Mari

* Normal
* Alterrarge

• Mari (nickname)

• The Pure Guardian turned Psychopathic Murderer (wanted poster title)

• Chikyu-no-Megami Shoryu (mother)

• Ace Shoryu (younger brother)

• Rufus Nightingale (nephew)

> "What's wrong? All I am saying is that you'll make a wonderful corpse! AhehehAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHA! IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK?!!"
>
> - Mari

Mari (pronounced "merry") is the Chaotic Neutral half of Grace. Being half of her soul that gets corrupted by the Grimdark Virus made by Frewil. She is the 5th Member of the Grimdark Brotherhood, with her sin being Lust. She specialises in using her claws and chainsaw elbows for her close-ranged attacks and has access her own version of Grace's Holy Gate, the Unholy Gate.

## **Appearance**

When first seen, Mari takes the visual appearance of the original Bicobot: Gamma, also known as Corie. At first, this gold, later purple, marionette-esque body lacked any features but when possessed by half of Grace's corrupted soul, it began to have features. Notably Grace's helmet and greaves. There is also patterns all around the body that glow when Mari's corrupted alterrarge is active. Speaking of the alterrarge, when it is active, the normally hallow left eye glows up to reveal a creepy moving iris.

This body notably has chainsaw elbows, which is something normal Gamma model Bicobots lack, and 3 fingers on each hand which are capable of spinning like a drill when connected together. The body also has a notable burnt texture everywhere. That is mainly because of Mari playing with torches all the time or because Corie was last seen in the Mythical Mines.

When in her true form, Mari looks extremely identical to her good counterpart with the only notable differences being her colour scheme being purple instead of white and green, having pitch black sclera with glowing pupils like the other brotherhood members, her lack of her glasses and scarf and having trousers with patterns on them instead of Grace's long skirt. One other thing to note is that she is MUCH more expressive than Grace because of her psychopathic tendencies, with her eyes becoming larger and her makeup looking extremely harsh and ruined. Her helmet seems to be more fixed now since it previously looked broken as a Marionette. She's also a unique case when it comes to the demonization process. Usually, the victim has their hair colour turned into a more darker tone. But Mari in her true form, who is factually a corrupted Grace, has dark purple hair instead of potentially dark blonde hair like Kyin.

When assigned to the Grimdark Brotherhood, her Bicobot body has a 5 inscribed on the back.

## **Personality**

Mari is very much the opposite of Grace. Instead of not wanting to see innocent people die, she lusts over anyone dying and enjoys seeing blood. Whereas Lust could relate to someone having sexual desires for another, Mari has desires to just simply murder people just to see their corpse or just to simply see their blood. Which mostly results to her wanting to kill people and it’s merely the only thing she sees in a person as, like actual normal lust, she only sees most people for their bodies. The only difference is that she imagines what they would be like if they are dead; not caring for their feelings. So she will act flirty on occasion and will say flirty lines but its doubtful that lines such as “You will make such a wonderful corpse” is any way near romantic. This results in her being extremely psychotic and having sadistic tendencies.

However, she does keep some traits from Grace, like being somewhat compassionate. She only really shows her compassion towards her allies though. Whereas for her enemies, she’ll just imagine their quote “beautiful corpses”. This shows that she cares for them, making them care for her as well. Which shows that she is the heart of the Grimdark Brotherhood and shows that traits of Grace are still a part of her. However, she is shown to be absolutely terrifying in combat because of her endless pursuit of seeing dead corpses and through aesthetics due to her stiff robotic movement and her lack of different expressions; having a elongated smile that, combined with her lack of pupils when the Alterrarge isn’t active, makes her extremely intimidating. But if one was to befriend her, she would be a example of being terrifying in appearance and combat but for personality, she can be sweet and caring. Her lust for killing people; seeing their blood gushing out of them and also seeing skeletons, basically anything relating to death, gave Frewil the perfect representative of Lust.

As a Gag, she has a very uncomfortable fondness for torches. She states that torches helped guide her around mineshafts and therefore saved her life. She jokingly refers to herself as the torch goddess and does things like not being able to sleep without a torch to protect her like a night light. This could merely just relate to her insanity but it’s merely just a gag. However, it shows that she can be humorous; even if she doesn’t mean to.

Unlike most of her allies, Mari is very much seen having difficulties in the current world she’s roaming. And like Ace, she is not used to what the current generation has to offer.

Her weakness tends to be how crazy she is. For example, just a mere sight of blood makes her completely lose it. Plus her Alterrarge, although good for a massive strength boost, it makes her extremely crazy to the point where she’s extremely dumb; probably the dumbest she’s ever been. This can be a good or bad thing. Good because she’s much more stronger because it fills her lust and the more lustful she is, the stronger she becomes. And bad because due to losing it, she cannot control herself in a fight.

As time progressed, Mari wished she didn't kill Grace. Mainly because she wants to be one with her again, wanting to return back the half of the alterrarge that was corrupted. But having killed Grace, she feels empty and she wants to go back to the ways it should of been, even if it means sacrificing her life to do so. Which shows that she now cares about her real self while still retaining what makes her unique.

### **Unholy Magic**

The opposite to Grace and Cranium's magic. Tends to be more aggressive than it's holy counterpart.

* **Unholy Gate:** Mari's version of the Holy Gate. Like with Cranium and Grace's version, she can make It fire out rapid fire projectiles.

### **Holy Healing Magic**

Like Grace and Cranium, Mari can heal her allies. And it is equally as good as them. However she can do something more unique with it.

* **Unholy Draining Magic:** The opposite of her Holy Healing Magic ability. Instead of healing, she instead drains her opponents of their health. Acts similarly to the healing version, with the same slow speed and everything. She prefers to use this version more due to being Grace's opposite but that doesn't mean she's lacking her role as a somewhat cleric to the Grimdark Brotherhood.

### **Chainsaw Elbows**

Her main weapon that's stuck on her elbows. It acts like a normal chainsaw but it can be revved up like a motorcycle and the more she revs up, the faster it gets.

### **Calamity Violet Reciprocation**

She charges forwards and spins into a drill while ignited into flames. She drills through her opponent and is later hit with another one going back.

### **Power of Lust**

Mari's sin that relates to one of the seven deadly sins. Her lust mostly relates to seeing dead corpses or blood. The more she enjoys seeing blood on her opponent, the more stronger she gets. However, she becomes more mentally unstable the more she lusts which usually happens when she activates her alterrarge, which makes her bloodlust go to maximum.

### **Alterrarge**

The corrupted half of Grace's soul also resulted in her losing half of her alterrarge. This is seen when it's active where Mari's left eye glows and Grace/Cranium's right eye glows. The alterrarge allows Mari to see into the future and the past when she makes contact with something or someone. Mari enjoys looking into the future to see the death of her victims. Besides all that, it gives Mari a power boost but makes her more mentally unstable due to the corruption from the grimdark virus.

### **Ascension: True Form**

Mari's ascension. She exits her marionette body to show her true form that resembles Grace entirely. She is stronger but extremely fragile in this form; basically becoming a glass cannon. Her chainsaw elbows are replaced with floating grimdark chainsaws. They mainly hover next to her arms like her Marionette body's chainsaws but they can be turned off at will and can grow extremely large.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

During the Calamity War, one of the guardians, Grace, was infected by what’s known as the Grimdark virus. This virus slowly corrupted Grace’s soul to the point where she had to remove what was corrupted out of her with the help of Blair; which was 50% of her soul.

Frewil took this soul himself and ended up using it for this Gamma Bicobot body he found while deep in the Mythical Mines. Apparently it was used to drill through tough obstacles found in the mines. Grace’s corrupted soul ends up possessing the Marionette body and then Mari was born.

Mari fought alongside Frewil during the Calamity War as of the 5th of November and she even fought Grace. Ace and Gregory fought her and Frewil and Mari kill Grace and Boss. Gregory mainly fought with Mari while Ace dealt with Frewil. They fought deeper down in the Mythical Mines and Gregory ended up defeating Mari when she fell down a massive deep hole and was presumably knocked out upon her landing.

40 years pass and Mari was awakened from her slumber. She was awakened when Frewil returns after he escaped from his trap. The Marionette started to climb up from the hole where she was and also drilled through a couple of walls to reach the surface. She was guided by the many torches found in the mineshaft and when she returns back to the surface, Kyin and Monkey AC130 find her in the Pure Jungle and asks for her help. At first, Mari didn’t know they were working for Frewil so she attacked them. After they fight, Mari begins to sense their presence and notice how it’s similar to Frewil. Which confirms that they are working for Frewil. Cranium would later runs into the three when he was raised from the dead by Kyin. Due to his uncorrupted alterrarge, he was able to resist Kyin's control and goes to fight Mari. They fight for a while and Mari injures Cranium and knocks him to the ground. Monkey AC130 says they have to get going. So Mari lets Cranium go to arrive to the Grimdark Cathedral, where she reunites with Frewil and after having a 5 written on the back of her torso, she is sent on her mission to kill Cranium and Ace.

## **Relationships**

### **Boss Shoryu**

Boss is logically her father. However, Boss sees her as a mere copy of his daughter. As a result, Mari despises her biological father.

### **Grace Shoryu**

Mari and her good counterpart are obviously sworn enemies. Mari remarks on how pathetic Grace is compared to her. Which was actually true. Mari outclassed Grace thanks to the Corrupted Alterrarge and the new powers within her. Which obviously results in her killing Grace. As time progressed, there are times that Mari wished she didn't kill Grace and she wants to be whole with her again, returning back to her original body. Returning the corrupted half of the alterrarge back to her.

### **Ace Shoryu**

Ace is also logically Mari’s brother. Ace is willing to defeat Mari to avenge Grace. Mari states she loves her brother but like with Boss and Grace, she has desires to murder him. Like with Grace, she is older than him by 11 years. 51 years if you want to count him being physically 20 years old.

### **Sir Cranium**

Like with Grace, Mari sees Cranium as a lover due to Grace being romantically involved with him. But due to being a evil version of her, the Giant doesn’t wish to be by her side. Hence, they were sworn enemies.

### **The Grimdark Brotherhood**

Like the other Grimdark Members, Mari sees Frewil as her lord and saviour, factually being the earliest ally to Frewil. Mari also cares about everyone else in the brotherhood. It’s the only instance where she shows her more compassionate side. She gave Vivian comfort when dealing with her being depressed on the subject of her traumatic past and her breakup with Alex. Leading Mari to be the heart of the brotherhood in general.

## **Trivia**

* Mari’s name is a shortened pun after what she is; a marionette. So her name uses the pronunciation “Meh-ree”.

* Mari’s original design was actually scrapped rather early on and an image was never archived of this unused design. She was made to be a villain character for the previous concept for Wowlife who served as a coverup for the true villain of that particular story she appears in. She was originally more human-like but showed traits of a puppet and had a more dull white colour palette. This image is her second design which stays true to her current design with the only differences being that she has two proper eyes instead of her hallow eyes where one glows up to show a iris via her Alterrarge. She also had matching purple hair and her glowing body patterns had a different design. She also looked less rusty here but that is probably because of Con Air's exclusive limits he had with traditional art.
	+ In that scrapped original concept, she was given a puppet mouth. This was changed entirely to her mouth not moving at all. Which gives more of a creepy vibe more than anything.
	+ The reason why she was always intended to be a Marionette is because she was supposed to be a coverup for the actual villain of the story she takes place in. In other words, it’s a metaphor for a puppet master pulling her strings. This is somewhat present in current Wowlife where the Grimdark is somewhat controlling her.

* Her likes consists of:
	+ Anything relating to death
	+ Flirting with her Victims
	+ Her Allies
	+ Torches
	+ The Suffering of her Victims
* Her dislikes consists of:
	+ Her Biological family
	+ Waste
	+ How Fragile her True Form is

* The whole idea of Mari is that she’s based on a youkai. More preferably, a Tsukumogami. With how she was originally just a normal marionette that came to life using half of Grace’s strong soul.
* Like Cranium, Mari was designed after her appearance in the game, Soulcalibur 6 as one of Con Air's created characters. Her soul is Voldo and is noticeably less marionette-like or robot-like. She actually takes a lot of inspirations from Voldo too. Like having similar fighting styles and both having weapons that can spin like a drill.

* A thing to note about Grace and Mari being counterparts. They do share a lot of similarities.
	+ They (potentially) share the same voice, with Grace sounding more calm and Mari sounding more psychotic.
	+ They are both given the title of angels. With Mari being referred to as a Fallen Angel.
	+ They both carry the alterrarge sequence. Before Grace’s corruption, both of her eyes would glow upon activating. But after her corruption, she split half of her powers due to being corrupted. Which resulted in her only having it in her right eye and Mari now having it in her left eye in reference to how they were once one being. Though after her death, Grace no longer has it since it was given to Cranium.
	+ Both her and Grace wear similar helmets and boots. The rest of Mari’s body is merely a naked marionette body. Grace however has a full outfit but that’s if you don’t count Mari’s true form. Which has of lot of attire similar to Grace’s.

* A gag surrounding her is her somewhat uncomfortable attachment to torches. This gag is based on one of Con Air's playthroughs in Minecraft. Where his friend put torches all over his house. Con Air jokes to himself thinking that this is what Mari would of wanted since she is his Minecraft Skin.
	+ The joke of referring to herself as a Torch Goddess is mostly in reference to the Torch God from the game, Terraria
	+ The reason why she’s Con Air's Minecraft skin is because she’s the replacement for King Ogre. A now unused character in Wowlife. This results in her being involved with torches. Minecraft is also known for its stiff animations; which is very suitable for Mari.
		- As of writing this, Diesel later became the new Minecraft skin for Con Air. Due to his involvement with mineshafts and cooking food.
* Due to her not going through the usual demonization process by sacrificing herself, she is the only assigned Grimdark Brotherhood member by Frewil who isn't dead.
* Her insanity and tone is mostly based on Jinx from League of Legends but is also similar to Himiko Toga.
* If Grace and Mari were to be one again, Con Air imagines that Grace would go through a similar condition to a Personality Disorder. Having two personalities that reflect both her and Mari. So in one hand, she is the well-behaved kind teacher and on another, she is the creepy lusty woman. This concept was made for a separate character in the previous Wowlife concept. A character who was named Marleen, who would switch between two personalities to create a good cop and bad cop situation, since she was a cop character. The idea of a good cop bad cop personality will definitely be added for Grace, since the Grimdark brotherhood would all turn over a new leaf to atone for their sins but still keeping their well established traits.

## **Gallery**

Mari's Default RenderMari's Alterrarge RenderMari's Early SketchMari's Grimdark Brotherhood RenderMari Versus RenderMari's Reference SheetMari's Ascension Reference Sheet