Fandom - Hollow-Wood/Underworld

Name (Full) - Maria Nedra

Name Meaning - Bitter, beloved, rebellious; Brightness, radiance, underground

Superhero Name - Veracity

Nicknames - Ria, Vera

Pronouns - She/her

Birthday - October 15th

Age - 25

Species - Human

Appearance - ....Yes

Sexuality - Biromantic Asexual

Crush - Ray???

Friends - Allegra, Ray, Bug (her cat)

Enemies - n/a

Family - Her siblings in order from oldest to youngest are: Allegra (sister), Elijah (brother), her, Thomas (brother), Charlotte (sister). Her father is named Daniel. Her mother, Helena, is deceased. 

Personality - Vera is an eccentric, manipulative, and sadistic informant. She works from the underworld of everything, rarely getting in the news. Her symbol is recognized in the underworld as something to be feared, only to be contacted if you have the willingness and ability to pay, otherwise, things won't go your way.
If you do end up meeting her, you'll find her to be flirty and lax in her actions. Cunning and mischievous for sure, enjoying to mess with people and act as if she's "playing with her prey"; yet, Vera never seems to be serious about any of it. She's carefree in what she does, seeming to do things only for the cool looks or vibe. Perhaps it is because she finds work far too easy that she seems to have to spice things up. She doesn't care about hiding in the shadows, because she wants everything to pop. Maybe she's just so confident in her abilities to wipe her tracks. Or maybe she just wants to be remembered.
Though she seems carefree, she does have a harsher side. If you don't pay her or try to swindle her out of money, she will ruin your life. She will do anything she can to make everything you have ever done useless and twisted to ruin everything you ever want. She definitely holds grudges.
She's not against blackmail or threats. If she has the ability to use them, then why shouldn't she?
Though what most don't realize, is that Vera's every action is for a reason. And that one reason is her own well-being. She's observant and collected on the inside, letting her outward actions be eccentric, doing insane things to clock on how people react. She's able to notice small details and remember them for a long time.
Vera doesn't tend to care what people do with the information she gives them. "I'm not the one doing those things". She's a programmer, and does at times use that knowledge to "hack" into something to gain more information on people or situations, but generally she prefers the old fashion route, putting on a "character" to go undercover and unearth information. She's always putting on one act or another.
Vera will do anything for those she cares about. A small, and rare to find group, but she will protect them with her life. 

Different than Vera, Maria seems a bit like an airhead. She's carefree and has a playful attitude, never seeming to be bothered by anything. She's bubbly, friendly, and talkative, though she has a few strange quirks at times. Like how she's strangely recalcitrant. Or her positive outlook on dark concepts such as death and supernatural events, even joking about them. 
Maria is hardworking, enjoying to do everything herself instead of taking shortcuts. "There's no reliable way to shorten the time something takes without ruining it all!"
She is always efficient, always doing things for a reason, though it may seem random to others. Her plans and actions are thought out carefully to save as much time as she can. Though, she does make time to play Genshin Impact, as that's the only game she really enjoys, mostly due to the nostalgia of playing it during a dark time in her life.
Tending to show up late to basically everything, Maria always has some bizarre story to explain why. She takes her time telling the story, going over the top, and acting things out. No one ever takes her seriously, but no one ever completely disregards the stories either.
She's actually extremely smart, and enjoys learning new things about everything. There are moments that she seems like she clocks more about someone than she should be able to, but they're generally passed off fairly easily.
Bitter of how her father treated her when she was younger, she has vowed to never forgive him.
Maria feels awful for what happens with the information Vera gives out. Though... there is no real need to feel guilty. Maria never gave anyone any information.
Veracity did.

She feels like maybe she doesn't even know who she is.

Likes - Money, gifts (giving and receiving), Genshin Impact, pocky, music (any kind, as long as it has a good beat), programming, earrings, coffee, doctor pepper, cats, cooking/baking

Dislikes - Not having money, spending time doing something useless, people swindling her, feeling neglected, being completely alone, fast food (too expensive for the quality), her father

Fears - Chrometophobia (not having enough money, or spending too much money without reason), Athazagoraphobia (being forgotten, ignored, or replaced), Autophobia (fear or dread of oneself or of being alone, isolated, abandoned, and ignored)

Quotes - 
"Sometimes I feel more like Vera than me, and that scared me. Vera isn't genuine, she's always putting on an act, so what does that make me?" -M
"If you're going to die anyway, you might as well just live now, right?" -M
"Oh, Darling, I don't care what they do with the money, as long as they pay me." -V
"I heard you're looking for the truth." -V

Backstory - Maria grew up in a poor family. She wasn't given much attention ever, as Maria tended to be a quiet, easy to raise kid. She didn't cause problems, and never seemed to struggle in school or anything like such. Whenever she or her siblings earned money, her father would take it to spurge it on things he wanted. 
By the time she turned 16, she found herself going out of her way to get in fights. She wanted the attention. She made a habit to win the ones she started, smart enough not to take on something she couldn't beat. She started learning that if you have the knowledge on your opponent you have the power.
Maria was in a gang for a few years. She was their runner, an information man; and in return, they taught her how to fight. She never used the skill, too scared to want the guilt of blood on her hands.
Her mother knew of her habits, but didn't say anything about them, as it brought in money for the family. At 19, her mother began to get sick, and the family needed more money to pay for her treatments.
So Maria created Veracity. A side of her that wasn't afraid. Someone who was willing to go at whatever lengths it took to help the ones she cared for. Someone she could blame for the blood that would be spilled from her actions. 
It didn't work.
Her mother ended up passing away.
Maria left the family, cutting off ties from everyone for years. She became Veracity full time, earning money, building a reputation. During this time, she found a stray cat, who she named Bug.
She slowly began to feel like she was getting her life in control again, and then, when she was 23, she got a call from her sister, Allegra, who had managed to track Maria's new number down. 
Maria was convinced into taking a job at Allegra's new cafe, and at 24, Allegra convinced her to go to college.
Now, Maria takes classes at a nearby college, wanting to get a degree to make sure her sister wouldn't worry for her, while working in any of her free time to earn money as Veracity.
She won't be broke when she most needs it again.

Trivia -
- Works at her sister's cafe to make sure she doesn't worry about her not having a job (also more money!)
- Majors Computer Science
- Gift giving is her love language
- Doesn't flex her money. She actually has a pretty small apartment she rents, and doesn't really have a lot of expensive things. She doesn't spend her money much, instead just keeping it in safe places. But man, she is really rich.
- Met another informant and decided that since they each had blackmail on each other, they would just be friends. So they're the big informant duo of the underworld. (Meeting other informants and deciding mutual blackmail is the grounds for friendship is such a vibe frfr)
- Contacting Veracity is by word of mouth. If you know who to ask, you can get a "Verity", a gold coin with the engraving of Veracity on it. Strangely, once you are in possession of one, Veracity will track you down herself. (You don't find Veracity, Veracity finds you)
- Maria actually really likes cooking/baking. It's a destresser for her so she usually ends up with more food/sweets than what she knows what to do with.

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