Mara Damaris
Kaydence Lee Damaris
Eve Myles as Mara.
Portrayed By Eve Myles
Gender Female
Date of Birth November 5, 1978
Age 28
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Aliases Mara, Bitch
Place of Birth New York City, NY, USA
Current Location New York City, NY, USA
Occupation Police Detective
Known Relatives Hank Damaris (father), Brittany Cole-Damaris (mother)
Significant Other Nathan Petrelli (non-boyfriend ex-fling)
Known Abilities Psychometry
First Appearance Dark Hair and Nice Smiles

"Mara" Damaris is a member of New York's Finest, a homicide detective in the NYPD. She suffers from fainting spells, due to her recently manifested power of Psychometry. As a general rule, she keeps to herself the visions accompanying her swooning. Especially when those visions concern future events.

History

Kaydence Lee Damaris was born in New York City, where her Cajun father and UK-born mother were studying at the time. She was only three years old when her parents divorced. She spent the school year with her father in Louisiana and summers with her mother in Britain. In middle school, she developed a keen interest for the justice system, deciding she wanted to become a lawyer or a judge. After high school, Mara returned to England to live with her mother full-time with the intention of attending university there.

She rather unsuccessfully attempted to study law for a year at Oxford, but quickly discovered she had neither enough funding nor the attention span for the amount of research that went into the legal profession. Deciding her place was not in the courtroom, she shifted her pursuits to law enforcement. She relocated to her parents' alma mater in New York. There, she applied herself to her new passion with a renewed eagerness. Mara had decided to join the police force. She struggled as a member of the boys' club, but proved herself both physically and mentally capable of keeping up with her male peers, earning a begrudging sort of respect, and even admiration from others. Unlike some women in her position, Mara doesn't see others of her gender climbing the ranks as potential threats, but rather as good omens. She's very comfortable in her position as a homicide detective for the NYPD.

In December of 2006, Mara began suffering from fainting spells. They struck seemingly at random and no medical reason could be discovered. She was moved from active duty to the more clerical side of police work, spending less time pursuing suspects and more time fact checking and conferring with the medical examiner's office, as she's never been one to show any squeamishness when it comes to autopsies. Originally, Mara's fainting spells would knock her out for several hours. This "downtime" shortened over time, giving the illusion that whatever was ailing her was beginning to diminish. However, she made no mention of the visions that had began to coincide with each spell. Acquiring a copy of "Activating Evolution" written by Chandra Suresh, she was intrigued by the theories presented.

In February, a Japanese man claiming to have knowledge of who killed Virginia Gray, whose murder she and her partner had been trying very hard to solve, approached her at her station. He came to warn her of a man, a murderer who takes the abilities of others. Growing annoyed with the lack of any concrete proof that anything he was telling her was true, she demanded to know what was in the tube the foreigner was carrying. Touching the man's honest-to-goodness katana dropped the detective to the floor, unconscious from the most elaborate vision she'd experienced since realising what was happening to her. That day and that man would change Mara's life forever.

That day, Hiro Nakamura told Mara Damaris that she is a hero.

Abilities

Mara's powers have only just begun to manifest in the past six months. Currently, she sees unbidden images at random when she comes in physical contact with an object. She appears to faint when struck by her visions of either the past or future of the object she's touched. She is unable to keep herself from having visions, though she has recently discovered that she is able to induce visions she wouldn't normally have on her own. With the help of an experimental drug developed by Mohinder Suresh, Mara is able to experience visions without passing out.

Timeline

July 2007

  • 07/01/07: Returning to Jonathan's store to finally buy herself a new computer, the tech informs her that her machine will be on the house.
  • 07/07/07: Doctor Applebaum meets with Mara to discuss a certain evolved serial killer and how best to avoid his notice. Knowing she's been watched, Mara tells her that the best way to avoid discovery is to avoid her.
  • 07/08/07: Nathan turns to Mara for her expertise on being a hunted woman - though Mara thinks he's asking her as a homicide detective - asking her how killers pick their victims. She's chilled when her phone rings and her stalker reveals himself to be standing across the street. Watching her. Nathan flees with Mara, affording her the privacy of the sky to panic before taking her home so she can get some rest.
  • 07/09/07: Wakes up to discover a bloody message has been scrawled over her walls. While attempting to be a good policewoman and gather evidence, rather than give herself over to fear, Niki Sanders calls and asks for a favour. Shortly thereafter, she calls Mohinder to ask for his - and the Company's - expertise in the matter. He demands she relocate with him to Hartsdale and for once, she isn't reluctant to agree. He also informs her that she needs to stop ignoring the fact that she owes the Company a hefty favour for hiding her during April and May. He convinces her (or maybe coerces in his own special way) to meet with the higher-ups to discuss what they wants their Serial Killer Bait to do next.
  • 07/12/07: A couple days after the incident, Mara returns home to pack up her belongings to properly move out of the vandalised apartment. She asks Nathan to accompany her on this task and informs him of what happened. He takes it marginally better than she did, in that he doesn't throw up. An envelope is delivered via courier while she's packing and she discovers that her would-be killer photographed her while she slept. Creepy. After Nathan's gone, Mara's prompted to ask Peter if she can stay at his place for the night before driving to Hartsdale in the morning. In return, he makes a request of her.
  • 07/13/07: Meets with Bob Bishop at Mohinder's urging. (She agrees to go through with the meeting if he agrees to give her a few doses of ability-nullifying pills.) He orders her to retreat to a farmhouse upstate, much to her chagrin. Being bait is no fun. Especially when you don't get all the rights, privileges and obligations of a full Company agent. But the lack of agent status brings on less guilt, so it evens out.
  • 07/14/07: Funnels pills from Mohinder to Niki. Later that night, an attack of conscience causes Mara to reveal to Peter that she's allowing the Company to use her.
  • 07/15/07: Mohinder and Mara discuss the state of her exile from New York City as mandated by the Company. He proceeds to drag her out on his rounds with him. A necessary evil, as well as a chance for the Psychometer to see what really happens in the holding cells of Primatech's Hartsdale facility. While checking up on patients, she recognises Megan Deatley as Lachlan's sister.

Relationships

Quotes

  • "I prefer citizen's arrest." -to Lachlan (Subway Shakedown)
  • "You used to be so terrifying. But without your powers… You're nothing, aren't you?" -to Sylar (Let's Play a Game)
  • "Gabriel? You aren't in here, are you? I'm really not in the mood to kill you right now…" (Amazing Flying Petrelli)
  • "So I did what any self-respecting woman would have done in my situation… I lied right through my gappy teeth."

Trivia

  • Mara is actually a nickname derived from her last name, Damaris. However, the two are pronounced differently. (MAR-ah Da-MARE-is)
  • Splitting her formative years between Louisiana and the United Kingdom has afflicted Mara with a most unfortunate accent.
  • Rumours circulating around the NYPD have suggested that her partner, Judah, is gay. Mara cannot confirm or deny this, though she firmly believes that he is not. Of course, this may be wishful thinking, as the younger detective harbours a secret crush on her partner.
  • The ringtone for Mara's personal BlackBerry is Grace Kelly by Mika.
  • Favourite colour is purple. All notes that aren't submitted in an official capacity are taken down in purple ink.
  • Mara has a plan. And she's not telling you what it is it got shot to hell.
  • Favourite drink is a Tom Collins Jack and Cherry Pepsi gin and tonic a Harvey Wallbanger.
  • Has a list of things she would like to accomplish before she dies. (See below.)
  • Hates the sound of a ticking clock.

The Bucket List

Soundtrack

Click the collapsibles for lyric snippets.

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