Name: Manda Marluz

Alias: Don’t have one

Age: 2,400 Looks to be around 23 years old.

Gender: Female

Hollow Hole Location: Her hollow hole is located on her left thigh, mainly hidden by her dress. At times, when she fights, one may get a glimpse of it.

Espada Number: Her number is located on her right thigh, mainly hidden by her dress. At times, when she fights, once may get a glimpse of it.

Aspect of Death: Rage

Rank: Espada 8

Loyalty: Undecided


Appearance: Manda is a tall, yet beautiful woman. She stands at 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs around 150 pounds. She has a slender, yet muscular build that makes her look as if she works out daily. She has long, flowing blue hair that reaches down to her waist. Mixed in with her blue hair you can see streaks of gold hair flowing down as well. Her hair is normally free flowing without any restrictions though she is known to put her hair in a ponytail or braid as well. As she walks her hair looks like it could be made of silk they way it flows. If not careful one could mistake it for a cape like a queen would wear. Her left eye is bright yellow in color and her right eye is a sea blue in color. Both of her eyes look dragon-like and sparkle when she uses any techniques she has. Her lips are a soft pink and look very kissable. She is wearing a long, white dress that flows down to the ground. The dress covers her long, slender legs. It moves around her like flowing water. The dress is a simple white dress with little bits of what look to be flower petals flowing down the length of the dress. As she walks the petals seem to flow down the dress in an illusion since the dress does move like flowing water. The bottom of the dress moves up and stops about an inch above the knee when she fights. The top part of the dress comes just above her full figure, chest, exposing a little for the eye to see. Her long arms are left bare except for a single bracelet on her left wrist, a present from a villager when she was a dragon. The bracelet is blue and looks like a dragon grabbing it's tail. Her skin is a soft pink color and her cheeks look like they have a soft reddish tint to them. Her skin is soft to the touch if you are allowed to get close enough to touch her. She keeps her swords on either side of her around her waist. The sheaths, one gold and one ocean blue, are held by a slim piece of fabric that ties near her midsection. The fabric is white in color like her dress and looks like it can easily be cut. Though it looks week it is very strong and can hold both of her swords well. Both Manda's dress and the piece of fabric around her waist can change color to match her mood. It mainly will stay white, meaning she is not really feeling anything or is bored. Her dress will be red with pink petals when she is mad. When she is happy or in a good mood it will be ocean blue with gold flowers.

Personality: Manda is the type of person who is very friendly once you get to know her and she gets to know you. It takes her a very long time to trust anyone. On the other hand if you are not her friend and/or pose a threat to her she will attack you. Even if you know her she may not warm up to you right away and treat you with little or no respect, especially if you get to close to her. She is very protective of her personal space, an area of around 5 feet around her. She will attack anyone who gets in her personal space unless she allows you to be there. To those who don't know her she seems to act regal and a little stuck upish. Upon first meeting her, however, one can tell she can be friendly, but only to those who are close to her.



What Manda looked like when she was alive.

Spoiler:

History: Around 3,000 years ago there was a blue and gold dragon that few around many villages in the South. She was peaceful meant no harm to anyone unless she was attacked or provoked. This is Manda Marluz.

Manda's earliest memory is that of a female person placing her in a cave that soon became her home. As the person tried to leave her there she tried to follow her. The persons face was a blur to her as she still could not see well due to her young age. Somehow, the person was able to stop Manda from following her out by chanting some sort of spell that cast a tempory barrier at the mouth of the cave. Manda was then left alone. She felt very lonely after that and cried for many days. It was some time before she became so hungry that she taught herself how to hunt for field mice and other animals as well as get fruit from the surrounding trees. With time she was able to hunt the larger animals that where in the area she was living in. Soon she was old enough to learn to fly. Once she learned this she found joy in watching the humans in the village near her home as she flew around.

Manda's fondest memory was of a family that lived close to where her home was. They would visit her often starting about a year after she was left alone. At first the couple came alone, then they brought their child. Manda watched every week as they came to visit her and would look forward to their visits. She watched the child turn from a baby to a little girl to an adult. They would celebrate every birthday the little girl had there as well as every holiday that could be had, making Manda feel like part of that family. She was not sure why they visited her weekly but she enjoyed the company.

About the time the little girl was a woman a war broke out. The couple had come and told Manda what was going on. She vowed to help them to the best of her ability since she considered them family. She felt best to attack from above so she would attack by causing storms to appear and lightning to strike the enemies. She would also cause the rivers in the area to flood, washing away enemies on the bridges below. The war was soon over with Manda's help and the help of the family she watched over. Once it was over she expected the family to visit again. When they did not come to visit this saddened her. It was many months later when a different couple had came to visit Manda that she found that the girl who would come and visit her had been murdered. She still inquired about the girls parents and the couple stated they didn't know. She found out a few months after that, when a different couple visited, that the girls parents had been killed as well, trying to avenge their daughters death. This saddened Manda much and depressed her for a long time. The depression was so deep that she would not even come out of her cave. It was only when some villagers visited her and noticed her in such a deep state of depression that they vowed more people would come to visit her and more often. As the followed thru on this promise she became happy soon after that when people would come to visit her on a normal basis.

As she grew older she soon felt the need to explore a bit. After a while she found another dragon. She had never seen any other dragons and found him curious. He was similar to Manda in looks, but he was red and yellow instead of blue and yellow. He was a fire breather and he taught her much more of the world than she had learned by staying near her village. They each shared their history with each other and he told her that she should take revenge against the nation that had hurt the village, and, more specifically, the family she lost. She disagreed but still stood by him. He then taught her the joy of love and of hunting humans and raiding fields. This was something they both did together for a long time. Manda enjoyed this as this made her happy. She felt very alive and had forgotten of her past with the village she once lived in. One day some hunters came around. Manda was able to escape due to not being there but the other dragon, Manuel, didn't make it. He was killed in a surprise attack while Manda was out hunting for herself and their still young child. She returned to her home to find them dead. It was at that point that she was so furious that she went on a rampage and took out the whole town that was nearby, a town that was no where near the one she grew up near. The town, at that moment, had been celebrating the death of her mate and her child and this made her even more angry. She had called up a massive storm that first brought in large bolts of lighting, destroying many homes and killing large groups of people. She then brought forth large waves, drowning out the remaining people and putting out any fires that was there on the island. Once she had taken out her anger on the village and the hunters she returned to her cave home and made sure to cover up what remained. She covered the entrance to the cave as well as she didn't want anyone to disturb her family as they rested.

After the day of her rampage she continued to hunt where many humans grew crops of rice and vegetables. She mainly left humans alone after her mate was killed. The only place she never really hunted was back where she was originally from. Soon, many villagers began to fear her as she came around. They had heard the stories of what she had done to the village that she rampaged. To try to keep her away the villagers would often leave what they called sacrifices for her. She was not happy when they did that so she would take the human sacrifice and bring her to another village to live in peace. She would then continue to village and plunder in that region till the villagers once again offered her a sacrifice. This took place for countless years. It was only when she became angry or felt threatened by the villagers, which was not that often, great storms would brew and giant waves of water would crash down on the villages. Large lightening bolts would accompany those great waves, causing much destruction, reminding people of the rampage she had done when her mate was killed. She would also fly after the people and eat a few of them. She didn't much care for the taste of humans after her mate died, but would still eat a few if they made her mad enough. After hearing stories about the storms most villages stopped trying to hurt or anger Manda, as they soon came to call her.

About a 1,000 years before she died, she decided to find a place to settle. She went back to the old village she used to live nearby. The people in the village happily accepted her back and, after some time, forgave her of the sins that they had heard of in the stories from other locations in the region. Due to her age and health she soon could not hunt so the villagers gave to her a portion of the rice and fruits from the island. This made her happy the rest of her days. She still worked to protect the village when she could, but as time moved on she found it harder to move due to her age. Once she died they people of the village took care to ensure that her remains where buried safely away since she was the last dragon of that time.

Manda soon awoke and found herself looking over the people who took care of her as an old dragon. She still looked like the dragon she used to be, but only a portion of her size remained, which puzzled her. She would wonder around, looking to see if anyone would recognize her and tried to get the people of the village to talk to her. She found that most ignored her and she wondered why. One day she was sitting next to the temple that the people had built for her. A young couple and their young child had come to visit. Manda looked them over, as she did everyone who came up. The young couple ignored her, as usual. The child, however, was curious and made his way over to Manda. She thought this was curious until she heard the boy say, "Look at the dragon mama." The couple looked at where the child was and it seemed as if they looked right through Manda, like she was not even there. They called the child to come back to them but the child continued walking towards Manda until he was picked up by his mother. The child cried and kept saying he wanted to touch the dragon as they couple walked away, ignoring his pleas. A few years later, when the child had grown up, he returned to see Manda. Most times he would say nothing, looking at Manda as if she were something unique or a prize. She would just stay where she was as the child, now a man, walked over to her and looked her over. One day he came and looked her over, as was his routine for many years by then. On this day, however, he felt it time to speak to her and let her know why he kept coming around. "I know now why I am able to see you and no one else is." he said to her. "Your the ghost of the dragon that once lived here."

This shocked Manda. She didn't know what a ghost was nor why this man was the only one able to see her. Afraid of what may happen now that she knew what was going on, she closed her eyes and flew off, shocking the young man as she did. She didn't want to believe him, but knew, somehow, that he was correct. As she was flying she somehow blacked out. When she awoke she found herself in Hueco Mundo, As she looked around she could not believe where she was. She found nothing but desert and little stumps of what used to be trees. She figured that this must be some sort of atonement or punishment for the sins she had when she was alive. Wanting to make the best of this she landed and began to wander around. As she wondered she would come across very few hollows. The ones she did come across wanted to attack her. She would attack them back at first and destroy them. Eventually she became very hungry and, not finding any other source for food, she eventually devoured the hollows that attacked her instead of killing them. As the years passed and she continued this she began to grow bored. She wanted some excitement in her life. Thinking it might be time for a change she found her way over to the menos forest. The first time she came across a gillian strength Menos she was shocked. She had never seen such a hollow before since most of the hollows she'd fought till that point were much weaker than she was and not very smart. Felling threatened by Manda the Menos attacked using a Cero. Manda quickly dodged and attacked the Menos back, swiping it in half with her claws. After that she devoured it. She found joy in doing this, something she had not felt in a long time. It was then that she continued to hunt for more menos in the forest.

In time, as she continued to hunt, she found that there where different types hollows she would come across. She learned from some Adjucas about the different strengths and types of a hollow and knew then and there she wanted to become as strong as she possibly could. She had made a few friends, but not many. Most of the friends she did make she ended up devouring in the end due to her want to get more powerful. This would be why most stayed away from her. One day she came across a vasto lorde class hollow and a few adjucas class like herself. She attacked then and was able to devour them all after a long battle. Once she had finally devoured the Vasto Lorde class hollow she changed. Her body became more human like and less dragon like. She was now able to walk on two legs and had a more human shape about her. She still had her tail and wings and her body was covered still with scales. Her hollow mask is still dragon like and covered her whole face with the exception of her bottom jaw where there was no mask. Her hands and feet still had claws which she keeps sharpened. She lived like this for many years, still hunting for other hollows, but the hunt became more fun as she soon found it easier to find and catch prey.

Manda continued her journey around Hueco Mundo for quite some time. She looked around for even more vasto lorde's to fight, looking to become stronger. Eventually in her travels she made her way to Los Noches. There she found the one who was the number 8 Espada at the time. She became smitten with him and eventually became one of his fraccion. This lasted for quite some time. Manda, however, soon became bored with the usual goings on. One day she killed a fellow fraccion of his due to an argument that they had. Once he found out he became furious at Manda. The relationship she had with him was going south for a while as it was and Manda could not take it any more. A battle soon ensued that lasted for many days. During that battle Manda was knocked hard on the face and her mask broke. Due to this she became an Arrancar. The battle paused at this point as the Espada thought that Manda was done or had given up. This was not the case however because she was able to obtain her swords at this point. The battle began again and she began to battle even harder against the number 8 Espada, eventually winning the battle after a few more days. She stood there panting as he disappeared in a wisp of particles. It was then that she was approached by the Primera who was clapping as he approached. The Primera had advised her that he had been watching her battle with the number 8 Espada and thought that she had fought very hard. He told her that since she had beaten the current number 8 that she could take over the position if she wanted. Feeling very tired from her long battle she refused his offer, cursed him out for even approaching her, and went to her room to rest.


It was a few days later when the Primera approached her again. He made sure that that Manda was fully rested and in a better mood before he did. He walked over to her and began to talk about her becoming the new number 8 Espada. He once again told her of how he had watched the whole battle that she and the former number 8 Espada had and how well she had done. He congratulated her and once again offered to have her to take over the number 8 position. She had known the Primera for a while, mainly since the day she had come to Los Noches. He was one of the first Espada's she had come across before she meet the number 8. She trusted him but was not fully sure she wanted to take the position.

It was then that Manda was approached by the other fraccion of the former number 8. They were mad at her for what she had done. Manda had stopped walking and talking to Cross to listen to what they had to say. They advised her of all their grievances, all there frustrations, and all their arguments about the situation. She then simply turned to them and spoke her mind. "He was upset because one of you decided that they didn't want to live after an argument that she had with me. She attacked me and I defended myself. It was not my choice to kill his favorite fraccion. As for him, he and I had not been getting along for quite some time as you know. We had a war of words that turned into a giant and all out fight. Am I proud of that? No. Am I stronger for it? Yes. If you want to argue the point then please take it up with me. I am the new number 8 Espada and if you have any problems with that you can answer to me or Cross. It was Cross who offered me the spot." she said, pointing to Cross as she spoke that last part.

They all became quiet and left Manda alone at that point, at least at first. Soon after Manda got her number she started to take full control of the fraccion that were under the former number 8. Most of them, at that point, rebelled. She took them out easily and soon had no fraccion of her own. Manda seemed to prefer it that way. She didn't want anyone to get in her way and she didn't trust anyone enough to let them get that close to her. She remains this way even today, only working with other Espadas as she sees the need to.

Approved Rank [A-]

Reevaluated. Power Class [B] Assigned.