Mal

**Queen Maleficent "Mal" Bertha** is the main protagonist of the *Descendants* franchise. She is the daughter of Maleficent and Hades, the wife of King Ben, and the Queen of the United States of Auradon and the Isle of the Lost.

Mal takes charge of carrying out her mother's evil plan to steal the Fairy Godmother's magic wand and enjoys drawing and casting spells (but only if needed).

As the movie progresses, Mal lets go of much of her former fears and goals, becoming in tune with her true self; thus she abandons the hollow life of evil, for a life of good. With friendship and love, Mal ended filling the hole in her that could not be satisfied through what her mother had taught her.

## Appearance

Mal is described as a pretty girl with dark purple hair with highlights of lighter shades of purple, that is curly, and reaches a little bit over her shoulders. She has green eyes and is of medium height. She mostly wears purple and shades of green during the movie. In her first appearance and when she came to Auradon, Mal wore a purple-and-magenta leather jacket with a green patch on the left side, black fingerless gloves, purple jeans, and black boots. At Ben's coronation, she wears a lavender dress that is short on the front but long and regal looking on the back. Mal had her hair tied up in a top knot. According to *Descendants: Isle of the Lost*, she has a dragon-shaped marking on her arm, the symbol of Maleficent. In *Descendants 2*, Mal has blonde hair with purple tips at the end. When she goes back to the Isle, she goes back to having purple hair, only this time, light, straight, and with bangs. Mal wore a purple studded leather jacket with a green and purple hand-dyed tank top under it. She has multiple layered chains and belts around her waist, purple pants, and purple studded boots with purple and green colored heels. She also wears a single purple fingerless glove. In *Under The Sea: A Descendants Story*, her wardrobe is now a purple shirt with multiple golden studs. She also wears a black vest, her sleeves are purple, and one on completely studded. She also wears black and purple pants with purple studded boots. She still has her original hair, belts and boots. Also, in *Descendants 3*, she has short curly light purple hair and is reflected with other shades with blue highlights. She wears a midnight blue vest, as well as a purple shirt under it, with her emblem. She also sports a pair of blue and purple leather pants. She now wears purple wedge high-tops with painted blue flames, as are her purple fingerless gloves. In *Under The Sea: A Descendants Story*, her wardrobe is now a purple shirt with multiple golden studs. She also wears a black vest, her sleeves are purple, and one on completely studded. She also wears black and purple pants with purple studded boots. She still has her original hair, belts and boots. Also, in *Descendants 3*, her hair is light purple and is reflected with other shades and appears to be blue. She wears a midnight blue vest, as well as a purple shirt under it, with her emblem. She also sports a pair of blue and purple leather pants. She now wears purple wedge high-tops with painted blue flames, as are her purple fingerless gloves.

## Personality

Mal is a sneaky, smart, ruthless girl who was raised to be a leader. Though she is compassionate to her friends, she is vengeful and unforgiving to anyone who doesn't actively help her. She is artistic and has a knack for casting spells. As the daughter of Maleficent, she wants to be like her mother: pure evil. Yet whenever she tries to prove herself to her mother, she often ends up disappointing her instead. But she does enjoy coming up with evil plans and is the most feared at her previous school because of her reputation. She is not fond of beautiful surroundings or anything pink and finds them to be horrid, but she does sometimes wonder about how life would be off the island. Her "mean girl" façade is an act because she does not want to be seen as weak in her mother's eyes; being one is the only way she is respected by Maleficent, who never cared about Mal. Ben "saw through Mal's act," and saw her as a good person.

In the second novel, Mal is more open and still cherishes Ben; it makes her happy that Ben loves her, despite Mal being the opposite of Auradon princesses. She retains a fear of her mother escaping imprisonment and causing trouble. She also shows regret for abusing her old friend Mad Maddy. Mal is the only one of her friends not to be tempted by an enchanted item that belonged to their parents, as her heart was filled with love and friendship. She is still the one with the most common sense amongst them, as she knew using the talismans (even for a good cause) would cause items to corrupt them.

## Powers and Abilities

Mal is trained in dark forms of magic, courtesy of her mother. Due to the Isle of the Lost negating magic inside the dome, Mal only begins practicing magic after leaving the island, and therefore is only skilled at basic magic. By *Descendants: Wicked World*, however, it is noted by others that something bad almost always happens every time she uses magic despite being skilled in the film. At times whenever she is stressed or agitated, her eyes can glow green. By *Descendants 2*, this is shown to be a latent indication of her growing powers as by the end she has awoken the ability to transform into a dragon.

* **Dark Fairy Magic:** Being born a Half-Dark Fairy due to her mother Maleficent, Mal is able to use the same magic as her mom.
	+ **Eye-Colour Shifting:** First shown on the Isle of the Lost, Mal can change her eye colour from normal to green, sometimes to have a staring contest with her mother.
	+ **Spellcasting:** Mal has casted a wide variety of spells like a hair changing spell, feast spell, sleeping spell and many more throughout Descendants media.
	+ **Potioncraft:** She made a love potion and antidote to make Ben fall in and out of love with her and a Truth Serum to make Carlos say his feelings to Jane but Dude ended up eating it, giving him the ability to talk.
	+ **Dragon Metamorphosis:** Just like her mom, Mal can turn into a Dragon at will and typically does this in times of need, first shown in Descendants 2 when she battled Uma.
* **Demi-God Powers:**
	+ **Using Hades' Ember:** Being the daughter of Hades, Mal can use his Ember however it won't do as much as it can for him.
		- **Energy Beam Emission:** To fight Audrey at the end of Descendants 3, Uma reignited the Ember's power and allowed Mal to cast an energy beam at Audrey to beat her.

## Role Sora’s Adventures

She appeared in Kairi's Adventures in Enchanted Dominion