Sorry, but I respectfully disagree. Seems like I'm the only one on this entire site, but I saw a very different version of these two and their relationship.
Mary was mostly white/white-presenting as far as her Black roots went. In the time they grew up in, they couldn't have been together safely. Stack says this to her when she confronts him at the juke joint. He says he loves her but she was never gonna be safe with him. The people of that time would've killed them both for the interracial nature of their relationship.
Now, I'm not saying their relationship wasn't toxic because there seems to have definitely been some of that. But I never doubted that they actually loved each other. Mary was too naive and would've thrown it all away to be with Stack, and Stack was too much of a realist and ruined it on purpose. And their story was actually heartbreaking to me for that reason.
Now... getting to the whole vampire thing.
Mary went out there to see if she could get Stack money and she got turned for it. She was a victim, and she was irrevocably changed by becoming a vampire, just like Stack was when she turned him. I do NOT think Stack would hold this against her at all because the second they died they somewhat became new people.
Do you actually think Stack would do anything to Annie as a human knowing what that would do to Smoke? No chance in hell, which means he wasn't the same person. Same goes for Mary and how she killed him to bring him into the circle. The vampires tended to go after the people they were close to, because 1) loved ones are easier to manipulate when they're already drawn to you, and 2) they probably just wanted their loved ones to be in the big, happy, freaky vampire circle.
And that's what Stack wanted. He purposefully went after Annie because he wanted ALL of them to be one big happy family. Him, Smoke, Annie, AND Mary. The fucked up pollution of the vampirism made them all FEEL like they were free of their mortal burdens even though Remmick was taking advantage of and oppressing them all, and Stack wanted his brother and sister-in-law to be a part of that. So... assuming Stack would resent Mary for making him a vampire and taking his life is kind of like assuming Smoke would resent Stack for killing Annie.
Which... maybe he did, because he was still human (doubt he would've felt this way as a vampire tho). Smoke was definitely pissed at Stack for killing Annie, but in the end he still let his brother live. He didn't resent him enough to kill him, and he wasn't strong enough to survive being the cause of another loved one dying. It tore them both apart to know they'd be separated forever, but it was what the cards had dealt them. And it was SMOKE's choice not to change. Stack clearly respected it enough to listen to him about ending the fight and leaving Sammie to live his life in peace. And I kind of think that respect came from watching his brother kill Annie, the love of his life. You don't get more serious of a 'fuck off with this choice' than that.
By the way, Annie? Called Mary family. Mary? Went absolutely APESHIT when Annie died. Her and Stack literally snapped out of the thrall of killing for Remmick's sake when Annie died, to the point where Stack grabbed Mary and forced her out of the barn. And he clearly either told her to go somewhere safe or took her there himself because neither of them were at the lil cookout for sunrise. No other vampire broke out of Remmick's spell at any point, which indicates to me that Mary and Stack both loved each other, and loved Smoke and Annie enough that it brought them back to themselves at bit. Or at least interfered with Remmick's hold over them. That means Mary was WAY closer to the boys and Annie before shit went south with her and Stack than we got to see on screen.
And I think death actually gave Mary and Stack the freedom to finally be together. It may have shackled them to the dark and left them stuck in the pain of all they'd lost, but at least they had each other. I don't think for a second they would've abandoned each other, and I honestly was SO happy when I saw the two of them walk in at the end to say hello to Sammie. In a way, it was a mirror of Smoke and Annie also being reunited in death and living their happily ever after with their baby.
And how beautiful that both Stack and Mary still respected Smoke enough that they followed Sammie his entire life, listening to his music and being quiet fans in the dark, but they never once tried to hurt him. Stack asked politely if he wanted to stay with them when he was old enough, and once again respected when someone told him no. That's growth that we didn't see from any other vampire, and once again I think highlights the love the two of them managed to reclaim for their family.
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