Ellaria Undertow

Music Box

The Secret World Siren Song

Songs To Drown Sailors To I Am the Undertow (feat. Autumn Orange)

Songs To Drown Sailors To' The Wave-Soaked Maiden

Songs To Drown Sailors To' Jolly Sailor Bold

Songs To Drown Sailors To' Come In

Songs To Drown Sailors To' Seafarer's Lullaby

Before

A mousy girl, gap toothed and skinned knees who was always the new girl at school, her dad couldn't get steady work so they moved around a lot. Mom wasn't in the picture. She thought she'd get to be someone when she got to college, and thought that she had when the popular group who called themselves 'The Sirens' (which others derogatorily called Maneaters) took little mousy her under their wings. Eventually they invited her not to just a party, but the party. Hours and hours from any place, or person she knew, the invitation felt just like a dream something straight out of a movie.

Her dad always told her that life wasn't like TV or the movies, but that invitation, just like in the movies, was a cruel prank.

She fled the party, the humiliation, crashing to the ground when dry beach sand went wet with the tide. In tears, she wishes and prays and wants -

To Be A Maneater.

The moment she gave that wish and want and hope true voice, The Maw took it as Permission, and Stole her down under the waves.

Durance

A wash of colour, always blue-dark and blood-red. The majority was spent, luring and hunting and feasting.

Escape

When she fell in love with a meal-to-be. She didn't know if she wanted to eat him, or set him free, but she knew she didn’t want anyone else to eat him. He was hers. They made a mad rushing Escape together. She doesn't remember her Escape entire, just the Fall (impossible in the Deep), hitting hostile waters (song-sisters mad with battle-lust). And she remembers eating, and eating and eating.

She still doesn’t know if she wanted to eat him, or set him free. Even though it doesn't matter now. The thought of not really knowing still keeps her up at night.

Fetch

She thought about going home, finding her dad. But. Following the party she was at first a missing person, then later her Fetch was found dead - drowned in the ocean.

After

Now she's just trying to get by, moving from town to town, just like Before. Lonelier now. Sometimes she lingers, wishing and hoping to taste her fellow Lost, wondering if they'd exceed anyone, or thing she feasted on in the Deep. When that thought is moments away from action. She leaves, heading to a new town.

Mask

An attractive women with wide doe eyes

Mien

A mermaid on land, she has oil dark iridescent scales upon her pulse points, her eyes shining wet, are black on black, her hair floats, weightlessly, after her, as if she's still moving through water.

…and behind a full lipped smile, she has an impossible maw full of needle thin, serrated teeth, pressing against her lips waiting to be used.

Mantle

● The scent of water logged books, occasional loose, though wet and ruined pages cling to her shoes.

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