MAJOR DEEJ UNIVERSE

Melania Noches was born to the town witch in the Mexican city of Talaxaca.  Melania was conceived the exact time that all the stolen magical energy that the Soltan Star Empire had siphoned came cascading back to Earth, overcharging every Ley Line on the planet, including one small line the ran under Talaxaca. To this day, Melania doesn't know who her father was, but there are whispers that Melania's mother killed him soon after conceiving Melania.

 

Over the years, as Mexico was trying to rebuild itself from the devastation left by the Soltans, Melania's mother, Maria, soon became an essential 'mystic' in the town where crime and death seemed to always be an issue. On several occasions, Maria was able to predict a person's death as well as other important occurrences to the locals of the town, and as such, for the most part, Maria, dubbed the "Witch of Talaxaca" was tolerated...but just barely. Criminals and youth gangs requested her services, leading to her becoming a bit of a desired 'luck charm' to have affiliated with one's gang.  Throughout all this time, Melania watched. She learned. She practiced.

 

By age 12, Melania seemed more powerful than her own mother in creating spells, formulating predictions and creating remarkable potions for a decent price. Maria grew a tad jealous of Melania and in turn, started performing more dangerous rituals using arcane relics, books, tomes and weapons she'd continue to find and buy from any peddler she could access.  Interestingly enough, dozens of magical objects and weapons came into the Noches' possession as left overs found as Soltan battle sites, mostly weapons utilized by the enigmatic arcane warrior team that called themselves the "Knights Arcanus". Sadly though, one such relic proved to be Maria's undoing while at the same time, Melania's own rise to fame.

 

An ancient soul sapper relic, found at an Aztec ruin site, was absorbing the souls of all who touched it with their bare skin.  Maria instinctively carried the relic in a thick cloth to prevent contact, but usually kept it hidden so others wouldn't access it, including Melania. In a related instance, a band of disgruntled youth gang members arrived at the Noches' home one day demanding compensation for a 'good luck charm' Maria had created for them and obviously wasn't bringing them the luck they'd wanted. Offering to 'recharge' the charm (for a price), the gang members instead started tearing up the place looking for things to take to compensate for their recent financial misfortunes. Behind a stack of books, the Aztec soul sapper relic was knocked to the ground and picked up by one of the gang members, bare handed. The gang members soul transferred into the relic, leaving his body in a coma on the ground. The gang leader drew a gun on Melania and demanded Maria, 'The Witch', to undo what was just done. That's when everything went sideways in seconds.

 

 At just that same time, the local crime boss, Crimemaster, entered the Noches' house back door.  Crimemaster had come to warn Maria (The Witch) of the the rival gang's unhappiness over their good luck charm, but obviously arrived too late. Outside the house, the two gang's forces broke into a gun battle.  Melania, knowing how to shoot an arcane bolt (a new power she'd just learned on her own), jumped in front of Crimemaster and shot the arcane bolt at the gang leader.  The gang leader shot at Crimemaster, but Melania's arm intercepted the bullet meant for Crimemaster.  The arcane bolt blasted the gang leader backward and into Maria and a table behind both of them. The table had over a dozen different relics and magical items on it, most of which Maria didn't even know what they could do.  As both Maria and the gang leader fell upon the table, breaking it, all the relics, including the Aztec soul sapper, flew up into the air with all simultaneously landing on both the gang leader and Maria.

 

Both the gang leader and Maria vanished in a massive flux of purple arcane power.

 

The other gang member who'd had his soul sapped moments earlier, sat straight up, sucked in a deep breath of air, got up and in wild-eyed amazement and fright, ran outside through the back door only to be gunned down in the crossfire of bullets of the two gangs  (no one knows who shot and killed the gang member).  Back inside, Crimemaster picked up Melania and took her out the front door, now covered by his own gun-totting gang members, and made an escape to Crimemaster's villa outside of town.

 

After a couple days of recovery and healing, Melania awoke.  She noticed she was bandaged where the bullet had entered her arm. She also quickly realized she was in a very fancy room with expensive furniture and accommodations. A few minutes later, Crimemaster knocked on her door and requested to enter. Melania agreed and in walked Crimemaster with a rare facade: a smile.  Crimemaster asked Melania how she was and if she was feeling up to some breakfast. Shortly after responding and agreeing, Melania put on some clothes (dozens of which were available in her size in the wardrobe cabinet, almost like they'd been designed for her within the last day or so).  At breakfast, Crimemaster offered his thanks for saving him, as well as taking down the 'rogue gang leader'. He also provided sympathies regarding Melania's mother, to which he and his men had been searching for her for the past two days.  Crimemaster believed, however, that something 'magical' happened to her and the other gang leader; something he believed was some form of 'mystical portal' or an 'arcane disintegration field' which may have resulted in the unfortunate state by which 'The Witch of Talaxaca' seems to not have returned from. Crimemaster asked what he could do for Melania. After wolfing down the most food she'd ever had at one sitting, she asked if Crimewave could use a new 'token witch' for Crimemaster's organization.  With a broad smile (again, a rare occurrence), Crimemaster stated that he was hoping she'd ask that same question.

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For the next few years, Melania, taking on the new title as the Purple Witch AKA Bruja Purpura, worked with Crimewave and Crimemaster, aiding in all things related to the mystical and arcane, as well as providing lots of magical protection spells and wards. Melania only has fair knowledge of the arcane, but seems imbued with far more magical power than she dares let on.  She's retained all of her mother's arcane items and has learned to do far more magic than her mother had ever done.

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Today, Bruja Purpura continues her association with Crimewave.  She has proven her worth ten times over.  She charges and places magical wards in and about Crimewave facilities, compounds, estates and even in and around Talaxaca to warn them of any impending magical visitors or activity.  She's learned to shield and/or make other magically invisible to all forms of magical detection.  She's still young, and insatiable in her sexual appetite and is renown for her multiple lovers and 'distractions' as she likes to call her men.  She is sexy (and she knows it) and uses her feminine whiles to get what she usually wants. Crimemaster and his right hand man, El Scorpio, know better that to submit to her charms and desires.  She's been put in place a few times by Crimemaster, but he usually finds a way to mend things between them rather quickly.

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In addition, Melania has never stopped trying to get her mother back. Of the 10 relics that may have counteracted with one another to make what happened to Melania's mother actually 'happen', four of the 10 relics are broken and don't seem to be working at all, while 2 other relics seem burnt, and the other relics not performing any effect that happened to Melania's mother.  She continues to research and practice different ways to make the relics work, but with some of them broken and no way to know how to fix or replace them, it's more likely that Melania will never find out what happened to her mother...or the gang leader that disappeared with her.

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