#but she is not my favorite in yhe game btw (that's yosuke and teddie) but marie is up there

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Talk about Marie's SL to us. What about it made you love it as much as you say?

It likely has something to do with my enjoyment of characters who have amnesia. One of my comfort games is Pokemon mystery dungeon where you lose your memory in every game, and then there's fire emblem awakening where you also play as an amnesiac protagonist.

I was genuinely just intrigued by Marie's social link because I wanted to know who she was if we were able to figure that out. You're seeing her interact with the player as well as the other characters were just fun and it may be kind of sad that she just wasn't a proper party member cuz she would have fit in great. (One of the few gripes I had with golden)

At the time I thought her social life was okay but it wasn't bad. It wasn't Yosuke, Konishi or Shu levels of amazing. It's not until I got into the golden content which added a whole other layer to her character. She from somebody who accepted that she'll never know who she was, to struggling to accept who she is when she does find out and trying to off herself because of it. Her boss fight is also amazing because you're trying everything in your power to change her mind and make her accept herself like you did with the others, except that you can't do that here.

It's much like how humans are. Some can open up a lot easier compared to others. And sometimes those who have a harder time opening up takes a lot of work to actually develop a relationship that could be a platonic or romantic.

You can also add the layer of izanami being her other self/ reincarnation. Whereas izanami struggled to accept truth or is trying to deter the player from the truth. Meanwhile Marie is struggling with the truth that she is the catalyst for the end of the world essentially. And her only resolution is to remove herself from the narrative. This ends with her essentially putting all of her faith in the party because of how strongly she feels towards each and every one of them, especially the player.

It all comes into the head once you beat the game and the payoff is seeing how much she's changed. At first she was kind of annoying and a little broody and she called you names every chance she God just because you looked at her funny to this bright and sunny individual who has finally accepted herself and her place in this world.

And it made me really happy to see her "transformation" in the epilogue