User blog comment:Vauseman/Dead Frontier: Character Suggestions/@comment-4105222-20130303030110

Let's just say this is Nina's twin sister from another universe.

Name: Marigold "Lienne" Liennesen

Age: 21

Gender: Female (Norwegian-American)

Weapons: hatchet (feather keychain dangling from the bottom of handle)

Personality: Marigold, when not faced with conflict, has a cheery and positive demeanor that she likes to resonate among other people. As she is already facing enough sadness and negativity on the outside, she is quick to cheer up any person that's down. She often likes to recollect good memories from her life, and share them as stories.

When against the infected, Marigold changes into a more serious and cold person, willing to dispose of the monsters that continue to plague her conscience. She can often get careless, placing herself in even more harm than she is already in (as she is not a good fighter to begin with).

As much as she makes herself look happy, she longs for more emotional support and reassurance. Backstory: Marigold, as a child, had numerous memories that didn't make sense, as she couldn't link them all together; she remembers a car exploding in front of her eyes, a passenger window with a desert landscape constantly moving, tie-dye walls, and the four people she knew as her parents. Before she knew it, she was living in an orphanage.

Marigold, though standing out for her bright blue eyes, was never a popular choice among adopting parents in the orphanage; her tendencies to separate herself, her peculiar (yet mature) taste in music, and her love for unconventional clothing made her very unusual among the other children. As such, she grew up in the orphanage until she was able to provide for herself. Marigold found passion in sharing her quirks with other children, who seemed to match her imaginative and joyous nature. She worked in a day care, where she became a favorite among both the children and the staff.

She thought she had the perfect life, until the Infection changed her world. Her normal routine was knocked out of its rhythm, as she was forced to barricade her own apartment, out of sheer fear. She had a very difficult first week, as the horrors of the outside empowered her imagination to keep her scared, to the point of taking her own life. But after scarring her own left wrist, she decided that suicide wasn't the way out.

After finally deciding to go out into the world, she discovered that her attempted suicide wasn't the hardest memory she had to experience; she saw her own friends, dead. Some of the children in the day care, unable to escape. The infected, ripping their bodies open, and reaching inside...

Marigold was forced to harden herself throughout the week, finally deciding to kill an infected herself, just so she could experience what it was like. After clumsily hacking an infected open with a butcher knife and rubber gloves, her perceptions changed. In the matter of an hour, she changed from the youthful girl she knew, to an embittered, souless person who was face to face with real human anatomy.

Still, Marigold refused to change; she refused to let herself be cynical, twisted, and worst of all, depressed by the change. As a quick way of bringing herself back, she raided a music store, just so she could hear the music that gave her a calmer, better past.

She lost herself in the music, mixing the good memories she had with the bad ones she meant to drown. She cursed the way her mind works, and the way the world changed, for the worse. She had a collection of thoughts that made her realize numerous things, all the while changing a few of them.

She has since been surviving the apocalypse, fearing the infected one day, and killing them the next. She avoids to shed as much blood as possible, going for the head no matter what the cost. As a method of coping, she looks to her older, more cheerful memories, as well as imagine ideal scenarios of what she would do, now that the world has no order.

Actress: Imogen Poots

Clothing': grey knee-length dress, messily tied hair (Imogen has a bunch of pictures that shouldn't give you trouble), dark purple jeans, dark ruby leather boots, dark-navy leather jacket

Additional: Sorry dudes, but Marigold is having trouble finding her sexuality.

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Let me know if you have any concerns. I still kind of feel her character is a work in progress.