Character Name: Marina Rhodes Age: 23 Birthday: October 3rd
Personality: Flirty and seductive but mostly uninterested in actually having sex. Creative and art-loving but can't create anything to save her life. Liar extraordinaire but wishes she lived an open and truthful life.
Marina is quick to react under pressure, and that reaction can often be violence. She can't really help that- she spent all her formative years in the middle of violence. It only seems natural. But she's also quick on her feet when she needs to be, and happily makes split second decisions.
She is compassionate towards others, especially those that are suffering or in difficult circumstances. She's also easily led by her heart and her emotions, and it can lead to trouble for her.
History: Born Sanclara Dalembert in Miami, Florida, Marina was raised mostly by her mother, Kenia, a Haitian immigrant, and didn't get much of a chance to really know her dad. He was, however, involved in the drugs trade in a big way and she grew up around the sort of underhanded and violent people that sort of life attracted. Her father died when she was six, but Kenia couldn't really manage to distance the two of them from the troubles they were in. It was with a family friend called Deacon that they eventually left America to return to Kenia's home country to hide from the danger, much to the complaints of the then-thirteen year old Marina.
At fifteen she began to get involved with the freedom fighting efforts in Haiti along with Deacon. When she was eighteen, an ally called Stecher betrayed them, turning Kenia over to the government where she was likely killed, although Marina can't really know whatever happened for sure. She and Deacon dug into Stecher's life and found that he'd been receiving money from dirty drug deals. They used another of their number's expertise to wire the fortune overseas and then left Haiti, knowing they'd be killed. They then wired the money back to charities that could help their countrymen out.
Then Deacon and Marina split, not telling each other where they would go - it was safer to remain apart and unknowing.
Marina went to England, using her newly created name and identity to start afresh. She worked crappy jobs until finally ending up working for a pair of magicians in London. This was excellent work and she loved it... until she started dating one of the magicians, Giles. And Stecher showed up. And she ran into Deacon again. And it was all Dramatic and Bad. She killed Stecher and buried the body. She split from Deacon. She realised was a cheating dickbag Giles was and quit her job with him.
Since then she's been working as a waitress most nights - which she hates - and working at a burlesque club called Lady Figaro on the others - which she loves.