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Naila La Sirène

Species: Hybrid
Sub-type: Demi-nymph
Elemental alignment: Water
Age: 824


Character Background:​

Naila was “born” to the notorious goddess, Mami Wata. A power water spirit revered across the African and Caribbean diaspora, and some in the Americas, Mami Wata is notorious for duality representing not just the sea, but beauty and healing along with capriciousness and danger. While blessing and healing those who respected the Earth’s waters and praised her, she smited those who disregarded not just the seas but her. She was a volatile deity, and a jealous one, that’s been around with the oldest of gods.

Mami Wata could shapeshift, she took the appearance of many. While a beautiful woman from the torso up, she’d been seen with a mermaid tail and the lower body of a snake or even a gator-like lower half - but never legs. She couldn’t have legs. She would create her own blessing in her likeness, Naila with the help of an human she’d lured into a freshwater swamp.

Unlike her mother and creator, Naila wasn’t a goddess. Mami Wata wanted to be sure her nymph could have legs, hence why she used a human’s dna to create her. The human woman would be killed, soon after Naila’s creation.

The goddess raised her nymph as any god would, from afar. While she roamed the seas, Naila spent most of her early life on in a freshwater swamp in Jamaica. She tended to the aquatic ecosystem on the plains, healing those who have worship and offerings to Mami Wata and her many aliases, extending her kindness to those who were kind to nature. It wasn’t until a few hundred years that Naila would leave Jamaica and learn roam the seas with mother, venturing to the America’s to carry out her sole purpose: protecting aquatic ecosystems, particularly freshwater swamps.

For Naila’s first 500 years, she worked closely with Mami Wata, sharing her dual relationship to humans. Though, being half human herself made her far more empathetic, sometimes healing those and offering guidance even to nonbelievers of Mami Wata. That was much to her displeasure, causing a major rift between the two beings. And since, Mami Wata severed her relationship to Naila. Before that, Naila respected the hierarchy of supernaturals. Mami Wata wasn’t the first goddess to create a nymph, she’d just done it different than most. It was rare relationships between nymphs and their creators were severed but Naila was a demi, a lot about her was unorthodox.

She’d continue her travels across the many bodies of water between America and the Caribbean, healing humans she deemed as worthy, and smiting those who harmed aquatic life and nature. Like Mami Wata, Naila would lure those she deemed was wicked and unjust into water with a beautiful song and a seductive dance. As soon as they were close enough, they’d meet a demise, rarely ever found again.

As time advanced, she always tried to remain humane and empathic to them, but they continued to disappoint her time and time again. Eventually, Naila’s empathy ran dry when she’d been betrayed by someone close.

Betrayal shifted her perspective once life was taken from her. A man she’d thought to have lover would turn her over into the hands of scientists in exchange for clearance of a crime he’d committed.

Abilities:​

• Naila can seduce and lure not just humans, but other supernaturals into the water with her enchanted song and dance.
• She can create and manipulate a teal-blue substance from water molecules that can take the shape/form of anything: she can change its texture from solid and smooth to rigid, gooey, or even bouncy.
• Limited manipulation of water, larger bodies are hard to control.
• Healing: physical and mental.

Fun Facts:​

• Naila has scales on the top of her feet and the back of her calves; she can breathe under water and swim fast.
• Naila has a deep bond to aquatic life, of course. Particularly snakes.
• She has an immortal companion, Viper. Naila communicates with the immortal snake that is utterly smitten with her. He was Mami Wata prized pet
• Viper’s real name is Akinwunmi. He was once a 60ft malevolent sea creature. Once he disturbed her seas, though, he was not exempt from her wrath. She’d turned into him a 4ft Nerodia water snake. Nerodia snakes are commonly mistaken for venomous, but they aren’t.
• The longer she’s dancing in water, the more dangerous of a tsunami can brew. It’s quite literally a breathtaking sight.
• Naila is not immortal and can be killed by fatal injury. Also, long periods of time away from natural bodies of water.
• Polluted waters are really toxic to her.
• She has a vulnerability to too much sun. She has scales, after all.
• Low tolerance to fire, even lower to fire that isn’t natural.
• Nonbelievers of African or Caribbean folklore would interpret her as an evil entity.
• Naila has elf ears and stands at 5’8.
• She has a slight West African accent that she took from her mother. It’s very faint, but more prominent in her singing voice.
• Unlike most sirens who have a higher, soft tone, Naila’s is heavy and sultry.