Marble
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| Marble | |
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| Information | |
| Game | Tales of Symphonia |
| Japanese Name | Marble (マーブル Maaburu?) |
| Hometown | Palmacosta (pre-game) Iselia Human Ranch (in-game) |
| Race | Human |
| Occupation | Prisoner in Iselia Human Ranch |
Marble is a temporally minor character in Tales of Symphonia. She is also the second boss in the game.
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[edit] Personality
Though only present in the game for a short while, Marble shows great kindness to both Genis and Lloyd and regards Genis like her grandson.
[edit] Fighting Style
As a human, Marble is not capable of fighting. However, when she becomes a monster, she is the second boss Lloyd faces. With her long arm, she is able to hit enemies from a long distance, and has also a couple of artes of her own, mostly of them involving her bursting out mana or using her arm.
[edit] History
[edit] Before the Start
Some time before the game started, Marble opened the item shop Marble's in Palmacosta and has since then run it together with the family, her daughter Cacao and her husband, as well as her granddaughter, Chocolat, who she was very close to. Between this and the start of the game, she was taken by the Desians for openly opposing them, and was eventually taken to Iselia Human Ranch. There, she was given an Exsphere and forced to work.
Not long before the present storyline, Marble somehow met Genis Sage while he was sneaking around outside the ranch. They got along, and they managed to meet each other in secret without the guards knowing, in which Genis often woul give Marble his lunch.
[edit] Evolution and Death
After the Oracle arrived in the present, Genis decided to sneak to Marble to tell her about it. He ends up telling about her to Lloyd Irving, his best friend and the main character of the game. When Marble meets Lloyd, he tells her about the danger about wearing an Exsphere without a Key Crest, and might offer to give her one depending on the choise the player makes. However, just then, the guards discover her and ask her what she is doing, and Marble tells the boys to hide before the guard spots them, too. Because of her disobedience, she is taken away and whipped for punishment. She is eventually saved by Lloyd and Genis, and her fellow prisoners help her to get away from more punishment. Unknown to her, it was to save her that Lloyd got spotted on one of the cameras in the ranch, which made the Desians assault Iselia.
The morning afterward, Marble’s Exsphere is forcefully removed, and without a Key Crest, the mana in her body goes out of control, and she becomes a monster. Forcystus, the leader of Iselia Human Ranch, uses Marble to punish Lloyd for enteing the ranch, as well as to see if Lloyd really uses an Exsphere from the Angelus Project. Without knowing who the monster really is, Lloyd and Genis fights her.
After Marble’s defeat, Forcystus plans to take Lloyd’s Exsphere by force, but as he is about to explain Lloyd’s mother’s cause of death, Marble, still in her monster form, takes a hold on Forcystus from behind and tells Lloyd and Genis to run. As her last words, she said she loved Genis as if he was her grandson, before she killed herself in an explosion to take down Forcystus. Forcystus survived, though heavily injured. All that is left of Marble is her Exsphere that Genis uses through out the game.
[edit] After Death
Throughout the rest of the game, Marble is often mentioned by her living family members. Genis and Lloyd are also remembering her, and the fact that he was unable to save Marble causes him to get depressive whenever he kills an innocent person. Marble might also be the reason that Genis hesitates so much defeating Mithos.
[edit] Relationships
[edit] Family
Cacao - Cacao is Marble’s daughter, who now runs her shop in her absence.
Cacao's husband - Although Cacao’s husband is only mentioned once, he was punished along with Marble for openly opposing the Desians, although they got different sentences.
Chocolat - As Marble’s granddaughter these two were very close before Marble was taken away by the Desians. Her abduction hurt Chocolat badly, and she breaks down when she gets to know that Marble is dead.
[edit] Allies
Lloyd Irving - Having only met once, Marble still considers Lloyd a friend, and does not have any grudge toward Lloyd for being the cause of her death, as she told him to .
Genis Sage - As Marble’s only friend since she was taken away by the Desians, Marble considers Genis as a grandson, and loves her very deeply.
[edit] Enemies
Desians - Marble and her son-in-law are said to have openly opposed the Desians, resulting in his dead and her imprisoned. However, it is unlikely that the Desians themselves viewed her as a real threat, and more like an annoyance.
[edit] Trivia
- The woman who is in charge for the washtubs in the Thoda Dock is named Candy. Although it may just be a coincidence, some fans think that she is a relative of Marble, since everyone in her family have names from sweets.
