Marion Edrane Fel
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MARION EDRANE FEL
| Age | Early-Mid 20s |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 163 cm | 5'4" |
| Weight | 49.89 kg | 110 lbs |
| Force Sensitive | Yes |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Marion's frame is compact and athletic. Her face has a kind of expressive clarity that people often mistake for openness, though of late she has begun to look drawn and tired at times. She has a soft mouth with plump, shapely lips, a strong jaw, and eyes of a pale hazel-green. Marion wears her blonde hair in a style of subtle, classic elegance, always impeccably pinned into place if she's expecting to be photographed.
Her bearing reflects a life raised for the public eye and society hosting: upright posture, controlled gestures, and an instinctive awareness of where the exits are and who is watching her. In public, she is bright and socially fearless, moving through rooms as if she owns them. In private, the mask slips a little, revealing something sharper and quieter, the charm turning into observation.
Her style reflects her upbringing: quiet luxury with a glamorous edge. She favors sharp tailoring and sharp silhouettes. She can do gala glamour (glow, satin, and champagne-level polish) without drifting into frilly territory. She carries one heirloom accessory with near-ritual familiarity: a small platinum cigarette case she was given by an estranged Edrane aunt, repurposed to facilitate her discreet glitteryll habit.
INVENTORY
- A platinum cigarette case, monogrammed with a small, ornate E.
Marion is witty, capable, and difficult to patronize. She likes a party and a good cocktail. She also keep an internal tally of who is kind and who isn't, who is performative and who is genuine. People often underestimate how serious she is because she can be charming on command, but people who work closely with her learn that her charm is a tool, not a personality. She is cuttingly polite, rather than openly cruel, when it comes to dealing with social rivals. When she disapproves, she tends to ask questions to expose rather than to make accusations, and if someone is unfixable, Marion doesn't initiate combat -- social or otherwise. She simply, quietly removes from the rooms where conversations matter. They cease to be invited and soon the message is made clear.
At her core, Marion believes that power ought to be accountable, earned, and divestible should its bearer prove unworthy. She possesses a strong objection to hereditary monarchy and related systems of government. Birth is morally irrelevant to authority. Dynastic legitimacy turns family life into public property, and symbols and names become coercive shortcuts, training people to obey stories and icons rather than institutions.
This is not a fashionable stance on Chandrila, especially in her own class. But it is an intellectual spine she built in classrooms and committee rooms, watching how stability gets used to justify cruelty. Her honors thesis (Symbols & Violence: How Names Become Governments) is a culmination of her analysis of the dangers of privilege and the hereditary principle -- ironic, given both her name and her privileged status in Chandrilan society.
The private conclusion she drew that didn't make it into her thesis -- that she doesn't talk to people about -- is that she knows symbols work and absolutely hates it.
STRENGTHS
- Social Intelligence: Marion reads rooms quickly, understand motive and leverage, and draws connections easily.
- Composure: She can hold herself together in public even if she is unraveling inside.
- Stamina: Thanks to her physical fitness regimen, she can keep going for long hours, carry things, etc.
- Grief: The death of her father and the trauma rained on Hanna City has left her with a grief she finds difficult to process.
- Status Sensitivity: Marion is defensive about being dismissed as just some rich girl and it can cause her to overcorrect into trying to prove herself too hard.
- Addict: Glitteryll offers relief from her grief and post-traumatic distress, but it comes with its own consequences, including dependency.
Marion Edrane Fel was born to Corrine Edrane and Toren Fell on Chandrila. Her father was a decorated member of the Chandrilan Civil Defense force, while her mother was a society maven and a legendary-status socialite, master fundraiser, queen bee of her corner of society. Marion was raised in the civic-philanthropy orbit of her mother and her mother's family, where she learned work, donor politics, and the currecny of public respectability. She learned young that a smiling conversation can move mountains. She attended prestigious Chandrilan schools, including the Chandrilan Academy of Sciences, where she studied politics and government. On her way to earning her degree, she developed a relationship over the dispatch boxes of the debate society with Evan Marr, a working-class scholarship student. He was brilliant, ambitious, and resentful of the social world Marion operated in.
The relationship inevitably broke apart over their class differences; he grew tired of being patronized, and she grew bored of being asked to answer for the excesses of an entire social history.
She graduated shortly before the Galactic Empire's occupation of the Core. During the occupation, the Edrane family charitable interests left her as a visible figure in relief and reconstruction circles. Marion assisted with coordinating permits, shelters, supply corridors, and private fundraising by tenuous negotiations with the Imperial governors, all while maintaining her place in Hanna City society. In the months since the undead uprising in the City, wherein her father was killed during a heroic last stand, and the weeks since the Empire's collapse, Marion has followed her mother's model and thrown herself into the work of society: functions and dinners, salons and galas, fundraisers and networking.
Privately, to dull the vivid nightmares of the uprising and the grief of her father's death, Marion has begun taking small doses of glitteryll, which are inserted into pastilles she stores in a repurposed heirloom cigarette case. She considers it a temporary measure -- a little something to get her over this rough patch. And what's the harm? She is careful and disciplined, after all. But Marion Edrane Fel is not as safe as she tells herself she is.