Mara Abe

**Mara Abe,**is a Player Character in One Piece: The Aftermath.

She is a Mercenary for hire who briefly worked alongside the Blossom Pirates before terminating her alliance when the opputunity arose for her to leave the group and gain her own vessel to traverse the waters with; Using some of the slaves present on the Ship to manage the ship to depart. Accepting it as payment from Tack; agreeing that he may inquire her services again; should the need arise.

## Appearence

Mara has a bottom hourglass figure with fair skin. She has wisteria eyes and black shoulder length hair. She accessorises by wearing a set of of round glasses and 4 earrings on left ear, she also sports a snake tattoo on left shoulder that extends down to the top of her left breast. Apparel wise; Mara often wears a red gauze bra with a black blazer, bhite bell bottoms,a black choker around her neck and 6" black pencil heels. She also owns a traditional maid's outfit, which she aqquired during the visit to Equilibrieum.

## Personality

Mara works for money however, she has a soft corner for kids and females. She helps them nonetheless, being persuaded by kids easily to do their biddings in particular. She is also lazy, more often than not, only priortising things thing that benefits herself the most. Whether it be motivated by her greed, lust or general comfort. She is a quick thinker, able to adapt to a varity of situations; usually to score herself a good deal or bargin. She has quite a bit of a bloodlust, causing to lose abit of control of her own body once she starts killing, unable to stop until her foe is deceased or someone stops her.

She aspire to live quite the rich lifestyle; with a partner who can completely satisfy her needs, wants and desires. Once achieving such; she dreams to pass on her skills as she settles down; perhaps opening a Dojo where she can train the next generation with her skills.

## Powers/Abillites/Equipment

### Weapon(s)

Mara wields an Odachi as her main weapon, a type of traditionally made Japanese sword (日本刀, nihontō) used by the samurai class. She additionally carries around a small bag of shurikens and bombs to throw at her enemies incase forced into a ranged encounter.

During the Blossom's traversal of the revolutionary base equally known as "Equilibrieum", Mara obtained an anchor-like Wazamono greatsword she dubbed as **"Flashy Maiden"** which she became her primary weapon onwards; using it in all her major fights going forward. Even using it to attack and land a fatal blow upon Mai in order to escape death at the hands of the Assassin of Necrosis that was after her life. The blade itself is forged like an anchor and is able to be swung underwater with little resistence, with the hook of the anchor making it able for Mara to stay firmly in place; unable to be moved against her will. The tip of the blade; its anchor-head, is quite dense compared to the rest of the blade to the point, if swung down upon a prone opponent, it would do devestating damage against them due to the additional weight.

### Shinobi Talents

During her time she left Jaya to hunt down the Samurai that she believed responsible for her parents demise; Mara herself developed her talent for deception and infiltration in hopes she could get close to him without detection and eliminate him in Swift Kill of revenge. Practising and acting as different personas to avoid gaining too much attention in any one place.. and if that backfired she always had a small bag of explosive bombs she could throw; creating a blast of gunpoweder or dense smoke in order to slip away into the background.

### Swordsmanship

Also during her travels; althought most likely unintentional, her constant searches for the Samura; She eventually found him and learned under him; which led her to develop a similar swordsmanship to the samurai in order to properly surpass her master in terms of strength . Developing three stances: **Heaven, Earth & Man.** These three stances, forms of swordsmanship that the samurai uses to deliver intense and powerful strikes, maintains a steady and balanced footing or evade or mitigate the damage they receive. She even managed to remaster the stances into much more potient and effective forms known as **Kai (改)**, which she developed during her brief time with the Blossom Pirates.

With a two-handed Odachi as her primarly weapon; Mara developed a fighting-style based on the two-handed blade, which allowed her to cut quite effectively and maximise her damaging potential with each swing; even adapting a precise strike technique that allowed her to guantee a hit against her opponent: that uses the momentum of a missed slice to rebound the blade back into a vertical slash that is more difficult to dodge as it comes from below their guard.

## Relationships

### Blossom Pirates

#### Mai Surui

Despite being the captain of the Blossom Pirates; Mara seems to have little to no respect towards her and her postion despite hitching a ride on the Blossom's ship. They more often butt heads and wish to each lead things in their own direction. She was more than willing to sacrifice her life for the sake of Delwin and the others if it meant they could all get out alive: as she attempted on the Polaria Island with the Assassin of Necrosis. She is completely unaware that Mai is dead; killed by Jolliaster's Hands.

### Sana Tsuga

Much like with Mai, Mara seems to often butt heads with the right hand of the blossom's captain. She did not, however, hate the girl. She just often found her irratable.

#### Delwin Ale

Mara seems to have a mutal respect for Delwin; seeing him as an equal or even prehaps the actual captain of the crew. She often joked around with him and teased him with his relationship with Mai: who was delwin's childhood friend. More often than not hinting that if he liked her; he should go for it.

#### Amahime

Despite not having interacted much with the young lass; Mara and Amahime has no negative affilation towards one another. With Amahime being a child **and** female, she was Mara's biggest weakness aboard the Novachrono; often being persuaded into making the young sky-islander cookies whilst they traveled between islands.

#### Tack

Upon seeing Tack the first time; she threw a throwing star at him thinking he was a rat. However, over the brief time they spend with each other whilst on the Blossoms she gained a mutal respect for the tiny tonatta; even going as far to offer her services to him should they ever meet again.

## History

### Past (Pre-Blossoms)

Mara was born on Jaya and lived there with her mother and father. Her father owned an inn/bar. Once, a samurai visited the island, and stayed in their inn for a few weeks. Mara would watch him train during those weeks and immitate his moves. After the samurai left, two goons came to their inn looking for him. They were upset that they couldn't catch him and stabbed Mara's parents in a fit of rage. Then after a long struggle, Mara wad able to stab both of them to death, and then Mara left to look for the samurai; eventually coming across him but ended up utterly defeated by the swordsman who then, after calming her down; he decided to train her to make her stronger as his pupil. Later on she became a mercenary or a hired help. Killing, escorting and protecting for money.

## Triva

* Mara is the first **Samurai Class** player character.
* Mara is the oldest person currently on the Blossom Pirates/Affilated with them.
* Her role on the ship is classed as Entertainer/Muscian.
* She aspires to To live a rich lifestyle and get someome who can satisfy her needs.