The following overview is partly research and partly my own interpretation of this character 
After I told a friend about her, she called her a „lion mother“ and that describes her personality perfectly so I chose it as her title.
„What I destroy you no longer need.“
Oyá is a Loa in several Voodoo Religions. She is goddess of storms and lightning, a warrior queen but also described as a caring mother and protector of children and women.
Character Name:
Oyá
Occupation:
Goddess of thunder, lightning, tornadoes, winds, rainstorms, hurricanes but also rainbows
Goddess of spirit communication, funerals and cemeteries
Goddess of change and transformation
Goddess of dance
Guardian of the realm between life and death
Warrior-Queen
Visual traits:
Red stones
Copper
Buffalo horns
Rainbows
Lightning
Wind/Tornados/Hurricanes
Machete
Bright-coloured cloth
Tall and lithe
9 copper bracelets
9 different colours
Personality:
Temperamental, Passionate, fearless, sensual, independent, beautiful, courageous
great intensity of feeling, sensations, and charm
Caring and protective (mother)
She has a tendency for dramatic manifestations.
Habits/mannerisms:
wields lightning and rides the winds into battle
Favorite weapons are tornado and machete
raises the armies of the dead as her soldiers
can change from benevolent, caring Mother to destructive Warrior in the blink of an eye
Background:
Oyá has endured much sadness in her life. She is known as the “mother of nine” for she gave birth to nine different stillborn children. She carries much sadness about her incapacity to give birth and she dresses with nine different colored scarves around her waist in memory of her lost children.
Internal conflicts:
Oyá‘s personality ranges from the loving and caring mother over the to the merciless warrior queen. She tends to tantrums not just against her enemies but also the ones she loves. This causes feelings of guilt but she is not able to stop those outbursts.
Besides she is the guardian of cemeteries but summons the deads she’s actually obliged to protect to force her will. She often regrets that afterwards.
External conflicts:
Oyá originally was the goddess of the sea but was tricked by Yemayá who owned the cemeteries. Oyá gave the reign over the sea to Yemayá in exchange for the cemeteries which she just had seen from the outside. Only after the business was done Oyá could enter the inside of the cemeteries and saw what she received. When Oyá realised the treachery it was to late. Since then the two women are bitter enemies.
To wreak vengeance on the „fishwife“ and because she always enjoys a good fight Oyá participates in the war of the elements.
Class: Melee Mage
Oyá uses her machete in close combat as well as lightning strikes from a short distance.
Skills
- Standard Attack: close combat with her machete, every third strike creates a lightning bolt automatically
- Standard magic attack: Lightning Strike
- Dash: Oyá dashes forward, casting lightning in every direction
- Lightning Wall: protective skill, Oyá‘s calling for many lightning bolts in front of her creating an insurmountable barrier as long as channeled and a short time after finishing, she’s unable to move during channeling
- Tornado: Oyá starts a wild whirling dance which creates a tornado - nearby enemies are knocked back, enemies further away are attacked by lightning. After a short time the tornado becomes self-perpetuating and cuts a lane through the enemies
- Ultimate skill: Oyá jumps up catching a lightning and slamming her electrified machete into the ground when landing. The shock wave stuns nearby enemies for a short time and the electricity reanimates every corpse within reach as her undead army who attack everything they find but can be controlled by Oyá
Channeling this ability will attract more lightning and keeps the reanimated bodies alive but Oyá is not able to use any other skill but giving orders
Jan 14, '20
Just started the research but I'm curious where it will take me in the end.
