Marisa Trueblood

Alec Lightwood, Isabelle Lightwood, Max Lightwood (Grandchildren through Maryse)
Irina Shidou (Granddaughter through Max)

## Personal Information

### Identity

Compromised
True Identity Known to Authorities

### Affiliation

Trueblood Family
Shadowhunters' Clave
Alicante, Idris
Shadowhunters

## Portrayal

### Origins

The Shadowhunter Chronicles

**Marisa Trueblood** was the wife of Adam Trueblood, and the late mother of Max Trueblood and Maryse Lightwood. She was a skilled field shadowhunter of the New York Institute and was her children's fighting instructor.

It was later revealed that she and her husband were killed by Alystair Satanachia after they discovered the Khaos Brigade's plan to infiltrate the Clave.

## History

Marisa Castel was born April 18th, 1934 to a couple of Colombian American shadowhunters from the New York Institute. When she was around 3-4 years old, her family moved to Alicante because of her parents' growing business and a betrothal was set between her and a younger boy from an influential - albeit financially weakened - family. In 1948, she became *parabatai* with a girl named Maryse Aveiro who had been her best friend since they were little kids.

Growing up, she was considered to be an outstanding warrior, if not slightly intimidating, and was the role model of many younger girls. In 1954, during a hunting mission in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, her team was ambushed by a group of demonic beasts and Maryse sacrificed herself to save her parabatai and the rest of their team. According to many, after the tragic event, Marisa had never been the same.

In 1958, when she was 24 years old, she married her long-time betrothal Adam Trueblood and took over as the matriarch of the Trueblood Family. In 1965, they had their firstborn child and son, Max, and in 1974, they had a daughter who she named Maryse after her late parabatai.

She started her children's training since an early and personally took over as their fighting instructor. They were trained in many subjects, ranging from weapon-wielding or angelic markings to "courtly subjects" like arts and poetry. She was very hard on her children's education and everytime they didn't perform to her expectation, she would send them to bed early without food or treatment if they spared earlier.

In 1983, after an investigation led her and her husband to discover the Khaos Brigade's plans to infiltrate the Shadowhunters' Clave, and through them, control the entire shadowhunter population, both of them were killed by Alystair Satanachia though she didn't go out without a fight.

Their deaths were later staged as an accident to the public, courtesy of Satanachia's spies already planted within the Clave. However, due to certain notes they left behind, Max was able to discover the hidden secrets behind their deaths and avenged them.

## Appearance

She was described as a woman of ambiguous ethnicity, with golden eyes and thick, wavy black hair reaching her waist. Despite looking every bit as stern as her husband, her voice was surprisingly warm and welcoming.

## Personality

She was widely regarded as one of the greatest shadowhunters of her generation and was the role model/inspiration for many shadowhunters after her. She was noted for her bravery and determination to protect the innocents from all harms.

Compared to her husband, she was much more expressive when it came to showing her children how much she cared about them, as well as how much she expected them to be in the future. She prioritized everything to ensure they would have the best education and training possible in Alicante, even going as far as giving them military-grade combat training to practice before they even got their first mark.

Although this was all done with good intention, this had caused so much trauma to both Max and Maryse that they still went to therapy over to this day. In one of Adam's journals, it was implied that she did all of this behind her husband's back as she knew he wouldn't approve or "understand" her methods.

Like many other older-generation shadowhunters, she possessed an extreme bias against supernatural beings and saw them as beneath shadowhunters such as her. She also believed that mundanes were "weak and naive" as they could live without knowing the dangers they were protected from and, based on her husband's journals, possibly believed that mundanes should serve under the shadowhunters to "repay for [mundanes]' ignorance".

## Trivia

* Her granddaughter, Isabelle Lightwood, is said to be a carbon-copy of her.
* She went hunting once every two weeks to catch deers and wild boars for the family's dinners.