Marie

Marie (マリー) is a former prostitute of Lawless City. After Shadow saved her during the "Blood Moon Incident", she fled and is currently a citizen of the Oriana Kingdom, where she now owns a tavern and manages it as a bartender.

Appearance
Marie is a very beautiful young girl, beige and green eyes and having white skin. In her second meeting with Shadow, she wore black lingerie in contrast to the color of her skin.

Personality
Marie has shown to be professional if a little naive. Despite being one of Lawless City's leading prostitutes, she's actually a sweet girl, although she does hope one day she could leave the life of a prostitute. Unlike most people, Marie is one of the few people who saw Shadow as a hero.

Background
When Marie reached the age of 13, she was sold to become a prostitute from the Lawless City and spent five years working in a brothel until became one of the leading prostitutes in the red light district. Although she’s made a name for herself among the red-light district’s sex workers, she isn’t at the top of the pack, as her madam once told her that she could become number one if she set her mind to it. But instead, Marie had been considering to leave her life as a prostitute.

Red Moon Incident
Light Novel/Manga During the Red Moon incident, Marie is one of many attacked by the Ghouls and Vampire. She survived her first encounter with them after Shadow slaughtered all of the Ghouls, saving most of her co-workers. Shadow also gave her a warning about the starting rampage as the time of the "Red Moon" was near before he leaves. While her senior informs her that Shadow was a wanted criminal, Marie didn't believe it and she thanks him while she looks up uneasily at the red moon.

As the crisis worsened, she was saved by Shadow a second time and after he advised her to leave the city, Marie finally decided to gather all her belongings and used the opportunity to flee the city. Earning her freedom once more, Marie thought about repaying Shadow for saving her life one day.

Anime/Game TBA

Oriana's Civil War
Marie would go to the Oriana Kingdom and set up a tavern there at the First Fort Stronghold town, where she would garner the lust of multiple men. While servicing a young teenage boy, a group of Oriana soldiers barged into her tavern demanding Marie for her money, otherwise they would have her sleep with them as an alternative payment. Marie offered what little money she had left in order to protect the boy from their wrath when he tried to defend her.

A while later, Marie's worry over making her payments were dashed when she heard her windows being opened. She looked out and found Shadow, who left before Marie could respond and she noticed the money she offered to the soldiers returned to her on the ground. Crying tears of joy, Marie realized that Shadow had looked out for her yet again.

Powers & Abilities
Marie doesn't display any combat capabilities nor magical abilities, making her dangerously vulnerable. However, she has shown herself a capable businesswoman, saving the funding she needed to escape life as a prostitute and opened her own inn after becoming an Oriana citizen.

Charms
Her life as a prostitute allowed her to be mentally prepared to offer herself to men and how to deal with unruly customers. When Marie opens her tavern, her charms as a popular prostitute remain seductive, as it is obvious that the customers are more interested in her than buying drinks.

Yukime
As Marie's madam, Yukime held her contract when she was sold to the brothel. However, instead of abusing Marie for profit, Yukime took great care and attention to ensure Marie was healthy and fit, especially since Marie was among her top earners. When the Red Moon incident forced Marie to flee, Yukime did not pursue her nor did she issue a bounty of return, as she allowed Marie's freedom being satisfied by Shadow's protection of all her girls during the incident.

Fellow prostitutes
Having been among them for five years, Marie has a standing history with the girls of the red-light district. This is in part due to their protections under Yukime, thus allowing them to befriend one another and rely on each other to better survive their conditions.

Cid Kagenō / Shadow
The two encountered one another at the Lawless City when the Red Moon incident occurred, as Shadow had slain the Ghoul that attempted to attack her, saving her life. Even though she thought Shadow was really scary, she didn’t see him as a villain. What she did feel from him was that he possessed a powerful will.

Unlike her fellow prostitutes who viewed Shadow as a threat from the wanted posters, Marie saw him as the only one protecting them from the Ghouls and Vampires. Marie is extremely grateful towards Shadow for saving her life on multiple occasions, implying she developed romantic feelings for him.

After leaving her old life and starting a business running a tavern, Marie was helped again as Shadow returned her money stolen by soldiers. Grateful once more, Marie only wished to one day repay Shadow for what he'd done for her.

Trivia

 * During the Red Moon Arc, Marie is the only one aside from Claudia who knows that Shadow is saving them from harm.
 * In both the manga, anime, and game, it is revealed that Marie was the supposed girlfriend of the guy who went to beat the ghoul along with another friend during day two of the Red Moon.
 * Like the other girls in the Red-Light District of the Lawless City, Marie has also resorted to gray-area methods to protect herself.
 * Marie's relationship with the man who gave her money is unknown, but it is clear she was only using it to make a living.
 * In the Light novel and manga, Marie managed to earn the right to her freedom and respecting her contract. In the anime and game, Marie took the opportunity to escape, without worrying at all about the consequences that would ensue if she tried to escape without first fulfilling her contract, and would be hunted.
 * While in the Manga, anime and game, Marie is seen to have been saved once. In the Light Novel and Web Novel, she was saved twice, the second time being when she decided to leave the Lawless City to seek a better life.
 * In both the anime and the game, Marie believed she had managed to escape by pure luck from her previous life in Lawless City, when the truth was that Yukime of the White tower had let her go.
 * In the anime and in the game, Marie's drawer in her room as a prostitute had the money she was saving, the book "Kage no Jitsuryokusha", written by Natsume Kafka. This suggests that Marie likely already had her eyes set on Shadow, something not found even in the Web Novel, Light Novel and Manga.