Family
When abducted by the Quintessons in the animated series episode, "The Killing Jar", Marissa is duped by a hologram of her father—Commander Faireborn. For a long time, fans have suspected the G.I. Joe character Flint (Real Name: Dashiell R. Faireborn) as being Marissa's father. He is never actually identified by name in the episode, but aside from the obvious connection of sharing a last name, he is voiced by the same actor, Bill Ratner, and is visually designed to look like an aged version of the character. Consequently, it is theorised that Marissa's mother could be Flint's paramour, Lady Jaye. The 20th Anniversary edition DVD of The Transformers: The Movie provides a commentary that confirms this fact—Sunbow's writers had indeed always imagined her as the daughter of the two G.I. Joe characters.
In the Dreamwave comics, the connection between Flint and Marissa is not so cleanly drawn—the G1 comics instead make reference to her grandfather, Nathaniel Faireborn, who established the EDC. Then, in the second Transformers vs. G.I. Joe miniseries—which, it is important to note, is not set in the same continuity as the G1 series—a relative of Flint's is cited, named Nathaniel, although it is never stated that he is his father. Though this could just be because Flint is a G.I. Joe character, and that property is handled by Devil's Due.
The season 3 episodes are set in 2006 and Captain Faireborn is at least 20 years old requiring her to have been born no later than 1986. As Flint and Lady Jaye were not an official couple in the 1986 season the actual truth of this parentage is highly doubted.
IDW Comics has recently acquired the license to G.I. Joe and already publishes Transformers, so perhaps some closure may eventually be reached on this matter.
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