MarsFana

MarsFana is the het ship between Mars and Fana from the Black Clover fandom.

Canon
Mars is one of the Eight Shining Generals of the Diamond Kingdom. He was the product of his kingdom's human experimentation to enhance his magic and has several magic stones embedded in him. He was part of an experimental group with children and after being brainwashed when he won the final test, he became a cold and ruthless person. Fana is another one of those children from the experimental group but had been seemingly killed by Mars in the final test of the experiment. Unbeknownst to him, she managed to revive due to her magic and was taken to be experimented on. But they weren't satisfied with it and was left to die but she was saved by the elf Patri. However, he reincarnated an elf with the same name as her into her body. That elf, who was full of hatred, controlled her body for years and was part of the Eye of the Midnight Sun that sought to destroy the Clover Kingdom. As so, the 2 were childhood friends but ended up separating while Mars believed the other to be dead and Fana had no control of her body.

While the anime and manga generally have the story line when it comes to this ship, multiple things have been done differently. For one, the anime has a few scenes added and deleted, as well as the addition of the Petit Clover's. The manga is sometimes more clear on facial expressions (such as blushes). The anime has also handled some scenes differently, mainly how they showed Mars' flashbacks. This is why the anime and manga have different sections.

Manga
While fighting against Asta, Asta remarks that the Wizard King protects everyone. Mars then remembers a faceless girl telling him that they were born to protect the people of the country, which is actually Fana. Mars tries to attack again but is rendered unconscious by Asta. A bit later, Mars recovers by using the spell that was Fana's fire recovery spell. While recovering, Mars remembers Fana faceless again, telling him that she knows he'll become a great warrior. A different memory also appears of her apologizing and telling her that this is all she can do while using her fire magic. While fighting Asta a 2nd time and overpowers him, Mars remembers something else again. in this memory, he and Fana are standing in front of a window. She reveals that if they get strong enough to protect the country they get to go outside. Fana tells him he's lucky because she thinks he'll be the first to get out since he's the strongest. A blushing Mars tells Fana that when that happens, he'll wait until she gets out as well. Fana then smiles while blushing and her face becomes clear when she tells him that they'll go see the outside world together. A different memory starts of the final test they have to go through to become the warrior that protects the country. They are told to kill each other and if they don't, they'll all be killed. Fana attacks Mars while apologizing and tells him to die. This causes Mars to be forced to land a fatal blow on her and Mars screams afterwards. The memory reveals that after the test, Mars got magic stones planted in him as well as a grimoire of his and Fana's abilities. A close up of Mars' grimoire is shown in the present, which is a patchwork of his and Fana's. Mars then mumbles that the weak die and the strong survive. Mars get angry when he sees Mimosa healing Noelle and tries to kill them. The cover page of chapter 21 shows Fana and Mars holding hands as kids. While Mars is unconscious after Sylph knocks him out, Mars remembers after he landed the killing blow on Fana. He kneels beside her and looks up to the sky. He screams while asking why. Suddenly, Fana holds his cheek and heals him. She reveals that Mars wouldn't have killed her if she didn't try to attack him. She says that he is the strongest to is the most likely to survive. While dying she smiles and requests him to see the outside world for her. Mars then wakes up and sees the landscape. He is revealed to have remembered everything and when recalling Fana's last words, he thanks Lotus for saving his life.

Both the Diamond Kingdom's forces and the Eye of the Midnight Sun's forces attack the Witches' forest at the same time from opposite sides. The elf Fana leads those of the Eye of the Midnight Sun, while Mars and Ladros, who are both Eight Shining Generals, lead those of the Diamond Kingdom. While Asta fights Fana she uses Mars' mineral magic multiple times and later the same recovery spell Mars did in his fight against Asta. Asta recognizes it and asks if she has a brother who has spiky hair and a pale face. He informs her that he's on the other side of the forest, but Fana denies knowing anyone like that. In the meanwhile, the Diamond Kingdom fights Mars, Fana and Ladros' old teacher who ran away from the Diamond Kingdom before the final test. Mars decides to protect his teacher however and "betrays" the Diamond Kingdom. He and his teacher decide to try to defeat Ladros with Asta's anti-magic and push him to the other side of the forest. Asta is still fighting Fana and while also going to the other side of the forest, Mars recognizes the magic from Fana. While standing in front of Fana he realizes that her flames are the same as his.

When Fana looks up, Mars freezes and utters Fana's name. He remembers when after training, he cried a bit and Fana comes up and asks if the training hurt. Mars denies this and tries to wipe his tears away. Fana tells him he doesn't have to pretend in front of them. She smiles and says that they should think of people they like when things are hard since they were born to protect the people they like in this country. Mars faces her and agrees while smiling as well. He reveals that the first face he thought of, was Fana. The memory goes to the memory when Fana uttered her final words with a smile but while crying. He screams her name and bows over her body after she dies. Mars thinks that he killed her with his own hands during the final drill and afterwards he was brainwashed by the mage scholar Morris. He was modified and was made to fight with a grimoire that had her power in it as well but after fighting Asta, he regained his memories. He reveals that since then, he's been secretly saving lives in order to make amends to Fana. He also reveals that Morris is controlling the Diamond Kingdom from the shadows and it isn't the country that Fana loved. However he throws those thought away because Fana somehow being alive is much more important. He screams her name and runs towards her, but is stopped by Asta. Mars screams that it's him and asks if she recognizes him. Fana's body's visibly reacts, but since the elf is still in control of the body, she says that she doesn't know him and attacks. Fana however is visibly shaken by his appearance and gets angry. Mars refuses to block her attack. His teacher tells him to block it, but he says that he has no right to block it because he killed her. Asta scolds him and asks if she's not just a look-a-like. Mars gets angry at that and grabs Asta by the collar. He yells that he would never mistake anyone for Fana because she is his precious childhood friend. Although he does pause a bit before saying childhood friend after saying that she's precious to him. Asta scolds him again. He tells him that it's not the time for him to die and that he should live and save her for real. Mars calms down at this and apologizes while admitting that Asta is right. Before preparing for combat, Mars yells that this time, he won't let anyone die. When him and Asta charge, Fana let's out an insane amount of heat, but Mars uses recovery magic on them. Asta asks if Mars is okay, but Mars says he is because this pain can't compare to Fana's. Asta notes that Mars is completely different form when he first fought him and that he didn't know that he had such warm feelings. He notices Mars' steadfast determination to save Fana. Mars' body starts sizzling but he desperately tries to reach Fana. Asta cuts Fana's attack but Fana starts to attack again. However, Mars charges forward and hugs her. He yells that it's him and repeats. He yells that he's really, truly sorry that he didn't have the strength to fight alongside her and begs her to forgive him. The elf Fana and the human Fana's memories clash. Human Fana's memories consist of when Mars told her to not push herself to hard because she's a girl and when Mars told her that he would wait for her to come outside as well. She screams and Mars continues yelling that they met in the outside world but haven't begun yet. Mars continues holding her and says: "Let's go see the world together!". Fana stops using her magic. Mars pulls pack from the hug and looks at her face, seeing her 3rd eye disappearing which means human Fana has taken back control of her body. Fana smiles and says that it's a promise then and calls him by his name. Mars starts shaking and crying. He smiles with tears overflowing: "Oh... Fana...!". They 2 embrace again, with Fana reciprocating. The 2 turn to their allies with Mars still holding Fana. Mars thanks Asta for making this happen, who denies this and says that it was all him saving his childhood friend. Fana asks if Asta is his friend and is happy to see that Mars made a friend in the outside world. Mars says that friend isn't really the word, although Asta says that they're friends now. They get hugged by their former teacher. Fana explains what she remembers and Mars is frustrated that he didn't know that she was going through all of that. Fana tells him that he doesn't need to feel bad about anything, after all they met again. Mars squeezes her and says that he'll never let her go no matter what. Fana turns away with a blush and says they should stay together forever. Mars also blushes and agrees while stuttering. The others take notice of this and interpret it as romantic feelings on both sides. Ladros suddenly attacks who sends the large magic attack from Salamander who was the familiar of (elf) Fana back tot he other. Mars is revealed to have protected Fana from getting hurt with his magic. He is laying over her, shaking and it is shown that he was hurt by a blast. They get saved by Asta when Ladros tries to attack them again. Mars can't hold himself up anymore and collapses onto Fana. Fana tries to heal him but she's unable to use magic. While Ladros talks about how he's going to use Mars and Fana to put himself ahead, it is shown that Fana is kneeling beside Mars and holding him.

Ladros manages to escape from Asta and grabs Fana. He tells her to bring the large magic attack she did at first out, but Fana doesn't remember. Ladros hit Mars with a magic bullet and tells her she'll kill him if she doesn't. Fana yells at him to stop and the Salamander reacts and hits Ladros. He absorbs the attack however and Fana is revealed to have collapsed onto Mars. Asta tries to up Fana and Mars so they can use recovery magic on everyone. They're alive but won't wake up. After the Witch Queen admits defeat, Mars is seen laying on the ground and holding Fana's shoulder, who's kneeling and hovering over him. When everything is over, a changed Ladros and Mars decide to return to the Diamond Kingdom to remake the Diamond Kingdom into a peaceful nation while Fana stays with their teacher. Mars apologizes to Mars and asks her to wait until he changed the country. He swears he'll make it into something she can return to. Fana blushes and hugs Mars. She smiles and tells him she'll wait forever and that once the Diamond Kingdom is peaceful, they'll go see the world together. The 2 of them are blushing. When she pulls away, the 2 of them are blushy and bashful. The others once again notice the romantic tension between them.

Anime
In the 2nd OP, Fana healing Mars after the final drill is shown in the opening and afterwards, Mars healing himself in the dungeon with Fana's magic. The lyrics: "I'm looking for the reason I'm alive" play during these moments.

While Asta and Yuno are arguing, Mars suddenly gets a flashback of Fana smiling at him and he grips his head. When hearing about Asta's dream to become Wizard King, Mars gets another memory of Fana asking him what he wants to be when he grows up. Mars then declares to Asta that he'll just destroy everything. Asta replies that the Wizard King is someone who protects everyone. Mars remembers when Fana told him that they were born to protect everyone in the country. Later, after using Fana's recovery magic on himself, he manages to fight again. He remembers when Fana told him that she's sure Mars will be a great warrior. In a different memory, she apologizes but explains that she has no other choice and asks him to die. After hearing Asta getting angry on behalf of his friend, Mars remembers Fana calling his name and he starts repeating that the strong will survive and the weak will die. While preparing to attack Mimosa and Noelle, he remembers when Fana attacked him and he defended, which led to his attack piercing through Fana's stomach. After Mimosa tries to heal Asta, she tells him he's not alone. This causes Mars to have another memory, the first one where everything isn't looking red and where Fana's face is clear to see. She asks Mars', who has tears in his eyes, if the training is painful. He scrubs the tears in his eyes away and turns towards her. Fana tells him to remember the faces of those he loves when things get rough, since they were born to protect the people of the kingdom that they love so much. Mars looks surprised as Fana smiles and the 2 end up smiling at each other. A different memory starts, of when Fana says that they'll be able to go outside once they're strong enough to protect the country. She tells Mars that he'll probably the first to make it out because he's the strongest of them and tells him he's lucky. Mars smiles and tells her that he will wait until she gets out too when that happens. Fana agrees and tells him they will see the outside world together. Mars and Fana smile at each other. A different memory starts of when someone who conducts the experiments tell them they need to kill each other otherwise they will all be killed and the survivor will go outside to protect the country. They end up doing as instructed and when Fana and Mars are left, Fana apologizes and Mars utters her name. Fana tells him that she's got no other choice and asks him to die. She goes to attack him and he tries to defend himself, causing his attack to go through Fana's stomach. As he looks at her, impaled from his attack, he starts breathing heavier and ends up screaming out of agony. Afterwards, Mars is kneeling next to Fana's body. The ones leading the final drill say they should implant Mars with magic stones and give him Fana's powers too since she's the last one he killed, which is how Mars' grimoire ended up as a patchwork In the present, Mars says that he's fine alone since he has strong magic. After getting knocked out from Yuno's magic, Mars remembers the moment he killed Fana again but this time also afterwards. He is kneeling next to Fana's body and looking up to the ceiling, asking why. Fana suddenly sits up and puts her hand on his cheek, using her recovery magic to heal his wounds. Fana explains that if she didn't try to attack him, he wouldn't have done this. Mars closes his eyes and cries, with his tears ending up on Fana's face. She collapses again as she's dying and Mars yells out her name, kneeling over her body. When Mars wakes up, he is flying using one of his fellow Diamond Kingdom mage's magic. He looks at the sunset and realizes he remembers everything. He also remembers Fana telling him to go see the outside world, for her as well. He looks to the sunset and thanks the one who saved him.

In OP 5 V1, a scene comes up with Fana as a child before a close up of a wide eyed Mars shows up with Fana healing him before she dies is showing on his skin, then the memory fades into the elf Fana. In a different scene Mars and Fana are there as children. Mars grabs Fana's hand and they hold hands. In the other versions of the OP (V2 & V3), Fana yelling while crying as she is surrounded by flames is shown before Mars shows up, also yelling and desperately reaching for her. The same hand holding scene as in V1 is in the other versions as well. Both the Diamond Kingdom's forces and the Eye of the Midnight Sun's forces attack the Witches' forest at the same time from opposite sides. The elf Fana leads those of the Eye of the Midnight Sun, while Mars and Ladros, who are both Eight Shining Generals, lead those of the Diamond Kingdom. While Asta fights Fana she uses Mars' mineral magic multiple times and later the same recovery spell Mars did in his fight against Asta. A close up of Fana's grimoire is shown, which is a patchwork of hers and Mars' just like Mars' grimoire. Asta recognizes the spells and asks if she has a brother who has spiky hair and a pale face. Fana remembers when her and Mars were standing in front of a window and a close up of Mars' face, but his face and body is darkened. Asta informs her that he's on the other side of the forest right now. Although her eyes and eyebrows are shaking, she denies knowing anyone like that. Later, Mars and their old teacher Fanzell Kruger arrive at where Asta and the other Black Bulls are fighting. Mars recognizes the magic, but as he looks at Fana, he becomes shocked. He utters out her name and he remembers a memory of them. After training, Mars has tears in his eyes and Fana asks if the training was rough. Mars denies this and Fana tells him that when things are rough, they should remember the faces of those they love since they are born to protect the people of this kingdom that they love so much. Mars smiles at her and thinks that the first face that popped up in his immediately was hers. The 2 smile at each other in the memory. As he looks at elf Fana, he remembers a different memory, of when they were looking outside and Fana tells him that he's lucky that he's probably going to be the first one of them to be able to go outside since he's the strongest. Mars told her that he would wait until she gets out to then, to which Fana agrees and she tells him they can go and see the outside world together. The 2 smile at each other. He then remembers the moment he thought he killed her and thinks about how he thought that he killed her with his own 2 hands, but Fana is somehow alive. He screams Fana's name. Mars tries to run towards Fana, but is stopped by Asta. He tries to tell her that it's him and asks if she doesn't recognize her. She grips her head and Mars yells and repeats her name over and over again, trying to desperately reach her. Fana seems shaken but says that she doesn't know him and attacks. Mars takes the attack head on without defense. Fana has some sort of headache but attacks. Mars takes Fana's attacks without blocking. When told by his teacher he should block it, he explains that he has no right to block it because he killed Fana. However, he gets berated by Asta and he asks if he's just not mistaken her for someone else. Mars seems to be angry by that and grips Asta's collar, telling him that there's no way he would mistake Fana and she's his precious childhood friend. After he hears Asta tell him to live and save her, Mars admits that he's right. While preparing to stop Fana, Mars declares that back then, he ended up killing Fana as he remembers the memory, but this time he won't be letting anyone die. The 2 charge at a self-destructing Fana. When Asta asks Mars if he's alright, he says he is because this pain can't even compare to Fana's. Asta notices how different Mars is from when he first fought him, he didn't know that Mars had such warm feelings. He thinks that Mars is undestructable with his enormous polished power and unbreakable determination to save someone. The 2 continue forward while getting more burned, they try to reach Fana before she blows up. Just before she does, Mars yells out Fana's name and Asta cuts through her magic. Before she can attack again, Mars hugs her. He tells her that it's him and says that he's really, truly sorry that he didn't have the strength to fight alongside her back then. He begs her to forgive him. She remembers memories of Mars, of when he told her she shouldn't push herself too hard because she's a girl. The other memory is of when a blushing Mars told her that he would wait until she would also get out. Then she remembers the elves' massacre and she screams. Mars continues by saying that they've met in the outside world, but nothing is started get. A memory of Fana telling him they can go see the outside world together pops up and Mars tells her the same thing while hugging her closer, that they should go see the world together. Mars pulls back when Fana's flames go out and her 3rd eye disappears. The human Fana has taken over control of her body again and previously darkened sky becomes bright again. Fana smiles and tells him that it's a promise. Mars trembles and starts crying. He smiles and agrees. She is surprised at his tears and questioningly says his name. He starts hugging her again while crying and Fana reciprocates with a smile after a moment. A memory of Fana and Mars smiling and holding hands as they run together through a field is shown at the end of the episode. In the Petit Clover of episode 61, which are humorous shorts that are shown at the end of every episode, a smiling Fana asks Mars what happened after he defeated her. The words hit Mars hard, as if he was stabbed by his own knifes made of his magic. He looks sad as he apologizes for defeating her. Mars then shows off his grimoire and Fana notices that half of it is hers. Mars smiles as he explains that it's a grimoire that has her powers in it so he can feel her all the time. Fana tells him that it's a little scary with a smile. These words hit Mars even harder, again like he was stabbed by his own knives. He explains that the mage scholar Morris made it and he was brainwashed by him so he modified his body and only did as he was told. He explains that he regained his memories after fighting with Asta and since then, he has been secretly saving lives between missions as his way of atoning to her. He asks while smiling that it means that he's a good boy. Fana smiles and agrees that he is good boy, while patting him on the head, which Mars is really happy with. Then she says that he's a good boy despite defeating her and Mars gets hit by those words like he was stabbed from multiple angles by his knives.

After Mars and Fana break apart, Mars and Asta talk and Fana asks if Asta is Mars' friend. She's happy that he made a friend in the outside world. Mars tries to deny it, but Asta confirms and he pats Mars on the bicep. Mars hardens it which causes Asta to pull away because it's hard and Fana giggles. A bit later, Fana explains that she barely remembers anything and that she felt like she was being controlled. Mars seems frustrated with himself that she went through all that and he had no idea. She tells him that he doesn't need to feel bad about anything because they were able to meet again. Mars grips her shoulders and tells her that he won't ever let her go again. A flustered Fana agrees and tells him that they should stay together forever. Mars stutters as he agrees. The others notice the romantic atmosphere and Vanessa points out how much Mars stiffened up. Finral cries in jealousy. Ladros suddenly attacks when they thought they'd defeated him. Mars protects Fana from the blast and afterwards, it is shown that he's leaning over Fana who's on the ground and barely managed to protect himself with his magic. Fana stutters out Mars' name. They nearly get attacked again but Asta protects them. Mars ends up collapsing on Fana, who holds him. She tries to use her recovery magic, but is unable to cast anything. As Ladros talks, it is shown that Fana is kneeling next to passed out Mars and is still holding him. Ladros manages to escape from Asta and holds Fana. He tells her to bring out the huge magic from before out, but Fana has no idea what he means. Ladros attacks Mars with his magic and Fana yells out Mars' name. Ladros tells her that he will kill him if she doesn't and she yells at him to stop, to which the Salamander seems to react to. Ladros manages to absorb it and Fana passes out on top of Mars. After Asta defeats Ladros, he tries to wake up Mars and Fana so they can use their recovery spells. It doesn't seem to work but has confirmed they're alive. Fana suddenly apologizes and asks Mars if she's too heavy, but Mars denies this. He says that she's actually kind of warm so it feels nice. They ignore Asta and Fana says in response: "Oh, Mars...". When everything is over and the Queen of Witches heals everyone, Fana and Mars hold hands and smile at each other. Dominante Code, who's Franzell Kruger's wife and formerly worked for the Diamond Kingdom's army, teases Mars about it. After Mars and Ladros prepare to leave to remake the Diamond Kingdom and Fana decides to stay with Fanzell, his wife and his student, they prepare to say goodbye. They tell Mars that they'll take care of Fana. Mars apologizes and asks her to wait until he's changed they country. He swears he'll make the Diamond Kingdom the sort of place she can return to, which makes Fana emotional. She suddenly hugs Mars and smiles with a blush as she says that she'll wait as long as it takes. She says that they can go see the world together once the Diamond Kingdom is peaceful. Mars blushes and smiles as well when he agrees. The others take not of the romance and Finral cries out of jealousy.

Fana and Mars were already very close as children, but have seemed to develop romantic feelings for each other as they meet again as adults. They care about each other more than anyone else. Fana's love for Mars was enough to take over her body again from the elf, which if a feat that very little people achieved even when quite a lot of Magic Knights got their bodies taken over by elves. Meanwhile Mars carried an enormous amount of guilt for killing Fana and was willing to do anything to save her. He also cried when she came back to herself, as well as when she died in the anime, while he's known to be a very stoic person. They have promised each other to explore the world together.

Fanon
The 2 of them are considered a rare-pair. While a lot of Black Clover fans acknowledge them as canon and think fondly of them, they are side characters that haven't shown up for a long time in the story. They aren't terrible popular characters either as both have ranked below 50 in the later popularity polls. This lack of popularity means there isn't much fan-made content for them. Even so, a lot of fans like them and the relationship they have with each other.

They are the most popular ship for both characters without any real competition. Although they do have a small amount of fanfictions and artworks. Their rare-pair status also causes the 2 to not have a ship name that most people use. While some people use FanaMars or MarsFana (or have suggested Mana), most people just use some variation of Mars x Fana.

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Trivia

 * On his character profile, Mars' likes are revealed, which says that the only thing he likes is Fana.
 * On her character profile, Fana's likes are revealed, which says that her likes are Mars and sunlight.
 * Chapter 93/Volume 11 has an illustration from Mars and Fana as children. They are holding hands and smiling as they run outside.
 * The 2 of them are both 19.
 * They both have a stitched up grimoire that are made from both their grimoires.