Zuri Ntya

## Zuri Hiems-Spiritley

### Age

"I am 17 years old and somehow I act the most like an adult out of my entire family."

### Monster Parent

"I am a hybrid my bother is an Olitiau and my father was a Butterfly Man."

### Killer Style

"My style kills in design, function and divinity, I most show my reserved and dignified ."

### Monster Quirk

"I must say I do tend to act more…dignified and stuffy in situations that call for flexibility…"

### Pet

"I have not yet decided upon a beast perfect enough for me"

### Favorite Activity

"My favourite activity would be reading and pursuing apprenticeships for college"

### Biggest Pet Peeve

"When people ask me if I drink blood…I’m not a vampire"

### Fav School Subject

"My favourite subjects are Lawgore class…I enjoy learning about laws and how to overrule them."

### Least Fav Subject

"I hate Home Freakynomics…it’s well…I’ve been told never to cook at home"

### Favorite Color

"I enjoy using metallic and regal colours."

### BFFs

"My best ghoul would be Kamihime. She’s bribing me out of my ways, while I’m fixing hers."

**Zuri Ntya** is a 2023-introduced and all-around character for the Third generation of Monster High. She is a hybrid cryptid, part-Olitiau and Part-Butterfly person. She has come a long way from her home to learn from the best that monster society can offer. She is a Junior.

## Character

### Background

Zuri's parents met under abnormal circumstances. Her mother having travelled to America in order to gain a higher education and help her family back home. While her father was a wandering social butterfly, always on the go from one place to another taking photos as he would. His meeting with Zuri's mother was less than ideal, he was to free and wild for a long term relationship, while she was too focused and distant. Yet eventually they would have Zuri, who would also live such a unique life. Traveling between both of her families during the year, never really finding a way to settle down. That was until she joined Monster High, finding a perfect way to settle down.

### Personality

Zuri is a ghoul who has faced horrors and instead of being plagued by them she marches forward. She is very brave when confronted with difficulty situations, never backing down when confronted. Even stepping in and taking the brunt when others are struggling under pressure. Yet even though she marches on despite those horrors, she still relies on others for support. Through she has been described as aloof and very hard to talk with rather than being snooty; she is always the first one to talk with someone in need. She is never a ghoul to leave someone out of the conversation or group, incorporating them as best as they can.

### Appearance

While Zuri was originally a hybrid of two different cryptid's but has more of her mother apeerance with her father's scareitage manifesting upon her body.
Zuri’s underlying skin is a black, fur all over her body, running from her ears all the way down to her back and along the bony parts of her wings. Her face is heart shaped, with a pair of bronze eyes, golden pupils with grey sclera. Zuri’s hair is black and is kept in dreads which fades towards bronze at the end of her hair. Zuri’s current physical form has her at 5 foot 9, with a mesomorph body type. As an original anthropomorphic bat, she keeps her original bat features such as her bronze coloured bat nose, bat wings and a pair of bat ears. She does possess a tail but it is rather short and hidden most of  the time. As a byproduct of her becoming a nature spirit she has gained additional energy features, for her it manifests as silver and butterfly scales/markings. They are upon her ears and upon her wings, making her look like a bat with butterfly markings.

## Monster Type, Abilities & Skills

### Monster Type

Zuri is the daughter of two different **Cryptids**. Cryptids are animals that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but are not recognized by science. Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience, which primarily looks at anecdotal stories, and other claims rejected by the scientific community. While biologists regularly identify new species following established scientific methodology, cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the folklore record and rumor. Entities that may be considered cryptids by cryptozoologists include Bigfoot, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Mokele-mbembe.

Zuri and her mother are **Olitiau**. A gigantic cryptid bat (or flying reptile) hypothesized to exist in Central Africa. The word Olitiau likely comes from a fusion of the Ipulo words “Ole” and “Ntya”, and is a name for ceremonial dance masks used to represent demons. The name may be used by the Ipulo to refer to demons in general rather than to the creature itself. It was first “discovered” in 1932 so it is a very young cryptid.

Zuri and her father are **Butterfly People**. The Butterfly People, or the Butterfly People of Joplin are enigmatic creatures reportedly appearing during the events of the EF5 tornado that befell on Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. Many theories have circulated as a result of this phenomenon. Most skeptics believe that the stories are a result of mass hysteria, where stress from the near-death experience would cause people to believe that they are seeing something supernatural before their eyes. This can also explain many other instances of people sharing their stories of supernatural encounters such as seeing angels during tragedies such as the destruction of the Twin Towers in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

## Abilities & Skills

* Monster Abilities
* Personal Skillset

Zuri possess the combined common abilities of the Oliatu and the Butterfly people.

* **Hybrid Physiology (Olitau/Butterfly Person)**: Zuri is hybrid that was bornnaturally by the mating of two different species and thus possesses both of their parents' capabilities and powers. Each of her parentage presents her either different powers or she has shared abilities between the two.
	+ **Aerial/Atmospheric Adaptation**: Zuri has a natural immunity to vertigo and/or height-related phobias, which allows it to survive and adapt in conditions of extremely high or low air pressure and intense wind friction without getting disoriented or deprived of their regular breathing capacity. Moreover, her lungs can filter out non-gaseous pollutants like dust, asbestos, etc. and acclimatise to and breathe in/on any gaseous media, whether hostile or inadequate. This is from both of her sides.
	+ **Climbing/Wallcrawling**: With the aid of any handhold they come across, no matter how small, on trees, rocks, walls, etc., Zuri is able to climb and move in different ways smoothly and effortlessly on inclined and/or vertical surfaces. She also has the ability to scale any surface, including smooth and rugged walls and ceilings. They do not contest gravity, yet they cling to surfaces naturally in a variety of ways. This is from her mother's side.
	+ **Echolocation**: Zuri through her mother's side has the ability to send out sound waves, which it can then track down and identify using the echoes they get from various things. She can also get the same result by using background noise. Since its power doesn't depend on sight or light, neither invisibility nor the majority of camouflage techniques work against it. By producing a noise and listening for the echoing sound waves, Zuri can detect her surroundings. She can use reflected sound or sound waves to pinpoint the locations of items or other people in the surrounding area.
	+ **Enhanced Condition**: Since she possess a bat form, she by birth has a physique that is proportionately stronger than humans. As a result, her body benefits both mentally and physically. Moving at speeds comparable to rapid mechanical creatures, the capacity to lift weights and output strength that even the greatest weightlifters could not hope to reach.
	+ **Enhanced Senses**: She has extremely accurate senses, allowing her to see, hear, smell, taste and feel better similar to that of werewolves. She has a speciality for sensing smells and locating even the tiniest of details.
	+ **Flight**: Through her bat/butterfly wings, Zuri is capable of flying at great speeds. Even defying her natural weight in order to maintain flight.
	+ **Natural Weaponry**: Through her physical form she is capable of manifesting claws and fangs. She is capable of doing this even in her human form.
		- **Fang Retraction**: She possess a set of fangs within her mouth, different from that of a vampire as she has multiple sets.
	+ **Wing/Winged Flight**: Given that Zuri possess wings she is capable of flying with them. Even though she technically doesn’t need to use them given her spiritual nature, she still prefers to open up her wings.
* **Zoolingualism**: Because of her animal like nature, she is able to communicate with other animals and understand them. Almost through nonverbal and passive movement like other animals.

Zuri outside of her monster and god abilities, possess a couple of skills dedicated to practice and developed use.

* **Fashion Designing**: Zuri is an eclectic designer with a wide view of colours and design concepts, having been known to create clothing and designs for herself, her friends and for her older brother. Unlike her father she has knowledge of fashion history, and knowledge of cultural clothing to help create clothing. She focuses specifically on aesthetics, patterns, inspiration, themes related to or concerning nature and by extension monsters.

* **Spellcasting**: Zuri is able to utilize magic, using certain actions such as gestures, rituals and thoughts as well as symbols, language and formulae to utilize mysterious and/or supernatural forces that don't abide by conventional science or laws of reality to achieve any effect or phenomenon imaginable. Zuri specializes in Voodoo, specifically in cursing and healing. When she cast magic it manifests as a swirl of orange Veve, which are haitian voodoo symbols. She learned her magic through her Grandmother, so she has some knowledge when it comes to using magic.

## Relationship

* Family & Pet
* Friends & Enemies
* Romance

Zuri’s relationship with her family is complicated through events rather than by emotions. It took her a while to bond with her dad, given his nature and the distance between them. She has a couple of paternal older sibling relationship, they support each other as the older siblings to their younger siblings but when they have disagreeing views it quickly devolves into a squabble between them.

She and her mother have a very positive relationship, her mother often giving Zuri pieces of advice when she’s in need and even allowing her to borrow her clothes.

Zuri has a decent relationship with her brothers classmates. Nitocris and Zuri have a good relationship, as their relationship is preferences based. Loving the same food and attending the same musical events. They are often seen sharing clothes or music. Peitro and Zuri have a classic friend of sibling relationship, he sees her as Cato’s little sister and often tattles on her to her elder brother. While she does find this annoying, she occasionally uses this as an escape goat for when problems go wrong and does appreciate Pietro for his more helpful intentions. Yara and Zuri have a really good relationship with each other, she admires Zuri’s confidence and her amazing eye for detail and people. Zuri in response admires Yara for her courage to be herself and admires her kindness.

Zuri’s relationship with her classmates when on a bit of a thin ice at the beginning. Zuri and Ollie have a pleasant relationship, she thinks he’s a little bit of a crazy guy and her thinks she’s a bit to well refined. They have a good relationship as they love to talk about classes and often help each other out in subjects that they struggle in. Kamihime and Zuri are best ghoul friends. Kamihime originally didn’t like Zuri as she wasn’t a deity by birth, and attempted to bully her for it when they were juniors. However they eventually became friends after Kamihime did some soul searching and reevaluated what was good in her life. She turned to Zuri for guidance admiring her confidence, since then they have bonded and become great ghoul friends. She and Garth understand their relationship is one based on childhood hardships. She understands he acts out in his way as a response to his trauma. He intern understand why she doesn’t bond with others as well as him, given her fear of loosing loved ones.
Zuri admits at this time she’s not at all interested in romance, as she still working on herself.

## Doll Lines

***Doll Lines from Current Generation of Monster High***