Marin Dram

Marin Dram is an important character in Omega Mart. She is the daughter of Cecelia Dram and the granddaughter of Walter Dram. She is sixteen years old and lives in Seven Monolith Village with her caretakers Charlie and Rose, along with her friends Jesse, Ximena, and Lora. She has a very powerful connection to the Source. 
== History ==
=== Early Life ===
Her birth and conception are something of a mystery. Cecelia seems to have gotten pregnant from going near the Source and participating in Source drinking ceremonies. She gave birth to Marin in Seven Monolith Village. However, when Cecelia tried to leave the village with her baby, Marin could not move past the boundary. Thus, she was raised by her uncle Charlie Dram and Rose in the village. 
Marin kept a blog throughout her teenage years, which can be read at the terminal in her hut. She compared herself to Rapunzel due to how isolated she felt and the fact that she couldn't leave Seven Monolith Village. She met Jesse, Ximena, and Lora who quickly become her only friends. Her mother occasionally visited, but they had a strained relationship.
Marin is implied to be bisexual. She wrote about her crush on the celebrity Teen Heartthrob Boy on her blog, while also being afraid to tell Jessie about her feelings for her. Jesse's journal reveals that Jesse reciprocated her feelings for Marin, though she never got the chance to express them.
Between 2019 and 2020, Marin began having strange dreams. It started with glitter appearing on her bed after she dreams of it, but they escalate to portals opening in her sleep.
On January 10, 2021, Morgan Pastore sent an email to Marin, which can be read on her computer. (As far as we know Marin didn't answer it.)
On January 12, 2021, Marin and Cecelia visited Walter Dram in the Source Well in the Dramcorp factory. As seen in the security footage, Walter tried to convince Cecelia to sell Marin to Dramcorp, but she refused. After a brief fight, Cecelia pushed him in the Source Well, where he was aetherialized. Marin told her that she couldn't believe that she had done that, before jumping into the Source Well after her grandfather in an attempt to save him.
== Appearance ==
Marin Dram is seen in many different outfits throughout the attraction. She has straight light brown hair with relatively pale skin. She writes in her blog about how she loves nail polish and puts her hair up in a braid often. 
=====Marin's Dreams Outfit =====
In the short film Marin's Dreams she is shown in a yellow t-shirt and baggy ripped jeans with flat frilled sandals. She has many bracelets and necklaces with pink star-shaped earnings with a white headband. Her nails are painted a glittery silver with purple nail polish on her feet. The school dance sequence shows her in a pale purple strapped dress with flowery glitter designs with purple eye shadow and her hair wrapped in a partial braid crown. 
== Trivia ==
* Marin is a cancer sun and a Taurus Moon. She and Cecelia are both water signs. Water is a significant motif, as it relates to the Zenion, who once dwelled in water, and the desert, which was once covered in water. 
* When prompted with "Marin", Herman Resources states he doesn't know a Marin, but then offers the codeword MELTED CHERRY. When prompted with "MELTED CHERRY", Herman Resources responds "Melted cherry is the stuff of creation. It's the offspring of another flavor I don't remember." This could tie into the product cherry blitz, the label of which states "Cherry Blitz harnesses the power of cherries to move tough stains so fast, you can't even talk about it", "It happened so fast", as well as "Do not attempt to search for missing stains." This could imply that "cherry" is a stand-in term for the Source in some cases. Shelby the mascot is also described as being cherry scented. 
* Marin and her mom Cecelia don't seem to have a good relationship, although they can be seen together smiling in lots of photos.
* Marin's blog suggests her character is intended to be plus sized, and her love of glitter is partially inspired by clothing manufacturers not producing cute clothing in her size. She also writes that her size is a point of misunderstanding between her and her mother.
* Marin's favorite color is pink.
* Meow Wolf and the band "Beach House" teamed up to create the short film “Marin’s Dreams,” a coming of age story within Omega Mart’s narrative world, posted to youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMAlZt18I-k It is viewable (in Omega Mart) in the mirror in Marin's room/Rose's hut. This dream contains many of the things that Marin wrote about in her blog; such as: her mother bathing her in cereal and milk, going to prom, and kissing both Jesse and Teen Heartthrob Boy. In the dream she also opens a portal.
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