Maris Lemuria

"It seems the stars are right and smiling at my favor today."

- Maris Lemuria

Appearance
Maris is a fair-skinned young woman with long, wavy aqua colored hair and dull yellow colored eyes. Her eyelids almost always appear to remain half-open even when she is wide awake, making it difficult to ascertain whether or not she is truly lucid in any given situation.

Personality
Maris has a habit of speaking in her sleep, usually muttering gibberish words or garbled phrases like "cthulhu fhtagn... cthulhu fhtagn..." repeatedly until she is woken up. This particular habit of hers has irritated Maris' teammates on more than one occasion as much as her random sleeping episodes due to the fact that her sleep-talking interferes with their own sleep considering they all share the same room and at some times it has gotten so irritating that Maris' own partner, Nysha, on more than one occasion, seriously contemplates on silencing her by holding a pillow to her face until she completely snuffs the air out of her. Luckily, Flavian managed to successfully talk Nysha out of her homicidal urges by suggesting they simply buy ear muffs to drown out Maris' noise which, unsurprisingly, did solve their problem with her.

Weapons and Abilities
Maris' weapon is called Stargazer which is basically a gold colored staff with a white handlegrip in the middle. At the tip of the staff is a head like ornament shaped like a cluster of small tentacles upon which a large crystal of water dust is attached within the grip of the head's tentacles.

Maris' weapon grants her a wide range of potent hydrokinetic attacks. She can fire a stream of highly pressurized water from the tip of her staff or create a deadly water whip from its tip that allows her to attack at mid range. Finally, she can also channel her staff's energies to allow her to summon small geysers of pressurized water beneath her opponent's feet though such attacks require great timing as they have a five second delay before erupting meaning that they are quite easy to avoid in practice.

Unfortunately, much of Maris' fighting potential is hampered by her chronic narcoleptic condition which causes her to tire out rather easily and can sometimes even lead to her sleeping right in the middle of the battlefield without warning.

Trivia
-Maris is a name which means "of the Sea" in Latin. The name itself is taken from the Latin title of the Virgin Maris, Stella Maris, which itself means "Star of the Sea". Maris' surname, Lemuria, comes from the name of a hypothetical lost continent located either in the Indian or Pacific Ocean, as postulated by a now discredited 19th century scientific theory.

-Maris is based on the most famous cosmic entity of the Mythos itself, the eponymous Great Old One ''Cthulhu. ''Maris's lethargic behaviour is based upon the state of Cthulhu upon awakening before 'the stars are right', resulting in him winding up in a weakened state far below his full power. Maris' fascination in stars and astrology is inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos phrase of 'when the stars are right' which is a phrase commonly with Cthulhu itself. Maris' dislike of boats is a reference to the part in Call of Cthulhu in which a boat was rammed into Cthulhu's head.

-Maris' birth month is a reference to the month of publication of H.P Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu" which is first published in the February 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales.