#mary + soldierhood

[shallowseeker]

The thing with Mary is that Mary is and always was a child soldier in a way that John isn't.

Soldiers die for the Cause, they sacrifice for the Cause, and above all else, they die for each other. That's built into Mary's bones.

This is how the Campbell story begins and perpetuates.

Mary is young. She's desperate. Mother? Dead. Father? One foot in the grave as we speak. And John? Lying dead in front of her, felled to the ground because of Mary's hunting life.

Of course she's going to be vulnerable to make that deal. Of course she makes the deal.

She's been coerced, backed into a corner, torn up by grief. She crumples under the pressure of everything leading up to this moment.

But beyond the machinations and beyond the romance lies her soldierhood.

It tells her it's worth the cost.

She's used to doing the ugly thing.

(Find her "Queens" and she'll move to protect.)