Mara Aurora Anluan

> *"Is there no worthy enemy anywhere that can satisfy me?"*
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**Mara Aurora Anluan**, also known as **Mara of the Dawn**, is a demigoddess whose the descendant of the God of Destruction, along with her sister, Lenore, and her half-brother, Balder.

## Personality

Mara is shown to be a very kind, caring, strong and reliable person that is pointed out by other characters, but she is also calm and collected as she almost never freaks out or loses her cool in combat, which is an almost frightening degree. Usually a calm individual, she can become highly agitated by other people's lecherousness. Like Keres, she hides her sadness behind her cool exterior, but the love of her fellow allies have helped to soften the pain of her wounds. Needless to say, she works excellently in a team.

However, Mara reveals sadistic tendencies while fighting, often smiling whenever she's in combat. It can be assumed that Mara's existential conflict manifests itself by cloaking her troubled, sadistic, malevolent, and violent nature with the façade of a well-mannered and cultured young woman. Her sadistic tendencies manifested four years before the story when she fought off a would-be molester. At first, it was self-defense, but soon she realized that she enjoyed causing pain and having control over somebody's life.

Mara loves to fight and holds special respect for strong opponents, which shows when she openly recognized Igrit as a warrior rather than a simple shadow.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Absolute Light**: Mara can create a field of absolute light that blinds the targets either temporarily or permanently and may also dull or even completely negate the other senses. She is potentially, if the correct situation is in play, able to generate light so intense it can completely obliterate objects in its path without heat.
* **Healing Factor**: Demigods can heal faster and with more finality than humans and sustain far greater damage.
* **Heightened Senses**: Demigods' five senses (hearing, smelling, sight, etc) are greatly increased.
* **Superhuman Stamina**: Demigods have higher stamina than most mortals (non-demigods or pure humans).
* **Light Blade Construction**: Mara can construct blade weapons of various shapes and sizes out of light. Due to the frequency emitted by the light energy, the blades created are capable of cutting through virtually anything. The blades will last until Mara dispels them willingly.
* **Light Energy Manipulation**: Mara can create, shape and manipulate light energy, usually drawn from inter-dimensional or other similar sources. It can be channeled to a variety of effects as an absence of darkness, a solid, gaseous and/or liquid substance that can be shaped/manifested in various ways. Unlike Light Manipulation, which can draw from the similar source, light energy focuses on protective, curative and the creatively preservative aspect of the spectrum, though it can still be used offensively. As light energy is the antithesis of dark energy, it can be used to promote growth, heal/purify targets and/or bring balance to a chaotic system made up of both types of energy.
* **Light Infusion**: Mara can infuse objects (usually a weapon), beings or powers with light, empowering and energizing them and allowing Mara to manipulate their qualities and efficiency.
* **Light Manipulation**: Mara can create, shape and manipulate visible light, commonly referred to as light, which is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, and is responsible for the sense of sight. Primary properties of visible light are intensity, propagation direction, frequency or wavelength spectrum, and polarization, while its speed in a vacuum (299,792,458 meters per second/186,000 MPS) is one of the fundamental constants of nature. Visible light, as with all types of electromagnetic radiation (EMR), is experimentally found to always move at this speed in a vacuum. In common with all types of EMR, visible light is emitted and absorbed in tiny "packets" called photons and exhibits properties of both waves and particles. This property is referred to as the wave–particle duality. The study of light, known as optics, is an important research area in modern physics.

### Blade Techniques

**Light Slash**: Mara can combine light to attack with her blade.

**Light Strike**: Mara can make her blade emit light to power a strike.

**Razor Wind**: Mara slices through the air itself with her blade.

**Slash Projection**: With a swing of her blade, Mara releases a concussive force great enough to send Abigor crashing in a tower.

## Techniques

* **Paradiso of the Abyss**: Mara places her hand over her chest and suddenly sprouts six black wings. She takes to the sky and coats her 7-pronged blade with the black fire from her left hand which also extends it. She then begins to wave her sword while in the air, attacking the ground below her with an onslaught of infinite projectiles from her sword. She ends it off by crashing down into the ground with a downward punch.
* **Divine Judgment**: While presenting various similarities to Paradiso of the Abyss, this technique is very unique. As before, Mara would begin to focus dark energy until she is engulfed in a black aura. This aura soon dissipates, revealing a black-and-white six-winged Mara. Her hair dons a similar pallet as her wings, though on opposing sides, her eyes change color and there is a serpent mark under her right eye. Her sword becomes a seven branch sword that is twice as large and freely floats as she controls it and begins her onslaught. As soon as she turns into this form, Mara has about 20 seconds before she reverts back to her original form.
* **Delightful Inferno**: Mara coats her seven-pronged sword with a dark aura before jumping right in with a fury of hard-hitting slashes. This move ends with Mara sheathing her sword and a ravenous explosion of power sends enemies flying.

## Trivia

* According to the creator:
	+ Mara likes: Fights, Strong opponents, Igrit, Lenore, Killing
	+ Mara dislikes: Lenore getting hurt, Her honor being insulted, Her effort to maintain her honor being insulted, Crab cakes, Lecherousness

## Quotes

* (Mara describing what she views The Void's and God's relationship as) *"Since beginning, less time, darkness thrives in the void but always yields to purifying light."*
* *"There is no such thing as true invulnerability. Struck with enough skill and strength, even a steel man can be brought down."*
* *"It made me feel good to make him suffer. After realizing I had the overwhelming upper hand with my wooden blade, his frightened movements seemed inviting... I attacked without any hesitation."*
* *"Sadistic? I don’t mind you calling me that. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t attack me when I say not to."*
* (To herself, thinking) *"That’s right. To begin with, I came here just thinking I wanted to protect everyone. But when I heard they had come to save me, I couldn’t help but feel a little glad, just a bit in my heart. When I look at Sir. Knight in that mask, I think that he might not have come here to save me at all. Even though it’s wrong, they shouldn’t be going that far for me."*
* (About Igrit) *"I don’t care if he thinks of me as a toy, and throws me out when he’s bored. It’s because he… even though it was only one time, he said to me that I am his family."*
* (To Igrit) *"Whatever happened is in your past and doesn’t change the fact that you’re here now."*
* *"Think about it this way: a person picks up a sword when he's trying to protect something. Perhaps it's your life or your social status, maybe a reputation, a loved one, or personal beliefs. The motives may be completely different, but in the end, it's the same desire to protect something."*
* *"I’m so disappointed, so very disappointed. Sadly, your sword exhibits only fear. When you counter, it’s because you fear being killed. When you attack, you fear killing. And when you protect someone, you fear you could let them die. At this point, the only thing your sword speaks is senseless fright, and that’s not good. What you don’t need in battle is fear. Nothing will come of it."*
* *"Death and pain are just a small price to pay for the enjoyment of battle."*
* *"You trusted me, so I’ll trust you too. That’s what being friends means, doesn’t it?"*
* *"If you pretend to feel a certain way, the feeling can become genuine all by accident."*
* (To Abagor) *"You loved me a lot, didn’t you? That’s why you were sad. I’m the same."*
* *"Because I have someone I want to protect."*
* *"Someone the complete opposite of Abagor. That’s the perfect guy for me."*