Mari Gold

Mari is the deuteragonist of SANABI. She is the sole survivor of the strange events within Mago City, a hacker prodigy and a computer engineer sent from a military intelligence team. She accompanies the player throughout the events of the game, providing technical support and advice while attempting to uncover information about what happened within the city.
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==Throughout SANABI ==
===Investigating Mago City===
24 hours before the events of the game, the 2.97 million inhabitants of Mago City seemed to disappear. No investigation teams sent by the military returned, but one survivor, Mari, managed to break through the communications blackout to send a distress signal, claiming she had discovered important information. The protagonist is sent to ensure Mari's safety, and to find out what she has discovered.
Her personal drone, Mufin, seeks the protagonist out and leads him to Mari's hiding place, where she is startled by him before the two are forced to flee the city's automated demolition robot. She reveals that there is no information and that all the data in the city has apparently been wiped, leaving no clues as to what has happened; she lied about finding information in order to ensure her rescue. She devises a plan to destroy the city's rampant demolition machine, Writ of Execution, and retrieve its black box, but does not find one inside; however, she finds an electronic key, granting her executive access to the Mago Group's offices.
Once inside, she attempts to hack into their files, but finds that everything there has been wiped as well, save for a corrupted log related to Sanabi. She informs the protagonist that Sanabi is at the top floor of the city, and accompanies him on his way up, guiding him through the city and giving advice, as well as constantly trying to make small talk with him (much to his chagrin).
She attempts to save his life when he is cornered by a large robot in a train station; however, she is attacked instead and is promptly saved by the protagonist, who collapses from exhaustion. When he regains consciousness, the two discuss their goals: Mari explains that she believes the Mago Group to be responsible for her father's death, and they agree to reach the top floor together. She also makes a strange request for him to play the harmonica, but he declines.
=== Ascending Mago City===
The two of them encounter Justice in the business district, exciting Mari, as she is apparently a longtime fan of the wandering mercenary. Despite the protagonist's apprehensions, she takes a selfie with the mercenary outside of their mech suit, before Justice disappears. However, when they are later attacked by what appears to be Justice, she is shocked to discover that the Mago Group has created several robotic copies of Justice, based on a "datafied" personality of the real one. Disturbed by this revelation, she points out that the use of such technology is a severe crime, and that the Mago Group is likely involved in a large conspiracy related to it.
Mari later guides the protagonist through Mago's central factory in an attempt to reach the top, but she is frightened by the factory's Overseer and attempts to flee. She decides to return, however, and steals a flying car in order to help the protagonist escape. The two of them attempt to disable the Overseer by disabling its backup power core, where she saves the protagonist from being vaporized by the automated security, but the plan goes awry when they discover an entire array of backup cores and the Overseer attempts to vaporize them while ripping the facility apart.
Improvising, Mari uses the flying car to escape through a massive ventilation shaft with the protagonist's help, but she crashes through the roof and is knocked unconscious. After being rescued by the protagonist, she has a dream of three days prior, where she is revealed to have been obsessively investigating the Mago Group's activities. She pays another hacker to break into Mago's files, and they find the "Sanabi Project" for her. However, they are traced and killed by Mago's security forces, who discover that the Sanabi Project was leaked.
===At the top floor===
Upon regaining consciousness, Mari discovers that Mufin was destroyed in the fall, and mourns his death. After being informed by the protagonist that robots are not comparable to people, Mari suffers a full mental breakdown, demanding that the protagonist play the harmonica like her father used to do for her. The protagonist coldly tells Mari that he is not her father, seemingly worsening her mental state as she breaks down into deranged laughter. Once she recovers, she simply states that the protagonist is right, and continues to follow him on a replacement drone as they make for Mago Group's headquarters.
As they proceed through the top level, Mari's behavior becomes increasingly suspicious, and continues to dodge the protagonist's questions by insisting they only focus on pursuing Sanabi. When she inadverently reveals she knows about Sanabi and the murder of the protagonist's daughter, he becomes incredibly suspicious of her. She attempts to tell him something important, but her words are censored, furthering his suspicion. Upon their arrival at Mago's headquarters, Mari informs the protagonist that Sanabi is in the building's basement. However, the protagonist questions her about the state of the building, having discovered that it is full of corpses, whereupon Mari nonchalantly informs the protagonist that the ongoing self-destruction of the city is for the Mago Group to cover up "[his] mere existence."
Before he can question her further, the two of them are interrupted by Major Song, who attacks the protagonist and demands that Mari leave the city with her. Mari threatens to commit suicide in order to coerce Song into sparing the protagonist, so that he can confront Sanabi in the basement. Song reluctantly complies, though she immediately disarms Mari afterwards and harshly slaps her. Mari is presumably taken into military custody, but Colonel Baek later informs Song that he let Mari go at her own request.
It is later revealed that Mari is the protagonist's daughter, and that the protagonist is in fact a robot using a datafied version of the general's personality. Mari created a digital personality of her father in an attempt to help him cope with the loss of his wife, her mother, and he was killed by the Mago Group when they stole it ten years prior, transforming his data into the "Sanabi Project." Wracked with guilt about causing her father's death, Mari became obsessed with investigating the Mago Group and getting revenge for his death. Just before the events of the game, Mari used her stolen copy of the Sanabi Project on a dormant Worker robot in an attempt to bring her father back to life, creating the protagonist, and programmed him to stop Mago Group's plans to destroy the city.
In the present, Mari prepares to disable the nuclear power plant from inside in order to prevent it from detonating, an act that will kill her. When the protagonist arrives, she expresses her frustration at him for denying his programming, and coldly states that he is nothing but an imitation of her father. However, he plays a song from her mother, "Sanabi," on the harmonica she'd given him, causing her to embrace him and tearfully apologize.
After reuniting with her father, she realizes that he plans to disable the core in her place, and pleads with him to flee the city with her. However, he declines, and she tearfully breaks down. He informs her that he loves her, before telling her to remember him. She salutes him as he leaves, before collapsing against the wall, exhausted. Later, she is seen visiting her father's grave site, finally making peace with his death. It is revealed that she has joined the army, and that she has also developed a wire-arm similar to her father's, which she uses to swing away.
==Personality ==
Her personality is initially cheery and talkative, though she is also shown to be easily frightened, hiding when the player first encounters her and regularly cowering in the face of danger. Her energetic personality is a point of contention for the protagonist, whose serious demeanor often clashes with her own. She is also very boastful of her own talents, whether real or perceived, constantly stating that she is a brilliant hacker.
However, as the game progresses, a different side of Mari becomes more visible over time. She appears to secretly harbor a deep sense of depression, later revealed to be guilt for considering herself responsible for her father's death. Despite her fearful nature, she states that she is prepared to die in Mago City. After the death of her drone, Mufin, she suffers a mental breakdown directed towards the protagonist. She grows colder and less energetic after this, and becomes noticeably more abrasive towards the protagonist, evading his questions and seemingly withholding information from him.
This hostile behavior is ultimately revealed to be due to the protagonist's true identity, as a robotic copy of her father. After fruitlessly attempting to make him remember her, she initially gives up and regards him as nothing more than "a fake." However, after the protagonist regains his memories and plays the harmonica for her, she breaks down into tears and apologizes to him, revealing her true emotions to the protagonist. Though deeply saddened by the prospect of her father sacrificing his life for her, she allows him to leave, finally giving her closure after ten years of guilt and regret.
== Trivia== 
*The track that plays when Mari is drawing out her elaborate plans is Mari's Theme.
*Mari's last name is never mentioned in the English translation of the game. In Korean, however, her last name is 금 (Geum), meaning "gold."
* Mari is shown to be a pop-culture fanatic, as she makes frequent references to a variety of fictional anime and video games, many of which are loosely based on real-life media.
*Mari states that she hates pigeons, shortly before she is attacked by them. This is mentioned in a previous flashback scene, where a young Mari tells her father that she dislikes birds.
* Mari, at the time of the events of the game, is 18 years old. But since the game is from South Korean developers (in South Korea, the age of majority is 19), when talking with a hacker friend, she says that she is still underage.
*Despite the revelation that the protagonist cannot communicate with humans due to a voice filter, Mari is able to understand him perfectly. This is likely due to her being one of the individuals mentioned that is excluded in the filter.
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