Mary Mushkin

Mary Mushkin is a character role-played by kyliebitkin.

General Description
Mary Mushkin is a Business woman and richest woman in the city by day and infamous street racer by night. She owns multiple successful businesses under the Umbrella of Procyon, most notably Mushkin's Motors and Procyon Motorsports (formerly the Tuner shop).

She is heavily involved in the illegal street racing scene, previously under the alias R3dD3vil until her arrest when she changed to Shinigami. Having grown tired of drama surrounding the racing scene, she has stepped away as one of it's official leaders alongside Eddie Marshall, she is still one of the scenes most respected figures but now focuses on running her own racing crew Yokai. {| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed article-table" style="border:1px solid #374746; color:white; background:#0C0B1F;" ! style="background:#1b1844;" |

Personality/Motivations
Mary presents herself to the public as a shrewd and determined business woman with the personality of a bubbly silly and innocent -year-old. Although many people are surprised at her young age due to her success. She is a very boastful person and likes to flaunt her success to others, whether that’s showing off her wealth and car collection or taunting the cops for not catching her. She often exaggerates her achievements, whether that’s net worth or something else but there is always truth behind it. Despite her public persona Mary is incredibly closed off and paranoid, and shares very little of her personal secrets or vulnerabilities, even to those closest to her.

She can be blunt and honest to a fault often coming across as unapproachable or scary to those who don't know her. Her honesty is often disbelieved and taken as manipulation, in a city full of liars her honesty is often perceived as having an ulterior motive when none is there. Mary tends to avoid unnecessary conflict and if she is made aware tries to resolve via conversation first before resorting to more drastic measures. Due to her shrewd business sense, she often comes out on top in such scenarios

However, Mary is not all peaceful, she has a dark and violent side to her, often presented to others as Shinigami. She can be cold violent and ruthless to those that cross her. She is generally forgiving if people show remorse or a desire to change but if someone crosses the line or she has been tasked, she doesn't hesitate and acts with ruthless precision.

Previously Mary had a chip in her brain, that began to develop its own personality LilM. The chip absorbed all her painful and violent memories building a persona based on trauma. With the only positive memories being that of BigM. LilM had the sole goal of avenging his death by killing the PM no matter the cost to Mary or those around her. When Mary became aware of this, she had the chip removed and also lost most of those memories stored on it, most notably forgetting BigM and her hate for the PM. Although the chip was removed, remnants of LilM remained part of her and would sometimes take over. However, these became less common over time and by now what was left has become absorbed into Mary amplifying some of dark and violent tendencies.

One of Mary's main motives is her desire for validation and praise, having received none from her Father growing up. This is the reason for her boasting, to show her achievements In the hopes of recognition. She latches on to father figures trying to fill the void inside her, and pushes herself to achieve goals that relate to them in an attempt at recognition and heavily focuses on those that she has received positive affirmations. Whether that was success at racing, business or the enforcing she did for the PM. Although it is often not good enough, with people one upping her, dismissing her achievements, or feeling like she is insulting them. Mary goes above and beyond to try and impress; however, this can lead to her seeming overbearing. Throughout her life many of the people she looked up to and considered family ended up abandoning her.

Mary wants to be for others what she never had and created Yokai to be that family. One that is loyal to one another and won't leave her. Mary has always been a natural follower and excels when given goals and targets fulfilling them as best, she can. Although not a natural leader, Mary tries her best and has grown into the role as Oyabun of Yokai after struggling initially, stepping out of the shadows of her previous mentors into a strong and capable leader.

With Mary being abandoned multiple times throughout her life, only one constant has remained, the PM who calls her "My sweet devil, daughter of chaos". A person who has a great influence of Mary, but not always a positive one. He amplifies her desire for control, and encourages violence and manipulation. With few other mentors remaining and those close to Mary (or Mary herself) not recognising/or knowing how to stop her, Mary descended increasingly into her delusions. Mary became obsessed with becoming a god, believing she was truly Shinigami the god of death and aimed to save herself and those she cared about by creating immortality. She desired to never be abandoned again and to be worshiped.

However, her god complex and her loyalty and trust in the PM came into doubt after the S++ incident, realising that his influence and her ego was not always positive, since then Mary has searched for other more positive influences in her life, one of these surprisingly found in the lifer Dez, who warned her about reliance on violence and how to channel her ego
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Physical/Cyberware
Physical

Mary is a -year-old female identifiable by her pale skin and red hair pulled back in a messsy bun or mushroom as Fury calls it.

She also has many visible tattoos on her body, including a tattoo of a robotic arm on her right arm, a tattoo of a skull atop a spike wrapped in barbed wire on her left arm, a tattoo of a Japanese koi fish on her back, and a tattoo of a rose on her left thigh.

Cyberware

She also has a variety of Cybernetic enhancements. she got her first enhancements installed by Roman Shacks that included:


 * Microchip - For enhanced cognitive function
 * Voice box -Alowing her to use a voice changer whenever she wants
 * Cybernetic contacts- Allowing the use of some computers via a in built display without opening her laptop

Her microchip was removed in surgery after it caused an alternate personality to manifest within her that attempted to rewrite her brain with itself. This didn't deter Mary away from embracing the chrome, keeping the rest of her cyberware and continueing to install more, with the help from Lance and her company Procyon

These include:


 * Cybernetic eyes - For enhanced vison
 * Biochip - Replacement for the Lil’M chip, it contains Marys genetic code and helps prevent Lil’M from resurfacing
 * Neural processor - For enhanced cognitive function
 * Neural port - Aconnectivity to her cyberware
 * Micro rotors - For increased movement and reaction speed
 * Data shard - Containing data storage
 * Titanium reinforced bones - Increased strenght to her bones to resist damage
 * Injector component - Interfaces with the coolant in her suit help keep her cool
 * Feedback circuit - Allows her neural processor interact with weapons and devices
 * Biomonitor - Enhances her healing abilities
 * Bioconductor - Links her neural processor to her cyberware providing her, among other things, enhanced hacking abilities


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Background
Mary was born in Vice City and was raised by the servants of her rich father Lucius Mushkin alongside her brother Kanye. She received very little attention and even less affection from her father, who spent all his time focusing on his business. In an attempt to get his attention and prove her worth she decided to steal money from him, as that was all she knew he cared for. This backfired with her father disowning her and reporting her to the FBI for stealing $2M from him via wire fraud, this landed her in federal prison for 6 months and left her with nothing, so she moved to Los Santos to start anew as a young 18-year-old trying to find her own way in the world.

She ended up working as a dancer for the Vanilla Unicorn, becoming one of the clubs best entertainers through her method of stripper therapy and backalley services, earning her way into her own personal poster on the outside of the club.

She eventually managed to gather up enough money to be able to afford her first vehicle, a second-hand old and rusted surfer van. Mary worked as a dancer at nights while during the day she could usually be seen driving around the city in her van, looking for various ways to earn a little extra money on the side from hunting to selling moonshine and silencers, she worked her way from the bottom to the very top of the city becoming the richest woman in the city through hard work and determination.

Quotes

 * "That’s cringe bwo"
 * "Psssh"
 * "Bikes are cringe"
 * "Lissen"
 * "Yuh"

Trivia

 * Has her own poster on the outside of the Vanilla Unicorn.
 * Her original Penumbra was possessed by a demon named Celer
 * Mary did her first ever meth run and got into her first full shootout with cops while doing a meth run with Hydra Gang on August 17th, 2023. She shot down Alex Suarez.