Mara Hartika

Mara Hartika is the protagonist of IZLND, she is reminiscent of a spoiled child that you see in the market who didn't exactly get what they wanted. She is dubbed insufferable, annoying and killable by other characters; particularly Ezio and Achlysia. The only actual friend she makes along the way is someone who her mother Gola had deeply wronged in the past, Kassandra.

## Mara Atsadi Hartika

### Aliases

Mara Mmao, Brat, Spoiled Bitch, (Annoying) Cat-fish Thing, Princess of Self-Absorbed Primadonnas

### Relatives

Adopted | Gola Tasi Hartika(Mother), Achlysia Kati Hartika(Sister), Molima Kisa Katahi-Hartika(Mother) | Biological | Pianka Jesien Sakow(Mother), Yaquimel(Father)

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

The Snow Tribe's Territory, The Island of Nisi

### Date of death

Actual | 02/25/2818 | Clone/Rebirth | 3048

### Place of death

Actual | City of Light, Hartika, Uyohusv | Clone/Rebirth | The Caves, The Island of Nisi

## Personality

Mara is known for being rather bratty and spoiled, this shows throughout the story. To other characters who hadn't met her prior to the first chapter(particularly Ezio), this comes off as annoying; and she is immediately deemed insufferable. Mara is as spoiled and bratty as she is due to the way she was raised, which is frankly obvious during the entire story. There is no doubt in *anyone's* mind that she has no clue what it's like to live in anyone else's shoes, this is apparent when she and Ezio are forced out of the Tropical Village due to her trying to kill King Patricio. While the two are stuck on a makeshift canoe that is being carried out to the deepest part of the ocean that surrounds the singular continent, Ezio curses at her and refers to her as a 'spoiled bitch' who 'doesn't understand other peoples or cultures'. Mara, of course, denies this and says she was raised around a different culture her entire life; remarking the fact she was adopted. This only further proves her ignorance and privilege on discussions of racial superiority throughout the story, and that despite the fact she would've been assigned as a lower race if it hadn't been for her mother adopting her, she does not seem to care or want to care. Mara is rather ignorant to her sister and other mother's feelings towards her until she eventually meets her sister after coming back to the Island, Achlysia, who shows obvious disgust towards her sister; lashes out and tells her exactly how she and her mother, Molima, really felt about Mara. This is the one time throughout the story we can see Mara actually shows some sort of feelings towards this new found information, however, this only makes her worse. From this point on in the story, Mara gradually becomes angrier and more narcissistic, thinking she is the only person who can stop the mess of the Experiment. Even when meeting her biological mother, and finding out that she had murdered her own father, she shows no emotion what-so-ever.

## Physical Appearance

Mara's ref sheet, made by @Litwick on Toyhou.seMara is 16 years old in the story, she is an adolescent in her species. Mara is of the Canis Catus species, derogatorily referred to as Ruskians. Mara is feline-like in nature with a fish-like tail. She has light brown fur, with a lighter brown almost-white muzzle. She has purple, blue and pink colored freckles that dot across her face. She also has leopard spots that adorn the rest of her body. She is around 4'3 feet tall, and weighs 91 lbs. She is mixed species. She has a gradient fish tail that goes from blue to purple to pink. The final and last detail is her pearl necklace, which is also with the colors of blue, purple and pink. Mara has a rather short stature for her species.

## Backstory - Original Life

### Infanthood - 0 to 2

Mara was originally born to Pianka Sakow and Yaquimel in the Snow Tribe's territory. Early on, Gola had found out about the odd pairing's child, and demanded that they had handed her over in turn for their lives to be spared from infection(which was a lie, at least for Yaquimel). Eventually, the couple handed their beloved child over, but not without one request, and the request was that they give her the name 'Mara Mmao' or something akin to it. Gola took the child to her home planet of Uyohusv, where the child was initially welcomed by Gola's wife, Molima, and her biological daughter, Achlysia. Mara was initially welcomed by the family since infancy, and even through childhood. She was raised happily by the royal family who had founded the country that she would remain in.

### Childhood - 2 to 8

Mara was not aware of being adopted, not at least immediately. Mara attended a luxurious private school in the City of Lights, and despite the difference in species with most of the students, she never faced racism. Mara, while she was popular, never really had any friends that stuck out to her in a way. Throughout her childhood, her and her sister were close; despite Achlysia being much older, the two were rather inseparable. The two were very popular, with there only being a six year age difference between the two and them both being notable for being the richest in the school.

### Tweenhood - 9 to 12

Mara was still rather childish as a tween, not having grown very much in either personality or height. During this time, Mara began to separate herself from her sister. The two gradually became more and more distant throughout her tween years, as Mara became increasingly more selfish and vain. Eventually causing more of a rift between her and Achlysia, and even her mother Molima. Mara was still very popular despite this rift, in-fact she became a pseudo-popular girl throughout her junior high years, amassing a following by being on the Girls' Stickball Team, and destigmatized the sport among the upper classes; before this, it was associated heavily with Mothling culture. Mara wasn't as ignorant to other cultures at this age as she was during the events of IZLND.

### Teenhood - 13 to Death

Mara had a rough few teenage years. Her family started to break apart, especially once she graduated early and her sister dropped out entirely. This caused a rift, her mother Gola's reasoning was that 'My biological daughter didn't inherit my intelligence, my adopted daughter did'. Her other mother Molima, argued that Gola had paid more attention to her illegitimate daughter and nurtured her rather than her own flesh and blood. This ended in the two mothers splitting from their marriage and even their own partnership in science. Eventually, Gola replaced her wife with Mara; who became her bodyguard and apprentice. Mara learned about the parasite that Gola had found on the island with the help of Kassandra. One fateful day, however, Molima had found out about the experiments regarding the parasites, and how Gola had wiped out a majority of the Native species. Gola then ordered Mara to stab Molima, then Gola proceeded to tell her to run, run far away. Mara ran as fast as she could but she was rather unlucky, eventually being cornered by one of the infected scientists, as the parasite moved quickly.

## Events of IZLND - 4th Rebirth

### The Tropics of Kara

When Mara awoke, she awoke in the tropics, not far from Citah Tropicaleh. Eventually, Ezio and his hunting party found her. He called out to her asking why she was on his people's land. She attempted to run away, which failed in the most miserable way possible. He caught her and brought her back to his village, where he presented her as a prize to his king; suspecting her of being originally from the Snow Tribe, as she looked very similar to the Chief of the Snow tribe, Pianka. As a reward for this, King Patricio offered his daughter's hand in marriage for Mara, Ezio accepted this offer. Mara bit one of the guards that was meant to transport her to the 'Jail', so instead Ezio had to take her and watch over her for the night. Ezio, in his boredom, admitted to Mara that he was plotting to kill King Patricio by getting close to him through his daughter. Obviously, he should have never told her this, as she then went on to try an assasinate the king during the pre-wedding dinner, leading them both to get tied up and put on a makeshift boat out to sea that night.

### The Sea of Yaquimel

While on the boat, they had numerous arguments with each other, notably Ezio referring to Mara as a 'spoiled bitch' numerous times; and referencing how she has no clue what-so-ever about other cultures, let alone her own. Mara, obviously took offense to this and declared herself a Princess; to which Ezio responded by calling her the 'Princess of Self-Absorbed Primadonnas'. Mara didn't know how to respond as she obviously doesn't know what a primadonna is, despite her 'intelligence'. They continued arguing, throwing insults and curses at each other even while the boat was cruising towards the edge of the seabed, they were nearing the abyss while neither noticed. This eventually became apparent to them once they saw movement in the water, shark-shaped movements to be exact. Ezio shushed Mara almost immediately and eventually the shark-shaped creatures went away. Right as they thought they were through it all, a large dragon-esque creature burst out of the water. It was a horrid site to behold as worms protruded through the skin and eye sockets, it was either sagging or ripped in some areas. In an act of a miracle, a large beam of light was shown on the creature like some act of god, and the creature was set ablaze.

### The Swamp

Eventually, they found their way back to shore and found themselves floating down a river through the swamp. Eventually they got off and were forced to trudge through the murky and disgusting waters of the swamp.