#her death setting the plot in motion both by getting Neil passively suicidally stuck in Millport and also being the first domino that allow
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Something that drives me insane about Mary is that while I find the ending to her story (getting murdered by the man who made her entire adult life hell) to be profoundly depressing there is some sense of justice and satisfaction on the fact that Nathan and his inner circle take pleasure in torture and in desecrating and disposing corpses and while they caught her they couldn't keep her. They didn't even know she was dead until they kidnapped Neil. And neither did the Hatfords! She didn't want to stay with them in life and so she doesn't stay with them in death either. Her ashes are scattered in the beach and no one is ever going to trap her again.
#*chappel roan voice* she got she got awayyyyy#mary hatford#i do think people take the term haunting the narrative WIDELY out of conext but if theres a aftg character that comes close to it its her#her voice in Neil's ear. the name she called him by being the only thing true about himself and the only part of his old life he ever keeps#her death setting the plot in motion both by getting Neil passively suicidally stuck in Millport and also being the first domino that allow#Neil to get free at the end of the trilogy since Nathan got arrested in Seattle after hunting her there and that's what doomed HIM#and the fact that the only version we get to know of her is through the extremely biased lenses of Neil's memory#whoever she really was however she really felt behind the mask of Neil's indomitable paranoid ruthless mother belongs to nobody#god I love Mary DOWN. wished we got more freaky about her and her fucked up relantionship to Neil more often#I also think that Mary's presence shapes the story in the same way Kayleigh's absence does#and in that same way that death frees Mary it traps Kayleigh.#and Tilda is also here I guess. sorry girl#i have elaborated on that a bit on the dmw prologue but I have to do it MORE#also is the bottom of this endless tags the approapiate time to soft launch my hc that Tetsuji is in posession of Kayleigh's urn?
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