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Character: Marceline Abadeer
Fandom: Adventure Time
History:
Sometime in the future on an Earth like this one, there was a Mushroom War that killed pretty much everybody. Marceline Abadeer was one of the not killed people, and also not a vampire at the time. She was a little kid, though, and her dad was still the king of the Nightosphere, which is kind of creepy. He left her alone a lot, but she had a stuffed bear named Hambo that she took care of, so that was kind of okay. Once, when she grew up, her dad took her fries, she cried and he didn’t even notice. She’s been pretty distant from him ever since, and when you’re a thousand years old, that’s a pretty long since.
At some point around here, she became a vampire. She even got the tiny bite marks to prove it. Marceline also got a boyfriend named Ash, and they lived in what’s now Finn and Jake’s treehouse. But Ash turned out to be a psycho jerk who sold Hambo for some stuff, so she dumped his ass. When she became the vampire queen is a bit of a shrug, but she did kill the vampire king to do it. She also had a falling out with Princess Bubblegum around this point, which happened because PB was mad at her for... something. She doesn’t have any friends for awhile, and then the series starts up and she meets Finn and Jake.
Well. First she kicks them out of their treehouse because it used to be her’s. But once they fight her, she drops her beef. The first time she shows up, she’s a trickster fighty antagonist. The next time, she stalks them from some bushes and orders them around because she needs some henchmen. She tries to scare them by using her shapeshiftery powers, and it totally works. She also used them to raise the dead so she could have a party, and reveals she’s not capital E evil. Just spooky. From this point on, Marceline and the heroic duo are solidly in the friend column.
Heck, in her next episode, Finn ends up fighting her dad. Well, first they accidentally release him from the Nightosphere and he steals her ax-bass, but then they track him down and fight him. Before they fight, though, Finn accidentally plays Marceline’s song about the fry stealing incident on BMO. Her dad apologizes for his behavior, so they reconcile and it’s all heartwarming and such. Then he gets his butt kicked back to the Nightosphere, but hey, close enough, right? The next time she shows up in an important way is when Finn asks her for advice on how to ask PB out. Her advice involves wolves. It doesn’t really go well. But! More importantly than that, Finn and Marceline are confirmed as ‘just friends’. Even though they go to couples’ movie night. But that’s okay, because they unleash wolves when the movie gets smoochie and gross.
This is the canon point I’m taking her from, after ‘Go With Me’!
Personality:
Marceline can be mean. She greatly enjoys pulling pranks and messing with people. This includes everything from convincing Finn and Jake that they’re vampires to unleashing wolfies on unsuspecting couples during movie night. She also has a slightly skewed moral compass that tilts in her favor. She doesn’t really care when her dad’s stealing souls from everyone so long as she gets her bass back. She’s very self centered in a teenagery way, despite being an immortal vampire. When she kicks Finn and Jake out of her-their house, she gets entranced by a very cute video game instead of worrying about them. She’s adventurous and not even remotely girly, and has been known to pick her nose when she’s alone.
The thing that’s the final straw between her and her father is when the latter stole her fries. This indicates two really important things: 1. she can be kind of petty. Like, it’s okay that he rules the nightosphere and is massively creepy, but he stole her fries and he’s on the outs. and 2: she’s honestly a fairly sensitive person. She takes things to heart, even minor things like missing cold fries. Or major things, like her dickbag ex-boyfriend selling her teddy bear. She used to have some sort of grudgey thing going on with Princess Bubblegum, too. So there’s a kind of dual nature thing going on with Marceline: spooky on the outside, sweet on the inside. And she really can be very, very sweet, in a she never wants anyone to find out sort of way. She’s on the verge of apologizing to PB during a song when she literally makes herself backtrack.
She’s honestly not used to having very many friends. Part of this is by design, because she thinks she’ll hurt them by being a vampire shapeshifter guitar player. It’s also partially not entirely her fault, because the spookiness can be kinda offputting. But, once she does have friends, she starts to change a bit because of them. She starts developing standards in her pranks, for one. She’s okay with screwing with Finn and Jake, but draws the line when the ghosts try to kill them. She’s also pretty loyal to them, and starts just genuinely hanging out with people. Although it’s worth noting that her previous loner qualities stick around. She once steals all her friends’ most precious possessions just to have an excuse to hang out and jam with them.
The jamming is very important, not just there but kind of everywhere. She expresses herself best through song. She has a project to turn her entire diary into a concept album. Considering she’s a thousand years old, that’s a mess of material to work with. There’s even some things so personal that she can’t even sing about them to other people. Two particular points: her lack of friends and her friends’ lack of understanding her. She’s been alone for a very long time, long enough to claim that she’s forgotten who she even is. Besides Marceline the Vampire Queen, that is.
Other: Marceline’s vampire (or other) weirdness goes something like this:
- she can transform into creepy things, like a giant bat or tentacle monster
- she only eats shades of red. she also claims tomatoes give her weird dreams
- the sunlight hurts her, but if she wears a hat and gloves, she’s fine
- vampires are weak against ghosts.
Additional Links: Daddy, why did you take my wikilink?
First Person (entry type):
Hey, could someone tell these viruses to get lost? I kinda need to write stuff and it’s hard to do that when this lumpin’ thing keeps going off because you guys can’t handle being different for... uh, what, two days? And you always get turned back to normal soonish, so you don’t even get to be stuck with awesome powers forever or anything. I guess it might kinda suck to... I don’t know, what actually happens to you guys, anyway? Get tiny wings or something?
I mean, if I had tiny wings, and I couldn’t already do this boss vampire floaty thing, I’d be flying around all over the place. But you guys just get bummed out. What’s the point of having awesome stuff happen if you’re gonna be sad about it?
Ugh, forget it. I’m gonna chill somewhere else for awhile. Later.
Third Person:
Feelings are weird. Not the good, normal kind of weird like bats with spider legs. The bad kind of weird, or the kind of weird that can’t be described and that’s really weird. Because there’s words for a lot of things, and Marceline knows them, but she doesn’t know many words for feelings. Well, yeah, duh, there’s stuff like ‘I’m sad’ or ‘Go away before I kick this rock in your face’, but that’s not the same thing. That’s just one feeling. But feelings come in pairs, or triples, or foursomes, or sometimes even fives. There’s a lot of them, and sometimes she has a lot of them at the same time, and it’s not like she can just sort them out like stuff in her closet. They float around a bit, blurry and not very clear and some of them are red and some of them are blue and some of them don’t have colors at all. And whenever she tries to talk about them, they rush up her throat all at once and get stuck there. Gross, right?
But the weirdest thing is that when she sings, the feelings bleed all over the place. She can’t put them back inside where they belong when they spill out, red and swirling. All she can do is pick up her axe and play, and let them out one strum at a time.
And if anyone hears her, she’ll chop them in half with it.
Fandom: Adventure Time
History:
Sometime in the future on an Earth like this one, there was a Mushroom War that killed pretty much everybody. Marceline Abadeer was one of the not killed people, and also not a vampire at the time. She was a little kid, though, and her dad was still the king of the Nightosphere, which is kind of creepy. He left her alone a lot, but she had a stuffed bear named Hambo that she took care of, so that was kind of okay. Once, when she grew up, her dad took her fries, she cried and he didn’t even notice. She’s been pretty distant from him ever since, and when you’re a thousand years old, that’s a pretty long since.
At some point around here, she became a vampire. She even got the tiny bite marks to prove it. Marceline also got a boyfriend named Ash, and they lived in what’s now Finn and Jake’s treehouse. But Ash turned out to be a psycho jerk who sold Hambo for some stuff, so she dumped his ass. When she became the vampire queen is a bit of a shrug, but she did kill the vampire king to do it. She also had a falling out with Princess Bubblegum around this point, which happened because PB was mad at her for... something. She doesn’t have any friends for awhile, and then the series starts up and she meets Finn and Jake.
Well. First she kicks them out of their treehouse because it used to be her’s. But once they fight her, she drops her beef. The first time she shows up, she’s a trickster fighty antagonist. The next time, she stalks them from some bushes and orders them around because she needs some henchmen. She tries to scare them by using her shapeshiftery powers, and it totally works. She also used them to raise the dead so she could have a party, and reveals she’s not capital E evil. Just spooky. From this point on, Marceline and the heroic duo are solidly in the friend column.
Heck, in her next episode, Finn ends up fighting her dad. Well, first they accidentally release him from the Nightosphere and he steals her ax-bass, but then they track him down and fight him. Before they fight, though, Finn accidentally plays Marceline’s song about the fry stealing incident on BMO. Her dad apologizes for his behavior, so they reconcile and it’s all heartwarming and such. Then he gets his butt kicked back to the Nightosphere, but hey, close enough, right? The next time she shows up in an important way is when Finn asks her for advice on how to ask PB out. Her advice involves wolves. It doesn’t really go well. But! More importantly than that, Finn and Marceline are confirmed as ‘just friends’. Even though they go to couples’ movie night. But that’s okay, because they unleash wolves when the movie gets smoochie and gross.
This is the canon point I’m taking her from, after ‘Go With Me’!
Personality:
Marceline can be mean. She greatly enjoys pulling pranks and messing with people. This includes everything from convincing Finn and Jake that they’re vampires to unleashing wolfies on unsuspecting couples during movie night. She also has a slightly skewed moral compass that tilts in her favor. She doesn’t really care when her dad’s stealing souls from everyone so long as she gets her bass back. She’s very self centered in a teenagery way, despite being an immortal vampire. When she kicks Finn and Jake out of her-their house, she gets entranced by a very cute video game instead of worrying about them. She’s adventurous and not even remotely girly, and has been known to pick her nose when she’s alone.
The thing that’s the final straw between her and her father is when the latter stole her fries. This indicates two really important things: 1. she can be kind of petty. Like, it’s okay that he rules the nightosphere and is massively creepy, but he stole her fries and he’s on the outs. and 2: she’s honestly a fairly sensitive person. She takes things to heart, even minor things like missing cold fries. Or major things, like her dickbag ex-boyfriend selling her teddy bear. She used to have some sort of grudgey thing going on with Princess Bubblegum, too. So there’s a kind of dual nature thing going on with Marceline: spooky on the outside, sweet on the inside. And she really can be very, very sweet, in a she never wants anyone to find out sort of way. She’s on the verge of apologizing to PB during a song when she literally makes herself backtrack.
She’s honestly not used to having very many friends. Part of this is by design, because she thinks she’ll hurt them by being a vampire shapeshifter guitar player. It’s also partially not entirely her fault, because the spookiness can be kinda offputting. But, once she does have friends, she starts to change a bit because of them. She starts developing standards in her pranks, for one. She’s okay with screwing with Finn and Jake, but draws the line when the ghosts try to kill them. She’s also pretty loyal to them, and starts just genuinely hanging out with people. Although it’s worth noting that her previous loner qualities stick around. She once steals all her friends’ most precious possessions just to have an excuse to hang out and jam with them.
The jamming is very important, not just there but kind of everywhere. She expresses herself best through song. She has a project to turn her entire diary into a concept album. Considering she’s a thousand years old, that’s a mess of material to work with. There’s even some things so personal that she can’t even sing about them to other people. Two particular points: her lack of friends and her friends’ lack of understanding her. She’s been alone for a very long time, long enough to claim that she’s forgotten who she even is. Besides Marceline the Vampire Queen, that is.
Other: Marceline’s vampire (or other) weirdness goes something like this:
- she can transform into creepy things, like a giant bat or tentacle monster
- she only eats shades of red. she also claims tomatoes give her weird dreams
- the sunlight hurts her, but if she wears a hat and gloves, she’s fine
- vampires are weak against ghosts.
Additional Links: Daddy, why did you take my wikilink?
First Person (entry type):
Hey, could someone tell these viruses to get lost? I kinda need to write stuff and it’s hard to do that when this lumpin’ thing keeps going off because you guys can’t handle being different for... uh, what, two days? And you always get turned back to normal soonish, so you don’t even get to be stuck with awesome powers forever or anything. I guess it might kinda suck to... I don’t know, what actually happens to you guys, anyway? Get tiny wings or something?
I mean, if I had tiny wings, and I couldn’t already do this boss vampire floaty thing, I’d be flying around all over the place. But you guys just get bummed out. What’s the point of having awesome stuff happen if you’re gonna be sad about it?
Ugh, forget it. I’m gonna chill somewhere else for awhile. Later.
Third Person:
Feelings are weird. Not the good, normal kind of weird like bats with spider legs. The bad kind of weird, or the kind of weird that can’t be described and that’s really weird. Because there’s words for a lot of things, and Marceline knows them, but she doesn’t know many words for feelings. Well, yeah, duh, there’s stuff like ‘I’m sad’ or ‘Go away before I kick this rock in your face’, but that’s not the same thing. That’s just one feeling. But feelings come in pairs, or triples, or foursomes, or sometimes even fives. There’s a lot of them, and sometimes she has a lot of them at the same time, and it’s not like she can just sort them out like stuff in her closet. They float around a bit, blurry and not very clear and some of them are red and some of them are blue and some of them don’t have colors at all. And whenever she tries to talk about them, they rush up her throat all at once and get stuck there. Gross, right?
But the weirdest thing is that when she sings, the feelings bleed all over the place. She can’t put them back inside where they belong when they spill out, red and swirling. All she can do is pick up her axe and play, and let them out one strum at a time.
And if anyone hears her, she’ll chop them in half with it.