Sheet:Mai Elcamino
Mai Elcamino's Sheet
Background
Mai is the kind of girl who went to finishing school instead of high school and only learned how to use manners to stab people instead of making them comfortable. She's the kind of girl who has to be at the top of the heap, with everyone below her clawing to get her approval. Unfortunately, she's a new dark lieutenant in a sea of experienced villains, and it'll be a long time before people claw to win her favor. In the meantime, she'll claw people.
Something like 19 years ago, Mai Elcamino was born as the only child of a Mexican television actress with a huge fanbase and a mid-grade supervillain whose paycheck from Obsidian bought Mai literally every nice thing she ever wanted. He always called her his jewel, his princess, and he taught her that if money and power couldn't buy people, assassination was always an option to fall back on.
Her mother taught her to watch her back and be real and true and obvious about her emotions, and also that things that aren't nice or in fashion anymore should be thrown away, and also that people were like fashion and could be thrown away when they outlived their usefulness.
Her father died a few years ago, leaving Mai his Device, Pelotillero, and an awful lot of notes and data on dark energy and creating youma, and she's sworn to finish his work in making perfect bespoke youma for every occasion, and also pick up more power and some worshippers along the way.
Also, she is full of contempt for nearly everyone, and shall descend from on high to insult people in Spanish; she still cries on the phone to her mother every time she badly loses a fight, even though she has to frame it as interoffice politics.
Personality
Mai is not a nice person.
She is comical levels of inconsiderate, insulting, selfish, egocentric, vengeful, spiteful, backstabbing, envious, greedy, almost completely lacking in compassion, and all in all a model Obsidian employee. She has no problem casting aspersions, outright accusing, spreading rumors, attempting assassination of really annoying co-workers on occasion, and essentially taking every awful mean-girl behavior from high school and putting them in the office.
However, she's also *really* easily flattered into behaving with a sort of sneering noblesse oblige, and she's so positive that heroes wouldn't do anything underhanded ('because Good is Dumb') that she ends up blinding herself into gullibility under certain circumstances.
It's hard for her to make friends when she's Like That, but she considers anyone who backs her up as useful and is less unpleasant to them. Anyone who is impressed by her or encourages her is also useful and worth having around.
Focus
Mai works with Pelotillero, the Midchildan Intelligent Device left to her by her villainous father. Pelotillero appears as a pair of long plum-colored gloves with red gems on the backs, and grows death claws when she needs to employ the arts of Jersey Shore no Jutsu in hand-to-hand combat.
Style
Mai's not just any girl in a short skirt and a loooooooooooooooooooong jacket: she sports a be-winged and rose-bearing fascinator atop her head, and her barrier jacket is practically a coat. Her magic's color is plum, and god forbid someone get a run in her stockings. That's a declaration of war. Her general style is quite Business AF Nineties with some short skirt and sweetheart neckline.
Powers
Exemplary Barrets: Her shooty things gleam with the wings of victory. Literally they, made of bright purple energy, gleam and have little wings on them to speed them on their path.
Perfectly Round Shield: It's just Round Shield but it's Mai's so it's perfect.
Flier Fin: I'm gonna be real, the second Mai got big ol' purple-white energy wings with an angelic second set beneath them and *everything*, that's when she began to fully believe in the divine right of kings. And that she'd eventually acquire it.
Apex World Order: It's just a standard Midchildan barrier. Pelotillero agreed it needed a better name.
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Apex Annihilation: I do not intend to open with this, but it's her level a city block from ground zero temper tantrum finisher. It is bombardment-class, and oh baby there will be an Aria to welcome it in.
Apex Manicure: Yes she will shout this to activate incredibly unpleasant energy claws which she will use to scratch your face and pull your hair while she punches and kicks. Sometimes she'll activate it just because it looks really cool.
Apex Annoyance: Six little stacked pairs of magical discs unfold into the airspace around the area of effect, then start vibrating like a 2003 Nokia phone is trying to drop the bass, emitting a wildly awful aural hellscape that reverberates within the circle getting louder and louder, going VEEVEEVEEVEEVEEVEEVEEVEE. The area of effect can go from almost negligible (one severely debuffed person), to roughly the size of the average suburban backyard swimming pool.
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Duskport: Very Handy Escape Route, the shortcut back to Obsidian Tower in case of the need for tactical withdrawal. Takes a round to charge its door open.
Dark Energy blast: Zero finesse, all raw get-away-from-me dark energy blast of force and badfeels.
Energy drain: It's much less icky to filter it through youma, but Mai can just directly drain energy.
Bespoke Youma Making: Making youma out of whatever and dark energy, but with care and detail and research and spite and vengeance. *Tailoring* youma. Lovingly *crafting* them, and naming every one of them.
Current sheet approved by staff on 12/4/25. New upgrades should be added to the sheet below this approval notice.
