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Mary Sue Sullivan

Location: Andy's room -> Hallway
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's academy uniform



Mary Sue's anxiety spiked when Zari left; had she done something wrong? Was there a social cue she missed, that she was maybe supposed to have left the two of them alone? Did people... really just suddenly have to leave sometimes? She had no idea, but it was almost everything she had to try to make sure that this worry and stress was not apparent on her face. She didn't want Andy to think she was some kind of weirdo who couldn't take a person leavi9ng her vicinity without going into a full blown meltdown, but she was having a difficult time processing the situation.

Taking a deep breath, she leapt at the opportunity to take some space to herself. She nodded quickly and stood up, saying "Yeah, I'll be back in a few." And stepped out the door, trying to block out the thought that maybe she'd come back and find the door not opening for her. The space she had now gave her the room she desperately needed to feel and embody her emotions, which would maybe help her not seem like a total freak in front of her new friend. She just wanted to be able to sit with a girl and watch a movie; why did this have to be so difficult?
Mary Sue Sullivan

Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's academy uniform



Mary Sue listened to Andy's answers, and couldn't help but feels a twinge of jealously. She had good, cozy moments like that with her parents; she loved them dearly and was grateful for what she had. A life like the one Andy was describing sounded almost idyllic in its own way. It triggered a nostalgia for a past that did not exist, as odd as that sounded. Mary Sue just smiled back, saying, "That sounds really nice." Not having words to put all her feelings into words in that moment.

Stepping into Andy's room, Mary Sue quickly took the task of helping set up, making sure there was a space for everyone to sit. She didn't want to intrude of Andy's space, but this was a thing they were all doing, not just a thing Andy as doing for them, and she wanted to make sure to contribute. She was really excited to get to do this, and you could tell by looking at her. One way or another, she just couldn't keep herself still at the moment; this was one of the first things she was able to do that was just fun since she got here.
Mary Sue Sullivan

Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's academy uniform



Mary Sue was very pleased with herself; getting them to leave the space full of people and music and so much stuff would hopefully be better for Andy, but it would almost certainly be better for Mary Sue. Concerned as she was for her friend, she also still wasn't in the best place, and getting everything to just slow down for a few moments would almost certainly help her recenter and process what had happened earlier. Taking one look back at the Haunted House, she frowned, still unsure as to exactly why such a thing would be around students, even if they were meant to be heroes.

Mary Sue raised her eyebrows at the idea of watching a black and white movie. She knew films used to be like that, and she wasn't against consuming something just for it being old, but it certainly felt like a weird choice. "How'd you get into movies like that?" She asked, not even really able to imagine what would possess somebody their age to try watching anything that ancient. There were just so many more, newer things to be preoccupied with.
Mary Sue Sullivan

Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's academy uniform



Mary Sue had a few things she was apparently pretty good at. She could think well on her feet, she was creative, and she'd obtained a kind of hypervigilance that made her very good at adjusting her responses and reactions on the fly. At this point, that last part of her wasn't something she cared for; it made her feel almost monstrous, and it was probably where her anxiety stemmed from, but at this particular moment, it was the thing that told her her new friend wasn't quite right. Though Andy was smiling and speaking of movies, her hands were unsteady. Something had hurt her.

Mary Sue gently placed her punch down, and thought carefully. Andy was hiding something right now, and there were two reasons, broadly, that people would refuse to say why they weren't doing well. They were either like Mary Sue, and scared of taking up space and making themselvescost something, or they didn't feel safe to do so. She thought she had a solution that could deal with either situation handily, or at least tell her what she was dealing with. Direct confrontation might upset Andy more, so instead, she agreed with Zari, "I think going to find movies; or watch one if Andy has any handy that she wants to share, could be fun! What do you wanna do, Andy?" Mary Sue gave her best friendly grin at her. She was confident she could make this girl feel better, and honestly? Solving somebody else's problems was exactly the kind of distraction she needed right now.
Mary Sue Sullivan

Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's academy uniform



Mary Sue smiled, she knew it was weird of her to ask, but she was feeling insecure, and hiding that felt borderline impossible at the moment. She had no idea what to watch, but she winced for a moment at the thought of getting anything that could give her flashbacks to what she just experienced. "Uh... I want to I think, Just no gore?" She said, flinching a bit at the thought of seeing anything that involved mutilation or even blood. Truth be told, that was far from the worst part of that haunted house, but it seemed like the most likely thing they'd encounter in a horror movie that she had to be worried about.

Beyond that, she really didn't know that much about horror as a genre, so she asked, "What kind do you like?" She was a little curious how much variety horror had; people were scared of all kinds of things, so she figured there must be a lot. A part of her thought that finding out what Andy liked would tell Mary Sue about her, and Mary Sue wanted to know about her teammate and friend. She wondered, briefly, if Percy would be interested in joining, but girl's horror night seemed like a fun thing to start doing, and so she resolved that she'd try to find some other time to spend with Percy. Now that she'd made it into the Contest, maybe she could make more time for friends. As she was thinking about this, she grabbed a cup of punch and sipped from it slowly; sugar was good for her right now.
Mary Sue Sullivan

Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's academy uniform



Mary Sue couldn't imagine having enjoyed the experience she had just gone through in the way Zari had, or even having the retrospectively positive view that Andy seemed to. She knew there was a lesson for her in the ordeal she'd experienced, but the memory hurt. She'd maybe be able to reflect with time and space, but certainly not now. She just wanted to put her mind absolutely anywhere else. She knew there was a commotion behind her, somebody also having a hard time, and a part of her thought about breaking off to go help, but that sounded far too difficult.

"Would it be okay if I joined you two for that drink?" Mary Sue was honestly not sure if that was an okay thing to ask, she'd never reacted like that around anybody before, and a part of her wasn't sure if they were tacitly asking to be left alone or not. If they were, she'd let them go, but already she was doing the calculation making sure to seem okay enough to be on her own. She didn't want to pressure them, if only because then she'd seem needy and her friends might not want to be her friends any more. Still, she very much didn't want to be alone right now.
Mary Sue Sullivan

Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's academy uniform



Mary Sue flinched at people rushing to her side, and every impulse in her headed was screaming for her to take some measure of control over herself. She was stuck with the idea that people seeing her like this, where she was broken, and a mess, and unable to curate every external emotion and response was the sort of thing that would ultimately make people not want to be around her, leaving her alone again. It was a terrifying thought, but even the deepest of fears could not dry tears. Her head was pounding, and her tears didn't stop, but she had regained a modicum of control over her mouth.

Drying what she could, she coughed, and tried to mumble out some kind of assurance that she was fine, but found words caught in her throat. The blood and horror of that was gruesome and painful and horrifying in its own right, but that idea of her; somebody who could be anybody, seem any way she wanted or needed to be; it was god awful. It was inhuman, and she knew she saw that monster in herself. That was not a trick of the nightmare, it was a capacity she was certain she had, and she didn't know what to do with that. Struggling to her feet, and looked at Andy and Zari, almost pathetically. "I'm... sorry." She didn't know if she was for her throwing a fit, or for a deep inauthenticity she was now acutely aware she possessed, but it was true. "I'll be okay, I promise." She said, specifically to Zari, though her eyes were still puffy, red, and wet.
Mary Sue Sullivan

Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Friendship



Mary Sue shrugged at Zari, if Zari wasn't serious about winning the competition, that was her prerogative, she supposed. Until their team could function as a unit, they'd always be worse than they could be. She didn't say it but she was relieved; she wanted to see how far she could go. A world where she, as a first year, helped stage an upset in the Contest, was one where she thought she might just be happy, at least for a little while. She needed to feel like it made sense for her to be here, and she still didn't, even with he knowledge of her power changing, even with everything she's done so far.

Entering the haunted house, Mary Sue steeled herself, but there was a pit in her stomach, flinching when she realized that she was very suddenly alone. She flinched from the shock, but quickly tried to take her her surroundings; a large cavern permeating the walls, stretching on for almost forever, holes of all sizes permeating the walls, but a clear path forward in front of her. She was twitchy from the sudden loss of Zari and Andy, but she tried to keep her mind sharp; this was safe... right?

Walking through, she felt as if she was being watched, as if every action she took was being calculated against. Her heartrate was rising quickly, and she nervously looked behind her shoulder to see nothing of not behind her, only to turn back and see a perfect copy of herself with a kind smile on her face. Jumping back, Mary Sue was ready to fight, but everything, the quick look of concern, the extending of hands, the open posture, told her that the person in front of her wasn't a threat. Lowering her guard, she choked out a "What the hell is going on?"

"Beats me!" The copy of herself responded, staying still for now, apparently not wanting to be the first to approach. "I started existing a few minutes ago..." A look of worry crossed her doppelganger's face "The house seemed to really mess up everyone else, maybe it's going to hurt me instead of you." She offered, and Mary Sue's face was filled with fear and remorse. Was that the idea? Torture her without every hurting her. She couldn't imagine something worse for a hero, but to helplessly watch as somebody is damaged in the most fundamental of ways.

"Well... let's make sure that doesn't happen." the young hero tried, closing the distance between the two of them, "We're heroes right? We save people." She rested a hand on her clone's shoulder, and forced a smile. "So I guess I just have to save m-" She started to say, but was interrupted by the shooting pain of a sword running through her gut. Almost more distracting than that though, was the almost melodic giggling of the copy in front of her, as the weapon phased out of existence. "You know, I think that's what I hate about us the most. Not that we're naive, because God knows we aren't, but that we think we're better than everyone else." She said, her voice dripping with a level of content that was previously absent.

As Mary Sue staggered back, she turned to run, needing to take some kind of space to reassess the situation but she was a wounded animal being cornered by a predator. No sooner did she turned away did she find herself chained to herself. "See, this is what I mean," her tone has taken to condescension, and she continued on as Mary Sue glared, and clutched her stomach. "Everybody who's walked out of here has been scared out of their mind, and you still think you're going to walk through unscathed. You're so scared of failure, not because you can't take it, but because you could never prepare for an outcome that you don't believe is possible."

While she was being monologued at, Mary Sue had thought herself clever, and had managed to conjure a tunic around her waist, pulling the wound tight, and stemming the bleeding that'd been leaving her weak and dizzy. Bearing her teeth, she lunged towards this awful version of herself, only to quickly find her arm being held behind her back, and her body pulled up close. Her eyes widened and she struggled helplessly, a knife suddenly pressed against her throat.

"Listen to me." The command was curt, short, and accentuated by the cold steel threatening to end her life. "You're going to die here, and that's okay. It's expected, it's probably what's right for us in the long run, but for as long as I exist, I want you to remember this." The blade pierced her skin, and Mary Sue could feel the rush of cold air hit her throat at an angle that it never ever should. "You are not special for being worse. You can work as hard as you want, fight as much as you can, but as you are, you are poison. Either give up, or accept what you are, but never try to act in spite of yourself" These were the last words Mary Sue hear as she fell to her knees. This couldn't be happening, this wasn't ever supposed to happen. But it was, and as she spiraled into unconsciousness, all her pain was gone, and she found herself lying on the floor, out of the house. She almost couldn't move, instead staying where she was in the fetal position, tear pouring soundlessly from her eyes.
Mary Sue Sullivan

Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's Academy Student.



Mary Sue kept her satisfaction that dysfunction had infected Zari's team to herself, she knew that eventually, it could come down to the two of them against on another, and as much as she wanted friends, it was tempting to make sure she'd have the advantage. Her head was caught on a few potential vectors of conversation actually, and she didn't quite know what to do. One one hand, people generally like being agreed with, and reinforcing Zari's instinct to self sabotage rather than try to talk things through would probably make them better friends, but it also felt like encouraging that was actively bad. The tension in this choice effectively made it so Mary Sue was stuck, unable to come up with a response that didn't seem in some way fundamentally incorrect. There was visible discomfort on her face, but she finally landed on expressing sympathy.

"I'm sorry you're going through that with your team." She said, which was true, Mary Sue wanted to win, but she wasn't sociopathic. Turning her attention to the topic of the haunted house, Mary Sue would by lying if she didn't admit she had some amount of fear at the topic of going in there, especially after watching people come out of it. Maybe the thought process was that, if they were supposed to be super heroes, then the things that scared them needed to be serious? She guessed that was true, but it was still a lot to take in. "Yeah, if you have horror movies scarier than whatever's in there, I'm pretty sure they're not allowed here." She said, trying to make light of the thing they were planning on walking into.
Mary Sue Sullivan

Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's Academy Student.



Mary Sue's entire body tensed as the results were unveiled, and when her teams name was called, she relaxed in a way that she hadn't for months. It's hard to say exactly what it was, but it was like the bulk of the stress she'd been carrying since she got here vanished. A grin spread across her face, and she punched the air, barely keeping herself from crying out loud in excitement. She was absolutely ecstatic, and though thoughts were creeping in on the best ways to prep for the Contest, tonight, she would allow herself to be happy and relish in this accomplishment.

Mary Sue could personally care less about the Savior of the School, but she was happy for them in spirit, she supposed. Instead, she focused on Andy, and said, "I really don't think I've ever seen any horror movies." Which was true, but she wasn't about to let it stop her, she continued, "Maybe you could show me some sometime?" She wasn't sure she'd have the best tolerance for anything too scary, but assuming her teammate wasn't out to traumatize her, she thought it might be fun, and it would give them a chance to spend time together doing something Andy liked.
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