Leta Morenos

> “Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”
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**Aelita Rhiannon Marie Morenos** is the middle daughter of Deirdre Morenos and Nikolai Belyakov and is the twin sister to Artanis, and also is the older sister to Althea and the half-sister of Roman. After the death of her mother, she and her sister went to live with their great-aunts Isabella and Thomasina.

Aelita is the mother of Mars, Blue, Damien and twins James and Lincoln. Her eldest three children are from her relationship to Lavi Rashid and from her current rekindling with Jason Yaegar, they have twins together.

## Personality

Leta main core traits are independent, sharp witted and deeply empathic. Despite this due to numerous tragedies and betrayals she has suffered from this had caused Leta to harden and be slightly paranoia and misanthropic and caused more of her violent and aggressive traits to come to the surface.

As a child, Leta was confidant and smart kid who participated in beauty contests which developed her confidence to high levels that have backfired on her in several moments of her life.

## Appearance

Leta is a striking and attractive young woman, with a semi-voluptuous body with a large buttock, hips and thighs but lacks the chest her twin Ani who has the full hourglass figure but a smaller butt. Leta also has waist length dark hair. While sharing the hooded green eyes of the Morenos family, her's are the shade of bottle green.

When her true face is revealed, her skin turns into a shiny bluish-green color with spots of white, sharp, black-rimmed teeth, pointed ears, milk grey eyes that look rotted. Her hair also resembles that of a corpse being light grey and thinning. Like other Magi's Leta has a birthmark of a M underneath her tongue.

Despite her young age Leta has several piercings most of them she has done herself, most of her ears and her nose. She has three piercings in her right ear, five in her left ear, right nostril, septum, tongue, her belly button and later pierced her nipples after her breakup with Chris. Leta also has several scars on her body a thin one on her throat, and several on her chest and back.

Her style of clothing usually revolves around comfort or rebellion depending on the day, wearing a punk-style of clothing inspired by Vivienne Westwood and Jean-Paul Gaultier, mixed in with her own changes and what she can afford.

### Tattoos

* From shoulder-to-shoulder on her back, Leta has a monstrous owl standing on top of a skull with a snake inside of it, with the snake poking out of its eye socket surrounded by flowers and pomegranates. The owl has five eyes.
* Leta has "*L’art est la Solution au Chaos*" in Old English lettering just below her owl right above her bra line. Which is French for the "Art is the Solution to Chaos."
* On her left side Leta has a black and grey piece that is a little girl riding a fairy cat that's based on her daughter Mars and the cat's appearance was based on a Norwegian Forest cat.
* Her second tattoo is this German script "*Auch das Schöne muß sterben"* which translated says "*Even the beautiful must die*" on her left thigh.
* Wrapping around her mid-right thigh are three black bands tattooed horizontally.
* Aelita has a tattoo on her upper right arm based on the 21st tarot card The World with a bared naked woman holding a staff in each hand, surrounded by a wreath, being watched by the four living creatures of Jewish mythology: a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle. According to astrological tradition the Lion is Leo is a fire sign, the Bull or calf is Taurus, an earth sign, the Man is Aquarius, an air sign, and the Eagle is Scorpio, a water sign. These signs are the four fixed signs and represent the classical four elements.
* On Leta's left knee she has a black-and-grey piece of Orpheus's head and lyre hybrid piece. Orpheus's head has strings coming out of its mouth connected to lyre piece wrapping around Orpheus's head.
* Right on her mons pubis, Leta has a large tattoo of a deer skull with two large peonies; the horns curve in a little below her breasts and the large leaves go onto her inner thigh thighs. The original tattoo was a quote "*This is love on Demand*" in really crappy lettering and was done in a basement and this was her first tattoo.
* On her left bicep Leta has "*Just as a snake shed it skin, we must shed our past over and over again*" which was allegedly by the Buddha. This was her third tattoo.
* Her second tattoo is two A's behind her right ear. Which represents her sisters Artanis and Althea.
* Leta has a lower back tattoo depicting a crow holding a banner that says, "*Property of Jace Yaegar*" and in the center was a heart with barb wire. She later had the banner and lettering lasered off and had the tattoo reworked into a large Raven with a new banner that says, "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt" which is from Jace and her's then favorite books Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
* She has a crescent moon on her right collarbone and was one of her favorites despite its now aged appearance.
* On her left side Leta has a quote from Hamlet which is "*Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love*.” In beautiful yet readable cursive.
* On her right thigh Leta has a portrait of gay icon and English humorist Quentin Crisp.
* Letty has "*Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut, das Wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar*” which means "*One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes*.” It is located on the right side of her left calf.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Witch Physiology** - Leta is a halfblooded hereditary witch with the ability to use magic with her own personal magic being transmutation with additional abilities in spell casting, potion making, alchemy, and mediumship.
	+ **Spell Casting** - Leta is a skilled enough spell caster though her gifts more lie in potions and alchemy, though she knowledgeable in enchantments and counter spells.
	+ **Potion Making** - She can create potions: substances with magical properties such as enhancing physical and mental abilities, healing, granting powers, changing shape, or bewitching someone depending on the kind of potion that is made.
		- **Alchemy** - Due to being an expert in potion making at year three, (\*&\*-\*&\*) gave her alchemy lessons instead to challenge her and keep her from skipping class. By her fifth year, Leta was already turning water into wine, and common plastic into gold.
	+ **Transmutation** - Leta is naturally gifted in transmutation, in which she can alter or transform into objects/beings matter into something else entirely and Leta was so skilled in this that she doesn't need to verbally or use potions to transform another simply touching another person she can transform them into something else entirely.
	+ **Mediumship** - Aelita since she was a child could see, communicate and interact with spirts and the unseen by non-magical individuals even if they have possessed inanimate objects or people. They are able to repel and run spirits away from an area, compel to employ an armada of ghosts, and may even view a visual conception of a spirit world in a trance if desired.
* **Familiar Contracts** - Leta has several familiar, her first being a carbuncle named Celeno and her second being a half-cat-sìth while being a quarter Scottish Wildcat and Domestic longhair named Fergus.
* **Expert Pathologist** - After leaving her family and (\*&\*) behind her she attended college where she got a degree in pathology and a medical degree. Leta chooses to become a Forensic Pathologist after graduated and got accepted as a researcher to the Bureau of (\*&\*-\*&\*) while getting her career going even writing several articles for major medical news outlets.
* **Expert Hacker** - Leta is capable of virtually hacking into any database in the world including government agencies so that she can acquire the information necessary for a current case although this has gotten her into trouble in the past. As a child Leta used to build computers out a trash, something her mother encouraged.
* **Marksmanship** - Leta is an exceptional shot and owns several guns. She is claiming that she could have undone (\*&\*)'s shirt buttons with it if she wanted to.

### Possessions

* **Laelia** - Leta's wand is named Laelia, which is made up of snakewood with the core being that of the horn of a Basilisk. It is the twin of Lucretia.
* **Leta's Bike** - Leta owns a black, Cafe Racer styled, Honda CB350 that she fondly named *Meridiana*.
* **Jewelry** - Leta owns several pieces of jewelry. When she does wear jewelry, it is mostly dangly earrings such as the teardrop earrings, rings, bracelets, other necklaces, etc.
	+ **Beetle Ring** - Leta inherited this ring from her mother, which is based on a scarab beetle made up of morganite and onyx. Her mother handmade this ring while attending school.
	+ **Necklace** - Leta with her model money was able to get a bedazzled Vivienne Westwood Saturn orb necklace that is also a lighter and even when Leta quits smoking, she always keeps it on her.
* **Pets** - Leta is a big cat lover, she rescued a pregnant half-traditional Persian and half-Turkish angora named Gabriel (*she thought it was a boy originally*) only three of her kittens survived that Leta named Gozer, Zuul, and Vinz Clortho. She also is the adopted a rescue dog named Chunk.
* **Guns** - For situations in which Leta doesn't want to use magic or expose herself, Leta owns several guns a Mossberg 500, Beretta M9, Glock 37, Sig Sauer P365 and Beretta Nano.
* **Knives** - She also carries several throwing knives and a Mark I trench knife.

## Etymology

* Aelita was created by Russian author Aleksey Tolstoy for his science fiction novel *Aelita* (1923), where it belongs to a Martian princess. In the book, the name is said to mean "starlight seen for the last time" in the Martian language.
* Rhiannon is probably derived from an unattested Celtic name \**Rīgantonā* meaning "great queen" (Celtic \**rīganī* "queen" and the divine or augmentative suffix *-on*). It is speculated that Rigantona was an old Celtic goddess, perhaps associated with fertility and horses like the Gaulish Epona. As *Rhiannon*, she appears in Welsh legend in the *Mabinogi* [1] as a beautiful magical woman who rides a white horse. She was betrothed against her will to Gwawl, but cunningly broke off that engagement and married Pwyll instead. Their son was Pryderi.
* Marie is a variant of Maria which is the Latin form of the New Testament Greek names *Μαριάμ (Mariam)* and *Μαρία (Maria)* — the spellings are interchangeable — which were from Hebrew *מִרְיָם (Miryam)*, a name borne by the sister of Moses in the Old Testament. The meaning is not known for certain, but there are several theories including "sea of bitterness", "rebelliousness", and "wished for child". However, it was most likely originally an Egyptian name, perhaps derived in part from *mry* "beloved" or *mr* "love".
* Morenos is a variant of Moreno which is from a nickname meaning "dark" in Spanish and Portuguese.

## Trivia

* She is the associated with the number "21" which is in reference to the tarot card the World.
	+ She is also associated with Queen of Spades.
* Leta is of Spanish, Portuguese, Iberian Jewish, Russian, Romani and Serbian descent.
* She speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Hebrew. She also knows sign language which she learned from her mother.
* She is pansexual.
* She is allergic to peppermint.
* Her favorite meal is machher jhol with biryani and garlic coated naan.
	+ Her second favorite is garlic chive pancake with rice and spicy fish stew.
* Aelita is considered an indigo child.
* Leta has been smoking since she was eight.
* Leta was born with uterus decephalus.
* She suffered from pre-eclampsia during all of her pregnancies.
	+ Leta suffered from placenta praevia while pregnant with Mars, While pregnant with Blue she was shot in the head, and with Damien she began to develop HELLP's.
* When Anni became sexuality active, her aunts put on birth control but allowed her to choose Leta picked the implant and a vaginal ring.
* She is ambidextrous but writes with her left hand.
* She is a talented dressmaker being talented enough to make a replica dress of Queen Margot (1994).
* At Roman's Halloween Party she dressed up as Isabelle Adjani's Queen Margot.
* Her favorite artists are Sade, Echo & The Bunnymen, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Prince, The Cure, Skunk Anasie, Robyn, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Alice in Chains.
* Her first love was Apollonia Kotero.
* Leta does smoke weed.
* She earned her Bachelor of Science and *Magna Cum Laude* from San Diego State University; she later got her doctorate degree at Johns Hopkins.
* Leta has American and British citizenship.
* She loves motorcycles and skateboards.
* She was a cheerleader in High School and got cheerleader scholarship for College.