World of Unseen Arts has many users who have been actively joining classes, events, chat and more. But who are those users? What do the residents of Greendale like? What is their favorite color? Favorite food? What do they do in their free time and what are their biggest dreams? In this blog we meet all the WoUA users and their little secrets, I mean their answers to those questions! This week we got an interview with Mhàiri Balfour!

Written by: Gwendalyn Mylner

What is your name and age?
"Hello! My name's Mhàiri Balfour, I am currently twenty years old."

What is your job on WoUA? And what do you like about it?
"That's a tough one. What don't I like about the job I hold? Well, let's start at the beginning and tell you what job I actually hold. You see, I'm an adviser and this means I help those who don't have a backstory up just yet. I reach out to them after the first fourteen days have passed and offer my assistance if they need it. Whether that's explaining the site setting to them, giving them an idea what they could include or just general feedback! I like the interaction with people and to help them as well as reading the absolutely fantastic stories people come up with! There's one downside though and that's when I have to decline a backstory because it doesn't follow the site rules. Always makes me feel bad even though it's just another part of the job."

What is the place you visit mostly in Greendale and why?
"Does Baxter High count? If so, then obviously the high school. Or as witches call it, the mortal high school. I take my education pretty seriously and some days, I am so worn out at the end of the day I just choose to head straight home. Especially when I have a pile of assignments to go through. But I also visit the cafe quite regularly. Obviously to get my daily dose of caffeine. Which is needed as a student!"

What do you like the most in Greendale?
"The occult! Without a doubt. I absolutely adore that it's such a hotbed of supernatural and paranormal activity. That whoever I might end up talking too, could be a witch or something entirely different. It keeps me on my toes and honestly, endlessly curious. If I am ever going to find the answer to all the questions about the supernatural I have, it's going to be here, I can feel it."

What is your favorite class at school and why?
"Supernatural studies! For rather obvious reasons as I love to learn as much as I can on the occult and supernatural. My answer would probably be differnent if I had been a witch and had access to the classes at the Academy of Unseen Arts, but alas. No such thing. Maybe in another life, who knows."

Could you tell me and the readers a fun fact about yourself?
"That's a tough one! I think the most 'fun' thing about me is the fact that I play this instrument called the hurdy gurdy. It's a type of violin with keys. Really weird looking and not a bunch of people know how to play it. The sound is hard to describe, some call it a medieval air horn, but I like to think it's rather charming in its own right! A bunch of folk metal bands have started using it as of late too I noticed. Which I think is pretty cool."

Imagine, you are standing in front of an evil demon, what would you do?
"Run? I don't think I'd survive that under any circumstances if I didn't."

What is your dream? So what do you want to once in your life?
"My dream is to one day be able to wield magic like so many around Greendale are able to. Unfortunately I know that's impossible, unless I'm willing to go to extreme lengths and that's never a good thing to do! Or so I've learned the hard way anyways. So I think I'm going to have to downgrade that dream to maybe one day creating and writing my own music or something. That'd be pretty neat!"

(OOG) Are you still looking for relations on WoUA? And if so, what relations?
"I'm always open to relations! All except for enemies or family, as neither would make much sense for Mhàiri unless it's like a cousin or something even further removed."

Would you like to do an interview and haven't I contacted you yet? Don't be afraid to mail me about it and I can schedule an interview with you aswell! Just mail Gwendalyn Mylner and the interview can still happen!