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== Appearance and Personality ==
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Marasi is intelligent and level-headed, but blushes deeply whenever anything remotely involving romance or sexuality is brought up.
She chooses to study legal justice and criminal behavioristics due to her fascination with human morality. She believes that most people are generally good by inertia, as that is what society expects them to be.{{book ref|mb4|9}} Thus she is intrigued by the people who stand out as much more or less moral than average without any clear motivation to be. She knows many facts and statistics about criminal behavior and often cites them during times of distress. When she is in shock from almost being kidnapped, she immediately mentions that "7 out of 10 kidnappings can be foiled by appropriate resistance on the part of the target."{{book ref|mb4|6}}
In contrast to her level-headed approach toward danger, Marasi is easily embarrassed by romantic and sexual topics. In her anatomy class at university it was very common to watch her reactions when learning about the male body.{{book ref|mb4|13}} She is embarrassed about studying criminal behavior in school as it is not considered very lady-like.{{book ref|mb4|4}} Whenever Wayne jokes about her being attractive she stammers and does not properly reply.
As she continues to follow Wax and Wayne, Marasi begins to have feelings for Wax. While she never openly admits them, Wax gently refuses her. Wax eventually marries her sister, Steris, while Marasi herself gets over the romantic feelings for Wax.
== Attributes and Abilities ==
Marasi is a Pulser, meaning that she has the ability to burn [[cadmium]] to slow time down in a bubble around herself. She considers this ability to be practically useless, although she admits to having used it to make anticipated events come faster.{{book ref|mb4|11}} She is jealous of Wayne's Slider ability as it has far more practical applications than her own. In the final confrontation with [[Miles Dagouter]], Marasi uses her Pulser ability to slow time down around herself and Miles, thus allowing a large group of constables to surround the place while Miles is fighting with Wax.{{book ref|mb4|19}}
Marasi has also shown that she is a very good shot with a rifle and is part of the ladies' target club at her university.{{book ref|mb4|6}}
== History ==
=== Early Life ===
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She received a broad education at the university, including anatomy and medicine, before choosing to major in legal justice and criminal behavioristics, with a specialty in mob dynamics.{{book ref|mb4|4}}{{book ref|mb4|13}}{{book ref|mb5|24}} During her studies, she learned much more about Wax and Wayne based on the many stories and reports about them and the criminals they had brought in.{{book ref|mb4|4}}{{book ref|mb4|7}}{{book ref|mb4|9}} She also joined the ladies' target club at the university and became skilled at shooting rifles, feeling that was the closest she could get to having a more useful Allomantic ability.{{book ref|mb4|6}}{{book ref|mb6|13}}
=== The Vanishers ===
During Marasi's final year at the university, Wax and Wayne returned to Elendel so that Wax could take his place as the high lord of House Ladrian.{{book ref|mb4|4}} She convinced her father to let her accompany him and Steris to discuss a possible marriage between Steris and Wax.{{book ref|mb4|10}} Along with Wax, Wayne, Steris, and her father, she attended the [[Yomen-Ostlin wedding dinner]], where she eagerly asked Wax and Wayne about their time in the Roughs and impressed them with her insights. Unfortunately, the [[Vanishers]] attacked the party and kidnapped Steris;{{book ref|mb4|5}} they also attempted to kidnap Marasi, but she resisted, giving Wax a chance to help rescue her, and she returned the favor by shooting two Vanishers with a rifle when they were threatening Wax.{{book ref|mb4|6}}
Afterwards, she became a constable serving under Constable-General [[Claude Aradel]] as a crime analyst. After Aradel was elected governor of [[Elendel]], Constable-General [[Reddi]], whom Marasi was not on good terms with, finally stopped being bitter toward her and accepted her as a constable in her own right.
=== The Bands of Mourning ===
Following the disrupted wedding of her sister to Waxillium, Marasi accepted a mission from the [[kandra]] [[VenDell]] on behalf of [[Harmony]] to go to [[New Seran]] to recover the missing spike of the kandra [[ReLuur]] who had returned from a research mission in the area after losing the spike in suspicious circumstances.{{book ref|mb6|3}} VenDell also tasked Marasi to look for the [[Bands of Mourning]], which ReLuur had been investigating. Marasi traveled to New Seran with Waxillium, Steris, Wayne and MeLaan. Enroute the [[Nightstreet Gang]] attacked the train the group was traveling on and Marasi participated in the battle that followed.{{book ref|mb6|9}} Using Allomancy and her skills with a rifle she was instrumental in saving the lives of passengers on the train and Waxillium.{{book ref|mb6|7}}{{book ref|mb6|8}} Upon arriving in New Seran, she and Wayne investigated the whereabouts of ReLuur's spike.{{book ref|mb6|10}} The information they gleaned led them, along with Wax and Steris, to the Set's base in [[Dulsing]].{{book ref|mb6|17}} During the raid on the base, Marasi and MeLaan broke into [[Irich|Professor Irich's]] study and recovered ReLuur's spike as well as several medallions from a safe.{{book ref|mb6|19}} Marasi also discovered [[Allik Neverfar]] being held hostage in a cage in an adjacent room. Against MeLaan's advice, Marasi freed Allik and the three of them joined the battle in the main room around the crashed [[Southern Scadrian]] airship ''[[Brunstell]]''.{{book ref|mb6|19}} Marasi fought using the Allomantic grenade, but was shot in the abdomen in the fight. Marasi and the others took refuge inside of the wrecked ''Brunstell'' and Marasi convinced the others to follow Allik to ''[[Wilg]]''. As the group was escaping aboard ''Wilg'', MeLaan performed surgery on Marasi using her kandra abilities. Due to a miscommunication, Marasi thought she was dying during this exchange.{{book ref|mb6|21}} After recovering Steris, who had not participated in the raid, the group set off for the [[Sovereign's temple]]. During the journey, Marasi spoke with Allik about his people and their technology.{{book ref|mb6|21}} Upon arriving at the Temple Marasi kept guard at the entrance with Wayne and Steris while the others dealt with the traps. During this time she had a good conversation with Steris.{{book ref|mb6|24}} After Mister Suit and the Set arrived, she and the others entered the chamber where the Bands of Mourning supposedly were. Marasi was captured when Telsin and Suit attacked the group. As she sat outside the temple some time later as a captive of the Set, she realized that the spear point in her purse was actually the Bands of Mourning. Marasi tapped the immense power of the Bands and used them to free herself, attack the guards, and locate and revive Waxillium beneath the temple.{{book ref|mb6|28}} She then gave Wax the Bands and returned to Elendel with the others.{{book ref|mb6|28}}
== Relationships ==
While studying in university, she reads many of the stories surrounding Wax and Wayne, and comes to look up to them as almost legendary heroes.{{book ref|mb4|4}} After meeting the pair in person, she is starstruck and becomes eager to prove herself to Wax and find out as much as she can about the real events behind all the stories, though she has many of her idealistic impressions destroyed along the way.{{book ref|mb4|4}}{{book ref|mb4|7}} She impresses Wax in turn with her knowledge and ability to act cool under pressure.{{book ref|mb4|6}}{{book ref|mb4|7}} She develops a strong attraction to Wax;{{book ref|mb4|12}}{{book ref|mb4|15}} he grapples with feelings of his own for her, but he ultimately decides that his personal history and duty to his house mean that he must proceed with his marriage to Steris and distance himself from Marasi.{{book ref|mb4|20}}
For a while afterward, Wax is somewhat dismissive of Marasi, thinking that she is still attracted to him and undervaluing her crime-fighting abilities, and she develops a certain resentment toward him as a result.{{book ref|mb5|3}}{{book ref|mb5|4}} That fades as they work together more,{{book ref|mb6|3}} and after Harmony himself chides Wax about it,{{book ref|mb5|7}} but she continues to feel overshadowed by him and his accomplishments.{{book ref|mb5|15}}{{book ref|mb6|6}}{{book ref|mb6|27}} Despite her often-complicated feelings regarding Wax, she remains able to respect him and work together well with him.
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