#about.marie

[waterfallswords]

Name: Marianne Westwood / Mari West

Age & Birthday: 54 years old, August 9th 1969

Gender/Pronouns: cis woman she/her

Birthplace: Atlanta, GA

Time in Atlanta: 54 years

Neighborhood: Brookwood Hills

Association: Media

Occupation: Good Morning Atlanta News Anchor

Positive personality traits: humorous, confident, nurturing

Negative personality traits: biased, unpredictable, selfish

Faceclaim: Hannah Waddingham

ABOUT:

Marianne comes from a long line of journalists and her own career within journalism branched off into hosting. She's now the news anchor for Good Morning Atlanta on WSB-TV.

Uses the name Mari West to distance herself from Sven and her daughter's journalism and minimize any accusations of bias.

Is pretty ruthless when it comes to her job and has had a few articles written about her being difficult to work with, i.e demanding and bossy.

Mari and Sven's relationship deteriorated a number of years ago and eventually they were divorced, however they remained cordial and friends and still come together as a family often for Isabella.

Mari's father, Michael Cronkite, was a journalist that published an article about the estimated worth of The Reapers in the 90s, some people believe this was the cause of law enforcement cracking down harder on the gang as the estimate was in the millions.

Mari believes in good and honest journalism and its very hard to sway her choices once she makes them

[holysugu]

main details/ marie. she/her. 18. aquarius. bisexual.

likes/ painting, the color pink, cats, reading, listening to/playing music, crocheting, painting my nails, gojo satoru, getou suguru.

dislikes/ crowded spaces, spiders, in-person small talk.

currently listening to/ have you got it in you? — imogen heap

[etcrnitys]

hey hey hey everyone ! i’m peep and this is my sarcastic and strong-willed vampire bb marie ! super excited to rp with all of you :^) don’t got much to say but here’s the bio with some wc’s at the end and i’d love to plot with all of you !

backstory — 

marie’s human life doesn’t matter much to her. she was born into a london working class family of six in 1792. she worked for most of her life in one of the factories. which is where she ultimately met her maker.

he was wealthy, owned a series of factories, initially took an interest in marie and was named benjamin. the two hit it off, to the dismay of her bosses, and eventually a deep friendship was formed. he understood her intense longing for something more in life and would decidedly spoil her, invite her to his upper class home and to the parties he would throw. though, it didn’t take long for her to realize that these parties would attract certain guests and the man told her the truth.

of course she felt confused and slightly scared at first, but there was a certain thrill she felt being around those vampires, too. she knew they would never kill her, knowing benjamin’s wrath would be too strong. but there was something about being on the brink of death each time she partied with them that gave her a sort of high. it distracted her from her stressful work life and made her feel a bit more purposeful. which is what prompted her to make a comment to benji about how she never wanted this experience to end.

and he took her word on it. literally. he thought he was doing her a favor, feeling like he now had a companion to spend his nighttime adventures with. but as she woke up, bleeding, with him telling her she had to drink his blood or she would die, she felt betrayed, hurt, scared. and she followed through with it. 

the two spent the rest of the nineteenth century traveling around europe and eventually to america at the end of it. but at the turn of the century, benjamin decided to release marie in favor of training a new progeny of his, ultimately replacing her. which she didn’t take very well, to put it lightly.

for her first hundred years, she was discreet with her feeding and learned restraint and the benjamin way of going about things. but once she was let loose, feeling absolutely devastated to be dumped, she took numerous lives with her. throughout most of the 1900′s, the woman went around the continental US feeding how she pleased without restraint and sometimes killing them when she did. which, though she didn’t realize at first, caught the american vampire league’s attention. during this time, too, she found herself desperately trying to search for new companions, often sleeping around with humans and vampires alike. 

this behavior took a turn when she met her progeny though, lewis. at the beginning, she’ll admit, he was endearing and she had maybe a little too much fun leading him on. and it was nice knowing there was someone so devoted to her. so she agreed to date him, see where it goes, knowing it would at most, last his lifetime. however, as the relationship progressed, she didn’t anticipate falling for him, which became dangerous as time went on. she liked keeping him at a distance, not only to protect her heart but also to protect her existence. but getting to a point of ‘i love you’s’ felt wrong. and as the guilt consumed her, she eventually fessed up. and stopped talking to him for a bit. she figured she rather be the dumper than the dumpee as the pang of the abandonment of her maker still had such an immense pull on her.

but somehow, that couldn’t stop the two. their bond pulled them back to each other and only grew stronger, as lewis began wanting to know more and more about the other and marie had so much to tell. which apparently worked out a little too well as the other approached her with the idea of turning him. truthfully, the thought of that didn’t sit right with her. first off, a part of her knew she couldn’t be tied to one person forever. she liked how fleeting and urgent human life felt and she admired that human quality to him. secondly, she knew of the darkness that saturated her world and she wasn’t ready to expose him so deeply into it. 

but she also really, really loved him. and she knew he was coming from a sincere place. she could feel how deep his want was for spending eternity together and a part of her felt tugged by that. because that was what she spent centuries searching for. someone who understood her as benjamin did and be a life companion, traveling the world, fucking shit up. so she reluctantly agreed.

and instantly regretted it once she saw how much it destroyed him. but she didn’t just feel regret. she also felt betrayal, anguish, rage, grief. all to the highest degree. her biggest fear of abandonment replayed all over again. which is what set her into another feeding spree, though it quickly became short-lived.

now, present-day marie finds herself in louisiana, as punishment from the AVL for her recklessness and current tendency to feed in public (though, discreetly). here, they feel like they are able to keep a better eye on her and since everyone is familiar with the supernatural in eden, she won’t be able to break the AVL’s rules on public feeding so easily. 

personality

+ loyal, sentimental, intuitive, confident, adventurous 

- sarcastic, heedless, defiant, indulgent, decadent

wanted connections

someone who shows her around town

someone she regularly feeds on

friends with benefits

honestly down for whatever let’s do our own thing !