#marryli

Marryli is a green Kacheek who was inspired by @faekacheek​‘s comic series about Samrin and Alton!!! They were so cute that I just felt like I had to go back to my roots and make a Kacheek of my own...!!!

They’re from Brightvale and initially I created them as a berry farmer, similar to Meri Acres’ Pick Your Own, but after talking about magic stuff with @thefaeriebruce​ and @lutari-island-or-bust​ I took them in a direction of wanting to pursue magic!!! They actually excel in divination magic, which manifests as anxieties about the future most of the time. I imagine it helped them a lot as a farmhand- “What if we get a drought?! I better start collecting rainwater right now!!” and a drought starts a week later but they do just fine thanks to their preparations. “My berries are going to be eaten by Crokabeks!! I just know it!!” so they put up a scarecrow and the next day their neighbor is complaining about the flock of birds that stole half their crop that very morning.

I imagine others caught on to their weird premonitions actually working and started coming to them for advice, and they thought nothing of it, certainly not that it was magic. But someone (LONG LOST FRIEND/RELATIVE MAGON??) realizes sooner or later, and that makes them realize that they could be doing something much bigger and more exciting than picking berries- so they decide they want to learn how to properly do magic!!! 

As far as their personality is concerned, they’re very sweet and genuine!! They also tend to get carries away with things- once they start on something, it’s hard for them to stop. This includes staying up at night thinking about things that could possibly go wrong :’) Their motivation for learning magic is that, once they realize that they’ve had this weird power their whole life, they feel like things finally make sense and they finally have this sense of purpose. So they want to refine it and get better at it to discover themselves in the process!!

Once they’re good at magic, I imagine their specialty is using plants they’ve grown themselves to aid them in their predictions. Like, divination with a botanical twist!!