Mars

**Mars Marbles** is a character in Apocalytopia. She is first introduced in Half Toledo, bursting through the Fellow Crafters store in the Half Toledo Tour Van.

## Personality

Mars is a very smart and carefree person. While she knows how to create insane machinery, she does it for no reason other than "fun". She's also shown multiple times to be down with whatever anyone asks her to do, just because what they propose sounds fun.

## History

### Pre-Apocalyptopia

Mars was one of the kids that was saved by Garry. During the first year of the apocalypse, she woke up one night to find that it was snowing outside. She also tested the snow for radioactivity, proving that it was highly poisonous. However, the amount of noise she caused woke up every other kid, which prompted Garry to think of the Nuclear Winter holiday.

### Half-Toledo

Braxton and Cole decide to fix a van to have their band, Half-Toledo, tour around the world. To fix the van, they call Mars. While they were shopping for supplies in Fellow Crafters, Mars burst through the glass doors with the van. She doesn't appear for the rest of the volume.

### Acid Rain

At the star of the volume, Mars is seen having a chat with Ben over food, when Jodie suddenly asks them to help her dig out an old subway area. Mars calls out her robots, and they dig it out. Then, because of the titular acid rain, she gets stuck in there. She also calls everyone on the walkie-talkies and warns them of the rain. During the rain, her robots get broken. She, along with Jodie and Ben, try to get help from Braxton and Cole, but they can't open the grate that separates the subway from the arcade. While that happens, Dean and Beth enter Mars' lab, in which they use multiple inventions, including a time machine and a transforming gel (which will later become Sodie). This gel chases them around the school. During that, Mars and the other try to ask Garry to open the grate to let them in, but he refuses to because of "sewer beasts". Dean, meanwhile, picks up Mars' laser weapon, which he dubs the Heist Blaster. This blaster opens up a hole to the subway, which Dean (willingly) and Beth (forcefully) jump down to, joining up with the rest of the group. The gel continues to chase them. Mars states that this gel is a prototype for cloning, which she developed for fun. Ben decides to electrocute the gel, but that just makes it bigger. Dean, however, blasts open the ceiling and the acid mostly destroys the gel. However, it gets through the grate and goes to Garry. Garry then, apparently, traps the gel in a van, which happens off-panel.

### Bandit Attack Training

Mars gets rounded up for bandit attack training, along with everyone else. She was then later asked by Garry to create the Bandit Bots, which are equipped with tranquilizer guns. Garry then uses these bots to make a scenario where everyone has to survive their attack. Mars gets almost immediately tranquilized, which leaves her knocked out for the rest of the volume. She is also present at the round up, where Garry congratulates Dean and the people who left the town and reorganized.

### Nuclear Winter

During this nuclear winter, Mars was the one who announced the gifters and the giftees, by pulling out random cards from a box. Afterward, when Dean got angry because of not getting any gifts, he used Mars' blaster to fend off any person he doesn't want to talk to. Mars also admits to making her gift at 4 in the morning, just the night before the gifting day.

### The Radio Tower

Mars' bandit bot is seen laying in Ben's room as he tries to fix a radio. Ben then asks Mars to build a radio tower, which her robots do in a few seconds. Because Ben wants to do a range test, he asks Mars and Jodie to ride away a few kilometers in the van. During that, Mars says she's actually from a different universe, where everything is the same except Braxton is named Brandon. She also says she teleported to the moon once. Jodie then realizes that they have run out of gas. While that happens, Ben, Cole and Braxton get up on the tower and hear a creaking sound. That was the sound of the ladder collapsing, and they fear that the tower might soon break down. Ben also thinks that they have run out of signal range and hope that the other group will come save them. That hope is shared by Mars and Jodie. They then open the van to discover that the gel monster has shrunk, and that it's still alive. After a few minutes of playing around, they decide to name it Sodie, because it takes the shape of Jodie at the moment. Come evening, Ben and Braxton start freaking out since the tower has made an even louder noise. However, Mars' radio signal is caught by the tower. While she tries to contact Ben and the others, she realizes that wasps are coming. She, Jodie and Sodie lock up in the van for the night, to avoid getting eaten. When they wake up, they realize that Ben is trying to yell that the tower is collapsing. Garry also finds them, giving them more gasoline. They then immediately head off to Wolf Bark, to save Braxton, Cole and Ben. When they get there, Jodie electrocutes Sodie to make it bigger and yells for all of them to jump off the tower. They are then saved and get away from the collapsing tower. Mars' doesn't actually know why the tower has collapsed, but then Dean says that he "borrowed" the bolts from the tower.

### Scavengers

Mars mostly takes a backseat in this volume, acting as one of the election candidates while Garry is away. Braxton puts up posters with propaganda against her, saying that she started the nuclear apocalypse. She is helped by Beth and Ben during this, which propose that she could use her abilities in science to help the town. When the election is held, Braxton intentionally asks Mars questions that are very hard to answer, and then points out that she has no idea what to do. When Garry and Jodie get back, she's present when Garry tells them to be aware of Gage, a bandit who almost killed them.

### Welcome to Dark Bark

Mars doesn't appear in this volume, however her counterpart in this town, Venus, is present.

## Appearance

Mars has bright pink hair, originally brown hair. She wears purple glasses, a white science coat, a pinkish-magenta shirt, a purple big scarf with light-violet dots, a purple cap and gray pants (as shown in one of the volume covers). She also wears violet boots. Her hazmat suit is bright white, with an image of what appears to be Saturn or Uranus. She also wears her scarf on top of the suit.

As a child, she only wore the shirt and glasses.