Mary

* Uniform
* Casual

> *"I'm going back to reading, if you don't mind."*
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**Mary** is one of the main characters of Twitch Dates Pokémon. She is a mysterious Flareon that seems to be the only one to enjoy Burrito's salsa.

## Appearance

Mary wears the traditonal second-year girl's uniform at Twitch Academy, with the neck scarf having to go over her fluffy yellow fur.

In her casual outfit, she wears a white shirt and blue skirt. She also owns a pair of reading glasses she puts on when focusing on a book.

At swim class, due to being a fire type, she has to wear a tight, dark wetsuit that she loathes having to take on and off.

## Personality

Mary is a mix of the traditional kuudere and tsundere. She is antisocial and uninterested in having conversations with others, much preferring the company of a good book at the library over a noisy cafeteria when possible. In her interactions with Burrito, she slowly starts to show care for them, but at the same time expresses disinterest and tries to angrily reject their advances on trying to befriend her if pursuing her route. She is also very perceptive, easily being able to tell when people are lying to her.

## Relationships

Mary is a loner by the time of Burrito's arrival, and has no one she is particularly close with at the Academy.

## History

A second-year, Mary first meets Burrito during their lunch on their second day at the Academy. She immediately expressed disinterest in talking with Burrito and instead focused on reading her books. However, she obliged to try out Burrito's salsa in an attempt to get them to stop talking, which she turned out to enjoy tasting. Her satisfaction would cause Burrito to potentially try to keep talking with her throughout the game.

## Origins

*For more information, refer to the Flareon's page on Helixpedia*

Mary's inspiration from Twitch Plays Pokémon is the most controversial character from the Red Playthrough. During the run, players realized that they would need a Pokémon capable of learning the move Surf to progress. Since catching specific Pokémon was difficult, choices were narrowed down to evolving the obtainable Eevee into a Vaporeon or waiting to obtain the Lapras at Silph Co. Due to the popularity of Eevee, players obtained her and tried to purchase the water stone at the nearby department store to evolve her with. Instead, a fire stone was purchased and accidentally used on Eevee, evolving it into a Flareon. This caused outrage from players, since now they were out of a possible surf user, and decided to deposit the Flareon in the PC, considering her as useless to the party now that she couldn't fulfill her role.

Initial attempts to deposit Flareon instead caused the release of Abby, which caused even further anger towards Flareon by players. As a result, players pushed for Flareon to be fully released instead as vengeance, blaming her for the release of Abby alongside a Rattata named Jay Leno. Flareon was dubbed the 'False Prophet' and was characterized as the prophet of the Dome Fossil who antagonized Helix. Players were eventually successful in releasing Flareon and obtained the Lapras as their Surf user, who would become Air.

However, many other players felt the Flareon was innocent, or were otherwise believers in the Dome Fossil. They called Flareon a 'Martyr' for her sacrifices, which is where the name of her Twitch Dates Pokémon incarnation, Mary, hails from.

## Trivia

* Mary is the most popular dateable of the cast, scoring the highest in a majority of polls with her route being the most discussed overall.
* Mary is the only Pokémon who originated from the Red playthrough to be a second-year student.