mary-lotf

[mary-lotf]

The nice and accurate Mary guide

I realized despite Mary having a carrrd (Mary's archive) as the story is told through Ralphs eyes i've spoke very little about her outside of what she does in the island, so I'll try to introduce her:

Ref:

Mary is a 12 year old, going to 13. Despite her hard time socializing she is loud, chatty, curious , adventurous, passionate and ambitious and without fear to stand her ground. She is considered smart for her age by adults, and while it is true that she has an understanding of societary opression, specially towards women, she however has a hard time finding the grey areas in morality usually classifying people in good or bad.

She dreams of becoming a war photoghrapher just like her mother was before having her, as she is passionate for both history and photography.

Pre island:

Mary was born under a wealthy family. Her father is a college professor and war veteran and her mother used to be a photographer for a newspaper but left the profession after getting pregnant with Mary. They both love their daughter and want her to be a well educated girl so they encourage her on her ambitious dream of building a career for herself and are more than happy that her daughter has taken a liking to literature, her mother however feels reluctant about Mary's dream.

Mary also has a little sister called Clarice (@freakyelf-ontheshelf s creation), who is around the age of 6. She travelled on the plane with Mary, but she didn't survive the crash. Clarice is the girl Mary is said to be calling during the first chapter.

Growing up Mary was a very lonely girl, she wasn't well liked in school and often mocked for her temper and weirdly "boyish" mannerism, which led the girl to seek companionship in the in the books there are at the house library. This opened her eyes to the injustice of the world and helped her develop her morality system.

In island:

Much like it is told in the "archive" she is relegated to the chores of taking care of the littluns, which she is not pleased to take on at first. But as time passes by she grows more fond of the littluns as they seem to genuinely appreciate her, unlike the bigger boys. She mainly does the job of entertaining them by telling dramaticed bedtime stories and sometimes partakes in their games.

That's not the only thing Mary does however, sometimes she manages to sneak off and enjoy some time alone, exploring the island . In one of her little walks around the forest she comes across Saoirse, a stern looking girl she could swear she had never seen before. After days or maybe weeks of talking and building trust in one another, because despite the fact Mary is british and Saoirse is irish, making them enemies, Saoirse however refuses to make contact with the other boys and mary is already outcasted, so they find themselves only having eachother to lean into, they form an unlikely friendship. And so they both spend most of their days wandering around the forest or the beach looking for the important thing Saoirse has lost, or just disscussing about their lives in general.

She does get her period on the island wich only leads to more feelings of isolation and of vunerability, as if she wasn't isolated before. During her mestruation she is sent away and after that she is forbidden from touching the food others are going to consume it after, as all Mary touches becomes dirty for some of the kids.

After chapter 10 she joins Jacks tribe, not because she agrees with him or has a sudden turn of personality, but at this point in the story she is malnourished and overall in a position of complete vulnerability. All this time she has been aware that the hunters were dangerous, but now she knows that they are capable of killing a human, and that she has a high chance of being their next target as they already don't see her as an equal. So instead of fighting them, she decides to dull down and do as the hunters wish as she thinks this will keep her safe from them. if you read her archives you'll see she is far away from safe. This decision on joining Jack's tribe upsets Saoirse and her and Mary have an argument that leads onto the end of their friendship.

Relationships with other ocs:

She does have a close friendship with Saoirse (@freakyelf-ontheshelf's oc cause they are my realest ever) by design, it happens pretty much outside of the actual story so i didn't include her in the archive but since we both basically work together in the two girls we just decided to pair them.

https://www.tumblr.com/beeari/774368923045019648/fanart-for-freakyelf-ontheshelf-amazing-oc-dont?source=share (once Leah does Saoirses intro post i'll paste it here)

Other facts:

-She is based in both the concept of the Virgin Mary and Pepa Flores (Marisol). But the main motivation to create her was to make what I considered a realistic portrayal of what an only girl in an island full of boys would be like.

-Since the very first moments I came up with her character I was sure she wasn't making it out alive, so yes, she has been doomed from the very begginning.

-The anwer for what did the hunters do to get rid of her body is left unanswered deliberately, my interpretation is that they ate her, since it would give into the hog paralelism, but I haven't given her an actual method, and it isn't discussed at any point in my canon either.

-She acts tough but she is pretty insecure towards her physical appearance, she is not considered pretty by time period beauty standards. This is the main reason why she keeps her clothes on during the entirety of the island, despite how unconfortable they are. Her insecurities also make her very defensive and not taking well feelings of being percieved as dumb.

-Her favourite book genre is adventure books, specially Jules Verne.

-Her emoji in the ribbon 🎀

-She dies in canon but an older version of her (30 Y.O) is featured in another story of mine (not at all related in any way to lotf), where she is a crime journalist who looks for her friend who has recently dissapeared. She is not the MC but does put up a challenge for the main protagonist, who is the one who made her friend disappear, so if you see her in other works you know it is her. In this one she is a biker butch in the 90s. 🏳️‍🌈‼️

[mary-lotf]

-🎀

Ernst managed to capture a picture of these two fine ladies after he made acquaintances with Mary.

- Dorianne

(I hope I captured the essence of these two ladies! I have such a soft spot for female lotf ocs bc feminism wins guys)

Mary belongs to @mary-lotf

Kikita belongs to @lolita-ily & @kikita-answers-lotf

[mary-lotf]

Where did you come from!?-🎀

MAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -🦇

Hello Nat!

How's everything going? Are the others treating you right?

-🎀

[mary-lotf]

Hello lately due to personal reasons I've been pretty demotivated when it comes to working on the character of Mary even to the point of considering abandoning the blog. I'm really sorry I'm aware I'm taking an eternity, I'm just asking for a little patience thanks.

[mary-lotf]

That's pretty great... and...who is this cousin of yours? Maybe I know him.

MAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -🦇

Hello Nat!

How's everything going? Are the others treating you right?

-🎀

[mary-lotf]

Hi Mary, are you in good health today? I've been meaning to go into the woods to get more medicinal plants and I was wondering if you'd like to come with me?

-🦉

"Hello hello Asa, I'm in wonderful health, I woke up today fresh as a rose!!."

"I would love to go with you, I really would but I promised Clarence I would tell the story of Jack and the beanstalk. And no one wants the littluns causing a ruckus do we?"

-🎀

( @ask-asa-damon-lotf)

[mary-lotf]

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MARY APPRECIATION POST!!! I fw her so hard, she's my dawg. go talk to her at @mary-lotf and go support my boy @beeari

[mary-lotf]

MAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -🦇

Hello Nat!

How's everything going? Are the others treating you right?

-🎀

[mary-lotf]

Asa, What's your favourite flower?

-🎀

When I was in the hospital my parents would be given chrysanthemums and lilies so those, I'd say.

-🦉

[mary-lotf]

Mary references🎀

I want to clarify that you don't have to draw her so dirty and messy that's just how I realistically imagine she would look, but you can of course omit the sunburn and all.

-Ari 🐝✌️

[mary-lotf]

thanks a lot! <33

quite beautiful drawing ^^

-Ari🐝

Mary🐝

(My attempt at poetry)

Like bees, You may not find her pretty But she’s got a heart of Gold As time is old

Mary my girl deserves betterrrrr😭😭😭😭😭😭

(lesbian Mary shrine)

Mary belongs to @beeari

[mary-lotf]

Just something I thought about the first time I read kikita also took the task to take care of the littluns.

So yeah kikita🦋 and Mary🎀 just chilling and chatting.

[Please ignore the fact that Mary is a high class privileged british white girl.]

Kikita is @lolita-ily s girl

-Ari🐝

[mary-lotf]

hey mary! what do you think of the choirboys? merridew, roger, maurice, that one popular kid with green eyes or something, and the blond kid with petty issues or whatever i forgot

I'm not really too fond of the choir boys…And I believe the feeling is mutual. 

Jack’s quite frankly a stuck up prick who thinks so above everyone just because he hunts  and all the other choir boys follow him like a bunch of brainless sheeps,when half of them don’t even like him, everyone can tell. I bet he doesn’t even know how to tie his own shoes.

Roger and Maurice are also pricks, they keep bothering the littluns, and who’s the one who has to calm them down after? yes Me. At least Maurice says sorry after, which I guess is something…Roger on the other hand doesn’t care, he even throws rocks at littluns! Can you believe it! He is heartless and creepy. I tend to stay as far away from him as possible.

I haven’t interacted with Everette much but it pisses me off how I feel he is always looking at me as if judging what I do. If you don’t like my methods then come and do it yourself Buddy!

The guy with green eyes I guess is norman, there’s kids with green eyes in the choir but his are green green you know, there’s not much to say about him, I believe we haven’t interacted but his smugs smile makes me want to approach him even less, and i’m sorry to say it but he is not as cute as i’ve heard girls say he is, i don’t see the appeal sorry not sorry.

There’s also Michael, not to mistake Micheal, who doesn’t seem like a bad guy but he is not trustworthy if he goes around doing errands for Jack.

I guess not all of them are that bad. Nat is a lovely kid, he is so sweet and cheerful and has a huge imagination, a bit naive but he is still young so i can’t blame him,  real shame who he associates himself with.

And with Simon is complicated, we have barely spoken a word to one another but he always likes to sit down for a while and listen every time I tell a little tail to the littluns, he is a little peculiar but he is not a bad kid, and he always brings me fruit whenever i’m casted out. So I like him

Asa is also a peculiar case, I think he wants me around and seems he likes to chat but suddenly I says something he doesn’t like and he get’s all pissy and defensive, and even says some really nasty things that anger me, so I constantly feel like I have to be walking on my tippy toes which leads me to believe maybe he doesn’t like me as much as I thought. There's also the fact that he is part of the hunters ....Maybe he acts friendly with me because he just doesn’t want to be on bad terms since we both have to work together when a littluns get’s hurt. Despite that I think he is lots nicer than what he lets people see and he is also super smart, he knows lots of stuff.

I think that’s all the ones I know off...

-🎀

Norman belongs to @msfisherot

Everette belogs to @everettes-requiem

Miike is quite literally @ashenmxs

Nat belongs to @vampiric-kitty

And Asa belongs to @feathery-bastard

the guy of @mikeru-funzies also get's mentioned ig

And of course Mary belongs to moi <3

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[mary-lotf]

Just a few facial features that I feel are not well enough appreciated due to my art style but they are important to me

If it looks a little weird is because i drew this on my computer, which I'm not really used to but oh well, i'll have to wait for a few days.

-🐝

[mary-lotf]