Mara

"Welcome home...Mara..."

Mara, also known as Queen Mara or Mage, is a magic-user who lives on the Noodlecraft SMP. She primarily uses fire magic, but has the ability to use other kinds. She is played by ScorcherSoldier.

She's an older member of the server, best known for being corrupted by Lethal, and forming The Heir Alliance to protect Pandora, and their unborn child, from Prince Chisisi's marriage.

Appearance
Mara has fair skin, with rosy cheeks, and her most notable feature is her eyes, with one being turquoise, and one being orange. Mage has brown hair, that fades to light orange on the ends.

Her everyday robe outfit consists of a red shirt, darker red leggings, and knee high golden-brown boots. She has a red and orange robe that she wears often, but can be seen occasionally without it, mostly at her home or at the home of a close allies'. Mara can ignite her hands to display her fire abilities.

After being cured from her corruption, Mara's appearance changed. Her orange eye now remains red, and she has gained the horns Lethal had. Her final physical change happened after Mara burnt down Lethal's tree base, and destroyed Lethal's weapons. Where after, her red eye changed back to orange.

Her wedding outfit consists of a lavender dress, with an off-white belt, shoes, and bow on the back of her head. Her magic for the event was made a vivid purple to symbolize curse magic.

Her casual attire sees her in a black tank top with a reddish black flannel, ripped jeans, and shoes. For the first time on any of her skins, her magic isn't present.

After being acknowledged as a queen by Empress Linguini, Mara sported a small red dress, and a golden tiara with a red gem. She kept her same golden-brown boots, and red and orange robe, although with the hood down to allow for the crown to sit on her head.

Personality
Mara is a friendly, emotionally sensitive, and intelligent fire mage. Mara tends to be smart enough to get herself out of problems, and work her way around things in her way. She enjoys making friends, and fair deals, but can become angry or upset easily if stress or pressure is placed on her. She's well known for having mental breakdowns.

Alignment
Prior to be corrupted she was True Neutral. After being cured, she's become Neutral Good.

Backstory
Mara comes from a long line of powerful mages. Her dad, Arthur Goldenwillow, left sometime when she was three years old and hadn't returned, with her mom, Tana Sunsparks, raising her. She excelled in her class at White River, and was chosen to take part in the tradition of the Cinder Celebration. One aspiring young mage would be chosen to preform any spell or spells they feel comfortable with, to show off their abilities to the town.

Mara was chosen as the aspiring young mage for the festival. However, things took a dark turn when Mara attempted to preform the resurrection spell. The spell's dark magic corrupted the young magic user, allowing for the entity known as Lethal to take hold of her.

Three days later, Mara woke up at the edge of town. With minor amnesia, she pieced together what had happened after she preformed the spell.

The last thing alive in the town was the horse she revived- now a skeleton. Mara named the horse Jack, before packing up what little she could find, and leaving White River behind.

The Beast Event
Mara constructed a new home over the edge of a cliff using her magic. She created a stable for Jack, and slowly built up a potion shop. She also started going by simply Mage to avoid anyone possibly knowing her or her town. Mage also hid her diary, and the spell book of the resurrection spell.

Over some hills, a town was being constructed called the Hidden Leaf village. Mage grew a connection to the residents of this village, and would begin to visit them frequently. On her way there one day, she came across a fiery wreck of iron, steel, and glass. Unsure of what it was, Mage left it alone.

During her visits she began to form a small crush on one of the inhabitants, an imp named Ghost. She also formed an alliance with a warrior named Jenkins.

More and more people would visit the wreckage until it was clear it belong to someone named Jesper. Ghost and Mage lead Jesper to the wreck, and confirmed it belong to him. Unfortunately, everyone but Jesper perished in the crash. There was also evidence that something was possibly released onto their world. Jesper confirmed it was a ship from space, and that he was from planets far from here.

As the Hidden Leaf village became more prominent, Mage constructed a small vacation home in the village, connecting it via a portal to her main base. One day she would show Jesper and Ghost her main base until Jesper would accidentally stumble across the secret room in her potion shop. Mage became suspicious of Jesper, but little came from it. Around this time, Mage and Ghost would develop a small relationship of flirting and banter here-and-there.

Eventually, Jenkins would come up with a few ways to get Jesper's suit off. Using some hot water, and a weakness potion and blaze rod provided by Mage, Jenkins managed to force the suit off the anthro fox. Jesper was thankful, but shortly after getting her blaze rod back, Mage was blinded, along with the rest of the members in the server. Once the blindness wore off, Jesper and Jenkins had disappeared. Stressed and worried, Mage returned home to her base.

A few days later, Jenkins and Jesper would return home, providing little information. They revealed they made a deal with the beast that was released onto their planet, and Jenkins turned to Mage to trade potions for enchantment books. Mage provided the potions but was concerned for Jenkins' safety.

Logging on one day, Mage would be lead to a room inside Lin's basement by Ghost and Jupiter(?). Inside was a note saying "The True Beast is Within." Unsure of what the note was caused by, Mage kept her distance from Hidden Leaf.

A group meeting was called, where Jesper and Jenkins revealed there was a spy working for the Beast. Later, Mage was interrogated by Jesper, Jenkins, and Ghost. She was accused for working with the Beast. Mage denied anything to do with the beast, claiming she hates the beast due to her past. Not feeling like she was believed, she left, angry at Jenkins for their behavior.

Jenkins and Mage would reconcile on top of St.Plainwatch's tower. Mage would lead them to her secret room in her potion shop. The two had a heart-to-heart about why exactly they hate the beast, their pasts, and what the steps forward are. Mage forgave Jenkins, but refused to properly acknowledge a true alliance again.

Returning to the Hidden Leaf Village, Jenkins and Mage would discover a note. Jenkins, stressed out, passed the note to Mage. Mage continued around to find four more notes. Upon finding the fifth note, Mage decided to ask Bon if they knew anything about the notes, as they seem to appear whenever they were online.

Bon would ask to see the rest of the notes, and Mage gave them the papers in hope of getting answers. Bon would take the notes and burn them, threatening to Mage to never speak of them again.

With the stress of the interrogations, and Bon's threats, Mage began to have a mental breakdown. Mage blocked up her main base, and barricade herself inside the hidden room of her potion shop with all her pets.

Jenkins, Jupiter, and Ghost coerced Mage out. Bon revealed their true identity, not as a bee but as another species, by the name Bennigan. They would also share that their vocal cords were messed up, which is why they would speak so little at a time. The notes were from Bon's brother, who was set out to kill them. Mage forgave Bon, and apologize to Jenkins for bringing up the interrogation again.

Online one day, Prince Chisisi asked Mage to a tour of her base. Mage obliged, before discovering a chest in her home. A book inside saying "I know who you are, I know what you have become, and I know what you have done, and I am coming for you." with potions surrounding it, each saying "Spy, Human, Coward, Witch, Traitor, Freak"

More notes were found in Jupiter's, Ghost's, and Moo's house. Everyone tried to figure out the person who left the threats. Tired of the constant harassment, Mage moved away. She boarded up her main base, and moved a few thousand blocks away to a flower forest. She lived there for a few days, only coming back temporally once she caught wind her vacation home was destroyed.

She looked at the damage, and took her ender chest and her dog before leaving back to her cottage again. After a few more days, Jenkins eventually found Mage. The two talked before Jenkins convinced Mage to come back to her main base.

The two journeyed back. Mage showed Jenkins the chest that was left, and Jenkins suggested they burn everything. Mage kept the book left, for evidence, but burnt everything else. Feeling better, Mage promised to not leave again, although she's unsure if she'll rebuild her vacation home. She was considering moving in with Ghost instead.

Another threat was reported, this time for everyone in the village. A town meeting was called, however Mage wouldn't attend this meeting. After hearing Jenkins that them and Jesper were meeting with the beast at the same time as the meeting, Mage brewed a few invisibility potions and followed them.

Mage, along with Jesper and Jenkins, now going by Pandora, learnt that Ghost was a spy for the beast. Remembering this info, Mage would sneak along back home.

Pandora would call a community meeting and accuse Ghost of being the spy. The community erupted. Some defended Ghost, while others, including Mage, felt betrayed by Ghost. Out of anger, Pandora would go to kill Ghost. Mage felt that one of their five lives taken was justified, even if it was a bit intense.

After everyone went their separate ways, Mage alliance with Pandora and Jesper, agreeing to leave the Hidden Leaf village.

During the meeting with Pandora, Jesper, and the Beast, the team decided to head out to find "the kid" that the beast was referring to. Obi would follow along, as well as Mage. The team would find a bedrock box, and eventually breaking there way into it. The team brought home a small young child, named Ambrus, that has some connection to the beast, and Jesper, Pandora, and Obi would work towards making him a new place to stay once arriving back home.

Mage over looked a training session between Pandora, Jesper, and OB-1K. After Pandora accidentally knocked something wrong with the robot, they attempted to repair him. This activated a new entity in Obi, named The Assistant. Mage attempted to aid The Assistant in understanding where they were and what was happening, but the Assist would continue offending Mage with the claim that magic isn't real, and that it's just make belief, back at their home planet.

Corruption
A faithful morning came when Mage woke up to find a note in her mail box. The message was from Jesper, admitting that he had snooped in her hidden room back when they thought she may have been a spy, and knew of the spell and the journal. Jesper pleaded to Mage to attempt to revive a crewmate of Jesper's, lost in the crash.

Mage gathered that materials, and told Jesper to meet her at the crash site. The two met up, and Mage said the spell required a piece from them. Whether something they cherished, or a piece of clothing, or anything related to them. Jesper handed Mage the skull of Kai. A bit shocked, but Mage agreed this would work.

Mage warned Jesper this spell may not work, or work as intended, but the fox was eager to see if the attempt will work, that Mage continued forward. As the lightning stuck the items, as part of the spell, Mage felt the magic enter her fingers. She instantly knew the spell failed, and even worse, the magic rebounded and started corrupting her.

She watched in horror as the corruption started down her finger tips rapidly. A headache surged through her head, with a familiar voice echoing in the pain. Mage began to cough up blood, feeling as if she was choking to death. Between the coughs she muttered "I'm...I'm so sorry Jesper..." as the magic took hold of her.

Post-Corruption
Mara awoken in the same pool of water they had used to tear Jesper's suit off. She was confused and dazed, as she was surrounded by Pandora, Prince Chisisi, and a black rabbit she was unfamiliar with.

The first thing she wanted to do was to return home, as her memory was foggy, she had a headache, and felt like she had been asleep for two weeks. Chisisi and Pandora discouraged this but it didn't stop Mara from returning home. Upon exiting her portal area, she was shocked at what had happened. The banners, the signs, her exploded home, and corrupted potion shop.

There she was told of everything that had happened. That she killed Jesper and Ambrus, that she destroyed a bunch of buildings and homes, and that she was an entity named Lethal for a while. Mara struggled to accept this, and decided it would be best to stay in St.Plainswatch's bell tower until she cleaned up her base and rebuilt it.

Mara proceeded to freak out once she realized her magic core was corrupted, meaning her home could crumble at any moment. Despite being tired, she worked to dispel most of the corruption, and wasn't satisfied until she saw the core starting to heal.

There she took a break, heading back to St.Plainswatch. There she questioned her humanity, and if she were really healed due to her eye still being red. Pandora did their best to comfort her, but alas, Mara was still grief stricken.

Feeling she owed an apology to Prince Chisisi for what Lethal had done to his throne room, she went and removed all the bamboo from his empire. There, she returned back to St.Plainswatch for the night.

The next morning, Mara started working on her base again. Using her magic, she lifted some dirt and stone into the area to reform the foundation of her floating home. The magic core also healed another piece, although still remained unstable. She took a break quickly to talk to the Assistant, whom she only remembers briefly. From there, Mara took a longer rest. Her full magic powers hadn't returned to her yet, and she was exhausted.

Despite the tiredness, Mara continued to make improvements to her home. She redid her entire farming area, and began to build a small part of her new house upon the floating island. She stopped again to talk to Pandora and Buck at the Amun Empire. There, she talked a bit about her nightmares and feelings, expressing her exhaustion. Buck ran into the throne room to grab a bucket of water, but brought to Mara and Pandora's attention that the gold blocks were stolen out of Prince Chisisi's floor.

Nervous, Mara ran back to her base. Due to the ever-present thin-ice Mara and Chisisi were walking on each other with, she prepared for a fight once the Prince arrived. Chisisi arrived on the server, and after being shown the gold blocks missing, accused Mara, Pandora, and Buck, and threatened to throw them in jail. Mara feared for being treated as if she were Lethal and frequently defended herself and Pandora.

After a fist fight between Chisisi and Buck, Buck resulted in the winner. Despite this, Buck revealed they took the gold blocks before walking off. Shortly after, Mara revealed to Buck that one more threat would result in Mara declaring war on Prince Chisisi. Buck agreed that Chisisi was an ass, but made no further comment.

Buck proceeded to flirt with Mara, however, with Mara being too exhausted, and still recovering from her corruption, she made no further advancements, despite enjoying the flirtation and nice words.

Later on, Mara, Pandora, Prince Chisisi, and Buck would be hanging around Bedbun. Despite Lethal having a good relationship with the rabbit, Mara lacked any. The black furred bunny creeped her out. Pandora and Mara spoke in Pandora's mountain base, where she proceeded to have a mental breakdown upon being shown the journals that Lethal wrote about kissing the rabbit.

Bunny kisses are magical! The magic inside Bedbun had partially cured Lethal, bringing Mara back some-what, it possibly had corrupted Bedbun. Now, Bedbun had given a kiss to Prince Chisisi, potentially corrupting him.

Pandora and Mara confronted the rabbit, mainly about if it were possibly Lethal corrupting the rabbit, and if Lethal possibly had a secret base where the entity held Mara's sword, Flaming Hellblade. Bedbun, going by Badbun, explained they had no recollection of a base, aside from one mentioned in passing when Bedbun was escaping Prince Chisisi once.

Mara went to sleep, shocked, worried, and feeling guilty.

The next day, Mara worked further on the core. The magic core was almost completely cured, however, Mara was noticeably growing more exhausted, and still complained about nightmares, headaches, and a general feeling of being off in some way.

Mara found one of her missing cats, Void! she found her in the forest behind her base, and swiftly returned her home to the potion shop.

She woke up the next day to make attempts on curing the core, however, any magic attempts bounced right off it. Upon further inspection, Mara noticed there were corrupted roots around the last part of the core that needed healing, and prevented any further attempts at healing. Mara knew she would need to severe the roots from the core in order to finish her process, but she lacked where to start or even where the roots came from.

Lacking a way to finish her home, she remained in the bell tower for a few days. She eventually encountered Jesper again. Their interaction went quickly south when Jesper called Mara by Lethal, and continued to share their distrust in Mara's actual intention.

For a few days Mara secluded inside the bell tower until Buck and Pandora offered Mara to go to the tavern with them. Mara declined, saying she was too upset about everything. The two offer to see if they can help repair Mara's home. Mara doubted they could but lead them back to her home anyways- picking up The Assistant on the way.

From there, Mara shared the issue of roots surrounding the last and final piece of the core, and how the roots kept regrowing and seemed to burrow down into the ground. After they noticed the roots occasionally appeared out of the ground, they began to follow it until they found a dead, corrupted, tree in a desert.

he team carefully went inside, to find a basement with two trapped foxes, one named Jesper and one named Pandora, and signs and clocks detailing threats. Mara looked on horrified. Buck, who had climbed to the top of the tree, notified Mara there was something up there. After looking in the chest, Mara reunited with her sword!

Everyone stood for a moment, unsure what to do, but after freeing the foxes, Mara started placing down TNT. As she went to ignite it, she explained this may take a life, but who cares. The tree exploded into dust. Upon looking at the hole left behind, Mara threw Lethal's axe and crossbow into the lava- ridding the last of the corruption.

Pandora then proceeded to tell Mara that- no you don't have five lives- you have 2 left. Mara was furious, and nearly killed Pandora, but eventually resisted once Pandora explained that they needed to in order to capture and defeat Lethal. Mara hesitantly accepted the truth.

She was still mad at Pandora but suggested they all go to the tavern. While on their way there, Buck stopped into his base, only upon entering his portal, realizing everything was destroyed. Buck's entire family was murdered, and the farm was exploded. Pandora, The Assistant, and Mara attempted to comfort Buck. The team decided to go to the tavern. Best to drink their problems away.

Upon drinking, Prince Chisisi, looking very odd, arrived. Mara was wary of him, and some yelling between Chisisi and Buck began. Mara proceeded to cast decet magic, as the group brought up the Assist's equally odd look. Upon casting the spell, she discovered the Assistant was indeed magical, but not in a magic she studied well enough. However, Mara also revealed Prince Chisisi was equally magical- however corrupted too.

After some more drunken heated discussion, they made their way to the empire to discover Buck's brother, Chuck, inside Chisisi's jail cell. The team proceeded to free chuck, and Mara and Buck, mostly Buck, began accusing Chisisi of kidnapping and murder. Getting no where with this, Chuck was returned to the tavern, and the group went their separate ways.

After curing the core, Mara got a full night's rest. She also finished building her home and moved back into her base. She was still upset about Jesper but felt solace again.

The Wedding
Happily logging back in one evening, Mara decided to snoop around the Prince's kingdom. She discovered Prince Chisisi was building a church of some kind? they also revealed Pandora and Chisisi were getting married. Mara, absolutely confused, and freaked out at the ever-changing Prince's appearance, decided to head out to talk to Pandora about this.

Upon arriving at Pandora's home, she noticed the terrain changed drastically. She entered Pandora's home, immediately asking about the outside. Pandora didn't seem to notice, and wondered why Mara was asking about it. Mara was silent. She casted detect magic, revealing that, yes, it is indeed magical. In what way has been yet to find out.

Mara asked about Pandora and Chisisi and Pandora revealed that Pandora is expecting Chisisi's child, and they are marrying due to a variety of reasons. Mara, after prodding on the subject some more, walked out irritated and convinced Pandora has gone to the wolves.

Completely disgusted her closest ally would have anything to do with her greatest enemy, she went to find Jesper. Convinced he would be so angry at seeing her that they would take one of her lives. She found Jesper in an underground tunnel, and the two shared equally disgusted views. Deciding it would be best not to hurt each other, or themselves, Mara began to form a plan. Object at the wedding. Mara just needed some support.

Mara went to Bedbun next. Despite not enjoying the rabbit, she was recommended to by Jesper thus she went there. After talking, she got her on board with the idea, and was also told The Assistant would likely be in on it too.

After this she found Buck. The poor guy was in a graveyard for his family. Mara comforted him before telling him the news about Chisisi and Pandora. Buck agreed, like Jesper and Bedbun, that the wedding needed to be stopped and he was on board. Happy, Mara returned home.

Buck would proceed to talk to Pandora, trying to get some sense into their skull. Eventually, Lin and Ghost showed up at Pandora's house too and were told the news about what's going on. Lin and Ghost expressed their discomfort with it all. Buck later relayed this to Mara.

Mara would then talk to Ghost, requesting they meet at her base. Mara got Ghost onboard, and finally needed to talk to Lin. She started snooping around the empire again before finding Lin and Ghost at the church. Mara discussed things with Lin, and got on board only if violence wasn't going to take place. Mara said that she would resort to violence if needed. Lin hesitantly agreed upon this.

Quickly after this, Mara got to work.

The Heir Alliance
Mara began constructing the alliance's meeting place, and creating a banner. She titled in the heir alliance, as the goal of the group was to save Pandora, and thus, the baby- Chisisi's heir.

Magic
Being a mage, Mara has access to a variety of spells and effects.

Quotes
"What are you doing?" - Mara to Pandora when she suddenly appeared in the nether to stop Pandora from doing something dangerous.

"You're the only guy who's won over my heart without using a love potion." - Mara to Buck on their first date.

"Don't ask questions if you're not prepared for the answer." - Mara to Pandora when they asked if she was doing okay.

"Where do you think you get your power from? Where? It's not blood. I have the blood of thousands of powerful mages. I could be queen. It's not fear. It's not power, or loyalty. I have much more compared to you." - Mara to Chisisi.

"Do you think respect is giving you power? If respect is the only thing protecting you from a knife in the back, then you should've been stabbed a long time ago." - Mara to Chisisi.

"Now get out of my kingdom, before I kill you." - Mara before killing Chisisi.

"This... this is different." "This is war." - Pandora and Mara.

"Welcome home...Mara..." - Mara to Buck as she sees White River for the first time since leaving.

Trivia

 * Mara is one of two characters to have heterochromia.
 * The other one being Crow.