Marie Laveau

Marie Laveau is up and coming demon who is a member of the Hyakki Yagyō. She has been with the guild from the beginning and has recently become the apprentice of Lilith Demonblood after she had opened up to the guild who is currently helping her master Numbers Layered Magic Seal Style.

Appearance
Marie's demeanor shows just how carefree she is and it is very obvious by the way she carries herself that the future doesn't bother her in the slightest. She always has a bright and naive smile on her face that grows whenever someone mentions explosions or any word that relates to it. Another indicator of her lack of concern about the future is how much she wears her emotions on her sleeve as if she has nothing to lose from doing so. Her demeanor always clearly shows how she is feeling and never hides it, which can make her easy to approach if one doesn't know about her reputation.

Marie has a very young appearance for a demon her age and seems to be in her late teens. Overall, she is the type of person who can easily blend into a human crowd because her figure does nothing to reveal how powerful she is so it is easy to underestimate her to the point of thinking that she is a civilian. She has a fair skin and a light complexion that lacks a single scar because of her regeneration. Soot is often covering her body and making her skin look a lot darker than it is because of how many hours she spends making bombs. As for her physique, Marie is of average height, but an inch shorter than Tsuki. The fact that she is shorter than Tsuki makes her one of the shortest members of the Hyakki Yagyō if not the shortest and has a lean and slender appearance. She is a bit toned, just not enough for it to be noticed resulting in her lean and slender appearance.

Marie's straight dark brown hair for the most part hangs loosely to her shoulders. There is a couple of strands of hair on either side of her face that hang loosely a few inches past her shoulders to make them her longest strands of hair For the most part her hair looks smooth and well kempt, but that only applies to the hair that her hat isn't covering. Marie feels no need to tend to the hair under her hat, which is why it is so messy. Her bangs are parted in only a few places to reveal her forehead and hang down to barely reach her eyes. The only exception is the center which goes down a bit past the top of her eyes.

Her crimson eyes usually has a very naive and excited look to them. Often very clear and sparkling brightly especially when explosions are mentioned to give her eyes a very child-like look to them. When she is angry her crimson eyes become darker and the bright look is replaced is gone to make her eyes look ominously clouded. This makes her look very intimidating as it can make it look like she can straight into someone's soul.

Marie's attire is usually very witch-like. Her witch hat has a small group of feathers at the very top and two buttons and a group of stitches below the buttons to make it look like it has a face.

Personality
Marie Laveau is a very eccentric person to say the least. Her guild master often looks to the ground in shame and mutters, "Oh boy..." whenever she approaches him and he is quite eccentric himself and a very accepting person. He has even gone so far as to give her the alias of "Explosive Nutcase." She is impulsive, impatient, and unorthodox and that is just touching the surface and not taking into account her obsession.

Marie's most notable trait is undoubtedly her obsession with explosions. She loves explosions so much that she believes true beauty is an explosion, which is something that she has said so much that it has become her catchphrase. She believes this because she thinks that the longer precious or beautiful things last the less they are appreciated. Instead, true beauty should only last or a second and make and undying impression in the minds of all who see it. Something that is so quick that it can't be captured on camera or film so the people who have seen it will treasure their thoughts of it because that is all they have.

This idea and love of hers has turned into an arsonist. She is known far and wide for her tendency of blowing things up regardless of how many innocent people are around her nor does she care about any other repercussions that may happen. When she is on a mission she likes to leave by exploding the base of the people who hired, which is an action that she considers a "gift." This often leads to the money she was suppose to get for the mission to be used for repairing and yet she wonders why she is usually poor and begging for food.

The rest of Marie's perfectly mirrors the idea of hers and explosive is a great word to describe what she is like. She loves to live in the moment and has no concern about the future. She has a very "act now think later" and "worry about it when the time comes" attitude. This means she is a very impulsive person. She is always the first one running into danger or an unknown situation and it is usually Lilith that has to get her out of the problems she has gotten herself in.

When she isn't in battle she acts the same way and does or says the first thing that pops into her head to the point that her guild mates wonder whether she actually realizes what she is doing or if she cares at all. It is impossible to ignore her because of this and the more one tries to ignore her the harder it seems to get. Her actions will get crazier and crazier the more someone ignores her.

Marie isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed because of her living in the moment attitude. Marie is very slow to understand and when she is training with Lilith Marie often needs Lilith to oversimplify what she is explaining and explain it over and over before she finally gets it.

The only exception is when it comes to explosives. Marie knows everything about explosions and explosives and takes great pride in that fact. She hates it when people don't acknowledge her skill with explosions and considers it an insult when someone tries to fight her with explosions. When someone does dare to use explosions against her she will live up to her status as a demon and won't show any mercy to them as an attempt to "put them in their place." She will become very brutal to the point of sadism.

Equipment

 * Mystic Staff: 4010893b1225875e4a592152f5cfb9d5.gif]] The Mystic Staff is Marie's primary weapon which she uses to cast spells. It has the ability to create a physical manifestation of the ethernano in Marie's magic power in the form of Magic Seals. When used in alongside a magic Marie can use the Magic Seal to assist with her poor control. It boosts her control so much that she can various effects to spells that she normally wouldn't have. Using Elemental Glyphs to add elemental and other supernatural properties to her explosions and Shift Glyphs to manipulate the spells themselves, empower them with ambient ethernano, or mix two spells together to create a new more powerful spell. The Magic Seals themselves can be used for fighting through the Numbers Layered Magic Seal Style though she doesn't have much skill with it. Lilith says that one day Marie's Numbers Layered Magic Seal Style will be as versatile as Enchantment and be able to use it in perfect unity with her Explosion Magic.
 * Handmade Bombs:

Subspecies Abilities

 * Burst Mode: Burst Mode is a power-up ability akin to a Dragon Slayer's Drive. All that needs to be done to activate the ability is to draw in a large quantity of ethernano into her magic container. This would excite her magic power and make it very sporadic to increase the power of Explosion and Blast Magic two fold and to augment her physical strength.
 * Second Wind: Second Wind is a subspecies ability of Marie's Explosion Magic that is unique to her and her alone. It is activated once Marie hits an opponent with a spell. When it activates allows Marie to cast the same spell again with just as much power and just as large, but with 50% less magic power. If the spell's "second wind" hits then the second wind gets a "second wind" of its own and so on until she misses or uses a different spell. Just like the first second wind, the power and size remain the same and it requires 50% less magic power then the previous second wind. The only time this formula changes is when she has Burst Mode active. When she does the size and power of the spell increases by 10% with every second wind, but it only takes effect after the fourth wind hits the target. This is known as Lineage Evolution and it does so not by adding more magic power to the spell, but by drawing in the negative emotions around her much in the same way as curses and adding the negative emotions to the magic power she is using to cast the "second wind." Marie uses the Second Wind ability in conjunction with her supernatural speed and reflexes to cast multiple powerful spells at rapid fire once she manages to get a hit in. She casts them with so much speed that it is hard to find an opening making Marie a powerhouse when it comes to offense. At the same time, this ability is also why her defense is so pitiful. All of her spells revolve around this ability so she doesn't have a single defensive apart from using her Magic Seals to block attacks and the effectiveness of her Magic Seals for defense is so pitiful that she is better off not using it. In an ironic twist, the ability that allows her to prolong how long she can stay on the offensive is also a perfect representation of her trademark ideal. Second Wind makes her defense so pitiful that Marie is forced to stay on the defensive for most of the fight since she doesn't have enough defensive skill to block an attack in a way that allows her to get in an attack in of her own and is too busy running away. However, she can end a fight abruptly once she does get an attack in. Hitting opponents with the same spell by casting it over and over hundreds of times in less than a second to kill even the highest of caliber mages or demons before they know what hit them. Ending the fight with a bang. Despite her prowess at offense she still isn't an S-Class Mage and very few people in the guild respect her. It is because this combined with her stupidity and horrible close-quarters combat skill makes it very easy to beat her in a fight. Her defenses are easy to overwhelm and she is easier to read than a book to the point that a child can predict her movements. One just needs to be very careful because victory is usually assured once she gets a hit in.

Spells

 * Pandora's Box: Pandora's Box is a very Bomb Curse-like spell. It allows her to make an opponent with her magic power when she touches them with her staff. The mark holds a ton of magic power with a lot of pressure. When an opponent uses magic again the mark will release all the magic power at once to create a fiery explosion. The longer an opponent goes without using magic the stronger the explosion will be because the pressure of the magic power is continuously rising until the moment the target uses magic. Marie has described the stronger of the explosion as opening Pandora's Box hence the name.
 * Explosive Clone:
 * Fog of Death: The Fog of Death is a spell that allows Marie to draw in the ethernano around her and use her magic origin to turn the ethernano into a highly explosive substance. From here she channels magic power into the ethernano and uses the magic power to empower and compress the explosive ethernano as a thick fog of ethernano. With mental commands alone she allows the ethernano to slowly decompress to cause it to flow out of her body or her staff. As the fog flies toward the opponent it will expand. This makes it hard for the opponent to get to Marie due to how quickly it is expanding and how large the fog is from the beginning. This turns the Fog of Death spell into one of Marie's best spacing tools. In any case, the fog is so explosive that all it needs to release a fiery explosion is the opponent's body heat no matter how low it is. The power and size of the fiery explosion can vary depending on how much magic power was used. The more magic power that was used the stronger it will become. In addition, Marie can alter the type of explosion if the spell is used in conjunction with her Magic Seals. Just like with all of her spells, the true potential of the Fog of Death doesn't show itself until the Second Wind ability comes into play. How fast it expands means that Marie can completely cover the area in the fog after only the fourth wind to make it impossible to dodge the explosion.
 * Explosive Hail: Explosive Hail is one of the few spells that involves explosives instead of explosions themselves. When using the spell Marie points her staff toward the sky and fires a bolt of magic power toward the sky. When it reaches a high enough altitude it will transform into a small explosive cloud of magic power particles much like the fog created by the Fog of Death. The cloud uses the magic power it is composed of to draw in the ethernano and other ambient energy and particles around it. Once drawn it the magic power compresses the substances together and crystallizes it to create an explosive lacrima-like substance. Once created the cloud rains the explosive lacrima down to the ground below it and explode upon contact. At first, only two or three lacrima fall every few seconds. However, every minute the quantity of falling lacrima increase while the time frame decreases. Just like with all of her spells the full potential of the spell is only unleashed when Second Wind comes into play. Marie uses Second Wind with the spell to allow her to quickly cover large areas and after only the fifth wind she can create enough explosive clouds to cover a city to make escape nearly futile.
 * Vortex of Annihilation:
 * Demon Eruption:
 * Six Layered Magic Circle: Heaven Shattering Explosion: Six Layered Magic Circle: Heaven Shattering Explosion is Marie's strongest spell and the only spell so far that combines Numbers Layered Magic Seal Style with Explosion Magic. It is a spell that consumes all of her magic power to unleash a nuclear explosion to lay waste to the area she is in. It is a spell only to be used in life or death situations because upon using the spell Marie becomes too exhausted to move and because of how much of a burden it puts on Marie's magic origin. Despite, Lilith's warnings Marie still often uses this spell to finish off opponents presumably to show off. Marie uses the spell so much that "forbidden spell" appears to be a foreign concept to her. When using the spell Marie must first speak the incantation.
 * Incantation: Just as life was born from darkness so should it return. I Marie Laveau call upon the demon of annihilation. Grant me thy immeasurable power and allow me to become your faithful servant to use your great power to help return what is yours. From light to darkness, life to death, creation to destruction, and make heaven fall back to hell. Six Layered Magic Circle: Heaven Shattering Explosion!

Blast Magic

 * Spell Destabilization: Spell Destabilization is one of Marie's simplest Blast Magic spell. By using her magic power to direct ethernano of a different wavelength then a spell she can destabilize it to cause the spell to explode. Unlike other Blast Magic spells the power isn't dependent on the amount of ethernano Marie uses, but instead it is dependent on the power of the spell and at the same time the more power a spell has the hard it is to destabilize it. In her fight with Kanami she wasn't able to destabilize her Lightning Spirit's Altair spell implying that her limit is any spell under intermediate level and possibly low intermediate level if the magic isn't a Lost Magic. Marie's mastery over this spell is enough to instantly destabilize any spell in the area she is with a swipe of her arm. She uses this mastery and combines it with her senses to instantly notice spells and her reflexes to destabilize spells milliseconds after they are cast to turn this basic spell into a very dangerous weapon against mages.

Numbers Layered Magic Seal Style

 * Five Layered Magic Circle: Sacred Song: Five Layered Magic Circle: Sacred Song is currently Marie's one and only Numbers Layered Magic Seal Style technique.

Demon Physiology

 * Enhanced Strength:
 * Enhanced Speed:
 * Enhanced Reflexes:
 * Low Stamina and Endurance:
 * Low Durability:
 * Cursed Body:
 * Immortality and Regeneration:
 * Enhanced Senses:
 * Weaknesses:
 * Explosive Proficiency:
 * Explosion Manipulation:
 * Dormant Demon Abilities:
 * Dormant Curse: Marie has yet to awaken her curse possibly because she is too young. Many people are willing to bet their lives that her curse will be Bomb Curse because of her obsession with explosions. There is some solid evidence behind this idea. Whenever Marie gets serious or gets angry her Explosion Magic will act a bit more like the Bomb Curse. Its power will increase, she can "curse" opponents with an explosive stigma similar to the ones used in the Bomb Curse, and a few more similarities.
 * Demon Form:

Quotes

 * "True beauty is an explosion!" - Marie's catchphrase.

Trivia

 * Marie's personality is a mixture between Naruto Uzumaki and Deidara.
 * Her stats are: