Mari Ahez/Synopsis

## Backstory

###  Birth on Kekouan

A human female born in the asteroid colony on Kekouan on November 20, 2964, shortly after the rise of Emperor Coriolanus which caused the formation of the Empire and the start of the Purge. Her very pregnant mother Selena Lepré was severally attacked by her secret spouse Aidoneus Sepehr who had helped cause the Purge and the rise of the Empire. Her mother had been rushed to the Kekouan Research Base by (\*&\*) and was met by members of her family such as her Uncle Tarquin and her cousins Leona, Julian, and Titus. According to the medical droids her husband had crushed her throat and managed to severally burn her jugulum without an accelerate and was still somehow burning her. So the twins were delivered by c-section with Leona by her side and reminding Selena to keep fighting, Mars was born first with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck followed by her brother who was upside down and holding Mars by her foot.

Despite the medical droids being able to save Selena life at the moment they stated it was "*The patient's will to live that has caused her to continue*". To keep the children and Selena safe for the time being it was decided by Tarquin and (\*&\*) to have a clone be made from Selena DNA and made to look pregnant and died to fake her death. Sending the clone's body to Andria to hold a fake funeral, Tarquin and Julian also went to tell Zagreus the truth and represent the family due to Zagreus ill health and being bedridden. Leona and Titus stayed by Selena and the twins side until they would be ready to transport to Andros to be hidden. Titus realized that Selena and the twins would need to be close but not to far away, he told Selena and Leona the plan **"***Selena and I, should be married, as it would legally give me paternal responsibility over the twins in case of Selena death and since I already have illegitimate children I can make up a lie that I have more and nobody would find out Selena is still alive much less who the father of the twins are***"** Leona protested and Selena couldn't verbally communicate and the droids were still fitting her with a MUSE AI couldn't put her opinion on the matter be spoken yet. They agreed to wait until there father and brother's return, and when they came back they also disagreed but when the MUSE AI was finally fitted she asked Titus **"***Can you live within a loveless marriage with a broken women?***"** in which he replied **"***A marriage based on friendship and trust is what we would have, you've dedicated your life to helping other people it's due time we help you***"** in which Selena agreed with small tears coming from her eyes and Tarquin gave his consent for the match and the two were married on the base with family and a medical droid present. Her mother also changed her name to Elena an instead pretended to be the sickly illegitimate child of Zagreus.

### Childhood on Andros

After the wedding it was revealed that Elena and the twins were safe enough to be transported and the group left the base to Andros with a medical droid on stand-by. The couple as a wedding present from Tarquin were given Lion's Tooth a small castle where Elena and her children would be safe and a warning from Tarquin to Titus. Elena also had Titus other four illegitimate children Paul, Gaia, Isaura, and Kassius to come live with them as there mother's had passed away.

Mari was considered advance for her age compared to her brother Pallas, she rolled over first, and walked in less then a year. But she showed no signs of mana as a young child where as Titus became worried, Elena did not stating **"***she'll learn in her own time and we must give it to her***"**. Despite that she did show signs of Precognition like her biological father when she prevent the death of her caretaker Abigail from falling to her death. Titus was a very good and loving father to the twins and was there main educator until his merchant business began to take off more and more and it required him to leave for long periods of time in which he hired three new maids named Lisa, Martha, and Abigail, and a (\*&\*) named Benedict who took over the twins education. Leona would also visit Elena and the twins a lot even bring her own children with her and would often dote and spoil the twins whenever possible. As children she and her cousin Edward were extremely close and often wrote letters to one another that were multiple pages long.

Despite having a rather chaste marriage Elena told Titus to continue his relationship with his mistress Vanna Calderoni as they already had two children together but also understood while they a close friendship relationship as a married couple they had a sexual and very loving relationship that Titus needed. Eventually Elena would ask Titus to have a child through her as to avoid suspicion towards the twins he eventually agreed and throw artificial insemination Lucretia was born. Elena also told Titus to have Vanna and there two sons move into the castle as she saw how unfair it was for siblings to be separated. Despite Vanna coming to resent Elena for marring Titus and having legitimate children together she also came to respect and even love her for keeping there very confusing family together and even sat together for a portrait. But when the twins were five, a second coming of Coreopsis Plague swept threw the area they were living at killing Elena, Kassius, and almost killing Mari but due to being mana-less she was actually able to survive thought this cause blockages in her mana nodes that would prevent her from taking in and releasing mana.

### Post-Death of her Mother

After losing her mother she went into a deep depression only wearing black and never smiling for a year and the only person she would talk about her grief was to Leona who tried many times to have Mari live with her as a handmaiden and a companion to Edwatd and Mya but Titus being overprotective and also due to the already bad relationship between the siblings intensified by the death of Elena.

During this time as well Paul would began molesting and physically assaulting Mari and Isaura in particular and would later focus solely on Mari due to Isaura being sent to be a cup-bearer and handmaiden to there granduncle Cassian's wife. Mari tried to tell the Vanna want was happening but she didn't believe her calling her a "fifthly liar" and would eventually have Mari locked inside of the towers outside of the castle where it was both the most desolate and coldest in which Mari would often get sick. She was also banned from playing with her other siblings in particular her sisters whom she had a close relationship up to this point. But despite this Paul would often climb into the tower and brutally molest her often cutting Mari in the genital area very lightly but not enough to draw to much blood.

One day when Mari was seven she stabbed Paul threw the stomach and ran away from home she got to the town of Osiers where she was then taken by slavers and was sold as a body slave to an (\*&\*) merchant where each member of the crew would take turned raping her. When she was ten several members of the crew attempted to make a snuff porno with Mari in which they removed her eye and pisses in the empty eye socket despite her screaming no one came to help eventually she stopped due to one of the men punching her so hard in the face it dislocated her jaw, later they would light her on fire as the finally of there snuff film. When the captain found what happened instead of getting her medical treatment they abandoned her in the capital street of (\*&\*), where for three days she did not die and would be passed by several adult who looked at her "like she was just another piece of trash on the ground". Eventually Markos Ahez one of the men Titus hired to find his missing daughter did and took her to Ptolemocratia to be healed which took a month. During the investigation Markos had discovered the abuse that was happening. Markos instead made a very drunk Titus sign over custody of Mari to him in which he changed her name from ***Mars Lepré d'Aureville*** to ***Mari Ahez*** and for a year and a half the two traveled together and he opened her mana nodes for her to finally be able to use mana and develop her skills. He would later arrest the crew for illegal slave trade, pornography, and the so called death of Mars Lepre, he like Tarquin many years ago had a clone made of Mars and then burned it to so it would resemble how Mars looked a few days ago before Ptolemocratia's aid. The snuff film was the primary evidence in the court case.

Titus still kept Vanna around to raise for what's left of there children but ended the relationship and sent Gaia to be fostered under with her grandaunt Sulpicia and Pallas to be fostered under his grandfather Tarquin. Titus would also separate Vanna from Lucretia whom she had been raising as her own daughter up to this point and sent her to live with his cousin and confidant Adrianna, and only allow Vanna supervised visits though there sons where allowed whenever they wanted to visit there siblings unsupervised this was not extended to there mother.

### A New Family

After the year and a half of training under Markos he left her at the Holy Temple of Mu which was under the control of his master Baielai whom begrudgingly trained her. In order to gain his respect despite it being dangerous she attempted to kill the demon Noroi who had made it's lair in one of the temples and killed all those present, Mari managed to only rip off three of his arms but Noroi had ripped out several of her internal organs and was bleed profusely. A nun and Baielai managed to get there in time but due to the severity of her wounds they believed she was going to die, but when he realized that her blood was devouring Noroi severed body parts and decapitated the demons into a thousand pieces and force feed them to Mari in which awakened her demon heritage and she then went through a second puberty.

Later she would meet Jack another adopted child of Markos and her new brother, whom was very cold to her and spit in her face in which she tried to fight him but as he had been in the forest fighting several monkey she didn't have a chance. Despite that everday Mari would follow him to get revenge for spiting on her and everyday he would evade her, one time she was lost in the forest for a week. One day, she manage to follow him deep into the forest where she also met another boy named Romeo who were counting money in there secret hideout. In a moment of pure excitement Mari went up to them, Jack and Romeo captured her and talked about killing her to keep their secret safe. Porky of the major bandit group of the area then came walking through the woods, and as Jack and Romeo hid from him, they left Mari to be captured. Porky took Mari to his base and interrogated her about the money Porky had stolen from his crew. Mari refused to answer him, even when Porky nearly beat her to death with spiked gloves. Jack and Romeo then came to the base and freed Mari, with Jack beating Porky.

After this incident, Mari, Jack and Romeo became friends and went on many adventures together, becoming known throughout the Shi Kingdom. One day, they went to a restaurant in Shi and broke out without paying. As they ran away, a man called out to Romeo, though Romeo did not respond. After escaping the city, Mari and Jack forced Romeo to tell them who the man was. Romeo admitted that the man was his father and a member of Shi nobility; he had ran away from his family due to their preoccupation with maintaining their status. Mari, Jack and Romeo then shared their dreams, to travel the galaxy and have true freedom.

The three siblings continued adventuring and honing their abilities, with Mari struggling to attack properly with her Arcane. However, their time was cut short as Romeo's father had the bandit they had a run before capture Mari and Jack to force Romeo to return to his family. Romeo agreed to return, on the condition that the bandits not harm Mari and Jack. After Romeo left, the bandits put Mari and Jack to work moving boxes around (\*&\*). A few days later, the bandits told the two siblings to help them burn down (\*&\*) that night. Mari and Jack refused, and the bandits asked about the location of their treasure. They did not tell him, causing them to tie the two to a pole in (\*&\*). As night fell, the bandits set (\*&\*) ablaze, and Jack managed to free himself and Mari as they were surrounded by flames. The bandits then confronted the duo to get the location of their treasure refusing the two fought until Baielai and three nuns of the temple came to the rescue. Mari having intense burns was forced to fled (\*&\*) with the nuns, while Jack and Baielai stayed behind to fight the head of the bandits.

The next morning, Jack and Baielai returned to the temple heavily injured but alive. However, Sun later told Mari and Jack that Romeo had been killed by a visiting noble while setting out to leave the planet, leaving them devastated. Mari went to the coast and cried all night, and Jack came to her the next morning. Mari made Jack promise that he would not die, swearing to become stronger. For the next three years, the two continued adventuring and training to get stronger. A twelve-year-old Mari then bid farewell to Jack, who sailed out to galaxy as a adventurer upon turning sixteen.

#### Destruction of Kunlun

Due to the Shi Kingdom wishing for more power over the planet but the Priest of Numina were much stronger due to there years upon years of perfecting there Demon Arts and fighting styles that they managed to beat Shi several times to the point where the capital city collapsed and the Priests would only allow members of Shi to settle down in there peaceful and war-free island if they renounced there country and became monks and if even the Priests suspected a strange of coming onto the islands they would immediately be executed.

One day after beating up some of the village children who originally came from Shi who were mocking her for her tattoos she went to the beach were she met giant named Sauli who was washed up on shore. The two became friends and Mari continued to visit him for the following four days, while he built his raft. Once Sauli realized he was on Kunlun he informed Mari about the battleships that were on their way to the island from the Empire in a deal made by the King of Shi and the Emperor to get rid of the priests. Mari attempted conceived Sauli to come with her and explain to the priest what was happening as she was scared they wouldn't believe her but she was too late as a special division known as the (\*&\*) lead by (\*&\*) had started slaughter everyone including men, women and children. After being given the order by the Emperor, (\*&\*) ordered everyone on the islands to death all the head Priests and Priestess then came together to fend off the attackers including Baielai where as the nuns and monks were order to get anyone off the planet for safety.

Mari went running into the line of fire attempting to help anyone who was injury managing to kill seven officers and save the lives a several other children including the one's who had mocked and made fun of her. Regretting not doing something soon Sauli also went after Mari known that despite being a nun-in-training couldn't keep up. Mari managed to get to where Baielai was and defended him from a killing blow from (\*&\*) which impressed him and sense something was familiar but couldn't put his finger on it. Baielai then order Mari to get off the island and that she is still a child and needs to learn leave defending the island to this seven hundred year old man. Sauli managed to get there in time and Baielai asked him to get his remaining student off the planet.

Sauli followed Baielai wish and ran off with Mari managed to reach the island's shore. But the battleships spotted him and opened fire. Seeing as he was carrying Mari, Sauli put her down and retaliated in anger for almost hurting Mari, and destroyed several ships. Mari tried to make for the evacuation ship but trying realized that several of the (\*&\*) agent's were trying to destroy the ship so she used her Demon Arts to attack them and save several of her kinsman. But many of the ships escaping where shot down by the Empire battleships.

Sauli began battling Zarco, his old friend and former comrade he threw Mari in the direction of his ship that he was repairing and told her to run as he berated Zarco for allowing this carnage simply for greed and ask how many lives will it take to satisfied the Empire. Zarco then encased the giant as he threw Mari to her only chance at survival. Before Sauli died he told her to **"***Always keep smiling and laughing for even if she is submerged in darkness laughter can always guide your way out and remember, but also remember the most important thing LIVE!***"** as he died. As the ship blasted away at warp nine, Baielai and the other Priest/ess used Deadman Wrath to poison all the Empire agents and the members of Shi Kingdom who participated willingly or unwillingly in the Island's destruction.