Marigold

Marigold Pullman, more commonly referred to as **Gold**, was the daughter of the head of a mafia family. She went under the name May online.

## Appearance

> "Then he rippled again, and he was a pretty girl, around Nita's age, with long blond hair and blue eyes. Piercings ran down one ear. Her face was pale, with rosy cheeks and plump lips[...]"
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> Only Ashes Remain

Gold is white with pale skin, rosy cheeks, and blue eyes. She has dirty blonde hair that is described as "short and pressed against her head like it was painted on", though when Nita witnesses Adair alter his appearance to Gold's likeness, the hair is longer; presumably Gold cut it between the last time she met Adair and when the events of *Only Ashes Remain* take place. Gold appears to be around seventeen years old, possibly older. She has a multitude of piercings, around half a dozen stud earrings and small hoops running up one ear, the other ear having only a single stud. The majority of her facial features are covered for most of *Only Ashes Remain* since she wears bandages due to Nita spitting stomach acid on her. Her resting "poker face" is described as being cool and calm with a bit of a sneer.

## Personality

> "Gold will follow in her father's footsteps and run the Family by any means necessary. May is a nonexistent girl who has internet friends and cried when Matt died."
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> Marigold, Only Ashes Remain

### Gold

Gold is sneering, determined, and strong. She views herself as someone who will take her father's position as the head of the Family mafia when older. Unwavering in her iciness, whenever startled or threatened she slips over into a sneering 'poker face' that conceals her true feelings. This emotion-masking trait is likely a result of training in her Family.

Gold also hates all unnaturals with a burning passion, viewing them all inherently as monsters and emotionless beasts who have no thoughts or conscience. This could be due to the fact that the only unnaturals she is introduced to in the Family are monstrous mafia allies, though Gold, too, has murderous habits and sees killing innocents as worth it for a greater goal. She claims to be above unnaturals, though Kovit points out to her that she murders just as easily, and by turning a blind eye to the things that the corrupted members of their Family do, she is just the same as the unnaturals she so hates---by justifying bad actions, it is the same as if one has done the actions themselves.

### May

> "I don't know you, though. Not really. I know who you pretended to be for the Family. I know who you pretended to be on the chatroom. But you? I don't know who you are."
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> Marigold, Only Ashes Remain

Despite her frozen tendencies stated above, Gold still has a softer, though not quite soft, side to her. She describes this side to her as May, the side she showed online to her internet friends when nobody was watching. She understood others, she was kind and friendlier than Gold.

## History

Not much is revealed about Gold's history with the Family. It is known that she is the daughter of the head of the Family and that at some point she developed a deep-seated hate for unnaturals. In one instance, she tricked a vampire she despised into the sunlight and lit a cigarette on his burning body while he slowly died. She was also ordered by Henry to keep a close eye on Kovit on an online chatroom though she didn't know his identity at the time, only that he was a younger member of the Family; she went under the alias May on the chatroom.

## Relationships

### Kovit

> "You. And you, the you I saw in the Family events, the you that people whispered about in the hallways, were a very different person than the boy in the chat. And you can't blame me for being afraid of that boy and thinking he was a monster. I'm tying to reconcile two very different people, and you can't claim to be this misunderstood tragic hero, because I fucking know what you did for the Family, and I've seen the videos Henry was blackmailing you with."
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> Marigold, Only Ashes Remain

Kovit and Gold had met before in the game Pet Crossing however they went by different aliases, Kevin and May respectively. Initially, Gold liked Kovit the most out of the whole group to the point they would have separate chats just between the two of them. This however changed when she learned that Kovit was a zannie since she had a burning hatred for them.

1. ↑ Page 304, *When Villains Rise*