Marnina Astraea

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" *Nothing will ever be enough for me, never has been, and never will. I chase things I cannot catch, I long for things that will never be, and I pursue goals that I will never reach... I’ve tried to be satisfied with what I’ve done. But I suppose I am simply too greedy and ungrateful for it... I lost my honor a long time ago.*"
―Marnina Astraea confiding in Blair

## Marnina Astraea

* Marnina Astraea
* Young Teenager

## Information

### Nicknames

* Mikaela Forseti
* Mallantha Kairos
* Meliane Amaris
* Mykia Csilla
* Metis Nomikos
* Maleah Loakim
* Maeve Caito
* Milah Ivy
* Aspen Levine

## Status

### Date of death

* 1. 10/18/2022
* 2. 2/9/2023

### Cause of death

* 1. Impaled by Thada’s icicle
* 2. Assassinated by Ashwin, Nishoku, and Pyry

## Characteristics

### Likes

* Honorable actions
* Mystery novels
* Poems
* Lavender and Lilacs
* Music
* Tea
* Potion making

### Dislikes

* Being used/manipulated
* Not being in control of her situation
* Ice and Snow
* Fire
* Direwolves, Bloodhounds, and Melekians (Mandate in general)

### Abilities

* Developing Celestial Magic
	+ Electric sparks

## Professional status

### Occupation

**Formerly*** Ranger on Katarungan's Prostasia
* Member of The Amalthea
* Member of The Esmeray
* Member of H.U.M.A.N.E.

**Current**

* Convict on the run

## Relationships

### Family

**Parents*** Katheryne †
* Advak †

**Younger Brother**

* Arlo Gracen †

**Aunt & Uncle**

* Adira Ekon
* Arev Ekon

**Cousin**

* Althea

**Grandparents (Maternal)**

* Everly Soman †
* Dante Soman †

### Friends

**Close friends*** James Venenum
* Evasis Agharna
* Sunny Acacallis †
* Blair Winslow †
* Alaric Certus †

**Good friends**

* Delilah Sciuridae †
* Kamali Kaneko †

**Uncertain/Confused**

* Caligo Diruyo
* Priya Kolohe
* Josie Aster

**Formerly**

* Sadie Sciuridae †
* Maximon Sciuridae †

### Romantic interests

* Caden (ex-boyfriend)
* Evasis Agharna (boyfriend)

### Enemies

* Vilhelm Roka
* Auxillium Raev
* Crest Sova
* Direwolves
* Melekians

**Divine*** Elior Armo †
* Adrastos Armo
* Izan Armo
* Acteus Heolstor
* Laverna Flair
* Dial Osveta
* Matoya Adil
* Srijan Aster
* Delora Styx

**The Esmeray*** Hesperia Acim
* Rakia Acim
* Ashwin Yarrow †

**The Order of Themis*** Zain Slora
* Noor Asra

**Presidium Forces*** Marcella Vidya
* Miles Prasanna
* Miya Sallow

**The Aveina*** Mammon Cozbi
* Owen Fogo

**The Syreni*** Jasper Lowell
* Ilo

**Others*** Nishoku Solljus
* Pyry Salju
* Sadie Sciuridae †
* Maximon Sciuridae †
* Ormr Keres
* Vivian Sullivan
* Rhea Fayer
* Laverna Teivel †

### Others

* The Amalthea
* The Founders (Zelig, Galena, Marici) †
* Lautaro
* Lonan
* Alfie Roka
* Noor Asra
* Olysseus Ayre
* Niloago Caddell
* Vanya Mei
* Tovia Weston
* Ophir Fayer
* Esmerelda Rembert

**Dislikes*** Adira Ekon
* Jessie Roka
* Ganymede
	+ Vesper Altair
	+ Emalyn Udaya

**Wary*** Strangers
* All associated with Gellis
* The gods
* Rhys
* Zuras
* Cybelle
* Atlas
* Ariadne

**Mentor*** Laverna Teivel †
* Lily Kyra (former)

**Familiar*** Aku

**Animal Companion*** Zahar

## Other

### Genshin Counterpart

Yae Miko

**Marnina Astraea** serves as one of the leading characters within Lore. Introduced toward the start of season two, she moved into Taraxacum shortly after Sadie, Sunny, and Josie arrived. Currently, she lives a life on the run, evading her many enemies who call for her demise.

## Appearance

One can often see Marnina donned in all black, with the occasional purple accent. Usually wearing either a nice blouse or dress, she prefers a more elegant approach to her outfits. She enjoys accessorizing with jewelry, as well as always wearing a gloves as to hide her dedecus. Her physical appearance changes quite often as she constantly tries to escape her former identity.

## Personality

Marnina's personality changes constantly based on the people she is around. In addition to the many aliases, she creates many different personalities for her different personas, most of which is fabricated. Throughout the story, she's gradually revealed her true colors. Coming off as cold and reserved, she uses her aloofness as an intimidation method as well as a way to keep people at an arm's reach. She has difficulty expressing her true emotions, fearing she'll appear vulnerable or weak if she did. Instead, she often wears a mask of indifference--or whatever the situation calls for to keep her cover. Though as she gets to know the person, she slowly begins to open up as she begins to feel more comfortable around them.

One thing that's remained constant throughout is her desire to do what's honorable. Some examples of this include repaying favors, keeping her word, and delivering justice to those she deems needing it. Failure to show honor in situations makes her feel unworthy and hypocritical. Because despite her cut-throat lifestyle, her moral compass makes her question her choices. She's always prided herself on the fact that at the very least, she has honor. To not have any, what does she have anymore?

## Biography

Maggie Gracen, daughter of Advak and Kathryne Gracen, and sister to Arlo Gracen. She lived a pretty average life until she realized she was a magic-folk, around the time of her 10th birthday. A few days after her birthday, her hair had begun to change to an unnatural shade of purple – a certain sign of magic-folk which were being hunted within the kingdom. She dyed her hair to hide the purple, and began finding work-arounds to problems like direwolves and assessments.

Her brother also inherited magic, and it also began to manifest around his tenth birthday. Maggie did everything she could to help him hide it, though when he asked if she was a magic-folk she denied it. It was only a matter of months before her parents found out, and despite how much she begged them not to, they reported him anyway. He was hunt down later that night and killed, even after Maggie had tried to have them run away.

Distraught over the loss of Arlo, Maggie began to grow bitter toward her parents, village, kingdom, anything that had any connection to Arlo. She hid her bitterness well, quickly learning that in order to survive she had to suppress her emotions. She put on a convincing act, and about two weeks after Arlo’s death, everyone suspected she was over it. She wasn’t.

She knew she had to leave not only Livade, but all of Katarungan. Security was tight though, and she was too young to apply for the official documents that allowed her to leave.

Everyone within Katarugan is required to serve the kingdom for a minimum of three years. Using this rule to her advantage, she applied to serve in Katarugan’s Prostasia, the King’s guard  – specifically for the rangers section, which mainly focused on patrolling the borders, keeping foreigners out and residents within. Though the application process was difficult, she eventually got in, though was looked down upon as she was quite young (sixteen at the time) and a female. For the next two years, she worked on securing her position and gaining respect and power. She learned all the secrets to how they operate, what the shifts were, where the less-guarded points in the border were. After years of planning, the night finally came for her to make her escape. She was successful, and so far, no one has been able to find her…

About a month or so later, Maggie became overwhelmed in a direwolf attack. A kind stranger, who’s name she later learned as Laverna Teivel. Laverna offered her a place to stay which Maggie graciously accepted. The two began forming a bond, like that of a mentor to apprentice. Laverna revealed she was also a magic-folk – a Soleil – and helped Maggie learn to harness her own magic – Alqamar – though Maggie was capable of very simple Soleil magic. Laverna would always gush over how fascinating Alqamar magic was and tell Maggie she was so lucky to have it, to which Maggie would always awkwardly thank her for the kind words and change the topic.

The strange compliments only grew more often, until one day Laverna revealed she wished to form a pact with Maggie – one where Maggie transfers her Alqamar magic to her. Obviously, Maggie refused and a fight ensued after which Maggie won by using her skill in combat to her advantage. Maggie killed Laverna and, with nowhere else to go, took Laverna’s house for her own. To this day, she still resides there, though some modifications have been made from the original.

Some months after that she met Josie, and warily formed a friendship with her. Yet some more months later, she was invited to join the Amalthea, an organization composed only of magic-folk. She joined and yet more months later was assigned a new mentor, Lily, who helped her further her magic.

Now she roams the world as she pleases, here one place, gone the next. She continues to form various connections, friends, enemies, and everything in between.

## Quotes

*"I don’t make promises so I don’t have to keep them. I don’t accept them, so i don’t have to be betrayed by them later on."*
― Marnina to Max

*"I don’t appreciate lies, but at least don’t lie to yourself. Face me and tell me what’s going on."*
― Marnina to James (*C!M 41. Ticket to Limbo*)

*"Josie, please... I can't lose... I still want to be friends... Please tell me we can make this work somehow."*
― Marnina to Josie (*Don't Go*)

*"A friend’s relationship has been severed because of me. I should have never done that, oh stars, why did I do that? Why is the right choice the wrong one?! What do I want anymore?"*
― Marnina's soliloquy (*C!M 48. I Came. I Betrayed. I Left.*)

*"Well, I have a code I follow. Generally anything that falls within that code, I consider honorable–such as following through on promises, repaying those who’ve extended kindness, the like."*
― Marnina to Blair discussing values (*Girl's Night*)

*"My, history repeats its own bittersweet ironies, no? I gave your sister this exact same scar. May it remind you that you truly are just like her, and may it remind me to never trust the sweetest promise again."*
― Marnina to Max whilst sparing (*C!M 39. Just Like*)

*"Tsk, this knife is for butter, not blood, darling. You wouldn’t be able to hurt a fly with that thing."*
― Marnina to Sadie (*30. Pleasantries Over Pasta*)

*"It's inevitable. I hurt everyone I ever cared for, or I fail in trying to protect them."*
― Marnina to Blair (*I'm a mess but how've you been? :)*)

*"But if death is clearly inevitable, I'd rather a painless one. I want my last breath to be a sigh of relief."*
― Marnina to Caligo (*It's all under control, Caligo~*)

*"I see. So alongside your fancy necklace, your fancy titles went away as well? What a shame, indeed. Do you want my sympathies?"*
― Marnina mocking Vyn (*C!M 8. A Long Night*)

*"It doesn't matter what you do. You can be everything I need, you can be everything I want, you can be absolutely perfect. But I'm going to inevitably hurt you, I'm going to keep trying to pull away... and one day it'll just be too much for either you or me, or maybe it'll be both of us. And whatever we had will crumble down on us and kill us. And I don't want to put you through that. You don't deserve it."*
― Marnina to Evasis (*3 Speed Run: Marvis 100%run*)

*"[Y]’know what I realized during my short time in limbo though? I truly realized just how terrifying living really is. How we tread so carefully but so shortly on the tightrope of life. How it’s in our control one second, how it’s tossed to the wind in the next… so terrifyingly unpredictable. And that is why you control as many aspects of it as you can, so that you’ll always have something to fall back on."*
― Marnina chatting with Evasis (*3 Speed Run: Marvis 100%run*)

*"I will not subject myself to anyone’s authority whose moral values fail to align with mine whatsoever. For whatever is honourable, loyal, and honest are respectable, among other noble qualities. But may tyrants fall, and kings who take pleasure in their deaths. May the power-hungry find themselves starved, and those who serve injustice find themselves begging for mercy."*
― Marnina ranting to James (*12/7/2023—GET OUT OF THE HOUSE C’MON*)

## Fun Facts

* Her signature was written by real-life Marnina, thus her signature is very similar to Marnina's actual signature.
* Originally was created to be an antagonist.

## Other

### Personality (Extra)

* **DND Alignment:** Lawful Neutral
* **Enneagram:** 8w9
* **MBTI:** INTJ-T
* **Strengths:** witty, sarcastic, poetic, cunning, polite, logical, cool-headed, intelligent, loyal, firm in her beliefs and sticks with them, responsible, observant, honorable, thoughtful, protective, passionate, feels emotions very strongly, private, thinks ahead, learns from mistakes, determined, resilient, perceptive
* **Flaws:** secretive, can be mildly condescending, can be harsh, mildly selfish, callous, impious, cynical, mildly unforgiving, holds grudges, closed off, suppresses emotions, lonely, paranoid, pessimistic, reserved, conflicted, prideful, untrusting, incredibly future-focused, tries to escape the past, untruthful, wants to do things by solely herself

### Other

* Playlist:
	+ Spotify
	+ YouTube Music
* Pinterest Board
* Skins
	+ Introduced As
	+ First Life
	+ Casual
	+ Second Life
	+ Mykia Csilla 1
	+ Mykia Csilla 2
	+ Gloved
	+ Maleah Loakim (Third Life)
	+ Maeve Caito