Marcela Álvares

**Marcela Álvares** is a member of the Offshore, having passed the Process and moved from the Inland when she was 20. Marcela is the leader of the Offshore Army and is responsible for maintaining security during the Process.

## Personality

Marcela is tough and smart in the face of danger, often seeming intense and unapproachable from a distance. She can be kind at times, such as when she allows Rafael to have second chances.

In truth, Marcela is self-righteous and arrogant, believing herself and those who passed the Process and made it to the Offshore as superior to those of the Inland, believing the people of the Inland to be inferior and unworthy, and this hubris extended towards her son Marco for failing the Process and regarding him as a failure and a disappointment. She would later use their relationship to manipulate him, going as far as to legally change her grandson's name from Mauricio to Leonardo, after her own father, until Marco finally turned against her.

Marcela has no honor or decency, as she arranged for the Shell to be sabotaged and conspired to take it over as an extension of the Offshore's power over the people of the Inland while presenting herself with the facade of a person coming in to solve all the problems (which she herself was truly responsible for).

Marcela loves her father but they never show their affection or even their bond as father and daughter publically, only acknowledging each other as family when they are alone. She showed a desire to please her ailing father, who expressed a bittersweet wish to see his whole family in the Offshore (which included Marco and his son Mauricio).

However, it is later revealed that Marcela was driven by a wish to please her father but her father was cruel and cold to her, expecting certain standards of her that spurred her to do whatever she could to gain his approval. This shaped her into the person she became and it was the decisions of her father and son to die on the Offshore that caused her to finally realize how wrong she had been, about family and about her misplaced pride in the Alvarez name.

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Marcela is a member of the Álvares family and is disappointed to find out her son, Marco, did not pass the Process.

Marcela possesses knowledge of the Founding Couple's murder of the third Founder, Samira, thanks to André telling her about the Founder's Communication Room he found. She appears content to keep this knowledge a secret.

Marcela is allied with the Militia, having direct communication with their leader, Gerson, and later her son, Marco.

After discovering that Ezequiel is a member of the Cause, she kills him and hangs his body in the street with the Cause logo on it, making it look like the Cause assassinated the leader of the Process.

## Season Two

### "Chapter 01: Mirror"

Marcela spoke to Michele after noticing Michele making frequent visits to the RTC to see her brother. She told Michele she'd investigated the murder, was there moments afterward, while André was covered in Eugênio's blood. She cautioned Michele to forget her familial ties.

After learning that the Cause had stolen explosive chemicals for an attack, Marcela became concerned with Ezequiel's performance and wanted to be put in charge of security. Nair agreed.

### "Chapter 02: Toaster"

Marcela tested Rafael to see if he was ready to return to the Inland representing the Offshore, but he failed. He asked to go anyway, but she refused to send someone who wasn't prepared. He went to run a new simulation himself and said she'd allow him to go only if he beat the record, a record she held. He succeeded and she sent him home to pack.

### "Chapter 03: Static"

Rafael came to Marcela again to ask to be transferred to the ARU. She refused, but he sabotaged another ARU member to get added to the team.

### "Chapter 04: Napkin"

After the team went to the Inland, Marcela learned that Rafael had disappeared and was presumed to be kidnapped. She wanted to send a team to find him, but Ezequiel said it would be a waste of time. Despite this, she contacted Gerson for his help finding Rafael. She gathered some troops and they went out to find him. They found him just as he shot and killed Ivana, a member of the Cause. Later, Marcela updated Cássia and Cássia told her there was something she needed to know about Ezequiel and Michele.

### "Chapter 05: Lamp"

When Marcela asked him about Michele, Rafael insinuated the Michele was part of the Cause and they had kidnapped him.

Marcela then worked with Cássia to figure out what Ezequiel was doing. They broke into his station and heard him talking to Joana, Michele, and Silas, revealing his affiliation with the Cause and the plan for the bomb. She ordered the perimeter closed and the confronted Ezequiel and Michele as they tried to come back. She slit Ezequiel's throat and then hung his body up with a message written on his blood claiming that the Cause killed him. She then returned to the Offshore and spoke to the crowd about her shock at what happened. She also confirmed that the Process would go forward as planned and she would step up to lead it.

### "Chapter 06: Bottles"

Marcela announced that any Process candidate to provided information that led to the arrest of someone with the Cause would be rewarded.

Michele brought the bomb to Marcela to convince her she wasn't with the Cause. Marcela called Cássia and told her to greet Michele when she arrived on the next submarine.

### "Chapter 07: Fog"

Under Marcela's orders, Michele underwent treatment in the RTC meant to erase her memory of Marcela killing Ezequiel, but she refused to forget and eventually escaped.

### "Chapter 08: Frogs"

Marcela authorized Rafael to check out the militia, believing him loyal. Soon afterward, Marcela went to the Álvares residence in the Inland. Marco tried to hug her, but she pulled back. He asked her for another shot at the Process and she agreed to consider it. He pulled her into a hug, but she quickly pulled back out and left.

### "Chapter 09: Necklace"

André confessed to Marcela the full circumstances surrounding Eugênio's murder. She said he could undergo treatment.

Marcela sent Marco and the militia to protect the Offshore.

### "Chapter 10: Blood"

Marcela ordered additional surveillance of the Process building. Despite this, Joana and Fernando were able to carry out their part of the plan. Angry, Marcela went out in search of the invaders herself. When power was restored, she learned that the Process data had been compromised.

Without the data, Marcela prepared to tell the candidates that the Process wouldn't go forward. When the candidates tried to break through the doors, Marcela told the guards to stop them using any means necessary. She even joined in herself. The candidates sat down in the Process building and refused to leave until the Process started. Marcela prepared to have the guards start shooting them, but then Nair announced that it would begin, having retrieved the data from Michele. Marcela spoke to all the candidates.

## Season Three

### "Chapter 01: Sand"

After a storm damaged the Shell and left them without sufficient resources, Marcela offered the Offshore's help in exchange for turning the Shell into a training ground for the Process.

### "Chapter 02: Scalpel"

Marcela was shocked to see people's implants going dark and wondered what was happening. Among those, she noticed her grandson's going dark, unaware that Marco had cut it out for him to get them both to the next step in Michele's Selection.

### "Chapter 03: Medicine"

Marcela interrogated Rafael's brother (the real Rafael), who admitted to stealing his brother's implant because his brother had stolen his.

When Marcela learned about the Shell's Selection, she was angry because it could help the Shell survive.

### "Chapter 04: Duck"

Marcela met with Glória, who asked if the Offshore's offer still stood. Marcela said it did, but Glória needed to be the one to tell everyone in the Shell. Marcela then offered to extend her Process and give her another shot to get to the Offshore.

### "Chapter 05: Lever"

Marcela returned to the Offshore to visit her father, a member of the Council. He told her he hated the Offshore hospital and didn't want to die there. He said it made him sick to see people, including his great-grandson, ripping out their implants.

When Glória had invaded the Shell, she told Marcela and Marcela asked her what the residents of the Shell wanted. She said that within 24 hours, the Division would arrive with supplies and everything they needed to take over the Shell.

### "Chapter 07: Gardrone"

We learn that Glória failed the Process when Marcela told her that Fernando had been badly beaten, but could be saved if she went to him right away. She decided to leave, failing her Process right before the end.

### "Chapter 08: Wave"

Marcela visited her father as he continued to decline. He blamed Marcela for the disease that was killing him.

Marcela announced that anyone who removed their registration could be re-registered with no hard feelings. She arrived at the Shell and began passing out food and water to everyone. She went to see Mauricio and re-registered him under the name Leonardo after her father.

She spoke to the Shell residents and explained that they needed to reinsert their implants and the Shell would become a place to train for the Process. Her speech was interrupted when Joana played the recording that proved that the Offshore sabotaged the Shell. The crowd rose up against the Division. Marcela went to get Mauricio to escape with him, but she was captured.

In her cell, she received a note saying she had an ally in the Shell.

## Season Four

### "Chapter 01: Moon"

Marcela learned that some of the Shell leaders had gone to the Offshore and questioned why Michele didn't go with them.

### "Chapter 02: Shock"

Marcela learned that the Process had been moved up and questioned it, but Glória refused to tell her anything, even though Marcela knew she was the one who sent the message about her having an ally. Later, Glória brought Marcela some food and asked her what she'd get if she helped Marcela. Marcela said she could give Glória one last test, meaning her Process wasn't quite over yet.

### "Chapter 03: Fire"

Glória asked if she'd be able to go to the Offshore if she passed and Marcela said she would. She asked for two spots, but Marcela refused, so Glória tried to change her mind by telling her the Offshore would be destroyed if she didn't agree. Glória brought Mauricio to see her, and asked again for a second spot. Marcela agreed, but said she wished she'd take someone more worthy than Marco. Glória then told her about the pulse.

With the agreement made, Glória led Marcela and the other prisoners out. Marcela told Glória to destroy the Shell, which she did, lighting in on fire. Glória told Marcela that the second spot wasn't for Marco but for her child. Marcela told her that wouldn't be a problem.

Once they were out, they went to the Process building. Marcela then told Glória she was going back on their deal. Glória could come to the Offshore once she'd given birth, but her child couldn't join her until they passed the Process.

### "Chapter 04: Submarine"

When Marcela learned the Shell group members had fled, she wanted to send a team after them, but André refused, saying there were secrets there, secrets he murdered Eugênio to keep from getting out. Marcela decided to send a team anyway. Marcela spoke to the members of the group, who then learned that the Shell had been destroyed. They went forward with their plan and the Offshore's technology was destroyed.

### "Chapter 05: Painting"

Marcela woke up after the pulse and tried to use her ring. It wouldn't work. She tried to calm people down and remind them that they're the elite. Then she learned that there was a radiation leak from the power plant. They knew it would quickly poison everyone in the Offshore, so they needed to evacuate immediately.

Marcela went to Leonardo's and found him eating with Marco. She tried to get them to evacuate with her, but they both refused, forcing her to leave on her own.

### "Chapter 06: Buttons"

When the submarined arrived at the Process building, Marcela was the only person allowed to leave it. She went to André and told him to allow everyone else to unload, but he refused to believe the Offshore was destroyed. When she attacked him, she was arrested and put in a cell with Michele and the old man. She tried to escape and then told Michele about André.

### "Chapter 07: Sun"

Marcela returned to the Álvares home and took the pictures down off the wall. She told Larissa that the rumors about the Offshore were true and Larissa left the house. When the factions started to prepare for a war, Marcela left Mauricio with some food and told him to hide. She also told him to go find Glória at the church if she took too long to come back.

When Joana presented the crowd with the technology from Laís, she explained that it contained a test. It required six participants to operate. She proposed that whoever won would get control and everyone else must answer to them. Marcela, along with Xavier, Verônica, Rafael, and eventually André agreed to compete against Joana. Xavier, Verônica, Rafael, and finally Marcela were eliminated, leaving Joana versus André. She made her final guess, but before she could be ruled correct, one of André's soldiers, Pedro, fired into the crowd, breaking the device and causing chaos. The factions ramped up again to fight, but in the morning, the fighting still hadn't started and people proceeded to the Process building, including Marcela.