From time to time, I remember this poor character of mine... Especially when I'm feeling low and tormented by memories of my past errors. She is the personification of fire, at least how I imagine it to be.
Fire can be many things, like a light in the darkness, it can warm you when you're cold, it's energy, allows you to cook food... But it's also dangerous, destructive, uncontrollable. Fire is fire. It's part of the nature, and nature isn't always kind.
She hates her own nature, doesn't matter how hard she keeps on trying, no one ever seems to understand that she isn't bad, she's just... Herself. Beautiful, warming, bright, but also scorching hot, burning, dangerous. She didn't choose to be the way she is, why anyone would ever choose to be hated by everyone? Pain bleeds through the cuts on her skin, anger burns her from the inside out, sadness is tearing from her eyes, while her mind screams "Would anyone ever truly understand?"
Mareena, the Guardian of Sea, is the only one who can touch her, feel her, love her. They both know how much their love hurts, but they just can't be without the other.