Marie Lector

Cobalt Alexander - Creation

Marie Lector is a Danganronpa OC that was first used on Amino and has now been transferred into the sequel to Lizard's latest book project, Future's Despair: Fanganronpa.

## Personality:

### Amino:

Marie is an arrogant and egotistical character who doesn't interact with others who she views as being 'below her' in the social hierarchy. She mainly will just stay in her dorm room and focus on her machines in order to improve them. She is dismissive with most, but can tolerate some and even be close to something similar to 'friendly'.

### Future's Hope:

Marie is arrogant but tends to keep to herself and her work. she prefers the company of machines to humans and only seems to tolerate Malacoda and Mary due to them being related by blood, although she put up with Malacoda more then she does Mary as she doesn't view Mary as highly due to what happened to her, even sometimes referring to her as 'The Lector family whore'.

## Backstory:

### Amino:

Marie was born into a wealthy and aristocratic family that specialised in technology and made their fortune by having huge stakes in various technology companies, well known or obscure. They were easily billionaires. After several miscarriages, Mary would be the families only child. Marie was immediately taught the 'proper' way to behave and act, to look down on those below her in the social and economically and to befriend those of a similar rank to her in the social hierarchy. However, Mary was never a peoples person and got more absorbed in the various technology around her, spending as much time as she could figuring out how it worked and how to replicate its potential. She would sometimes lock herself in her room for days working on various bits of technology, her parents allowed this because what she created was nothing short of extraordinary and could be sold for a very handsome amount of cash. It stumped everyone around the family how their daughter almost had this connection to machinery, but yet again, nobody really wanted to question it.

When she was an early teenager, she found that one of her only friends had died of cancer. This hit Marie incredibly hard, and her family went weeks without seeing her as she grieved the loss of one of the only people she could stand and be happy around (and may or may not have actually had a crush on). It was after she finished grieving that she realised how pathetic human life was. How easily a human could just die due to their own body practically turning on them. She came to realise how superior machines were to their human counterparts. They couldn't get sick. They couldn't die, a machine could always be recovered in one form or another. A machine would never leave her. That's when she started to experiment on AI, and on herself. By the age of 16, the time she was invited to Hope's Peak as the Ultimate Robotics Engineer, she was practically a cyborg, having removed most of her organs and replacing them with machinery, as well as one of her hands and one of her eyes (the one covered by hair).

### Future's Hope:

Marie was the first child and is older then her sister Mary by two years, her early years follow roughly the same as her sister's, she had a private tutor and wasn't allowed to interact with people outside of her father's circle. However, whilst her mother was still alive, she decided to teach Marie some french, which lead to Marie growing a fondness for the language later in life and by her early years as a teenager, she could speak it practically fluently. Marie got along with Mary in the start, they were the only two girls in the family after their mother died due to complications from Mary's birth, and thus Mary looked up to her older sister almost like a mother figure. Marie didn't mind this role for the most part.

Marie never really made any friends with the other rich children unlike Mary... but she did make one. Another girl called Libitina who had short red hair. Libitina was quite an eccentric person, and so was able to break through Marie's cold and off putting exterior and the two managed to become good friends. They became such good friends that Marie actually developed a crush on this girl, although, since she didn't know this was a crush, she just thought the two were good friends. Until one day, Marie, after a lot of internal conflict, finally worked up the courage to ask this girl out... but she was too late. Libitina was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer early in her life and was sent to the hospital, where she would be bed ridden for six months with Marie watching over her as long as she could, but that wasn't enough. After six months, the girl died, and Marie never got a chance to confess her true feelings. Marie was 13, and seeing that changed her, she was ridden with guilt and depression and would barely leave her room for a long time after and she would isolate herself. It was in that grief that a sick mentality was formed. The mentality that humans were weak, their bodies being riddled with flaws that made them susceptible to this type of tragedy... and that's when she developed her obsession with machines, and the idea that these were the key to fixing all these flaws and were the true next step of evolution and the key to her own immortality.

She would begin her work and learning on robotics for the next two years... However, when she turned 15, shit hit the fan in the worst way possible when she got her period. Her father's view of her changed for the worse, just like with Mary, although she was never viewed as a burden to begin with, she had always felt a pressure to 'grow up', and this was the breaking point, and suddenly she started to be treated like a 'woman', and just like Mary, she would be dragged to parties and events and was supposed to make conversation with the rich and their male offspring. However, Marie never did. She kept herself closed off at all times and always presented herself with a threatening aura, and would even find a way to sneak out just so she could get back to her research. However, since she was able to sneak out so often, she eventually began to hear things she shouldn't have, and one of those things was her father's 'plans' for her, to marry her off to another in exchange for more political power. Marie was mortified by this, and so, she began her escape from the Lector family.

It was Mary's first ever party, Marie never meant for her escape to coincide with such a date, such a crucial and harsh date, but it did. The two sister's took one last picture together, the last picture the two sister's would ever take together. That night, Marie snuck out, as usual, took her technology and machines and fled the estate and fled the city.

She was supposed missing for a long time, until eventually, she was proclaimed dead. That was best for her, she had already ditched the family name and she had no plans on ever returning or facing her father. She lived quite isolated in an abandoned house the next couple of cities after over after months of running and never staying in one place, she took as much as she could and continued her research, but since she couldn't afford to get a job due to being the 'Missing daughter of the Lector Family', so she would have to scrap any materials she could for her research and resorted to stealing essential supplies like food and water since she didn't take any money. However, it was during her time scavenging for parts in back alleyways that she met a certain girl to whom she bore a striking resemblance to. This mystery girl offered her a better place to stay and more resources for her research, how could she possibly say no to such a deal? This girl she met was Malacoda Lortec, her half sister, and she would find that out after Malacoda took a secret blood sample from her and ran it through various testing, only to find the two were indeed partly related. Marie, once again, took on a more motherly role considering Malacoda's eccentric and lively behaviour, and she was fine with that role, she was used to it, and it made her feel more at home with Malacoda, and the two became practically inseparable, working together at jobs (where they could), and dying their hair the same blue colour, although Marie had a string of a lighter blue. The two became so close that for Malacoda's birthday, Marie would gift her a robotic scorpion tail.

However, whilst she was with Malacoda, Marie would also begin her augmentation and her creation of Cobalt. Marie's first surgery was her right hand, then the rest of her arm, then her right eye... It almost became an obsession to become this perfect amalgamation of man and machine, the perfect step in human evolution. It got to the dangerous point that Marie had all her organs removed and replaced with robotics, but she kept Malacoda oblivious to the latter.

Both of these girls were then sent an invite to Hope's Peak College, and were quick to accept such a thing, not only would it aid their education, but having the title of an 'Ultimate' would absolutely guarantee their fame and money for the two. Although, there was another reason. Due to Marie being underaged as she was working as a chauffeur, Hope's Peak threatened her with this information should she choose to decline. Malacoda and Marie shared a dorm and the two would go about their day... Until a gas leak happened. Dozens were killed and dozens more were injured, and the police were called, leading to Malacoda's arrest. Malacoda called out to her sister and begged her for her forgiveness... but Marie couldn't manage that. She pushed her half-sister away and choose to try and forget about her for as long as she could.

She had graduated Hope's Peak by the time the Tragedy struck, and much like Future Foundation, a group of former Hope's Peak College students formed a group together to band against despair, of course, they offered Marie a place once they realised she was alive, having the Ultimate Robotics Engineer would obviously be a huge plus. Marie accepted, this would give her a chance to continue her work under the gaze of 'research', and she kept Cobalt Alexander, her creation, as her 'lab assistant' and people were none the wiser that Cobalt was ever a robot.

## Trivia

- Marie Lector was the one who funded the creation of another Danganronpa character Cobalt Alexander

- Marie Lector was originally supposed to be the Ultimate Chauffeur in her beta phase.

- Marie Lector's mother was part french, hence her name being of french origin, this also means that Marie can speak french.