CHARACTER ANALYSIS: Mary TVD

 CHARACTER ANALYSIS: Mary TVD

Living... At Mystic Falls

Profession... She has a shop. We can call her a naturopath or a herbalist.

Interests... She enjoys animals. She loves helping others, she would genuinely go out of her way to help people regardless of their nature. She loves going to fine restaurants or a bar and she loves to laugh and have long conversations. She’s been touch-deprived for centuries and is also very lonely due to her curse and the danger she represents. So she compensated for her solitude by reading and watching tv shows.

Relationship Status... She and Klaus are… getting somewhere. At least she realized she wanted to build a life with him. It’s very recent but they have clicked very well. 

Challenge... building relationships in a world where humans, werewolves, vampires, witches, and vampires are her natural enemies? Who could she trust? When Elijah had times and times again broken her heart? When Klaus with whom she has a genuine connection tends to disappear at will and come back when he sees fit? She can’t stay in the same place for too long before something goes off.  She doesn’t trust people and she doesn’t trust herself because most of the time, there is a trail of death where she lives. People always turn on her, and people always try to kill her. So she doesn’t build relationships. Elijah was the only one and even he treated her more like an asset than a person. She doesn’t open up very easily and usually retreats to her usual coldness when she feels hurt. Also, she has anger issues, (because of how painful that curse is) and every day is very difficult to spend without letting anger overwhelm her. (when she feels anger or any negative emotion, the curse activates, and she suffers physically. She is tormented by the souls of the coven that was sacrificed for the curse to be cast) She doesn’t trust she can ever be happy again but has decided that helping others would be her saving grace. 

Personality... Mary is aloof. She tends to keep people away from her. She’s been hurt, mostly because she kept losing everything she had. Her family was slaughtered by Klaus. Her coven cursed her when she helped the Mikaelsons (which she believes is unfair and undeserved). She lost her coven because of that curse, and she lost the ability to blend in and make friends because of it too. All the people she tried to befriend either ended up dead (killed by her in self-defense because they turned on her or killed by other people because they helped her). Elijah, who was the only being who visited her over those centuries spent alone didn’t care that deeply about her. He never bothered bonding with her despite being the reason for her curse. So, she’s upset, angry, and hurt. She also tends to keep to herself unless asked a question (she’s blunt and wouldn’t hesitate to say truths to your face without sugar-coating it.)  She’s sincere, determined, cautious, and akin to a cat, really.  But she has a lot of love to give despite everything and she believes in second chances.