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Only without the eye implant and the tech on her head.

Archetype: Advanced techno

Name: Maria Annette “Mary-Ann” Legrand

Alias: Marionette

Age: 29

Powers: Marionette is a double arm and leg amputee with state of the art cybernetic prosthetics. These limbs are superior to their flesh and blood counterparts in every way; they’re made from a durable alloy that hits as hard as a sledgehammer while also providing great endurance and flexibility. The arms and legs are filled with various metal wires and she mostly uses the former limbs for grappling; Maria can essentially shoot these spike tipped wires from holes located at the top of her wrists, letting her swing around on whatever she can connect with.

Weaknesses: Weak where her metal isn’t, Maria equates to a normal human on most of her body, and can bleed like the rest of us. A strong enough force could crush and disable her metallic limbs, and something like a sawblade or another super sharp object could cut the wires she uses. She hates when people bring up how she was before her “upgrades”, because she very much believes that as Marionette, she is vastly superior to simple old Maria. 

Alignment: Villain

Personality: Intelligent, obsessive, traumatized, megalomaniac, sadistic

BRIEF Bio: Maria Legrand worked in research and development for Kane Corp, owned by the enigmatic billionaire Darius Kane. She was assigned to a team that was tasked with creating improved prosthetics for injured military veterans, a project she was hoping to nab in order to build a new set of legs for her brother after he lost them in the war. The project was led by one Nathanial Bell; who was a very strange but intelligent man. The team would work long hours and in that time Maria and Bell grew very close. Mary-Ann gave out plentiful information about her life; background, interests, and even spoke of grievances, such as that one ex who just wouldn’t leave her alone. Maria didn’t seem to mind that she’d been presenting her life to Nathanial and he never seemed to offer any information in return, it seemed that his intellect was enough of a draw. 

Months would pass and the team eventually crafted what was to be the future in artificial limbs. Only one thing was left, a test subject, and as project lead it was Bell’s choice on who to pick. He was given countless dossiers of military heroes that could use this technology to become productive members of society again, but Bell wasn’t interested in them. No, he wanted to “improve” his partner, and drugged Maria when she visited his home for a dinner date.   

When Maria woke, she was hanging by wrist cords that extended from two metal arms she didn’t have before, and she was terrified to look down at her legs, as they felt off. From their locale, which seemed to be a theatre of some sorts, to her lab partner sitting in the front row with a grin on his face and a device in his hands, as well as what looked like her ex bound on the other side of the stage… that whole situation was a lot to take in. She still has dreams about it, about Bell telling her that he was going to make her do what she previously thought she couldn’t and get that pesky ex out of her hair. She still remembers the gleam of a knife in a palm that she couldn’t seem to open, and if she concentrates, she can hear the sound of a motor starting up above her and being forced forward by the device she hung from to face her former lover. Was it Bell that puppeteered Maria to stab her ex repeatedly, or did she do it of her own free will? She doesn’t remember that part so well, but she’ll always remember doing it, as Bell had filmed the act and projected it on the theatre screen for Maria to watch over, and over, and over. Bell left after that, saying that he would return, but he never did. Maria was found the next day by the horrified manager of the establishment, just gazing at the screen and muttering Bell’s last words over the recording before it started again, “My Marionette.” 

She was found innocent for the murder but was to undergo study to observe her health and mind at an island research base owned by Kane Corp. She was studied for a year before it was decided that she could be used as a resource to further Kane Corp’s plans, and was thereby considered property of the company as she had so much of their technology keeping her standing. She was then planted with a chip that could disable her prosthetics if she crossed a line that the corporation didn’t approve of, and was shipped to New Athens to protect Darius Kane’s assets in the city. 

Storylines: Escape the Clutches of Kane- Marionette hates her job and wants to ditch her captors for good. 

Ringing Up Bell- Marionette wishes to reunite with her long lost lover find out why he left and what his plans are. 

Pulling the Strings- Marionette wants to establish a team of some sort to pursue greater criminal ventures. 

Notes: Maria is fucked up. Seriously, her mind got melted by a psychopath. She sincerely believes that Bell changed her life for the better and that she’s stronger than she ever was. That the whole situation was the little push she needed to get her to do everything she had been afraid to do before. She’s deluded. She only has the drive to fuck shit up now. She will never be able to be swayed into helping further society again. She should be imprisoned and the key should be thrown away. 
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