Marie

**Marie** was one of the contestants on the first season of *Chicken Dinner*, coming from a 2018 version of Earth. She was the 6th contestant voted out.

At the Reunion, she was awarded the title of Foulest Fowl for her bad attitude toward her enemies in the competition.

## **Appearance**

Marie, despite being 12 on the premiere of Chicken Dinner, is an alright height, standing at 5'4. Even though she considers it average, most of the other contestants tower over her. She has long brown hair with a red strand in the front, and some more red on the end of her bangs and scattered throughout the rest. It's usually quite messy and bunched up, but considering the lack of care she puts into it, it has very few tangles and usually remains soft. She wears a red sweater with a white and pink diamond-like pattern, that has zip-pockets on the inside. Under the sweater is a white T-shirt with a cat design, though rarely seen. She also wears blue jeans and black slip-on shoes. She carries around a white matchbox with a design drawn in black marker, a vaguely feline silhouette in front of a fiery outline.

## **Personality**

Marie tries to keep bright and cheery in front of people, though not putting in a lot of effort. She tries to keep negativity to herself and people she dislikes, though usually doesn't keep track of what she says, letting things slip through. She has a short temper, especially when people make comments about her age, sometimes even showing annoyance with comments that she knows were meant to be positive or could be easily used to her advantage. She gets bored easily and often mentions fun as a reason to do something or refrain from doing so, opting for a more reckless option nearly every time there's an opportunity to do so, sometimes provoking others with the end goal for them to get violent towards her. She shows little regard for her own safety, and wants to be seen in a negative light due to her tendency to conform to labels, of which she finds the worse ones easier to stick to. She finds herself wishy-washy alone and tries to keep stubborn and confident in front of other people.

## **Statistics and Notable Moments**

 **Votes Against** | 3

### Notable moments include:

* The *Battle Eggs* main course, in which she told Sea Salt Pearl and Rouge Manx exactly what she was going to do, as well as burning holes into her sweater.
* Being hoisted on a cross as Chicken Jesus for the *Idolatry* main course.
* Ordering Smily Elemax to stay inside a fiery trashcan in retaliation for serenading her during the Truth-or-Dare-Athon.
* Putting a beehive on the Orange Barn door, which fell on Smily Elemax.
* Blowing up the Chicken Pen with BT

## **Game History**

### *Introduction*

Marie was really excited to learn that she made it into Chicken Dinner, having not expected it. She went right in full of energy, wasting no time on a formal introduction, immediately trying to greet Sea Salt Pearl, who was, at the time, the only other contestant present. near-immediately met with a sour attitude, she tried to disregard it and greeted Alan, who also seemed put off by the energy. Seeing multiple people react negatively, she decided she would sit out of most of the ceremony. BT sat down next to her a little later, though, and she managed to show the same enthusiasm as before, shaking both of his hands and averting her eyes from the newly-arrived Frenchy. She made a few comments here and there, but otherwise stayed mostly out of the way. Marie came into Chicken Dinner, realizing after seeing Ruth with her guitar, wildly under-prepared. She was placed on the orange team, as a Shellsmasher, with Dakon, Ruth Bowen, Rouge Manx, Mrs. Knobhead, and Smily Elemax.

### *Warm-Up*

Marie headed over to the barn after most of the contestants had arrived, following most of her team. She was quickly annoyed by Dakon's war-like attitude and even more so once he called her "child." She told him not to do it again, or one of them would be out of the challenge first. She was fully expecting to lose that battle, but Dakon ended up exiting the challenge before even the first main course, much to her delight. She was confused to find a chainsaw in her confessional shed, asking the rest of her team if they had them as well. Even with the un-pleasantry of having her biggest pet peeve singled out so quickly, she was happy to be separated from both SSP and Frenchy. She found Elemax at the farmland, bemused at him completely looking past the pole. She clued him in that it was probably a code, with the rest of the puzzle somewhere else on the farm. She went over to the river and looked around, before joining him back at the chicken pen. She was unhappy with how far between the lines people were reading, but watched Rouge and Elemax try to uncover any secrets the old chicken pen could hold. Eventually she told them both that it wasn't worth the energy, saying they should wait until the areas became a bit different to really put their all into looking. She asked Elemax if Dakon was still in the barn, not wanting to see the latter again, and while waiting for an answer, talked with Rouge. She ignored multiple warnings from Rouge, insisting they could be friends as long as they both wanted to, and communicated clearly. She left the area soon after Mrs. Knobhead and Ruth arrived. Her, Rouge, and Elemax ended up finding SSP at the stage, complaining about how nothing fun had happened yet before suggesting that the Yolkcurdlers were unprepared. She doubled down, calling her 'princess' and sarcastically overestimating the other team. When only Shellsmashers were left in the area, she said it would be more exciting if everybody was riled up, acting a little hurt when Rouge called her evil, asking if she was really bad for thinking about fun. Elemax popped back into the conversation, and the three of them talked about the upcoming game for a little while. She was annoyed again at having to tell Smily that a farm without animals is still a farm, and that no, it wasn't a clue of any important value. She poked at him for thinking so hard on otherwise normal conversation, but left it there.

### *Main Course 1 - "Farm's Got Talent"*

Marie was less than excited to hear the first challenge was a talent show, having never done one before and not considering herself good at anything exciting or presentable. She didn't end up thinking that hard about what to do, and waited until the challenge was nearly over to fire off some food opinions that she barely believed in. During other people's presentations, she was mostly either unimpressed or didn't care enough to look. When Bianca was presenting and having trouble, Marie showed delight in poking fun at her, even more when Bianca was frustrated. BT talked to her about it before Alan's performance started, dropping a mushroom into her lap after a few back and forth words. She was mostly confused, and put it under the table, trying to deflect all previous and further personality talk, or at least remain unresponsive. After the challenge, she regretted not using the platform to make fun of her other fellow contestants, since it might have been more fun.

Being voted into a tie with Mrs. Knobhead worried her extremely, she didn't have a backup vote after Dakon, and was a little shaken at the fact she really only had one or two choices, both of which scored better than her. She played up being frazzled, though, making her look like a much better option to keep than Knobhead, who, to Marie's surprise and delight, had already started being rude to the rest of the Shellsmashers. At the voting ceremony, Marie laughed on Knobhead's last moments of the show.

### *Cool-Down 1*

She made a point of commenting on SSP's affection for Ruth, happy to be poking fun at SSP with both Rouge and BT, happier when Ruth seemed to take the words to heart. SSP's near-immediate team swap annoyed her, being met with an age comment on top of that decided fully how she would view SSP for the rest of the game. She retreated to the river, throwing in sticks and stones. BT followed her and offered advice. She didn't mind listening but was still more focused on throwing things into the water.

### *Side Dish 2 - The Impressions*

Marie submitted an impression of SSP the first opportunity she got, losing her temper nearly at the start of it.. She flipped her hair and raised her voice as high as it could go, which happened to be way higher than SSP's.

"Look at that little BRAT. She's been being rude to MY team and causing trouble for them the entire time! Little KID doesn't know how to handle herself and is ONLY dragging US down. I KNOW I'm part of shellsmasher now BUT that little child is just causing oh so much trouble for the other team, and now that I'm Here its my personal responsibility to be her babysitter." Marie was really upset, coating every other word with nothing but malice. despite this she still did her best to echo SSP, looking at her nails pretending to file them, and smiling at imaginary cameras "I'm gonna make Ruth hate me- Marie too! Once everybody on the farm but that lame kid has an ego it'll be an EASY win." she tried to calm herself down, counting under her breath and pulling at her hair a bit "SWEETPEA, BABYSIT, SUNSHINE, CHILD, KIDDO, THAT LITTLE GIRL IS NOTHING BUT TROUBLE. STARS ABOVE THE AUDACITY OF THAT SWEATSTAIN" she stomped down hard, landing on the football and popping it completely. seeing that she made a real effort to calm down and threw it aside.

Before guessing, she found BT and Smily at the chicken pen, entering with a noise complaint, before joining their conversation about what the carvings could mean, dismissing both the possibilities that it was a hint or had a deeper meaning, calling it "just a carving." She made a little effort to poke holes in everybody's assumptions, putting down new ideas over the smallest things. BT reminded her that alliances were the most important part of this game, and she begrudgingly dropped it, saying sorry to both Smily and Ruth. SSP entering the chicken pen area put Marie and BT in the same position, SSP leaving gave BT an opportunity to comfort Marie. She deflected some of the niceties, but was happy to have someone at least appear interested in what she was saying.

### *Main Course 2 - "The Chicken Protein Shake Festival"*

She started off the second Main Course making fun of Smily for trying to appeal to SSP. Being told by multiple people to calm down angered her further, but she bottled it up, saying she knew when to take it to the shed. Rouge claiming similar feelings made her a little less upset, enough to sit down and wait for announcements to go through, at least. She misunderstood the rules of the challenge, like nearly every other contestant to some extent.

She rolled surfing as a sport, unhappy with the idea of being on open water, but not opposed completely. Going up against BT, now the closest thing to a friendly face on the farm, put her at ease a little. Neither of them had surfed before, but after BT fell down a second time, Marie refused to do anything else on her board, instead chatting with him until the timer ran out. Not bothering to remove her sweater soaked her completely. Despite BT's impromptu drying machine nearly setting the grass on fire, she didn't hesitate to volunteer to go next. After both of them were dried off, BT offered to practice table tennis. Marie declined, citing being tired as a reason to wait longer, but mostly worrying about how loud the ball would clack against the table. She called BT "Blue Tooth" while saying goodbye, which is the first and last time she used a nickname affectionately. Before they had an opportunity to compete again, Chickadee announced that only one battle would count. This resulted in her winning her part of the challenge.

She didn't watch anybody else compete, being preoccupied for Alan and Ruth's match, and not wanting to see whatever mess SSP and Frenchy got into. Almost immediately after BT arrived to the river, she popped over, asking about how it was going. They talked for a little while about the game in general, their motivation for being there, and home, Marie unintentionally solidifying their alliance by referring to BT as her friend. The challenge ended with her at the stage area, Alan showing up and making the mistake of revealing he underestimated Marie at one point. She tried to shrug it off, and had no interest in the eliminated contestant.

### *Main Course 5 - "The Truth-or-Dare-Athon"*

Marie was the only contestant to answer all of her questions and do all of her dares.

## **Elimination**

Marie was eliminated in the first vote after the Merge after losing the "Battle Eggs" Main Course. She was voted out with 3 of 7 votes against her due to lack of communication with her alliance. Her words going out were "Well, bye guys! Rouge, your joke sucked and you shouldn't have come back, Elemax, you're an idiot who can't count, I have the Mimicry Idol in my pocket, and I'm taking it with me!"

## **Jury Vote**

Marie voted two points for Frenchy Morgan and one point for Alan Bloodryn.

## **Relationships**

### BT

Marie grew fond of BT through the game, quickly preferring his company to the rest of her own team. They often talked at the river about strategy or philosophy- or both. When BT was voted out after the *Truth or Dare* challenge, Marie's enjoyment of the game came crashing to a halt. Thinking more about how she should've done the last challenge differently, paired with general boredom, she threw the very next challenge, *Battle Eggs*, spectacularly.

When she was eliminated, they reunited in the Jurors' Lounge (later renamed the Losers' Lounge) and spoke about game events, past life events, and more abstract concepts. When Chicken Dinner ended, they parted separately, but during the Chicken Dinner reunion, they left the farm together.

## Trivia

* Despite wearing red all the time and having dyed her hair the same, her favorite color is yellow.
* Her favorite animal spans all felines, and before entering the challenge she would routinely hiss and meow at her peers, pushing away most potential friends. She only stopped because she was worried about Rouge's opinion of her, fearing that it would seem rude or insensitive. At the bonfire she told Rouge about it, saying it would be weird to just start up in the middle of a game anyways. She also claimed that it was because she wanted to seem like a threat, though that was true to a much less extent.
* Her birthday is August 16th, the same day as the beginning of the second Main Course.