Okay, it's yap session time. Feel free to skip the yaps, it's a long one since I already had an idea of how she'd be. Hope you enjoy!
May I present my new mc... Metztli Caballero! And she does have the symbol of the Aztec goddess as her tattoo in Step Three since her name is the same as the Aztec goddess of the moon, Metztli. Still experimenting with the art.
Step 1:
Metztli is a very polite and well mannered girl. A bit too much to the point where she forgets to speak normally. She's very confident and can speak her mind, and she will often do so. She enjoys making her own things, such as jewelry and her in progress sewing lessons. However, she's a perfectionist. Anyways, she didn't mind the move to Golden Grove. She was focused on doing good in school, so she didn't care to make friends. However, she does meet Qiu first. And immediately, she does not like him. Why? She's used to being nearly perfect and well mannered. Opal has no idea why, considering Metztli has just decided she'd be like that. So, upon meeting someone the opposite of her, it stirs up complex feelings. She's even more confused when he deny losing his paper and gets genuinely mad at him. So she's already off to a bad start here, and she swears she would never like him. Too bad she falls for him (literally) to help him win a race (she jumped off the bike).
Step 2:
As She's grown older, her want to be the best begins to overtake her. Her friendship with Tamarack and Qiu remains the same on good terms. However, she's also become more mean when it's come to people she doesn't like. Particularly, bullies and jerks. Her sense of justice is very questionable considering she has dumped water on bullies and insulted them harshly after they talk ill of her friends. To be honest, that's as far as she goes before she ultimately chooses to ignore them. But she doesn't do it often, so normally she's very polite, and friendly, and will not be mean to innocent people. And she does really care about her friends, often reassuring them that they're doing just fine and that's she proud of them. She is insecure though, as she believes she isn't special, so her dresses and jewelry make her feel special. If they are ever destroyed, she will cry. However, to one very special neighbor, she is special to them. She just hasn't realized that there is one person who doesn't care if she's perfect or not.
Step 3:
She's now more confident in her skills. After years, she's realized that even is shes not perfect, she's still loved, and she doesn't need to prove herself for it. And now, she wears her dresses even when it's cold outside. The cold doesn't bother her considering she always has a warm coat on hand, and she mostly only wears it outdoors. She is still mean, however, expect she only really says things to tourists who are mean or rude for no reason. And yes, she is very embarrassed that she said she would never fall for Qiu, and she still ended up falling for them in the end (She does like him. It's very easy to tell). If brought up, she will yell shut up and start dramatically walking away with a bright red blush on her face.
She's not mean to Qiu. Just to clarify, she doesn't deny liking them, nor does she ever show "love" by being straight up rude. She's only embarrassed because she had a superiority complex where she thought she was better because she was perfect, and thought he wasn't at the time, and as such believed she would never love him as more than a friend. She does genuinely appreciate them, and she's happy she likes him. She's not a tsundere. She's meant to have a problem where she believed all love she receives has to be earned through perfection and hard work. At ten, she never talked to someone so carefree as Qiu, so it threw her off. Hence why she dislikes him at first. He was everything she wasn't (until the Step 1 wheels moment where she jumps off his bike to help him win), and she didn't know how to process it.