Marina Tendouji

Marina Tendouji (まりな) is a minor antagonist in the Oshi no Ko manga series. She is the mother of Sarina Tendouji, Ruby Hoshino's past life, whom she neglected.

Appearance
Being in her 50s, Marina's age shows through the multiple wrinkles she has on her face. She has curly-brown hair and is of average stature.

Personality
Marina is a sociable woman who enjoys going out with her co-workers, admitting to having something of a drinking problem. She also deeply loves her family, especially her children, caring greatly about their health.

However, because of her cheerful nature, she struggles to handle grief. The Crow Girl stated that her "heart broke" when her first-born daughter was diagnozed with a terminal illness. As a result, she chose cope by ignoring reality, minizing her contact with her daughter so she would not feel sad when she was gone. However, according to the Crow Girl, Marina seemed to regret how she treated her daughter upon learning of her death, though she was able to move past the tragedy.

Background
Marina used to be a figure skater. At some point, she got married and had a child named Sarina Tendouji. She greatly loved her daughter, but when Sarina was 4 years old, the girl was serious ill and couldn't live long. Marina was really depressed about that, so her husband separated her from her daughter and sent their daughter to the finest hospital in the area. They concentrated on their work to evade their sadness, and eventually looked away from Sarina. In the end, Sarina passed away without seeing her mother again; Marina gradually overcame this and gave birth to a new daughter and son, and now she is having a happy life with her family. She is working for an advertising company, which has the collaboration with the project 15 Year Lie.

Sarina Tendouji
Marina used to love Sarina very much, but she couldn't deal with her daughter's terminal illness, so she decided to avoid Sarina as much as possible to forget cruel reality.

Etymology

 * The name Marina is written in hiragana (まりな), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (真里奈), it could possibly mean "real, genuine" (真) (ma), "village" (里) (ri) and "apple tree" (奈) (na).
 * Marina's surname Tendouji means "cherub, gods disguised as children, children parading as cherubs" (天童) (tendou) and "temple" (寺) (ji).