Marina

Marina is a loudmouthed, mischevious and daring molly. She has two settings, either 0 or 100, with no in between, making her very intense to be around. She can be impulsive, especially when it comes to sharing her opinions. She shoots off at the mouth, even to the point of being abrasive, and she just can't stop herself. She carries herself with an air of easy confidence, although a lot of this comes from a fake it til you make it mentality. In reality, Marina cares a lot about what others think, and she projects an air of uncaring so that no one can hurt her because of it.

Marina takes a lot of fierce pride in her image as a bold, confident cat, and she doesn't take well to that perception of her being threatened. She spends a lot of time maintaining that image, of toeing the line between looking good and having that slight edge of wildness to her, so of course she's equally dedicated to defending that perception of her.

Marina is very blunt, to the point of being mean at times. She doesn't believe in mincing words for anyone else's business. She doesn't believe in others doing it either, and in fact she finds it frustrating when cats tiptoe around her feelings. She won't tiptoe around theirs, so why are they being so nice? Kindness makes her angry, even when it shouldn't. Maybe especially when it shouldn't. In that regard, her rough edges make it very difficult to be close to her, and cats have to learn not to take her anger personally.

Oh, her anger. Marina's anger is almost always at her disposal, bubbling up just beneath her skin where she can feel it. If she tugs at it even a little, it emerges, and she finds herself bristling and snarling. It scares her. She doesn't entirely know what to do with it. But she can't get rid of it either, so she just lives with it. Tries to keep a hold on her temper, and call it up only in her own defence or in defence of others. Sometimes cats who've done nothing wrong become casualties. She doesn't mean to. But at the end of the day, that doesn't matter.

When she's using it protectively, though, Marina is a force to be reckoned with. Very few cats would be brave enough to mess with her sisters, for example, because Marina's right there ready to claw them to shreds if anyone so much as looks at Cascade or Cordelia wrong. She knows that their mother Kelp fought against the Cavern Colony once. She knows that when cats look at her or Cascade especially, they see Kelp's face, and that some aren't too happy about it. Marina doesn't care. She doesn't (she does). She feels a thirst to prove herself. She will be great. Everyone just has to wait for it.