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thenexusofsouls · 4 years ago

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New Muse: Marina Nedivar

MARINA NEDIVAR/NEDIFAR a.k.a Marina Mills (alias), a.k.a. Ma Rina (online identity)

Type of Character & Fandom/Source Material: Canon-divergent character from the horror fantasy movie Friend Request (2016)

FC: Liesl Ahlers as Marina Nedivar

Race: Human

Age: 23

Sexual/Romantic Orientation: Asexual/Biromantic

Mother: Ada Nedifar

Occupation: Student… or nothing (homeless).

Potential Triggering Material in Threads: Triggering themes include: child harm, child sexual assault, rape, suicide, although I will not be writing them out in detail. They are present in Marina’s background and if anyone ever gains enough of her trust for her to speak about them, she will likely not go into a huge amount of detail. I will tag these triggers if I do mention them in threads. Triggering conditions include: trichotillomania (a compulsion to pull out hair… Marina pulls out her eyebrows, eyelashes, and hair on the top and back of her head); social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, reactive attachment disorder (Marina assumes people will dislike/hate/reject her so she tests their patience to force what she feels is an inevitable result on her own terms to maintain control over the situation so she isn’t hurt by becoming attached to someone who then rejects her), internet addiction disorder, and obsessive personality disorder. If these get described in more detail than just a mention, I will tag them.

Negative Personality Traits: She holds grudges; she can become obsessed with people, objects, ideas, and even things like movies or books; she is easily hurt emotionally and tends to take things very personally; she can come across as strange, abrasive, blunt, or aggressive as a result of not being well socially adjusted at all

Positive Personality Traits: She can be very sweet when she wants to be and when she trusts someone; she’s very loyal; she’s incredibly creative and talented with art, both digital and hand-drawn; she has an innocent sort of quality to her when she gets genuinely happy about something or when she feels accepted by someone that is very endearing

Background: (This is a blend of canon and my own embellishments on the character and is her core verse. Other verses will be listed separately.)

Marina’s mother was a member of a cult living in a place called Moore’s Grove. It was a remote, rural, forested area with a large building in which the cult was housed. Someone burned the whole place down while Marina’s mother was pregnant. When her body was recovered, she was badly burned and had symbols carved into her belly. Doctors kept her mother alive in a vegetative state until Marina could be safely remove. She was alone in the womb for months. Despite never having seen her mother, Moore’s Grove (until she was a teenager), or many of the scenery, drawings, and other images from inside the cult’s location, Marina dreams about them as if she had been there to see them. What they intended to do with Marina and her mother after she was born is unclear, but the process appears to have resulted in Marina being born a witch. She is a black mirror witch, which basically means her powers lie in reflections, images, and in reflective surfaces that can be used as scrying mirrors. Classically this has been actual mirrors or pools of water, but Marina uses her turned-off laptop screen as her black mirror, and has been doing so since she was a young child.

She became a ward of the state and was sent to live at a school that doubled as an orphanage for many years as a child. Not knowing her parents and being a little odd personality-wise, Marina was very much alone and didn’t have friends. She was bullied by two boys who assaulted her on more than one occasion, but the teachers didn’t seem to care or believe her. Alone, sad, and angry, Marina turned to the internet, finding some solace in chat rooms and the shadier corners of the internet where darker imagery and themes abounded. This was the beginning of her obsession with fantasy, the occult, and scrying. By focusing her energy and desires while staring at her own reflection in her turned-off laptop screen, she was able to curse the two boys who had bullied her. They were stung repeatedly by wasps, so badly that their faces were unrecognizable. It was no accident. The wasps… are Marina’s protectors.

Various mythology exists about witches having familiars that either help or protect them. In Marina’s case, it’s true. Wasps are her protectors. They intimidate, chase, and even kill those she identifies as threats to her or whom she had decided to hate. Conversely, moths are her observers. They aren’t aggressive, but rather watch over ones she’s curious about, particularly those she likes. Once Marina realized she had these abilities, she began spreading her influence throughout the school, and many of the other children said she gave them nightmares.

This brings me to Marina’s other abilities… which involve her art. She draws by hand and animates her sketches on the computer. Some of them are whimsical new images, some are things she couldn’t possibly have seen from before she was born, and some are things yet to happen. If she is currently obsessing over someone, she has the ability to bring that person inside her art through dreams. They will dream about objects, animals, and locations from her drawings, and sometimes even see Marina herself. This ability can be innocuous or malicious, dependent on why she’s obsessing about the person in the first place.

It is very often in dreams and through this connection that the moth king, Talfryn, will make an appearance. Marina believes him to be a real being, attached to her but independent from her. In actuality, Talfryn is a magical construct, like a part of Marina’s magical abilities that has gained some amount of sentient in its own right. Talfryn appears a lot in Marina’s dreams, the dreams of others she’s drawing into her creations, and more rarely… in reality. If you see him, it is a sign that Marina is curious about you and essentially deciding whether or not to trust you. Talfryn is an observer, but also a judge. He is protective of Marina and makes it his business to assure that people she interacts with are not going to hurt her. 99% of the time, Talfryn appears about one foot tall, wearing a delightful little outfit and a crown upon his fuzzy moth head. Very rarely… he appears the size of a person, about six foot tall.

After Marina aged out of the school/orphanage she was living at, she was essentially on her own. That was really difficult for someone who had poor social skills, no job, and a very noticeable hair-plucking disorder. She took to wearing hoodies, even in summer, to hide as much of her disorder as she could. She was also able to attend college by applying for scholarships for disadvantaged students.

Her social media account (the one in the movie mimicked F.ace.book) is like her mental home. If one could have a room inside her brain and have it be decorated with her aesthetic, her art, and her ideas, that’s what her wall, feed, etc. looks like.

What Marina wants now is to make friends, be included and accepted, and be loved. But beware, if you cross her, she isn’t afraid to curse you…

Marvel Verse: MCU AU Marina is a mutant. That, and not the strange circumstances surrounding her birth, is the source of her powers. She is similar to Wanda Maximoff (comic version) with some of her powers in that she is able to alter natural probabilities to bring about unlikely outcomes. In short, when she curses someone by focusing her mental energy on doing so, she can increase the probability of their death in a chosen way. She can also very easily bring about good outcomes for people she likes as well. Her ability to bring her art and ideas to life (Talfryn) and to draw people into her dreams and nightmares are similar to Wanda’s abilities to alter reality and invoke nightmares in the minds of those she influences.

Potential Starter Ideas:

Really she can be met anywhere someone might sit with a laptop… on a park bench, in a cyber café, in a coffee shop or bookstore, inside a college classroom or on campus, on a bus, etc.

She could also be met while out walking, in a store, wherever.

Or your character could find her homeless on the street… sleeping, sitting, etc.

In the MCU AU, she could be noticed by another mutant, Avenger, or anyone else from the MCU, or she could be brought to live at the Avengers compound for observation. Perhaps she was noticed and it was thought that she needed counseling/training to help control her powers and her vindictive tendencies so that she doesn’t harm anyone in the future.

Fun facts: Marina loves insects and will collect them and take them outside if she finds them inside buildings… even pests like mosquitoes. She loves the combination of black and white so much that she only ever sketches in black ink on bleached paper. She has an interest in psychology and, since she is unafraid of the dead, she would love to become a forensic psychologist. Photography is also a love of hers, and taking pictures of nature and abandoned buildings often gives her ideas for her art.

#{ i am the caretaker of souls } ᵒᵒᶜ #muse: marina nedivar #{throws my trauma baby at you}

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