Banisher

Background:
Marie Kettler was born in Kitchener, Ontario, to a devout Catholic German family proud of their lineage tracing back to the Teutonic Knights. Raised on stories of chivalry, divine justice, and battle, she embraced the ideals of knighthood from a young age.
  At thirteen, she discovered her uncle’s secret involvement with the Order of Saint Jerome, an ancient brotherhood dedicated to hunting supernatural creatures. Seeing her potential, he took her under his wing as a squire, training her in the ways of war, faith, and monster-slaying.
  By her early twenties, Marie was knighted by the Order, declared one of their most promising warriors. However, everything changed when her uncle was crippled in battle—not by a demon, but by a supervillain, a chimera forged from unethical and unholy science.
  This event shattered her faith in the Order’s doctrine, as they refused to act against human evildoers, prioritizing supernatural threats instead. Seeing this as weakness and hypocrisy, Marie cast aside her livery, donned black armor, and became a rogue knight—hunting not just supernatural monsters, but all who spread evil in the world.
  Now, she operates from a hidden lair beneath Toronto’s largest Catholic church, waging her one-woman crusade against crime, corruption, and abominations of science and magic alike.
  Personality:
Marie Kettler is a woman forged in battle, a warrior whose unyielding sense of justice propels her forward in a world she sees as irredeemably corrupt. Raised in a strict but honorable tradition, she believes in duty, righteousness, and action over words. To her, justice is not a debate—it is a sword, swift and absolute. She does not hesitate, she does not waver, and she does not believe in mercy for those who have abandoned their own humanity.
  Her faith, though deeply ingrained, is pragmatic rather than dogmatic—she sees herself as a soldier of divine will, but she does not expect salvation or redemption for herself. She does not fight for personal glory or spiritual reward; she fights because she must, because no one else will, because evil does not fear words—it fears the blade.
  Marie is fiercely independent, preferring solitude over alliances, though she does accept the aid of those who share her vision. She does not trust easily, and she has little patience for hesitation or moral compromise. To her, weakness is complicity. Those who excuse evil, who enable it with bureaucracy and half-measures, are no better than the monsters she hunts.
  Despite her cold and ruthless exterior, Marie does not lack compassion—she simply reserves it for the innocent. She will go to any length to protect those who cannot protect themselves, standing between them and the horrors of the world. She does not seek thanks or recognition; she operates in the shadows, feared by the wicked and whispered about by those she has saved.
  However, her unwavering resolve is also her greatest flaw. She sees the world in absolutes—good and evil, justice and corruption, strength and weakness. There is no in-between. This rigidity makes her both formidable and tragic, for she may never allow herself the peace she grants to others. She carries her burden alone, a Black Knight walking an endless road, knowing full well that her war will never truly be won.
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