Marlow

The Mentor

**Marlow** is the class president of the student's board and one of the most popular students of Gwain College. She is generally serious and confident, as well as extremely determined. Later in the series, she becomes Geo's temporary trainer.

## Appearance

Marlow has long green hair, green eyes, and tan skin. She wears a dark green coat with long sleeves that cover her hands. A different Moon Tech headphone model to Geo's rests above her eyes, which has unclear abilities (if any) and she wears a one-piece suit underneath her jacket.

In her Energized form, her coat becomes black instead of dark green, her eyes and hair glow white, her hair sticks up instead of drooping down, and her pants open up to become a waist cape, exposing her legs.

* Marlow's first appearance (zoomed)
* Marlow in 004
* Energized Marlow in 007
* Wheelchair Marlow in 007's Post Credits
* Marlow wearing a cropped tracksuit in 008
* Marlow's design in episode 9, posted on Geo's twitter
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## Personality

Marlow is usually very serious but throws in sarcastic jokes sometimes. She is usually extremely honest, some may even say brutally. Marlow has shown signs of compassion many times, such as when Gwain was threatening to kill Geo in Episode 4, and defended Geo and Ami during Episode 7, not letting Luna get to them. She can be rough sometimes and is extremely determined.

## Abilities

Marlow is definitely on the stronger side of the characters. She has incredible speed, only slightly slower than Geo and Luna. Her primary form of attack is kicking.

### Physical Abilities:

Marlow is one of the fastest characters in the series, being fast enough to run on water and walls. She is also rather strong, especially when kicking. For example, a single, casual kick of hers is able to send Agni flying into a wall with enough force to create a small crater and crack the wall. Additionally, she is pretty durable, able to take a long beating from Luna, and survive Gwain's execution beam for an extended amount of time. However, she relies more on dodging than simply blocking or taking the hit.

### Magical Abilities:

Marlow's element is leaf. Her magic hasn't really shown to do a lot on its own, focusing more on making her physical attacks stronger. She's been shown to be able to do spin-attack like moves, where she becomes a glowing ball of energy and can destroy her surroundings or do faster and stronger attacks. One example of her magic being used on its own is using some underwater vines to constrict Luna. She is also shown to be capable of increasing her speed, presumably by the use of magic, to a point high enough to leave afterimages of herself a few steps behind her.

#### Energized Form:

Her most powerful ability, by far, is her Energized Form or rage mode in where her abilities are taken to a new level. A single kick from her can send Luna flying through multiple cave walls, and she's able to move as fast as a blur, kicking Luna 70 times in the span of 10 seconds, with even Luna remarking she barely beat her. This is something that appears unique to her, although other Teorans have done very brief similar things.

### Weaknesses:

Marlow's magical abilities don't really seem to do anything on their own, especially in areas with low foliage, leaving her susceptible to ranged attacks unless she can close the gap fast enough. Her arms aren't particularly strong, barely being able to hold onto the Desert Worm, and having to be saved by Geo. Her Energized form is also a last-ditch effort or finishing blow overdrive, taking enough damage in her Energized form will knock her back to normal, becoming completely exhausted as well. Although she did suffer limb rupture, this was probably due to the beam that forced her out of this state, not the state itself.

## History

### Gwain Saga - 003

Marlow makes her first appearance in Episode 3 as a cameo, where it is shown that her motive is to discover who or what Geo is.

### Gwain Saga - 004

In Episode 4, Marlow continues attempting to find out who Geo is, and even goes up to Mizu, using the bathroom. She even goes as far as to *stalk* him, leading to Ami shooting her out of a tree with her bow, and stunning her. She claims she "knows who Geo really is," whereas Geo is confused. She decides to bait Geo by telling him, "if you come for me that's 'cause you have something to hide."

Eventually, the chase goes underground, and she and Geo accidentally wake up a MoonTech Driller that shoots Geo with a laser, knocking him into Marlow. She and Geo are just sitting ducks until a creature of light destroys the robot and sends Geo and Marlow flying out of the hole and into the sky, where the beast catches them.

Gwain eventually finds the pair falling in the sky after saving them from the light creature, with Geo slightly unconscious. Marlow mistakes Geo's identity as a vampire, although she states, "Something does not add up." Gwain and Marlow argue over whether Geo is a vampire or not, and eventually, Gwain states that Geo's identity was found out, therefore she must execute him. Gwain casts her Execution Beam and pins Geo to a rock, slowly killing him. Marlow realizes she went too far, and after stepping into Gwain's Execution beam, she offers to teach Geo and keep his identity a secret. Gwain then agrees, and Geo and Marlow become teammates and friends. In the end credits, Marlow is shown training Geo on his speed.

### Gwain Saga - 005

In Episode 5, Marlow is less of an important character, but nonetheless still part of the story. Ami and her friends gather crystals and come across a towering ice shard. While Agni cracks open the structure, a huge Phoenix appears, making them retreat.

At the college, Marlow asks the crew why they are separated from the rest of the school, far in the corner. It is revealed that Marlow is relatively high on the class scale, whilst the rest are at the bottom for various reasons. While this charade was going on, Electra appeared and gave Marlow an invitation to her birthday party, but Marlow denies it and gives it to Geo instead, stating that Ami needs her bodyguard.

### Gwain Saga - 006

Leading to Episode 6, Marlow briefly saw Geo's eyes, undoubtedly making her confused as to what she just saw. However, she subsequently just shook it off, blaming the heat for manipulating her imagination. Marlow goes to the washroom, and immediately detected Agni, ejecting him from her presence. Following that, it is revealed that she is a senior in college, graduating this year.

### Gwain Saga - 007

In Episode 7, Marlow takes on a bigger role than in the last two episodes. Marlow is informed of the "Gwain Warriors". While Ami, Deva, and Agni leave, Marlow stays behind as she received no invitation. Overseeing the event on the television, Marlow quickly notices that the person unveiling the statue is Luna, and dashes to the scene.

While the curtains are being lifted up, Marlow swiftly tackles Luna, taking the both of them far away from the crowds. She knees Luna in the chin, starting the fight. In the caverns, she continues to duel with Luna, however, she fails to dodge a Magic Card Luna threw and was blasted away from the impact. Just when Luna thought she was done for, Marlow dashes out of the rubble, seemingly taking on a new, more powerful form. Her speed and force powers up greatly, and she rapidly kicks Luna, synced to the music. After a couple of kicks, she unleashes her wrath and attacks with a full barrage, using immense her speed to her advantage, gradually speeding up with every kick. At the end of the barrage, she does a 1-2 with her feet and blasts Luna with extreme force, making Luna crash through 3 rock barriers while still flying faster than Luna is zooming through the air by the impact. She kicks Luna once more, blasting her to the wall and making a lot of objects fall on the exhausted antagonist. Marlow swiftly moves towards Luna to finish the job, but Luna pulls out her hat, and it suddenly turns into a powerful laser. Marlow realizes her mistake, but it was too late. She was blasted and knocked out by the impact.

### Gwain Saga - 008

A month or so before 008, Marlow was lent a game by Ami (similar to Animal Crossing) and becomes addicted to the game, spending 745 hours (31.04 Days) or a month on it.

In Episode 8, Marlow is seen still playing the game attempting to get an in-game squirrel version of Lanney to stay on her island. Savien says that the group will be headed to the South Coast of Gwain to find Regenerative Ivy for Marlow's leg. Marlow says that her leg will heal in a few more weeks and that her wheelchair could not be taken there. Savien responds by pointing to her wheelchair, now crudely modified with a monobloc chair. Marlow dejectedly responds, saying, "You gotta be kidding."

Later, the group goes to the Magic Street Market to buy supplies for the trip. While everyone else speedily goes shopping, Marlow is forgotten. Marlow is later seen purchasing a Lv. 18 Leaf Swimsuit.

## Trivia

* Marlow's Voice Actor is Hayley Nelson, known online as Haylizbeth
* Marlow is often compared Sonic the Hedgehog for due to having extreme speed and making references to him during her attacks, especially when using her spin attack.
* Her ability to increase her speed through magic can be compared to both Sonic's boost though resembling one of Samus' abilities in the Varia suit more closely, since both increase their speed and leave afterimages of them while running. In Marlow's case, the combat capabilities of this ability are unknown.
* Before donning the Leaf Swimsuit, her clothing in 008 seems to be a reference/parody of Adidas. By extension, this could also be a reference to Gopniks due to their love of Adidas jumpsuits and squatting which Marlow has been seen doing in multiple artworks.
* As of a previous draft of this page, Geo has made one card showing Marlow, shown alongside another card of his making
* Early drawings of Marlow shows her with a drastically different design, she had grey hair instead of green and it was not spiky.