Full Name: Atara Yoshi-Koopa

Nickname: Bright Eyes (given to her by her mate, Raymond)

Gender: Female

Mother: Unknown

Father: Unknown

Species: Yoshi

Height: 5'1''

Weight: 133 lbs

Affiliated With: No one

Marital Status: Raymond J. Koopa

Children: Karma A. Koopa

Birthdate: July 14th

Favorite Foods: Yoshi berries, soda crackers, pretzels

Least Favorite Foods: Meat of any sort

Favorite Underling: Baby blue Yoshi

Friends: Her husband... she keeps to herself

Enemies: The Mario Brothers, King Koopa, and anyone who opposes the fact she's married to a Koopa

Pets: None

Hobbies: Crafting, reading

Special Talents: N/A

Physical Appearance: A green Yoshi with china blue eyes and violet spikes on her back. At her tail's base are pale blue speckles (considered a blessed omen in the Yoshi tribes, though Atara hardly thinks herself blessed after losing her daughter).

Personality: Very withdrawn and likes to keep to herself as much as possible. The berating she's recieved for her marriage to a Koopa has made her very meek in public. The recent loss of her daughter, Karma, in the struggle at Cookie Mountain has made her into quite the pessimist about life.

Atara was born into a well-to-do family in the Silverleaf Yoshi Tribe (located at the base of Cookie Mountain in a small gathering of woods). The fact she had been born with colored markings (her tail speckles) had made many think that she was to be their next appointed leader. She was given special care by the tribe while growing up, while her parents dutifully attempted to fix her up with whom they believed to be only the finest in males to choose as her mate one day.

When Atara was about 16 in age, the tribe took a prisoner... a Koopa scout from Dark Land. As a trespasser and traitor reptile, the Koopa had been sentenced to die. As he sat in prison awaiting his fate, Atara (who
had never seen a Koopa before) stole away in the night to speak with him. She had gone solely to learn what he was and why her tribe hated him, but ended up with more than she had bargained for.

The prisoner, who revealed his name to be Raymond, explained the ongoing war between the Yoshies and the Koopas and that the Koopas had come to hate the Yoshies due to the aid they had offered Dark Land's
antagonists in the past and therefore were set to be eliminated as traitors. He, he said, had been sent up ahead by the troop he was with to scout the land for a place to spend the night when he had been captured.

Raymond pleaded with Atara to not let her tribe kill him, and Atara eventually caved in and set him free... though it was not the last she saw of him. Raymond, after returning home safely, took to creeping into
the Silverleaf's land at night to see her. At first, it had been simply to thank her for her kindness and speak with her a bit as one of the few people he could call a friend, but it gradually became more.

They carried on their secret affair for the better part of a year, until one day Atara surprised Raymond by greeting him with more than just her smile... she had laid a lovely green-speckled egg. Realizing that they could no longer keep their love a secret, Atara appealed to her parents, explaining everything. They were appalled, of course, and demanded that she never see Raymond again and that her egg be crushed. She refused to do so, and told them that if the tribe would not marry them she would leave it behind altogether and be privately married in Nimbus Land.

After many tiresome arguments, her parents grudgingly agreed to the wedding and they were married in the public eye of the tribe... much to the disgust of many. The egg hatched not long afterward and Atara's daughter, Karma, was born. For a long time the family lived in peace and Atara was pleased to learn that Raymond had been gradually accepted into the tribe as one of their own and little Karma hadn't caused much of a stir at all. However, bliss wasn't to be had so easily.

Shortly after Karma's 15th birthday, chaos broke loose as two hoo-mans calling themselves Mario and Luigi tore through the land, seizing foliage and enslaving Yoshies to ride upon as they went about their mad quest to save a young lady the Koopa King had captured. In the confusion, Atara and Raymond lost track of their daughter as they hid from the destruction. When the dust had cleared, Karma was nowhere in sight.
Atara keeps the faith that her daughter is alive and well somewhere, and in the meantime, sticks close to her husband.

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