Marzi (full name Marzaretha-Anne, though you would not wish to call her this in person) is a strange upper-class lady and a member of Lumiose's Society of Battle Connoisseurs. She spends her days holed away in Hotel Richissime and her nights haunting Lumiose's battle zones simply for the fun of it all, with no lofty goals of ranking up; regardless of her ventures, her ace, Gothitelle, follows her everywhere like a shadow.
[Update 17/2/26: Marzi's background can be found here...!]
[OOC, rules & further info below;]
general about marzi; she's a little loopy lol. on the outside she's a mysterious pretty lady, and then you talk to her for more than just pleasantries and you find out she's actually kind of insane. she, much like the majority of the SBC, worships the ground jacinthe walks on and is also an insane battle freak herself. in her downtime she sticks to her own company, preferring pokemon over people, but is known to wander around the nouveau cafe trucks late at night, after a few hours at the battle zones, and give heavy tips even though she absolutely hates the taste of bitter coffee.
she often tries to emulate jacinthe in conversation... which means she can be, unintentionally, really annoying.
i try to write marzi to be as close to being an ingame npc as possible...!! she has a mega gothitelle in my beautiful imagination. i am still working on that design... help...
also she's 25, bisexual and ummm silly 🫶 also ex-flare which she may ominously allude to. yaaaaaayyy 🙂↕️
OOC & RULES:
hiya...! i'm making a super indulgent rotomblr/pokeirl...? blog for my oc because it makes me happy... i haven't been in the tumblr rp scene for a very very long time so please be kind to me...!!!! i'm just a little guy!!!!! i am SO much more afraid of you than you are of me, this i can guarantee!!!!!!! (i also have autism and adhd, so i might take a minute...)
since i put all this info under a readmore, it's okay to reblog this post...!!!
admin info... i'm 22!! my main/art blog is @iriphai ^-^
as general rules for this blog go; my oc does have interactions with canon characters in her lore, but these will be omitted if interacting with accounts of said characters unless discussed!!! i don't want anybody to feel forced to diverge from their own lore/interpretations.
feel completely free to be rude to her LOL, i won't take it personally!! i think there's potential for silly interactions considering lots of people are abrasive towards the SBC.
if you're not comfortable with oc interactions please feel free to block me so i don't accidentally interact!! no hard feelings ^-^
general warnings will include alcohol & blatant alcohol dependency (marzi drinks copious amounts of wine in lieu of actual medication) and drug use...? (she also puts poison in her tea for fun because she's NORMAL!!!) i won't go into depth about either of these (unless prompted, which will be warned), but she might make little remarks here and there.
i'm 18+, but for my own comfort i won't be posting or portraying anything of the sort.
i'm open to ships with chemistry...! i do ship marzi with a handful of canon characters (INDIVIDUALLY she does not get crazy amounts of babes at once. in fact she is constantly scaring the hoes), but that'll at most be teased one-sidedly on her end and exclusively in asks unless discussed with someone who writes one of those characters... i ship mainly to explore dynamics so i don't want to pressure anyone hehe
on that note— i use lots of "~" to emulate marzi's sort of cadence, what with her being a weirdo, a posh rich lady and perpetually tipsy. this isn't intended to be read as flirty....!!! unless we have discussed shipping in which case go crazy with it!!!!
Marzi-Anne was born into old money, and she never had to worry for a thing in her childhood—her mother held a seat with Lumiose’s at-the-time mayor and her father was away overseas often for business, but her busybody parents never bothered her. She was given her first Pokémon before she was old enough to throw a ball, during a holiday to Unova she was too young to remember—a little Gothita, whom she aptly named Tita simply because it was all she could pronounce.
Marzi was a strange little girl who found her company in Pokémon rather than people, and her Gothita stayed by her side for every hour of every day. Perhaps because Gothita was a psychic-type, they held a quiet bond that outsiders just couldn’t understand.
When she grew a little older it emerged that her father had another family he had kept hidden, only staying with Marzi’s mother for the family inheritance, and that Marzi was the result of an affair. Marzi was too young to understand why her mother was upset, why her father was no longer in the picture, instead lashing out and becoming a nuisance of a child in her distress; until she grew to her early teens and suddenly she became aware of exactly how many eyes were on her, as her mother’s daughter, and the product of an affair.
The outside world, with its expectations of her as a child of wealth and status, grew far too scary—and so Marzi became a shut-in, rarely leaving her bedroom unless absolutely necessary, and stayed this way for years. She would panic at the thought of being seen, of being a living symbol of her father’s infidelity and a stain upon her mother’s status, to the point where stepping out of her room caused her throat to close up and her palms to shake and sweat.
At 16, Team Flare came into the picture.
Marzi’s mother had been one of Lysandre’s long-standing, well-paying patrons, and so she cashed in a favor—for him to come and see her daughter, to try and pry her out of the room that had become both her safest place and her prison. Over the course of a few months, Lysandre ushered her out and gave her a place in the newly-developing Team Flare as one of his many, many troubled protégés.
Lysandre likely did not consider Marzi to be important to him, not much to him at all besides another example of the world needing to be made right… but to Marzi, he was the first real positive male figure in her life. She idolized him greatly, considered him her mentor, even imitated his demeanor to fit in after having been in isolation for many of her formative years.
She became a low-ranking grunt in Team Flare, adapting to its changes as Lysandre changed with it, wholeheartedly trusting that she was bringing good to the city. She worked in Lysandre Café, she caught more Pokémon, she chased after her leader—and in her 20s Team Flare disbanded, and she was left right back where she started. A tarnished reputation, and nowhere to go.
After Flare’s fall, Marzi prepared to disappear back into isolation—until she was offered a guiding hand from one Lady Jacinthe, who recognised Marzi’s name as being born into one of the more influential families of Lumiose, and with zero regard for her past Jacinthe accepted her into the SBC. Strings were pulled, and Marzi simply became known as Marzi-Anne, a low-ranking member of the SBC. No trace of her time in Flare—nothing more, nothing less.
Her only connection to Flare so many years later is her frequent visits to Nouveau Café, paying ridiculously large tips as her way to atone for running away to the SBC, her penance for taking the easy way out she’d been handed on a silver platter.
