Marmalade

Marmalade is a character played by Shanghai.

Appearance
Marmalade is an anthropomorphic capybara woman. She is short, but strong from years of working in garages. She wears a blue jumpsuit stained with oil and monogrammed with her name, which she has tied off around her waist for comfort. On her torso is a simple black and purple tank top. She also wears purple winged eyeliner and a pair of black work gloves. She has a floral tattoo sleeve on her left arm, depicting vines with flowers growing out of them snaking up her arm.

Bio
Marmalade is from Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up there with her mother and father, though she lost her dad to cancer when she was in high school. Marmalade woke up in the world of Sockscraft one morning after passing out on the floor of the garage where she worked.

She was also the frontwoman and lead vocalist of Rebuilders Local 503 (often shortened to The Rebuilders), a ska-punk band of minor notoriety. Their work focused on revolution and queer sexual liberation.

Personality
Marmalade is a fierce collectivist whose first instinct in any situation is to ask "Who is hurt, and how can we fix it?" Despite this, she has a tendency to put her foot in her mouth and say the wrong things to people. She cares deeply about building an equitable society and has a long history of volunteering with local socialist causes in Boston. She was particularly fond of repair fairs, where she would work as a mechanic for free to fix anything that people brought in, from beat-up cars to broken blenders.

Marmalade firmly believes that anything can be fixed, and that she is often the right gal for the job. She is upbeat and indomitable. She has little patience for people who sit around and mope instead of looking for solutions, even though she knows that not everyone can be as proactive as she is. Despite this can-do attitude, Marmalade can struggle with self-doubt and stress due to pushing the boundaries of her skills and overworking herself. She misses her friends and her home.

Marmalade is a lesbian and forms crushes easily.

Events
Marmalade woke up in Sockscraft with no idea where she was or how she got there. A host of locals quickly appeared to help her get oriented with the world. She used the radio distress array behind Stun's tower to send a voicemail to her mom letting her know that she'd be gone for a while, but that she was fine. Ludo then kindly let her stay on his couch until she got her footing.

She built a garage across from Ludo's cafe in west Touchdown, and was immediately commissioned by Fillet's unhoused soul to build it a body. With the help of Brisket, who gathered stardust to create a core for the soul to bond with and pilot the body, she was able to complete the commission. Baneberry provided a magical binding agent to help the soul pilot the robot, the same stuff that keeps their soul inside their body.

Amethyst visited Marmalade in her office one day, crying after having had another nightmare about Blair. Amethyst then disappeared into a dark cavern. Marmalade, Buttercup, Rosie, and Ludo then found her a few hours later in a massive cave beneath touchdown, sitting in front of a vault door. Bea spoke through her, leaving a coded message begging the three of them to stop Amethyst's nightmares and save her. Marmalade agreed to help Ludo and Buttercup solve Amethyst's problems, and figure out what's going on with Bea.

Marmalade awoke one morning to find the corpse of Seven slumped in a corner of her workshop along with a note imploring her to make good use of it. She found that most of the parts were in near perfect working order, and only a few minor repairs were needed to make the robot functional again. However, when it turned on, it appeared to have been factory reset; no vestiges of Seven's personality or memories were left at all. Marmalade christened the new bot Selune.

Marmalade has performed repairs for numerous robotic Sockscraft residents, including Clementine, Fillet, and Microscope Mike. She has begun to take on the role of doctor for the world's synthetic inhabitants despite having no formal robotics training. Her voracious desire to improve her DIY skill and help others has propelled her through these repairs to find solutions despite the challenges they present.