yomichaela

• Plots you want to see between your character and Michaela?
• What kind of relationship do you want with Michaela? Friends? Future crushes? Enemies? Creeped out/concerned citizens?
• Any questions on Michaela/her powers? I'm going to put up a research post soon that goes into her family's history and their role with Death. Any additional ideas are super~
• Want Michaela to talk to a dead loved one? Lemme know.

Michaela Méndez | 25 | Witch

BACKGROUND & HISTORY: Michaela has lived in Siren Cove for only a few months. Born and raised in Portland, a move to Siren Cove wasn’t that big of a deal for her. She had actually lived in Siren Cove for a few years as a teen. After school, Michaela lived with her parents until she was twenty and they pushed her to try to go to college. She attended a community college for exactly six weeks before she was kicked out, a feat MIchaela is quite proud of. Her parents weren’t even disappointed or surprised–just frustrated. Their youngest daughter never showed much motivation in life, preferring to laze about and mooch off others. When she flunked out of college, they wouldn’t allow her to move back in with them. She had to get a job and live on her own.

Michaela joined a temp agency, working at a different company pretty much every three months until they didn’t need her, or were too scared to ask her to come back after her temp contract ended. She has never been /fired/ exactly. Though her professionalism and quality of work are minimal at best, everyone’s too creeped out by Michaela to ask fire her. She moved to Siren Cove when a secretarial position in the records department at city hall opened up. Michaela blew threw her opportunities in Portland, so she said “Screw it”, packed her bags, and took the job.

Michaela comes from a very long line of witches, her decedents originating in Puerto Rico. The Méndez clan has extremely strong roots with the dead. Folk-lore liked to call them ‘reapers’ or ‘angels of death’. But the Méndez’ have always been witches with a special connection to those that have recently passed. Their role in the world was to help carry the dead to the after life, convincing stubborn souls to move on or banishing wicked souls who chose to haunt the living. This role was passed down from generation to generation, but eventually watered down. That is, until it reached Michaela.

PERSONALITY:  Michaela is weird. She has a dead-pan, dark sense of humour and rarely smiles. When she does, it often unnerves others. She loves everything creepy and enjoys making fun of others. She can be a sarcastic asshole most of the time, but she generally means well. She is capable of caring and loving for others, but good luck making her show it.

OPINION OF THE RIVALRY:  She’s heard about it. And while she couldn’t care less about the current players involved, she loves the idea of it. Talking to a dead Coombs or Thorton relative would be juicy.

LIFESTYLE:  Michaela works as a secretary at the records department in city hall (she reads when she gets bored and tends to absorb the information, using it to make fun of others). She rents a small apartment in town and tries to live within her means–secretaries aren’t paid enough, to be honest. She probably should get a weekend job, but that involves more work and she is so not here for any work of any kind.

During her time off, she can be found at the movies or in a cemetery. Yeah, that’s right. A cemetery.

POWERS & ABILITIES:  Being deeply connected to the dead can be weird. And Michaela relishes in the weird. For some reason, she has a deeper connection to her powers than the current generations of her family. Maybe it’s because of her personality that she developed a thicker sense with the dead. She can easily converse with the dead, recent and long gone. The longer they’ve been dead, the more difficult and more energy. Since she’s lazy as hell, she doesn’t particularly enjoy talking to the long-since departed unless they have something interesting to offer. She can perform seances and even gets a ‘sixth sense’ when someone is close to death. As a teen, she volunteered at a retirement home. This is when she discovered what that ‘funny feeling’ in her stomach actually meant. She can feel death as it searches for its next victim.

Additionally, Michaela learned curses, just because they’re fun. She’s practiced enough that she can curse someone silently, usually accompanied by a hella intense glare.

PLAYED BY: Aubrey Plaza

HEADCANONS:
Michaela may talk to the dead and learn your secrets from your gabby grandma, but she'll also make shit up just to creep you out.
She's an avid flea market/estate sale shopper. Dead people things are awesome.

RELATIONSHIPS:
Alex Castillo - kindred spirit. Michaela and Alex met in court-appointed anger management therapy and bonded immediately. Besties. Til death do them part. 
Tristan Bertrande - he was dead. Now he's not. Super cool. Partner in Death-Talking-Crime. He's the sweet to her bitter. The jelly to her peanut butter. He softens the blow of her "You're dead. Go be at peace or something." She communicated with him a few times while he was amongst the dead, and she's never experienced someone...rising...from the dead. So Tristan is very intriguing to her. She'll be asking him a lot of questions.
Les Parker - they dated for a short time in high school. She sensed his mother's sickness and knew she would pass away soon. Not able to handle anyone's emotions ever, she noped out of the relationship. She's kept her distance from Les since, feeling too awkward even for her to approach him with all that death and sadness floating around him.