Mary Walker || Typhoid Mary

[Mary Walker]

Basic Stats

Name: Mary Alice Walker (formerly Menzinis)
Codename: Typhoid Mary, Virgin Mary and Bloody Mary, as well as the original Mary Walker. It depends which personality is in charge, yet most know her as Typhoid.
Gender: Female
Age: 25

Occupation: Virgin Mary has been the assistant teacher at Drama and Theater Studies for a couple of months, since she has experience in the domain (*makes big, puppy eyes*). The other personalities let her take charge whenever she is needed in that class. Aside that, Typhoid is still a quite well-paid prostitute, thief and mercenary, although Bloody often claims that she does most of the killing.
Place of Birth: Venice, Italy.
Place of Residence: Xavier's School for the Gifted sure is a nice change from the streets, brothel and cheap motels the Maries were used to.
Known Relatives:
- Zoé Bellerose-Walker [maternal grandmother]
- Arthur Walker [maternal grandfather]
- Maeve Stark [deceased mother; former Menzinis]
- Gregorios Menzinis [deceased father]
- William Stark [deceased step-father]
- Robin Stark [half-sister]
- Iason Menzinis [half-brother from Gregorios' second marriage]

Alliance: X-Men


Physical Stats

Height: 5'6"
Weight: 122 lbs
Eyes: Blue, but with the occasional hues of green, depending which personality is ‘in charge’.
Hair: Initially dark mahogany, but as dark as ebony once Typh dyed it. Highlights of the natural hair colour can still sometimes be noticed, though, because neither of the Maries like messing with its colour too often.

One thing is of paramount importance when referring to Mary Walker's appearance: when she changes and 'adopts' another personality, it's almost as if she's physiologically a different person. Not only is her heart rate different each time one of her personalities kicks in, but that combined with the completely different scents, alpha waves, biorhythms, way of dressing, voices and otherwise different personal characteristics may keep even certain mutants from realizing that Typhoid Mary, Virgin Mary, Bloody Mary and Mary Walker are the same person.

Avatar: Megan Fox


Abilities

Mutation: Even if Mary Walker was born with her powers, it took a rather traumatic event to cause all her mutant powers to manifest. First and foremost, though, Mary Walker is a mutant whose personality decides which power she's using. As a consequence of her mental illness, each personality has the following abilities, somewhat equally divided at least among the first three mentioned:

Virgin Mary can implant mental, hypnotic-like suggestions in the minds of others and even induce sleep in the weak-minded individuals, alongside most animals. Owing to her timid and rather pacifist mentality, she also unintentionally makes some people feel sorry for her and thus avoids conflicts, probably as a defence against more strong-willed mutants who could push her around. While she has been on few occasions aware and able to consciously implant the above mentioned suggestions in people's minds, she prefers not taking advantage of her powers in the way the other Maries do.

Bloody Mary has limited pyrokinesis, meaning that she has the ability to set objects and people in her immediate vicinity aflame, as well as to create, control and absorb fire. To be noted that her powers are no match for Pyro's or any other pyrokinetic's. An additional bonus that she shares with Typhoid Mary is the psionic seduction which enables both of them to seduce and make others fall in love with them, even if without knowing it. Bear in mind that, contrary to Typhoid, Bloody Mary is able to attract people she desires to kill, and not those she might be even slightly physically attracted to.

Typhoid Mary has, as mentioned above, the ability to attract those she wants without most of the time acknowledging it. Even if said psionic suggestions aren't as powerful in her as they are in Bloody Mary, Typhoid's charm and demeanour can very well beguile others too. Her main power remains, though, telekinesis, a gift probably passed on from her biological father. While in the past she possessed a limited range of telekinetic powers, after many years spent practising and being the personality most of the time in control of their shared body, Typh is currently capable of levitating objects and people from max. 25 feet away from her and can even project a 3 feet telekinetic shield which protects her against certain objects coming her way. With the help of her power, she can also release devastating force blasts by building up the telekinetic force within her and fly somewhat quickly, but not at great speed. Those benefits of her main power can only happen when she hasn't been intensely using her powers during the day, however, since they tend to wear her out. Despite the fact that she is a powerful TK, Typhoid Mary would not[/b] be able to win against much more skilled mutants like Candra or the like in a fair battle. Unless she'd use most of her skills too. Maybe she'd get out of it alive then.

Mary Walker is a balance of the other three personalities and by far the one who rarely surfaces. Or not at all. What's rather odd about her is that even if she has access to all the mutant gifts the others benefit from, thus being much stronger than any of them, according to what Virgin Mary once said, Walker is rather 'lost' and doesn't have the necessary willpower or desire to keep the others out of problems. Although not a pushover as Virgin Mary is, but the more balanced out of the four, she doesn't enjoy being dominant and seldom even voices her opinion when the other three are debating a matter of mild importance. Funny enough, Mary Walker is the one who would most likely one day be able to control all those powers without fearing that they might go haywire, yet she would much rather lurk in the shadows of their mind than assert herself. Unless, of course, their lives would be in imminent danger, a situation which none of the other personalities could handle. Then and only then would she surface. As a matter of fact, that has recently happened, more precisely during the 2007 war. She doesn't want to talk about it or even remember it, however, for reasons known only to her.

Weaknesses: Even if all the four personalities have been around for more than a decade now, the most advanced ability any of them has is Typhoid's, and that mainly because she has been working on constantly improving her skills. However, even her powers have a catch, since no matter how strong she may want to appear, Typh is still unable to perform more than three force fields per day. Should she manage to reach that amount of blasts on one occasion, she would still be fatigued enough to either temporarily lose her conscience or would have to immediately start resting for more than 24 hours. After all, her control over her body does have a limit, therefore the reason why she needs time to recover after abusing her powers for a larger period of time.

In addition, all the four Maries are susceptible to telepathic manipulation and intrusion, skilled empathy, diseases, viruses, bullets, loss of too much blood/limbs/air, old age, poisons, changes in the natural world's elements etc. Although it would take a powerful telepath to be able to control all her four personalities, Virgin Mary and Bloody Mary seem oddly susceptible to sudden changes of the weather. While the former starts having various allergies whenever a colder season kicks in earlier than expected, it is vice versa for the latter. Until this very day, Typhoid seems less affected by these things than the other two main personalities are, even if she still is vulnerable when it comes to their body's irritations and demands. They're just four seemingly different women sharing the same body. ;D

Last but certainly not least, while Typhoid and Bloody are more than exceptional hand-to-hand combatants, not even Typh would be capable of holding off a mutant with superhuman physical abilities. At the end of the day, at least three from those four personalities still rely very much on their abilities, whether they acknowledge it or not. So being deprived of their powers would be their worst nightmare. That or seeing Virgin Mary take control.


Skills: Aside from having quite the sex appeal, Typhoid Mary is in more than exquisite physical condition. Throughout the years spent working as an assassin, she's become highly athletic and has obtained nearly peak human reflexes, strength, speed, stamina and agility, which further aid her when using her powers. As well as trained in the martial arts, particularly judo and Zen-Sword, by older assassins she had the luck to encounter, she is a natural in the use of edged weapons, especially machetes, small knives and swords, which makes her an asset for the X-Men and any other group she might ever support. Another fact worth bearing in mind is that Virgin Mary was a talented young actress, although with a bit of stage fright. As a result of her experience in the domain and her most of the time observant abilities, either of the four Maries could play different roles without switching from personality to personality. As far as computers go, Bloody Mary is decent... As in capable of opening the d**n thing, working in Microsoft Word a bit, maybe even surfing the Internet and then shutting it successfully. Hacking and her never really got along, somehow, since she ended up kicking the computer while installing even simple programs. That's why she prefers tracking and is much better when it comes to stealth. As for Walker... Well, she considers herself an intellectual, so her strength lies in less offensive domains, such as literature and ancient mythology.


Personality:
Truly and gravely mentally ill is how any shrink would classify Mary Walker, who can't seem to get rid of these personalities or make more, for the time being. On the grounds that her first and original personality couldn't cope with confronting a rather painfully intense situation, Walker's ego suffered a severe disintegration. Consequently, she didn't completely detach herself from reality or suffered a true psychotic episode like other individuals might have, but started having multiple personalities to deal with different situations. When an alter can't cope with stress, the consciousness of the person is believed to be given over to her next dominant personality in order to eliminate the trigger or pressure causing the stress. Think of it as different facets of the same box. In this particular case, though, all of her personalities are aware of the others and there is an astonishing cooperation between them when it comes to more dramatic situations, despite how different they are. Even if they have all rather involuntary given Typhoid control most of the time, all the personalities know what's constantly going on, rarely have temporary amnesia/discover things they haven't done any more and they most importantly discuss what can't be resolved by only one of them, more precisely the one currently in charge. Simply put, one of them sort of like kicks in when the dominant one is being too stressed out, exhausted or unwilling to face a situation any more.

In view of suffering from dissociative identity disorder, Mary Walker has three other abnormal personalities in addition to her seemingly healthy one, who is still suffering from post-traumatic stress.


OCC: I'm really sorry, but in case I might ever need the personality for another character, I'd rather not risk having it copied by any guests and used elsewhere. The next player will probably want to make the Maries like he/she wants, anyway, without taking into account the attributes I had given each of them.

[Mary Walker]

History:
Although Mary has never considered herself a victim because of it, and would take an instant dislike to anyone who would even suggest it, her childhood has shaped her into the person she currently is. As in turns out, Maeve Walker, a telepath living in France, seemed to have a great future ahead of her in marine biology, but once her path crossed with that of Gregorios Menzinis, during a momentary stay in Greece, everything changed. So, in less than one month after meeting the telekinetic, Maeve was head over heels for the man she soon married. However, after finding out that he was a gangster, Maeve fled Italy, where they had moved to get away from their enraged families, without even looking back or bothering to let anyone know of her future whereabouts. It wasn’t until she reached Spain that she found out she was pregnant. Luckily for her, the young doctor who had made her the pregnancy test was kind enough to offer her a home and spot in his heart after getting to know her better. Nonetheless, as soon as Mary Alice Walker was born, Maeve left Spain and boarded the first ship which was going to take her to the USA. After all, she’d learned her lesson and wasn’t going to trust any other man which happened to possess a nice pair of eyes and charming smile. Besides, there was no way she would lower herself to asking for her parents' help, so she was on her own. Things weren't often as sweet as milk and honey, nor did they always land safely on their two feet, but it was the life the two got used to having.

That was how Mary’s childhood was spent, accompanying her mother from state to state until there were few notable American states in which they hadn’t been. Meanwhile, though, she picked up a couple of skills, one of them being her new discovered affinity for certain foreign languages. As a result, after many years of practise, Miss Walker now fluently speaks Spanish, and can almost have a normal conversation in French. For a child always thirsting for knowledge, travelling so often was fun and exciting at the beginning, but it soon became rather tiresome. Consequently, when ten-year-old Mary showed her first signs of being truly gifted, the first scared questions regarding her lineage, the lack of a stable paternal figure in her life and her different nature from that of the other kids around her started to be asked. As she was soon told by a more than upset mother, Mary's Dad wasn't exactly powerless either, while Maeve herself came from a wealthy family. Despite having agreed to live that kind of nomad-like life until then and not minding the many boyfriends her mother had more than once introduced to her prodigy, something inside of Mary revolted for the first time, therefore urging her mum to tell her as much as possible about the Walkers and to return to France, which they soon did.

However, it should be noted that despite showing potential from a fragile age, due to her grandfather's and mother's shared opinion regarding mutants being freaks and not the next step in evolution, as soon as Mary and Maeve moved into the Bellerose mansion from Paris, the girl was hired private tutors to guide her and teach her like any normal child coming from an upper class family would be. In time, it seemed as if her powers had either disappeared or just failed to be exploited rightly, that is until she started attending middle school and, during the birthday of a friend, she had an... incident, probably owing to her uncontrollable mood swings, bottled up anger and hormones. From that point on, the girl was fascinated by the 'magic' she performed, starting to even secretly train in order to control her powers and, throughout the next few years of strenuous practice, she managed to properly control them, which wouldn't have been possible without her grandmother's guidance.

The moment Greogorios caught wind of Maeve and her child returning to France, he announced his intention to win full custody of his daughter. By finally divorcing him and marrying an old family friend by the name of William Stark, though, Maeve and Mary moved in the US again. There, Mary spent an almost peaceful year of her life in a small town from California, up until her fifteen birthday, when her father tracked them down yet again and, after a dreadful accident occurred, managed to get both himself and Maeve killed. It's unsure for Mary to realize what happened after that. All she can recall is that the next months were spent living the life of an apparent stranger alongside her step-father and little half-sister, but soon afterwards, Mary decided to run away and get back to France, where she'd first known the concept of having a loving family. Nonetheless, she hadn't even made it to the airport until her path crossed with a man previously working for her father's network of criminals.

At first without wanting it, the girl started working with the man and learning how to properly use a gun for the first time. Given the fact that they both needed to raise enough money to return to Europe, they started working at a brothel near New York, in which he was the bodyguard and, well, you can only imagine what she did. It was around the age of seventeen that her ego somewhat collapsed and her unconscious started making other personalities besides her first one, after she found her first boyfriend sleeping with another prostitute in the same cat house she worked in. Panicking, he tried calming the two down but instead somehow ended up knocking Mary and himself out the window, much to their misfortune. Small slips of memory make it difficult for her to recall in which moment the rest of her personalities started being made, but what Mary does remember is that before she knew it, she awoke in a hospital bed after she had fallen more than three floors out of the window. Since the doctors weren't aware of her background, they made the fatale mistake of letting her go without running more tests. Had they done that, Bloody Mary wouldn't have come to claim the lives of over 70 people thus far, and those only from the period in which she joined the gang her father had once belonged to.

It was actually after that traumatic event that Bloody Mary rose, who swore that the next man who would lay a single hand on them or hurt them in any way, shape or form would end up dead. As a result, her whole carrier of a mercenary begun after weeks of recovering from her physical injuries, with her abandoning her first 'job' and taking up the assassin one, even showing an enthusiasm and sick pleasure for doing the out of the ordinary tasks she was constantly given. That was how the next two years were spent, with Mary becoming stronger and developing a fever when Typhoid Mary first kicked in, then almost landing in a come during the occasion her last personality, Virgin Mary, surfaced. Living a double life as both a criminal who now called herself Typhoid Mary (despite the fact that Bloody Mary still did most of the killing) and a gifted actress named Mary Menzinis (the only occasion during which she used her father's name), Walker moved to Chicago and started making a name for herself there, much like her mother had tried doing in France in the past.

After she finally severed the ties with the organized crime syndicates that had hired her as an assassin on the grounds of a 'great misunderstanding' (read: insubordination and unauthorized man slaughter), Mary proceeded to establishing herself in a suburb from New York and, owing to a sudden Virgin Mary period, began attending the courses of the local university. Through the hypnosis of a specialised psychiatrist she barely afforded to occasionally pay, the psychotic personalities (Mary: the pathological victim, Typhoid: the adventurous sociopath, and Bloody Mary: the homicidal psychopath) were suppressed from Mary Walker's consciousness, so a while afterwards, she managed to graduate from university with a degree in Drama. As a rising soap opera, life was taking a more pleasant turn for her, until while performing a rather hard role of a house wife pushed through a window, she regained most of her memories that had occurred between her adolescence and early adulthood. It was only a matter of time until the other personalities kicked in again and Mary abandoned the stage for good, that time with regrets.

Following the events of Worthington Labs heard on the radio, an almost broke Mary Walker decided that it was probably time to take a stand. So, after putting much thought into it and deciding with the rest of her personalities which course of action was more recommended, Typhoid Mary stepped across the threshold of Xavier’s School for the Gifted. Trust wasn't just given to her, no, but after quite some months spent there, Typh had achieved at least a bit of shown sympathy and respect from the behalves of certain fellow X-Men. After her integration in one of the squads, though, some of her rarely dominant personalities started occasionally asserting themselves. Thus far, it's unknown to her how many of the other mutants inside the mansion know about her illness, still one fact remains: Virgin Mary never liked belonging this much before and almost all the personalities consider this new place their long searched for home. And there's no way they're leaving, not just yet. As for her family, Walker is no longer up-to-date with what happened to her remaining relatives, and while a part of her wants to know more, it's been agreed that none of the Maries would look for them until they can make sure the four of them are not going to end up on the streets again.

The year 2007 was a daunting one for most of the Maries, though, since in spite of Typh's and Bloody's jobs bringing them more money than usually, the mutant crisis caused by the war and the Chimera Virus required their attention and services in District X. Although the X-Men and the Brotherhood's momentary cooperation enabled them to efficiently minimize the number of deaths and to cure most of those infected (the Maries luckily not getting the virus), many even from their ranks were lost. That led to even Typhoid admitting to herself that the fate of mutant kind was at more peril than ever against the forces of the government and Mother Nature itself, which could only mean trouble for her vain self. Urged by Walker and Virgin Mary to fight, the dominant personality found herself in a sticky spot during a mission in District X. Having not been for one of the few situations in which Walker took charge of their body and focused all their abilities into getting them and those they needed to take care of out of there, it is likely that their body would still be on the New York streets. Still, after finding herself in a bed from the medical wing of the institute and seeing the changes occurring for fellow mutants, albeit not broadcasted by the media or reckoned by the government, the four personae decided to stay at the mansion, instead of leaving like Typhoid had initially wanted. After all, it was safer there, even if the future seems bleak for the supposed survivors who are still trying to recover from the damage.

To sum it up, what few know for sure is that inside of Mary Walker are four distinct personalities: one with great hopes of saving those around her from ‘the imminent doom’ represented by the conflict between humans and mutants, an ice queen trapped inside her own body (like a bird without escape from its own cage), another personality addicted to anything involving her obtaining pleasure and the last, a killer mesmerized by the mere thought of death, which actually enables her to constantly research different ways of dying. Despite the fact that some (Junior) X-Men (such as Aero, Norhtstar, Beast) have glimpsed at least at each of those personalities throughout the past year, the Maries are now more than ever determined to hide their mental condition from everyone. Especially from Emma Frost and her evil, killer minions.


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* Partial credit for some of the facts stated in this application goes to the Marvel Database, Wikipedia, Marvel Universe and to Nick, for suggesting some nifty ideas.