Mary: Bay Goddess/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

Mary's swimsuit outfit for the summer vacations. Even in the scorching sun and the sandy coasts, Mary still provides medical assistance to her allies in need.

### Nikke Backstory

An Angel in White who spends her whole vacation healing people.
Behind her kind and gentle smile, there are secrets that no one knows.

## Story

### Event Story

Main articles: Blue Water Island and Sea, You, Again

### Character Story

#### Episode 1 - Quiet Waves

Even on a deserted island, Mary's work as a doctor never ends, sometimes even concerning things not even medically-related. Dealing with Rapi's discomfort from sand lodged between her feet. Dealing with Volt barking at ghosts all night. Dealing with Frima's insomnia. Yan's stress-induced heartburn from business being slow. Neon's glasses being scratched.

Things eventually end with the protagonist getting a checkup from her. After Mary gets a little fun at his expense, the commander wonders what the point is to having everyone gather at the clinic. Mary explains that she felt a checkup was necessary since this is the first time any of them have spent an extended period of time by the coast, and she wanted to take note on any positive or negative impacts it had on their health. Keeping themselves healthy is more important than ever, since their isolation means they cannot rely on the Ark and its medical facilities.

Since the protagonist was the last patient for the day, Mary considers taking her newfound free time to do some tidying when the protagonist suggests going for a walk on the beach. There's no reason for him to ask such beyond him not liking the idea of Mary spending her entire day holed up in the clinic. The doctor chortles and accepts his invitation.

Striding along sand, sun, and surf, Mary marvels at how beautiful the sea looks, even though she's *supposed* to keep busy with her role as the medical support. As much as she acknowledges the protagonist's advice against working too hard, she knows full well she cannot. Not when she's the primary medical provider for everyone else on this deserted island, especially for the protagonist who is undoubtedly more vulnerable in relativity to the Nikkes.

The protagonist tries to insist that his health will not be an issue, but Mary gives her warnings anyway, reiterating that this island has been abandoned for years. There could potentially be an undocumented ecosystem teeming with unknown fauna and contagious pathogens. Plus, she'd feel bad if the person giving his all for the team were to be injured or fall sick. The protagonist accepts the warning, though he asserts that he has faith in Mary's ability to help him through any malady.

While Mary is warning the man about the complacency that sort of thinking breeds, the protagonist feels a sharp pain in his foot. He quickly brushes it off as nothing, returning to his walk and talk with Mary. Surely such a small thing isn't worth bothering someone as busy as Mary with...right?

Cut to the next day, where the protagonist is laid out with a high fever and won't stop puking his guts out.

#### Episode 2 - Unknown Danger

Mary is checking on the protagonist's condition, which seems to have worsened since the onset of symptoms. A fever that won't go down even with medicine, vomiting, and vision so negatively affected he can't even tell her how many fingers she's holding up. A quick squeeze of his hand also tells the doctor he's suffering from tactile degeneration.

Collating the symptoms, Mary believes the protagonist has been poisoned somehow. She packed some antitoxins for just such an occasion, but she'd first like to identify the poison before she administers it. She moves to call someone over, but the protagonist stops her from leaving, insisting she not bother the others while they're resting. Mary tries to press the gravitas of this situation on the protagonist, but his mind is set in the belief Mary will cure him, intent on making sure everyone else gets to enjoy these happy days as much as they can rather than worry over his condition.

With perhaps the worst timing ever, Neon comes in babbling a storm about the sea life she saw out in the distance. She notices the protagonist's condition, but Mary and the commander manage to convince her that he just overdid it playing yesterday and woke up fatigued. Once again by themselves, the two talk about how they both have experience keeping a lid on their emotion.

With Mary having told a lie to someone about a patient's condition, the protagonist jokes that now she's his accomplice. Taking the remark in stride, Mary decides to help the protagonist strip so she can give a checkup like a good accomplice. Given how he didn't eat anything outside of the standard diet on this island, she postulates that he was poisoned some other way, and checks his body for wounds. He reports the sting he felt yesterday, and after Mary berates him for keeping mum about an injury, she checks the sole of his foot and finds multiple small punctures. It would seem he stepped on a washed-up sea urchin. Mary hands him an emergency call button and departs to handle another matter.

That "other matter" turns out to be convincing Yan that the sea urchins of this island have some medicinal value, and that catching them might be of use. Yan is more than willing to do so as long with Mary helping her check the urchins for any kind of qualities.

Some time later, Yan delivers a box full of urchins to Mary. While the doctor looks over the varieties in the box, Yan notices the protagonist laid on a clinic bed and asks him what he's doing here. The protagonist manages to convince her he just played too hard, and she departs to gather more urchins. While Mary is chiding the protagonist over moving and talking so much with others while he's sick, Mary start testing the sea urchins...by pricking herself with them.

Mary explains she switched to an experimental body before this mission, which allows her to test chemical compositions and pathogens. The protagonist is concerned that something she tests may actually cause her symptoms, but Mary assures him this is perfectly safe...besides the Mind Switch risk if she were to overdo it. To that end, she advises him not to tell anyone she's using her experiment body, especially Pepper.

After some testing, she identifies the compound that's poisoned the protagonist. It's not lethal, but definitely not something benign either. Without treatment, there's a distinct chance he will become permanently paralyzed. To top bad news with more bad news, the poison is similar to *some* of the toxins in her database, but there are enough alterations to render it a distinct strain. The antitoxins she packed along are basically useless.

#### Episode 3 - Set a Trap

Later, Mary decides to accompany Rapi and Volt on their next trip to search the island. The protagonist has since been relocated to the dorm to rest. Even without any of the details, Rapi *knows* something has happened to the protagonist, but is willing to offer her discretion and assistance on the matter.

Arriving at Blue Water Island, Mary has Volt sniff something that causes him to recoil. At Rapi's questioning, the doctor explains it's a compound she found on this island, and asks Volt to lead her to wherever more can be found.

Volt eventually comes to a stop at a tree. No fruit can be seen on it, and the leaves smell nothing like what Mary gave him, but Volt continues to just stare at the tree and bark. While Mary continues to give Rapi the runaround, the former suggests climbing the tree to see if they can find anything. Volt's pawing of the trunk causes several birds to fly out of its canopy. It turns out these birds were what he was barking at, and Mary asks Rapi for assistance in catching them. The Counters leader agrees, on the condition that she finally gets told what's happening.

Some time later, the two have had zero luck in catching these birds. Which is unfortunate, since Mary needs them alive. Noting that they only come down to eat fruit or catch fish, Mary suddenly gets an idea and asks Rapi to help her gather fruit. She plans to set a trap for the birds, but Rapi already tried that and the birds were smart enough to tell it was suspicious. The Mary gets *another* idea, and...

Some time later, Frima suddenly jolts out of her nap and snags a bird in her hands. As she does so, a pile of fruit falls out of the hammock she was sleeping in. Rapi can't believe this idea actually worked while Mary extracts the bird from Frima's grasp. The leader of Cafe Sweety is briefly confused before deciding that thinking about it is too much work and goes back to sleep.

With bird in hand, Mary elaborates her plan to examine it for whatever it is she's looking for. Hearing that the protagonist's life will be in danger if this is not done, Rapi accepts Mary doing whatever she must to keep the commander safe.

#### Episode 4 - The Antitoxin

Checking in on the protagonist's condition, Mary apprises him on their progress developing a new antitoxin. Turns out the bird she captured *also* had the sea urchin's poison in its body, yet displayed none of the symptoms. Going by what she's found, Mary is inclined to believe this stems from something the bird ate rather than a naturally-developed immunity. Therefore, discovering this substance and having the protagonist ingest it should solve the problem.

While the protagonist is glad to know there's progress, Mary elaborates on the local avian diet. The fruit has no special properties beyond being delicious, so the birds must have gotten their poison nullification from the fish. Disregarding however likely the fish are immune to the poison, the fact remains that the only available recourse is to go fishing.

Both doctor and patient remark on how primitive this "treatment" is, with the former commenting how nature is always the place where humans find the answers to disease and poison. This segues into a pondering on the relationship between human, Rapture, and Nikke, and how the latter two may or may not have a role in nature and evolution. Scientific debates aside, Mary sets out to test her luck fishing, reminding the protagonist to use the emergency call if anything happens.

Later, by the sea. Neon notices Mary about to fish and talks about how she herself has some small skill in fishing, having already caught a good number. Unfortunately, she already cooked them and/or ate them, so she has no live uncooked specimens to provide Mary. She also refuses to teach Mary how to fish, apparently seeing Mary as "too smart" for an "amateur angler" like herself to instruct. Therefore, she's going to go out and gather fish for Mary. The doctor provides her with a description of the fish she's looking for, and the ~~fire~~ waterpower maniac...dives into the sea?

Mary bears witness as Neon flails in the water for a moment before coming back with a bag full of fish. The latter Nikke had Liter modify her swim ring so she could use it to anchor and pull herself back up from a dive. She rummages through her bag and hands over a few of the fish Mary specified, then goes off to do some more fishing.

Back at the dorm, Mary presents the new antitoxin to the protagonist. Just as she'd suspected, the fish had a compound in their bodies that negated the sea urchins' poison. She melded the compound into the preexisting antitoxin and the experiment results were promising. There's just a few...minor side effects, though the doctor assures they're nonlethal as she ~~eagerly~~ injects the compound.

Antitoxin delivered, Mary warns that the protagonist will start to have a high fever and bodily aches as the poison and antitoxin clash in his body. She assures that she'll be with him every step of the way, giggling as the man tells her not to worry about him. It's the same thing he always says to her...

#### Episode 5 - A Secret for Two

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Night falls as the protagonist is still recuperating from the poison, trying to talk with Mary in order to keep himself from falling unconscious. Good news, the antitoxin is working. Bad news, the protagonist's body aches all over and the fever is stymieing his attempts to speak, leaving Mary to lipread whatever he tries to say.

The first thing he mouths is an apology, which Mary takes as a chance to jokingly give him grief over how she's here taking care of him even though there's so much to do on this island (though by her admission, her inclination as a doctor would be to remain in the clinic anyway). Odd as it may sound, the fact the protagonist ended up in such dire straits is actually encouraging to Mary, as it makes her feel in as though her skills as a doctor are valued in a place like this.

The next thing the protagonist "says" is to ask Mary how she's doing. After a moment, the doctor admits she's been thinking about her past wrongdoings, and how she'd go about making up for them. Some would say it's a simple matter of saving as many as you hurt, if not more, but she has no idea of *how many more* she's supposed to save. 10 times? 100? The protagonist assures her that she only needs to save as many as it takes to satisfy her heart. Mary finds it a cruel notion, as her heart will never be satisfied.

The protagonist offers his support to Mary, and the doctor takes his hand while inaudibly sighing about him saying this sort of thing like always. She warns him that doctors can become compromised when they're emotionally invested in a patient, which is the whole basis for rules like "doctors cannot treat their family members". She confesses that she's afraid of the protagonist becoming something more than "just a patient" to her, and she'll have to refrain from treating him every time he returns from the surface in tatters.

Mary chuckles as the protagonist promises not to get hurt, a promise both of them *know* is impossible to keep. Hearing Mary wistfully wish such a thing could be true, the protagonist then admits he would like to be someone special to Mary. Someone she saw as a source of solace, who could provide her comfort and company as her accomplice.

Sighing, Mary kisses the protagonist, and refrains from going any further due to him still being her patient. The doctor bids the commander goodnight as his head spins and his eyes close...

Morning comes, and much to the protagonist's joy, he wakes up to find himself able to move and talk without any pain or issues. He glances at Mary dozing off beside his bed, and considers waking her up to give the good news...except for one little problem. Or rather, a *big* one.

As the protagonist lifts the sheet to inspect himself, he notices that a certain "*Commander Jr*" is being *unusually large* this morning. While pondering on the *size* of this issue, Mary wakes up and notices his improved condition. After taking the man's thanks in stride, the doctor notices the...*burgeoning* problem below his beltline, and reminds him that last night's injection had some side effects in store, which she is required to check as his doctor make sure there's...nothing wrong.

In response to the protagonist's protests, Mary decides to profess that she's been holding back a lot of things ever since he fell ill and became her patient. Now that he's better, and technically no longer her patient, she has no real reason to *hold back* anymore. The protagonist relents on that point, and accepts some *special* treatment from Mary...

Two hours later, Neon greets Mary and the protagonist by the shore, about to suggest a fun game the latter can play now that he's recovered...only to notice how *fatigued* he seems and how Mary's face seems to be *glowing* right now. As the waterpower maniac rushes off to get her game ready, Mary looks to the protagonist and puts a finger to her lips.

The message is loud and clear for how nonverbal it is. Let what happened be another secret, one kept between the two of them alone~

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