Marie (Persona 4)

**Marie** is a character who originates from *Persona 4 Golden*. Along with Margaret, she is one of Igor's assistants in the Velvet Room.

## Design

Marie has pale skin, chin-length brownish black hair and gray eyes (bright green in *P4GA*, *PQ* anime cutscene, *P4AU* artwork/gameplay, and P4D artwork).

She wears a sleeveless white shirt, a short black necktie with various safety pins and a checkered skirt along with a black belt and a fancy, golden buckle which resembles a heart with wings. Additionally, she has black-striped red fingerless gloves and black-striped white stockings. Her black long, dark gray heeled boots are checkered as well. She carries a deep blue bag, adorned with golden designs and matching her officer's cap with a golden button and a V gravure, most likely as a reference to the Velvet Room. She also wears a special red choker necklace with a lock, symbolizing a secret within Marie which the protagonist will have to unlock to find out what it is.

As Kusumi-no-Okami, she wears a red and white attire that includes a hood. Her left eye changes color, similar to Ameno-sagiri. She seems to be barefoot, retaining her red choker necklace with a lock.

In the True Ending epilogue, she wears a pair of black glasses, stud earrings, and a short necklace, with a white ruffled top and a black pinstriped blazer with a high collar.

## Personality

"That's why...! That's why I left! Because there's no point in seeing you...! We'll just hurt each other! ...It's okay. It's all okay. I've already made enough memories of my own... Fun... Happy... Memories... If you're not going to leave now, then I'll have to make you leave by force. Please, just understand..."
—Marie to the Investigation Team in the Hollow Forest
When Marie is first met, she seems to be a very cold and antisocial individual. She is sullen, cranky, sarcastic, irritable, very foul-mouthed and often prone to mood swings. She will not hesitate to voice out her opinion or express her thoughts, regardless of how it would make everyone feel. The team is also weirded out when she politely apologizes, commenting that she never seemed like the type who would say sorry.

However, as the protagonist proceeds in her Social Link, it becomes apparent that her "lack of emotion" is basically just her way to deal with her own shyness, insecurity and naïveté. Without memories, Marie is unaware of many aspects of the world and modern conveniences, such as not knowing what an electric outlet is (calling it an eclectic loutwit). She has an innocent side as well. This is also why she wants the protagonist to show her Inaba: She wants to learn about the world and who she really is.

Marie sometimes expresses her thoughts in poems which often deal with depressing themes like farewells and existentialism, questioning her own origin. She is quite absentminded when making them as she tends to leave them on the ground of Velvet Room, only to be embarrassed and swipe her poems from the protagonist after he reads them. Besides this, Marie is into fashion, loves nature (another major theme in her poems) and is apparently concerned about her figure, which is why she only eats healthy food.

As the story progresses, she forms a strong bond with the protagonist and harbors feelings for him. Their relationship is close enough to make even Rise Kujikawa jealous, which always ends up with the two arguing over him such as when Rise said that she has "reserved" the protagonist for Valentine's Day. Marie immediately brushed it off and said to cancel the reservation since it's the same as cheating.

When flustered or embarrassed, Marie tends to speak rapidly and insult the source of her embarassment, like "shutupIhateyouyoustupidjerk!"

## Battle Quotes

* "*Is this one of those... duels?*" (Starting the round)
* *"Why are we fighting? I don't get it."* (Starting the round)
* *"I can't believe this! StupidjerkIhateyou!!"* (Starting the round)
* *"Are you serious? I'm sick and tired of this!"* (Starting the round)
* *"My Turn."*
* *"Boom!"*
* *"I want you to disappear."* (Using Stigma of Condemnation)
* "*Don't come near me!*" (Using ShutupIhateyouyoustupidjerk)
* *"I already won this."*
* *"Now that I've taken this form... I won't be able to hold back!"* (Using Instant Kill)
* *"Bye-bye!"* (First round victory)
* "*Hands off!*" (First round victory)
* *"What is this?!"* (First round victory)
* *"Ready to give up?"* (First round victory)
* "*I bring you Megidola.*" (First round victory)
* "*My soul cries for release.*" (First round victory)
* *"I won... hmmm... cool."* (Final round victory)
* *"Huh? It's over already?"* (Final round victory)
* *"Does this mean... I won?"* (Final round victory)
* *"I can't wait to see him again."* (Final round victory)
* "*I had more fun that I thought.*" (Final round victory)

## Trivia

* If her Social Link events are done in the fog, they will be slightly altered in that Marie will constantly express her irritation at the fog with even some voiced lines relating to it, hinting at her true identity.
* Marie makes a reference to Hiimdaisy/Gigi's Persona 4 comics saying "Fsteak," offering it as an alternate shortening of "beefsteak." Despite the shout out, the line is a legitimate, more literal translation of the original Japanese dialogue in which Marie comments that 'bifuteki' should be called 'fusuteki.'
* There is an oversight in the game where, after maxing out Marie's Social Link, if the player visits the Velvet Room at night and checks up on her, she will respond as if the Social Link is still going on.
* In the credits of Persona 4 Golden, Marie is the only non-playable character to appear. She is one of the only two characters to not be in her Epilogue appearance (the other being the protagonist, who is wearing his Yasogami summer uniform).
* Marie is one of the only two female characters that actually kiss the protagonist within the game, on screen. The other character to do this is Margaret.
* In Persona 4 Arena, Marie's design is the basis for an alternate palette swap for Shadow Labrys.
* "Tsundere" which is used in the mocking title of Marie in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is a kind of Japanese stock character traits. A "tsundere" character usually acts arrogant, apathetic or competitive towards the other main characters early in the story but gradually becomes emotionally attached to the others as the plot progresses.
* Marie's appearance in her Instant Kill is that of when she resided in the Hollow Forest upon regaining her memories as Kusumi-no-Okami. One of the attacks she used while performing this is a sphere that sucks up everything, a callback to the battle against Kusumi-no-Okami in Golden.
* In the fifth episode of the second anime, Marie plays a guitar version of Aria of the Soul. However, this ends up being the only tune she knows how to play as she is unable to read sheet music or play any other chords.
* Although Marie's eyes are officially gray, in other media or artwork, she has bright green eyes.
* It is unknown what happened to Marie's duties in the Velvet Room. This is because in the epilogue of Golden, she is by then a news reporter as well as a minor goddess of Inaba. However, she wears the blue hat and bag as a reminder that she is a resident of the Velvet Room in Persona 4 spinoffs. According to the Velvet Room, should the resident abandon their duties in the room, they are not residents anymore.
* Files of a Shadow Marie were found in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax's data.
* Marie bears similarities to Yumiko Shirasagi in that she is a reincarnation, or "part," of Izanami. Likewise, her interest in Yu Narukami is linked to Izanagi, much like Yumiko's interest in Akemi Nakajima.