Mara Foxen

Mara has wild, curly hair that she tends to just let do its own thing - unless she has to tie it out of the way of her face - and dark brown eyes. Most of the time, she wears a bored expression on her face. She has ancestry in the Atlas States, gifting her with chestnut-dark skin. She stands at four-foot-nine-inches tall, generally making her an unintimidating force, and has a petite body type. She tends to wear flannels when it's warmer out and thicker jackets when it's not, along with jeans and t-shirts and sturdy boots.

She smokes.

## Personality

Mara is angry and hurt. She's quiet and tends to keep to herself, but she's not shy or reserved in the least. While she's a woman of few words - especially around people that she doesn't know too well - she has a short temper that causes her to snap and lash out if she gets angry; which, incidentally, happens a lot. She lives an emotional life and gets flustered easily, and also develops crushes on nearly every person she passes by, causing her to be broken-hearted often. She'd be able to hold a grudge for the rest of her life (rest assured, she is) and never forgets a trespass. Mara gets attached to pretty things easily, and hates to part from them. Pretty things are her kryptonite, as she will want to salvage them and keep them to herself, never letting anyone else touch them. She's built up walls around herself and does her best to make it hard for others to get close to her, but usually fails. If someone gives her something that she deems pretty, for example, then they're instantly closer to her. Mara is cold and harsh, but once someone gets close to her she proves to be soft and a bit loving - not necessarily in a romantic way, though, as she is more than happy to spend her days lazing around with her friends for no other reason than she thought they needed her support. There are times when she wonders if she's gotten a case of PTSD, but she throws those worries to the wayside and continues working on her own goals - those being keeping herself safe and happy. She often can't stand to be touched, and will only allow for a few people to do so (and that's only when they grow suitably close to her) and even then can't stand it for all that long, but she hates this quality and often tries to fight it. However, to bypass this trait of hers, all one needs is to ask and gain her approval beforehand. She tries her best to hide as much of her old self as possible (teasing, reckless, mean older sister that terrorized her little brother, curious), and while she usually succeeds there are times when old parts of her slip out. When she gets angry she can become reckless, and when she gets close to someone else she can become teasing and slip back into her older sister persona. During these times, she will hide away from the person that saw that side of her for the rest of the day; or month, it depends. One thing that she's not ashamed of, or bothers to change, is how curious she is. While she won't ask questions, she's willing to put herself in danger to find something out, and doesn't care much about any consequences she might receive afterwards. She's good at keeping to herself and getting out of sticky situations - even if it means just hitting someone and running.

## Dæmon

Onini. Coachwhip Snake. Male.

Onini is a pink-and-black scaled snake (and although the bright color implies it, he isn't venomous). There's more black on is head and back and more pink on his tail and belly, and his eyes are round and orange.

Onini is far more aggressive than his human is, and is far more slow to trust than her as well. He's all shoot first, ask questions later, and he always seems to keep an eye on those that he doesn't know well (or, at least, *want* to do so). He doesn't talk much - at least, not if you aren't Mara - but is full of hisses and bared fangs. However, once he gets adjusted to being around another person, he holds them to a high standard - and while he *is* willing to give out second chances, they have to be earned, and there isn't any room for a third. Whereas Mara tends to rely far more on her feelings when she makes decisions, Onini tends to act as her voice of reason - when he can get her to slow down and think in the first place.

## History

Mara had a good early childhood, raised by a single mother and tormenting her little brother, Micheal, as often as she could. Her mother seemed a bit depressed at times, but it was nothing that a quick hot chocolate or a story from school couldn't fix. Everything came tumbling down around her when her brother was kidnapped, and later found dead, when the family had been having a day out. As their mother had put Mara in charge of watching him for the few minutes in which he had been taken, she quickly put the blame on her daughter when he had been found. She turned from occasionally sad to manic depressive and abusive, screaming and shouting at her on her better days and beating her on her worst. Mara dealt with the lifestyle until she was eleven, when she ran away from home and began living on the streets, dealing with malnutrition (which led to the short stature she holds today) and all the other dangers homelessness held until she was taken in by social services at fourteen. She hopped around the system for a while, having to deal with all that implied - being enrolled and catching up with school, managing to make a few friends but having to leave them when she got moved, the uncertainty of if the home she'd be moved to would be just like her mother or maybe even worse - until she was put with a woman named Eleanor Pine, a woman that she now looks at as a mother-figure. Eleanor immediately treated her like she was a part of her family, which threw Mara off at first, but she adjusted quicker than she'd like to admit. She moved away when she turned eighteen to travel (though she still keeps in contact with her foster mother), picking up odd jobs as she goes to get whatever money she can, and often finds herself living out of motels or just the backseat of her car.