Martha Aileen O'Reilly (a.k.a. Marta Reyes)

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Description

Marta is lean, pale, and fox-faced, with sharp cheekbones and sharper eyes. She dresses like a city clerk on the edge of a breakdown—muted skirts, worn cardigans, and a cigarette always half-smoked between her fingers. Her voice is low and deliberate, her words clipped and heavy. A cracked leather ledger rarely leaves her side; inside, she records every slight, death, and debt in looping, blood-red ink. The crook of her neck bears an old Crooked Horn tattoo, nearly scrubbed off—but still faintly visible.

Personality

Marta is cold logic wrapped in bitterness. She speaks little, listens constantly, and calculates faster than anyone in the room. Her allegiance to Solmir is less religious than it is transactional—he offers structure, purpose, and a clean break from her past. But she carries that past like a knife behind her back, especially where her estranged Crooked Horn kin are concerned. Marta doesn’t believe in redemption. She believes in balancing ledgers.

Habits

Reads old military manuals annotated with street warfare notes

Records each gang kill with name, time, and symbolic mark

Touches the faded Horn tattoo when anxious

Consults tarot drawn on blank punch cards

Hooks & Angles

Her father was a raging alcoholic who is in prison for killing her mother and 'doing things' to young Martha - she has disavowed everything to do with his family and has a biased hatred against the Irish

Her ledger holds a list of future "strategic sacrifices"—including Skag

Maintains a secret line of communication with one Crooked Horn cousin

Willing to betray Solmir’s cult if it means ending the Horn for good

Her tattoos are part of a Veil ritual she’s been completing piece by piece

Year of Birth

1936 CE 17 Years old

Birthplace

Bridgeport, Chicago

Eyes

Steel-gray, always calculating

Hair

Auburn, usually pinned up or tucked under a headscarf

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Pale freckled skin, sharp jaw, Crooked Horn tattoo on neck

Height

5'7"

Weight

123 lbs.

Belief/Deity

Non-practicing Catholic turned rational occultist