Designed this bad girl for what has to be my favorite character design schoolwork of the year! I basically had to make several varied concepts of male/female cyberpunk "gladiators" (God did I enjoy this part) and then pick one and develop it.
The setting is a pretty close future with lots of pollution, short life expectancy and extreme social hierarchy, where fighting in the arena is a popular life choice for low-class people. The rules are: no cyborgs and only close combat weapons allowed.
Maria aka Bloody Mary is a former boxer with a ruined career and a breast cancer that didn't heal, who puts rage and hatred in every one of her blows and uses to beat her opponents up to death and beyond.