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Your name or nickname: Ashley
Your year of birth: 1984
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Referral: Plurk. I have seen people talking about the game and plotting and it peaked my interest to check it out.

Character name: Mary McGarrett
Character type: Fandom character
Fandom/Canon: Hawaii Five-0
Character DW journal: othermcgarrett
Does this character have previous CR?: No.

HISTORY

Mary is the youngest child to her parents, Detective John McGarrett and CIA agent Doris McGarrett (though Mary believed her mother was a school teacher). She has an older pain in the ass brother, Steven McGarrett.

After her mother was murdered, John was left to raise Mary and Steve on his own. Unbeknownst to Steve and Mary, their father was investigating the Yakuza who he believed was responsible for Doris’ death.

Due to her father’s investigation shaking up some unsavoury people, John started to fear for Mary and Steve’s safety and sent them to separate places on the mainland with neither of the McGarrett siblings knowing their father’s true reasoning or intentions.

Mary later moved to Los Angeles where she fell into the wrong crowd. She got into the party scene, began drinking heavily and she also started experimenting with drugs. She started with pot and then got into the harder drugs, which eventually led to a stint in rehab. Mary has and continues to use drugs and alcohol to cope when she is feeling stressed or anxious.

Doris’ death took an emotional toll on Mary and her relationship with her father and brother became strained because of it. As Mary grew older, she resented her father for breaking up their family and sending her and Steve away. Perhaps she even resented her brother a tiny bit as it seemed to her that John favoured Steve. Mary always felt like a colossal screw up and a disappointment to both her father and her brother.

After John’s death, Mary returned to Hawaii for her father’s funeral where she attended the service while high on drugs. She returned to California only to return to Hawaii a few weeks later. Before her feet were on Hawaiian soil, Mary was caught trying to disable a smoke detector in the airplane which activated the detector and upon landing she was arrested. Before she could be charged with a federal offence, Steve was able to have Mary released into his custody. Mary apologizes to Steve for “messing up” again. Mary reminds Steve that she hasn’t seen Steve since their mother’s funeral, which was ten years ago, and then wonders why they can’t have normal family reunions at a picnic. Steve is called out to a case and when they arrive on the crime scene, he tells Mary to stay in the car. Mary tells him that she is not a dog and when he repeats his order for her to stay, she starts barking. At Steve’s request, Mary is taken to his office by an officer who stands and keeps watch over her until Steve returns several hours later.

Despite Steve’s apology for the wait, she is unforgiving as she asks if his idea of a welcome was to pin her to a cop. Steve tells her that he’s trying to keep her out of jail. The McGarrett siblings then have a small heart to heart where Mary tells Steve that she felt that she was invisible to their father and she would have taken any form of emotion from their father-even disappointment. Steve told Mary that their father did love them but had a hard time showing it. Steve then introduces her to Danny Williams and she teases him for wearing a tie in Hawaii. Kamekona then shows up at Steve’s office and Steve explains that he is there to make sure that she stays put in his office, which Mary voices her full displeasure, which falls on her brother’s deaf ears. During Kamekona’s watch, she is able to slip out and she is later found by Steve at their father’s graveside where he joins her with a paper bag. When asked what is inside the bag, Steve tells her it’s lunch and they both sit down and have the picnic that Mary wanted.

Mary stayed with her brother for a few weeks. One night while she is watching TV, a commercial advertising the “Hawaii Chair” comes on. She tries to change the channel but realizes that the remote needs new batteries. Going into Steve’s office in the house, she searches for batteries but comes across a toolbox with the word “Champ” on it. Mary opens the toolbox and looks at the contents before calling Steve to ask him about the toolbox and why there are pictures of burned people and postcards from Japan. Steve orders her to put the box back as it’s evidence for a crime. Mary tells Steve that she’ll put the box back but instead searches the contents and takes pictures of the contents with her phone.

After moving into a rental home, Steve’s house was broken into and the Champ toolbox was stolen. Knowing that other than the Five-0 crew, Steve had only talked to Mary about the toolbox, he became concerned for her safety and went to her house with Danny to check on her but they found signs of a struggle, blood, a tooth and no Mary.

While Steve and Danny started their search for Mary, Mary found herself bound and in the trunk of a car and was lucky enough that her abductors didn’t take her cell phone away from her. Calling Steve in a panic, her brother was able to calm her down enough and instructed her to kick the tail light of the car out and describe what she saw. She did as she was told and thanks to Chin tracing her cell phone and her description, Steve and Danny were able to rescue her.

After having her injuries checked out (most likely at Steve’s insistence), Steve brought Mary back to the Five-0 headquarters where it came out that Mary had taken pictures of the items in the Champ toolbox before it was stolen. She also recognized some symbols on a postcard as being from a Sherlock Holmes story and offers her intel to her brother.

Because of her brother’s fearing for her safety as it’s known that she has knowledge of the Champ toolbox and the investigation, he takes a page out of their father’s book and takes Mary to the airport to send her back to Los Angeles. Mary and Steve hug as her flight is called and Steve promises Mary that they will see each other again.

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OC PERSONALITY OVERVIEW

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PERSONALITY QUESTIONS

What skills does your character bring to the situation?:

Mary is an average human being with no particular out of the ordinary skills. However, through her canon, she has proven that she is very intelligent when she applies herself and often has a more creative way of thinking about different scenarios or issues.

When she visited Hawaii shortly after her father's funeral, she located a toolbox in her brother's home that was evidence of their father's murder. Despite her brother's being insistent that she stay our of his investigation and leave the toolbox alone, Mary still goes behind her brother's back without thought or concern. After examining the contents of the toolbox, she stole Steve's credit card to buy an old computer that has a floppy disk so that she could examine the contents of the disk that was in the toolbox.

She was also able to piece together the clues of the contents of the box and was able to make more progress with them than her brother had been able to. She discovered the link to Moma's (an island native who taught Steve and Mary how to surf) shop from the postcard that came from his store. When she questioned him on it, he mentioned that he saw someone tampering with her mother's car and this led to Mary discovering who was responsible for her mother's death.

She also recognized the police shorthand on the postcard as well as symbols that were part of a riddle that she recognized from a Sherlock Holmes story. Mary also took pictures of the contents of the toolbox (where her brother had not) so when the box was stolen, Steve had the pictures to refer to and further his own investigation. Mary also sorted the pictures in a way her brother hadn't thought of, leading to further realizations and developments.

During her abduction, Mary thought to hide her phone on her person and luckily for her, her abductors didn't think to search her for a phone, or if they did, they didn't find where she had hid it. When she was in the trunk of the car, she was able to call for help and instead of calling 911, she called her brother knowing that she'd have better luck with being found if she connected with her brother over some unknown 911 dispatcher. Steve was able to coach her through kicking out the tail-light of the car so that she could give him some indication of where she was. Despite the call dropping, her brother was able to use the little information she had provided him, traced her phone and was able to rescue her.

Mary is also extremely good at reading people. As previously mentioned, Mary was able to read Kamekona when he was watching her and manipulated him with the information she had been able to obtain from him and it allowed her to "escape" his watch.

Why did you choose this specific character for 6I, and how do you picture them fitting into the game?

Mary McGarrett is one of my favourite muses to play as she is quite different from myself and my own personality. I chose Mary for 6I as I have always enjoyed games with survival elements. Mary has no experience with having to survive in different situations (other than her abduction) and I think that it would be fun avenue to explore with her.

Mary stands to learn a lot about herself while in 6I. Mary considers herself to be a screw up. Ever since her father sent her away, she feels like she is worthless and unwanted. She feels like everything she touches falls apart and leads her into some sort of trouble. In 6I, as there is survival elements, Mary will have to learn that she's not worthless and she has something to contribute to society. I'm hoping that through the game she will learn that she's stronger than she gives herself credit for and she will build confidence that will help her decide to turn her life around.

As Mary deals with a lot of abandonment issues, she is reluctant to trust anyone, with the exception of her brother. It is also my hope that she can build some solid friendships in the game and learn that she can depend on others for help when and if it is needed.

How do you imagine your character will survive in 6I, and in what ways will they contribute to the settlement, if any?

Mary’s canon is similar to our reality. Supernatural creatures such as mutants, vampires, witches, etc. exist only in stories, television shows and movies. Upon her arrival, Mary will unlikely believe her situation and other species in 6I may be met with some apprehension at first but will turn into curiosity. Mary is used to being surrounded by all sorts of different people and she has never taken any issues with that. She will enjoy making new friends-probably with the wrong kind as she seems to attract the wrong types of friends.

If there is one thing that Mary is good at doing, it’s adapting to new situations. She moved around a lot with Aunt Deb as her aunt was a singer. She had to learn to make new friends in new schools and neighbourhoods. Due to her inability to think and plan for the future and her knack for getting fired from jobs, Mary is used to making the best of her situation and making due with what is presented to her.

When it comes to adjusting to life in the settlement, Mary will likely be taken aback by at first (especially if magic or supernatural creatures are involved as they don't exist in her canon) but again, she’s quick to adapt and through trial and error, she will find a way to make the best of unknown situations. If there are other people in the settlement struggling and in need of help, she will reach out to them and try to help them deal with the situation or at least try to provide some comfort and reassurance that things will be okay in the end.

Mary may even consider the settlement as being similar to being high or on a trip and she may even be amused that she gets to experience the “high” without actually doing any drugs or that everyone in the settlement has been drugged somehow.

I don't have any specific plans for Mary at 6I but I'm hoping that she can build some positive CR with lots of different characters and eventually learn how to rely and trust others. If she can build some healthy friendships with people, it will help her self-growth and will be less likely to fall into her bad habits.

Explain how your character would react to:

- Being separated, possibly permanently, from loved ones and their previous life, including loss of powers, if applicable:

Since her mother died when she was young and she was sent to the mainland by her father, Mary is used to being separated from loved ones or her previous life. She adapts easily and she remains guarded towards getting close to other people as she expects that they will leave her.

That being said, while Mary has convinced herself that she's perfectly fine being ripped away from her family and her previous life, she does make bad decisions and when she often derails when she doesn't feel like she is in control of a situation. If she makes some healthy relationships here in 6I, if something happens to these friends (they're sent home, died, etc.), it will bother her as it will be another person on her ever-growing list of people who intentionally and/or unintentionally abandoned her.

- Their environment being manipulated to prevent them leaving the area:

Truthfully? Mary likely won't mind much. She'll find it strange at first but as long as she has the essentials to survive and there's no sign of danger, she'll go with the flow. She may try to investigate the cause of what is keeping people from leaving the area but at the end of the day she will continue on like everything is normal.

Mary will eventually try to become involved with the community. She doesn't have any special talents but she will do what she can to help others when needed.

- Being physically and/or mentally manipulated, such as having hallucinations or suddenly possessing special abilities they did not have before:

Mary is not a stranger to hallucinations thanks to her drug use but if they are not of her own doing she will not particularly enjoy them, especially if the topic of the hallucinations is a touchy subject like her mom or dad. She hasn't been trained in how to resist such mental manipulations and it they happen frequently and she starts to feel as though she's losing control and/or her grip on reality, she may start to struggle which may cause her to make some bad decisions.

In terms of being physically manipulated, Mary is scrappy and she will put up a fight to resist the physical manipulation. Unlike her brother, she has no training in how to resist physical manipulation but if someone is torturing her for information on her brother and/or friends, she will do her best to resist giving up any information as Mary is extremely loyal to those she is closest to.

If she is granted special abilities, whether temporary or permanent, she is likely going to take interest in them. In her canon, humans don't have any special abilities so while she may be frightened at first, depending on the type of special ability she has been granted of course, she will likely take an interest in learning how to hone and control the new ability. Of course while she's learning how to control the power, it will likely cause some chaos which will be interesting for me to play out.

POWERS & SPECIAL ABILITIES

Mary is human and has no powers and abilities unless you count her knack for getting into trouble a special ability. As a human, she is prone to illness and injury.

WRITING SAMPLES

1. Writing Sample No. 1 - This thread is still ongoing.

2. Writing Sample No. 2 - I play Mary here as a teenager but she still has the meat and bones of Mary's personality. This thread is still ongoing and is located in a locked community but with the Steve!mun's permission, I have moved it to Google Docs for the purposes of this application.

3. Writing Sample No. 3 - I play Damon Salvatore in this sample and is a sample of my writing style outside of playing Mary.