Margaret

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## Name

**Margaret** (マーガレット, *Māgaretto*?) is a side character in the Shadows House series. She is a Shadow, and is the master of the Living Doll Maggie.

## Appearance

Like the rest of the Shadows in the house, Margaret is completely black and appears to be a silhouette of her "Face", Maggie. She wears a light-orange dress with puffy sleeves held in multiple places with beige lace, a beige collar with a big bow in the middle and an orange belt, as well as white tights, orange shoes and a fabric headband.

## Personality

Margaret is shown to be a shy, awkward girl. She stutters when speaking, but is actually quite assertive, initiating conversations and being the one to speak for the most part during them. She lives by the motto of "the hearts of children who like flowers are beautiful", describing herself as such. She is vindictive and holds grudges for a long time. She was also shown to suffer from abandonment issues, preferring to not form connections at all before she can get hurt again, with one exception being Patrick, who she quickly fell for.

## Plot

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### Master Robe Arc

Margaret meets Patrick in the conservatory after he was inspecting the flowers there. Patrick worries about her, since she is a member of Isabelle and Mirabelle's team, Margaret wished they would just remain away from her, saying that both have an ugly heart. She then changes the subject and tells Patrick if he loved flowers, she went on explaining that they could grow flowers together. She later handed Patrick a flower, as a symbol of their acquaintance.

### Inspection Arc

Margaret and Maggie were present when Elizabeth were appointed the new leader of team 9. Later on, when the Belles came to the saloon, Margaret was gossiping to other team members about them. She even joined Douglas's team when they began making fun of the Belles.

### Hunt on The Powerless Arc

Margaret has seen Patrick getting attacked outside of the conservatory as she went on helping him. She confesses that she saw Patrick trying to use soot powers, she is worried that both of them do not have soot powers yet, after Thomas's revealed the soot power topic. She tells Patrick that she would probably be a target and if gained soot powers, would he protect her, Patrick agreed. Margaret tells how kind Patrick is.

### Master Robe Arc

Margaret meets Patrick in the conservatory after he was inspecting the flowers there. Patrick worries about her, since she is a member of Isabelle and Mirabelle's team, Margaret wished they would just remain away from her, saying that both have an ugly heart. She then changes the subject and tells Patrick if he loved flowers, she went on explaining that they could grow flowers together. She later handed Patrick a flower, as a symbol of their acquaintance.
## Relationship

### Maggie

Like the rest of the house, Margaret treats Maggie as her doll and nothing more. However, at one point she considered hurting her as a way to end her own life, since Shadows with a defective faces are disposed of.

### Isabelle & Mirabelle

Margaret doesn't like the twins, stating that they "have ugly hearts". She was worried of what they'll do once they return from the punishment, implying the twins were bullying her. She wanted to be friends with them when she was younger but that hope quickly dwindled.

### Patrick

Patrick and Margaret got along quite well. Margaret too a liking to Patrick since their first meeting, quickly getting attached and falling in love with him, going as far as to call him her "soulmate" and "prince". She is often seen flustered around him, trying to form more meaningful connection with him. Her love for him quickly turned ugly, when she realized it wasn't going to be reciprocated, and fell into despair. Her sole wish was to be with him.

### Peter

Peter was her first friend in the house since both liked flowers, but they distanced from each other because Peter said team activities were funnier. Because of this, and the fact of how insecure Margaret is, she hardly trusted in someone again.

## Power & Abilities

### Soot Power

Margaret's soot ability is soot ivy that stretches from her body and can crawl everywhere, capture people and hold them in spider lily-like cocoons. It has manifested from extreme anguish and likely is a highly boosted version of the power she has normally.

## Etymology

* **Margaret** is primarily a female name of English origin that means "pearl". Other variants of it are "Margret", "Margrette", and "Margarette".

## Trivia

* Margaret grows flowers in the conservatory, some of the flowers she grows are peonies, marguerite daisies, tulips and roses.
* Marguerite daisies, her namesake flowers, are also her favorites because "they don't have any bad meaning in flower language at all".
	+ Some of such meanings include "purity", "grace", "patience", "faith", "simplicity," and "romance."
* The texture of the soot Margaret emits is sticky

## Gallery

**Image Gallery of Margaret**

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Loretta and Margaret at Kate's debut partyMargaret and Maggie's official appearanceMargaret and Maggie meet Patrick and RickyMargaret and Maggie being shyMargaret shows off her flowersMargaret and Magiie talk with Patrick and RickyMargaret gives Patrick a flower