Marissa Poppet

"You really wanna play with fire? To see that final game get set? You'll see me playing all my cards, I'm the reason that they call it rush-in roulette. You think I give a crap about pay?! You think I can't see eye to eye?! Bitch, I don't give a damn about debt! The only thing I'm running after is that next big high!"
Marissa Poppet is the nurse of The Alliance.
== Appearance ==
Marissa is a slightly above average height woman in her mid-20s with medium length lavender hair tied into two messy pigtails, and pink eyes. She has square-cut bangs on the left side of her face, and a round cowlick on the top of her head. On top of her head, she wears a white nurse's cap, with two magenta crosses on both sides; the crosses are shaded in light pink. The middle of her nurse's cap also has four little magenta-colored circles.
Marissa wears a nurse uniform which consists of a white short-sleeved dress with a white collar trimmed with magenta and puffed sleeves trimmed with white and magenta. She has two magenta crosses at the bottom of the dress, accompanied by a black line beneath it, and beneath that black line a magenta line; under the magenta line are white frills. She wears a white apron over this which is tied behind her neck with a ribbon, and is also tied together with a white belt in the middle of her torso. The belt has a magenta-colored cross in the center with two blue dots on either side. In the middle of the apron, there is a similar magenta cross, but with a white center. The apron has black lines going in different, straight directions. It also has three golden buttons, and two pockets on the lower part of the apron.
As well as this, she has bandages wrapped around both of her forearms, and she wears white gloves to cover her hands. In-between the gloves and the bandages are cuffs with a magenta line going around them, with the clip tying the cuffs being blue. She also wears grayish-white two-inch heels.
== Personality ==
Marissa is a character with masochistic and suicidal tendencies, which is stated obviously. She is shown to be very persistent and overbearing, intimidating or being weird to the other characters, such as when playing a sadistic game of life or death. She is also very impulsive and has little self-restraint, causing her to look more at immediate satisfaction than any long-term consequences.
Marissa is also a very selfish and narrow-minded character, rarely caring for others' thoughts or well-being, being brutally honest sometimes (though she does care for the Alliance members, this could also be for selfish reasons). She assumes that her mindset is the norm. She says she seeks out the risk of being harmed. Needless to say, Marissa tends to be fond of people who represent a source of danger to her. Moreover, even when she is not personally affected, she hates people who consider suicide but are not ready to go through with it.
It has also been noted that, despite her bizarre behavior, Marissa is intelligent in academics, as seen in her flashbacks where she had won numerous awards, medals, and achievements in her middle school days. Marissa has shown to be cunning and intelligent enough to make several subtle manipulations in order to sway others to go the way she wants. At the same time, she believes that studying a lot does not make someone a "genius". Marissa has been shown to be perceptive enough to tell the true characters of others.
Perhaps because of her high understanding of human physiology, Marissa is shown to be very skilled at reading people's faces. She mentions that she enjoys horror movies because of all the blood and helpless victims, especially appearing to enjoy bully characters getting what's coming for them. She also has a disturbing liking for syringes and shots, repeatedly chasing Malcolm around attempting to inject him, though that is more of a necessity since she needed to give him his vaccines.
== Background ==
While a great deal of Marissa's past is unknown, there are a few things that are noteworthy. She is part of the Poppet Family, born to Augustine Bournemuth Poppet and Bai Ling Poppet. She was always a smart child, winning numerous awards, medals, achievements, etc, since about as early as Middle School. She also went to college to become a nurse, wherein she mentioned her hair got damaged by formalin solution in dissection class. At some point during her childhood, she looked in on her father experimenting on her sister Daiyu, which is implied to have caused her to break and led to her later craziness in life.
It's unknown when this took place, but one day, Marissa went out for a drink with a girl whom she was quite interested in and ended up getting drunk out of nervousness. As Marissa was struggling to throw up, she was offered some help and was asked if she knew how to throw up using her fingers. She was then taught how to do it, but felt ashamed for the trouble she had caused during that time. But the moment she woke up the next morning, she thought that what happened that time was really something and that opened her eyes to her vomiting fetish.
Her masochistic yearning seems to stem from an abusive boyfriend she had, though the context of the situation is unknown. What is known, however, is that because of her twisted personality, she faked a sexual assault and her younger brother, Isaiah, attacked her boyfriend. For reasons unknown, however, Marissa used her powers and killed her boyfriend. Not knowing of Marissa's abilities, Isaiah held himself responsible.
== Powers and Abilities ==
Blood Manipulation: This ability allows her to freely control her blood outside of her body. To forcedly bring her blood out, she rips out one of her earrings.
Medical Knowledge: Because there was no one to take care of her wounds, Marissa learned to take care of herself from a very young age. Her skills in this field eventually continued to grow and she seemed to have developed almost all the necessary skills and abilities required of a nurse such as being able to give first-aid, creating various medicine/drugs, being capable of performing surgery, critical analysis of her patients condition in a moments notice and adaptability in dealing with medical emergencies. Marissa's medical knowledge proves to be useful in murders, or death. She provides autopsy reports, including information on the corpse's state, details on injuries, the cause of death, and time of death. Furthermore, she sometimes gives (often unwanted) health advice to others.
Expression Reader: Marissa is very perceptive. She is very skilled at reading other people's faces. Marissa can easily know what others are thinking about her based on their actions and their reactions. She also uses her perceptiveness to tell when and how someone is ill.
== Techniques ==
* Whip Wing: Her blood manipulation ability takes the form of long strands of blood resembling whips which extend from her hair, can deliver immensely quick blows or restrain her opponent/s.
* Rotating Circular Slashes, Flying Blood Sickles: Marissa unleashes circular waves of sharp solidified blood from her body.
* Yes, yes, yes!: Marissa will hit, hit, and hit her opponent until they give up.
* High Pressure: As an act of mercy, Marissa gives three shots of a lethal injection.
* Super Pressure: Five shots of a very, very thick liquid.
* I'll Do My Best!: This final checkup prescribes a slap in the face and a dose of syringe bludgeoning.
* Inoculate!: She will give you so many shots you'll be safe from disease... if you survive!
* Here I Go!: She'll whack you with some hot liquid.
== Equipment ==
* Syringe: A syringe which she uses to put various liquids inside of people.
* Colt King Cobra Gun: A medium frame double-action revolver featuring a six round cylinder.
* Poison: Marissa has in her possession extremely lethal poison, which she uses in her syringe. The poison is strong enough that it can almost instantly kill someone inflicted with it, and those who don't will be severely weakened and might be rendered unable to fight.
* Megatoxin: This substance is usually used as a lab sanitizer. Most bacteria can be eliminated with this liquid.
* Gigatoxin: An enhanced version of the Megatoxin with lime scent. It's used to prevent and cure infections.
* Used Liquid: Liquid waste from various experiments. It's a mixture of various chemicals, so the risk is unknown.
* Mutant Blood: Super powerful pain killer. Because of its strength, various side effects are expected. Follow the instructions when injecting.
* Alkaloid: The base materials for this come from certain plants. It's normally a painkiller. Addictive properties have caused its use to decline.
* Teratoxin: A better version of Gigatoxin. Marissa says it is powerful enough to affect plants and animals, and not in a happy-sunshine way.
* Paradoxin: Substance used for numbing. It's generally used during operations.
== Relationships ==
=== Family: ===
==== Isaiah Adams ====
Isaiah is Marissa's younger brother. Until the earthquake, they had a normal brother-sister relationship. Isaiah dedicated himself to protecting her, even going as far as to attack her boyfriend when he believed he was sexually abusing her. After reuniting, she puts on a ruse in order to make Isaiah think she is innocent, which only momentarily works until he asks about her ex's death. Going to her true personality, she uses Isaiah as a human shield and attacks him some, believing him to be a liar like she did everyone else.
=== The Alliance: ===
==== David Johnson ====
The reason she joined the Alliance? David promised to kill her someday if she did. Though waiting so long has driven Marissa mad with masochistic yearning.
She states that she wants him to shoot her, and if he does, she says "you can do whatever you want and I won't be able to resist".
==== Malcolm ====
Malcolm and Marissa have a friendly relationship with each other. Because Malcolm almost never leaves his room, Marissa has to come to him to give him his check ups. It's to the point that Marissa's iris' are implanted in the Iris scanner to enter Malcolm's room. Malcolm, being scared of syringes and needles, runs away from Marissa, who also chases him around with a syringe, wanting to give him an injection, whenever he has to get his vaccines. She catches him every single time because Malcolm has terrible stamina. When extremely tired, she ends up cradling his head and falling asleep on top of him on two occasions, as well as unsubtly implying she would like to have sex with him through some brief, coy remarks.
It's implied, and later confirmed, that Malcolm has feelings for Marissa. He is seen somewhat blushing when she's taking his temperature, and especially when she fell asleep on him multiple times. He typically calls her 'Rissa', or 'Mama Rissa', and sometimes Reeces cup just to mess with her. But messing with a nurse that has a syringe when you're scared of syringes is a very bad idea.
After finding out about the bombing incident, Marissa gains this sick and twisted understanding of Malcolm—believing that, even by her own standards, Malcolm's crazier than her.
Malcolm has some... creepy interests involving Marissa. He was shown keeping photos of Marissa on his phone and the mere thought of her gaze seems to excite him.
==== Synth Viro ====
Synth's interactions with Marissa makes Marissa eventually change her priorities from a metaphorical "Russian roulette with all chambers loaded" to "Russian roulette with one chamber free".
== Trivia ==
* The name Marissa is derived from the Latin name Maris, meaning "of the sea." This evocative meaning may conjure images of mermaids with seaweed hair rising from the waves, or could elicit comparisons to the ocean's power.
* Her hair was once damaged by formalin solution during her dissection practice in college.
* She mentioned that the reason why her wrists are weak was because she used to take an IV drip from her wrist.
* She mentions that she enjoys horror movies because of all the blood and helpless people.
* She reveals she had part of her stomach and kidney removed.
* Marissa's Birthday, May 12th, coincides with International Nurses Day.
* Due to some misunderstanding about her fetish, Marissa had to clarify that it's not the vomit itself that she likes but the psychological aspects of when the person shows their distressed/miserable state before and during vomiting.
* Marissa's favorite movie is Human Centipede, directed by Tom Six.
== Quotes ==
* "Well, you're right. I'm a freak. I love being bullied. Being hit and kicked by others gets me totally excited! That's what kind of freak I am. Sorry if that bothers you."
* "I know you wanna feel it too: when the trigger hits the chamber and the hammer goes boom!! When you're walking in the line between life and death, and you feel that pain, and you take that breath!! It's just ecstasy... So take another peek and I'm sure you'll see, you'll never find another who can risk it all! So if you really wanna play, you know who to call."
* "Ever since I was a kid, I felt out of place. Winning and praise... fear... even when I won money at the Academy... something was wrong. Nothing ever made me feel happy from the bottom of my heart. I only felt that way once. Because of... him. One more time. I just want to feel it one more time. To feel that way..."
* "Even people who die must get hurt. It's an inevitable instinct to grab a hand as soon as you reach it. The problem is... I acted... On my own. If you took a hand, would you pull? How did you get the strength!? As expected, you didn't want to die!? You just wanted to involve the others!? Don't be stupid... I'll kill you! You're not doing it right!"
* (About Malcolm) "He's fucking nuts! Way more than I ever imagined! A person that goes above and beyond even my wildest dreams..."
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