- Invitation Status
- Look for groups
- Looking for partners
- Posting Speed
- One post per week
- Slow As Molasses
- Online Availability
- Varies
- Writing Levels
- Advanced
- Adaptable
- Preferred Character Gender
- Male
- Female
- Nonbinary
- Transgender
- Genres
- Fantasy, Modern Fantasy, Horror, Light Romance, Sci-Fi Fantasy, Fandoms (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel/DC)
Name: Mara Vaine
Nicknames: Black Leopard
Role: Ticketmaster/Thief
Appearance: Standing at an unimposing 5'4" with short black hair and sharp features, what Mara lacks in height and strength she makes up for in speed and agility. She's lean but surprisingly muscled, which usually helps when people don't want to pay her price for using the Tube. Although not ugly by any means, she's not exactly the most beautiful lady people come across, and she's certainly made a name for herself on The Land as being bitter and uncompromising with her ticket prices. No one really likes a paid thief, and that's all she really amounts to. She usually dresses in darker colors, especially blacks and greys.
Character Pitch:
"Thieving bitch!" That's a personal favorite of hers. Over her many years serving as ticketmaster of the Tube, Mara has learned how to play the game. Never too high a price, never too low. Just right to make 'em angry, but not enough to make 'em leave or fight. She learned the tools of the trade, so to speak, from her own father--a thieving mastermind who used the system just like herself. Of course, he spent all his extra funds on his personal addictions and whatever whore he could find from Pariah Bay.
Mara, at least, has good intentions. With two young children at home, she does everything she can to provide for them. It's never enough. Not in this godforsaken place. As she watched her father waste away during her childhood, she lost any illusion of grandeur towards the "Golden City." But it was all she knew. And how could the outside world be much better?
Her husband...he was long gone. He found some richer woman who wanted to travel, and they ran off into the sunset together. Mara hoped they'd died out there or somehow found the rest of the world in shambles. But she'd never tell her children that.
At night, Mara hardly changes. She just does things more illegally. She eventually became known as the "Black Leopard" to the local paper, though she can't imagine why (probably the dark clothing). She steals luxury goods mostly, travelling down to the black market to sell them to those she trusts. They later sell the goods to the Rats and anyone else brave enough to travel to the Underground. It's a profitable trade, enough to keep her family afloat in the nicer parts of the Land. On top of her job as a ticketmaster, Mara and her family could be considered among the more wealthy of the Land's citizens, although she will never reach the Sky.
Mara is also one of the few to know her way through most of the Golden City. She doesn't have every path memorized, but her time as a thief has lent itself to learning the roads less traveled. She's also pretty adept at jumping across the roofs, although she's wary of using them as a means of transportation with the Inquisition out and about.