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Ten years of The Dude - Part Four: Mari Benson
🕑 Added 2025-08-08 02:37:54 +0000 UTCEvery girl group needs a sweetheart, and it's no difference for the cast of Lust Unleashed. In 2016, I had created Kayla, Yelena, Breanna, and Tatiana, which gave us two bimbo blondes and two black-haired vixens, each pair having one girl with a dick and one without. There was room to grow, and this was the same year that I made a new acquaintance in 3DX land who helped inspire the creation of LU's newest member at the time, Mari!
Some of you might remember that once upon a time, I would do article writing on Affect3D. I stopped doing that fairly early on in my career as a 3DX artist, but one of the articles I wrote caught the attention of Marie Fasolt. I specifically recall it being a stuff I'd written about why I loved bimbos and the colour pink, and there was something in there that spoke to her and lead her to contact me for a collab.
Marie Fasolt we know, of course, as a voice actor/writer for Girlfriends 4 Ever, as well as the same currently on Puppetmaster's projects and a myriad of other ones by a variety of A3D published folks.
We set out to concept the set that would eventually become All Our Secrets. Spoilers: it fell far short of her ambitions as well as mine, since in reality it was really just an image set and she had a far more narrative thing in mind and I was limited by technology as well as my skills in terms of what I could visualise. But nevertheless, we stayed in contact and are talking to this day!
The idea was the creation of a new pair of girls, both with cocks, who would fuck each other in front of an audience in a club setting. We wanted to really hit the voyeurism kink, but I ended up not really knowing how to render a crowd effectively without massively exploding render times. This was, after all, before smart denoising was a thing and renders would still take hours upon hours to crank out. The more people in a render, especially people in dim lighting, the more noise the image would have, the longer it would take to make it all go away.
One girl would be called Marcella. We're going to talk about her next. The other would be called Mari, in reference to Marie herself. The surname was one I had held on to since naming Breanna; recall that I named her after Breanne Benson.
After the release of All Our Secrets, 2017 was in full swing and I was moving on to my first big orgy set, ramping up slowly with The Urge to Explore where Mari raids Breanna's dressing room, adding Kayla who stumbles into Mari during The Desire to Submit, and then finally ending in The Bliss of Sin where Breanna and Tatiana join. Note that clearly none of this makes any sense in the current story. I had no idea who anyone was to anyone and the idea that Breanna and Tatiana were just hanging out at Breanna's place means I still had plenty of defining of these characters to do.
Mari has always hovered very close to a sissy fetish type of character. Where I created Marcella to be more self-assertive in how she develops as an individual, Mari from day one was designed to be extremely submissive and embracing of the fact that she's a sex toy made for other people's pleasure. I wanted to make extra sure that it was part of her character, that she enjoyed being this way, and didn't feel forced in any way.
Mari's life is about softness and femininity. Satins and silks. Bridalwear, veils, lacy lingerie, everything you think of. I've never quite gone all the way with it because I wasn't sure if I really wanted Mari to outright be a sissy. But you can definitely see in these earlier sets (and hell, even current ones) that there's a definite lean there.
I'm open to exploring this further, too, if you guys think that's interesting. Since, let's be honest, she's been on this trajectory ever since Pristine and later A Special Lady.
This was the first time that I had a real clear idea of where I wanted the relationship between Breanna and Mari to go. They were going to be girlfriends, with Mari being the submissive girly girl, and Breanna the bratty dominant type. Breanna had met Mari with Kayla's help, immediately fell in love, and decided to treat her new girlfriend to a special night of shopping at a Carter store. There, of course, she would re-acquaint with her college best friend, Taylor, who magically was also in Kayla's employ! Wow, it's almost like Kayla was mapping this all out on purpose to steer Breanna in a certain direction.
For years, Mari has sort of been in bridal limbo. As is maybe evident by the amount of times I've featured this veil in her renders :D It's honestly one of my favourite accessories and maybe became synonymous with Mari haha. It was very clear that the actual wedding needed to happen before I could move on with her as a character, so I think with current wedding set in progress, I'm gonna have the opportunity to do some cool new things with her.
For example, maybe Marcella invites her over to meet Nikki and Jessica? There's some stuff that we can do there!
There's so much I love about Mari. Her demure posture, her cute face, her big rounds tits, the way she deals with being a dickgirl, and the way she revels in all the sensations her body experiences without being outright lustful. Mari has a lot of buttons to push, but she's always waiting for someone to push them for her. Breanna is such a perfect match for her, but clearly Mari needs to get a chance to stand on her own two feet as well, just like Marcella.
Maybe it's time we get to know her a bit better. Maybe after the wedding, before she meets Nikki, we get to spend some time with her on her terms first. Wouldn't that be fun?
Let me know!
Comments
TheDude3DX
I'm gonna reply to this when I have a sec :P
TheDude3DX
That's more to do with the lighting than the hair itself. I rendered all those out on the boat. Breanna's hairshader is literally untouched for years now, so in an interior scene it should be more golden. Mari's hair shader is also a direct copy off the one she used in Imperium III in the foursome scene where I think it leans a bit more yellow too.
TheGreatCornholio
Just realized that both her and Breanna have almost completely white hair in the transparent shots. Breanna so far in the shots you've released seems to be more blonde than white. Are you going to keep Mari white?
TheGreatCornholio
I don't have a clear ranking, but I have to say I think Mari is almost my favorite character, especially now that she has a stronger connection to another girl. She is definitely the most submissive of your characters, and making that choice for a futa was a great one, since most creators just make their futas be overly dominating for no reason. Pairing her up with the "aggressive" normal girl Breanna was a great choice. Exactly not sure what you mean about her being a "sissy", but I definitely don't want to see her role in the story and sex scenes be further reduced to just being someone that gets stepped on and used by others. At least that's how I perceive the term sissy in this context. No issue with her getting penetrated by others (in fact I want all your futas to get more dildo and fisting action), but I don't want her to be reduced to just a play thing. You need to keep her as the girly-girl, demure, almost shy character she is. Always happy to have her wife (and other girls of course) entertain and take care of her. She's the one being moved by others, not doing the moving herself kind of thing, but not to the point that she becomes a servant/slave. Just a "lady" that now knows her worth, is eager to receive and give pleasure, but generally expects others to make the initial move and set the direction. A good character trait to add here would be that once her dick enters pussy or ass and she starts going some of that "shyness" goes away and she can pound like a best with the best of them. Once she cums the "sex fever" goes away and she's back to the beautiful demure doll she was before. I think all the girls need to be able to "work alone". All should be able to interact with all other characters at any time, and Mari definitely doesn't need to be hidden behind her wife or her creator Kayla. BUT I definitely think all girls should have their own "baseline" so to say. For Mari, taking into account her personality, that should be her marriage to Breanna who takes the lead on helping/protecting her, so I do expect that in a lot of scenes these two will come as a package. A second base characteristic, should be the fact that she is one of the only 2 clones (so far). So her interactions with Marcella should also be important to her. Some time ago you made a chart with the relationship between the girls and Mari and Marcella showed up as friends with benefits. I would really like to see more of this relationship, so Mari visiting Marcella and her "stable" of girls sounds great (though I think you should definitely grow and establish Marcella a little more before doing that - I will rant more on Marcella's post lol). Her interactions with Kayla would also be interesting, but so far you've steered away from stories with Kayla and Mari/Marcella.
