Marisa Trueblood

**Lightwood Family**

* Alec Lightwood
* Isabella Lightwood
* Max Lightwood

**Marisa Trueblood** (née **Castel**) was the former matriarch of the Trueblood family, wife of Adam Trueblood, and mother of Max and Maryse Trueblood.

She and her husband were killed by Alystair Satanachia after they discovered the Khaos Brigade to infiltrate the Clave.

## Appearance

Marisa was described to be a woman of ambiguous ethnicity, with golden eyes and wavy black hair reaching her waist. Despite looking as every bit as stern as her husband, her voice was surprisingly warm and welcoming.

## Personality

Marisa was widely known as one of the greatest shadowhunter warriors of her generations and was the inspiration/role model for many shadowhunters after her. She was noted for her bravery and determination to protect the innocents from all harms, regardless if it was supernatural or mundane.

Compared to her husband, she was much more expressive when it came to showing her children how much she cared about them, as well as how much she expected them to be in the future. She prioritized everything to ensure they would have the best education and training possible in Idris, even going as far as giving them military-grade combat training to practice before they even got their first rune.

Although this was all done with good intention, this had caused so much trauma to both Max and Maryse that they still went to therapy over to this day. In one of Adam's secret journals, it was implied that she did all of this behind her husband's back as she knew he wouldn't approve or "understand" her methods.

Like many other older-generation shadowhunters, she possessed an extreme bias against supernatural creatures and saw them as beneath shadowhunters such as her. She also believed that mundanes were "ignorant" as they could live without knowing the dangers they were protected from.

## History

Marisa Castel was born in 19XX to a couple of Portuguese American shadowhunters from the New York Institute, but later her family moved to Idris because of her parents' business. At age 14, she became *parabatai* with a girl named Maryse Aveiro who had been her best friend since they were little kids.

Growing up, she was considered to be an outstanding warrior, if not slightly intimidating, and was the role model of many young girls. However, when she was 24, during a hunting mission, her team was ambushed by a group of stray devils and Maryse sacrificed herself in order to save herself despite her begging. According to many, she had never been the same after the tragic event.

Sometimes in her late 20s, she married Adam Trueblood and took over as the matriarch of the old Trueblood Family. Later in her mid-30s, she had her son Max and, about a decade later, her daughter Maryse who was named after her late *parabatai*.

From an early age, she had started training her children in many subjects, ranging from combat training to runic knowledge to "noble subjects" like arts and poetry. She was very hard on her children's education and would often supervise their combat training herself, and everytime they didn't perform to her expectation, she would send them to bed early without food or treatment.

In 19XX, after an investigation led her to discover the Khaos Brigade's plans to infiltrate the Clave and use them to control the entire shadowhunter population, she and her husband were killed by Alystair Satanachia and their deaths were staged as a hunting accident to the public.

## Abilities

**Immense Strength**: Marisa was considered to be among, if not the strongest female shadowhunters of her generations and was the role model for many future shadowhunters to come. According to Max, while he wasn't sure of the exact estimation of her power levels, he and Marcus speculated that she might be somewhere between EX-Ranked High-class and Mid-tier Ultimate-class in terms of power.

**Shadowhunter Physiology**: As a trained shadowhunter warrior, Marisa possessed all the standard traits and abilities of a regular shadowhunter, such as an innate angelic power and an enhanced condition compared to mundane humans.

## Trivia

* Her granddaughter, Isabella Lightwood, is said to be a carbon-copy of her.
* She went hunting once every two weeks to catch deers and wild boars for the family's dinners.