disclaimer: these are my thoughts and opinions, how i view the canon lore and events. this is more of a small VERY SMALL character study so i'm not touching every topic, i just want get some of my thoughts out. dont agree? not trying to see where im coming from? i respect it but don't start coming at me crazy, thanks.
I think Mary is a selfish character. Not in the shallow, greedy way—but in the way that she needs her people close, no matter the cost. She’s selfish in her desperation to be with her family. She was willing to risk everything—not just to be with Stack, but with all of them. She wanted to stand beside them through thick and thin. She loved—loves—Stack through stress and struggle, and that same deep, consuming love extended to the rest of her family too. She loved them selfishly.
You see it in the way she put herself in danger to find out why Remmick and his people were there in the first place—even though she didn’t protect her back and went alone… and got got. (Stack has the same flaw, by the way: not watching his back.) You see it in how she leaned into the idea of "family" Remmick was selling when she was turned—because again, she was desperate. You see it in how she screamed in grief when Annie was killed before she turned. That’s what Annie wanted, and I think that pain—that loss—was what broke Remmick’s hold on Mary and helped her finally run. You see it again when she returned to Clarksdale to bury her mama. That grief—that ache for connection—was a huge part of why she did what she did.
And all that love, however selfish, was reciprocated. Y’all really think they didn’t care about her? Stack loved her—obviously. He promised that if anyone touched her, both he and Smoke would handle it. Annie called her family. We didn’t get much of Mary and Smoke’s dynamic, but he at least respected her—and with Smoke, that means something. They loved her. They cared about her. They just wanted her gone because of the times they were living in. But Mary didn’t care. Even if they had found out about her ancestry, she wouldn’t have cared.
Mary is selfish. She wants her family. She wants the man she loves. She wants, and she yearns, and she clings. She’s possessive. She’s desperate. And it’s all incredibly selfish—but also deeply human and heartbreaking.
Ryan Coogler once said vampirism was the illusion of freedom, and Hailee said Mary was truly broken by Annie’s death. Mary wanted her family to be free, even if it was in that fucked-up-ass way. Because she was selfish in the way she loved her people.
Mary is selfish—desperately, defiantly selfish—but also deeply human in the way she loves. And that love? It was returned, every messy, complicated bit of it.
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