Marrol Karova

Personality
Marrol is sweet, and easily embarrassed. She is good with people, able to chat with strangers with no obvious difficulty. While being extremely loyal to her friends, she never talks to them about her feelings and problems, one of the only exceptions being Liath, but that is still a rarity given the nature of some of her feelings.



While she is by all means a pacifist, her education at Signal finally taught her to stand up for herself and defend what she loved, meaning that even though she isn’t openly aggressive and hostile she is more than prepared to defend herself.

 Also she is quite self conscious of her appearance, though not for the reason some would think.





History
Marrol was born an orphan. No one knew what had happened to her parents, thinking that they had abandoned her on the orphanage steps and fled into the night, or some other sombre theory. Not that it mattered to Marrol very much, she didn’t know her parents and that was that. She was raised by the carers to believe completely in the abilities on Hunters and Huntresses, quickly finding herself to be one of the thousands of children wanting to be one. Despite issues with bullies, she made it into Signal, though she did continue to suffer at the hands of the more ignorant children.





One day, a boy named Liath took notice of her suffering and talked to her, managing to cheer her up. The two became friends, though she didn’t tell him about the bullies, not wanting him to be dragged into her own problems. However, one day two older boys took her behind one of the buildings and started beating her. She had made arrangements with Liath to meet up after class, but when Marrol didn’t turn up, he started asking around. He was told that she was last seen being forcibly lead somewhere by two boys. By the time he arrived, Marrol was balancing on the edge of consciousness, eyes struggling to stay open. All she saw was the two boys turn away as a familiar voice called out to them, then she was lying in a hospital bed, Liath asleep in a chair next to her.



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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">He pushed everyone away, even his few close friends. Most of the outsiders left, unwilling to be patient or sympathetic with him, leaving him to wallow in his anger and depression. Marrol stuck with him through it, along with the few other close friends he had, but when he returned to the person he was before the incident - almost six months later - something was different. He didn’t seem to care about how many people liked him or not, only keeping his affections towards his closest friends.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The final two years at Signal blurred by, and across them Marrol grew tired of combat; of the idea that fighting was the only way to deal with the Grimm. She elected to remove herself from the Beacon applicant list in order to search for alternate and more peaceful methods of dealing with the Grimm.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The boy learned of this and made a call. He asked if she had anywhere to say, to which she answered no. He also asked if she had a job to pay for a place to stay, to which she also answered no. Suddenly, Marrol found those answers turned around. The boy offered her a job at his dust store - that he had inherited from his father -  and the spare room of the apartment above it, all he asked was that she worked from ten to four on weekdays and she could stay there, also keeping three quarters of any profits made. Liath was going to Beacon, but promised to visit on weekends so Marrol could take them off and he could visit his other friends, all of whom and decided to travel down other walks of life after finding the idea of becoming a hunter slowly less appealing.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Now, all Marrol does is look after the dust store and slowly do research. Using both what Liath tells her about his experiences in Beacon and mountains of research documents on Grimm anatomy and behavioural patterns, hoping to find something that would lead to an end to the violence and loss of life.