Maribelle Blackpyre

Age	Height	Weight
25	5'02 ft	130 lbs

Appearance

Maribelle is a short high elf with fair skin, purple and pink hair, and one orange eye. She has a long red scar down her right eye and scars on the left side of her face. She is missing her left eye and has part of her jaw exposed just under where the left eye was. She has intense burns on the right side of her head, face, ear, neck, shoulder, armpit, ribs, hips and the top half of her right leg, a scar down her abdominal region and one on her right leg. She has a tattoo sleeve of a skull breathing what is meant to look like stylized poisonous gas on her right arm and a Eye of Vecna tattoo on her left hip. Maribelle's new tattoo is made to resemble a stylized, abstract angry face around the shape of an ahnk.

Maribelle typically wears a one sleeved dark blue and pink dress with a laced skirt and a heart shaped accessory on the chest and has skull shaped buckles down the abdominal region of the dress. The sleeve has a blade on it that only serves the purpose of looking aesthetically interesting so it cannot be used as a weapon unfortunately. The outfit is also equipped with a pair of slightly torn thigh highs with the same aesthetic blades so no stabbing with those either, they also come with shoes to match them. She usually wears a cloak that she fashioned out of what remained of her sister Incineryn's clothes when her body was returned after a battle against Gwynevere.

Maribelle's second outfit is a bodysuit that she wore when she was trained to fight by Incineryn, it has been fitted with more fabric to cover the left leg to cover the Eye of Vecna tattoo. She wears the same gloves, shoes and thigh highs as Incineryn to pay homage and still being unable to let go of the loss of her sister.

After she unlocked her astral abilities her hair completely changed, it grew out to its intended length and color.

Personality

Maribelle is a brash and angry young high elf, she likes to fight and is prone to resort to violence before thinking about her actions. She is very stubborn and refuses to ever admit when she's ever beaten even when it is abundantly clear when she's out matched, she wouldn't even admit to refusing to admit that she does that either. She drinks to try and cope with her depression and self loathing, despite not actually liking alcohol in the first place.

When Maribelle awakened her astral self it took the form of a representation of the aspects of her personality that have been repressed throughout her life and once she awakens it, Maribelle herself will start to inhibit the personality and behavior she would have originally had before, the death of her parents and sister and before the crippling depression. She is not fully letting go but is no longer allowing it to consume her. Thus after a long fought and successful battle Maribelle can finally smile once more.

Abilities

Astral Self Monk - With the help of Runa, Maribelle has awoken a new power within herself. No longer being held back by the clutches of Vecna's power, Maribelle is now faster and stronger. On top of that Maribelle can manifest an extension of her soul and summon an astral projected representation of her other self. Maribelle realizes that the astral self resembles her but isn't identical so she felt weird about calling it Maribelle as well, so she decided to name it Sekhmet because Maribelle thinks it sounds cool. The shift from Death Cleric and Mercy Monk to Astral Self Monk represents the fact that she is taking power back into her life and her own power from within and rejecting Vecna’s power.

During any use of any of the listed Astral Self abilities will cause Maribelle's hair, wounds and blood to glow like the stars and cosmos, she doesn’t have full control over this and so this will also happen when she gets angry or overwhelmed with emotion.

- Arms of the Astral Self: When this ability is used she manifests astral gauntlets around her arms for her punch enemies within 5 ft and uses claw like attacks to slash the very space around her to hit enemies from 10ft away. She can also have these gauntlets float within 10ft of her.

- Visage of the Astral Self: When this ability is used a mask is summoned on the eyeless half of her face, as if Sekhmet herself is assisting her vision, when Maribelle removes the mask the cosmos can be seen in her eye and where the missing eye is a black hole can be seen this can also be seen when her body glows.

- Body of the Astral Self: When this ability is used the spectral figure of Sekhmet is summoned to fight with Maribelle, in this state Maribelle won’t be the only attacker in her assault, Sekhmet will help in combat and punch the enemy with her, as if in body and soul Maribelle is ganging up on the enemy.

Poison Expert - Maribelle is very familiar with poisons, she worked with them for most of her life and know the basics, now that Maribelle is immune to poisons, Maribelle can now taste test poisons without consequences to test if a poison is fully tasteless.

Background (Spoilers)

Maribelle is Incineryn’s half sister. They have the same father but different mothers, although all three are dead. Once she was about 5, she lived with her father, his new wife and their 25 year old daughter Incineryn. They lived in a small settlement named Innsclave next to a small river. Around the time the father was a blacksmith and the wife made clothes. One day someone burned the whole village down, killing everyone while Incineryn was out in the church with Maribelle. Incineryn ran with Maribelle escaped the destruction. During this fire, Maribelle was burned a bit as well. Incineryn ran to a village called Vattlegarten, she raised her sister to follow the teachings of Pelor but Maribelle instead "worshipped" Vecna instead in hopes that he would help bring back her parents once she realized this was bullshit, she used Vecna’s power for revenge. Maribelle's father’s family, the Blackpyre family, is a family of doctors and sages that don't make too much of a name for themselves and like to just help people most of the time, they helped raise Incineryn and Maribelle even a bit after their parents died but this didn’t do much for Maribelle she felt out of place. Once Incineryn joined Croak and Dagger, Maribelle was busy training, once she learned of the forsaken she believes that they were a potential threat to her. Once Croak and Dagger defeated Hildr and went to the casino, Maribelle was left behind with no one to talk to since most people avoided her. While she waited for Incineryn to return she decided to hang out with Hildr until she left to go help Croak and Dagger, once she was gone she was stuck with Robynn so she gave him the “special task” of watching a close eye over Skulk, but she doesn't know where he went. Upon hearing that Croak and Dagger returned she went off to see her sister, but, she didn't return alive.

Trivia

- Maribelle's name was inspired by a character of the same name from Fire Emblem Awakening who is also a healer, but the similarities end there

- Maribelle's first outfit was inspired by Ruby Rose's volume 6 outfit and also takes inspiration from Stocking from the Panty and Stocking series which is also what Maribelle's hair color references

- Maribelle's old fighting style was very aggressive, Incineryn taught her to fight aggressively but not to the degree that she did before, once Incineryn died Maribelle stopped protecting herself during combat as much because she no longer cared if she lived or died in combat, if she did end up blocking or dodging it was either coincidence or a kneejerk reaction.

- The name of Maribelle's old fighting style was called, "Fists of the Dead Killer", Maribelle called it that because in combat she wanted to kill or be killed.

- Maribelle's new fighting style is still very aggressive but now Maribelle is no longer trying to get herself killed, she will now become more cunning, stealthy and can now pounce and prowl more effectively thanks to the overwhelming ki. She would rather wait until she can guarantee a fatal blow then get just out of the opponent's reach before getting back in.

- The name of Maribelle's new fighting style is called, "Blood Red Rampage", Maribelle calls it that because she wants to use her abilities to run the battlefield red with her enemy's blood, Maribelle took a little inspiration from Aiden's werewolf form and uses the claws on her gauntlets to attack from a distance.

- Maribelle doesn't mind the taste of poison, it's the fact that it kills you is the problem, now she can safely drink it.

- Maribelle's favorite drink is black tea

- Maribelle has hidden tattoos that are harder to spot, they are a skull located on the tongue, a snake eating itself in the shape of a figure 8 located on the lower back, and an eye of Vecna on the left inner eye lid