Marin's Character Thread
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:35 am
(To be replaced someday)
Name: Marin (formerly Maero)
Gender: Female (formerly Male)
Age: 28
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 160 lbs (formerly 260 lbs)
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Appearance:
Marin is, first and foremost, a very athletically-built woman. From several kinds of activities all of her body has become physically toned and conditioned for most activities, including several high-stress kinds of combat and escape. Her black hair reaches down to the base of her neck, has enough blue dye to cause a gradient effect at the ends of her hair (black at the root, blue at the end, fading between), and is most commonly kept in a ponytail behind her head for practical purposes. Her clothing varies from the daily task, but most commonly includes a black undershirt and bike shorts, blue jean short shorts, blue jean full vest, black shin-high socks and steel-toed boots, and a pair of black fingerless gloves. This is adorned by one piece of jewelry she wears: a stainless steel necklace with a winged-sword pendant of the same material. On occasion she is also known to wear blackout shades.
Skills:
Marin is highly skilled in combat and strategic/tactical thinking, thanks to her advanced military training. Being on the streets has dulled that somewhat, but she is otherwise in excellent condition to do what is necessary in a fight. She owns and is equipped to use any of the following, even if she does not carry them on her person at that moment: combat knives, handguns, sub-machine guns, shotguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, heavy weapons, and hand grenades. Her martial art skills are synonymous with those of military heritage and is capable of handling herself in a hand-to-hand fight, as well. Her people skills, however, are highly malnourished and she is thus more likely to offend somebody at random than create the perfect apology letter.
Background:
Marin was originally born Maero in the city of Jurica to unknown parents (or so the claim states). The city of Jurica at that time was fairly peaceful, but economic troubles were starting to form. Maero was fortunate enough to avoid most of the strife as he was adopted and raised outside the city, though he frequently went into it. He joined the military at the age of seventeen and received advanced training as a Specialist before being honorably discharged at the age of 22. Upon his return to Jurica, though, he found the city well into a state of decay: drugs on the streets, violent crime on the rise, rampant gambling, and an inefficient police force unable to combat these things. Out of work and unable to find his adoptive family Maero was forced to take the streets and survive like the rest of the poor souls. After nine months of street survival, however, he had made enough friends that he formed a gang to better survive the city's perils, calling them the Jurica Knights.
Over the course of three years the gang held its own until his 25th birthday, at which point a surprise police raid captured the entire gang and sent them to prison. En route, however, a rival gang attacked the prison convoy and killed everybody on board save Maero (who suffered extensive third degree burns and was rendered comatose). He was promptly hospitalized and put into intensive care and was deemed beyond total recovery. Experimental surgeries were performed, however, that gave him a mostly successful recovery. The catch: his body could never be functionally male, so he was hospitally declared female and given all the work to make him a complete woman over the course of a year. Thus Marin was (unofficially) born.
Once Marin was given a clean bill of health and sent to prison properly she spent the next year surviving a world that tried three times as hard to put her six feet under. Given her gang know-how and military training, however, she was more than capable of surviving her incarceration. During a prison riot she took the opportunity to escape imprisonment and return to the city where she was able to successfully blend back into the crowd. Given her experiences she had long since become disillusioned with the potential of goodness in people and began reforming her beliefs to take advantage of the city. Her specific activities over the last ten months are unknown except that she is moving to recreate the Jurica Knights. Her agenda is otherwise unknown.