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Name: Marina Lunaria Karu
Age: 25 years old
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 135 pounds
Build: tall, thin, and fit
Race: human
Hair color: silver-white
Eyes: blue
Likes: being alone, the color blue, her gun, stars, cats, climbing trees
Dislikes: drunkards, alcohol, vampires, being helpless, being in a large crowd, the color pink
Weapons: colt-type revolver she found under her parents' bed and three knives for emergencies
Fighting style: stand back and shoot your enemy, hold your knife to the throat of a drunkard
Personality: shy, reserved, and calm
Abilities: sensing when others are troubled
Backstory:
She's a 25-year-old who was orphaned at fifteen, having lost her parents and three older siblings to the vampires. She didn’t really mind losing her parents, as they had no hope whatsoever of making their lives better under the vampiric rule, however, the loss of her siblings affected her deeply. She would discover a few nights later that her sister and two brothers had been turned, which hurt her even more, as now her siblings were her enemies. She saw them around occasionally, and she eventually grew to accept the fact that her family was one part human, three parts vampire, but she never forgave the vampires for taking her siblings from her. The hunter killed one brother, while the state of the other two is unknown.

She is generally quiet and keeps to herself most of the time, as she is shy and afraid of what the others would do if they found out her family was their enemy. She really only speaks to offer advice or to provide information to her superiors. She doesn't seem to have many friends, as she comes off as cold and distant, however, she is also respected because she can keep her cool under pressure and because of her ability to sense when others are troubled. She will approach someone who seems to be troubled and speak to them, though when asked why she does this, she usually says that she does it to keep the team strong, as keeping troubles to oneself is a good way to crack under pressure and become a liability.
She fights with a gun that she found buried in a box under her parent’s bed when fighting long-range and a few medium sized knives when fighting close range. She is also skilled in martial arts. She prefers long range fighting to hand-to-hand combat, as it allows her to stay away from the vampires she’s killing and prevents her from really seeing their faces. It also allows her to be more of a back-up member: by staying back, she can pick off enemies that are attacking her comrades. She fears that one day, she will have to kill her siblings, and to try to cope with this fear, she developed deadly accuracy with her gun in the hopes that is she shoots her siblings, they will feel no pain..

She has a tendency to “disappear” for hours at a time after a hard battle, nightmares, or whenever she seems to be troubled. She never tells anyone where she went, only saying, “I needed to think.”