Serena

I am known as Serena, but I prefer the name Santiago. Not many people know my real identity, growing up I always had to hide who I was because I was so different from everyone else. As a siren there aren’t many males, most are replicas of “mother”, however I was born in a very cold, abandoned area. I had many genetic mutations growing up, some to my advantage, others not so much. Due to my male genetics I am able to sing at a lower tone than others thus enhancing my harmonizing abilities.

Right after birth I had to learn how to survive on my own, there was no one around to help, except for one havroid. Havroids were born to be our slaves, though I never really liked the idea of having someone else do all my busy work, I felt that work is what would help me learn to appreciate things around me. This particular havroid found me at my birth site and immediately offered me help, though this is expected I grew very fond of them, we grew up as best friends and often helped each other out, they were also the only other being on this planet that knew about my genetic mutations.

Everything was going great, we lived off on our own peacefully away from all things evil, until humans came to our planet. They ruined everything good we ever had, they became very greedy and wanted all our resources. Worst of all, they are the reason I got separated from my havroid counterpart. I was forced to fight and I am not one to be violent, this just made my life harder and almost unbearable. I felt as if I became a slave to battle and instead of living freely I constantly had to worry if we were going to be attacked. Thankfully due to my lower tone I’m able to sing very well and fighting off these humans was easy, and almost became enjoyable.

I never had much feelings, I only knew comfortability and only felt that with my havroid counterpart. Until we got separated that’s all I knew, I never cared to think much on how I felt or what drove me to do things, because quite frankly I was just living life however I felt pleased. When humans began invading our land, I became strangely overwhelmed with a feeling I never felt before or quite understand. It’s known that humans are filled with emotions and feelings that only make them weak, so whatever I was feeling could not be emotions, I refuse to become weak because of them. Even though my kind isn’t native to this planet, we never tried to ruin it for others or run it dry of all their resources like these humans are. We never had malintentions coming here, we just needed a place to live, these humans however are different. I haven’t met any that weren’t greedy and selfish, they are in the wrong and I will protect my planet from them at any costs. They have changed me to become something I am not, and I will forever have a vendetta against them.

The only person I ever bowed down to will be our Gods, and I will sing The Song of the Gods with my whole heart every time. I believe they are the reason we found this planet and are able to thrive on both land and water. Any time a leader calls time in the water to refelt on our deities I will do so, they have earned my respect and I owe them.

Creating a new identity is easy and hard at the same time. In this case it was quite easy as we already have some background knowledge of our world and species, all I needed to do was create a story from those details. It is sometimes hard to have my backstory align with what is already written. While creating my backstory I wanted to add some type of love interest with a havroid, however as a haifisch, siren we aren’t known to have emotions, so adding that could be contradictory. Though I added some type of hint I could be developing emotions, which works out since I have genetic mutations. Some of the details helped me to my advantage when coming up with this story. As mentioned before, my kind can have genetic mutations so I took advantage of that to try and implement some details I wanted that didn’t normally align with what was written down.

My character has a type of sound amplifier. Haifisch has a huge emphasis on sound and songs, so this helps amplify spread the sound to a bigger audience all at once. It is built similar to a megaphone but more pocket friendly and easier to carry around.