Shotgun Mary/Sister Shannon

Shotgun Mary/Sister Shannon is a femslash pairing in the Warrior Nun fandom. While technically unconfirmed by canon, many fans felt there was a lot of subtext to suggest that there was a past relationship between the pairing, including deliberate parallels between the Mary/Shannon pairing and the canonical Ava/Beatrice pairing. Fans of the pairing often took the moments of subtext and flashbacks within the show and expanded them in fanfiction.
==Canon==
While Shotgun Mary was a main character throughout season one, Sister Shannon's role played out primarily in flashbacks due to the character dying in the opening act of the first episode. Many of Shannon's appearances after her brief, present-day, appearance on screen were connected to Mary and her memories of Shannon, though some would later be connected to Mother Superion.
Throughout season one, one of Mary's story arcs is her processing her grief over losing Shannon as she tries to convince and support Ava to accept her role as the new Warrior Nun. Additionally, when Toya Turner was unable to reprise her role as Mary in season two, her dialogue was redistributed to other characters, and fans suspected that a line spoken by Sister Camila, "It’s easy to fall in love with a Warrior Nun. It’s loving the Warrior Nun that’s the hard part. They’re never yours. They never last", was originally intended to be Mary's, all but confirming that she had been in love with Shannon. Later, during Twitter Q&As, both Kristina Tonteri-Young and Toya Turner confirmed the line was originally Shotgun Mary'syou are who you pretend to be and in the replies of tiredwriter888's post both at Tumblr [Original Twitter Sources would be appreciated if available].
While the original comics bear little resemblance to the Netflix series, Shotgun Mary's character in the comic books was canonically a lesbianWikipedia Article, Warrior Nun Areala Characters (Accessed 18 March 2024), which some fans felt was another small piece of confirmation that Mary in the show was in love with Shannon even if her feelings weren't returned.
==Fandom==
After season one, a number of fans began to discuss in social media spaces whether other fans also felt that the show was leaving implications that Mary and Shannon were romantically involved in some way. 
On Archive of Our Own, Shotgun Mary/Sister Shannon are tagged in 327 works as of March 2024, with 26 of being 'otp:true'. 
==Common Tropes in Fanworks==
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*Alternate Universe - AUs are popular within the Warrior Nun fandom generally, and many include Mary and Shannon in a relationship without the tragic events of canon appearing.
*Pre-Canon - Similarly, for canon compatible or compliant works, other fans create works set prior to the season one events to explore Mary and Shannon's relationship.
*Angst and Grief - For fanworks based during or after the events of the Netflix series, many focus on Mary's grief about losing Shannon.
==Example Fanworks==
===Fanfic===
====Canon Compliant, Compatible or Divergent====
*but the sun - it kept on rising by birgittesilverbae - A grief-focused Mary-centric one-shot.
*all the glory that the lord has made and the complications you could do without by lesbians_and_puns - A pre-canon Shannon POV one-shot leading up to the canon events of season one.
====Alternate Universes====
*though you dreamed a wealth of flowers by daisychiansandbowties - A Star Wars AU with Mary and Shannon as Jedi Knights
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===Fanart===
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===Other Fanworks===
* GIF set - by julianavalds - Parallels between Mary/Shannon and Ava/Beatrice.
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==Archives and Communities==
*Shotgun Mary/Sister Shannon tag on AO3
==Other Fannish Resources==
(Rec Lists, Big Bangs, Thing-a-thons, Holiday Exchanges, wiki links, etc.)
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==References==
Category:Warrior Nun
Category:Femslash Pairings
Category:Interracial Pairings