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snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
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Mary's innate nature, I believe, is towards a caring and loving person who sometimes finds herself frustrated with her inability to let it go--loving someone so much that it drives her absolutely mad, particularly when they're being foolish or acting dangerously. Loving someone so much that she feels there's no option but to put herself in a more dangerous situation, just to protect them. That's Mary's true self, the person who is so compassionate and so caring that she'll separate herself from the ones she truly loves for their own benefit.
She's no angel at her core, either. No truly benevolent and pacifistic angel would have signed up to be an intelligence operative. There are bad people in the world. Maybe before she had completed her training, before she worked independently with AGRA, she wasn't one of those people--but by the time she meets Watson, she knows she is one of those bad people too. She's killed people. There is no canon discussion of what work she has done explicitly, however her behaviors and her statements ("People like Magnussen should be killed. That's why there are people like me.") suggest that she does not and would not kill indiscriminately. Yes, she is a rogue operative who works for hire, but one gets the impression that AGRA has principles that they are unwilling to sacrifice. Mary can't say she swears to do no harm--she has. But it is carefully and meticulously calculated harm, and this is the portion of her self that rings true even when all veils of her various personalities are stripped.
She is entrapped by her past, and it colors her future actions so fully that there is no way to disentangle the two selves from one another. There is the personality of Mary the assassin, who is so cold and distant, who is clinical and manipulative. There is the personaity of Mary the nurse, who is compassionate and gentle, witty and friendly. And then there remains just Mary Watson, the only life that was worth living.
Mary loves John, so very much--and it shows. But she is still distant, both before and after her secret is revealed. Before is obviously her attempt to keep him from knowing; after is her each and every attempt to keep him away from danger when it might come after her. She runs around the world to try and drag Ajay after her and keep him away from her husband. Above all else, Mary loves her husband and would do anything and everything to keep him loving her.
And while Mary cares very much for Sherlock, she is still just as manipulative and self-serving as an assassin could be. She shoots him to make herself an exit, in an attempt to try and keep her secret to herself. How do we know she cares from him? After shooting him, she immediately dials 999 for an ambulance. She might be willing to shoot him, but she'd hardly leave him for dead. This is a moment truly characteristic of Mary's core personality: a bit manipulative, self-serving for certain, but also thinking ahead and careful, intelligent and willing to put her needs to an extent aside. And how else does Mary put her own needs aside in this moment (she does shoot Sherlock to serve herself)? Her goal in that apartment was to kill Magnussen, and she had him on his knees when Sherlock walked in. She let the man go, because killing him would leave her husband the only suspect.
The ultimate sign of love that Mary has for both of her boys, however, is in her own death. It's a sign of her fierce loyalty and compassion for both John and Sherlock, I think, when she takes a bullet meant for the detective. It also shows how well she knows both of them (how intelligent she must be; how quick-witted she is to have figured it all out so quickly, in the blink of an eye while a bullet is being fired at her). Mary is perceptive enough to know, long before her final moments, that John Watson could survive without her, but that he can't without Sherlock Holmes. And she similarly knows that the reverse is true for Sherlock.
And her calculating, forward-thinking, organized mind knows how to plan for this. Before her death, she leaves a video diary for Sherlock. She is calculating and perceptive enough to know that her husband will be in shock, will walk through the world in a daze--and that his best friend will be high and looking for the next thrill. And Mary is just slightly manipulative, as she's shown before. Her video tells Sherlock to pick the biggest fight he can, because John won't let himself be saved but that he can't help but save others. And John? Well, maybe she didn't expect him to jump right to saving the detective he was so furious with...but she expected he might know where to find the disc with the video she'd left.
Mary saw death in her future, and when running didn't work, she just accepted it as inevitable and prepared her small family as best she could. Because she loved them. Because she was so fiercely protective of them and when she couldn't physically protect them any longer she would ensure she'd at least try and lay the groundwork for the people she cared for the most. She manipulated them both using the video she'd left behind, in hopes to heal a bit of the hurt she knew her death would cause.
This is Mary's true self, and it's so entangled with the person she becomes as an assassin that it is really difficult to bring them apart. The rash decision maker who jumps in front of a bullet, who seems like she's not thought a damn thing through (a wife and a mother, who sacrifices her life for a detective who lives alone and has "no friends"?). The critical thinker who planned in advance, who expected to die, and who already started to create the salve that would heal the people she hurt the most. A person who is kind but manipulative, protective but distant. She's the person who loves so much it hurts.
ACCEPTED
A one bedroom apartment. It's a bit cramped, with the kitchen and living room one combined room, a small bathroom with an unworking shower and no tub, and a bedroom that only has room for a twin bed, but it keeps some of the chill away. A plate-sized eye symbol has been drawn in ballpoint pen on every wall in the house, and beside each one is "Drawn on Day 161 by Dr. G. House."
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ACCEPTED =D