ViATA

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Abra Milikha

Viata Maree (often stylized as *ViATA*) is the young, spunky best friend of Azadeh, daughter of Malo and Marzena Maree, and the main character of the Scenes web-comic. Her first appearance is in season eight, where she is commissioned to assist Hunter with laborious office work that he otherwise couldn't handle due to the pressures of becoming King of Nightmare.

Despite her seemingly luxurious lifestyle, Viata has lived in a condo with her mom and dad for most of her life and has only recently become a débutante while being sent to help Hunter. Although she mainly did it to boost her school grades and work experience, she also had a deep desire to escape the confines of upper-class living and make friends outside of her hometown. Viata was also one of the many friends of Hunter that stood beside him during the final battle with the Legion of Doom in the season eight finale episode.

In the Scenes web-comic, Viata's role is front and center. The story explores an alternate timeline where the denizens of Albagan lose to the Legion of Doom; trapping them all in Celsius's underground prison. After Lord Kreon smashes the scepter of Teneperes, the balance of Albagan is shifted and much of Viata's adventure takes place in a separate dimension from what is featured in the TV series.

## Appearance

Viata is a a fairly tall, slim young maren with apricot and yellow-toned horns, and deep purple eyes. She's very fair-skinned and always wears thick, black eye makeup with red lipstick. Her signature accessory is a red polka dot bow that she wears tied around the base of her horns. They have dark spots and two bead-like decorations that stem from the base of the ribbon. Her horns are a kind of rhombus shape that extend from both the bottom and top and then transition into a concaved tip with swirly strands at the end.

Her outfit is inspired by the creation of the women's pantsuit in 1932. However, her jacket is actually a custom tux cut into a crop-top with gold detailing at the bottom. It has a deep V-neck cut with a non-collared, white button up shirt underneath. She wears a black choker necklace around it. Under both the shirt and tuxedo jacket is a black, pinstriped romper that serve as shorts. She wears red and light pink striped thigh-high boots with Ideya detailing on the vamps.

## Personality

Viata is energetic, full of laughter, and an excellent team player. Her main goals usually surround helping others to achieve their dreams and fulfill ambitions. Although that is usually a satisfying task for Viata, often times her own ambitions can be pushed aside because of it. She also has a persuasive aura about her; using her potent positivity for the greater good or to motivate someone to face the odds. Sometimes, though, this convincing nature can get the best of her when she oversteps boundaries by pushing her own thoughts and feelings on other's situations. This frequently backfires on her, resulting in faulty communication.

When around her parents, Viata is the perfect little daughter they've always wanted: well-behaved, studious, and disengaged from boys. Most of the time Viata enjoys such a fast-paced life style. But now and again a feeling of disappointment can creep up, eating at her insecurities that result from her fragile self-confidence. Her friends would often describe her as an emotional glass cannon.

After meeting Azadeh, Viata has changed somewhat. She's become more resourceful, grounded, and mindful of how her actions affect others. However, that doesn't stop the two from bouncing off of each other in a very comedic way. With Azadeh being 'chill', laid back, and emotionally stable and the opposite being true for Viata.

## Relationships

### Azadeh

Viata meets Azadeh when she is transported into the Vale of Viladi, where Azadeh was also brought. With both of them being lost, they formed a kind of partnership and eventual friendship in order to work together and find a way back to Albagan. They both share a mutual interest in each other's past lives back home and share stories of various situations that occurred. As mentioned, they bounce off of each other very well, personality-wise. Azadeh is relaxed and level-headed, albeit a little strange. Whereas Viata is peppy, energetic, but a bit sensitive when it comes to other people's judgements about her. Since meeting, Azadeh and Viata have become best friends and are determined to explore the dark new world that they're living in together.

### Kabir

Since meeting Kabir, Viata has taken a liking to Kabir's otherwise closed off personality. Things had started out awkward between them, but their relationship continues to improve as the story of the web-comic continues. Though Viata is mostly an extrovert, her soft and emotional side meshes well with Kabir's emotional intelligence. They work together both as partners and friends with a common goal in order to make their way back home, along with the orders in the group.

### Abra

Though they don't interact a lot throughout the comic, Abra and Viata seem to get along very well. They both share the hope of getting home, but also are both extroverts with big dreams. They both seem to love fashion and Viata serves as a bit of an older sister figure to Abra in times of need.

### Tofyte

Tofyte is introduced to Viata and appears to be indifferent in regards to her personality. They aren't immediate friends, yet as Tofyte opens up about her story, Viata is quick to befriend her in somewhat of a frenemies dynamic. The other travelers may sometimes believe the semi-friendship between the two is disingenuous, but that proves to be untrue. Viata is also the only person Tofyte trusts to tell her backstory.

### Bander

The relationship between Bander and Viata seems to be a one-sided rivalry. Bander severely dislikes Viata and shows this in many different instances. She will do what she can to smooth things over, but his stubborn nature makes it difficult. She usually brushes his petty hatred for her as childish behavior, since he is only fifteen.

## Depiction in the series

Viata is brought into the Plevermare Conservatory as a member of the Albagan Guardianship Program in order to serve as Hunter's executive assistant for a few months. She was chosen since she is close to his age, and Ethan had concerns about Hunter being too stressed with his office work to rule efficiently as future king of Nightmare. She is shown to be a peppy and altruistic assistant who quickly takes on the bulk of Hunter's duties so he may focus on other responsibilities with more focus and far less stress. She uses this to reach out to Hunter's friends, who he alludes to as potential sources of stress, and ends up giving them misconstrued information, unhelpful advice, and distances them from Hunter. Although she had good intentions, Viata eventually must learn that what she was saying was overall inaccurate even if she was only trying to help. They all make up in a meeting together and Viata also becomes closer with Inaba.

In a future episode, Viata along with BellaRosa, helps Inaba keep her failing business afloat as investors begin threatening to shut down the MOD Club. It eventually succeeds and the club is kept open.

In the series finale, Viata stands side by side with Hunter on the battlefield as they come up with strategies for defeating the Legion of Doom.

## Backstory

Viata was an altruistic gal and the daughter of the Marees, Malo and Marzena, who come from a historically wealthy Welsh-French background. Her roots growing up were in a small market town before moving across the globe with her expatriate parents to live lives of luxury among the rest of upper-class civilization. Viata grew up home-schooled by her mother and aunt, and learned valuable life lessons from her father. She also hosted a multitude of parties at her condo during her early teenage years. In recent years, her main goal is to use the lessons she's learned, her financial status, and community influence for the greater good.

In her personal time, she considers herself an activist; using her trust-funded life to donate to women's shelters, taking advantage of social media to form research groups on local issues, and living a green, environmentally friendly life the best that she can. However, if anyone were to confront her about this behavior in person, she would simply cite the fact that she loves her community and wouldn't claim the title of a "dedicated activist".

### Main Series Timeline

Prior to ending up where she is now, she assisted and acted in the Albagan Guardianship Program (A.G.P.), and put in months of strenuous dedication to assistant life at Plevermare headquarters. In short, she's done a lot. But these days, thing's aren't looking too hot for her..