Description

Mariette looks like any human girl of sixteen would look. Or, at least, like any normal human girl of sixteen would look. Because she was very ill for most of her childhood, Mariette has a scrawny figure, with delicate limbs. Her friends like to tease her and say that in a strong enough wind, she'd blow away. At only five foot in height, she is much shorter than any of her other friends, but that doesn't stop her from doing the same things they do--or, at least, she likes to think that way.

Mariette keeps her deep red-brown hair in a nice little bob, with subtle red highlights in them. She usually keeps her hair parted in a way that her bangs keep one dark green eye (left or right, it doesn't matter--it changes) covered. Since she is incredibly nearsighted and has a pretty bad astigmatism, Mariette wears glasses to help correct this plight.

Now, Mariette is probably the most modest out of her friends, so she always wears jeans or pants (except when in school, since the uniform insists that she wears one of those pleated skirts)

Personality

Mariette is generally considered one of those shy types that sits alone in the lunchroom at her own table, reading while eating her turkey and cheese sandwich.

Well, that's partially true.

Mariette doesn't sit alone, but she does sit with a couple of her best friends--who are drawing and playing on the computer while she reads. She only trusts those two girls, Sammy and Jamie, because the goddess possessing her makes her think that everyone is against her.

She is extremely quiet, usually not even able to gather up the courage to stand up and recite a poem she wrote in English class, or translate a sentence in Latin class. She is scared very easily, and, in complete silence, if something makes a loud noise, like a book falling off of a desk or someone sneezing, Mari will jump and even scream. She is a brilliant girl with an amazing intelligence, but her cowardice overshadows it.

Mariette is lesbian, which is one of the reasons she allowed the goddess to take her over. The goddess told her that she "would help everyone see the world through her eyes"--meaning that the goddess would make everyone accept Mari's preference of girls.

Despite Mari's calm demeanor, whenever the goddess releases her power, Mari turns a full 180. She goes from a quiet, stammering little girl to a total psychopath. She will attack without hesitation, and will do things that even the most daring of humans wouldn't dare. This has made her wind up in the hospital several times now--and in the psychiatrist's office more times than that.

Equipment

While in her calm, "human" form, Mariette has no weapons other than a book. This book is usually very thick, and could be by just about anyone--from Homer to Livy to Shakespeare to any other author which has piqued her interest.

However, whenever her goddess side takes over, Mariette, again, has no weapons, but has control over the element of fire. Her hands can light up in flames, and she can then do what she wants with them. She can also summon up to two demons to help her fight.

History

Mariette was born to two young parents in the small town of Ravenwood. Her mother, a schoolteacher, and her father, a manager of the small local bookstore, raised Mari to love reading books. While most children spent their free time watching cartoons, Mariette spent hers reading books. By the time she was three years old, she was reading (much to the surprise of her parents). She was going to enter school at the age of four, but she had gotten ill with a strange disease. The doctors weren't quite sure what it was, but they advised her parents to keep her out of school until she got better.

So, Mariette, a cute little girl, thanks to this illness, wore away to a mere shred of what she was.

However, the illness went away after a couple months, but it left her immune system all screwed up, so she got ill very often, which meant her parents had to pull her out of school again and again, over and over. However, instead of just slacking off during her sickness, Mariette continued to study, gaining an incredible intelligence. By the time she was ten, she knew more than most people twice her age, but was much weaker physically.

As she sped through middle school, Mariette began to gain a love for the classics: Greek, Latin, Roman history, Roman culture, mythology, and so on. She began teaching herself Latin, reading about the rise and falls of the Roman emperors, and memorizing the more famous myths like "Endymion" and "Pyramus and Thisbe".

At fourteen, Mariette began to have strange dreams. In it, she was standing alone in a hellish environment. It was pitch black, with the only light coming from the plumes of flame spurting forth from the ground and the bubbling molten lava that welled up in pools from the earth. She saw strange dark creatures skittering about the ground, occasionally looking up at her, but doing no more than that. And each time, she would hear a beautiful woman's voice. They would hold conversations, and Mariette began to grow closer to this voice.

However, on the night after her fifteenth birthday, the voice introduced herself.

"I am madness," she said. "I am what keeps you from staying calm. I am what keeps you cackling like a madman."

Mariette still remembers this part of her dream: The flames grow brighter, waves of lava rear up and crash around her, and the woman cackles. "I am insanity." In her dream, Mariette looked down and noticed a strange scar--a vertical line with a crescent moon drawn symmetrically across the center of the line--burned into her flesh, right on her solar plexus.

With that, Mariette jolted awake, breathing heavily, but feeling a sharp pain on her abdomen. The next morning, she was getting dressed, and noticed that there, on her stomach, was the scar.

And in her head, she heard a voice--the voice of that beautiful woman.

"I certainly hope you don't mind me taking over for a while..."

So begins...

Mariette Lucia Travian's Story

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