Toonman Archenemy: Mara Mason Variant! (Patreon)

Hey Guys! NRG is back in production to give you, our patrons, more variants of our character profiles! Here's the one for Mara Mason, which was an absolute brilliant idea on the artist part! We were laughing on the floor for days! Nico has a brilliant sense of humor and really gets what Toonman's character is like!

Here's the origins for Mara Mason if y'all still need them:

Marty Mason considered his relationship with his daughter Mara to be his biggest failure in life. A wedge had developed between them during Mara’s childhood after the death of her mother following a battle with stage 4 cancer, which Mara heavily blamed on Marty’s determination to provide for her care as an animator instead of getting a “real job”. Following a brief stint of homelessness as Marty struggled in his passions and focused on his work until he found steady employment as a cleanup artist for other animators, Mara’s resentment grew until she cut herself emotionally off from her father and chose to raise herself. As a result of her childhood, Mara came to firmly believe that any and all creative and artistic endeavors - especially animation - as a complete and utter waste of time. As an adult Mara found success in politics and a thriving life for herself as a high level bureaucrat in the American Government, notably California. But it was speculated that Mara’s rise to power may have partially been through ruthless and less scrupulous methods. Mara had few scruples when exercising her power and many feared crossing paths with her. Many suffered under her thumb, but no so more than her daughter Annabelle when it became apparent she inherited her grandfather’s fondness for creativity. In short, Mara had built herself a perfect world that she could control.

Mara had less than favorable views about the budding superheroes in the world such as Empress or Zener, but her biggest fear and threat to her perfect world appeared in the form of her great-grandfather’s cartoon character, Tom Foolery. Not only was he an embodiment of everything she hated and what was wrong with the world, but as Tom took up the mantle of a superhero soon more like-minded superbeings began appearing throughout California and undoing all of Mara’s hard work in her professional and personal life. He was a menace and Mara was determined to make others see him that way, using all her connections and resources to pinpoint all negative superhuman activity back to him and attempt to turn the public against him.

To that end, Mara found herself approached and offered an alliance with Ryker- in exchange for guinea pigs and funds he would provide her with means to make life a living hell for Toonman and his allies, either through supervillains or superheroes Mara could control and manipulate. In Ryker, Mara sees a like-minded individual who can bring back order to her world, but is unaware that Ryker only sees Mara as a means to an end.

Powers/Abilities

• High ranking government bureaucrat with near unlimited funds, connections and resources at her disposal, notable in government, law enforcement and media.
• Hates Toonman and all toons, and by extension all the superheroes and allies who ally or affiliate themselves with him.

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