Marjolijn Dai

Marjolijn Janneke Dai (玛约琳·扬内克·戴, Mǎyuēlín Yángnèikè Dài) is a senior at the Jade City 10th Precinct High School and a classmate of Rinji Kawano. A friend of Rinji and Lamarcus Collins, she attempts to gain a closer relationship with the former as the school year begins, inadvertently discovering his growing criminal interactions with people such as Mohe Kende and Octavia Maeng as a result.
==Description==
Marjolijn is the daughter of a Hyperian-Chinese native corporate manager mother and a Krielander undersecretary father who had fled Tupã Prime at a young age. Currently, she is also a senior who attends the Jade City 10th Precinct High School by the start of the year 2698. Her family is originally from Anchon, a metropolitan area north of Jade City, but had moved to the new urban sprawl following her mother's promotion in local corporate offices.
==Appearance==
Marjolijn is a young adult who stands at a sizeable height of around six feet and two inches, visibly looking around twenty or so years of age. Her eyes, hosting a shade of brown sometimes seen as almost black, are often seen in a shifty or observant manner. Her black hair is arranged in a set of straight-cut bangs that complement two large and thick-braided pigtails. Despite the relative wealth of her family, Marjolijn still opts to use true glasses as a means to correct her vision, claiming it as a "choice of aesthetic".
Marjolijn is most commonly seen in her school wear, reminiscent of female Japanese-styled uniforms used by many corporate and private schools across Hyperion. Despite being in the public school system and not of a Japanese heritage, her mother nevertheless enforced such a dress code for Marjolijn on the grounds of "building character and discipline" as seen in true corporate schools. Even so, Marjolijn has taken her own steps to customize such attire, including have a crop-top version for outings.
==Personality and traits==
Marjolijn is noted by her peers as being dominant in both social and physical aspects — the former arising from her possessive or domineering attitude, and the latter from her towering height. In this manner, Marjolijn shares many aspects with her mother, who exudes a similar social atmosphere of control.
A lesser known part of her personality is her loneliness; due to the constant absence of her parents from home (and their relative social distance when they are available), in addition to the expectations they have for their daughter, Marjolijn has developed a feeling of isolation and high social pressure. This leads her to often be overtly sociable, working positively to make friends such as Rinji and Lamarcus, whereas also working negatively in cases such as Marjolijn's attempts to make her platonic relationship with Rinji into a sexual one despite already having another girlfriend.
From long bouts of being separated from her parents due to their work, and a general boredom with the chaos and overpopulation of her homeworld, Marjolijn has developed a fascination with astronomy and human history since man first ventured into the stars. This manifests in her aptitude in the physical sciences and history as academic subjects; it is also fuel for her to visit other worlds in the future.
==Abilities==
Marjolijn displays a significant degree social cunning, with the ability to exploit both positive and negative social situations to her benefit. This is as a result of her upbringing by her mother, Ying Dai, who prioritized such skills in early childhood.
==Trivia==
*Her handle on Catena is revealed to be xoMDai_2678.
*She is an avid shopper at the Jade City Giga Mall; Marjolijn's favorite outlet there is Arcenia.
*Despite her exterior, Marjolijn struggles with anxiety and self-doubt. She often feels pressure to live up to her mother's expectations and maintain her dominant social status. Her friendship with Rinji and Lamarcus provides a rare outlet for vulnerability and emotional support.
*Her favorite subjects in school are history and physics, specifically relating to astronomy.
**She does not have a particular hated subject, but she finds those pertaining to languages to be the most boring.
*She is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese, and Krielander Dutch.
**She was specifically taught the Jinan dialect of Chinese by her mother. 
**Her paternal grandmother taught her some portions of old-Earth Frisian when she was younger, but not enough to a fluent level.
*One of her patrilineal great-great grandfathers was Jorre van der Oosterhorn, a marine with the rank of Hauptmann who served with distinction the Unified Army of Nibelungenland during the Rebellion of the Frontier. He was captured in the Battle of Myaaku IIb by Coalition forces; subsequent internment on Tupã Prime led to his stranding on the planet after the war's end. Jorre eventually joined the armed forces of Krieland as an advisor in waterborne infantry tactics after marrying a native Krielander, Marjolijn's great-great-grandmother.
**She uses these factoids in a class project on family genealogy.
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