Maris Haigh

Human

Mare, Madara Lyndon

22

She/her

Trans-female

Lesbian

5’8”

182 lbs

Burns on her right arm and around her eyes

Lightly

White (Scottish)

White-blue

Distant, Self-Conscious, Pushover

Hats, Christmas, the ocean, and maroon

The cold, mulch, and tea

Reactive

Living in a way that justifies the space she fills.

When people leave you, it means you were not enough.

Lawful Neutral

Reading, Fishing, Swimming

Street smart

has damaged hair from messing with it too much

gets too emotionally attached

gets itchy skin when anxious

has to move things around in a certain pattern before going to sleep

worries that if they do one thing wrong they’ll die

has restless legs, especially at night

has terrible performance anxiety

falls deeply in love

likes slam poetry

cracks their joints all the time

has an involuntary twitch

refuses to wear makeup

doesn’t talk unless completely necessary
wears the same

bracelet/scrunchie/accessory

plays with their hair when they’re bored or anxious

gives hugs to anyone and/or everyone

gives really good hugs, but abysmal at kissing

doing things in threes or some other special number

Has a huge Google Doc with all their school notes on it. All. Of. Them.

Wears Christmas socks year round

They have to be wearing a hat to be comfortable

Mal can create and manipulate fire, but she has no immunity to it. Although, after becoming blind, she has become more aware of the changes in heat in the environment around her.

Depression, Abandonment Issues, PTSD, Villain Complex, Blind, Third Degree Burns

Mallory was left in the woods outside of Lightridge (see Hadiya) and taken in by Ola and Eden Haigh, hence her namesake. They were good people, and her childhood was quite good until the fire. Her powers mysteriously activated- powers she rightfully didn’t know about considering the fact she is human- and destroyed the entire town and everyone in it. Out of panic, she attempted to rub her eyes free of tears and ash, but that left her blind from that day on.

Mal starts off cold and distant. She’s afraid of herself and what she could do if she feels. But, she also has severe abandonment issues since she was an orphan, adopted by parents that she accidentally killed. Mal is terrified of letting people get close, but she’s also terrified of letting go. But she’s not gonna be that assassin with a heart of gold and a low neckline because that cliche bores me.

She will never speak her mind, no matter what. Mal’s scared of what happens when she expresses herself and she can’t bear the thought of losing anyone else. She trusts easily but she doesn’t open up. Her arc centers around her grief and self image.

Mal believes she can’t mourn for Ola and Eden since she killed them, and that tears her apart. She doesn’t know her parents and she doesn’t know why she burns everything around her.

January 12th, X272

References for burns:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3697822/
https://msktc.org/burn/factsheets/Exercise-After-Burn-Injury
https://www.healthpartners.com/hospitals/regions/specialties/burn-center/healing/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X15464450
https://www.healthline.com/health/burns#seconddegree-burn