- Meridiana (alter ago)
- Lyla Demore (older sister)
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| Physical Information | |
| Species | Succubus |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 4’10” |
| Hair color | Blonde |
| Eye color | Purple |
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Mary Demore is a succubus who was troubled about her heritage. She is a supporting character in The Onset of Winter and Writing Her Own Story and the protagonist of Mary’s Eternal Companion.
It was just a normal day at school where Mary was being bullied by some girls, but then Ainsley Wintertide unexpectedly stepped in and stopped it. She knew this meant that Ainsley would become a target for bullying herself, but she was glad that someone intervened.
Mary spent a majority of her time in the school library as usual to avoid seeing anyone. One day she noticed Ainsley staying in the library as well. They gradually began to talk and became friends. But as time went on, Ainsley became sadder and was reluctant to tell Mary about her worries.
Ainsley began to skip school. Concerned, Mary wanted to visit her but didn’t know where she lived. She knew that the school kept records of each student’s address, but couldn’t reveal them for privacy reasons. So she charmed the people in the administration office to tell her off the record. Then she went to Ainsley’s place with the pretense of delivering homework and snacks.
Ainsley’s family told her that she was depressed and refused to leave her room. Mary convinced them to let her talk to Ainsley, and after a listening to her troubles she finally opened her door. Mary was glad that she could help Ainsley, and the next day they were able to meet at school again.
When Ainsley told Mary that she was going to a different school, they promised to keep in touch.
As a succubus, Mary fed on the life energy of her classmates, causing them to fall into comas. This caught the attention of the media, so Mary, determined to avoid the spotlight—and hopefully avoid hurting more people—moved to a new school only to run into her old friend Ainsley. To make matters worse, they’re partnered to work on a school project. Despite her precautionary steps to prevent another accident, she gave into her hunger and sucked out Ainsley’s life energy. However, she survived, and after learning about Mary’s condition vowed to help her to return the favor of being saved by her in the past.
Ainsley introduced Mary to her friends and asked for their help. Gina Evelyn, eager to use her magic ring, made a wish to cure Mary of her hunger. However, Nashwa twisted the wish to temporarily transfer her succubus nature to Gina instead, causing her to kiss Jane O’Young. Immediately afterward, Lyla Demore arrived to drop off groceries, causing the atmosphere to turn cold as Mary’s dislike of her became evident. To clear the awkward situation, Ainsley recommended meeting with Mary afterschool to continue their project.
Later at the school library, Mary continued working with Ainsley while enduring her hunger pangs. They finally managed to finish their work, but Mary ended up skipping school for the next few days. She was visited by her friends who help clean her apartment and give her old homework. Ainsley tried to convince Mary to feed on her, but Mary was reluctant to hurt another person. Eventually Mary hesitated and gave in and recovered. They came up with the idea to research creating an energy supplement for Mary.
Ainsley took her to the Oak Shade Archives but first introduced her to Alba, who after some questioning agreed to let her in under supervision to prevent her from harming the residents of Oak Shade. After researching, they learned that condensing life energy was taboo and that there was no record on how to do this. Nearly out of options, they asked Alba who mentioned an alchemist who might help. They received an invitation to see the alchemist, who lived under another guardian’s domain.
The alchemist introduced herself as Idonea Culpepper, the inventor of the flawed elixir of life that occasionally caused her age to fluctuate between her late twenties and early teens. After listening to their case, Idonea became interested and agreed to make a potion to reduce Mary’s need for life energy in return for fairy dust and rare gemstones.
Back at school they tried to talk to Aislinn about getting fairy dust, but learned that Jane and Gina were unusually avoiding each other. Furthermore, Aislinn mentioned Jane’s mana recovery being negatively impacted and not knowing why. After talking to Gina and Nashwa they discovered that they were seeing each other in their dreams and deduced that it was due to succubus magic from the time Gina’s wish backfired.
Later that day Ainsley met Mary at her apartment. Seeing Ainsley holding Lyla’s groceries, Mary turned quiet. The conversation gradually shifted to Mary’s past and Ainsley reaffirmed her support. They hatched a plan to help Jane and Gina reconcile.
Ainsley invited everyone to her apartment where Mary explained how to remove the succubus curse. With Nashwa’s help, Jane and Gina admitted their feelings for each other, and Ainsley and Mary were gifted the materials they needed from Aislinn and Nashwa.
At Idonea’s laboratory they prepared the potion. At first it seemed successful until Mary exhibited side effects and transformed into Meridiana, who explained the full situation behind Mary’s condition. Now with a better understanding, they prepared a second potion, and Meridiana was able to have a heart-to-heart conversation with Mary about their past, and Mary finally accepted her heritage.
Mary met with her friends and learned about Gina’s acceptance letter. Learning that it was sent by Gertrude, she and Ainsley talked about her personality, her blood sucking ability, and her introducing them to Idonea. She then mentioned that she would be moving with Ainsley to New Salem after their graduation.
Mary is a soft-spoken and gentle person. Despite being attractive, she hides her body and face to avoid getting bullied by the girls at school. Unusually for a succubus, who typically needs to feed on life energy, she finds the idea of sex repulsive. After a bad incident involving her family introducing her to some people, she feels disgusted when people leer at her.
She doesn’t like being at home, so she often spends her time holed up in the local library and in bookstores where she looks up recipes to try. When she’s at home, she uses what she learned to cook and bake as stress relief.