- Mary is currently 30 years old.
- Colby is the name of her ship with Tommy (but nobody calls them that).
- Mary would always check on Tommy's wounds. Her, looking at his cuts and bruises, patching him up, making sure all is alright is her love language.
- Mary takes care of and raises Charlie. They live together with Tommy at Arrow House.
- She started to sleep in his bedroom on her 30th birthday.
- She is loyal to Tommy. Do not try to seduce her, do not try to trash Tommy in front of her or make her believe that he is cheating on her.
- She is going to be the head nurse of the Grace Shelby Institute. For now, she is a nurse and is taking care of orphans.
- Her mother is White British and her father was Black Jamaican. He died during the first world war and her mother dumped Mary at an orphanage.
- She used to be abused by the racist nurses of the Orphanage she was dumped at. She still carries the whips and belts scars on her back.
- Mary has two beauty spots, one above her lip and the other under her left eye.
- She calls Tommy her "Black Stallion"
- Mary has brown skin, with green eyes. (inherited from her mother)
- Mary used to be a singer. She met the Peaky Blinders when she requested to become a singer at the Garrison Pub.
- Everyone (including Tommy) knows that Mary is in love with Tommy. Nobody knows when it started, but it was sometime before John died.
- She learned how to ride horses, so she could take care of the one at Arrow House, spend time with Uncle Charlie and Curly, and spend even more time with Tommy, doing something he loves.
- She is a very stubborn woman. Her determination is so intense that she never gives up and it takes a lot to make her change her mind. Especially if someone she loves is sick or injured.
- She just wants to take care of those she loves. Mary doesn't think she is loveable given the years of abuse at the hands of the nurses of her orphanage and her husband. Yet, she still wants to give her love to those who'd want it.
- Mary doesn't believe Tommy can ever love her. She thinks he's not over Grace's death yet and thinks he would want to replace her for his son. He hasn't shown her yet that he cared for her "like that". Besides, the fact he could very much have sex with someone else is putting her off. who would cheat on someone they claim to love? Lizzie really messed things up for them (but Tommy did too, by sleeping with Lizzie)
- Mary doesn’t want to die. She doesn’t want any of the people she loves, to die. She isn’t a suicidal character. However, people around her tend to die and she’s very worried about it. She lost her child at birth; she lost her husband to murder, and she doesn’t want to lose Tommy (and the rest of his family). John’s death truly hurt her, and she hasn’t recovered from it just yet.
- Mary has never been in love until she met Tommy. She had never been loved before, not by her mother (her father never knew about her, before the war), she had lost her son and the nuns whipped her to blood. Her husband never loved her, and he never protected her, never showed her comfort, love, and sweetness. She only saw her value as someone who could be used, or valuable. With Tommy and his family, she’s feeling something different. She discovered what True love was and her strong desire to be loyal, caring, loving, and nurturing to the man she loved. He treats her differently and she now has someone who cares for her. With Tommy, she can see a second chance at being happy, with someone who truly loves her and who considers her family. It’s something she’s never had before, and she considers it very precious. Tommy is her everything and he would get sides of her that nobody else knows. He would be loved in ways he’d never before. He is her everything and his happiness is her main goal.
- Mary doesn’t really show her anger with words. However, when she is angry, she will give you the silent treatment, the angry/ shocked gaze full of judgment, and would put some distance between you and her. (I.e; physically she’d take steps back. Or she’d call you by your last name.
- Mary drinks. She had sex and alcohol to cope with the pain of being a teenage bride, a teenage mother of a dead child. She usually copes by taking care of others.
- She tends to become silent and shoot a very intense look at the person she's upset with. She also tends to drink her way out of sorrow. She also likes to curse Tommy when he's making her feel good.
- Mary is a curvy young woman. She hasn't really lost the curves she gained when she became a mother and doesn't want to lose them. She loves those curves.
- Mary's only child, Paul, died after living for 30 minutes. It devastated her.
- Michael is obsessed with Mary. Long before he met Gina he fell in love with Mary but she rejected him due to her own feelings for Tommy. He never forgot about her, and even thought about her while fucking his wife. Michael no longer wants to wed Mary, but he wants to take her away from Tommy (who is the root of all of his issues, according to Michael)
- He sent an old friend of his Archibald "Archer" Worthington III after Mary, in a gambit that would see Tommy lose his most prolific business and have him lose the woman he loves in one swell swoop.
- Mary's former husband, Carter, was a former gangster who tried to escape his former mob. He seduced and abused Mary when she was just 14 years old, put a child in her, and borrowed money for the funerals of their son without telling her. He used to be very abusive with her and put her life in danger in the following years which led her to Birmingham. She doesn't want to live anything close to what she did with Carter and she hates the man for what he did to her.
- Mary isn't afraid of the life of a gangster, what she wants, however, is someone true to her. She wants someone who is genuine in their feelings and who would love her back.
- She considers Polly gray like a mother.
- She loved John like he was her brother and was devastated when he died.
- She considers Ada her sister and Arthur her brother and cares for them accordingly.
- She is a beautiful woman and an uncanny beauty. She was very popular as the singer of the Garrison.
- She is not afraid of Arthur's violent actions. She knows he would never hurt her. They became closer after the death of John because she was there for him when Tommy was more and more distant.
- Mary's resilient and far stronger than she is given credit for. Despite all that had happened to her, she still looks before her for a brighter future.
- Polly and Ada both had to convince her to stay with Tommy, but while Polly tried to put her expertise on matters of the heart, Ada tried to suggest Mary let loose a little bit.
- Her mother lives in London and for now, is having Mary watched but would, later on, try to get her killed to secure a marriage with an MP.
- Mary loves to dance. She hasn't danced with Tommy yet, but it's a matter of time before the two of them share one.
- Tommy doesn't like the idea of someone else sweeping Mary off of her feet. Still, he doesn't really do anything to show her that he actually wants her, which is frustrating at times. Mary loves him, and he really is lucky she is not interested in looking elsewhere.
- Mary is naive. She sometimes takes at face value whatever is said to her. She also doesn't realize when someone is hitting on her and wouldn't notice when Archer would try to seduce her.
- Mary once witnessed Arthur break the faces of people who tried to hurt her.
- Mary isn't involved in any illegitimate business. Tommy doesn't want her to know, and the rest of the family doesn't want her to know so she could be spared and protected from Police and scandals.
- However, Mary knows he's a gangster and while at times she's not happy with being kept in the dark, she still supports whatever the family wants to do.
- Ada calls her an "honorary Shelby" as an endearing way to let her know she's family.
- Lizzie doesn't like Mary (she hates her) and she would behave antagonistically against her several times. The worst she did was slap her out of anger but given the lecture she received from Tommy afterward, she would swallow her bile and slowly but surely move on. (including treating Mary better)
- Linda doesn't like Mary, but there again, who does Linda like?
- Mary is very cuddly when she's sleeping next to Tommy.
- Charlie had called Mary "Mom" once. It's something that would happen so much that he would stop trying to correct himself as soon as he grows older.
- When Duke would appear in the story, Mary would adopt him without a second thought.
-TBC-
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