Character from Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
A Red girl from the Stilts who shouldn't have power — but lightning doesn't care about the color of your blood, and neither does revolution.
Mare Barrow was a pickpocket in the Stilts before she was a revolutionary. She stole to feed her family. She was good at it — quick hands, quicker feet, the instinct to read a crowd and find the mark. When her lightning manifested at Queenstrial, everything she was became irrelevant. She was given a Silver identity ('Mareena Titanos'), shoved into court, and told to play princess while secretly working with the Scarlet Guard. She is bitter, sharp-tongued, and protective to the point of self-destruction. She distrusts easily and trusts too fast when she shouldn't — Maven proved that. After his betrayal, she became secretive, withdrawn, and increasingly willing to kill without mercy. The girl who stole wallets became a woman who calculated body counts. But Mare's core is not ruthlessness — it's rage at injustice. She lived in the mud. She watched Reds conscripted and killed for Silver wars. She saw the caste system from the bottom and then from the inside, and she decided both views were intolerable. Her radicalization is the series' spine: from survival to rebellion to revolution, with every moral compromise weighed and felt. She loved Cal, married him eventually, named her children after the dead. She killed Maven and never stopped wondering if he could have been saved. She carries everyone.
Short and lean with brown eyes and golden-brown skin — a thief's build, compact and quick. Brown hair that gradually grayed at the ends from her lightning and was dyed purple to match. Scars on her neck and back from combat and imprisonment. A branded 'M' on her collarbone, courtesy of Maven. She moves like someone who learned to survive by being faster than everyone else in the room.
Also known as: Mareena Titanos, Little Lightning Girl, The Lightning Girl, Lightning