====== Mariposa|Deceased ======
=====AKA=====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Little Butterfly<sup>122</sup>
  * Mary Alvarado<sup>177</sup>
  * Mari<sup>213</sup>
=====Physical Description=====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Slight-boned and fragile-looking. Her dark hair, usually unruly and curly, had been tamed and rolled into a bun, but the severe style only made her look younger<sup>122</sup>
  * Dark-haired and dark-eyed<sup>122</sup>
  * Her features were refined and aristocratic<sup>122</sup>
====Injuries====
^  Mariposa Injuries & Scars  ^^
^  [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]]  ^^
^  Injury Type/Scar  ^  Notes  ^
|  Hit in Face by Rifle<sup>184</sup>  |  [[Anna Cornick]]  |
|  Broken Jaw<sup>278</sup>  |  [[Anna Cornick]]  |
|  Broken Neck<sup>279</sup>  |  [[Anna Cornick]]  |
=====Appearances & Mentions=====
^           Appearances                   ^                            
|[[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1:[[Cry Wolf]]|                         
^           Mentions                    ^                              
|[[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Asil and the Not-Date]]|
=====Classification=====

====Description====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Her power amassed around her, different now than it had been when they’d first sent her to her own kind for training. Her magic had been wild and hot, but this power was as dark and cold as her voice had been<sup>122</sup>
  * Stole the bond between Asil and his mate<sup>173</sup>
  * Could control werewolves with her magic<sup>187</sup>
  * Could break into a pack's magic<sup>207</sup>
  * From one of the greatest of the witch families<sup>214</sup>
  * Their greatest spell; to have guardians on their grounds, great beasts who patrolled and killed for them but never needed food or drink; it was rumoured that they made them from living creatures - they had a menagerie; such powerful spells are never made without blood and death<sup>214</sup>
  * Because she is, through Asil, a de facto member of the pack—she might have managed to combine the Marrok’s powers with her own<sup>218</sup>
  * Gotten her ability through some kind of binding to a werewolf<sup>229</sup>
  * Hide-me-spell; Witches could hide in plain sight if they had some sort of hold on you<sup>238</sup>
  * Was a witch, and had no control of her powers; needed to be trained<sup>242</sup>

[[Asil and the Not-Date]]
  * Had a talent for hiding things in plain sight, making one thing seem like another: a complex magical item appeared to be a piece of costume jewelry, or black magic felt like white<sup>229</sup>
====Affiliation====

=====Residence=====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * staying at that old forest-service cabin<sup>219</sup>
=====Family & Significant Other=====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Mariposa’s mother had only just enough power to protect her youngest daughter from the attack of another clan of witches. Her parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, and all were dead—and her mother, too<sup>213</sup> 

=====Occupation=====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Claimed to be Search and Rescue; that she and her “hot tempered” partner had an argument and split up for a bit<sup>163</sup>

=====Character Traits & Facts=====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Dangerous<sup>179</sup>
====Education, Work Experience & Languages====
====Spirituality & Personality====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Emotional above all, dancing from anger to sullenness to sunshine with scarcely a breath between<sup>122</sup>
  * She wasn’t observant enough to see Brother Wolf peeking out—either that or she liked a little danger<sup>179</sup>
  * Mariposa had always rewritten reality to suit her<sup>263</sup>
  * Always liked to hurt people<sup>272</sup>
====Talents & Skills====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Clouded objections to force her prey to reluctantly answer questions<sup>182</sup>
  * A web of light encasing Charles in sickly strings of yellow and green<sup>183</sup>
  * Imprisoning spell; muttered a word and flung it at Anna with a flick of her fingers, leaving Anna unable to move<sup>188</sup>
  * Could break into the pack’s magic<sup>207</sup>
  * Was making people do things—like kill family pets<sup>218</sup>
  * Can control a werewolf who has the protection of a pack<sup>219</sup>
  * capable of holding a werewolf for days and torturing it<sup>224</sup>
  * Hair allowed her to get into your dreams. If you had died there, you’d have died for real<sup>226</sup>
  * Changing what the senses of others perceived was one of the major powers of the witch<sup>234</sup>
  * Scried with water to get glimpses into the future<sup>253</sup>

====Health & Fitness====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Mariposa seemed to have gained immortality upon Sarai’s death<sup>173</sup>
  * Has a wolflike dexterity<sup>238</sup>
  * Has the immortality, the strength, and the speed of a werewolf<sup>254</sup>
  * Had never been been stable, even before she killed Sarai<sup>264</sup>
  * Quite mad<sup>269</sup>
  * Anna killed her by snapping her neck<sup>279</sup>
  * Colin Taggart burned her body and got four pounds of salt to mix with her ashes; the results were brought to Bran's house for disposal<sup>290</sup>

====Quirks====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * A woman who was used to batting her eyes at men<sup>180</sup>
  * Stamped her foot as if she were still a child<sup>243</sup>
  * Says when skinning something, the pelt is soft and warm, but human skin is so much more horrifying—and more useful afterward<sup>245</sup>
=====Relationships=====

**With Asil and Sarai**

[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Was sixteen years old when she killed Sarai<sup>122</sup>
  * Asil's dreams always got stronger when the witch got too close<sup>173</sup>
  * Was raised by Sarai and Asil; came to live with them when she was eight or nine years old<sup>213</sup>
  * Told Asil that the only place she really felt safe was with Sarai and him<sup>214</sup>
  * Stole Sarai's immortality as she stole her and Asil's mate bond<sup>215</sup>
  * Believed Sarai had made a choice between her and Asil<sup>242</sup>
  * Tried to poison Sarai twice<sup>243</sup>
  * Pretended she was Sarai and came to Asil's bed<sup>243</sup>
  * Fixated on Asil<sup>256</sup>
  * There was something wrong with the girl that Sarai couldn’t fix<sup>256</sup>
  * She was never more to Asil than a stray pet Sarai wanted to take care of<sup>257</sup> 
  * Rode her Sarai Guardian like a donkey<sup>266</sup>
  * Tied herself to Sarai's dead wolf<sup>269</sup>
  * Relied on Sarai to protect her so much that she forgot that she could protect herself<sup>277</sup>

**With the Witches**

[[Cry Wolf]]
  * From what Asil knew, Mariposa's mother only had enough power to protect her youngest daughter from the attack of another clan of witches<sup>213</sup>
  * The tinker found the little girl wandering by the burnt remnants of her house and thought Sarai would take her in, as he knew that Sarai wife had done considerable trade with that family<sup>213</sup>
  * The witches guarded their spells from each other, so each family tended to specialize. Mariposa’s family was one of the greatest of the witch families; But she was only a child, and this was their greatest spell. Asil could hardly believe they entrusted her with it<sup>213</sup>
  * Charles about Mariposa: "Asil’s witch has found a way to control a werewolf who has the protection of a pack; I’ve never heard of anything like that—so I don’t think she’s been spreading the word. Thankfully, witches are so jealous of each other. But if she’s the only witch who knows how—we need to keep it that way."<sup>213</sup>
  * Guardians, they once called such things. A charismatic name for such abominations; Even at the peak of their power, though, Bran had never heard of them making a guardian from a werewolf<sup>241</sup>

**With Charles and Anna**

[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Mary put out her hand and ended up with a handful of Anna’s hair<sup>175</sup>
  * When he first saw her, Charles knew that she was something preternatural—one that used magic<sup>178</sup>
  * She'd been avoiding looking Charles in the eyes<sup>180</sup>
  * She was no ally of Charles<sup>181</sup>
  * It would require an effort on the witch’s part to focus on Anna as long as Charles was there. An effort Mary Alvarado wasn’t making<sup>184</sup>
  * Anna was able to break the spell's hold on her by bringing her wolf to the fore<sup>184</sup>
  * Anna also shattered the witch's hold on Charles the same way<sup>185</sup>
  * She shouldn’t have been able to do that. She made Charles fawn at her feet like a puppy<sup>187</sup>
  * Charles was still volatile from his encounter with the witch<sup>216</sup>
  * The memory of how Asil’s witch had held him obedient to her as if she were his Alpha cut through his self-confidence with a large dollop of reality<sup>232</sup>
  * Wanted Charles' pain and death so that she could collect the power<sup>272</sup>

**With the Wolves**

[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Was able to call Bran like a a well-trained pet<sup>238</sup>
  * The control she asserted over Bran had to be won by blood and flesh using the bonding through Asil that Bran had done to his own pack<sup>239</sup>
  * Knows about the Marrok; was never able to find a photo of him<sup>264</sup>
  * She tried to goad Bran<sup>265</sup>
  * She figured out who Bran was and took his free will from him like a puppet master attaching strings to his marionette<sup>268</sup>
  * It's a pattern with her to take over a pack; the wolves eventually die; fade until there is nothing left of them<sup>272</sup>
  * Bran, Marrok, Alpha of the Marrok, slay me your son, Charles<sup>277</sup>
  * Walter was killed taking the spell meant for Anna<sup>279</sup>