Marissa Faireborn
Marissa is a human in the Generation 1 continuity.
Commander Marissa Faireborn is an officer in the Earth Defense Command. Tough and headstrong, she performs her duties with strict military professionalism. She may be small and squishy, but she sure knows how to use a knife. Even the Decepticons respect her as a proper adversary.
Also, she's great at surfboarding.
Her grandfather, Nathaniel Faireborn, created EDC when the Transformers' presence on Earth had just begun. (Her father is likely Dashiell Faireborn, otherwise known as Flint from G.I. Joe. That also means that her mother is possibly Lady Jaye.)
Fiction
Animated continuity
Voice actor: Susan Blu (US), ? (Japan)
Dreamwave Comics continuity
As Bumper and Warpath attempted to haul the deactivated bodies of Jazz, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Windcharger, and Wheeljack out of an Oregon lake, they were arrested by Commander Marissa Faireborn and a legion of EDC troops. After taking them into custody, Fairborne recruited Jazz, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, and Bumper to accompany her and the EDC Night Force to San Desto.
A sweep of the town uncovered no sign of its inhabitants. Marissa established a good rapport with Jazz, and instructed her troops to follow his orders as they would hers. Soon enough, they were attacked by an army of Insecticon clones, who decimated the EDC troops and captured Bumper. Jazz and Marissa managed to escape to a garage, where they found a veritable abbatoir of human and bovine remains. The Insecticons tracked them down, forcing them to flee into a subterranean egg chamber, which Jazz promptly torched. This prompted an attack from an enraged Shrapnel, but Sideswipe and Sunstreaker managed to cover Jazz and Marissa's escape back to the surface. Once there, they were confronted with more Insecticon clones and the cerebro-shell-controlled human citizens of San Desto. While the Autobots were unwilling to risk killing the helpless thralls, Marissa waded into the army with fists flying. Further bloodshed was prevented, however, when Bumper took out Bombshell, neutralizing both clones and slaves. Back at EDC headquarters, Marissa saw Jazz and the rest of the Autobots off.
As a result of Marissa and Jazz's shared battle experience, their strong mutual respect may have blossomed into a romantic attraction. This was outwardly obvious enough to inspire Sideswipe to refer to Marissa as Jazz's girlfriend.
Sometime later, Faireborne was chewed out by her superior over the loss of Night Force. Despite her objections, he ordered her to reactivate Project: Centurion.
Kiss-Play
Voice actor: Lyrian (Japan)
Marissa Faireborn is a 20 year old American woman. As a child, she was once rescued by Optimus Prime. Years later, she joined the EDC and discovered the unconscious body of Optimus. She kissed him, awakening the giant robot. Now they travel together, working on their as-yet-unclear agenda.
Marissa considers Optimus Prime to be her boyfriend, and shares her knife-wielding skills with him by kissing him. She is also a professional surfer.
Toys
Kiss-Play
- Convoy x Marissa (Kiss-Play, 2006)
- Available only as part of the headliner Kiss-Play set, Marissa's only toy is a soft-plastic PVC figurine designed to sit demurely on the robot-mode shoudler of her partner Convoy. Unlike the previous human-partner PVCs from the Binaltech Asterisk line, Marissa is completely pre-posed, and and can be used to "drive" the robot's vehicle mode, though her hands cannot go on the steering wheel. She comes with a surfboard (that she really can't use) that becomes a sword for Convoy. The set also comes with a CD containing episodes of the Kiss-Play radio drama as well as artwork from series illustrator and character designer Oshima Yuki.
- This set was originally intended for release in the Binaltech Asterisk line as "Black Convoy meets Marissa", but was cancelled due to low sales of the previous toys before it was even officially solicited. How much difference there is between the planned Asterisk version of Marissa and the final Kiss-Play version is currently unknown.
- (Note: At the time of this writing, this toy has not been released.)
