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LOCATION - DORM ROOM
INTERACTIONS -  BROTHER BEAR {VIA TEXT @McHaggis}
OUTFIT

	There was a loud laugh errupting from the inside of the red Ford Fiesta, the driver enjoying a nice ride through the somewhat empty roads with nice weather. Mariana rolled down the car window, leaning back comfortably against the cushions of the car with one hand firmly gripping the steering wheel while the other was used to gesture as she sung along to Halsey blaring through the almost busted radio. 

	It was a bright and wonderful, serving to only further Mariana's good mood as she approached closer and closer to Olympus Academy. She was officially starting her third year at the Academy for the children of the Gods, and she couldn't be any more excited for it. She'd always found the academy to be a positive place to have fun and relax as much as a place where she could safely practice her powers as a demi-goddess. Mariana wondered whether this year she was going to be able to see Apollo again. She'd barely seen him during her second year at the academy, and the times he had visited was always like a brief catch-up.

	But Mariana never complained. He's a God, it was understandable, right?

	The car slowed to a stop as she drove past the open gates of the academy, driving into the car-park before parking in her usual spot - the spot she'd claimed for the past year since she'd gotten a car. , the engine cutting with a low hum before complete silence. The car was definitely an old one, second hand with many scratches along it's dark red paint - a birthday gift for a girl turning eighteen. Despite the ruggedness, Mariana still loved it. It was her own, and something she'd cherish as a gift from her grandparents.

	Gifts didn't come all that often in the Dixon household, mainly because of how little money there was in the first place. Both adults were retired citizens, who had no reason to be taking care of a teenaged girl, but here they were. To see the campus grounds so nearly empty surprised Mariana. After the day she'd had, she almost expected the campus to be filled with teens and young adults, ready to start the new academic year at Olympus Academy. Before leaving her car, she hunted for her phone in the little tote bag she had tucked away on the passenger seat beside her, pulling out her old phone to check for messages.

'Has he not even arrived yet?' She wondered. She had no idea when Laurel was planning on turning up - if he was planning to anytime soon.

TO: Brother Bear
		Where are you? I've just arrived at the Academy and it looks like no one is here 😭 😭

	Sending off the text, she tucked her phone back in before leaving with her bag and two cases filled to the brim with books and clothes. The apartment block looked like a disaster from the outside (so... bright...) but it had been her home for the last two years - and would be for years to come. Plus the rooms were much better anyway, they were spacious at least so even if you disliked your roomie it gave you a better chance to hide out most of the time.

	Mariana dragged her case into the elevator, pressing the button leading to the fourth floor as she waited impatiently. She could only hope that she wasn't going to have someone she'd not get along with as a room-mate. That was the last thing she needed this year. 

Ding!

	The elevator doors opened and the first thing Mari did was approached the list of rooming assignments, anxiously checking through the list to find her name - "4-D... Vincent Monogan..." Poseidon's son? Okay, not bad. While she didn't know him, she hadn't heard anything bad, so it had to be okay right? Either way, she'd figure things out later whenever he arrived. Firstly, she had to choose the best room. 

Here we go...

  
Name:
Mariana Hayley Dixon

Nickname:
Mari works, but she prefers Mariana - why butcher such a beautiful name?
There isn't much reason to, but Hayley does work as a nickname - though Mariana only hears it when she's being scolded by her grandmother.

Birth Date:
4th September

Age:
19

Gender:
Female

Sexuality:
Heterosexual (possibly bi-curious)

In Depth Appearance:
Mariana stands at the average height of 1.71m (5'6") with creamy skin, rosy cheeks dotted with freckles across her forehead and upper arms. While lean, her body has a slight hour glass figure; sporting a small waist against her wider hips. The delicate curves are marred with stretch marks across her thighs and arms, something Mariana tries to cover up carefully with the help of appropriate clothes. She has no tattoos or permanent scars otherwise, leaving the rest of her skin a fair shade. 

Her eyebrows catch the attention of many when one looks at her; rather than it being thin or delicately shaped like you'd expect from seeing women in magazines, they're thick and full with barely an arch framing her almond shaped eyes. Her eyes are a mix between a light brown, hazel and green - some would argue that it's a light brown while others would call her eyes green - it all depends on the lighting of the room. Her hair is somewhat frizzy and untamed, falling past her chest in messy, tangled waves. Her hair is of a brown shade, with hints of natural blonde highlights to add depth to the messy locks. 

Despite being someone who tries to keep her appearance as neat and well put together as possible; her hair always tends to mess up the plans. Unless she straightens it (and who has time for that every morning?) or tied up into a bun or ponytail, there isn't much Mariana can do to tame her hair.

Clothing Style:
Mariana is a true Virgo. Born under the meticulous star-sign, Mariana pays careful attention to each clothing she wears. Nothing has dust, fur or is wrinkled. While it's not obsessive - if she or her clothes get dirty over the course of the day, she won't freak out as much as long as her clothing is salvagable. Mariana definitely likes to be pampered and prefers the branded clothing (possibly the materialistic side of her unfortunately inherited from her mother), Mariana sticks to swearing the comfortable and cheap threads.

The type of clothes, however, varies on her mood. While she doesn't have a huge closet filled to the brim with outfits, she does have enough to keep her well presentable no matter the occasion. Dresses, skirts, shorts, jeans - anything works well with Mariana as long as they're comfortable to wear (and practical too - you definitely won't see Mariana walking around in booty shorts in winter - though, power to the girls that do!) Her footwear is kept to the bare minimum; she only owns one pair of heels (nude pumps that match with everything, along with a couple flats and two old pairs of converses.

Make-up wise, Mariana keeps it simple. Why waste money on buying ten lipstick tubes of all the same colours? Concealer, some eye liner and maybe a swipe of tinted lip-balm to add a hint of colour to her already pale skin.

Quirks/Oddities/Habits

⛭ A common habit amongst many, but Mariana bites her lips and/or nails when she's nervous.
⛭ Mariana has the terrible habit of staying up much later than she should, even if she has to wake up early the following morning. You're more likely to get your room rearranged at 4AM than have her sound asleep in bed (unless she's completely knocked out from lack of sleep anyway, or with the help of sleeping pills).
⛭ Similar to the above point, Mariana likes to keep busy; whether this is in the form of procrastination (rearranging the bedroom like three times) or actually studying, it doesn't matter. Mariana even overworks herself in this state simply because she hates sitting idly.
⛭ Since childhood, Mariana has a habit of having porridge with a layer of Nutella and chopped bananas on top. The sweet, fattening topping is one way to keep her in a good mood for the rest of the day. That, and coffee.

Likes & Dislikes

✔ Swimming - Mariana enjoys swimming as a hobby, a way to work off anxiety or to shed the pounds she gains from her breakfast.
✔ Chocolate - if it wasn't obvious, Mariana loves chocolate. Bonus if it's milk or white chocolate though, as dark is a bit too bitter for her liking.
✔ The sound of rain hitting the window (especially if its a thunderstorm; the sound is comforting to her)
✔ Animals - Mariana is a huge animal lover, especially if it involves dogs
✔ Succeeding in whatever she's tasked to do (even if its not perfect)
✔ Stayng up to read creepy stuff or watch horror films. It's a guilty pleasure.

✘ Materialistic people (ironically)
✘ Having to repeat herself - or other people repeating themselves constantly
✘ Broccolis and cauliflowers - they just don't look or taste very appealing
✘ The strong smell of perfumes or industrial strength cleaning products
✘ Not being to help anyone out/not being useful

Fears:

⛤ Anything with more than four limbs; or basically the spider. 
⛤ Fire - There's no traumatic reason behind this fear, but the nature of it frightens her. The uncontrollable and distructive nature of a flame, to be exact.
⛤ Being watched without her knowledge - This is more of an odd paranoia more than anything. You can blame the horror movies and freaky shit she reads on the internet at 4AM

Personality:
♦ Materialistic ♦ Goal-orientated ♦ Honest ♦ Social Butterfly ♦

There is not a single way to easily describe Mariana Dixon. She's a walking contradiction - but honestly who isn't? To some, Mariana can be sweet and a charm but to others she could be cool and uninterested. In some instances Mariana is an extrovert; happily chatting with people in groups and gladly basking in the attention while others she'd like nothing more to hide herself in her room for her own "me" time.

To keep it simple, Mariana enjoys social interactions. She's a friendly individual and strives to help people with their situation (whether it be as simple as a bad mood or complex like personal problems, Mariana will definitely try to help). She's altruistic; someone who is always concerned for the well being of her loved ones. There is no one clique you could put her in in high school; she would blend into the crowd and often interact with different people each day. However, this meant that while Mariana had multiple friends, she never had any close ones - people that she could trust with her secrets like people would do to her. She didn't mind though; her habit of bottling up negative emotions aiding her in this situation.

Whether it's a trait she's inherited from her father; Mariana will never know. She's brutally honest and appreciates the same honesty in return. She finds it pointless to lie, even if it's a simple one because she believes that it means you don't trust them. To sensitive people, she may actively try to sugar-coat her words, but her words are still the truth.

Mariana is also quite stubborn as she is goal-orientated. If she's given a task, Mariana will try her absolute hardest to accomplish it and will often stubbornly sit there trying to figure out the solution without asking for anyone else's aid. Her need to be independent forces her to not reach out to people when she requires help, a trait that Mariana knows is bad and is actively working on it by being more open to others.

Just like her father; Mariana is cursed when it comes to her love life. Sure, she's had far and plenty amorous relationships for her age but none of them have stuck. Whether it be because of her personality, insecurities or whether her partner had been unfaithful or simply lost interest in her, it seems that Mariana just won't be able to stick to one relationship for long before something going wrong. Plus, Mariana isn't much of a believer in love anyway; it's all just chemical processes in the brain to trigger affection and softness for others according to her.

Mariana (as mentioned before) hates materialistic people. It's a trait that she's not fond of as it bitterly reminds her of her absent mother. However, the irony is that Mariana is still materialistic herself. She loves branded clothes, the expensive items just for the sake of having them - it's a guilty pleasure of hers to own items she can showcase but her disciplined nature (and the not-so-affluent background) keeps her wants in check. 

She also wants to impress Apollo. Most of what she does, she does with the intention to impress her father as well as to help others. After finding out who her father was, Mariana hopes to keep him in her life by becoming someone to be proud of - someone he can say with his chin held up high that Mariana is his daughter. This insecurity can also showcase in her relationships - she'll often try to impress them in hopes they'll think she's worthy enough to keep around.

Background:
For as long as Mariana could remember, it had been just her and her grandparents. Her mother was three states away burning through the little money she has while no one would tell her who her biological father was. One year they'd claim he was working abroad, then they'd claim he was dead - but they would never tell her who he was.

Mariana was born on a dark, cool September night to Samantha Dixon. Samantha was a young college drop out, living with her room-mates in a cheap trailer home and working at a diner to pay for the expensive clothes, booze and jewellery Samantha wanted. All Mariana knew about her mother was that she was irresponsible - the story that her grandparents have stuck to since the age of fourteen - and slept with a stranger in a drunken stupor. Either way, Mariana was barely three weeks old before she was swept away by her grandparents to live with them in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In the nineteen years she's been alive on this Earth, she's only seen her mother twice since moving in with her grandparents. The last time being when she was turning seven. Mariana doesn't hold much animosity towards her mother - she doesn't feel anything. Instead, she imagines that she has no mother and simply enjoys her life with her ageing grandparents. Despite the tensions between her and her parent, Mariana never felt the lack of love from her family.

Her grandparents were a big influence on her when growing up. Her grandfather (Papa) was a retired Army general, living with his wife (Nona) that was a retired florist in a modest home in the suburbs of the city. The locality was good for families, giving Mariana ample friends growing up (even if not many stuck by the time she was in High school). Her childhood friends even nicknamed her "sunshine" due to her ability to lift people's moods and doctoring some that would get minor injuries while playing. These tells weren't obvious; the healing didn't happen over night but it was enough for her grandparents to figure something out.

Their suspicions were confirmed years later during Mariana's graduation from high school. Mariana has always been an average student, if not above. With her dream to become a doctor, encouraged by her grandfather regularly, education was a priority (and still is) to Mariana so by the time she graduated with a 3.9 GPA, she was sure that they were proud. However, a visit from a man that looked eerily similar to her changed her world completely. Apollo approached his daughter that day, confirming their suspicions that their daughter wasn't entirely normal.

The following summer was spent by father and daughter bonding together. They watched movies, talked about Mariana's childhood and attempted spend as much time as they could together to make up for the lost years. Mariana was taught the basics about her ability; to heal and to affect others' moods - even prediction (even if that area needed some a lot of work). It was the summer she turned eighteen that she was enrolled into Olympus Academy, the school for demi-gods and goddesses to learn and control their abilities. 

That was a year ago, and Mariana is still trying to adjust to her new life as a demi-goddess with the help of her father and the student/faculty members of Olympus Academy.

Family:
Samantha Dixon | 39 | Waitress at a diner is the extent Mariana knows
Susan Dixon (nee Beaumont) | 64 | Retired (ex-Teacher)
Ethan Dixon | 67 | Retired (ex-Police Officer)

Extra:
Hmmmmm Athena maybe?

Godly Parent:
Apollo, God of Truth, Prophecy and Healing

Relationship With Godly Parent:
Mariana's relationship with Apollo is still relatively new; she'd only found out about her Godly heritage about a year ago. They're still trying to work out the kinks in their relationship, figuring to boundaries and catching up on the long, missed years. Mariana hopes that Apollo is proud of her thus far, each action as an attempt to impress him.

Godly Abilities:

Doctor, Doctor

As expected of the daughter of the God of Healing, Mariana makes quite the doctor. The best way to describe her power is to say that she has some variation of the magical healing touch. This power is quite limited, however. Most she can do currently is heal bruises and scrapes; anything that requires an actual qualified doctor means that she won't be able to help out.

Uplift your spirits

To Mariana, the sunlight acts more as a metaphor to describe her personality (and thus this power as well). She's bright and cheerful, yes, but this sort of behaviour is almost described as infectious. She can help improve moods subconsciously; whether to help calm a scared child or to make a crying adult smile - it all works for Mariana. For the most part anyway. She cannot permanently help improve someone's moods, and someone can build up immunity to this the longer someone stays in her presence (though this can take up to a year, depending on how often you see Mariana).

That's so Mari~

Mariana can, to a certain extent, some events. Most of the time they're small predictions; nothing too life changing and this power is used rarely. Mariana cannot control this power, meaning that she cannot predict events for people she wants to. Out of the three abilities she's got, her prediction skills are definitely the weakest.

{"Insert something your character would say."}
| ☠ Enemy || ☯ Neutral || ★ Friend || ♫ Best Friends || ♥ Love Interest || ⚤ Boyfriend/Girlfriend || ⚜ Acquaintances |

| Cecily Merrick {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Zachariah Rothschild ★ |
"I bet you I can help more people in one hour than you can in a day!"
Despite the competitive edge to their relationship, Mariana considers Abe a friend of hers. Abe is pretty chill for a child of Zeus - minus his bouts of aggression here and there - so here's to another friend!

| Andromeda Rhodes {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Vincent Monogan ☯ |
"I've just briefly heard of him, Poseidon's kid right?"
Mariana doesn't know much about her new roommate other than he's older, really hot and the son of Poseidon. This will be an interesting year.

| Avery Stratton {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Preston McTavish {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Brianna Caverly {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Peter McMillan {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Alessandra Sykes
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Atticus Caesar {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Winslow Washington {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Webster O'Connor ⚜ |
"Why does he always lock up when I'm nearby? Does he not like me?"
Mariana has no clue about Webster's crush on her, and she takes his awkwardness as him not liking her for whatever reason. The most Mari knows about him is that he's a friend of Dusty - and any friend of Dusty had to be cool, so Mari hopes that one day she'll be able to figure out what Webster had against her.

| Birdie Applesgale ★ |
"It's not fair! She's got beauty AND brains!"
Mariana and Birdie are study buddies of sorts. Birdie is really smart, and kind enough to help her whenever she finds a particular subject difficult to grasp.

| Skye Woodsen {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Laurel Price ♫ |
"I can't believe I called my brother bear hot when I first met him."
Mariana has always wanted a sibling, whether older or younger it never really mattered. But to think she'd actually get one, in the form of Laurel Price no less? She really must've done something saintly in a past life. Sure, her brother can be a douchebag or a twat sometimes, but he's really just a loveable twat.

| Tessa Galloway {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Hunter Emerson ☯ |
"He's the super quiet one, right? The Virgin?"
Mariana isn't quite familiar with him other than that Laurel is constantly having a dick measuring contest competing with Honey - who willingly goes by the name of Honey!? - in anything possible.

| Dustyn Flint ★ |
"She may be a bad influence on Laurel, but boy do I love her spirit."
At first, Mari knew of Dusty as nothing more as the girl Laurel hung out with a lot - but curiosity eventually led to Mariana hanging out with Dusty for an evening only to realise what a fucking blast this lady is. She's glad to know Dusty, at least she has someone she can chill with at 4am.

| Felicity Underwood {Symbol} |
"Umm, she's a first year right? Oh god, she's too precious keep her away from me - oh god nope I need to hug her."
Mariana knows nothing about Felicity except for that she's a first year and god damn precious looking.

| Alexander Reisender ★ |
"He needs to be honest with himself, he can't be OK 100% of the time..."
Mariana likes to consider herself Alexander's friend, despite not knowing much about him - well, she would try to get to know him a lot better if he wouldn't always change the subject from himself to her instead. Mariana vows that one day she'll figure out the mystery behind Alexander Reisender, but for now, she's happy enough to be his friend.

| Devlin Chadwick {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

| Ranefer Antar {Symbol} |
"Character thoughts on relations."
In depth description of relation here. At least three sentences.

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