Who is Maryrose? I’ve never heard of her before
I am so so so glad you asked!!!!!
Maryrose Jenkins is an oc from The Marauders Series by Pengiwen (the first four books can be found on ao3 and all of the books can be found on wattpad) It's a reallyyyyy long cannon compliant fic with multiple povs and a book for each year, spanning from The Marauders first year to the end of the first war (and also flash fowards to what the Marauders characters were up to during 1993-1998)
Maryrose is Pandora's younger sister and is in the same year as the Marauders. She's a Hufflepuff and a Metamorphous and usually has teal hair. She's also trans!!!
In the fic Maryrose dates James for a bit during their fourth year and in their fifth year she meets Regulus and they immediately become smitten for each other and are one of the cutest ships to ever exist!!!!
To further explain why i'm so obsessed with them, here are just a few of my favourite quotes
They turned toward the Three Broomsticks, and Regulus looked over at her, then, using the very last of his bravery, he reached out and took hold on her hand. "Don't wanna get separated, he announced, lacing their fingers together.Maryrose squeezed his hand.
She leaned forward and kissed his chin, right in the cleft below his lips and her nose caught his lip and he kissed it softly. Regulus felt as though he were intoxicated or having an out of body experience. It was the first time her lips had touched his skin and it set off a wave of emotions and feelings that he hadn't been expecting, just coursing about through his veins like magical fire
Regulus was fairly certain that he was falling for her, with great chunks of his heart at a time
Regulus sighed. Maryrose was the only person in the whole castle he knew would never hurt him on purpose. And the only one that he felt any sort of connection to. He could not imagine what life at Hogwarts castle would be if Maryrose was not around him. Dismal and quite horrid, he imagined. Being angry with her hardly even seemed an option.
Regulus said, "I could be trying to draw you in, trying to trick you into liking me so I can drag you back to Voldemort's lair and let him kill you for the fun of it, for being a mudblood supporter." He purposely used the harshest term he could. Maryrose shook her head. "You aren't." "What if I was?" "Then I'd follow you blind."
"Can you do that too?" Maryrose asked Regulus, watching from a table as Sirius led Lily Evans about the dance floor. Regulus looked over. "I can do it better than him."Maryrose raised an eyebrow. "Better than that? They look like something out of a storybook." Regulus, who was wearing fine green dress robes, stood up. "Come on then. Come look like a storybook with me."
He stared into Maryrose's eyes as she pulled back... and she stared back into his.He could see her in the middle of them, in the reflection in her pupil was her soul... even as the irises changed colour with her nervousness now... he could still see her there. He would always see her there.
They're just so darling and Maryrose is one of my favourite characters probably of all time. I wish she was more popular then she was. You can find a few edits of her and of her and Regulus on instagram and tiktok. Her fancast is Florence Pugh <3
