Mara Brinks (The Ghost)

== Mara Brinks ==
Mara Brinks is the secondary antagonist of the 4th chapter in the "Ghost" series.
She is a member of the White Viceroys and Evan Rogers' second-in-command. During the Rodrigo Plaza attack, on Christmas Eve of 2048, as the hired security guard Jay Roberts starts fighting the terrorists to save all the hostages, Mara obsesses about killing Roberts by any means necessary after he kills her brother Bailey.
== Background ==
Born on January 29, 1999, in Texas, Mara grew up in the rural backwoods of Austin with a survivalist family and lived in a survivalist compound because of her father's paranoid fear of an impending resource shortage.
At the age of 18, Mara joined the US Marine Corps and fought in Afghanistan with Evan Rogers and during this time, she developed a crush on him until the war ended in 2021. However, Mara and Evan started living together to help each other out, and upon realizing that they like each other, they later became partners-in-crime and helped him as Evan got out of prison with the help of the Cartel and formed a group. Mara became the second-in-command and helped Evan co-lead the group, and kept tabs on every member, including her brother.
== Biography ==
=== Rodrigo Plaza takeover ===
As the Pagani Courier truck carrying the terrorists arrived at the entrance of Rodrigo Plaza, Mara rode with Carl in another car as they pulled into the main lot. As they walked to the entrance, Carl was talking to Mara about cakes to keep the front desk guard from getting suspicious and Mara kills the guard with a silenced pistol. As Carl was sealing off the building, Mara threw a flash grenade at the other guard, blinding him. She then shot that guard with her pistol and killed him. As Evan and Richard arrive in the lobby, Richard hands Mara a duffle bag as she gives Evan the building's key card.
She went downstairs to the telephone junction boxes and used a chainsaw to disable the phone lines while her younger brother, Bailey, managed to patch in the phone lines and was halfway done. Bailey glares at his sister as Mara walks away, smiling to herself. She and Bailey arrived on the 30th floor where Evan and their comrades took the entire floor hostage. As Evan was looking for Rodrigo's head executive, Gil Marsh, Mara was looking around the hostages until Marsh stepped forward and Mara took him to the elevator.
As they went to the 31st floor, Mara and Bailey escorted Evan and Marsh around. They went to the conference room where Carl was waiting for them at the computer terminal. They needed the code Marsh had to access the vault, holding the $840 million in bearer bonds. After refusing to cooperate, Carl implied to Mara that he knew Marsh wouldn't give up the code. Mara retorted that it wasn't over yet as they were betting on the outcome. After Evan killed Marsh, Mara paid up. Evan then ordered her to check on Henry's work on the roof access of the building. When they heard a strange noise, Mara and Bailey went to investigate and found nothing. Evan again ordered Mara to check on Henry's work.
=== Swearing Vengeance ===
After Jay Roberts killed her brother Bailey and his team, Alex called Mara down and went into Jane's office, which Evan is using for his private headquarters. After Evan tells her that Bailey has been killed, she screams out in anger and tosses the office desk down. Evan pushes her to the wall as Mara screams that she wants vengeance. Evan states that she'll have it, but to let Henry and Carl do their work and tells her not to alter the plan. Mara then coldly asks, "And if he alters it?"
Then, when Roberts calls out on the radio about the takeover of Rodrigo Plaza, Evan realizes that he's on the roof and sends Mara, along with Franklin and Alex, to get him. As Mara prepares her rifle, he tells Franklin and Alex that no one but her kills their intruder as they get off the elevator. Then Mara fires at Roberts at the helipad. After Roberts jumps off the helipad and is pursued by Franklin and Alex, Mara walks toward where Roberts is heading and fires at him, but nearly misses him. When Roberts gets into the dead-end corner with a large ventilation fan, Mara and the others are fired at by Roberts, which results in the deaths of Key, Lou, and Casey. Mara sends Alex down to the elevator shaft as she and Franklin prepare to fire at Roberts. Franklin and Mara sprang their attack but found that Roberts went through the fan. They quickly went downstairs and met up with Alex. After finding out their surprise guest is in the elevator shaft, Evan tells her to lock him in there. But Mara, vowing vengeance, doesn't listen despite Evan's warning that the police are probably on their way and shuts off the radio. After opening the elevator shaft door, she and her men find their intruder not in there. Before she can continue, Alex gets a call that a cop car is on-site and Mara is forced to stop the pursuit and go with Franklin and Alex to a lower floor where Ron looks out where the police car is parked. Then the body of Mark fell on the police car as Ron fired at it, but the cop, Sgt. William Anderson survived and called for backup.
When more police cars show up, Mara and the others are upset that the police arrived too soon, but Evan calms them down, saying it's only the beginning. Then their intruder calls in and taunts them with their names and the deaths of some of their comrades. Evan sends Mara, Franklin, and Alex to investigate. Mara and the others find out that Mark was indeed killed and their intruder also killed Henry and his bag had been taken with the detonators. They rushed back downstairs and Mara gave Evan the report of their current situation. Evan knows that Henry's bag was carrying the detonators. She was present when Roberts gave Anderson the situation report on the radio.
Later, after Roberts killed Kevin, Logan, Ron, Les, and Sam by tossing C4 explosives down the elevator shaft, Evan confronts Mara for not listening to him on not neutralizing him in the elevator shaft. Mara bitterly replies to her leader that she wants their intruder dead, not neutralized. Then one of the hostages, Harry Shaw, comes in and sells out Roberts' identity to them. He claims that they are friends, despite the reality that they only met tonight. Mara was present when Evan killed Shaw when Roberts refused to return the detonators to them. Then Evan calls the police and makes fake demands to have six hundred million in ransom money and several comrades-in-arms around the world released to him, which Mara questions quietly. Evan replied that he read about them in Time magazine. Mara asked if the US government would meet their demands, but Evan didn't care about what he just told the police. Then he orders Mara to hunt Roberts down and take the detonators while he checks out the explosives on the 35th floor.
Later, Evan calls Mara to say that he's got Roberts on the 33rd floor and tells her to get up there. Then Mara, along with Franklin and Alex, arrived and attacked Roberts. Though Roberts killed Alex and Franklin, Evan and Mara used the glass around the room since Roberts is well-covered in an attempt to pin him. Though Roberts got away with the skin of his teeth, they found the detonators. But Mara is still furious that they didn't kill Roberts. After Evan and Mara returned with the detonators, Mara walked slowly as Evan had Len finish setting up C4 on the 35th floor. Mara trashed a cooler carrying wine glasses with her machine gun in anger before walking away.
=== Final Stand & Death ===
Before Roberts can warn Anderson about the double-cross on the rooftop, Mara arrives and points her Steyr AUG at Roberts' left cheek, forcing him to put down the radio. After she takes Roberts' Glock 17 and smashes the radio, Mara reminds him that they are both professionals, but it is now personal because of the death of her brother. But Roberts pushes the rifle away from her and they engage in a brutal fight on the floor leading to the roof. Roberts shouts at her while punching her that she should have heard her brother's "squeal when he broke his fucking neck". Mara gave Roberts several kicks in Roberts' face and shot Roberts in the shoulder with the pistol. However, Roberts wrapped a chain around Mara's neck and left her hanging by a chain as he went to save the hostages. 
After Roberts left, Mara managed to break free from the chain and tried to go to Evan to warn him about Roberts' plan, but the roof exploded (because of Evan's increasing stress), killing her once and for all and dying failing to avenge her brother.
== Personality ==
Mara was described by most Viceroys as a generally calm, silent, and ruthless killer with a professional attitude to her job and a clear love for her brother, Bailey. According to Evan and the FBI, Mara is extremely loyal and devoted to the White Viceroys and is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her position and prove her worth.
After Bailey was killed by Roberts, however, Mara's personality changed. She became increasingly detached from Evan's group and became more reckless and deranged, obsessed with hunting down Roberts to avenge her brother's death. This proves what a formidable foe she was and how she cared for Bailey to the point of how she continuously pursued Roberts, resulting in her downfall and her demise at the hands of her lover, who was desperate to kill Jay.
== Appearance ==
Mara is an American woman, standing at 5'9. She has blonde hair and blue eyes and has notable tattoos such as an eagle on the right side of her neck to signal her patriotism.
Mara wears a black jumpsuit and steel-toed boots during her appearances.
== Skills ==
* Peak Human Condition: Mara is in top physical condition. She is strong enough to overturn a wooden office table. She is also very resilient, able to take multiple hits from Jay Roberts, and was able to survive after being hanged from a metal chain, only being put down after being blown up with the bomb set up by Evan.
* Expert Combatant: Mara is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter. Her fighting style seems to be comprised of Karate and Jiu-Jitsu. She was able to fight Jay Roberts on near equal footing, even managing to overpower him.
* Expert Marksman: Mara is a skilled marksman able to use various firearms such as handguns and assault rifles. She was able to take out the main desk guard before he could react, strategically shot glass panels around Jay Roberts, and was able to wound him as he was running through a door.
* Leadership: Mara can efficiently co-lead Evan's men in the field.
* Stealth: Mara is trained in stealth as she was able to take out a security guard and get the drop on Jay Roberts.
== Equipment ==
* Walther P99: Mara used this handgun with a silencer attachment as her sidearm of choice. She used it to take out the guard at the front desk and one patrolling the hallways.
* Glock 17: Mara briefly uses Jay Roberts' gun against him before being disarmed.
* Steyr AUG: Mara used this assault rifle as her primary firearm of choice. It can be assembled for compact carry. She used it when she ambushed Jay but was disarmed quickly by him.
* Flash Bang Grenade: Mara used a hockey puck-shaped flashbang to blind a guard before executing him.
== Deaths ==
* 2 Guards: Shot to death.
== Death ==
Killed by:
* Evan Rogers (indirectly caused)
* Jay Roberts (caused)
After a brutal fight with Roberts, Mara was hanged by the neck with a chain. However, Mara survives and tries to warn Evan about Jay's plan, but the roof blows up, causing her to fly into a wall, killing her.
== Trivia ==
* Mara was the only deceased terrorist member who was not killed by Roberts in The Ghost.
* She is the last and only killed victim of Evan Rogers.
* Mara is the first terrorist to be killed by someone other than Roberts.