Mez

Mez is a shadowwalker and the main protagonist of Mez's Magic.

Appearance
Mez sees herself as "a complete mess of calico" with "clashing patterns and colors". According to Lima, Mez's fur looks brown-black from a distance, but up close there's circles, lines, and dots beneath, along with great golden shapes floating under the brown. Other times, Mez's pelt is just described as black.

Gogi believes Mez will always be small for a panther, even as an adult, and that she looks practically like an ocelot.

Personality
Mez is described as a slightly kind panther. She can be sympathetic for small things, such as in Mez's Magic, when she accidentally squished some of Auriel's ant messengers. I Mez, however, has an irritable side.

Mez used to have an instilled obedience from her aunt, but her experience with betrayal changed this. Though based on her forbidden daywalking to find Auriel, her curiosity can lead to her disobeying. Mez's courage shines through when her loved ones are in danger, such as when she leaped at the eagle threatening Chumba or how she confessed to her daywalking when her sister is about to take the fall for it. She can resort to killing to eliminate a threat too. Despite panthers' solitary nature, Mez becomes lonely when on her own, though she does have the cautiousness and skill at stealth. She also can take over as leader, like when it was only her, Lima, and Rumi traveling to the ziggurat. Mez does not forgive easily, as she is mistrusting of both Sky and Auriel when they return despite their desire for redemption. In the third book, it was established she loves snuggling.

Mez's Magic
Mez and her sister are taken in by their aunt Usha when their mother perishes soon after their birth and the solar eclipse. The cub's life changes drastically when Auriel shows up and explains to her how she is one of the shadowwalkers and must come to the ziggurat to help defeat the Ant Queen. Mez does so after being exiled from her home for daywalking. After a devastating battle that resulted in the Ant Queen escaping, Mez is welcomed back by her family.

Gogi's Gambit
Mez, with Lima and Chumba, reunite with Gogi and Rumi at the ziggurat ruins one year later. She goes with the rest of the group to investigate the Dismal Bog while Sky and Rumi go find the magic lens. After her encounter with the bog, having another clash with Big Rumi, and being Mist's prisoner, Mez spends most of the final battle against the Ant Queen with Lima and her sister facing off against a harpy eagle, one of the Ant Queen's allies. They intercept Sky and Rumi who give them the lens to hold while Sky goes to free Gogi. Mez brings the lens and tosses it to Gogi. She later joins the other four shadowwalkers in allowing Auriel to absorb her magic. In the aftermath, Mez tries to stop Mist from running into the loose magic but is prevented by her sister.

Rumi's Riddle
Mez remains a part of the group as they find a way to stop the volcano. She only leaves when getting word that her family is in trouble. After dealing with the danger, she returns after the main conflict has been solved. She later leaves Caldera with her friends to find a place to exile Mist.

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Powers
Mez's powers are centered on invisibility. She has the ability to completely vanish from sight.

Trivia

 * Mez is one of the rare female panthers of the real world, as only female panthers can develop calico patterns.
 * Mez and her sister, Chumba, were actually the only surviving of the litter. However, Mez was very healthy despite her deformed sister (though they possibly share stunted growth if Gogi is accurate), who had a very high chance of death in the time of her birth.

Quotes
"Look- its the two of us, Chum! Like before,"

-Mez to Chumba, after Mez woke Chumba up.

"Aw, did we interrupt your precious sleep?"

-Mez to Mist, after Mist wakes up.

"Yes! How about tail chasers, or whisker taunt, or maybe two-paw-bluff, or-"

-Mez to Chumba about playing a game.