Marina Caine

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Marina Caine, formerly known as Marina Claire Pradborough, is a chemistry-loving angel who left her noble family in the Angel realm and made a name for herself in the underground of the Demon realm.

## Appearance

In her childhood, Marina was forced to adjust her appearance in accordance with family ideals, since, visually, she was the only one who didn't fit into her family. Only after leaving the Angel realm was she finally able to pursue her own preferences.

Her vibrant green eyes, which are often framed by dark circles due to her regular late-night experiments, are one of the few traits she inherited from her family. In her bloodline, she is the only one who didn't inherit the family's black hair colour. Her blond hair always made her stick out among the others.
Additionally, she's quite short compared to most of her relatives, which didn't make it any easier to not get mocked by her family.

When it comes to clothing, Marina prefers clothes that are as dark as possible, usually in the form of light parkas or leather jackets and ripped jeans. Anything resembling her former noble attire in any way is a no-go for her. In public, she also wears her protective mask most of the time.

## Personality

Marina has an impulsive yet empathetic and sensitive personality. Most of the time, she is in a quiet and thoughtful mood. However, she can also be very warm and loving when she is comfortable, which was particularly evident in her previous relationship with Diana Hill.

In her environment, she is usually only known as a drug supplier. If you get to know her a little better, then she always offers a place to talk stuff through in her shop. And usually she tries to help out. One of the customers who knows Marina better is Ethan Hill. After spilling his mind out while having a mental breakdown in her shop, Marina took him into her care. She had great sympathy for him, as she knew exactly what it was like to go through a lot of crap through no fault of your own. Secretly, she already knew that Ethan was her ex's brother. But, despite her inner conflict with Diana, she didn't hesitate to help him. And they became good friends since.

To help Ethan get through his breakdowns better, she has created a special version of Sparkle that she sells exclusively to him at no extra charge. This version of the drug does not harm Ethan's body in any way and has no ill effects other than mild addiction. It helps Ethan to calm his mind when he can't take it any more.

Marina herself also had a period of drug use. It helped her with her depression and trauma after Diana's disappearance and herself leaving her family, but she soon realized that drugs were only destroying her life even more instead of improving it. However, she could not deny the positive effects and feelings the drugs gave her. So she stayed in the drug business, now as a supplier rather than a consumer. But she doesn't do it for the money alone. All she needs is enough money to survive and fund her experiments to create safer and healthier drugs with minimal risks of addiction or other negative effects on the body. With her products, she wants to give people a way to escape their problems for a moment without throwing away their whole lives.

Still, Marina never managed to get over the pain of the sudden loss of her relationship with Diana. For her, it felt like the only good things she ever had in life vanished within a second, leaving her alone in her misery. Although she doesn't want to blame Diana for her actions since they were both much younger and naive at the time, sometimes she still does.

Marina is very afraid that her past will catch up with her again, that her family will get her and drag her back into the hellhole of her old life. She regularly has nightmares about it, which is why she is often unwilling to sleep, preferring to stay up all night to avoid them. Added to this is the fear of physical violence against her as a result of her family's radical and violent methods of punishment. While this has made her more resilient when it comes to enduring pain and stress, it also led to uncontrolled violent outbursts of anger when she is under too much mental stress. Knowing this, she still tries to keep an open mind as often as possible, but will also be extremely closed up when she doesn't feel comfortable enough.

Overall, there are so many things she wishes she could change. She would like to do something about the political situation, the lust for power and racism in the angelic kingdom so that she can eventually return to her homeland. She would like to be able to handle her problems, to face her fears instead of running away from them, to accept and let go of her childhood pain. And she wishes she could finally forgive Diana for what she did back then.
She just wants to move on without having to think about what happened to her before.

## Abilities

Marina has very strong resilience, mainly due to her past. This goes hand in hand with great determination and perseverance, especially when it comes to her work. If she is deeply engaged in something, she will keep working on it until she achieves a result. Sometimes she spends hundreds of hours working on her research, only to find out that she got a tiny detail wrong from the start. And then she happily starts all over again.

Marina operates her drug business mainly on the basis of her interest in and talent for magical chemistry and her own research. She loves experimenting with different kinds of magic organic materials or minerals, which can result in some really weird and amusing reactions - and also a lot of explosions.
Her main selling point is an intoxicant she affectionately named Sparkle. This drug consists of finely cultured crystals of magical minerals. It's basically magic cocaine. If desired, she also makes individually tailored variants of drugs, which, depending on the tuning, can have different effects than their mass-produced goods - Usually, not without extra charge, of course.

Marina doesn't fly a lot, mostly because most inhabitants of the Demon realm don't like angelic beings. So, showing off her angel wings in public wouldn't be that good of an idea.

She is also very fond of butterfly knives. It's a great tool to calm her nerves when she's stressed - and to stab somebody when needed.