Marion Tregennis

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TW: Death, murder, abusive institutional practices, sort of loss of a child, forced confinement, brief reference to torture, brief references to surgery, living experiments. Her abilities/weaknesses have violent imagery, death related content and one ability with descriptive illness (also additionally marked in post).

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## Identity

### Aliases

Marion the Barbarian, Marion Kelly (old stage name), Atropos (SRI codename)

## Physical

### Fashion

She wears tight, sometimes revealing outfits that show off her assets, usually in shades of pink, red, monochromes and loves floral and leopard prints. Her personal style is very much 1950s blonde bombshell pinup. CEO of wiggle dresses and kitten heels.

### Other

Reflective pupils in lowlight/the dark, irises sometimes glow phosphorescent green – she wears special contacts to hide this. To Supers with sensitive noses, her scent is a decayed-earthy smell. Not necessarily bad but a quote "Like fruit turning to soil” describes it.

## Biographical

### Occupation

Unemployed, SRI On-Call Agent/Supernatural Consultant

### Affiliations

Supernatural Regulation and Intelligence (SRI)

## Personality

### Traits

Self-absorbed, arrogant, cheerfully nihilistic, violent tendencies, awkwardly maternal, mercurial, imperious, melancholy, avoids attachments and gets pissed when she forms them, murderously protective of those she begrudgingly cares for, manipulative, self-sabotaging, has more compassion than she lets on

### Likes

Flower gardening, science and experiments, cooking with gelatin, gin, black market deals, all thing gross/weird/unusual, thrill seeking, having fun, chaos, being creepy, playing piano

### Dislikes

The song “We’ll Meet Again” by Vera Lynn, authority figures, confinement, being stifled in anyway, being vulnerable, caring about others, isolation, silence, mirrors at night, having to pretend she's stupid

### Strengths

Tenacious, intelligent, resilient, ambitious, good at exploiting the weaknesses of others, observant and astute, thinks outside the box, protective when she deems someone worth protecting, quick thinker

### Weaknesses

Very emotionally turbulent, violent temper, willing to commit crimes ranging from petty theft to outright murder, views herself above the law, insensitive, an alcoholic, so consumed by trauma and grief that it has emotionally stunted her and significantly warped her view of right vs. wrong.

### Astrology

Aries / Dog

> *"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other." ― Mary Shelley; Frankenstein*
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## Subplot Status: SRI

* Marion is an SRI agent (Specialized On-Call)
* Joined SRI 05/05/2016 (age 106)
* Specialties: Undercover/espionage, combat if needed, protecting humans and their souls, being a lab assistant if needed
* Officially, she joined to help protect humans and their souls from Supernatural beings that seek to harm them because (according to her and the forged documents she supplied), soul interference is a major concern to her home realm. She has presented herself as a Reaper very invested in the well-being of mortals and someone who is smart enough to be reliable but too much of a bimbo to be much of a threat.
* Unofficially/secretly, she joined because it seemed like a good opportunity to have access to resources that would help her carry out her shady ulterior motives. Basically, to hide in plain sight.
* Infiltration, access to resources she'd otherwise be denied, ironically to avoid blipping on the radar with her unethical scientific endeavors are her current motivations to stay in the SRI.

## Supernatural Status

* Grim reaper.
* Turned supernatural rather than born.
* Marion is a resident of Cedargrove, the non-supernatural city. She lives in Cedargrove because that is where her son, Henry, is buried. Also, living where humans (and therefor their souls) are in abundance is beneficial to her future goals and she can be a snob about other Supers.
* She has a combat/soul collection scythe (can teleport it to herself), a compact with a mirror in case she needs to check for ghosts, specialized contacts that hide her reflective pupils, and soul containers (for collecting/storing souls).
* She is not known to be connected to any Legends.

### Abilities

General Reaper Abilities -- includes soul collection, death force manipulation (in the form of energy blasts), teleportation, scythe-wielding combat, nightvision, undead physiology, regenerative healing and semi-immortality (ie: no biological lifespan but can be killed through supernatural means).

Finger of Death -- negative energy is sent coursing through the target, causing searing pain that feels like being boiled from the inside out or torn to pieces. The pain, however, is entirely psychosomatic and the target does not sustain any physical damage.

Feign Death -- enters a state outwardly indistinguishable from death. This ability has no practical use, she just uses it to be a creep.

Mortis Fever -- (cw: descriptive illness) the ability to infect another being with a temporary illness that sweeps through their body and becomes more agonizing as it progresses through its four stages and lasting between 6 to 24 hours. It is generally non-fatal. The process is as follows:

STAGE 1: Chills, headache, sore throat, possible rash. The fever has begun.

STAGE 2: Delirium, wheezing, possible seizures.

STAGE 3: Agonizing muscle pain & stiffness that mimics the effects of rigor mortis.

STAGE 4: Vomiting up black ooze until a large black and green Fever Beetle is coughed up. The fever has ended.

Gentle Repose -- the ability to protect a recently deceased target from decomposing or becoming undead for a certain period of time.

Dissonant Whispers -- the ability to whisper a discordant melody or words that one target of her choice can hear, wracking them with confusion, intense paranoia and overwhelming fear.

Speak with Dead – A spell that grants the semblance of life and intelligence to a corpse within range, allowing it to answer up to five questions.

Advanced Scientific Knowledge – she is a Supernatural Neuroscientist and Experimental Surgeon.

### Weaknesses

Energy Depletion - it is possible for her Death Energy reserves to become depleted from overuse, illness or serious injury. Depletion can cause an inability to teleport, use major powers, or any ability that uses Death Energy.

Ability Limits:

1. Finger of Death can only be used three times per 24 hour period and the target must be in relatively close range.

2. Gentle Repose targets cannot have been dead for more than 24 hours and the protection can only last about three days.

3. Mortis Fever requires her to physically touch the target with both hands to inflict the fever and she can only do so once in a 24 hour period.

4. Speak with Dead requires that a corpse still have a mouth and can't be undead. This ability cannot be used more than once on the same corpse and it only knows what it knew in life. Answers are often brief or cryptic, and the corpse is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer. This spell doesn't return the creature's soul to its body, only temporarily reanimates it.

Her own attacks could possibly be reflected back to her.

Destructible - though exceptionally durable, it is still possible to injure, maim and/or kill her through paranormal means. Vulnerabilities include: other Supers of equal or greater power, hellfire, demon toxins, neurotoxins synthesized with Reaper/undead biology in mind and psychic attacks, etc

Ghost Blindness - unlike most Specularis Reapers, Marion has a condition where she is only able to see ghosts at night/in the dark (when her night vision is activated) and only when reflected in mirrors.

Arrogant and myopic in her endeavors in that she gets so focused on present goals that she loses sight of the broader implications.

An inability to permanently sustain her “dumb blonde” act – she always inevitably gives her true intelligence and ulterior motives away in the end, especially as she forms emotional attachments and gets in over her head.

Criminal - she is a criminal of varying degrees, so there is always the possibility of that catching up with her.

## Background

### History

Marion hasn't always been a Grim Reaper. Once upon a time, she was a regular human with ambitions of red carpets and her name up in lights. But Marion has always been prone to biting off more than she can chew and achieving her ends through unethical means. All those years spent shacking up with mobsters in exchange for advancement in her acting career resulted in her star crashing and burning before its glow could truly be appreciated.

Marion doesn’t talk about her past life as a human. Certainly not the violent cruelty that ended with her face-down dead on her parlor floor on the night of her 30th birthday. She doesn’t talk about the dreams snatched away from her in the blink of an eye, or the person who did it and why, or that god awful Vera Lynn song playing on repeat in the background, mocking her as her life went down the drain. And she never, ever talks about Henry, her toddler son now left an orphan in the aftermath or her foolhardy decisions. She's buried all that deep inside her to fester and mutate into a pit of loathing and despair, glossed over by a veneer of fake smiles, counterfeit charm and a cold disregard for the wellbeing of others.

After forcibly joining the ranks of the Grim Reapers of the liminal realm Specularis, Marion began her new career as a Soul Collection Officer for the Grim Reaper headquarters and Soul Processing corporation TACHYON. However, it wasn't long before Marion's intelligence and innovative mind impressed management and by 1950, had been moved to TACHYON's science department. There, she studied Supernatural Neuroscience and Experimental Surgeries, eventually becoming a respected scientist. She was brought on board their top secret programs related to bioengineered androids and organ harvesting. She even had her own office with "Dr. Tregennis" printed on the frosted glass door. But like most things, it didn't last.

Much like Icarus flew too close to the sun, Marion too fell victim to her own hubris. Suspicious of the true motives of TACHYON and bored of her usual work, she began undertaking unauthorized experiments of her own, developing theories about soul transference, sentient androids and ways to potentially bypass the natural order of life and death as a whole. When she was found out in 1966, she was immediately apprehended and sent to the Reaper Rehabilitation & Re-Education Center; a place somewhere between a fantasy prison and a sci-fi asylum, with fun little trips to solitary and everything!

Marion doesn't talk about the 20 years she spent there, either. The torture--pardon, the re-education--is just more fuel for her nightmares. Upon release, she was demoted to occasional lab assistant and returned to Soul Collection the rest of the time. If you were to ask her, they really should have revoked her access to the labs entirely and never trusted her around human souls again. It's not her fault they fell for her act of compliance and the "return of her senses." As far as she's concerned, it's TACHYON's own fault for what came next.

The next decades were spent scheming, recollecting all of her research, writing lists of needed supplies, making copies of other research and regaining the trust of her supervisors so as to slip under the radar while plotting her escape. The Earth town Cedargrove, WA was selected as the place she'd set up shop due to having discovered it as her son's final resting place; an additional blow to her psyche seeing those 1938-2003 dates carved in stone below her dear boy's name. So in 2016, Marion situated herself in the town under the guise of a concerned Grim Reaper wanting to help the plight of the poor, fragile humans by protecting them and their precious souls from things that go bump in the night. She brought one of her Modified Sentient Androids (Lyndi) along with her, passing Lyndi off as her personal android assistant who of course knew the importance of keeping the Secret. To her delight, Marion unexpectedly found herself in the midst of the SRI as something of a on-call, situational agent.

This allowed her to covertly begin transferring equipment and several androids (in stasis) from Specularis to her new basement laboratory in Cedargrove. Now effectively AWOL from Specularis, she begins her new life of playing the mad scientist long con in Cedargrove, where she presents herself as a rich, eccentric but amiable local, who donates to charities, helps old ladies across the street and all the nauseating nonsense necessary to hiding in plain sight, like a snake in the grass.

### Motivations and Goals

Resume her experiments pertaining sentient androids and soul transference, snoop on the SRI, be a conniving little creep and look good while doing it.

## Living Situation

### Home

Marion lives in a large Pepto-Bismol pink mansion in Old Cedargrove, at the edge of the forest. Despite it's cheery paintjob, there is something unsettling and ominous about the house, leading Marion to gleefully refer to it as her little house of horrors.

Inside is an eclectic mixture of obnoxious vintage kitsch, interior decorating that ranges from mid-century modern to antique Baroque and numerous oddities and curiosities scattered throughout. A white grand piano sits in the downstairs parlor and a black obsidian urn kept on her mantle, which seems to omit a depressing aura when standing near it; these are the only two things that seem to get regularly dusted.

The upstairs is where the bedrooms are, and above that is an attic crammed with random old bric-a-brac and holiday decor left behind by previous owners. The basement is a stale, damp area used mostly for storage and typical things like the hot water heater and laundry machines. But there is also a locked door to a hidden room, wherein Marion has set up her secret laboratory.

### Travel

Teleporting or a Barbie pink 1958 Cadillac Hearse

#### Roommates

She lives with a sentient android named Lyndi (coming soon).

#### Pets

Walter -- a male, one-eyed grey and white tabby tomcat

Beesechurger (Beesie) -- a female chonky black and white tuxedo cat.

They came with the house. Marion thinks they're secretly demons but so far has no proof.

## Plotting

### Desired Ships/Plots

Always down for her forming begrudging friendships! Romantic ships are tentatively fine but should be considered Hard Mode for her. Frenemies, enemies and working relationships are all groovy, as well as past-tense stuff (ie: exes, old business partners, etc). I always love plots that allow Marion to lean into being a villainous monster, test her morals or allow her to show her inner vulnerability and compassion.

### Where to Encounter Marion

Her house of horrors, shopping, the cemetery, wandering back alleys late at night.

### No-Go's for RP

All I ask is to please keep in mind that she’s not a good person.