Mallory Drake

Mallory (right) with Kara and Robynne.

Spirit Guard Tenacity. This art uses her sword's original design.

**Mallory Drake**, or **Mal** for short, is a character in *Magical Girl Policy*. She also appears in the "Holiday Memories" vignette. She is a sophomore at SAU. Ever since a year ago, she has maintained the secret identity of **Spirit Guard Tenacity**, the second member of the Spirit Guard, a superhero team that battles monsters in Kessia City. Like her fellow Spirit Guards, Mallory was selected by Fate to become a Champion for this purpose, and is reincarnated from and inherits the powers of an ancient Ardentia, the Soldier. She lives in Apartment 5 of a small complex with her best friend and Spirit Guard leader Angela Warrant. Mallory's secret identity is initially known only to her teammates, but her brother Eli soon discovers it and becomes part of the team after his roommate Robert is found to be the final member of the Spirit Guard, with Mal eventually deciding to tell her parents as well.

## Appearance

A born athlete with an Amazonian build, Mallory is about six feet tall and has a muscular body type. Her long, toned legs are said to be her most distinctive feature. She has brown hair that is almost always kept in a ponytail. She has green eyes (brown in artwork) that are said to have a stern gaze inherited from her father and shared with her brother. At school, Mallory wears a blouse and skirt to comply with SAU's business-casual dress code and carries a backpack. When not bound by SAU's dress code or the volleyball team's uniform, Mallory likes to wear clothing conducive to her athletic lifestyle, such as tank tops in her favorite color, red.

As Spirit Guard Tenacity, her muscles become more pronounced. Her hair falls from its ponytail and into a swept style. Her costume consists of a red single-piece cheerleader uniform and heeled boots. Artwork shows her wearing red fingerless gloves and black spats, with her costume's skirt featuring a lightning-like pattern and its waist the Ardentian symbol for tenacity, which resembles the Roman numeral for 3 with a dot in the center. The Disconnection Effect as well as the Hush Corps work to block those who would associate Mallory with Tenacity. Her large sword originally had a thin red handle, a cavity near the tip of the gray blade, and a shape Taralynn Andrews likens to the Buster Sword from *Final Fantasy VII*, but following Andrews's highly positive reception to fanart by Theo, Theo's interpretation of the sword became the new official design: the handle is slightly wider with a more pronounced hilt, the cavity is gone, and the blade is silver and widens at the tip, which Andrews compares to a club.

Prior to transforming for the first time, Mallory was about an inch shorter, had less defined arm musculature, and had slightly smaller breasts.

## Personality

Mallory is headstrong and has a reputation for being stubborn, rarely giving up once she sets her mind to something. She is straightforward in conversation, but sometimes has difficulty putting her thoughts into words. She also tends to be high-contact, such as putting her hand on her conversation partner's shoulder or shoving them in anger, the latter Taralynn Andrews cites is a holdover from Mal's tendency to wrestle as a child. She finds herself wringing her hands when hesitant to say something, which is a tic shared with Eli. Mallory's stubbornness stems from confidence in her decision-making, which is why she feels belittled by her life being manipulated by the plans of Fate and the Soldier.

For much of her life, Mallory feared that she was well-liked in large part because people knew her family is rich, and as a result she was not especially close to her friends and mistrustful of guys who wished to date her. She has stepped out of this mindset after entering college, however, as most people at SAU do not know of her background. She now has a best friend in Angela, and Andrews envisions her as having an active dating life. She is very selective in who she dates, however, strongly preferring an athletic man who is taller than her.

Her experience as a big sister has made her protective of others. She is constantly concerned for the well-being of her friends and family, and is eager to help at a moment's notice. She is insecure about her temper, which has gotten her into fights to defend Eli in the past. She is not the most eloquent and is prone to foul language, so she finds the swear filter placed onto her ever since her first transformation to be very annoying.

Mallory has been an athlete all of her life and enjoys pushing herself. She hates being made to sit still and will try to be active even while injured. She has a black belt in Taekwondo, and is said to be the toughest person Eli knows. She played for the volleyball team in high school and continues to do so at college, being a skilled enough player to earn a scholarship for it. Even though her healing factor removes the need to work out in order to keep her body in shape, Mallory still enjoys doing so to unwind. She is a fan of the *Her Murder Diary* television series, which she likes to watch with Angela. Her younger brother's nerdy hobbies has led Mallory to playfully dismiss such things as dorky, though she has tried and failed to get into video games with him. Her favorite color is red, and she feels more powerful while wearing the color.

While transformed into Spirit Guard Tenacity, she is granted access to the Soldier's combat instincts and swordplay skills. She has a tendency to charge into the front lines of battle with little planning. She revels in the power she feels while transformed, which had led to her initial difficulty powering down, but her near-death experience against Day LaMode makes her realize she's not as invincible as she thought.

## Abilities

Like the other Spirit Guards, Mallory has an aura of a plant scent: a mountainous coniferous forest shortly before a thunderstorm, and like her Spirit Guard title suggests it has tenacity as its primary component. While transformed into Spirit Guard Tenacity, the aura protects her from most forms of non-empathokinetic damage, including bullets.

Mallory's empathokinetic perception is the least keen among the Spirit Guard by a noticeable margin, to the point where she believes it is weaker than Robert's even before he transformed to fully awaken it. She senses things after her teammates and in less detail, struggling to gauge the strength and properties of various auras. When Investiture is drained in her vicinity, she feels the pain of an electric shock through her spine. Her EKP improves while in Spirit Guard form, but it remains poor compared to her teammates. Before her first transformation, her EKP was not noticeable at all.

Mallory's complex Investiture grants her a strong resistance to having it drained by a monster. Prior to transforming for the first time, calling upon her Investiture revealed her Ardent Resonance, which presumably took the form of a red glow around her body and the Ardentian symbol of tenacity on her forehead, marking her as a Champion and Spirit Guard Tenacity, respectively.

Mallory transforms into Spirit Guard Tenacity by holding her Spirit Stick and, while feeling tenacious, pulling the baton apart and saying "Surge of Tenacity, Spirit Guard Power Up!" She is then placed in her Transformation Station, a sort of personal dimension, with a red glow appearing in her place in the normal world until the transformation process is complete. She reverts to her normal form by either losing consciousness or willing her power to return to her Investiture while subconsciously feeling out of danger, though her body returning to normal can leave her feeling weak or fatigued. She takes the longest to power down among the team, and early in her career had difficulty allowing herself to power down.

Mallory's athleticism grants her great physical ability, and her Taekwondo training makes her a skilled fighter, making her the only Spirit Guard with formal combat training. While transformed into Tenacity, she has superhuman attributes all around as well as the Soldier's combat instincts. She is the strongest warrior the Spirit Guard has, and takes to the front lines in battle using an offense-focused fighting style.

Tenacity can mentally summon her weapon to her hands as well as dismiss it. It initially takes the form of a pair of red pompoms, but clapping them together switches between this form and its true appearance of a large, electrically charged greatsword. Despite her sword being nearly as long as she is tall and wide enough to serve as a makeshift shield, Tenacity can swing it with speed and precision. Her special moves require her to hold her sword and speak the name of the move, which utilize red-colored electricity. On rare occasions, she elects to dismiss her sword during a fight to allow hand-to-hand combat featuring her Taekwondo skills (a martial art associated primarily with kicking) as well as grapples.

Spirit Guard Tenacity has a fast-acting healing factor that can automatically seal wounds in order of increasing size. It also attempts to keep her appearance consistent, often leaving her relatively unblemished even during a violent battle. Powering down resets much of Mallory's body to how it was when she powered down for the first time, which she secretly uses before volleyball games to be in peak condition. Mallory's normal form has a lesser healing factor that acts like an accelerated version of the human body's natural regeneration. Both forms of healing are fueled by calories, so Mallory uses this super metabolism to get away with a diet less healthy than the one she claims to have.

The Disconnection Effect pushes those who look at Spirit Guard Tenacity or her image to perceive her as an entity distinct from Mallory, but it's weakened via repeated exposure. The effect applies on some level even to those who know her true identity, perceiving the two forms slightly differently. It also prevents Tenacity herself from accidentally calling her fellow Spirit Guards by their real names.

Mallory occasionally receives visions of her past life as the Soldier during her sleep, complete with the Soldier's emotions and other sensations. While said visions provide information on the Ardent Empire and thus some background on the Spirit Guard's mission, the team believes they're actually granted in order to help the Spirit Guard in the future.

### Special moves

* **Intrepid Blade:** Performs a charging slash with her electrified sword.
* **Determined Arc:** Performs a wide arcing slash with her sword, with lightning extending beyond the blade.

In addition, Mallory says she can shoot lightning, but this has not been shown.

## Biography

### Background

Mallory Drake was born in Kessia City as the first child of a rich family. She has always been extremely close to her younger brother Elijah and his best friend Cory. Mallory's father dotes on her, as unlike Eli she had her car and college expenses paid for and is even given a credit card if she's in need of extra cash. Her dad is also very protective of her, however, not liking when she took Taekwondo lessons or moved into an apartment when she decided to attend Schuyler Adamson University with a volleyball scholarship.

After a rally for the volleyball team, Mallory was approached by the cheerleader Angela Warrant, who had sensed her aura, and the two became friends. When the two had dinner one day, the restaurant is attacked by a monster called Alena Alfredo. When Angela ran off to transform into Spirit Guard Valor, the monster tried and failed to drain Mallory's Investiture. Valor threw Mallory her Spirit Stick, which she used to transform into Spirit Guard Tenacity and defeat the monster. The duo, now a team called the Spirit Guard, would go on to defeat other monsters that periodically appeared in the city, with the stretch of time following Tenacity's appearance seeing Platicore create monsters more quickly in apparent hopes of tiring the heroines out. The sixth monster after Tenacity's debut was Cord-elia, who apparently resisted electric attacks as Mallory says she was useless against it. Chapter 5 says Spirit Guard Tenacity was first spotted fighting the weightlifting monster Barbella, but this contradicts Angela's account of Alena Alfredo in Ch. 29.

At some point, Angela took Mallory to observe cheer captain Cammy DeCroix's powerful aura, believing it to be a sign of another Spirit Guard, but Mal couldn't sense anything special about it. Some days later, Mallory received a vision of the Soldier that helped her realize how burdened Angela actually is, so she tells her how bad of an influence Cammy has been on the normally rule-abiding Angela. Turning down Mallory's offers to help, Angela attempted on her own to reveal Cammy's schemes to control the SAU Student Association, but ended up kicked off the cheer team, her scholarship lost, and Mallory her only remaining friend.

The "Holiday Memories" vignette is set in early December, during the string of more frequent monster attacks and Angela's academic probation. Valor and Tenacity battle Winter's Wrap at K.D. Schilling's Department Store. After Valor pins the monster at the arms and neck, Tenacity finishes it with Intrepid Blade. The fight was very easy for the heroes, with Winter's Wrap said to be weaker than the two monsters Tenacity had previously fought. Valor asks Tenacity to debrief with Kunapipi alone, as Angela has to meet with SAU staff to sort out her living arrangements for the next semester and see if she can take her last final exam while on probation. She shoots down Mallory fighting Cammy for revenge, and feels Ms. Kuna would be unable to help the housing situation. Noriko appears and has the two leave before the police can arrive so she can handle evidence at the scene, including one civilian, Donovan, who hid in the store from the monster and ended up overhearing their sensitive conversation.

With Angela's loss of scholarship meaning she would be unable to afford to keep living in SAU's dorms, she would later move into Mallory's apartment.

One morning, Mallory receives a call from Angela, who has detected the water monster Saturationa in an SAU swimming pool. Tenacity arrives as the monster's mind-controlled victims are forcing Angela into the water. She knocks the goons out and grabs Angela, saving her from being dragged into the pool with the others. Saturationa reveals her true form and Angela transforms into Spirit Guard Valor. Valor uses Plateau of Nobility to lift the hostages out of the water on a stone, allowing Tenacity to kill the monster with Intrepid Blade without fear of electrocuting the people.

Another one of Tenacity and Valor's battles with a monster saw the police enter the scene of an active fight. One of the police cars was too close to the action, however, and got fried by one of Tenacity's lightning attacks, prompting the cops to open fire at the duo. This is where the Spirit Guards learned they are effectively bulletproof; their auras shielded them from the bullets' impact.

Over the following year, Vivian Feliz and Kara Balmer would join the Spirit Guard as well. During a volleyball game, Mal sensed the aura of a spectating Vivian and befriended her, with Vivian becoming Spirit Guard Felicity to defeat the monster Dramatica. Three months after that, Vivian's friend Kara became Spirit Guard Charity to defeat a monster at a hospital.

### Week 1

Kara senses a monster disguised as a *Zombie Mansion* machine at the Loose Change arcade, leaving the area to transform and alert her teammates. Tenacity arrives at the scene along with Valor just after Charity forced the revealed Polygal to release Robert, Cory, and Eli. Tenacity expresses concern for the safety of the three boys as well as Rob's apparent Ardent Resonance of Spirit Guard Serenity, then charges at Polygal. Felicity arrives to constrict and burn the monster using Encircling Joy, while Tenacity finishes it off with Intrepid Blade. After the fight, Rob is convinced to give the heroes his phone number so he may be contacted when they figure out what his glowing meant.

The Spirit Guard contact Kunapipi and the Hush Corps about what happened with Robert, and the team decides to look into him. Using the excuse of fearing for Eli's safety since Polygal attacked him at work, Mallory and Vivian visit Rob, Cory, and Eli's dorm. The two probe Rob for details of the attack, with Mallory impressed to hear Rob fearlessly stood his ground despite being unaware of the Spirit Guard's existence. She berates Cory and Eli for staying with Rob instead of running from the monster, telling her brother to let the Spirit Guard handle such things.

The next day, the Spirit Guard and Noriko discuss their findings on Robert, who Kunapipi has confirmed is the one chosen to become Spirit Guard Serenity. Angela is worried about Rob's seeming coldness clashing with what she imagined the Shrine Maiden's reincarnation would be like, but Mallory assures her that Rob merely has a logical personality and that the Spirit Guard are simply a curiosity to him at the moment. Eli visits to retrieve a graphing calculator Mallory had borrowed, and is introduced to Mal's friends before leaving. The team decides Rob can be trusted to join them, so the Hush Corps text him to meet the Spirit Guard at the Standridge Hill Stone Circle tomorrow night to learn why he glowed.

The Spirit Guard and Kunapipi meet Robert at the Standridge Circle, where he is told about the team's background and how he has been selected to become the final Spirit Guard, though Tenacity is visibly uneasy about revealing these things to him. Robert, not wanting the burdens of being a Champion or the female body the Spirit Guard transformation would likely force onto him, refuses to join the team. When he mentions having to leave Cory and Eli as a reason why he won't do it, Tenacity tells him he could remain part of their lives and convinces the Spirit Guard to reveal their identities to him. Mallory is furious when Noriko appears with Cory and Eli, who Rob had asked to spy on the meeting. While Mal's teammates attempt to change Rob's mind, she and Eli get into a heated argument: Eli is fuming that Mallory has been risking her life as a superhero without telling her family, while Mallory can't believe Eli ignored her warning to stay out the Spirit Guard's business. Fearing the reaction of their overprotective father, Mal convinces Eli not to tell their parents about her Spirit Guard business, and Eli has her promise to be more open about such things with him like they always have. With everyone sworn to secrecy, the meeting ends.

Mallory, Angela, Vivian, and Kara go to Rale Valley Mall for some shopping, but sense a strange empathokinetic humming from seemingly random locations, so they split up to search for the source. Mal and Angela run into Robert, who senses it as well and offers to look for it with them, as he'd like to help the Spirit Guard protect people even if he has no intention of transforming. Mal is grateful for the offer but asks him to leave the mall, as she doesn't want Eli or Cory to once again risk their lives for their new friend if there turns out to be a monster. A little while later, Mal and Angela sense Investiture being drained in Rob's direction and transform. Tenacity attacks the revealed Day LaMode to make way for Rob, Cory, and Eli's escape. Felicity and Charity arrive as well, but the Spirit Guards get split up by LaMode's mannequin army. When Tenacity senses Rob activate his Ardent Resonance again, she rushes to the boys' side once more. The lone Tenacity successfully gets LaMode to fight her instead of trying to capture Robert, but is unable to keep up with LaMode's speed and body transfer ability, and is beaten within an inch of her life. With her last ditch effort to summon her sword directly into LaMode a failure, Tenacity is saved by the sudden arrival of Spirit Guard Serenity. Amazed at Robert's sacrifice and relieved at Eli and Cory's safety, Tenacity watches the new Spirit Guard easily defeat LaMode. The rest of the team arrives shortly thereafter, and when Noriko warns them of the incoming police, it is decided that Tenacity will be operated on by Charity while Serenity makes them invisible using Placid Mist. Tenacity is then carried to her apartment by Serenity to rest and recover. Mallory is later bandaged by Noriko, and her absence from volleyball is to be excused by claiming she has stomach flu.

### Weeks 2-4

The next morning, Rob, now known as Robynne Darling, briefly visits Mallory before leaving to buy a wardrobe for her new body, though the fatigued Mal doesn't remember this meeting. Eli later comes by and makes Mal eat to fuel her healing factor. Mal tells him that the transformed Robynne, despite her brave face, will need the help of her friends now more than ever. She also says the close call at the mall made her fear the possibility of her Spirit Guard work getting her killed and forcing Eli to explain everything to their parents, so she decides she'll tell them she's a Spirit Guard herself in the near future.

A couple of days later, Mallory has recovered enough to get up and visit everyone at Robynne's new dorm, who were discussing Rob's first day back at class. At her current rate, she's expected to be well enough to return to class the next day and play volleyball by the end of the week.

The next morning, a Spirit Guard meeting is held when it's found that Robynne had a vision of the Shrine Maiden last night. Mallory assures Robynne that the Maiden's plan requiring the Ardentia's extinction was probably decided after careful consideration, but admits her discomfort with the reincarnation thing. Later that day, Mal finds herself bored since she can't be too active while recovering, so Robynne has Mal accompany her to find a backpack that won't dig into her newfound breasts. Mallory insists on buying an expensive backpack with a credit card from her father as she's allowed to use it for her friends, saying she'll always be eager to help Rob for saving her life. Mal explains her plan to tell her parents she's a Spirit Guard, so Robynne asks to be told how it goes so she can figure out how to explain her own situation to her Uncle Taylor when he comes to visit in a few weeks' time.

The next day, Mallory, Kara, and Vivian eavesdrop on Robynne and Angela's surprise private conversation, where the latter reveals her theory of Cammy being reincarnated from the Empress, something she hasn't told the others out of fear they won't believe her since they can't sense auras as strongly as she or Rob. Rob senses the others behind the door and opens it so they can cry out their misunderstandings with Angela. The team brainstorms ways to deal with Cammy, with Mal being quick to shut down the option of Robynne joining the cheer team as a spy for fear of piling more on top of Rob's already stressful situation. Mal presses Rob on why she's even considering the idea since it's clearly not because of the Empress theory, so Rob explains how she wants to tear Cammy down to prevent her from hurting people the same way the Evelyn Gray ruined Robert's high school life. They decide to go through with the plan, with Robynne returning Cammy's dress bribe and presenting several demands in return for joining the team, such as Vivian joining as well so she won't be alone.

After Robynne joins the cheer team, Mallory, Noriko, and Angela help her fill out her bio for the team's website. Mal suggests being vague where possible to avoid unwanted attention.

That Sunday morning, Mallory's workout is interrupted by a call from Eli: the computer components Robynne had extorted from Cammy have arrived at his dorm as planned, but he wants Mal to drive them to Rob's dorm so his roommate Dale won't have an excuse to come along and hit on Rob. Mal drives over with Noriko, who puts a false license plate on the car and uses the Standridge Stone warps to ward off a possible spy of Cammy's associating anything with Angela. Robynne is annoyed to find Cammy had spited her by getting parts in a completely different style than what was demanded. Mallory offers to buy a different case at the store right then, but Rob decides to keep it for now when Noriko suggests it would let her subvert expectations of people who judge it by its colorful exterior, offering the name CandyStrike for it.

At some point over the following three weeks, a meeting with the entire Spirit Guard team is held to more completely lay out Robynne's cover and infiltration of the cheer team. It is also during this period that Mallory tells her parents about her Spirit Guard business, which goes over well. In order to make her father go easier on Eli, she exaggerates his involvement in the Polygal attack by claiming he went out of his way to lead the children to safety. This convinces their father that Eli has fully learned discipline and no longer needs a job while at college. Mal does all this with only Eli and Robynne's prior knowledge, which annoys Kunapipi and presumably Noriko when they find out later.

### Week 5

Mallory is at a volleyball game while Cell-celia is fought and is unable to check her phone until afterwards, at which point she immediately rushes to bring Kara's energy bars to Kunapipi's office to help her friends recover and joins the debriefing. Cell-celia's human disguise, signal vision, and low-key Investiture collection has the team conclude that Platicore is shifting his monster designs in hopes of harvesting as much Investiture as possible before the Spirit Guard find them. Mallory suggests nightly patrols of the city in order to snuff out newly planted monsters, something she and Angela had considered doing a year ago, but this plan is put off until Robynne explains her situation to her uncle. Robynne panics when she's reminded of her uncle's arrival that week, so Mal assures her that he'll be supportive and Rob will have a huge weight off her shoulders. That night, while watching Rob and Angela play *Aspect Realms* together, Mal repeats her assurance at noticing Rob is still worried over it. At that, Angela explains that unlike Mallory, who revealed her Spirit Guard business to her parents knowing her brother supported her, Rob has more at risk with Uncle Taylor as her only family. Still fatigued from the battle, Robynne heads to bed at her friends' suggestion.

The next morning, the team discusses Robynne's vision, which notably featured the Princess utilizing her religion's forbidden emotions to lie her way past the corrupt Vice-Archon Liff. The others are concerned as none of their visions had any signs of this, which leads them to wonder if the Shrine Maiden, like Robynne, had the keenest empathokinetic perception among the team. While Tanya visits to give Robynne and Vivian a surprise promotion assignment, Mallory, Angela, and Noriko hide in the latter's room. Mal assures the frustrated Robynne that she's making much better progress in her cheer mission than she thinks she is, then helps her get ready for the job.

Later, another team meeting is held, where Robynne tells the others how during the promotion she ran into NightKnight, who has a different appearance from their previous encounter, sports a new textured aura, and is a member of the ConSpiriters. The plan for Taylor's arrival is also laid out: Angela and Mallory will pose as representatives of the contest he won and lead him to his hotel room where Rob will be waiting, with Noriko on standby and the surrounding rooms rented out for their privacy. The team wonders if there is significance in Rob happening upon the textured auras of NightKnight, Dale, and Fretribution in such short time, as before this Cammy's was the only one they knew of. Hearing from Eli that Dale intends to go to the *Mega Mash Family Battle* tournament tonight, the team figures it would be an ideal opportunity for Rob, Vivian, and Kara to study his textured aura side by side with Fretribution's, with Rob intending to convince NightKnight to come as well. Angela also wants to attend the tournament, but Noriko fears Cammy might learn of Angela's appearance at SFEERS, so it's decided that she could go in a goth disguise. Mallory and Vivian accompany Angela to prepare the disguise, while Noriko goes to meet Nick and Will to create ID for this "Alison Ward" alter ego and see whether Cammy will have a spy at the tournament.

## Relationships

### Eli Drake

Mallory has been very close to her younger brother Elijah since the two were young. Mallory teases Eli by treating him like a little kid and dismissing his nerdy hobbies, but the two think very highly of each other, with Mal even admitting to her friends that Eli is more responsible than her. Despite her teasing, Mal will gift him things to fuel his hobbies and has attempted to get into video games alongside him on several occasions, but doesn't find them enjoyable. The two have never kept important secrets from one another, which leads to Eli's uncharacteristic fury when he discovers his sister has been risking her life as Spirit Guard Tenacity. Whenever the siblings argue, they do so in alternating waves of anger and cooling off, as their shared stern expression makes it difficult to maintain eye contact with one another. The older, more athletic Mallory has always been protective of her meeker brother, but Eli too will fly to his sister's defense at a moment's notice. Mal decides to tell their parents about her Spirit Guard business after her near-death against Day LaMode made her realize the burden would've fallen to Eli if she didn't make it. Mal is frustrated that their father has always given her preferential treatment, so she also exaggerates Eli's heroism to convince their dad that he is responsible enough to no longer need a job at college.

### Cory Frost

Mallory has been close to Eli's lifelong friend Cory since childhood, and often finds herself dragged into his schemes. Cory likes to annoy Mal, who in turn teases Cory for being a nerdy dork. Mal is one of the few people who can get Cory to immediately shut his mouth when his wisecracks are not needed. Cory had a crush on Mallory in middle school, but it never went anywhere and he has since given up on it. Mallory worries that Cory and Eli getting involved with the Spirit Guard and being around Rob tends to land them in danger.

### Angela Warrant

Mallory and Angela have been best friends since they met at a volleyball game their freshman year, eventually becoming roommates as well. Mal joining the Spirit Guard strengthened their bond even further, and they fight together on the front lines. As Angela's most trusted friend, Mal is often the one to advise the team's leader, and the two's different mindsets complement each other. Mal readily helps out her less privileged friend financially, but Angela will sometimes turn down her treat due to not wanting to overly depend on her. Once Angela starts spending increasingly more time playing *Aspect Realms* instead of doing things like watching *Her Murder Diary* with Mallory, Mal complains that Robynne turned her friend into a nerd, but does like to banter with them when the two gamers play together. Mal doesn't share Angela's enthusiasm for things like Fate, past life business, and the appropriate use of Spirit Guard powers, but keeps this from her so as not to hurt her feelings.

### Kunapipi

As a Champion on Earth, Mallory is assigned Kunapipi as her Guide, a job which she considers the wallaby to be rather poor at due to receiving only extremely vague information from Fate. Mal does, however, consider Ms. Kuna's campus counselor powers to be invaluable, as it allows Mal to perform her Spirit Guard duties without damaging her college life, such as through excusing absences from volleyball games, which wouldn't normally be feasible.

### Noriko Yukimura and the Hush Corps

Noriko, Nick, and Will work alongside the Spirit Guard to protect the heroes' secrets. The analytical Noriko complements the headstrong and straightforward Mallory when problem solving. Mallory likes Noriko but has no problem doing things she'd disapprove of, which is demonstrated when she tells her parents about her Spirit Guard business behind the back of the others.

### Platicore's forces

As a Spirit Guard, Mallory opposes Platicore and his monsters to protect the people of Kessia City. She initially did not truly find her opponents a serious threat to her since her incredible Spirit Guard powers would see her through even close calls, but nearly dying to Day LaMode has made her reconsider this stance.

### Soldier

A portion of Mallory's soul, including her Investiture, is inherited from the Soldier at the intervention of the High Spirits, and Mal can utilize the Soldier's empathokinetic abilities and battle instincts while in Spirit Guard form. The two are similar in terms of appearance and personality, and Mal occasionally receives visions to experience parts of the Soldier's life. Despite Mal's discomfort over this reincarnation, she initially considers the Soldier part of herself until Rob pushes the team to distance themselves from their predecessors.

### Fate

Mallory was chosen by Fate to become a Champion. While liking the powers this gets her, Mal doesn't like Fate and feels belittled that the deity has apparently arranged so much of her destiny. After learning what Rob has to go through in being chosen as Spirit Guard Serenity, Mal seriously doubts Fate's supposed benevolence and intelligence.

### Cammy DeCroix

Mallory became acquainted with Cammy while Angela was still friends with the captain. Mal never really liked Cammy and considered her a bad influence on Angela, but kept this to herself until a vision had her realize letting Angela know would be for the best. When plans are made for Robynne and Vivian to spy on and topple Cammy, Mal is on board more to exact revenge on the captain for hurting Angela than the theory that Cammy and the Empress are connected. As Cammy knows of Mallory's connection to Angela, the team takes precautions to ensure she doesn't link Mal to Rob or Vivian and become suspicious of the new cheerleaders.

### Vivian Feliz

Mallory and Vivian met after the latter's family watched the former's volleyball game. Sometime later, Vivian joined the Spirit Guard. Mal can find Vivian's antics to be tiring, and responds in kind by teasing her, often liking to keep things out of the short girl's reach. In battle, Tenacity being in front allows Felicity to safely attack from a distance, and the two are competitive over their combat prowess.

### Kara Balmer

Mallory and Kara met through Vivian, with Kara eventually joining the Spirit Guard as well. Kara looks out for Mal, especially given her tendency to overexert herself. She also keeps Mal's temper in check by doing her best to diffuse arguments. Mallory enjoys having Spirit Guard meetings as it often lets her enjoy Kara's cooking. In battle, Tenacity fights up close to keep the enemy away from the range-oriented Charity, though her recklessness often leads to her getting patched up and chastised.

### Robert Dreese/Robynne Darling

Mallory, as Spirit Guard Tenacity, first meets Eli and Cory's roommate Robert when the Spirit Guard rescue the three boys from Polygal, and later visits their dorm in her regular form to feel out the character of the one apparently chosen to become Spirit Guard Serenity. Tenacity is noticeably uneasy when the Spirit Guard explain to Rob his destiny at the Standridge Circle, completely understands his refusal to transform, and is the one to suggest the team reveal their secret identities to him. Rob's heroism and selflessness repeatedly impress Mallory, receiving the nickname Ace after transforming in order to save her life from Day LaMode. On the flipside, Mal considers Rob a danger magnet who always manages to find trouble and is too confident to get away from it. It's because of this that she worries that Eli and Cory's loyalty to their friend puts them at risk against monsters, though she is glad to see Rob be the first person to truly integrate into the pair's impenetrable friendship. Mal is highly concerned for Robynne's well-being in the face of the transformation's hardships, readily offering help since she knows Rob hesitates to ask for it. In order to help Robynne feel like her old self, Mal treats her largely the same way she treats Eli and Cory, playfully teasing her and dismissing her nerdy hobbies. Mallory complains that Robynne turned Angela into a nerd when the latter starts playing *Aspect Realms* in favor of the usual activities the roommates would do, but the three enjoy the banter they have when Rob and Angela play the game together.

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Mallory in her Spirit Guard Tenacity form.Spirit Guard Tenacity battles Polygal.Mallory and Kara watch Robynne as she assembles her new computer.Spirit Guard Tenacity with the rest of the Spirit Guards.Fanart of Tenacity's sword through Day LaMode's arm. The sword's design was officially adopted.Mallory's appearance in *MGP Alpha* as Spirit Guard Fortitude.
## Trivia

* Mallory was referenced in a header on the original Taralynn's Desk: "Spirit Guard Tenacity Says put your back into it!" It is a parody of "Sailor Says", an educational segment in DiC Entertainment's English dub of the anime *Sailor Moon*.
* In the October 2016 Q&A, Taralynn Andrews says Mallory's preferred type of car is an older muscle car that allows her to do mechanical work on it. She is also said to like the tactile feedback of a manual transmission.
* In the same column, it is revealed that Mallory likes to date athletic guys who are taller than her. She was mistrustful of them in high school since they knew of her rich family, but she has dated more since arriving at college.
	+ Mallory being very tall while simultaneously wanting to date men taller than her is based on a friend of Andrews's.
* In the November 2016 Q&A, Andrews imagines Mallory's Halloweens often involve Cory dragging her and Eli into watching schlocky horror films.
* In the December 2016 Q&A, Andrews says if Mallory were prompted to name her computer, she would simply call it "Mal's computer", as she has no interest in naming things.