Human Mirra, what is your favorite position to sleep in?

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There are a couple of reasons why Mirra normally sleeps inside the mirror:

1) She is not used to sleeping in human form/world

2) She never slept on a bed… so she moves and falls off of them like a baby without supervision.

Still, there are times on which she feels too tired and just falls asleep on whatever comfy place she is in… needless to say she wakes up with her body hurting XD

A Student Concept i made for Monster Academy. This is like my 5th character or something, lol.

The original idea was to have “puppets” with the “image” of someone or something people wanted to be instead of themselves. Like a kid would have a superhero puppet of sorts, or a teenager would have a rockstar or something like that. This idea was rather complex to pull off on the Academy’s lore and would already cause a lot of confusion by itself. Not to mention i already have an original monster species to explain (Mirra Refliki and the “Monsters in the mirror”)

Instead I opted for a much simpler, but still appealing idea. It involves a living doll who has no shadow. The shadow works like a poltergeist, being invisible while grabbing things around her. This doubles as the doll’s pupeteer.
Put simply, this character has one soul that has two bodies. The Doll and the Shadow Pupeteer.

Say Hi to this cute Monster girl everyone c:

From the same dA RP group as Gabriela Heleia, Meet “Mirra Refliki” or (Inya Aristavich in human form)

She is a “Monster in the mirror” (An original concept of mine). What is a Monster in the Mirror? Psychological in origin, a “Monster in the mirror” is capable of twisting our perception of things. They enter Mirrors and other reflective surfaces and twist the image by shape-shifting and Altering how we see some things. They “attack” people with mental illnesses and Self-Esteem issues (“I’m seeing things” “I’m fat/Ugly”). They can turn to look like them, but shift into things to exagerate things they dislike.

*Personality:
Silly, Childish, irresponsible, Cute, Clumsy, physical-contact heavy, overly-happy (Monster form), Creepy, freaky, says “Sorry” a lot.
*Major Skills:
-Illusion Magic.
-ShapeShifting. Locked to Organic shape-shifting. Can change the appareance of her torso, head and arms in skin color, build, gender (and even clothing) for a limited time. She can’t change her teeth or Eye color though so thats usually a give-away whenever she tries to pass as another person. If she turns into somebody that exists and is currently living, she has to stay in close proximity to them to keep their shape (like a mirror), otherwise is too stressing to keep the image for long. She can change “hands” and “Legs” to those of a human or any other animal and shape easily enough on the blink of an eye, though she can’t extend or imitate some properties of the forms she takes, only taking those forms on image instead.
-Telepathy. Sometimes, She’ll stick her thoughts on others to communicate on monster form making them hear her voice. Depending on how vulnerable a person is, She may reach deeper into their minds to discover secrets and dislikes. She tries to be very subtle when doing this, so not many people (if any) know of this ability, saying she can only communicate with Telepathy.
*Minor Skills:
-Levitating. She is usually stuck with Tentacle legs, which are not optimal for running… or moving around without leaving traces. She prefers to levitate around even if she can’t fly very high or two quickly.
-Action Duplication. She can mimic and duplicate Actions she is currently watching perfectly. She can “Store” An action in her mind at a time, which depending on Difficult, can be replicated a week or one day after memorizing it.
-Mirror Image. She can jump from reflective surface to reflective surface, hiding behind it safely from Psychic and Physical Attacks. Breaking the mirror will inflict double the pain though, but not wound her body. She can enchant mirrors (Only) to work as windows from which she can see other rooms inside a set radius that have a reflective surface in the same shape as the object enchanted.
*Weakness:
People with high self-steem have an easier time dealing with her Illusion Magic and can even block her telepathy completely, Attacking her reflection on a mirror, Breaking the mirror she is currently eavesdropping/Spying Hiding in. She can be forced to shapeshift with emotional/Mental stress.

A random Q&A session about Gabriela Heleia

Gabriela Heleia is a “Living Statue” (Golem) I RP with on the group MonsterAcademy on deviantArt. I Seriously think I’ve developed her nicely in a rather short period of time, but i didn’t know so at first. Feeling Anxious for some reason, I got asked about her to try and distract my mind. Here is what came out of that.

*Is there any reason she likes to hide her true form?
Yes, Her creator was a Witch. Due to this, Gabby was never let outside due to being a golem.
As Gabby learned things from her creator, her personality developed into some sort of “Obedient Kid” kind of deal. Compliant and serviceable to keep her creator happy.
If something wrong happens, she thinks it might be her fault due to still not knowing much about being “alive” or how to treat others.
*Aaaah. So she is self-concious about her golem form?
the first important event on her backstory is that her creator is found out to be a witch and persecuted. They go to their house and attack her due to being a “Monster”.
They drag her creator away as others work around throwing her into a well. This is probably the primarily reason why she is Hydrophobic by the way.
Not being able to drown or swim, She is left sinking and presumed “taken care of”. She eventually works around climbing back only to find the house burned down.
Due to being a “Monster” she lefts in the middle of the night to a forest nearby. Instead of blaming the humans, She blames herself for being a “Monster”.
When she receives the invitation to join the Academy, the Headmistress convinces her to stay due to the glamor ring that “allows her not to be a monster”
*Aaaah. So she has a habit of internalizing actions upon herself! Interesting! Does this persist to this day?
Yeah, it persists but to a lesser extent.
She will immediately apologize if she feels she is offending someone and will try to be helpful and serviceable to them so that she can be accepted.
*Awww D: Poor baby. Do people take advantage of her a lot?
Well, not yet that I’ve seen (While RPing on chatroom). It hasn’t, but can totally happen. She feels rather comfortable around Celestina, so I’m pretty sure she would chop people off if somebody attempted that XD
For the moment being, She has met characters like Rowan and Kuro who are kind, as well as characters like Celestina and Erich that would protect her.
As a Human, she had to learn how to eat with silverware and to go get some sleep when feeling tired for example XD
She is also learning the Do’s and Dont’s of being human, so she would rather stick to friends like Celestina.
At the very least she has more common sense in human form, realizing she has to act when feeling uncomfortable
*Is it because she associates ‘monster’ with her golem form that she won’t act when feeling uncomfortable? Like, she doesn’t think she deserves to feel comfortable as a ‘monster?’
Well, she associates her golem form with being a ‘monster’ so She would rather keep the glamor on (This is also why she refers to her monster form as ‘original form’ or ‘real form’ ), but the reason why she is less reactive unless in human form is rather because humans have senses and stronger feelings than a living rock.
*Does she associates who she is with how she looks? Does she ever have any thoughts about still being a ‘monster’ while wearing the glamour?
Yeah, Thinks people will not like her if she stays in Golem form. To some extent she knows she is masquerading behind the glamour, that’s why she focuses extra time into learning how to be human, So that she can pass as one easily.
bringing that topic of “You are still a monster” to her makes her feel rather uncomfortable.
*That is very interesting! 😀 I like that.
Does she see others in their non-glamour form as monsters?
That’s actually an interesting thing about her. She dislikes the term ‘monster’ and understand that some of them have motives, like her, for being in human form. She won’t question why they use their glamour, but won’t dislike their real forms. She is very Accepting of their ‘monster’ forms because, at the end of the day, what she wants is to one day be accepted in her monster form. Even if she does not know or realize this.
<Unknown-Variable>Gabby’s a really good character. I like her. ^^
<Balisk>I like her too
Aww, you guys. I’m glad she is liked ;w;
*Does she read a lot? idk, but for some reason I pictured her reading :0
Her original Glamour was going to be glasses because Girls with glasses are pretty and some look cute with them XD
I went for the ring because it was both easier and had this idea in mind
She will indeed visit the library more from time to time. Specially when magic class begins. For now, she visits the courtyard and forest out of habit of being outside more than anything else.
*Man, she’s such a cutie. I like her a looot. What does she like doing outside? Just wandering around?
When she was still home with her creator, She liked painting. She is absolutely terrible at it, because she likes painting walls and furniture instead of limiting herself to paper and such. It can be said that she did small child scribbles everywhere at that time as her hobby.
<Unknown-Variable>Haha xD Way to go, Gabby!
In the academy she likes to wander around outside, Just rest while watching the clouds/star-gazing (in either form), as well as walking in or near the forest (specially in golem form). Just like with Ophelia (An Earth nymph of another deviant), she feels ‘something’ when close to them in Golem form. It’s just the connection between the stone she is composed of and the nature-spirit/being in the forest so it’s nothing important.
*I like the affinity for nature aspect of her. Does she feel out of place in big cities or when she’s inside?
the affinity only shows up when there’s a spirit/being linked to nature. She doesn’t feel anything at all on big cities or on Forests devoid of such beings. If a Nymph goes to a big city she would most likely sense and initially try to get closer to the source.
Later on in the chat
<Balisk>Celestina: *Sings her own j-pop and k-pop deep within the forest*
Her creator hummed a lot when practicing spells/Potions so Gabby would make the connection quickly. Gabriela would most likely enjoy or be amazed by Celestina’s singing, finding it better.
with all this pieces of info I might be able to develop her creator as a full character sometime soon XD
*Are there any skills of her own that Gabriela is proud of?
Gabriela is an excellent listener. She is also pretty good at catching/Grabbing/Holding things. Sometimes the spells on her house would backfire and send books flying and cause a mess, so she learned to catch quickly moving objects XD
*Does she herself find those praiseworthy?
Useful at the most, but Other than that, she says she doesn’t have any interesting skills.
<Unknown-Variable>Awww. D: Bby, you are interesting and adorable and and asdjkgnrg
<Balisk>Gabby is a work of art
<Unknown-Variable>Haha. Living sculpture. Literally, a work of art *shotdead*
XD I do imagine her capable of learning hit/Rhythmical instruments or being good at getting the hang of a musical rhythm.
*Oh. Tympani would be bad ass for her! or a STEEL DRUM!
Steel Drum is an interesting instrument for Gabby. percussions and rhythmical instruments are what i envision her to use. Mostly because she punches hard so… Strength = Percussion. Headcanon accepted XD
*XD a ‘strong’ percussive instrument would the bass drum. That really big one. That and tympani. Tympanis are just impressive, imo
XD it would be funy to see her with a bass drum
While Carrying it would be a bit problematic, turn to Golem form and she can carry it with one arm… she would find a way to break it anyway with the first hit though.
*Is gab… lesbian?
Lol, I dont know… Is she passing as swinging that way when I RP her?
As small trivial facts, Gabby has an easier time opening up to women due to her creator being female.
She also admires Celestina due to her being strong willed and always willing to fight back. She is also her true first friend.
<Spichinka>I think Gabby, being a golem and not surrounded by heaps of human things, wouldn’t find gender as a barrier.
That actually makes a lot of sense.. I would have to RP more to see how she develops. (And to see if others want to pair up with her too)

metroid-tamer:

Gabriela

No source for this because it’s not on my dA. But here’s a chibi of Gabriela, an OC of Athorment’s who happens to be a living statue/golem. Dolled her in her human form, so she doesn’t look the part, haha.

Athorment: Hey Look! It’s Gabby 😀

Figured working on golem form would be a little bit trickier, specially since i have yet to make a reference for the rock pattern she has XD

But anyways, you handled her perfectly and she looks adorable, thanks c:

Some :IconsPlz: for my character Gabriela Heleia. Human & Golem versions.

Normal, Unamused, Content, Happyplz, Shocked, Chibi, Upset, Defiant, Bored/Obnoxious, Blush, Smile, Laugh, Sad/cry, Think/Confused.

I like how this set came out c:

All of my Role-playing Characters… the ones that i rarely RP with cause I’m so friggin’ Awkward ;w;

Still, I love them so much so I’m never abandoning Any no matter what.

With Gabriela (Last one) I hop to finally experience the Joys of fun RPs, but If you want to RP with any you can call them out (Though I’m most comfortable with dA note RPs) :’D

*Super-League Set
Secret Agent Factorial Twenty, Isis “Rhenium” Noddack, Demián Loathe, Quirina Torres.

*Pokémon Set
Vera White, Coraline “Cloy” Atoll, Maid Ofelia Pyrite, Hacker Reed Lanse.

*Misc. RP Set
Gunner-Witch Nurielle Daisgan (& spider-hat Galvis), Zacnite Argenta the Zeieris, Gabriela Heleia the modern Golem.

new character. One I plan on using in an RP group about monsters. I liked the fact that everyone were using less common creatures (and even obscure ones) instead of the usual vampire, werewolf, angel and so on. The setting is also a little bit more modern-ish so the two combined made me think about making a modern-ish golem… which then made me remember that sculptures is a pretty common way of creating “human shapes”.

Meet Gabriela Heleia, a sculpture that was given life. Still experimenting with design, but figured i would share this.