Class: Berserker (Rider and Caster also possible).
True Name: Marinette Bwa-Cheche,
Igniter of the Revolution.
Gender: Female.
Alignment: Chaotic Mad.
Source: Carribean History/Voodoo Mythology.
Stats
Strength: C (B).
Endurance: C (B).
Agility: D (C).
Magic: A-.
Luck: E.
Class Skills
Mad Enhancement: C.
Ability to trade away sanity in exchange for power.
All parametres except
Luck and
Magic increased. As Marinette's main abilities otherwise lie in
Magic, this
Mad Enhacement essentially makes up for her weaknesses instead of capitalising on her strengths.
Personal Abilities
Discernment of the Poor: B (C).
Ability to discern another's true motive and intentions, looking at them from the side of the underprivileged.
From Judika Illes'
Encyclopedia of Spirits:
You can't fool her. As a priestess, she can immediately distinguish an adept from a novice.
This ability remains active under
Mad Enhancement, but has turned into much more of an impulsive judgment than her usual critical analysis, hence its loss in Rank.
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Innocent Monster: C.
The reputation of being a ghastly, monstrous existence regardless of the Heroic Spirit's actual accomplishments in life, the distortion of their very image to be more like the nightmarish creature of legend people made them out to be. Incidentally this skill cannot be unequipped.
Marinette's own inextinquishable belief in herself as a heroine has had a hand in reducing the effects of this skill, even if it's not possible to negate it entirely, yet she is further compacted by
Mad Enhacement placing more and more strain on her.
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Saint: E.
Acknowledgement as a saint, offering a choice of powers between 'Rank up to Charisma', 'production of a holy shroud', 'automatic HP recovery' and 'bonus resistance to sacraments'.
As an aspiring rebel leader who views herself as a true heroine even if the world disagrees, Marinette has chosen 'Rank up to Charisma', effectively giving her E- Charisma.
As is common with loa, Marinette-Bwa-Cheche has occasionally been synchronised with Jeanne d'Arc herself, even if synchronising her with the icon Anima Sola happens far more often. Add to that Marinette's feared and fearsome nature, and her Rank in this Skill is ultimately low.
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Voodoo (Haitian): A+.
Training in the Magecraft system known as Voodoo, allowing the mage to gain unprecedented magical power by summoning the beings known as loa and letting him/herself be possessed or 'ridden' by them like a puppet, a process said to bring out the mage's hidden emotions. Due to the frenzied activity practitioners during this possession, Voodoo is a magic system that still works surprisingly well with the Berserker class.
An accomplished priestess or 'mambo' in life, Marinette's Rank is boosted even higher by having entered into the ranks of the loa herself upon her human death. Along with being able to channel the loa into herself (her personal favourite being Erzulie Dantor) and work herself up into a frenzy, Marinette has also gained the ability to ride others in the same way.
However she is known for 'riding' her victims in a violent and forceful manner, with her becoming even more violent and forceful as a result of
Mad Enhancement, thus it should be noticeable when she is possessing someone.
Despite her skill for it, her possession ability cannot to be used on other Servants, and while normal humans are easy prey for her, 'riding' a reluctant full-blown Magus can be difficult since their kind is more likely to have knowledge of possession and therefore some means of blocking it. Even if she were to possess a Magus though,
Mad Enhancement would prevent her though process from letting her perform more complex actions like using Command Seals.
Noble Phantasms
Anima Sola,
Fiery Chains of Purgatory.
Rank: A.
Type: Anti-Personnel.
Range: A small circle around her.
It is typical for loa to be 'synchronised' with a Christian saint or similar figure, originally as a way for African slaves to disguise their worship of their true religion and fool their Christian slavers.
Marinette's case is a tad different, as she is commonly equated to the 'Anima Sola', which is instead an icon showing a woman being held in chains down in purgatory, surrounding by the roaring flames. The Anima Sola is said to represent the bondage that holds us all yet also our ability to break out of said bondage.
The moment Anima Sola is activated, a circle of fire and what appear to be chains spread out in a blaze around Berserker, snaring and trapping any unfortunate foe within her vicinity.
As her target perishes within the heat of the inferno, the so-called 'chains' attached to them gradually begin to break, till eventually the 'chain' connecting them to their
life is shattered if they lack the strength required to escape the flames in time.
What Marinette's chains truly symbolise are every bond linking her target to their existence, everything that makes them who they are. The strength required to break them therefore is not physical, but mental and spiritual.
Marinette is said to be a spirit that, for all her ferocity, has the power to free people from what binds them, what deep down keeps them oppressed. A fitting assessment for the revolutionary she was in life.
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Blood of the Rebellion,
Black Boar Sacrifice.
Rank: B.
Type: Anti-Battalion,
Mental Interference (and pretty much every other Servant skill has something to do with
Mental Interference).
Range: The area around her, but if fewer people are able to resist its effects it gains the power to spread out further, like a contagion of some sort.
A sacrificial ritual offering up a black boar to the loa, once this ritual is complete a blow is struck to the very concept of 'Law' itself. Around Marinette, formerly happy employees become less and less forgiving of their bosses and prone to strikes, deliquency at schools experiences unprecented highs, family rows become all the more frequent, and criminal activity accelerates to the point where only the toughest policement could keep under control, if even then.
Grail War-wise, allegiances begin to grow unstable, perfectly-planned strategies start going haywire, Servant-Master relations once thought secure begin to break apart, while Servant-Master relations on the edge meet with their final straw. The downside to this is that relations between Marinette and
her Master will also not emerge unscathed.
Essentially, this Noble Phantasm is a re-enactment of the sacrifice Marinette performed that marked the commencement of the Haitian Revolution. Despite
Mad Enhancement, Marinette can still pull off the ritual, but will do so in a strange, chaotic movement that looks like she herself is possessed.
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Loups-Garoux,
Matron of the Full Moon.
Rank: C.
Type: Anti-Personnel(Self, sort of).
Range: 1 person (her possession target).
Though she isn't one herself, voodoo worship regards Marinette as the matron of the Loups-Garoux, a unique brand of werewolf that flies through the night air on grisly wings. It should also be noted that in myth female Loups-Garoux appear to be much more prominent than male ones.
If Marinette is currently possessing a human being, she can trigger this NP and transform them into another of these Haitian winged werewolves, and like with all werewolves the closer it is to a full moon the more powerful they become. Marinette can use this NP much more effectively on female possession victims than male ones, yet she seems unable to use this NP when by herself (if she could, it would be filed under
Monstrous Strength).
Legend
Though known as a loa in the vein of Erzulie Dantor, Marinette (possibly the same person as Cecille Fatiman, a Voodoo priestess who lived to be 112) was originally a human being living in colonial Haiti. Ever the restless spirit, her sacrifice of a pig to Erzulie became an iconic event that served to ignite the Haitian Revolution against white rule.
However, when rebel leader Toussaint L'Ouverture forbade women from participating in battle, any further chance Marinette had of being hailed as a heroine was snatched away from her. After her death it was said that she became a destructive and evil loa consumed by rage and vengeance, yet even so she never gave up her belief that she was a heroine through and through, who evermore strives to liberate the oppressed.
Perhaps her entire reason for entering the Grail War is to at long last have the opportunity to fight and be recognised as the righteous heroine she knows in her heart she is, yet is further rage and destruction truly the way to achieve this?