Marina Kelly

Name: Marina Kelly
Nickname(s): Kelly
Talent: Ultimate Marine Animal Trainer
Class: 75^th
Home: Exmouth, Australia
Age: 18 (Graduation, Entering Hope's Peak University), 20/21 (Tragedy Begins), 24/25 (Hope's Peak University Reopens)
Height: 181 cm (5'11")
Weight: 71 kg (156 lbs)
Birthday: October 27 (♏)
Family: Summer Kelly (Mother), Kiara Kelly (Mother)
Position in Future Foundation: 15^th Division - Special Branch; Member
Skills/Abilities: Swimming, Marine Animal Training, Increased Lung Capacity, Upper Body Strength
Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish (Conversational)
Dating: Carlos Rosales, James Hepburn

Marina was raised by avid marine biologists, and grew up to have a deep love of sea life. Summer worked for a sea life theme park, researching and educating visitors on endangered sea turtles, while Kiara worked out in the field. Marina, as a result, spent nearly every weekend at the theme park and at the beach and grew to love all kinds of sea life. She grew to be particularly fond of manatees and other aquatic mammals and began interning there at a very young age. It was eventually realized that she had a great bond with all of the mammals and she began working more closely with them and eventually began training them. She grew to be the top trainer at the park. While working with the killer whales, Marina's leg was damaged by a playful whale named Clara which resulted in the loss of her foot and part of her leg.

Marina began rehabilitation with her prosthesis and when she went back to work she began working with an injured manatee named Sophie and bonded with her. She eventually went back to her normal routine, and continued to train Clara and gained critical acclaim for the act. She was eventually contacted by Hope's Peak and moved to Japan.

During her time at Hope's Peak Academy Marina bonded with all 15 of her fellow classmates, but was closest to Giovanni, Carlos, James, Dahlia and Jackie. She began dating Carlos a few months after they met, and became very close with James and eventually entered a more romantic relationship with him. After their graduation, they were offered enrollment at Hope's Peak University, an experimental college for Ultimates. Marina, along with her 15 other classmates accepted, and spent the remaining time leading up to The Tragedy there.

Once The Tragedy started, Class 75^th was evacuated by Rahul's father, as well as their families. The group was eventually contacted to become part of the Future Foundation. They accepted, returning to Japan and fighting against the Despairs and attempting to rescue Class 78^th. Shortly after, Makoto Naegi reached out to them to assist in helping the Remnants of Despair be rehabilitated, which Marina was a part of.

After the world began returning to normal, both branches of Hope's Peak were reopened, and Marina along with Class 75^th returned to classes.

Trivia:

-Marina means "from the sea" and relates to her talent of training marine animals
-Marina says that she was named such because of her mothers deep love of the ocean
-Kelly is the anglicized version of the name Ó Ceallaigh ('descendant of Ceallach’), meaning 'bright-headed'
-Marina's favorite animal is the manatee, and she has a large amount of manatee-based belongings
-Marina also has a large amount of the products sold at the park she works at, and nearly a third of her shirts are from the park
-Although her job has her working with namely mammals, Marina is well educated on most sea life and can name most fish just by looking at them
-Marina wakes up every day around 5:30 to go on a run with Carlos
-Marina expresses a deep frustration of pet fish and hermit crabs, as they are seen as beginner pets and often mistreated
-Marina doesn't eat any kind of seafood

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(Art by Bi-te)