Mara Blake

Started by PurpleRiver, April 26, 2018, 03:32:17 AM

PurpleRiver


Name: Mara Blake, née Janikowski
Age:  32
Gender:  Female

Occupation:  Passenger
Secondary:  Gunhand


Appearance:  Mara is 5' 7" and in good shape. She has the hard-worked body of a soldier. Her hair is naturally curly, light brown, and cut short. She has big baby blue eyes that often give Mara a doe-eyed look. Her face has an inherently innocent look about it.

Her dress is simple and practical: heavy boots, form-fitting flexible pants, shirts and undershirts all in shades of brown and beige. Her most striking piece of clothing is her long, pale brown duster. Almost anyone could guess that she is an ex-browncoat. She wears a gold band on her left ring-finger.

PlayBy Name:Milla Jovovich


Equipment:  Mara carries on her person a pair of desert eagles (or 'verse equivalent), a pair of kuhkri knives, and a short-barrel shotgun. She has two backpacks with her. The first is stuffed with a few clothes, another gun and ammunition for that and her other weaponry, a large stack of cash, some survival gear, protein bars, fake ID that would pass a usual check but perhaps not especial scrutiny. The second contains men's clothes, more ammo as well as some for a different gun, more cash and survival gear, and a good quality Cortex-ready tablet.


Initial Personality:  Mara is stoically quiet. She is the type to be overlooked in the corner of a bar or galley as she listens and watches. Those who do engage her will find that she is easy-going and likable but there's not much to her on the surface. She keeps to herself. She is observant of people and would much prefer to watch others interact than interact herself. 

She has many of the traits of the stereotypical Browncoat: disrespect for the law, slightly skewed but hard-fast moral compass, loyalty to crew, tendency for violence if the Independent cause is insulted...


Underlying Personality:  On the surface Mara is a little stand-offish but with a little pull out of her shell she can be a lot more social. With people she is comfortable with - and it takes quite a while to get to that stage - she can toss around jokes and banter, and share her knowledge and insights.

To friends she is ever supportive and encouraging, honest and loyal. She is a giver and the type to waive away her own concerns in favour of seeing to the needs of her friends. There still remains a hardness to her that even those who are her friends would struggle to call her 'warm', except, perhaps, in her rare interaction with children.

Her hatred of the Alliance goes deep. She has devoted her adult life to fighting them. She believes they must be stopped. She always believed the Alliance were responsible for Reavers, though she hadn't suspected how and since the Miranda broadcast her devotion to the cause has been strengthened.

Her husband is her best friend, teammate, her better half. They have been the perfect complement to each other for over seven years. He is the only one to have seen her romantic, affectionate side.


Known History:  Mara Janikowski was born to an unsuccessful farmer on Whitefall. She is the middle child of six siblings, two of whom are deceased.

Mara volunteered at the beginning of the war for the Independents. She was promoted to Sergeant. Survivor of Serenity Valley. Believed to be a member of the Dust Devlis; wanted for questioning under suspicion of terrorism as part of Vox Silenti.

Married in 2513 to Daniel Blake.


Other History:  Mara grew up poor, ain't no way to put it simpler than that. Her family worked hard but there just weren't opportunities for improvement. The Alliance was blamed for withholding resources that would have helped.

In her late teens, Mara grew restless and got involved with groups of angry folk that wanted to force change upon the 'verse. At the age of 19, Mara was among the first sign-ups to fight as one of the Independents. In Serenity Valley, Mara was badly wounded. In fact, she was dead for almost two minutes. She was revived to life by a Medic who simply refused to give up but she did not regain consciousness until weeks after the war ended. In a way, the war never ended for Mara.

In the time after the war she stayed close with the Medic that saved her life. Eventually they became family when she married his brother.

Following the war Mara immediately joined the Dust Devils, a guerrilla organisation still determined to bring the Alliance down. As they lost momentum, she and her core group of friends filtered over to Vox Silenti. Mara, her husband and his brother have stuck together and along with a couple others run a successful cell of Vox Silenti.


Skills:  Mara is a skilled soldier and in all that entails including shooting, CQC, infantry tactics. She can pick non-electronic locks. She also has knowledge and ability in first aid and emergency-battlefield medicine but no training or qualification in such. She is able to fly a shuttle and do basic repairs on an engine. She is highly observant of people and things.


Weaknesses:  She is way out of her depth in anything to do with computers and the Cortex. She is not well-educated academically or in things of the Core. She often comes across as stand-offish and cold.


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