Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20141209211951/@comment-6192846-20141217150456

From what I posted yesterday, here is what we got:


 * Santa Claus found Mayrana in the Beelzenian Empire and took her in as an apprentice.


 * Almost all the magic clans were collected in the Magic Kingdom Levianta and died out in the wake of the Levianta Catastrophe, so people with Mayran's talent are a rare breed.


 * When Seventh first met Mayrana, she was already called "Fourth Shadow", despite only her and Santa being members of Pere Noel at the time.


 * Mayrana chose the number four due to her worship of the witch, Meta Salmhofer, who was the fourth member of Apocalypse.


 * Mayrana's in a BAD mood when meeting with Seventh. Mayrana is apparently jealous that Santa gave Seventh a vessel of sin and not her (since she believes she wouldn't need their further power).


 * Mayrana makes sure to remind her that that power isn't her own and she shouldn't be so smug about it.


 * Mayrana idolized Santa Claus and, to Seventh, it looked abnormal. She wore the same clothes and makeup as her and even ate the same meals from the menu.


 * Apparently Irina's also gotten a little bit bothered by this so she sent Mayrana to the faraway land of Merrigod.


 * And so now Mayrana wishes to change her face. Even without being told, Seventh knows whose face she wants.


 * Mayrana's face gets changed but she has an extreme meltdown at Seventh while examining herself in the mirror, since Seventh took her word to the letter and made the face "similar" but not "the same" as Santa Claus. Mayrana goes into the extreme details of what's different.


 * Of course, Seventh can only use this power once unless she makes a contract with the demon. So she's stuck this way.


 * Returning to the present (whenever that is), Seventh relates that she hears Mayrana has now become mayor of Calgaround and has even started taking Santa Claus' name as her own.


 * She's also heard rumors that she's come in contact with the "Sleep Princess". The reason is clear. She still wants a vessel of sin.


 * Mayrana's about to close shop when a knock comes to the door. She's surprised to see it's Sixth Venom, Gatt Colomb.

It's a nice to see this story did end up tying together quite a few plot lines. And now we've definitely established Mayrana as being ridiculously fanatical to Julia. I wonder whether her worship of Meta is due to her veneration of Julia too.

And I'm definitely loving Seventh. She's got that edge to her words Where even when she's sounding polite and "mystical" in her conduct, she can have a lot of undertones.

I'm curious why Gatt's visiting her. I wouldn't think it'd be for a face change but perhaps he's simply interested in the sword or has some other motivation. Either way, we'll hopefully get his backstory too.