Melte Debara

Oh how cruel the gods, depriving me of my beloved blessing and confidence.

— Melte Debara

Melte is a well-known person in Ashtara, obtaining her renown after the incredible costumes they made, with a mix of great tailoring skills and their shapeshifting abilities. Since arriving Iphars, they suffered greatly from the transition of worlds and hid in a remote location, trying to avoid any kind of attention to everyone's confusion.

Appearance

To describe a shapeshifter is to describe but a fraction of their person, but they often have but a few different fractions. Melte enjoyed too much changing and dressing up, they never stayed with the same appearance for too long, and their extravagant clothing, while it made it easier to distinguish them from other people, didn't really define their person. But their face? It always kept the same structure, the same colour of eyes, even thought the colour of their skin often changed.

Since arriving Iphars, their appearance defines their person even less. Their beautiful face fully changed, and keeps doing that from time to time; their body changes against their wish, in moments when they wouldn't expect it; nothing is still for them anymore. But, unlike in Ashtara, their clothing is discreet, common clothing, something that will not get attention on them rather than their extravagant outfits they used to love so much.

GENDER: Melte could not care less about gender or biological sex. They related to none and could be any. As a shapeshifter, they often changed genders and used any kind of pronouns they preferred that day, or for simplicity, the pronouns they looked like that day. Biological sex and gender, for them, was simply yet another part of their costume.

History

An icon of diversity

Melte was a worldwide known shapeshifter from Ashtara, known for their stunning and wild costumes that were accompanied with changes to their physical appearance, though never their face structure, as they loved their face and refused to change anything else than the colour of their skin. They often were asked to perform in theatres and had their schedule filled with different jobs that needed them to perform as different people.

They loved their job and the attention it brought. They loved to act, to perform, to pass as another person, they loved every second of their life and their ability of shapeshift seemed like a boom, a blessing, given by the gods to them.

Disfigured

Crossing, transitioning worlds was violent and against their will. Shapeshifting was their pride, but the crossing ripped off them their ability to change by will. Their body changed in the crossing, it stopped listening to Melte's demands and started changing without warning, it became uncontrollable. Melte felt dirty, violated, and started feeling disgusted by their own body that they used to love so much.

Their once beautiful ever-changing skin became an amalgamation of multiples colours and textures, most of the time trying to camouflage with their environment. When they get scared , their skin becomes invisible, depriving them from what they love, attention. When they have strong feelings, their skin changes colours, making them feel the need to hide so their reputation wouldn't degrade.

Nowadays, the once worldwide famous Melte Debara, lives in the shadow, hiding from people who don't know of their condition, only asking help when absolutely needed from people they've already learnt about their condition. If they need to go through a place that is known to be inhabited, they will always dress with common clothes, covering ALL their skin and hiding from their beloved attention as much as possible, usually accompanied by a friends of theirs that might take the attention away from them if it somehow falls onto Melte.

Relationships

Adonis

Adonis used to work with Melte. He wasn't a shapeshifter but also enjoyed dressing up and often accompanied Melte when they were requested to go to places with company. They knew each other for a long time and were together when crossing the worlds. Melte didn't take well the changes to their body, but Adonis couldn't even look at Melte without feeling disgusted and uncomfortable; his constants looks of disgust didn't help Melte but made them feel worse. He stayed at first, trying to help Melte, but once Melte meet Devir, he started disappearing from Melte's life and now, Melte doesn't know what happened with their old friend.

Devir

Devir meet Melte one time they were trying to gather supplies after Adonis had left them for a bit. She found Melte condition incredibly interesting and loved it, even if their ability was backfiring. Both of them quickly befriended each other and Devir presence calmed Melte yet they never showed much more than their face –which both agreed was a big step. She quickly became very protective of Melte and argued a lot with Adonis because of his reactions to Melte. Devir has since then became what made Melte stay alive and is aware of what happened with Adonis, but lies whenever Melte asks about him and avoids ever talking about him.