Female

13

Protagonist

Mari

She's supposed to have brownish skin, just like her brother. However, it's since become closer to a sickly-looking shade between brown and grey.

Small and very thin.

She has dark shadows under her eyes.

90 lbs

4'11 ft

Black

Her hair's surprisingly bouncy, cascades around her shoulders, and is propped up in a half-ponytail. Her bangs are cut in an overgrown hime cut over her eyes.

Very dark and very black. Often bloodshot. They don't catch any light so they look unnaturally dry.

She has very little regard for her own safety, which plays into her recklessness. She's also unsure of how to handle genuine relationships, because she tends to be suspicious of everyone. She also might have a tendency of acting blindly, meaning that she will do something without thinking too much about it (because she doesn't want to think about it). This is why she has a skewed perspective on killing. She doesn't think too badly about the people she kills if her victims are criminals or people who've tried to kill her in turn.

Mari has a special constitution. Her body fluids (blood, sweat, tears, spit, etc.) are poisonous to other people. If they make contact with a person's internal bodily system, that person will die painfully when blood spurts out of their eyes, nose, mouth, or any other orifice.

She also has special syringes with contents that, when injected into her body, produce great effects. One syringe enhances strength, another enhances speed, regenerative ability, and so on. They're all color-coded because they have particular elements in them that are specifically chosen to react with each other and with Mari's blood to produce this kind of effect. They normally don't last long and they wear off after a while. When they do, they normally leave her terribly sick and bedridden for a few days at most. If she happens to sustain serious injury while using the syringes, her body will heal on its own.

Mari has been using the syringes throughout the years, which is why her complexion's started becoming a lot more sickly.

She's considered a bit off-putting because of how calmly she acts in situations that would usually beg for panic and distress. She's straightforward when she wants to imply that she doesn't like someone, so she's also quite blunt. She also has a surprisingly reckless side to her personality. If one's able to put up with all this, they might find out about her preference for dry, juvenile humor, as well as awkward attempts at socialization.

She is also committed to anything she pledges to do, whether it's to prove a point or to put someone down in favor of victory. She's stubborn and determined, but beneath her brusque exterior, she's an emotional, sensitive wreck who's unsure about everything she's doing. She has to repeatedly convince herself, in her mind, that whatever she's doing is right.

She liked doing scientific experiments at home. She also does a lot of reading, to the point where she sacrifices sleep for it.

Her love for her brother drives her to win the deathly Carnaval game.

Red.

She loves a fruit called 'kamias' in her country (known as 'bilimbi fruit' overseas). It's a very sour fruit that one can eat with a lot of rock salt.

She actually likes utilizing odd weapons, such as scarves/kneesocks (for strangulation), random blunt objects like lamps or the floor (for bludgeoning someone to death), and her own blood/tears (poisonous when absorbed into another human's body).

Monkeys, especially those of the tiny species (i.e. she loves the comically huge eyes of a tarsier). Before living in the city, she used to live in a village on top of a plateau that was close to the clouds. There were many monkeys there that her brother used to catch for her.

December 3, 1906

She's very educated for a girl in her village. Children used to flock to her for reading, math, and science lessons. She was tutored by her brother.

She lives in the early 1900s. She once lived in a village on top of a plateau. She was sickly so she couldn't help her older brother in working. One day, her brother decided to go to the city to find a better job. Although he promised that he'd return to the village, he never did. His letters eventually stopped coming and Mari was left sinking into a terrible depression.

In the city nearest to the village, there was a carnival. Carnivals are normal and very popular in the country. These carnivals are all called Circo de Triumph ('the Circo' for short). The performers and workers in these carnivals aren't regular humans, but no one cares because the people love the performances and the rides too much to suspect them of anything. Mari and her villagers walk a long way every week to visit the carnival because they, like everyone else in the country, love Circo de Triumph.

One day, after a weekly carnival visit from the villagers, the performers of Circo de Triumph suddenly go rabid and insane. They started behaving like wild animals. They followed the villagers home and killed everyone there. Mari hid in a basket inside her home and feared for her life while the village began to burn down.

Every Circo de Triumph branch in a city has a Ringmaster to head it. The Ringmaster of this branch of Circo de Triumph is called the Ringmaster of Crisologo City. He rescued Mari from his lunatic underlings, but the carnival workers eventually caught up to him and overwhelmed him. Another Ringmaster appeared, having been alerted of the emergency. This one is the Ringmaster of the Circo de Triumph branch in Rosario city, also known as the most powerful Ringmaster. He had to kill every single carnival worker there because they couldn't be calmed down. This left the first Ringmaster alive but critically injured. A young Mari was traumatized.

The Ringmaster of Rosario City sought help for the injured Ringmaster. The carnival in Crisologo City - from where the rabid performers and workers came - was shut down and the public never found out why. As for Mari, since she had witnessed a terrible massacre of not only her fellow villagers but also of the Circo workers that she had grown up admiring, her memories were altered. She was now Mari Remedios, daughter of a rich couple in Rosario City, with no older brother to speak of and no villagers to remember. She was plopped into this new city life and accepted by her new family, whose memories were also altered so that they thought that Mari had always been a part of their family.

However, the memory alteration didn't actually work on Mari. She was confused for a while, wondering why she was suddenly in a new city life. Eventually, she realized just what her circumstances were. She began to suspect Circo de Triumph's suspicious behavior. Her suspicion gradually gave way to deep resentment for Circo de Triumph taking her away from her home and attempting to sweep the entire incident under the rug.

There's a death game that Circo de Triumph hosts every year. It's called Carnaval and the winner of the death game gets whatever they want. Dead loved ones, romantic love, all the riches in the world, the Circo will grant you this. Mari decides to join Carnaval so that she can find her missing older brother and uncover the truth about everything that's happened to her.

Mari's meant to go on a downward spiral of madness in this story. She won't reach a happy ending.