Marta Claudel

Marta Claudel (neé Reino) is a citizen of Lower Duck Pond.
She was born on the fourteenth of Feb., 1988, to a father of Romani descent. Her mother, who was of Italian descent, died in childbirth a few years later. 
Marta had an older sister, Liliana, and a younger sister, Nadya. 
Her father, Orchilo, was a dollmaker by trade. However, the rise of the 'Ndrangheta mafia gang in Calabria and the Second 'Ndrangheta war (1985-1991) under Giuseppe Morabito shook the small town of Africo (a province of Reggio Calabria, the center of the war), already the poorest town in Italy. As Orchilo's doll buisness failed, the pressure of having to raise three young children forced him to join virtually the only sufficiently profitable job in a town with a 50% unemployment rate: 'Ndrangheta and the cocaine trade. 
Marta's intensely selfish and narcissistic personality was evident from early childhood. As a little girl, she would force other children (including her sisters) to be her servants through threats of violence. 
Orchilo fled with his daughters to Lower Duck Pond when Marta was sixteen. She had a fling with her class's president Caleb Bason that resulted in her becoming pregnant. Her son Patrick Orchilo Reino was born nine months later. 
Marta did everything in her power to keep Calvin from his child. Calvin did not know Patrick's name until Patrick was two, when she brought the baby into science class in a tote bag. 
After graduating from high school, Marta enrolled in cosmetics school, hoping to become a barber. She founded her company, Reino Barbershop, in 2009. Through her work, she met Louis Claudel, a French corporate lawyer, in 2010. They got married in 2011, and welcomed their twins Piper and Dean in June of 2012. 
Soon after the birth of their twins, Louis and Marta's marriage began to crumble. They had another son, Charlie, in 2015. 
In 2019, Louis was taking Piper and Dean to Piper's ballet practice when he swerved into direct traffic. Both Louis and Piper perished. 
The death of her husband (and favorite child) took a toll on the already borderline-neglectful Marta. She began to blame her remaining sons for the incident. This caused Patrick to leave shortly after. 
Her son Charlie's disability, though being no fault of his own, often led Marta into a rage. Dean and Charlie were consistently left alone in the house, often locked in a small broom closet. She didn't feed them, citing Charlie's speaking tablet as the reason: she had "spent so much cash" on it that she felt she didn't need to provide for her children. The discovery of this led to the children being removed from Marta and placed with a family friend, Owen Orwell.
Marta is currently pregnant with her fifth child, a girl. She is also running for Mayor, despite the fact that the entire town seems to despise her.
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