Margaret Burton

Margaret Burton, also known as Secondari no Shoujo, is the main deuteragonist from the Madlax series.
== Charactah Account ==
Margaret is a clumsy, absent-minded 19-year-old girl who attends an elite college for aristocratic families' children in Nafrece. Her memories of her own life are limited to its last twelve years, the word "Madlax", and vague recollections of something important connected to an unusual "picture book" she possesses.
Margaret is generally a kind person, faithful to those she loves, often very absent-minded, and absorbed in her own thoughts. As we see from episode 2 and episode 6, she frequently sleeps in class or stares out the window. She also experiences vivid dreams, flashbacks, and hallucinations that make her seem "out of it." The strange and colorful dreams easily trouble her. In episode 2, Margaret zones out while at the dinner table and suddenly remembers a flashback; while it's happening, she's completely unaware of reality around her. She sometimes says things that don't make much sense, like saying she can't stay at school because it's going to rain, or that she feels like Vanessa is right beside her when in reality she's in another country. When she returned from being missing twelve years ago, Margaret lost more than just her memories. She forgot how to talk and communicate, again showing a tendency to mentally dissociate easily. Because Margaret so readily loses touch with reality, she quickly falls under Friday Monday's mind control in episodes 23 to 25.
Sometimes, Margaret believes in the goodness of others when there is no real reason to think so. For instance, in episode 4, Margaret remains convinced that her senpai Anne was a kind person, even though she ended up killing her own father. In episode 8, Margaret keeps believing in the goodness of Eric Gillan, even though he doesn't contact her about the book she requested. When he finally sends a letter saying how he won't be able to find the book, Margaret can tell he was crying when he wrote the letter, and doesn't think of him as a swindler, which is what Eleanor called him. Even though she had every right to be suspicious of such a powerful and cunning man, Margaret warms up to Carossur Don quickly in episode 13 and continues spending time with him even after finding out he was originally going to take Secondary from her by force. In episode 20, Margaret is insistent that Madlax isn't some cold-hearted war machine, but rather, "a kind killer." Even in the final episode, she says she believes Madlax is in deep emotional pain every time she has to kill people, and she could never enjoy it. The facts say otherwise, but Margaret holds to her beliefs.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Madlax
== Trivia ==
* Margaret's full stats, according to Enfant, are shown in Episode 20. From this screencap, her info is as followed:
** Margaret's birthday is July 16, 1992
** Margaret's age in the series is 19.
** Margaret's around 158 cm in height, making her 5 feet.
** Margaret weighs 45 kg, making her 99 lb.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Margaret Burton at Madlax Wiki
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Category:Females
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