oh "Curses!" Moment

"My story has me being kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery, to say I'm freaked out about it is saying something."

### Favourite Subject

*Geogrefairy.* "Just learning about places all over the world get me excited. I would love to visit them all, once I finish my destiny."

### Least Favourite Subject

*Princessology and Damsel-in-distressing* - "Just no, those classes I *despise*. There is no reason to explain why."

### Best Friends Forever After

Malik Faraji, Willow Laverne, and Fay Fairer

**Rana Artymis El Sayed** [*she/her*] is the 16-year-old daughter of the current generation's **Rhodopis** and **Pharaoh** from the Greek fairy tale *Rhodopis*.

At the time of the **Rebel Movement**, Rana is attending her **Legacy Year** and currently rooms with Willow Laverne. Despite having reservations about some parts of her destiny, Rana still sides with the **Royals**, finding nothing else seriously wrong.

## Characteristics

### Personality & Traits

* Appears to be **antisocial**, spending more with animals.
	+ She has a small issue with talking to people, besides Malik. Getting help from her best friend and new friends
* Despite her somewhat, antisocial life, Rana is very **passionate** about helping the animals.
* She was taught to never judge**someone by their cover**. What a person is on the outside could just be a cover-up and their true self is deep inside of them. This was how she managed to *befriend* Bad Boy Rebel Blake von Rothbart, after all
* Raised to **earn what she wanted**; she works hard to get what she wants and earn her place and keep.
* Definitely, *not* a morning person, requires being woken up by Baset and Skythorn. Baset wakes her up by meowing, loudly, in her ear. Skythorn usually caws or screeches to wake her up.
	+ Hates taking forever to get ready, the night before, she will lay out her next day's outfits. She found this idea much better back when she was home since she normally would be spending almost all her time outside with the animals.

* Sometimes feels she's not good enough to be the next *Rhodopis* and wishes her sister didn't pass away. TBC

### Physical Appearance

In terms of appearance, Rana inherited bits from both of her parents. She has long, near-waist-length black hair with a golden-blonde ombre, often tied in traditional Greek hairstyles, with pale green eyes, that stand out against her skin tone; a mixture of tanned and olive-colored. To also represent her mixed heritage, Rana fuses her outfits to represent some Greek and some Egyptian.

### Hobbies & Interests

#### *Reading*

Rana loves the chance to enjoy a good book. While she could read almost anything (except horror, just no), she loves reading books about animals.

#### *Volunteering*

Rana loves helping out with animal shelters. Her biggest dream once she's done with her destiny is to help animals all over the world. She's always had a thing for animals since it does happen in her story.

### Powers & Abilities

#### **Powers**

* **Zoolingualism:** Rana inherited Alecta's power to communicate with animals and understand their reactions.

#### **Skillset**

* **Animal caring:** Since she was young, Rana has always been helping animals, no matter what species (which freaked her parents out a couple of times when she tried helping a pride of lions once).
* **Multilingualism:** As her mother is Greek, Rana was taught her mother's native tongue along with her father's native language, Arabic. She speaks both languages back home, though she and her mother enjoy teasing her father and talk in Greek, which he sadly cannot fully understand.

## Fairy Tale - *Rhodopis*

### How Does Rana Fit Into It?

Technically, as the second-born child/daughter, Rana has no given legacy. However, with the passing of her older sister, when they were younger, the role of *Rhodopis* was handed to her.

### Viewpoint on Destiny

The idea of Rana repeating her parents' story is alright, but at the same time, she's unsure of certain parts of her story, especially the slave bit.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Charis El Sayed, sister

Charis was Rana's older sister, who sadly passed before her fourth birthday. While Rana never met her, she was told about her by her parents.

### Friends

#### Willow Laverne

Rana is on good terms with Ayla, the successor of the Pirate that is supposed to capture her in her story. You'd think the two wouldn't, but Ayla is rebelling against her story, not wanting to kidnap Rana (plus, she wants a happy ending with her boyfriend Zach).

#### Malik Faraji

Malik is Rana's childhood best friend. As his uncle was the royal advisor to her father, they would spend a lot of time together. Before Ever After High, the Royal Twins learned that Malik was to be the Pharaoh for Rana. Neither really liked it since they didn't see each other that way and also because Malik liked guys.

#### Fay Fairer

Fay is Rana's first friend, originally meeting in the school's garden due to their cats. Rana is getting help in talking to people thanks to Fay, but there are times she doesn't want to do it. Fay does have trouble saying Rana's name due to her accent (*Ranah ehh Sayeee*) but it does not bother Rana.

#### Ashlynn Ella

As another child of a Cinderella tale, Rana gets along wonderfully with Ashlynn Ella. Their hardworking personalities also help them get along wonderfully too. While Rana doesn't have a thing for shoes, she does enjoy shopping for things. She works part-time at the Glass Slipper with Ashlynn.

### Acquaintances

#### Blake von Rothbart

Rana is not one-hundred percent sure what to call Blake. She first met him at the local animal shelter where she had started to volunteer. Rana was indeed shocked to see Ever After High's bad boy at the shelter, she didn't even know he cared about animals. However, as she was taught to never judge someone by their cover, she took the time to study him from afar. They aren't buddy buddies but Rana will not reveal his secret about him going to the shelter.

### Pets

Rana owns four pets: a male kitten named **"Baset"** (after the Egyptian Goddess of Felines), a male falcon named **"Skythorn"**, and a female Egyptian Cobra named **"Clio"**, and African Lioness named **"Salina"**.

#### Cat - Baset

Baset likes to be with Fay's cat and the two *always* get in trouble together, which often leads to Fay and Rana chasing after them.

#### Falcon - Skythorn

Rana usually lets Skythorn fly freely during the date and has him return to her at night.

#### Snake - Clio

Back home, Rana owns a female Egyptian Corba. Unfortunately, Rana had to leave her behind as she was extremely large and venomous. Her parents advised her to leave Clio behind to avoid scaring staff and students.

#### Lioness - Salina

During Animal Calling, a female lioness came to Rana, whom she named Salina - meaning *moon*. Salina is still very much a cub so she happily fits in Rana's bed when she wants to cuddle - much to the annoyance of Baset.

### Romance

Rana identifies as **panromantic demisexual**.

#### Jaafan Zoungrana

Jaafan is someone Rana met after high school and eventually go to marry and have two girls, Ayesha and Artemis. Not much of their relationship is known, only that they split when the girls are seven.

## Alternate Universes

### What If?

*What If Charis never died? How would Rana's life have differed?*
Had Charis not die, Rana would most likely live a normal, princess life. She might even have been arranged to marry a neighboring kingdom's prince to form an alliance.

### Pokémon World

Rana would hail from the Hoenn region, her home castle probably located in a desert. As a Princess, Rana was normally not permitted to leave the castle and had to stay where it was safe for her. She most likely would have snuck out taking her partner, Gible with her.

Her team would most likely include:

* **Garchomp (F):** To represent her desert home.
* **Flygon (M):** Also to represent her being a Desert Princess.
* **Pyroar (M):** To represent her cat, **Baset**, and also her lioness, **Salina**.
* **Serperior (M):** Meant to represent her snake, **Clio**, and also, it's the Regal Pokémon.
* **Lycanroc (Dusk, M):** Another representative for Deserts of sorts.

## Etymology

Her full name is *Rana Artymis El Sayed*.

The name *Rana* is of Arabic origin and means "queenly". The name *Artymis* is a variation of the Greek Goddess of the Moon and the Hunter, *Artemis*. The name *El Sayed* is of Arabic origin and means "Royalty, Kingship".

## Trivia

* Rana is of **Greek-Egyptian** heritage, her mother is full Greek and her father is half Egyptian and half Greek.
* Her Social Media name is ***@DesertPrincess***.
* Rana's favorite colors are blue and green, in particular, Egyptian blue and Royal green.
* When she was ten, Rana helped a pride of lions which scared the absolute heck out of Zaire and Alecta; though it helped them learn that she gained Alecta's ability to understand animals.
* Her Thronecoming gift was a pair of slippers that would take part in her destiny. They are a scarlet red with a light silver lining.
* Her favorite animal is the snake, hence why most of her clothing has snake designs. She also has a pet Snake.
* Rana identifies as **panromantic demisexual**.

### Notes

* Rana was originally named "Nefertari Zahra" and "Thalia Farrow".
* Rana El Sayed First Chapter design by MaliceInTheAbyss

## Timeline

* **20 November 2019‎ :** Rana El Sayed is posted on the Ever After High Mirror Portal Site.
* **26 August 2019:** Rana El Sayed is posted on the Ever After High Fandom site.
* **2016 - 2018:** Nefertari Zahra/Thalia Farrow are created/revamped.

## Gallery

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