Mariana

Princess Mariana Castilla Nuñez is one of the protagonist of Mystic of Avalor. She is the middle child of Elena and Mateo, and is part of the Mystic Force.

Background
Mariana is one of the children of Mateo and Elena, but she always felt left out because her twin sister, Alenea was always closer to her father cause they shared the love for science and potions, while her brother, Matias, was closer to their mother for being the next in heir. As ties grew the other two got closer but she just felt further away, as for Mateo and Elena, they know this about their daughter and try to keep reminding her that she matters too. But Mariana just wants to follow one of her parents' footsteps. Mariana found her Pet Guide when she was nine while she snuck by an evil creature to get to a secret room. Her pet guide is a mouse named Marie

Personality
Mariana has a lot of bad traits for being an adventurer, as she isn't very brave and is almost always scared. But because she is such an optimist, she sees it as a way to improve herself and have fun at the same time. Even tho she holds those flaws, she is still very reckless and doesn't think before she does anything which always leaves Antonio to save her. Mariana is known to be the oppositie of her twin sister Alenea and she claims her sister has all the best traits, but unlike Alenea, who is a total klutz, she is good in combat and being quick to fight back and aim forward to her own surprise. But they also have a lot in common cause like Alenea she loves all things new and glowing or sparkling and is said that "'It makes her heart glow like a light coming from the sunrise to the moonlight'"

Physical Appearance
Just like her mother Mariana is an olive-skinned girl, with a slender figure and amber-brown eyes. She has peach cream lips and short wavy, chesnut hair with twintails on top of the rest of her loose hair.

Her signature outfit is a short yellow sleeveless half-over-skirt dress stylized with a orange ruffles around the elastic neckline with yellow straps around the shoulders and a red lace around the sides with an attached orange colored underskirt also with a red lace. Around her waist is a white long sash held in place with a bow. She wears golden wedged heel shoes with brown heels and her crystal necklace; A big azurite crystal with silver waving around to a silver chain strap to finish it.

whenever there is a bal she usually wears an elegant, flowing yellow half sleeved ball gown stylized with red frills attached to the orange fluffy half sleeve and at the bottom with an attached orange colored underskirt and a bow strapped down from her chest to her waist with a white lace around the waist for more formal occasions. With this, she has her hair tied in a braided bun, with a tiara pierced through her hair, and switches her azurite necklace for a pearl necklace.

Last there is her adventure clothes which is a brown long sleeved shirt with again a syracuse orange but this time pointy flounces around the elastic neckline. Around her waist is a dark brown belt held in place with an apricot buckle. Underneath she wears white jeans with grey folded hems and apricot sandals. As jewelry she wears golden round earrings and her crystal necklace with a red ribbon braided in her hair and her hair completly loose this time.

Powers and Abilities
Crystal Necklace:

When Mariana was nine she secretly went on a dangerous mission with her parents which let them to an evil creature. Scared she tried to run away so her parents wouldn't find her, but after the creature's attacks got closer she decided to hide really well so no one and nothing could see her and just like that she sneaked past her parents and the creature. Just as she was about to get away her Pet Guide appeared and surprised her which made her slip and fall into a deep hole that was a cave. after a while she woke up and to her surprise she had a soft landing and right in front of her was a secret door. As curious as she is she had to see what was past the door, so she pushed open the door and with a flash of light she saw a path crossed with thousands of crystals. Her Pet Guide tried to tell her not to go, but seeing the crystals kinda pulled her inside and without even hearing Marie she went through the door that closed right behind her. As she followed the path it lead to a small hole in the crystaled wall, so she crawled through the small hole and in there was a big room with a hole in the middle of the roof with light from the sun shinning right through the hole that lights up all the crystals and leads to a boulder with a small box on top. when she opened the box she found a silver azurite crystal necklace. The necklace gave here the ability to bend crystal/ice and water with her mind but is a curse to the heart, for if she lets her heart take over it could lead to danger.

Claymore/ Fencing

When Mariana was 6 she showed interest in her mothers fencing practise, so when she turned 8 her parents decided to train her with a sabre and the help of Gabe. on her 12th birthday her mom gave her a sword as a present and as award for winning the fencing cup, which she used to go on secret missions with her Pet Guide Marie before the Mystic Force. When she started the group with Alenea, Gabriella and Antonio, she replaced the sword for her claymore that she got from Antonio as a special gift that was actually meant for her affections but she saw it as a gift for the start of their adventure.