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closed starter | mars & doe | event 001

there were few things that worried marlene. or, to be more accurate, few things she showed worry over. amidst the aftermath of the attack, however, mars had full on entered panic mode. stumbling through the rubble and floods of survivors, there was only one name she yelled out: "DORCAS! CAS!" by god she regretted not approaching the woman earlier. it was a mistake. it was as if someone took hold of her heart and squeezed it, refusing to let go. dark eyes scanned the faces around her. "CAS!"

#marlene ☆ dorcas #sonotdorcas #i hope this is okay!

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"anything for an old friend, fenwick," mars shot him a wink before her gaze snapped back to his injury. her face immediately dropped into a grimace. "i doubt the rubble is comfortable, but try to relax as much as possible," she added, giving him a comforting pat on the knee.

with gentle fingers, marlene began to move the man's jacket and shirt out of the way. "if i had to venture a guess, something sharp and pointy probably it you," her tone was sarcastic but when she glanced back at him, her eyes were soft," i know it's painful, but it doesn't look infected, so there's a spot of good news."

if it wasn't for the intense pain and the blood seeping through his jacket, benjy would probably have forgotten about his injury for a while longer, but he could not help but bring a hand up to try and assess the damage.

❝yeah that would be great thank you❞ benjy said while moving to find a place to sit, ❝how about i just sit here. just so you know i would be lying if i said i know how it happened, so not much i can tell you about it other than it hurts.❞

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she held up a single finger. "i think the word you're looking for is brilliant. or charming. or effervescent. all much more fitting."

mars gave a gentle nudge with her elbow into frank's side. "listen, we can't all be honor students. some of us have reputations to maintain as coasting by beloved class clowns. besides stars are technically part of constellations...probably. so i'm still technically right!" shrugging her shoulders, she swung an arm around her friend. "there are more important things for that big brain to remember," she added, rapping her knuckle gently against his forehead.

laughter bubbling, "marlene- you're insufferable, you know that?"

"it's nice to know that someone else was failing astronomy with me --" moving toward her, "those twinkly things are called constellations and i think it's pretty horrific i can't even name one"

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#marlene ☆ sirius #its their friendship coded

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#marlene ☆ dorcas #sonotdorcas

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SEX EDUCATION Season 4, Episode 8

#marlene ☆ musings

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"you want me to look at that for you?" mars asked, motioning to the injury the other person had sustained during the attack. "i'm not a healer, but i can probably hold you over 'til you can see one." she said a silent thank you to her mum for insisting the mckinnon children become self reliant without magical assistance. it led the young woman to picking up loads of basic skills: cooking, lock picking, first aid, etc. incidentally enough, such lessons from her mother tended to always come in handy in the long run.

the door to that line of thinking slammed firmly shut in her mind as marlene cleared her throat, offering the person a half smile.

#marlene ☆ open starter #maybe your character has a minor or major injury or someone elses blood on them or anything else!

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marlene raised a brow. it was a little bit of a shock to see narcissa so....bubbly? warm? not that mars really knew the woman, especially after so long, but still. shaking off those thoughts, she shrugged. "eh. i prefer to do those kind of things alone. easier to concentrate on what i'm doing-" a screaming child ran by causing her lips to quirk, "and it's more peaceful. relaxing. i think i'll just hang back. it's enough just to watch."

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narcissa couldn't help but smile as she watched the families around her smile and laugh together. the grounds of the manor were decorated beautifully, to compliment the snow on the ground. she made sure all the children were equipped with warming charms to keep them from catching a chill as she talked them through the stars that they could see above them. narcissa may not have been named for the stars like the rest of her family, but she loved them just as dearly. teaching astronomy was one of her great joys in life. she smiled a little wider as she glanced at the presence beside her. it was distinctly not a child. "you can try too, you know? it isn't just for the children. if your eyes are sharp enough, you may be able to see jupiter and her moons."

#i hope this is okay? #if it's not lmk and i can redo it! #marlene ☆ replies #marlene ☆ narcissa

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"if i had to venture a guess, we're looking at those little sparkly things in the sky," marlene said with a faux consoling tone, a grin stretching across her face. "they're called stars. mind blowing, i know."

"-- and this is why i could never teach astronomy" squinting at the sky, "what should we be seeing during the winter solstice?"

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JUNG HO YEON starring in THE WEEKND’S ‘OUT OF TIME’

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“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”

— Anne Carson, in the preface to Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (via theclassicsreader)

#marlene ☆ musings

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Tba

BASICS

name: marlene “mars” min-hee mckinnon

age: twenty four

gender: cisfemale (she/her)

attraction: bisexual

blood status: half blood

former house: gryffindor

patronus: hawk

amortentia: sandalwood, bonfire, baked apples, fresh book pages

boggart: her family's corpses 

allegiance: order of the phoenix, dumbledore, family, and friends

occupation: order member 

residence: varies

APPEARANCE 

hair: long, dark, and wavy

eyes: dark brown

skin: fair

height: 5'7ft

build: scrawny

other: three lobe piercings in her left ear, two in her right along with an industrial.

PERSONALITY 

optimistic, humorous, brave, straightforward

disorganized, mischievous, impulsive, confrontational 

BIO

childhood

maybe it was being born into a family with three older brothers (and an eventual younger sister) or her eccentric parents, but marlene was a rowdy tomboy pretty much from the moment she could walk. as a young child, she would climb up the trees in her backyard, wrestle in the mud with her siblings, try and catch frogs in the local creak, play football with her brothers, etc. there was hardly a time that she didn't come home caked in the filth of the day, much to her father's chagrin and her mother's good natured clucking.

unfortunately, it wasn't all fun and games for young marlene. as a child, the girl had a rather explosive temper and would often get into fights with the other kids in the neighborhood. it wasn't as if she went out of her way to hurt anyone, she just had no tolerance for bullies or cruelty. despite being a scrawny brat, she typically scrapped by okay, but after one incident that landed her in the hospital with a concussion, her parents decided that it was time for a more professional intervention. so there on afterwards, marlene was enrolled in counseling and certain extracurricular activities to curve her more volatile behavioral patterns. 

hogwarts years

things had settled down a bit for marlene by the time she had gotten her letter. and for a short while, things were peaceful: she was sorted into gryffindor, made friends, and did normal kids stuff. but things don't stay golden forever, and the peace was bound to end. 

being a half blood, marlene always felt like she had the best of both worlds, muggle and magic, and she never thought there was anything wrong with that until her first year at hogwarts. half breed. mudblood. dirty blood. blood traitor. it was the first time she had heard those words hurled at her and those around her so ferociously. it wasn't that her parents never explained the bigotry of the world or that she never experienced it before from muggles, but she figured that a world full of magic would have been more socially evolved. it was a quick and painful realization that such a thing was a fantasy. 

things didn't get better. if anything, they got worse and worse as the years went by, especially after tom riddle finalized his iron grip on the wizarding world. it had become so dangerous and hostile that the mckinnons had to flee their home in london for scotland. but they didn't all make it. marlene and only one of her siblings survived the trek, though it didn't feel like it.

adulthood

to say the following years were basically ground zero would have been an understatement. not only did mars have to deal with her personal grief, everyone had to face the tyranny that had engulfed them. those facts made it practically a given for her to join the order. life practically became a blur ever since.

OTHER

her father was a pureblood wizard from scotland who moved to england in his twenties. it was there that he met hye-ran, a muggleborn who immigrated from south korea. despite his family's objections, they fell in love and got married in a whirlwind romance. the rest is history.

marlene hasn't had a permanent residence since the mckinnons fled from their home. depending on her assignments, she'll rough it or find temporary housing. outside of that, she couchsurfs. because of that, she has few possessions. which is fine. she's never needed much.

despite the direness of everything, marlene tries to find light and joy where she can, and create it where she can't.

she still has her old skateboard from her hogwarts years.

she had wanted to become a curse breaker as a student. now, it's kind of up in the air.

camping, hiking, swimming, etc. mars has always loved nature and outdoor activities.

WANTED CONNECTIONS 

any and all

#intro #to be completed #no where near done but figure i shpuld go ahead and post #death tw #war tw #violence tw