Grace Mars

Grace Mars is a character in Heavy Rain. She is the wife of Ethan Mars and the mother of Jason and Shaun Mars. She inadvertently becomes an antagonist when her observations stoke police suspicions that Ethan is the Origami Killer.
==Before Jason's Death==
Before the death of her son, Grace appears to be a loving and cheerful wife and mother. She first appears walking in the house with groceries for Jason's birthday party. While she is in the kitchen preparing lunch, she asks for Ethan's help with getting various jobs done.
Sometime between early May and late September of 2009, Grace, Ethan, and their sons are seen taking a trip to the mall. When they arrive, she asks Ethan to look after Jason while she takes Shaun to buy some shoes. When she comes back, she notices Jason is missing. She and Shaun stay behind while Ethan goes on a desperate search for him.
Ethan finally meets up with Jason outside the mall. Jason starts to run across the street, seemingly unaware that a car is approaching. Ethan dives in front of the car and catches Jason in an attempt to save him, but they both get hit as Grace and Shaun watch helplessly. Grace runs out to her son, who lies crushed beneath her unconscious husband, screaming his name while crying. The collision leaves Jason dead and Ethan in a coma.
==After Jason's Death==
Six months before the events of the game, Grace and Ethan have legally separated, with Ethan moving into a duplex. They both share custody of Shaun, with Ethan seeing him throughout the week while Grace sees him on the weekends. One day after school, Ethan and Shaun go to the park. Ethan experiences a blackout and discovers Shaun is missing afterwards. Grace is later seen at the police station with her husband filing a missing persons report. The detectives tell Ethan that they will try their best to find Shaun. Ethan then meets up with Grace in the lobby, and she asks Ethan if the detectives think Shaun was taken by the Origami Killer. He informs her that it may be a possibility, but it is still too early to say. Grace then shows some aggression toward Ethan. She seems to have fostered some resentment over the events of the last two years, blaming Ethan for Jason's death and now blaming him for losing Shaun, though she regrets this seconds later. The scene ends with her sobbing, stating that she deeply misses him.
Later in the game, there is another scene with Grace in the police station talking to Carter Blake about Ethan. She informs Blake that Ethan came home one night talking about drowning bodies and rainwater, which is associated with the Origami Killer, and begs the police to find her son.
Grace will appear with Shaun in "Ethan's Grave" if Ethan died trying to save his son. She will also appear in "Innocent" to meet with him and Shaun as he is released from prison, and is implied to still have feelings for Ethan.
==Chapter Appearances==
* Prologue
* The Mall
* Father and Son (video)
* Welcome, Norman
* Police News
* Epilogue - Ethan's Grave
* Epilogue - Innocent
==Trivia==
* In the prologue, Ethan can try to flirt with Grace, but she will shut him down due to the birthday preparations' necessity.
* It can be gathered through conversation between Ethan and Grace that Grace's mother does not like Ethan, and there is some familial tension, which probably affected some of the fallout after Jason's death.
* Grace Mars is similar to Tiffany from Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit: both of them are ex-lovers of the main characters (Ethan Mars and Lucas Kane respectively). Grace even somewhat resembles Tiffany.
* A picture can be seen in Ethan and Grace's bedroom showing their wedding day.
* In "The Mall," players can look through the shoe store window and see Grace and Shaun trying on shoes.
* In the office of Ethan's new house, the player can view a videotape showing footage of Jason, Shaun, and Grace in the backyard of their old house, while Ethan films them. If he or she watches the whole tape, Ethan will begin to cry and apologize in his thoughts.
* Grace Mars is approximately 5' 7" (1.71 m) tall.Height measured in Blender using a model ripped from the game.
* An earlier model of Grace showed her with a shorter hairstyle, similar to Madison's.
* It was said on a website that the developers originally planned for Jason to fly at Grace after being hit by the car. This scene was later censored by cropping out Jason's corpse, but the audio was unchanged.
==Gallery==
File:25.jpg|Grace with Ethan in an early build of the game
File:933123 20100219 screen011.jpg|Grace with Ethan in the final build of the game
File:Grace.png|Grace's appearance in "Innocent" in the PS3 version of the game
==References==
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Category:Characters
Category:Female Characters
Category:Antagonists
Category:Alive
Category:Mothers
Category:Ethan Mars Characters
Category:Norman Jayden Characters