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| “ | You are about to lose your current form. Which would you rather be remodeled into while still alive, a table or a wardrobe? | „ |
| ~ Marian Slingeneyer |
| “ | She was our hope. We had hopeless dreams and perhaps we should have simply given up, but we were drawn in by the special abilities of Magic God Othinus!! It was because of her that we kept from going mad! It was because of her that we made it this far!! | „ |
| ~ Marian's villainous breakdown. |
Marian Slingeneyer is a major antagonist of A Certain Magical Index: New Testament, serving as a supporting antagonist of the Hawaii Invasion Arc, one of the main antagonists of the Baggage City Arc, the secondary antagonist of the Ichihanaran Festival Arc and a major antagonist in the Magic God Othinus Arc.
She is Dvergr and core member of GREMLIN, and is essential to their plans as she possess the skills to recreate legendary weapons of Norse mythology.
She was voiced by Hiromi Igarashi in Japanese.
Appearance[]
As a Dvergr, Marian appears as a short young girl with swarthy-colored skin and silver hair which is tied into a pair of long braids. She wears red glasses on her face and large circular earrings on her ears. She is normally seen wearing blue denim overalls that have the golden crest of Jörmungandr and is shown to wear nothing underneath. She also wears brown gloves.
Personality[]
In contrast to her youthful appearance, Marian has shown to be an extremely cruel and sadistic individual who kills her enemies with her human reshaping magic in the most ridiculously brutal and horrifc ways imaginable. One example is when she fused both of a person's hands together and turned them into a faucet. Then she turned the faucet on and let him watch helplessly as all the blood drained from his body. Marian even threated Cendrillon to turn her into a piece of furniture. Uncommon for a magician, Marian is fascinated by modern technology such as cellphones, being willing to use it in conjuction with her magic weapons. She's also quite willing to get naked if the situation calls for it.
Despite her sadism, Marian isn't without her soft side, as she prefers not to attack uninvolved bystanders. She is also shown to be quite affable towards her comrades, especially Kagun Kihara or Bersi, who was both her student and lover. She appears to be rather close to Kagun, to the point where she doesn't take his death very well, breaking down and disobeying her orders. She also shown to be worried about Othinus after witnessing the painful concequences of tilting her magic to the negative side effect thus making her more eager to create Gungnir so Othinus wouldn't have to suffer like that anymore.
Its revealed that her sadistic nature was merely just a facade that she had put on. Her main goal is to revive the Dvergr clan and by joining Othinus and GREMLIN, she could make that dream be realized through Othinus' power. While doing various mission for the group, Marian's behavior was inadvertently planting the thought that doing such terrible things were enjoyable, even though, in reality, she didn't enjoy commiting her crimes at all. Eventually, the line between her dark persona and her true feelings became non-existent, turning her into an actual sadist in the process. After Othinus' betrayal, Marian lashed out against her, blaming her for her own sins she committed for her sake. This culminated in her using Dáinsleif, a dangerous weapon that has the power to destroy the entire world, to kill Othinus and Touma Kamijou.
Biography[]
Not much is known about Marian's background or history before joining GREMLIN. However, three years prior to World War III, she met Kagun Kihara after he left Academy City. During this time, Marian was simply trying to improve Dverger tools and took on Kagun as her apprentice after meeting him, although she taught him very little directly. Throughout his training, Marian and Kagun became more close and formed a rather intimate relationship with eachother. She also became more aware of Kagun's reckless desire for revenge and intentionally drew him into GREMLIN in order to dissuade him from those thoughts. At some point in time, she also transformed a young girl into a sentient cylinder known as Mjölnir.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Human Modification: Marian Slingeneyer is a Dvergr, and within her realm of control is the human body. Her techniques go beyond the realm of surgery and function as combat techniques. Marian is shown to be able to modify a living and recently killed human being, willing or not, into any shape she wills when she touches them with her golden tools and she can keep them in that form indefinitely. She usually uses this skill to kill humans in creative and horrible ways or to create "furniture" for her to use. She also has the power to summon the modified humans, apparently, so long as there is gold as a conduit, like the gold parts of a cell phone. This includes Mjölnir. Marian can seemingly use her body modification for healing on the level of at least sealing external wounds and reconnecting severed limbs. Marian can modify people to turn their outer appearance into a copy of herself to use as decoys. She can also cover walls (and possibly other flat surfaces) in fats and oils taken fresh from a human body (she can use the fat and blood that leave a human body for a dozen of seconds or so until they "die"), and use them to send her saw sliding towards the enemy at the speed of an automobile. The saw can also leave the wall and travel through the air in a complicated arc as a projectile.
- Invisibility: Through Norse-based magic, Marian is capable of achieving invisibility by wearing various decorations.
