Vanessa Wayland

## History

Initially, when Maeve realised that she bore a child, she was surprised and had desired to abort the child. However, Maeve had been childless for eons after banishing her Former Husband Orcus and leaving her Valg daughters in the Valg Lands. She was Wicked enough to know that Vanessa's power could be used to her advantage hence she decided to keep the child.

Maeve had anticipated that the knowledge of Vanessa's existence, heritage and powers would be lethal in her enemies' hands. So she kept her pregnancy hidden and secret from everyone but her most trusted maid Lydia. After her birth, Vanessa was passed on as Lydia's daughter. Soon the nursemaid grew attached to her and begin to care for her. On learning Maeve's cruel intentions for Vanessa's future, She ran away and hid Vanessa from Maeve.

Lydia took Vanessa to one of her cousins - Malfoy, a blacksmith who owned a shop for armoury in Doranelle. He was told that she was Lydia's daughter whom Maeve had been hunting. Malfoy agreed to protect Vanessa by telling everyone that he'd found her abandoned in garbage. In addition to this, Lydia even erased Vanessa's memories so that she wouldn't know of her mother. Lydia poisoned herself shortly after to avoid Maeve from knowing.

Vanessa grew up thinking that she was an orphan ( Wayland was a name given to all fae orphans ) She was raised by Malfoy who loved her like a father and taught her everything to know about mechanics and being a blacksmith. Vanessa was a sharp student, at 10 years she became as good as Malfoy and later became one of the best 'tinkerers' in Doranelle. Malfoy also taught her how to fight and defend herself, rest of her skills were picked up by watching others.

She once fell in love with a knight in Maeve's service, Meliorn Greyjoy, who adored her equally. But her foster father was against their relationship, ( he knew Maeve would find out about Vanessa ). Vanessa was unhappy but ended her affair with Malfoy. However Malfoy wasn't able to accept her refusal and attacked her. In order to get away from him, Vanessa turned into a transparent shadow and travelled to another dimension temporarily ( one of the powers she'd inherited from Maeve ) Meliorn thinking that she escaped, came to accost her another day. Malfoy on learning everything, killed Meliorn, but he himself was badly injured in the fight and died a few moments later. Vanessa was heartbroken but took over the shop as the owner and still owns and works at the shop. She still doesn't know about her real heritage.

She tried her powers later on but she can't control them, because she's mostly scared that she'll be trapped in another dimension permanently she's not keen on using them. She might have many hidden unknown powers that are yet to be discovered.

She's living a quiet life until Camari Galathynius , hearing of her expertise in weaponry, comes walking into her shop

## Personality

Vanessa is mostly an introvert, she's shy with new people, but her true nature is known only among her friends, she can be sarcastic and seems to have inherited her sense of humour from her uncle. She loves reading books, making weapons, training and making sketches ( she's bad at painting tho ). Vanessa can be cold or rude sometimes and has an impulsive nature, she ends up saying things which she regrets later. She's very smart and skilled when it comes to weapon and machinery. Vanessa also has abandonment issues and tends to blame herself most of the times.

## Physical Description

Vanessa has curly midnight black hair till her waist which she usually keeps tied in a braid. She has beautiful violet doe shaped eyes with black flecks , thin lips, a delicate nose and pointy chin with a pale and fair complexion. She is shorter than average fae being only 5'5" and rounder/curvier than most . She prefers loose cotton trousers and Long sleeved tops over dresses ( which are impractical in the forge ) However she does adore dresses and wishes to attend a ball atleast once. Vanessa has many callouses on her hands bcoz of spending too much time in the Forge making weapons or training. She also has soot filled hands and face most of the time and wears a pair of tiny spectacles when she's working over her nose. She wears a toolbelt and carries a screwdriver with her always, wherever she goes.

## Powers and Abilities

1. Can turn transparent (into a shadow )
2. Can turn into a Raven
3. Fighting skills
4. Can travel from one dimension to other ( tho she can't control it yet )
5. Very Resourceful, she can fix almost anything
6. Extensive knowledge of all history and general things And a great memory.
7. More possible powers could be discovered in future

## Trivia

* Vanessa has a fear of dogs, she's dead scared of them.
* She wanted to be an iron teeth witch when she grew up.
* Vanessa has an inferiority complex.
* She's a huge fan of Aelin Galathynius.
* She wears a tiny toy screwdriver around her neck which was her first gift given by Malfoy.
* She has a long thin scar running from her ribs to her navel, as a result of when Meliorn pushed her and she nearly impaled herself on his sword (a close shave)
* She wants to open a museum or arsenal for weaponry and wants to invent something useful and new.