Macaria Fata (Manga)

"*I am the Pretty Heroine of blessings and souls! I am Sailor Underworld! And now, you will be blessed with fate.*"
— Sailor Underworld's Introduction
**Macaria Fata**
 (マカリア ファタ, *Makaria Fata*?) is one of the secondary protagonists of Pretty Guardians of Olympus. Macaria is otherwise known as the guardian of blessings and souls, **Sailor Underworld**
 (セーラーアンダーワールド, *Sēra Andāwārudo*?). She's the co-leader of the Sailor Senshi and the protector of the Underworld "Soul" Crystal. Her abilities revolve around pyrokinesis, communication with souls, and shadow manipulation.

Macaria is the main protagonist of her own upcoming spinoff novel detailing her time as Dark Underworld and the events of the first arc from her perspective.

## Appearance

### Civilian

Macaria is an athletically built young woman with ghostly pale skin and dark red eyes. Macaria, however, gained rosy cheeks after being freed from Melione's influence. Her wavy, dark violet hair reached her lower back but it was often held in a high ponytail.

Macaria frequently wore the Prometheus Academy school uniform which consisted of a very dark blue blazer with yellow accents, white blouse, a blue tartan skirt, white socks, and a blue and yellow striped tie along with shoes of her choice (black heels). However, when she was not in her uniform, she often wore varying different outfits.

### Sailor Guardian

* Dark Underworld
* Sailor Underworld
* Super Sailor Underworld
* Eternal Sailor Underworld
* Princess Macaria

## Information

Macaria was born over a 1000 years ago in a Mediterranean coastal town. Not much is known about her childhood other than her mother was a bit distant but cared for her deeply. A plague hit the town, killed Macaria's mother, and made Macaria very ill. The previous Warden's Vessel put Sailor Tartarus's Sailor Crystal into Macaria to heal her for an unknown reason. A couple of years went by until Macaria's hometown was attacked by a monster. The young girl was able to distract it and lured it away from the town. However, the monster had severely injured her and ran away. Persephone found Macaria and took pity on her, healing the injured girl and taking her in for that spring and summer. Persephone knew that Macaria was Hades's daughter born out of an affair but did not mind it, seeing the girl as her own. The following fall, Macaria is taken to the Underworld with Persephone.

Melione learned of the prophecy about her rise to power but subsequent fall to the "demigod heroes," around the time of Macaria's arrival to the Underworld and took advantage of the situation. Melione somehow convinced Macaria to join her cause under the guise of it being to protect people from the pains of the world. Macaria trained for many years to make herself stronger and eventually partially awakened as a Sailor Guardian.

Macaria was sent off to collect life energy and intel soon after her partial awakening. When on her mission, she befriended the Minor Gods Sailor Guardians. She quickly became very close with Sailor Psyche and began to reject the brainwashing Melione put her under. Melione attempted to get Dark Underworld to kill her new friends but she refused to do so at the last minute. Melione ended up being the one to kill them. Macaria vowed to never get close to anyone again after that, believing she was a curse due to the tragedies that befell her hometown and her friends.

## Sailor Underworld

Macaria can transform into Sailor Underworld by calling out her transformation phrase as long as she has her transformation item with her.

### Phrases

* **Underworld Power, Make Up**
* **Underworld Deity Power, Make Up**
* **Underworld Divine Power, Make Up**
* **Underworld Crystal Power, Make Up**
* **Underworld Crystal Eternal Power, Make Up**

### Items

* **Underworld Transformation Stick**
* **Underworld Transformation Brooch** (Deity Power and Divine Power)
* **Underworld Crystal Heart**
* **Underworld Crystal Star**

### Weapons

* **Tiara**
* **Soul Sword**
* **Chains of the Underworld**

## Nomenclature & Etymology

### Etymology

**Macaria:** Macaria means "she who is blessed" or simply "blessed".

**Fata:** The exact language of origin for the surname is not clear but it in various languages can translate to "fairy". However, Chio-Ane stated in an interview it was more supposed to be a pun on death being considered "fate".

## Trivia

* Macaria acts as Eleni's foil and narrative counterpart within the story.
	+ While Eleni is very enthusiastic and tries to see the best in everything, Macaria is a major realist and blunt.
* In Greek Mythology, Macaria is the name two different figures have. The first being a daughter of Heracles that sacrificed herself to Persephone for the city of Athens. The second is Hades's daughter that represents a blessed death. Sometimes, Macaria (the daughter of Hades) is depicted as the goddess of a blessed death.
	+ Macaria Fata is based off of the versions of the myths that have Macaria as Hades's daughter. However, she does have some inspiration from the legends that have her as Heracles's daughter.
		- Macaria sacrificed herself as a child to save her hometown from a monster. Said hometown is vaguely reminiscent of Athens.
		- Persephone takes pity on Macaria and heals her which parallels Heracles Macaria sacrificing herself to Persephone.