Marina Jiang

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Appearence
Marina is relatively skinny with toned muscles around her arms and shoulders. She has light blue hair that is darker streaked around her bangs and near the ends, and comes down to her mid-back. She wears a white sleeveless jacket with a blue liner, high collar, and tails. Her jeans are white to match her jacket, but are in much contrast with her dark blue boots and thigh bands, which she wears on both legs. She has long white gloves that come up to just above her biceps, secured in place with blue elastic bands and small buckles in her emblem. Her necklace is a black choker with a dark blue droplet shaped gem hanging from it. Finally, Marina wears a bandage across her nose and higher on her cheeks, clearly to hide something.



Personality
Marina is quiet, guarded, and reserved. She is impossible to work with, opting to do everything on her own, and leaving her team to decide on what to do on their own. When she actually sits down to do the leader thing, she is a great tactician and good at placing people in accordance to their abilities, preferences, and skill levels.

Marina is a good listener, though she often pretends as if she cannot hear the world. According to her, it is in her own best interest to stay secluded, because she won't have to deal with the loss and heartbreak later on. According to Ore, Marina always gives the cold shoulder, but she secretly cares and is just a big softie. Marina denies this.

Before her amnesia, Marina was cheerful and an all around joy to be around, but was also very cocky and brash. People respected her outgoing nature, but feared that if they left her life in their hands, they'd get hurt themselves. She was also one to never take the blame, where as after contracting amnesia, Marina accepts blame weather it is hers or not.



Weapons and Abilities
Marina uses a pair of long swords named Amytal Crystal and Narcotica. The two of them can be combined into a larger sword, or also be used similarly. As different units, they are very different weapons: Amytal Crystal is a medium for Marina to channel dust, and the dust she uses effects how her blade deals damage. Unlike Weiss, she can only use a single variant of attack, instead of having two ways that dust affects her blade. Narcotica as it's own unit can deform into a small hand-held gun, that has relatively low kick and a medium range. As a gun, Narcotica can still be combined with Amytal Crystal to create a gun blade.

Marina fights using many wide slashing motions. She often leaves one side open, but can easily cover for it due to the lightness of her blades. When using Narcotica in it's gun form, Marina will attack with her blade and gun simultaneously, much like how Ruby uses Crescent Rose. As a single sword, Marina uses a varied form of Iaido, where she will draw her sword from her back, deal an attack, flick the grime off it, and return it to her back. In rest mode, Amytal Crystal folds into a holster for Narcotica, and both rest on her hip.

Before her amnesia, Marina only had a a single gun-blade, where Dust was channeled as bullets. She swung it mainly one handed and "was in no way a fencer."





Backstory


Marina was once the son of a Dust Merchant, the heir of the infamous Jiang Trading Company. She lived in mostly isolation and was homeschooled, but had very little contact with other people. Her best friends were her to body guards, Brandy and Whiskers, who took care of her and made sure she stayed safe when her father was away.

Despite this, Marina grew up to be charismatic and very intelligent and confident. She was quick to take command in any situation and was ready to win in any fight (she knew she could too). She wanted to go with her father everywhere so she could learn more about his job and how best to handle business situations. At age fifteen, he started leaving her in charge of the Dust wearhouses and trades within Vale.

Marina took great pride in her work. She consulted Brandy and Whiskers all the time for the best courses of action and worked closely with the many trade partners Jiang Trading Co. had. Soon, the young prodigy of Old Man Jiang was a legend.

Marina's ego skyrocketed. She started to believe she was undefeatable and that she'd be taking her father's place in no time. Brandy and Whiskers often warned her about her big-headedness, but she merely brushed them off. Marina was on top of the world and no one would bring her down.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:14px;">One day, during a trade gone wrong, Marina was forced into a fight in one of her warehouses. A vicious explosion tore the place apart, and though Marina was able to get out of the inital blast and escape with very few burn wounds, a strike to the back of her head rendered her unconcious. The last thing she heard was Brandy evacuating the place, and Whiskers calling out for her.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:14px;">When she finally came to, she felt disoriented. She didn't know what had happened, where she was, or what the broken sword next to her meant. All she knew was that everything smelled of smoke and her broken nose stung, blood dribbling from the gash. And also who was this random pink haired chick standing over her.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:14px;">"Hi there!" The girl greeted. Marina stared blankly. "Hey! Are you okay? I found you here, and judging from how cold you are, you've been here a few hours. Do you know where you are?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:14px;">Marina shook her head. "Oh, that's great! We can find out together. My name's Fuchsia, I'm looking for Beacon Academy... Why don't you come with? You can get your nose treated on the way."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:14px;">"Sure." Marina replied, taking Fuchsia's hand and stading. "But, uh, who am I?"

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Trivia
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 * Marina's last name means "River," alluding to her color, aquamarine.