Mara 遥 Black
"Allow me."
Basics
Full Name: Mara Haruka Black
Age: 11
Ethnicity: Caucasian/Japanese (father/mother)
Hair: Silver hair with blue tint. Her hair was originally black. Because her mother often punished her if her hair was let down, tying her hair in twin-tails is a comforting task.
Eye color: Red-brown. Her eyes were originally dark brown.
Body: Mara is skinny, but she is fit. Her skin is pale from staying inside so much. If it wasn't for her powers, she would have gotten sunburn quite easily.
Height: 4'6'' (137 cm)
Weight: 77 lb (35 kg)
Hometown: Killeen, Texas
Family: Akira (Mother), Abel (Father), Brother (Ace 進)
About Her
Personality:
Mara is very distrusting of other people. She spent most of her childhood inside her home, so she only knew the world through shows. Her interaction is very awkward, and she might not understand that some things are better off not being said. This girl does have emotions despite how she looks on the outside. She occasionally flashes a smile as a polite gesture, just as her parents taught her to do. Mara does know how to be happy, but no one except her brother has ever heard her laugh since her trigger event. At this point, she feels like it's out of character for her to laugh.
Her morals are closer to that of her brother Ace's since he is the one she trusts the most. Most of her philosophies stem from Ace's own philosophies instead of their own parents'. Therefore, she thinks that young children should not be deliberately triggered to activate their powers. She thinks that helping both parahumans and humans alike are considered good. She thinks that villains and rogues and even heroes can have questionable morals and motives. Of course, her parents disagree with all of these opinions. And of course, she doesn't trust her parents enough to reveal her opinions to them.
Background:
Mara's parents both came from extremist cape families. It's the type of family that thinks parahumans are superior to regular humans. Her mother's family, in particular, have a tradition. When a child reaches the age of 5, the family will plan a trigger event for the child. Her older brother Ace also gained his abilities in this manner and does not approve. Currently, Ace is working as a hero.
Growing up, she was raised by loving parents. Outside of their veiled disgust of humans and enthusiasm of parahumans, there was nothing much to complain about. At the age of 5, she grew to untrust everyone except for her brother (who worked very hard to regain it after the trigger event). Her parents continued to always be loving, but she felt like everything was faked. This was not true, but she felt like it was so.
She was trained to use her powers within the confines of her home. Mara did not want to see her parents, but she did not want to go outside either. Her parents continued to train her and even brought in private tutors to train her fight with her powers and her body. They taught her how to use weapons and trained her in martial arts. In time, she gained mastery over her powers. She no longer lost control when she was activating her powers. Her parents were happy and wanted her to become well-known. When she was 10, her brother thought she was old enough and experienced enough to go outside into the dangerous world. During her first excursion, he took her to an exquisite restaurant, an amusement park, and to battle.
She thought that maybe being outside wouldn't be so bad. It was better than the confines of her home, and no one was really bothering her like she thought they would.
Trigger Event:
It happened when Mara was 5. On a Monday morning, her parents were standing by the door when she woke. As if she was deliberately waiting for her to be awake, her mother froze the door to indicate she could not get out. They both smiled as if they were happy and both turned their powers on her. Mara, still in her bed, was subjected to the abilities of her parents. Her room became frosty cold as her mother froze everything in her room: walls, desk, floor, blanket, pillow, her pajamas. Her father, who was wearing a coat and scarf, materialized rubber balls and pelted them at her body. It doesn't sound painful, but Mara can assure you it becomes extremely painful when they're as fast as bullets.
She was terribly confused and panicked. Mara believed they were imposters and not her parents. Her parents would never do this to her. They loved her too much. But when her mother said, "It'll all be over once you activate your powers, honey. Tomorrow, I'll make your favorite. Miso Udon. How about that?" Hate filled her little body even as she was being attacked all over and freezing. She wanted so much to just reflect all the hurt she felt inside. She wanted them to feel what she felt. She wanted to do to them what they did to her.
When her abilities finally manifested, rubber balls became specks of blue light floating around her and the cold no longer affected her.
Power Classificationn
Her powers are classified as Shaker 7 / Breaker 1 / Master 2 / Blaster 5 / Thinker 1 / Striker 3 / Trump 5. Everything is a direct effect of her Trump classification.
Shaker 7: Mara's powers are based on manipulating the world around her in order to protect and be in control. She is able to create a forcefield to protect herself, use telekinesis, and manipulate components of both objects and powers on a molecular level.
Breaker 1: She is immune to the cold.
Master 3: Her master classification is only applicable to a minimal amount of circumstances. For example, if a Master creates a clone, Mara can absorb the clone and use it as her own.
Blaster 4: Using her Shaker powers, she is able to blast any sort of physical threat in any direction she would like.
Thinker 1: Precognition is only applicable when it applies to herself.
Striker 4: Her ability to materialize weapons, as well as powers, fall under the Striker category.
Trump 4: Under the Trump category, Mara's powers would categorize as Stages Two, Three, and Nine. She is able to gift powers to others and also copy powers, which also includes clones.
{Abilities}
Protect: Mara has the ability to create a kind of shield around herself. Protect only applies to herself, and she does not have the ability to protect anyone else mostly due to the fact that Protect is not an ability she consciously has to think about. Her precognition knows when something will harm her and protects her. Protect does have its limits and will not be able to completely protect her from bombs, high falls, strong electrical currents, etc (though these will have a lesser effect on her than others).
I Spy: I Spy is her version of "Spidey-Sense." She can sense when she's about to be in danger.
Hear Me: She is able to convey her own emotions to other sentient beings.
Absorb & Store: Ability to absorb object or physical threat. When the threat touches her shield, it is transformed into a butterfly-like gas called a Butterfly that floats around her. By storing threats as Butterflies, she mark the powers and weapons her own. She is able to identify each Butterfly individually, and has the ability to combine them if the abilities are of the same nature. A Butterfly's size depends on the magnitude of the physical threat. A butterfly may be activated (materialized) at any time. It cannot be used if there is nothing trying to harm her. Abilities originating from parahumans like Strangers and Thinkers cannot be copied. Clones made from Master powers can be absorbed if they are directly attacking Mara. A threat of Tinker nature may or may not be absorbed depending on what is being absorbed.
Activate: Activating a Butterfly results in the materialization of whatever was absorbed and stored. She can activate a Butterfly (or part of a Butterfly) and use it to attack others. For clarification purposes, materialized Butterflies are called Wings. She uses her telekinesis to move Wings wherever she would like. A Wing can be turned back into a Butterfly only if it she holds control with her telekinesis (only available when controlling Wings). For example, she materializes ice shards and loses control over them. Unless someone attacks her again with those very same ice shards, she cannot re-absorb them after she releases control over them.
Curse: Mara is able to "gift" people one of her butterflies so that they may use the power gifted to them only once. This does not give them a Breaker power. So if someone is gifted pyrokinesis, they will get burnt if they do not have a Breaker ability for fire.
