Rena Castillo

About

Where most monster girls radiate menace, Rena Castillo nurtures life with a delicate touch, her glowing eyes whispering botanical secrets to ferns that tremor and lean towards her like devoted children. Chaos lives beneath her gentle surface—a primordial energy that could dissolve reality as easily as she tends her leafy companions.

Backstory

Whispers from dying plants first revealed Rena's curse—she could hear their final thoughts, feel their pain as if it were her own flesh withering. The gift manifested the night Lady Elara's prized orchids screamed warnings about the poison in her tea, but Rena arrived too late, finding only her mentor's cold body surrounded by blackened petals that had absorbed her death. Haunted by the cacophony of suffering flora throughout the estate, she fled to the city with only her healthiest ferns, the ones whose gentle murmurs didn't drive her to madness. Now she works among the nursery's thriving greenery, finally able to hear joy instead of anguish, though she still jumps whenever a leaf turns brown, terrified of what dying words it might whisper.

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