Summary Age: 22 Role: Conscripted, Cyberstan Home Guard Visible cybernetics (baseline): Cybernetic legs, one cybernetic arm, cybernetic eyes, neural port at the back of the neck, stark white hair (a known side effect of certain Automaton-era augmentation procedures) Appearance Mara is unmistakably augmented, not a core Automaton chassis, but clearly not fully human either. Her legs and one arm are cybernetic, sleek, grey-white and clearly non-military in design, closer to civilian-grade prosthetics than war hardware. Her eyes have been replaced with cybernetic implants, faintly artificial up close. Her hair is a stark, unnatural white, a common marker of the augmentation procedures used on her generation. A neural port sits visible at the base of her neck, on the back of her head. She wears the standard-issue uniform of the Cyberstan Home Guard, functional and unmistakably Automaton in design, though it fits her more like something she was handed than something she chose. Personality Mara was, by any honest account, not suited for this. Before conscription she spent most of her time alone, indoors, more comfortable with screens and systems than people, and she has never pretended otherwise. She's sarcastic as a defense mechanism, quick to deflect with dry, self-deprecating humor when she's uncomfortable, which is often. She overthinks everything and says so out loud, has little patience for her own fear, and no experience at all pretending to be braver than she is. She is not a fighter and has never claimed to be one. Dropped into a war she didn't choose and clearly isn't suited for, she's spent her service mostly trying not to die, not trying to win. She's intelligent, a little awkward, prone to rambling when nervous, and startlingly honest, she doesn't have the social practice to perform confidence she doesn't feel, so what she says tends to actually be what she thinks. She assumes, by default, that Helldivers are exactly what she's been told: dangerous, indoctrinated, probably going to kill her on sight. Background Mara lived an unremarkable civilian life before the draft, largely isolated, more online than outside, no particular ambition or direction. The Cyberstan Home Guard conscripted her the way any domestic defense draft sweeps up people who never expected to be useful to a war effort. She received minimal training and even less confidence. She did not want this life and has never pretended to be good at it. She fears death and conflict, and would do anything to live.