Mary Sue

*"**I declare that for the sake of the peace I must protect and for the sake of the family I love, I will give my whole power! To make a world that no one else has to experience the sadness of losing their family to the Empire. And to enact God's justice! I swear by my good heart which believes in the Lord! May the Lord's grace be with me!**"*
*- Mary Sue Declaration -*

**Mary Sue** or **Mary Sioux**  is one of the main antagonists of the series. She is the sole daughter of Anson Sue and his wife, who hailed from the Unified States.

## Appearance

### In the light novel

Mary has straight and long brown hair, and her eyes were greenish blue. As a volunteered soldier, she is seen wearing the **US military uniform**.

### In the anime

Mary is a young girl with long brown hair with curled ends and green eyes. When she was still an ordinary citizen, she was seen wearing a blouse with a long skirt.

### In the manga

Mary has long and wavy hair with a hairband. She wears a dress, which has much lace on.

## Personality

When she was a citizen, she was a caring and loving girl. She loved her father very much. Though her father's death almost crushed her mom, she joined the US volunteer forces more for patriotism than taking revenge to the Imperial soldier who killed her father.

After she identified her father's submachine gun in Tanya's hands, she became more vengeful and serious. Her hatred grows whenever she hears the name "Devil of the Rhine", leading to her becoming enraged, resulting in her exposing herself to danger.

When she was Drake's subordinate, he found her to be both naïve and stubborn, which ended up putting others in danger, usually screwed up their plans and ended up enraging him.

## Plot

### Past

Mary lived in a quiet, simple and average life with her mother. Sometimes, she had slight struggles with her father, which left her side to become a soldier to benefit their homeland.

### Battle of the Fjord/Plus Ultra; Chapter IV: The devil in the coast of Norden

Before the Christmas in 1924, Mary bought a state-of-the-art submachine gun for Anson as an early Christmas present. The novel and manga revealed that she received it from an agent by the name of John who was working for the Commonwealth. The gift soon was captured and kept by Tanya during **battle of the Osfjord**.

### How to use a Victory/The Finest Hour; Chapter V: Internal affairs

After Mary learned about her father's fate in her grandmother's house in Arkansas, she volunteered to become a soldier. At that moment, she prayed to the God and received the same blessing as Tanya from Being X, albeit with some key differences.

### Dabit deus his quoque finem Chapter V The Battle of Dodobird

After join the US volunteer forces of Commonwealth, she and her fellow cadets went to the mainland of Commonwealth and defend their territory as aerial mages. April 29, 1926, she fought her first actual aerial battle with Imperial 203rd Mage Battalion. She got seriously wounded by Tanya and found her gift to her father having been used by Tanya. From now on, Tanya had become her personal enemy.

## Abilities

Mary can cast spells by praying to God, these spells are stronger than Tanya's powers. She can blow up a whole battalion (48 men) with only one artillery spell, as opposed to Tanya's, which can only wipe out a whole company (12 men). Her speed is faster than an average human Mage, and was able to take an entire magazine of magical enhanced bullets from Tanya's submachine gun and survived, although barely. Later, in the Movie, her Rage enhanced her power to the point where she took a volley from a squad of Mages, dozens, even hundreds, of shots from Tanya, a church spire falling on her and a full-powered attack from Tanya's Type-95 Orb and remained standing, all the while pushing herself to her limits to overwhelm and kill Tanya.

In the movie, instead of attacking with magically enhanced bullets, she instead uses "Optical-type spells"; powerful pink lasers that can destroy dozens of streets and buildings with a single beam, of which she can rapidly fire.

**Rage Mode**: The user's hatred and a grudge against "Devil of the Rhine" become the source of the power. It exceeds the limits of the Blessed User. The Operation Orb of the user becomes brighter and regenerates mana quickly.

However, as a side effect, the user loses control of their own movements and reason.

**Three Miracles**: In the manga, during her trip to the US, she received three Miracle abilities from God based on the prayers of her family.

* As her father's prayer, her future has been blessed. Like an étoile in ballet, or a prima donna in opera, she will have an unbreakable will and a glittering destiny.
* As her mother's prayer, she is protected by the miracles. Swords will break before her, bullets will dodge her, fire won't reach her, and her wounds will heal. Nothing short of a miracle of the same scale can break it.
* As her prayer, she gains strong magical power and sufficient mana like her father, so that she can fight for the motherland with her father.

## Difference between the three medias

### The light novel

She got the submachine gun from an unnamed man came from UK. She has high aptitude for magic inborn like her father, and no clear evidence proves that she received more power from God. She joined the volunteer army more for the patriotism than the hatred since she didn't know who killed her father. She finally knew it by identifying the signature on her father's gun taken by Tanya.

### The anime

She is fashioned as the ultimate rival and the tool used by Being X to counterbalance Tanya Degurechaff in the war. The anime didn't point out how she got the submachine gun. She also seemed to receive the power from Being X when making the declaration of volunteer.

### The manga

She got the submachine gun from Mr. John (his pseudonym). When she went to Unified States with her mother, she received three miracles from God.

## Trivia

* Her name **"Mary Sue"** or "Mary Sioux" comes from the trope Mary Sue. However, because her character was rewritten when Youjo Senki became a light novel, she doesn't fit the trope very well anymore.
* She is the only person who can match Tanya von Degurechaff in terms of magical power.

## References

1. ↑  Anime: Episode 12
2. ↑ LN: In omnia paratus Chapter IV: Encounter and Engage
3. ↑ The spelling used by the official Japanese website.
4. ↑ The spelling used by Crunchyroll, the anime's official English licenser.