Marie Moreau

Marie Moreau is the main protagonist of the 2023 Amazon series , a spin-off of the series .
She is a young woman who, like many others, was injected with Compound V at birth, granting her powers of blood manipulation. Having accidentally killed her parents on the very day her power first awakened, Marie remained at Red River Institute for eight years until she was accepted into Godolkin University, gaining the chance to atone for her tragic past and reunite with her little sister, only for things to go wrong shortly after her arrival.
She is played by .
==Physical appearance==
Marie is an eighteen year old black girl with brown eyes, very long hair styled in a braid reaching down to her stomach, of average height, with a slightly stocky stature and broad shoulders.
Marie's clothing style usually consists of a dark-colored leather jacket and blue or black jeans. She wears rings on her left fingers and sometimes wears a necklace around her neck
==Personality==
When she was younger, Marie was a very happy girl, extremely attached to her little sister Annabeth, whom she loved to gently tease, while remaining very detached from media events like her parents. At the first manifestation of her powers, she panicked to the point of jumping and then was horrified after accidentally severing her mother's carotid artery with a blood projectile. Her emotional state worsened severely as her father frantically asked what happened, causing Marie to scream in distress, causing the blood explosion that killed her father. What followed was a deep inner devastation when Marie saw Annabeth's fear-filled look towards her.
Years later, Marie is cynical, hating herself, defeatist, desperate and aspires to join the Seven to become a true heroine but above all with the intention of seeing Annabeth again, while suffering from post-traumatic stress since the death of her parents who manifests itself when she uses her powers which she deeply hates despite having accepted them as part of her. Her more positive side only comes to light following her admission to Godolkin, combined with the pleasure of being surrounded by people like her, although she is not open to all their hobbies. Socially friendly, she quickly becomes friends with Emma but remains shy about hanging out with popular students.
Internally, she harbors a deep aversion to brutal, cruel, unfair and hypocritical treatment as shown when Jordan Li rejected her application for crime fighting classes, angering Marie and rejecting Jordan's right to make this decision, Brinkerhoff planning to have her expelled just to cover up the popular blunders, something she would only later have the courage to confront him for his hypocrisy. Following Golden Boy's attempt on her life, Marie showed more assertiveness, not giving in when Andre Anderson chastised her for praise she apparently didn't deserve and she called him out for favoritism which he owns, just as she later dismissed Jordan's complaint, stating that she owed them nothing at all.
Despite her withdrawal, Marie is truly a kind person who tries to do good by saving lives if she can. Shortly after the skirmish in her friendship with Emma Meyer, she was delighted that Emma became her friend again, showing that she cares a lot about her. Despite Indira Shetty's involvement in a plan to kill all the Supes, Marie wanted to save her life as Shetty died from her fatal injuries and was especially disgusted that Cate stopped her from helping her. She would finally overcome her parents' deaths as well as disgust with her powers when she saved Jordan from being killed by Woods escapees, allowing her to embrace the greater potential of bloodbending.
Like most characters, Marie can be very naive about Vought international as well as reality in general. As the series progresses, she slowly realizes that Vought and everything affiliated with it is nothing but corruption. Initially, Marie had almost blind trust in Victoria Neuman due to their similar powers and their lives in Red River but the way Neuman encouraged Marie to join her left Marie quite confused. Before Homelander attacked her following the final confrontation at Godolkin, Marie was already not very reassured by his presence.
==Powers== 
*Blood Manipulation: Due to being injected with Compound V as an infant, Marie has the ability to mentally control blood, both her own and that of another individual. The blood she controls can become extremely hard, capable of tiring human flesh. She can also sense non-organic elements in the body, such as chips or Compound V. With enough concentration, she can make blood boil and then explode, like when she shattered Cate's left arm. By controlling the blood of others, it is possible for her to cauterize serious injuries such as a slit throat and stop the bleeding. Marie can also cause heart attacks if she focuses on them, mainly when she can see blood inside a body, an asset that helped her spot Maverick in his invisible form.
*Enhanced Healing: Marine has healing abilities superior to normal humans. Every time she cut her palms to gain access to her blood, her cuts healed very quickly afterwards.
*Superhuman Durability: Marie survived a violent impact into a wall and took a blow from a Supe with great superhuman strength without apparent injury. Homelander's laser vision also had no fatal effect on Marie, although the extent was never actually seen.
*Superhuman Strength: She managed to lift a large piece of metal as if it didn't weigh much and knock Maverick out with it.
==Biography==
In 2015, while living a simple life with her parents, Jackie and Malcolm watching A-Train's inclusion in The Seven on TV and playing with her little sister by taking pictures of her in goofy positions , Marie begins to feel bad because of the arrival of her first period and goes to the bathroom to remedy it. When the first drops of blood flow, Marie manifests her hemokinetic powers for the first time by indirectly levitating the blood into the air. She panicked, attracting her mother who forced the door open, only for Marie to uncontrollably create a blood projectile which she accidentally launched, severing her mother's carotid artery. Malcolm then arrives, horrified at the sight of his wife dying and his panic produces such pressure on Marie that she causes the blood spilled on the floor to explode, fatally piercing her father's body. Annabeth discovers with horror the corpses of her parents while her sister looks at her in distress.
In 2023, Marie is taken to Godolkin University, the opportunity she has been waiting for to finally leave Red River Institute after eight long years. Upon her arrival in Godolkin, she is quickly cheerful and stressed at the same time by her new environment and it does not take long to meet her roommate Emma Meyer, a Supe who has the power to change size. Emma takes him to the stadium where the other students regularly witness the power demonstrations of Godolkin's Top 5 star student, Luke Riordan aka Golden Boy. She then goes to the school of crimefighting after seeing that she was not listed there despite having registered there but Jordan Li, a student of the Top 5 with the power to take a male and female form, who takes care of reception informs her that her application was rejected due to lack of space, which makes Marie very angry with the Gender-Shifter for having made this decision. In the evening, she comes across a Supe boy being pursued by intervention forces and with Andre Anderson, another Top 5, she helps in his capture. Andre subsequently invites Marie to hang out with him and other Top 5s the following evening. Pushed by Emma to go, Marie also meets Luke in person as well as his girlfriend Cate Dunlap, while meeting Jordan again with whom tensions are still high. After a drugged Andre accidentally slits a girl's throat at a nightclub with a metal object, Marie is able to save her thanks to her blood manipulation while Luke, Andre, Cate and Jordan escape, event going viral.
Summoned the next day by professor of crimefighting Richard "Brink" Brinkerhoff, Marie first listens to Brink talk about the importance of sacrifice before he promptly announces that he will expel her to cover for Luke, Andre and Jordan so that they stay on the path to success in Godolkin by making her take responsibility for the accident with the girl yesterday and saying that she had only saved her to correct her mistake. Marie protests angrily, only for Brink to hypocritically invite her to perform the sacrifice while implying that he will expose Marie's past if she does not cooperate. Furious and devastated, Marie crouches in the corner to mope, thinking about her parents' deaths and Annabeth calling her a monster. Once she's let off steam, she refuses to accept that she's a monster and decides to confront Brink. Returning to Brink's office, she sees Luke having just burned Brink to death and flees when a crazed Luke announces that he intends to kill her. In the pursuit, Jordan intervenes to allow Marie to exit the building. Outside, Marie prepares to defend herself against the enraged Golden Boy but Andre is able to calm his best friend, only for Luke to commit suicide by exploding in the sky.
Vought then covers up the incident in a completely fabricated manner, stating that Andre and Marie had stopped Golden Boy. Marie subsequently moved to eighth place in the top 10, gaining massive popularity in Godolkin. While enjoying the pleasures of fame, she comes into conflict with Andre and Jordan respectively, the former for using Luke's death to gain fame and the latter for reaping undeserved honors, but she represses them for having almost being fired because of their slip-ups and refusing to take the slightest blame since she barely knows them and owes neither of them anything. At the same time, Marie is finally enrolled in anti-crime classes by Dean Indira Shetty with whom she becomes friends. Shortly before she participates in an interview with Hailey Miller, Marie intends to say that Jordan is the one who really confronted Luke after they asked them earlier but when Miller reveals that he contacted Annabeth by email to get her reaction to the On the air, Marie ends up turning away and follows the script for fear of not having any other way of speaking with her little sister.
A disagreement later arises between Marie and Emma after Justine Garcia is revealed in the media that Emma must vomit to shrink, Emma refusing that Marie takes pity on her for that. The following evening, Marie participates with Shetty in the Memorial Tribute Gala in honor of Brink, winning the sympathy of the guests by telling stories on Shetty's advice about her parents among other things. In the toilet, Marie runs into Emma again and the two end up becoming friends again after Emma helps her pee while holding her bulky evening dress. Following this, Marie falls apart again with a provocative Jordan who finally pushes her to talk about the death of her parents, her hatred of her powers and her impression of being nothing more than a freak in the eyes of others. Her confession leads Cate to befriend Marie by telling her how she used her powers at nine years old on her little brother and made him leave forever, especially telling Marie that their parents should be blamed for their having injected Compound V at birth. As Marie and Jordan begin to get along better, Andre rushes in to reveal to the trio that he may have risked Emma's life by having her infiltrate the mysterious clinic called The Woods.
When the search for Emma comes to nothing, the quartet gives up, albeit reluctantly, for Marie and Andre. The next day, Marie tries to get help from the telepathic scholar Rufus to contact Annabeth, only for Rufus to attempt to sexually abuse her. Jordan's intervention to save her causes Marie to accidentally explode Rufus' penis before he finishes his dirty work. Things then start to get tense again between Marie and Jordan due to their bad opinions of each other and their personalities changing from when they first met. During the intervention of the presenter of the detective series The Whole Truth, Tek Knight, Marie is questioned by this bootlicker from Vought and under the pressure of his powers of deduction and his arrogant attitude, she breaks down and admits that Jordan has really confronted Luke. Jordan is initially upset by Marie's outburst but the two eventually open up to each other, Marie about her compassion and Jordan about their insecurities, then Marie and Jordan in male form begin to kiss. Emma suddenly arrives in the middle of their romance and tells them that Sam, Luke's younger brother, is going to attack Dr. Cardosa, one of the Woods experimenters. 
Marie, Emma, Andre and Cate arrive at Cardosa's house in time to incapacitate Sam, only for Marie to suddenly wake up the next day with no memory of the last events in bed next to Jordan in female form, leaving her dismayed. The gang then suspects Rufus but ultimately discovers that it is the work of Cate who is in the pay of Shetty who is also involved in The Woods. Once everyone's memories are restored, Marie, Andre and Jordan find themselves briefly stuck in the memories of Cate having a telepathic seizure and then in their own memories respectively, forced to confront their worst past moments. The nightmare ends as soon as Cate comes out of her crisis, although the gang no longer trusts her.
With what they now know about Shetty, Marie decides to go talk to Victoria Neuman who is visiting Godolkin because she knows that Vought will bury the matter if it is publicly disclosed. Thanks to Jordan causing a fight between students, Marie enters the building where the public meeting is being held and meets Victoria who ironically hoped to meet her by coming to Godolkin. In private, Neuman reveals to Marie that she is secretly a Supe but above all that she has the same powers of blood manipulation, in addition to being the one who brought her into Godolkin due to a feeling of connection. When she tells her about the Virus affecting the Supes that Shetty plans to deploy, she is confused when Neuman declares that she will take care of it before insisting on helping, only for Neuman to advise her do not enter Vought's crosshairs and encouraging her to become the first black woman of the Seven so she can really make a difference and reunite with Annabeth.
The gang then decides to go confront Shetty but discover at home that Cate already has her under her control and makes her reveal that Godolkin is nothing other than a center for experimentation on Supes. She also reveals that she has hated the Supes since Homelander left his family to die on a plane, making her want to kill him more than anything. After the confession, Cate reaches the breaking point by forcing Shetty to cut her throat and psychologically blocking Marie from saving her. With Shetty's death, Cate and Sam free the subjects of The Woods, leaving Marie, Andre, Jordan and Emma behind after they refused to follow them in their madness.
Godolkin descends into chaos as the experimenters begin killing the humans on campus. Marie manages to activate Godolkin's security to lock the interior of the buildings in order to protect as many people as possible. Marie subsequently fails to make Cate, having completely lost her mind, listen to reason and manipulates Maverick to neutralize Marie. Thanks to a new mastery of her powers, she locates the invisible opponent through his blood and knocks him out. The carnage ends when Marie kills the last experimenters with her total bloodbending. Cate then sneakily tries to control Jordan but Marie blasts her arm before she touches them. Homelander then arrives after the battle, unfortunately not to help the real saviors. He scolds Marie for killing their kind before hitting her with his laser vision.
Marie later turns out to have survived, waking up in a strange doorless hospital room with Emma, Jordan and Andre, while Vought has the four take responsibility for the massacre at Godolkin while hypocritically making Cate and Sam look like heroes, probably on Homelander's orders.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Marie first made a cameo appearance in The Boys episode "The Only Man in the Sky", appearing as a profile in the Red River Institute database
*Marie serves as a good counterpart to Victoria Neuman. Both have blood-related powers, spent a time of their lives at Red River Institute which they hated. However, while Victoria is a Vought-thumbed scoundrel who shows no remorse in killing other people even to the extremist, Marie has a good heart and truly wants to do good.
*Marie is the second Supe after Starlight to have truly altruistic intentions, unlike most of the other Supes who are mostly corrupt and irresponsible. Unlike Starlight, Marie is motivated more by the desire to reunite with her sister than to help make Earth a better place.
*Unlike Victoria, Marie's eyes do not turn white when she uses her powers. Additionally, Marie seems to need to make grasping gestures to manipulate blood compared to Victoria who always does it mentally, but that may be because Marie hasn't experimented as much with her powers.
*She is briefly mentioned in the fourth season of The Boys, declared a fugitive with her friends, implying that their potential arrest is not officially known.
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