Mary/Story

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## Behind the Scenes

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Lee Da-eun

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Amber Lee Connors

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Haruka Tomatsu

## Profile

A Nikke who works as a doctor in the medical squad Seraphim alongside Pepper. Mary is known as the "White Angel" for her gentle demeanor, but for those patients who misbehave, she's feared as the "Black Devil", brandishing a shiny metallic syringe full of sedative.

### Nikke Backstory

A talented doctor who treats her patients with an unsurpassed solicitude. In Seraphim, she is known as the Angel in White. As for patients who disobey her orders, however...

## Story

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### Background

"Mary" used to work as a doctor even when she was still a human. She was involved in falsifying the autopsy records of patients in order to sell their brains to Nikke manufacturers. Another fellow nurse who would later be known as "Pepper" discovered her misdeeds, pushing her down a flight of stairs and killing her in betrayed outrage.

When Mary awoke, she found that Mustang of Tetra Line decided to convert her into a Nikke. Though she could not remember her human name, Mustang chose to break conventions and *not* erase her human memories. For her crimes, the CEO deemed it a fitting punishment, to remember what she condemned her patients to only to suffer the same fate in turn.

### Main Story

#### Chapter 13

The protagonist is critically injured during the Modernia subjugation operation, and is rushed to the ER where Seraphim is attempting to resuscitate him. A major issue arises when they cannot perform a blood transfusion because the protagonist's blood type *is not listed* in the records. Deputy Chief Andersen steps in just as Mary orders a blood test kit. *Somehow*, Andersen knows that both he and the protagonist share a blood type, and provides a lifesaving transfusion.

### Event Story

#### Blue Water Island

Seraphim is deployed with the protagonist and the rest of a rather motley crew in order to scout out an island for resources. Given the chance by Yan, Mary decides to go with the group's flow and don a swimsuit for their "tropical getaway".

#### Sea, You, Again

Along with the other from the Blue Water Island expedition group, Mary and the others returned to the island to investigate some strange signals.

### Character Story

*Canonically set before the events of Blue Water Island*

#### Episode 1 - Blackbox

Mary is taking an interview from a variety show, where she explains that before she joined Seraphim, she was in an accident that took her memories, though not her medical skills. As it turns out, some unknown person pushed Mary down some stairs, which led to her injuries and amnesia. After a brief chat with Pepper and the protagonist, Mary is contacted by an anonymous person known as "Blackbox," who seems to know who she was before she became a Nikke...

#### Episode 2 - Incurable Disease

A few days later, the protagonist is wandering the hospital in search of Mary at Pepper's behest. As it turns out, Pepper's method of getting Mary's attention would be to spread rumor of the protagonist catching an incurable disease, which indeed works, if not quite in the way the protagonist imagined, with Mary resolutely declaring she will cure him. After a brief examination and clearing the air, the protagonist catches fragments of Mary speaking with someone, promising to find something if the other party tells her who she used to be. With no other way to hide it, Mary brings the protagonist to another place.

#### Episode 3 - The Weight of Death

The place turns out to be a church, where Mary tells a story. In this story, a doctor who broke down after one too many patients dies in her care is approached by a few figures, asking if she wants to join them in "making humans more valuable." In doing so, the doctor works to falsify death records of patients, taking their brains and selling them to Nikke manufacturers. Each and every last one of those patient records is kept inside of a black box. After some prodding, Mary reveals she is the doctor behind this story, and the accident that made her a Nikke didn't take away her memories at all. After confessing her sin to the protagonist, she refuses to bring him to see her old accomplices, going so far as to sedate him.

#### Episode 4 - The Weight of Sin

Mary has a flashback to the day even death was taken from her. A voice calling her a hypocrite pushes down a flight of stairs, and the damage should've been enough to kill her. Except her next memory is waking up as a Nikke, with none other than CEO Mustang of Tetra Line greeting her. Mustang remarks a number of the Nikkes in his company would love nothing more than to take their pound of flesh from Mary, but offers her a chance at redemption, if she can remember her human name. Since she does not, Mustang decides a punishment is in order. Against standard protocol for Nikkes born of accident victims, Mary's memory will not be erased, her punishment will be to live knowing what she's done.

When the flashback ends, Mary is contacted again by Blackbox, asking if she's brought the contraband documents with her. When she arrives at the rendezvous point, it turns out Blackbox never planned to meet Mary, content to simply detonate the building she's in and destroy her with the black box. Mary is resigned to this fate until the protagonist shows up, having shot himself in the hand to shake off the sedative's effects. Mary is in disbelief he'd go this far for her, but the protagonist echoes some of Mary's words back at her, promising to find a cure for her sin. With Shifty providing a route, the two flee from the building before it detonates.

#### Episode 5 - Accomplices

A news report is going on about a scandal involving a black box, containing proof that death records were forged so that patients' brains could be smuggled out and installed in Nikkes. An unknown individual is in a panic over this, as the black box should have been destroyed with Mary, only for him to receive a message proving her survival. Next thing the person knows, a Nikke known as "D" breaks in and shoots them, with a message from her superior chiding the individual over their handling of the box.

Back at the hospital, Pepper is in a tizzy over the black box scandal, incensed that anyone would try and pull this kind of thing. After a brief conversation, Pepper leaves, giving Mary and the protagonist time to themselves. In the course of their conversation, Mary reveals that the one who pushed her off the stairs and killed her was none other than Pepper. She makes the protagonist keep it a secret, threatening to inject him in his injured hand for spilling the beans. Promises made, Mary kisses the bandaged hand, thanking "Mr. Accomplice" in advance for his discretion.

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