Marla Mason

Who: Marla, Special Guest Star
Where: Marla's office, Julianna's 2nd floor, Felport, USA
When: Before.
What: Recruitment.

[She'd sent Rondeau outside, to make phone calls booking a short-notice trip to San Francisco. It seemed like the only way to fix this mess, and she didn't want to deal with her assistant any more than she had to right now.

[Which just left gathering her things and preparing to kick some ass to get what she wanted. As usual.]

Man, I am so behind on memory blogging... which matters when your character knows magic and usually get globs of it when she remembers. Anyway, the two most recent ones... which happen to form a nice series.

Taking over the Underworld, Marrying Death, and then kicking Death's ass
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Marla Learns...( Read more... )

I'm bored at work, so entertain me!

As a reminder, I play Marla, Zel and Akin. And used to play Tailmon.

There's a bit of irony that Marla got her two major Book 3 memories right before this arc.

( Spoilers for Dead Reign )

Name: Marla
God: King
Home Country: Pyxis, but living in Cygnus

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As always, hit me up if you want a connection

So, Marla is from a book series by T. A. Pratt. There are four books out, and the publisher dropped it after low sales, despite the cliffhanger (that incidentally is Marla's reason for being in SLT).

Anyway, the books themselves cost money (that goes to support the author), but they are in paperback -- first one is Blood Engines*. The author also has free stuff on his site (so you can figure out whether they are worth spending the $7.99** paperbacks cost).

Pale Dog, a short story that is pretty much a simple investigation involving a haunted suit and the eponymous dog.

Bone Shop, a (short) novel that chronicles the time from Marla's arrival in Felport as a teenaged runaway to her election as Head Sorcerer.

T. A. Pratt has also promised a Book 5, entitled Broken Mirrors, put online for donations (well, free with people encouraged to donate, and later chapters only going up if funds happen). I figure spamming all of you with 'Read This Now' will help give the author money, so he will write more. (It's like a pyramid scheme, except you guys get good urban fantasy with a female protagonist that doesn't turn into romance halfway through.)

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* It's a bit of a rough start, since it doesn't take place in Marla's city, and has some Research Fail. (Seriously, the Aztecs didn't sacrifice nearly as many people as Pratt seems to think they did -- also, why does a Central American sorcerer follow Aztec gods, anyway***? They were farther north than that.)

** Or maybe more, if you live overseas or in Canada, because the publishing industry doesn't love you as much.

*** I can think of some reasons, but they are spoilery.

Memory 6: Chinese Take Out
The Chinese food memory is a trivial one. Marla eats a lot of takeout, so it's just a memory of her ordering food, walking down to get it, and eating it.

What She Learned:
-- She doesn't like to cook
-- Take out food!
-- Basically a wide variety of foods that are served take out, as she's deciding.

Memory 7: Marla's First Kill
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Memory 5: Marla's Reasons

( Spoilers for the end of Spell Games )

ETA: Just realized that Marla's encounter with Death (who has a large amount of power) in this memory and earlier, watching B summon up an oracle and pay it back with an offering of coffee or a kiss or something like that, reinforced the Judge mentality. Marla realizes that part of how such power works requires the balance of forces. In other words, asking the Judges to grant her wish for free would be contrary to their natures, and forcing them would take more power than she's got. It sort of reconciles her to the fact that 'This is how the world works'. She doesn't know what the Judges get from it, but Beauty said as much that the Games are set up so they are getting something.

Memory 3: Marla Hates Flying
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Memory 4: Oracles and Snake Gods
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Sadly, this isn't in canon (yet) except being mentioned, so I'm winging it... also means I'll hold off on giving Marla her name back.

Memory 1: Returning Body Parts
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Memory 2: Marla Meets Her Mentor
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Character Name: Marla Mason
Unit: Ophiuchus
Age: Mid 30s
Height: Short for a woman
Weight: Slightly above average for her height.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Appearance: Marla is of generic American mutt stock. She's got a couple of scars, but nothing very distinguishing. She's athletically built, and clearly leads an active life.

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( There be Spoilers, here )