Mary Walker

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 * image1=Typhoid1.png
 * image2=Typhoid2.jpg
 * caption=
 * fullname=Mary Alice Walker
 * codename=Typhoid Mary
 * position=Quite Contrary
 * age=25
 * race=Mutant
 * role=Villain
 * type=Marvel FC


 * quote=

"WHO WANTS TO FUCK?! ...I mean, WITH ME. WHO WANTS TO FUCK WITH ME, NOW?!"


 * overview=

Bad things turn good girls into bad ones. Mary Walker is a good girl, she swears, cross her heart. But she's a fragment, a piece of a whole -- there are others inside, jostling for position. There's Mary, pure, angelic. Bloody Mary, vengeful, misandrist. And Typhoid, all heat and sickness, all sex and blood. Gifted with the mutant power of pyrokinesis, Typhoid gets her kicks in the murder-for-hire biz, and leaves utter chaos for the rest of herself (and anyone foolish enough to follow) to sift through afterward.


 * sheet=

Character Sheet

Abilities: Power

Pyrokinesis: 4, Telekinesis: 2, Telepathy: 4

Abilities: Skill

Combat: 2/7 Manipulation: 4/9

Advantages: Money, Multiplicity, Reputation, Secret Id

Flaws: Boys, Fever, Self-Destructive, Sinking Career, Split Identities, Walking Chaos

Languages: English

Abilities

Power: Pyrokinesis (4)

Limitation: Level of access/control varies by dominant personality.

The most violent manifestation of Typhoid Mary's mutantcy is her ability to start fires with her mind. Obviously, the things she wants to burn must be combustible, and there must be sufficient atmosphere for fire to burn. With a casual thought, she can start a small fire in the environment. With some effort, she's capable of igniting a human being's clothes or flesh. With extreme effort -- such that she rarely performs this, because she's often busy with other tasks -- she can immolate a human completely.

As with her other powers, Typhoid's level of control varies from personality to personality. Mary Walker has no access to this power. Typhoid Mary has full access, and probably the greatest control of the three personae -- certainly, she uses it the most. Bloody Mary also has full access, but is less skilled than Typhoid, because she doesn't use it as much.

Mary is not immune to the results of her powers, and will burn if she happens to catch fire.

Power: Telekinesis (2)

Limitation: Level of access/control varies by dominant personality.

One of the powers in Mary's psionic suite is telekinesis, the power to move things with her mind. She has no actual training beyond her own use throughout her life, and as such, she is a markedly deficient practitioner compared to most active-in-violence teeks.

Mary can only match the strength of an average human in carrying telekinetic burdens, and as such, she tends to focus on small, easily manipulated objects, such as knives. If she needs an unfair advantage in a fight, she can use the power to disrupt the environment (knocking something into someone's path) or give her opponent a shove. Anything beyond this requires concentration that she doesn't have the time or the patience for.

Like all of Mary's powers, her telekinesis is given different levels of prominence amongst her three distinct personae. Mary Walker has no access to this power. Typhoid Mary has full access, but her impulsive nature and focus on close-quarter-combat (and close-quarter-ignition) mean that she is not very handy with it. Bloody Mary has full access, and is the most skilled with this power by far, often using it to assemble makeshift armor pieces out of knives and razors.

Power: Telepathy (4)

Limitation: Level of access/control varies by dominant personality.

One of Mary's less remarked-upon mutant powers is her telepathy. Lacking formal training in its techniques, Mary has instead learned via doing -- resulting in a limited but well-honed bag of tricks. She'd be snuffed out like a candle in a psychic battle with Jean Grey or Moondragon, but hers is the power to cloud men's minds.

Mary's telepathy is typically used as a hypnotic mechanism: she implants suggestions into people's minds. This mental subterfuge is often accompanied by an empathetic reading of the target, so that Typhoid can tailor her speech/behavior to make her implanted suggestions more effective. In some cases, with effort, she can simply brute-force hack the brain and make people sleep, but this usually is only successful against those with weak psychic defense.

Mary's powers are, as stated, largely untrained. Those with strong psychic defenses or strikingly high willpower are capable of deflecting or overcoming her hypnotic entreaties.

As with her other powers and skills, Mary's telepathy is partitioned between her personalities. Mary Walker has no access to this power. Typhoid Mary has full access, and makes the most use of it; it's actually her most dangerous weapon. Bloody Mary has full access, but largely ignores it, because she doesn't care about how people feel or what she can make them do, other than die.

Skill: Combat (2/7)

Limitation: Level of access/control and specific techniques vary by dominant personality.

As always, Typhoid's skills are divided amongst the three discrete sections of her collective psyche.

The 2 represents Mary Walker. Mary Walker has taken a few women's self-defense courses, and that is about the extent of her combat prowess.

The 7 represents Typhoid Mary and Bloody Mary, both of whom are skilled, even savage opponents. Both of these personae are in Olympic physical condition and black belts in Judo and various Judo-derived techniques several times over. Their precise fighting styles differ by personality: Typhoid is a mistress of Zen swordsmanship (to the point of deflecting bullets with her swords) and utilizing her pyrokinesis mid-battle, while Bloody Mary is better with thrown weapons, guns, and telekinetic attacks. Despite these differences, broadly speaking they are on a par with one another.

Skill: Manipulation (4/9)

Limitation: Level of control varies by dominant personality.

The three sides of Mary all practice different forms of manipulation, most of which are effective at skewing a playing field to her own advantage.

4: Mary Walker doesn't actively manipulate people into doing what she wants, although she is a soap-opera-level actress. She does, however, often passively manipulate people by being such a sad-sack naif -- it's only natural to want to take her under your wing and heal her many problems.

9: Typhoid Mary is the dirtiest player in the game when it comes to this stuff. She'll get people, especially men, so turned around they won't know what they're even doing anymore -- and she'll be in total control the whole time, giggling. She uses telepathy, seduction, blackmail, threats, begging, faux obedience... whatever works. And she always finds what works.

0: Bloody Mary's idea of manipulation is manipulating a knife right into your face, and then doing so a whole bunch more times until your face is no longer a face.

Advantages

Advantage: Money

Murder, as it turns out, is lucrative. Typhoid has enough money in various places to make a clean getaway and never work again. How much is hard to calculate, because there are accounts and holdings that one personality has, without informing the others...

Advantage: Multiplicity

Perhaps due to complications from her psionic powers, Mary's dissociative identity disorder is even more of a puzzle to extra-sensory or extra-sensitive individuals. A telepath reading Typhoid Mary's mind would not be able to recognize Mary Walker's mind later. Everything about her physiology changes, even down to her scent, confounding the likes of Daredevil.

Advantage: Reputation

Typhoid Mary is a favorite assassin of Wilson Fisk, Kingpin of Crime. This -- along with her gory handiwork -- gives her a certain infamy. This is useful, since other mercs know who she is and what she's capable of. This is also a bit of a negative, because it puts her on the radar of people like the Punisher. Mostly useful, though.

Advantage: Secret Id

Not only is Typhoid Mary's government name -- Mary Walker -- a secret from her enemies (and allies), the activities of Typhoid and Bloody Mary are largely a secret from Mary Walker. Those who attempt to catch her in her civilian life will find a scared young woman who quite literally wouldn't know what anyone is talking about. Not everyone would show mercy, but enough do to make it useful.

Flaws

Flaw: Boys

Typhoid is a survivor of abuse, and the key moment in her life is arguably when she was kicked out of a window while working as a prostitute. Despite or because of this, she -- Typhoid specifically -- pursues men who are actively bad for her, and who pose some sort of danger to her freedom or health. Mary Walker, meanwhile, is constantly in need of a white knight, and Bloody Mary embodies the Swans album title 'Public Castration Is a Good Idea.' To say that all three have weird, dysfunctional relationships with men is an understatement.

Flaw: Fever

When Typhoid Mary is the dominant persona in Mary's body, she manifests physiological changes unique to that identity: namely, that she seems to be perpetually running some kind of fever, complete with elevated body temperature and tendency to sweat.

Flaw: Self-Destructive

Mary's three personae fight for control, and as such, often attempt to sabotage the other two. For this reason, each persona attempts to keep secrets from the other two, but this is not always successful. These conflicts generally play out as passive-aggressive, subconscious trip-ups -- Mary Walker will suddenly throw her weight around, such as it is, and screw up a plan of Typhoid's (or, far more often, vice versa).

Flaw: Sinking Career

Because of the activities of Typhoid Mary and Bloody Mary, the 'normal' persona, Mary Walker, is unable to properly maintain her career, acting in television soap operas. Because her other personalities like to run around all night killing people, Mary Walker is an unreliable talent at best, prone to missing days or having on-set breakdowns. While this worked for Angelina Jolie, it has not yet borne such fruit for Mary.

Flaw: Split Identities

Mary has dissociative identity disorder, with three distinct personalities/identities who all operate as fully autonomous individuals, limited only by the one body that they share. They generally exist in a state of grudging truce (or, rather, each personality threatens to destroy things the other ones love), but when they fight, it gets ugly.

This constant instability is, of course, hard to predict and control in practical terms. Mary's psyche is a minefield, at constant risk of explosion. Sometimes, shifts from one dominant personality to another are enacted by means outside of the group dynamic: traumatic violence or abuse from men can trigger Bloody Mary roaring to the fore, etc.

Flaw: Walking Chaos

The problem with having dissociative identity disorder -- well, one of the problems, but a big one -- is that one's three discrete identities will all try to lead their own lives. Mary's three personae fight for dominance of the body they share, and because of this constant instability, it's hard for ANY of the three to maintain real, functional lives. Anyone pulled into any of their orbits is thus subjected to the whirlwind that is their union, which often bears harmful consequences for all involved.


 * associations=

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 * Name=Deadpool
 * Link= Wade Wilson
 * Image=Deadpool_Sunday_Best.png
 * Text=Wade is Mary's ex-boyfriend. He's also currently one of her roommates.  You can imagine just how wonderfully this all works out.  After meeting back up with him during a very unfortunate bombing of a diner, she reconnected with him and bonded while playing Hide and Seek from the "po-po."  After he ruined her first "date" with Harley, the three of them somehow came together and decided to make a penthouse, a place for all of them to stay.  The roommateship has been pretty rocky, so far, what with chalupas, the subsequent farts, and constant filth accruement due to Wade's sloppy bachelor lifestyle and penchant for blowing his brains out to meet up with Death.  Mary may not be able to stomach living with him for much longer, but she's there for the time being.  While she has a like/tolerate/hate relationship with her ex-boyfriend, she's somewhat sure she can call on him if she ever had a real need for assistance--knowing that would include all the chaos she could(n't) handle.
 * Name=Harley Quinn
 * Link= Harleen Quinzel
 * Image=Harley_Quinn2.png
 * Text=Mary's relationship with Harley is as complex as it is...carnal. After seeing one another multiple times during the ins and outs of psych-wards and court-imposed-committals, Mary finally met up with Harley during a downswing in her long-lasting relationship with Mr. J.  The two of them felt a chemistry--Mary, for the sexy little blonde with a broken heart; Harley, for a redhead with a lust for murder--and they came together as lovers, despite Deadpool's ruining of their first "date" (which consisted of a cold sidewalk and a bottle of blue-flavored Wine Drink).  When they moved in together, along with Wade, things really heated up and they became a regular item, complete with Bud and Lou finding a spot on Mary's bed, somehow.  There are some minor tensions already, however, due to Harley following Mary to an important secret meet, which has led to her having to tie up Harley before she leaves the house if she needs to ensure she's not tailed by the enthusiastic clown princess.
 * Name=Sabretooth
 * Link= Victor Creed
 * Image=Vic2.jpg
 * Text=Mary's growing increasingly...fond of Victor Creed. She's not sure how or why, but there seems to be a sort of spark between them that doesn't go away when she gets up in the morning.  No matter how many times she tries to lose him, he always turns up as though nothing of the kind had been taking place, as though he simply belongs there, with her.  Their relationship has grown increasingly passionate, which leads to some rather...sore and painful mornings for Mary.  After Creed took her to meet Magneto, a noted scientist among other things, she got an idea into her head.
 * Name=Rain
 * Link= Winter Moontree
 * Image=Rain-01.jpg
 * Text=Since coming into contact with Victor Creed, Mary's learned that, sometimes, lovin' can be painful--in a very real and lasting sense. As a result, she's had to seek out help from another, due to her lack of regeneration factor.  That person just so happens to be Rain, a witch and occult detective who lives in an amazingly quirky house and brings out a softer side of Typhoid Mary that very few others probably see.  Rain is on retainer for Mary to heal her, if she ever needs it, and Mary has also offered to come if Rain is in need of assistance.
 * Name=Magneto
 * Link= Erik Lehnsherr
 * Image=Erik01.jpg
 * Text=Again, through her association with Victor Creed, Mary was able to meet the formidable man known as Erik Lehnsherr, or more commonly called Magneto. After a very pleasant introduction at a celebration of the opening of the Staten Island Mutant Action Center, Mary felt comfortable enough--or, perhaps, desperate enough--to seek out Magneto's help with an idea she got into her head.  Being with Victor was, literally, going to kill her.  She didn't know how to hold back, and neither did Creed.  Her body, unfortunately, did not seem to agree with this set up.  So, a bleeding wreck, she went to Magneto, on the verge of passing out.  She told him her story, he offered an option and warned her of the risks involved...and she took him up on that offer.  Now, she is receiving regular treatments from the man, being injected with nanites that help her body heal faster than normally capable.


 * history=

Born to a pair of people who never should've had children, Mary Alice Walker grew up rather quickly in the skeezy, filthy streets of Brooklyn, New York. Her father--a domestically abusive man, a junkie, a betting tout, and unscrupulous bastard--didn't wait very long to start pushing little Mary to "earning her keep." When she turned the ripe age of ten, he started selling her (in place of her mother) out to his friends, dealers, bookies, and loan sharks to pay his debts. After the first night of her daughter screaming for someone to save her, her mother killed herself by leaping out a window from their fifth floor apartment in the slums--in Mary's view, she escaped and got freedom from the abuse.

For a while, there was no such escape for Mary. Her father forced her to sleep in the tiny closet, because it had a lock on the outside. She was kept barely nourished--so she didn't gain too much weight--and stocked in makeup and clothing that was far too mature for her. No matter what she did, how hard she begged, she was forced to sleep in that tiny, suffocating closet. She learned not to scream when she was put in the closet, as it ended in a beating until she was unconscious. So, she shut down and became comatose.

During those long nights, where she only slept if she passed out from exhaustion, Mary's mind bubbled and roiled. Her rage and fear mixed a deadly concoction that was volatile--and, she was just waiting to explode. It is commonly thought that Typhoid was the first splinter to explode from Mary's consciousness and take over. Even Typhoid thinks so, and she lords this over Bloody. However... Bloody was actually the first. During a particularly disgusting session with a dealer who liked little girls, Mary's eyes went unfocused and her body went limp. The dealer called her father in, complaining that she wouldn't move or react.

The second her father laid his hands on her, Mary's pupils narrowed dangerously and her mind exploded. She screamed an inhuman howl and his clothes burst into flames. The dealer tried to run away as Mary's father began screaming and trying to slap the flames out. Mary's murderous eyes flicked in his direction and the dealer also burst into flames. She got up off the bed, calmly gathered her things--some clothes, her purse, some money lying on the table, her coat, and shoes--and she set the rest of the apartment on fire, lighting various things as she walked slowly through the apartment.

Bloody checked herself into a shady-as-fuck motel with the last ounce of energy she had, and putting the chain on the door, passed out. She slept for a whole day. She woke up as Mary. She had no idea where she was or what happened--only that she was...free. The owner of the motel comes banging on the door, wanting more money, because she only paid for a day. Mary cowered in the corner until the man went away. She took a shower, got herself dressed, and ran away.

Living on the street was a scary prospect, but she knew how to hide and be quiet. She ate out of Dumpsters and washed herself in public restrooms. She knew this wasn't going to last for long. She had to find a way to survive. No other skills at hand, save selling her body, she turned to prostitution. Being fifteen, quite pretty, painted in garish makeup, and dressed immodestly, she was wandering the Red Light District. She shied away from the men who came looking at her, but a woman approached her and, almost immediately, Mary went with the woman. It just so happened that the woman was a madame in the Kingpin's employ.

She was doing well, for a while. She was popular among the johns, being meek and grateful for not being abused or overly degraded. However, when one of her late father's skuzzy friends darkened her doorstep, Mary snapped. Her defenses were down, and when the man pointed at her and exclaimed her name, started yelling about the apartment burned to nothing, how she was supposed to be dead... Mary's eyelid twitched and Bloody threw out her hand and the man's knife flew neatly into it. Charging him with an animalistic howl, she stabbed him in the chest and kept stabbing, even as the man stumbled backwards.

Eyes wild and bloodlust high, Bloody barreled through the door only to see...a strange lad(?) in an odd outfit accosting her fellow prosties. Being secretly in love with no less than three of them, she dove into the fray and, not wanting to scare her crushes, she decided against setting the room on fire. Unfortunately, the strange lad(?) landed a solid kick to her midsection as she tossed her favorite crush out of harm's way... And, she flew backwards, crashing through the window. Not unlike her mother before her, just in drastically different circumstances. She lost consciousness to the sounds of her sister prosties screaming while being attacked by some strange lad(?) in an odd outfit, kicking and punching his way through their ranks.

Lying in the snow, she slipped into a coma. While in the hospital, her care paid for by Kingpin, things are cleaned up for her. The man she stabbed multiple times was an assassin for the Kingpin, making use of his connections to get a freebie at one of the Kingpin's brothels. Kingpin doesn't take lightly to the assassin's sloppiness and has him killed--officially, he died of complications in the hospital. When she awoke from coma, Typhoid was finally in control. Her heart rate spiked as she ripped out her IV and began climbing out of bed. When her sensors suddenly disconnected from her, alarms went off and a doctor rushed into the room. Seeing the coma patient was distressed, her eyes wild and seemingly unsteady on her feet, the doctor reached for a hypodermic with a sedative in it. Before she could be sedated, however, she stabbed the doctor in throat with the needle.

Unfortunately, she was overpowered by multiple orderlies who came in after the doctor, all the while she struggled she screamed the names of her sister prostitutes--"Diamond, Roxie, Vanilla, Skye, Lala, Missy, Tits McGee!" After that, she was kept sedated by the hospital until someone came forward to take responsibility for her. Seeing the hospital's security footage, the Kingpin decided to replace assassin with this girl. It seemed poetic. So, he sent people, including the madame she knew, to collect her. When she awoke, however, she was Mary, again. She meekly went along with the madame and, based on the reports from the hospital, the people taking her were strongly encouraged to take her to a psychologist to see if she suffered from PTSD or worse.

Having this information relayed back to him, the Kingpin did just that. Over time, it was determined that Mary had been through inhumane abuse and she was unaware of her violent behavior, or her split identities. Mary is given an apartment and an allowance "for disability," all provided by Fisk, through shell companies. Slowly, when in a stable environment, and she felt safe, Mary's DID leveled out and a pattern emerged. When active, Typhoid was recruited, trained, and honed to become an assassin. Bloody, when they could identify her, was kept under house-arrest, due to all of the serial murdering and stuff. It made for some expensive clean-ups for Kingpin, but her skills as an assassin when Typhoid more than made up for that.

As for Mary... She remained oblivious. As she got older, and with therapy, she managed to overcome some of her more crippling fears. She was encouraged by her therapist to seek her dreams and, one bold day, she went out on a call for a soap opera. Landing the role did amazing things for her self-esteem, though the sleazy, seedy underbelly of soap opera production and direction meant that she still ended up giving blow jobs she'd rather not, and bent over desks she'd prefer not to bend over... But, the benefits were so worth it. She was gonna be a star! Or, she might have been. If not for her other selves and the messes they created for her.

= Major Story Arcs =

The logs on this page are listed in chronological order (as opposed to posting order), and represent only the major storylines (i.e. tinyplots) Mary has participated in. A full listing of her logs may, of course, be found on the Logs tab. (Yes, I stole this from Shift.)

Monstrous Love (ongoing)

 * February 19th,2014 — Scuzz Bukkit Tango —- Typhoid Mary, out for a bender and some well-deserved time away from Deadpool and Harley, is sniffed out by one Victor Creed...who later takes her home.
 * February 22rd, 2014 — Even Monsters Deserve Love —- Typhoid Mary returns home after getting healed up from the rather intense night with Creed...only to find he'd been sleeping in her bedroom while she was out.  Her roommates, Harley Quinn and Deadpool, ditch her to fend for herself.
 * February 23rd, 2014 — Bread, Meet Toothpick —- Victor drags Mary along to a celebration of the construction of the Staten Island Mutant Action Center, and introduces her to Magneto, a man he greatly respects.  Also, he holds Mary's hand, and calls her his 'ladyfriend'.  After the socializing was over with, Creed took Typhoid out on another wild night...that ended in another dangerously painful morning.
 * February 24th,2014 — Poor Sweet Mary —- Cut up more badly than she lets on, Typhoid Mary slips out on a sleeping Creed, grabs a taxi, and pays a rather supine visit to Dr. Erik Lehnsherr.  She tells him she needs help, she needs to keep up better--she can't keep draining her healer, she needs a more permanent solution.  He makes her an offer of an experimental treatment, warning her of the possible risks of cancer and/or death.  She--being reckless, manic, self-destructive, and deliriously doped up--agrees immediately.  When Magneto brings her out of her procedure, however...Typhoid isn't the one in control.

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OOC Information
Actor: Olga Kurylenko

Alts: Miss Martian

RP Likes: Angsty - Comedic - Dark - Gritty - Heroic - Romantic - Social - Weird

RP Dislikes: Classic