Mary Sue

“	I declare that for the sake of the peace I must protect and for the sake of the family I love, I will give my whole power! To make a world that no one else has to experience the sadness of losing their family to the Empire. And to enact God's justice! I swear by my good heart which believes in the Lord! May the Lord's grace be with me!	„
	~ Mary Sue

Background

Mary Sue or Mary Sioux is one of the main antagonists of the series The Saga of Tanya the Evil. She is the sole daughter of Anson Sue and his wife, who hailed from the Unified States.

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Past Mary lived in a quiet, simple and average life with her mother. Sometimes, she had slight struggles with her father, which left her side to become a soldier to benefit their homeland. Battle of the Fjord/Plus Ultra; Chapter IV: The devil in the coast of Norden Before the Christmas in 1924, Mary bought a state-of-the-art submachine gun for Anson as an early Christmas present. The novel and manga revealed that she received it from an agent by the name of John who was working for the Commonwealth. The gift soon was captured and kept by Tanya during battle of the Osfjord. How to use a Victory/The Finest Hour; Chapter V: Internal affairs After Mary learned about her father's fate in her grandmother's house in Arkansas, she volunteered to become a soldier. At that moment, she prayed to the God and received the same blessing as Tanya from Being X, albeit with some key differences. Dabit deus his quoque finem Chapter V The Battle of Dodobird After join the US volunteer forces of Commonwealth, she and her fellow cadets went to the mainland of Commonwealth and defend their territory as aerial mages. April 29, 1926, she fought her first actual aerial battle with Imperial 203rd Mage Battalion. She got seriously wounded by Tanya and found her gift to her father having been used by Tanya. From now on, Tanya had become her personal enemy.

General Information

Name: Mary Sue, Mary Souix

Origin: The Saga of Tanya the Evil

First Appearance: The Saga of Tanya the Evil (Chapter 4 The Devil in the Coast of Norden (Vol. 2) of Light Novel, Chapter 22 of Manga, Episode 6 "Beginning of Madness" as a cameo in the anime and officially in Episode 7 "Battle of Fjord" in the anime)

Latest Appearance: The Saga of Tanya the Evil

Company: Enterbrain (Light Novel Publishers), Kadokawa Shoten (Manga Publishers), NUT (Anime Studio), Kadokawa Daiei Studio (Distributors for The Saga of Tanya The Evil Movie)

Creator: Carlo Zen

Sex: Female

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: Unknown

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Initially Legadonia Entente Alliance, currently Unified States

Story Role: Antagonist, Military Soldier

Classification: Blessed One

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Being X

Occupation: Soldier of Unified States Army

Ranking: Second Lieutenant

Affiliations: Unified States, Legadonia Entente Alliance

Enemies: Tanya von Degurechaff, The Empire, Imperial 203rd Aerial Mage Battalion

Status: Alive

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Mary Sue is the opposite to Tanya von Degurechaff, whereas Tanya is the model idea of a soldier, Mary constantly ignores orders, and seeks vengeance on the one that killed her father)

Codex Statistics

Grade: S (Mary's mother and father prayed to the gods for their daughter to be protected in which swords would break before her, bullets would shirk her, flames would never reach her, and her wounds would heal. Mary offering words of prayer will grant them protection from divine grace, grant divine miracles, and empower Mary with abilities)

Tier: High 10-B physically, 9-A with basic magic, 7-C with strongest magic

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Above Average Human level physically (A trained military mage), Room level (Potency) with basic magic (Can fire out attacks that cause this much damage, comparable to Tanya von Degurechaff, where her basic spells can casually cut through planes, along with destroy several bomber planes at once, which results in this levels of energy), Town level (Potency) with strongest magic (Her strongest spells are superior to Tanya's strongest spells which with her strongest spell she can detonate a nuclear explosion that induces a mushroom cloud, which bombs that have done this produce at least 15 kilotons of TNT)

Durability: Above Average Human level, Room level with Passive Defensive Shield (noted by Vianto with his passive shield that only naval cannons can get past his shield, with naval cannons during the world war 1 era such as the BL 15-inch Mk I naval gun. Passive shields protects against shrapnel, small caliber bullets and blast waves along with a 12.7 mm), Higher with Active Defensive Barrier (Comparable to Tanya where her active shields could casually block an avalanche, which reach this level of energy. Tanya also used her active shield to tank the destructive power of a combined optical formula)

Striking Strength: Above Average Human Class, Wall Class (Potency) with Statistics Amplification (Should have comparable formulas to Tanya von Degurechaff where she can instantaneously increase her muscle power through her magic circuits)

Lifting Strength: Athletic Human. At least Class 25 with Magic (Her magic should be above other battalion members, who can lift fighter planes which weighs around 2000 pounds when empty for the smallest planes)

Travel Speed: Athletic Human, Superhuman Flight Speed (Can move around 250 km/h or Mach 0.2)

Attack Speed: At most Relativistic+ (Can fight comparable to Tanya von Degurechaff who dodged a laser beam, where Mary used an optical formula, which fires a straight ray which is defined as a beam of light, that's capable of refracting), Speed of Light Attack Speed with Optical Formulas (With Optical Formulas, emits a straight heat beam, which fires a straight ray, which is defined as a beam of light, that's capable of refracting)

Reaction Speed: At most Relativistic+

Stamina: Very High (Can keep up in prolonged battles against battalions)

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Bayonets, Tens of Kilometers with Formulas (Mages formula rages should be comparable to Tanya's, where she can fire at an enemy that is 20 kilometers away along with sense them, can fire from kilometers in the sky down at grounded enmies, amd can fire multiple beams from 12,000 feet in the air all the way down to the enemies)

Intelligence: Gifted Intelligence (Able to use Flying Gear in battle despite being so young, where she operates in three-dimensional warfare a hard concept for most to understand)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts (Soldiers are noted to have training in hand to hand combat), Weapon Mastery (Skilled member of her battalion, able to give even the likes of Tanya a push when enraged), Extrasensory Perception (Formula users can detect the use of formulas from 20 kilometers away), G-Force Adaptation (Mary is able to fly around freely doing 3-dimensional flight in the air with little oxygen at fast speeds without feeling any repercussions), Information Analysis (Operation Orbs can process the world's data and convert the manga of user mages), Immortality (Regenerative Immortality & Protection from Source), Divine Protection, Blessed, Empowerment, Probability Manipulation, Miracle Manipulation, Fate Protection, Regeneration (Varies depending on the wound inflicted), & Law Manipulation (Passive; Defensive; Mary's mother and father prayed to the gods for their daughter to be protected in which swords would break before her, bullets would shirk her, flames would never reach her, and her wounds would heal. Mary offering words of prayer will grant them protection from divine grace, grant divine miracles, and empower Mary with abilities), Immortality Negation (Varies), Regeneration Negation (Varies), Miracle Negation, Law Negation, Blessed Negation, Empowerment Negation, & Divine Protection Negation (Passive; Those who have miracles greater or equal to another can negate the miracles of others), Wish Granting (All humans can grant wishes and blessings to Being X and other gods in which they will have their wishes granted receiving blessings depending on the wish given, these wishes can stack with one receiving a blessing from each god), Magic (Mary has an aptitude for magic), Information Analysis (Operation Orbs can process the world's data and convert the manga of user mages), Reality Warping & Sheer Will (With Operation Orbs, a tool mages use to interfere with reality through magic according to their will, a breakthrough to recreate miraculous phenomena through the combination of both mana and analogue computation), Flight (Is able to fly with her specialized flying gear), Healing (Can heal oneself or others with healing formulas that heal from injuries that would've otherwise killed one), Purification (With alcohol detoxification spell, can remove alcohol from oneself), Homing Attack (With Guided Interference Formulas, can be used with optical and explosion formulas to home in on a target. Comparable to Tanya von Degurechaff, who can lock onto several enemy fighters and planes at once, shooting out a multitiude of bullets that all home in on the targets), Water Manipulation (Has a formula that can dehydrate the user), Sound Manipulation (With voice amplification formula, amplifies one's voice), Forcefield Creation (Mary has two forms of defensive formula's, a passive forcefield that protects against shrapnel, small caliber bullets and blast waves along with a 12.7 mm, and an active forcefield that increases the density of the shell in one part to create a shield that can withstand machine gun fire, it can withstand up to about 40 mm), Energy Projection (Can shoot out energy blast with her magic), Pain Manipulation (Can use an access formula that causes the nerves to sense pain filling the user with unimaginable pain), Light Manipulation (With Optic Formula, fires straight ray beams), Reflection Manipulation (Talented mages can bend light beams to change their flight paths), Statistics Amplification (She can instantaneously increase her muscle power along with improve her reaction time through her magic circuits), Pain Tolerance (Can give herself pain suppression with magic circuits), Technology Manipulation (With interference formulas, Mary can jam communicators), Illusion Creation (Standard Illusions; Can use an optical formula to set up decoy illusions such as fake rooms, and decoys on the battlefield to trick opponents. Can triple the amount of decoys making it impossible for an enemy to tell which is which along with put illusions on the enemy to look like someone else to get other enemies to attack them), Air Manipulation (Can use formulas to create oxygen, allowing them to breathe eight thousand feet in the air), Fusionism (Can fuse multiple formulas together to unleash a powerful blast of energy), Rage Power (Has a rage mode that allows her to cast spells far more powerful then Tanya).
Resistance to Heat Manipulation (Can apply heat resisting formulas), Death Manipulation (Mary's mother and father prayed to the gods for their daughter to be protected in which swords would break before her, bullets would shirk her, flames would never reach her, and her wounds would heal)

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Equipment

• Rifle: Standard issue rifle given to the flying mage corps, Mary uses it in combat to fire powerful formulas from.
• US Flying Gear: Flying Gear used for mages to act as airborn support in battles, the US version specifically uses skis to help the user fly unlike the Empire's Flying Gear that doesn't require this.
• Operation Orb: An Operation Orb or Computation Jewel is a tool mages use to interfere with reality through magic according to their will, a breakthrough to recreate miraculous phenomena through the combination of both mana and analogue computation. The device is currently a black box, as not much has been revealed about its operation, but its main function is known to process the world's data and convert mana of user mages. The Great Powers had entered a cutthroat competition in researching and developing this technology. In the second chapter of Deus lo Vult, it's revealed that the Empire is the pioneer in this aspect of magical technology through their Chief Engineer Adelheid von Schugel, the man also responsible for keeping Empire's supremacy in magical technology, the culmination of which is the practical implementation of a dual-core Operation Orb: the Elenium Type 97 ‘Mobile Assault’ Operation Orb. Orbs require basic maintenance at least once a month in order to operate properly.

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Notable Techniques

• Rage Mode: The user's hatred and a grudge against "Devil of the Rhine" become the source of the power. It exceeds the limits of the Blessed User. The Operation Orb of the user becomes brighter and regenerates mana quickly. However, as a side effect, the user loses control of their own movements and reason.

• Three Miracles: In the Manga, during her trip to the US, she received three Miracle abilities from God based on the prayers of her family.
  • A Blessed Future: As her father's prayer, her future has been blessed. Like an étoile in ballet, or a prima donna in opera, she will have an unbreakable will and a glittering destiny.
  • Protected by the Miracles: As her mother's prayer, she is protected by the miracles. Swords will break before her, bullets will dodge her, fire won't reach her, and her wounds will heal. Nothing short of a miracle of the same scale can break it.
  • Her Prayer: As her prayer, she gains strong magical power and sufficient mana like her father, so that she can fight for the motherland with her father.

• Magic: Magic is the phenomenon where mages use their mana to interfere with the world, a method that allows apparition of phenomena by giving appropriate stimulation to the point of application. Modern magic is achieved through technology Operation Orb, unlike the era of legends, this allowed people to clearly understand in detail the where, the how, and to what degree of power to interfere with reality.

• Prayer Spells: Mary can cast spells by praying to God, these spells are stronger than Tanya's powers. She can blow up a whole battalion (48 men) with only one artillery spell, as opposed to Tanya's, which can only wipe out a whole company (12 men). Her speed is faster than an average human Mage, and was able to take an entire magazine of magical enhanced bullets from Tanya's submachine gun and survived, although barely. Later, in the Movie, her Rage enhanced her power to the point where she took a volley from a squad of Mages, dozens, even hundreds, of shots from Tanya, a church spire falling on her and a full-powered attack from Tanya's Type-95 Orb and remained standing, all the while pushing herself to her limits to overwhelm and kill Tanya.

• Formulas: In Youjo Senki universe, formulas aren't a set of words, spoken or unspoken to invoke some magical effect. Mages have to understand how the phenomenon of formulas they intend to cast works to recreate the deeds such as miracles. It's like the way people understand how to light a fire with a lighter, thus enabling them to recreate the deed through magic.
  • Formula Bullets: Formulas are sealed inside bullets or grenades and activated upon firing. Can be initialized with minimum mana necessary for the formula. Bullets are required.

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• Flight Formulas: The aeronautic magic, which allows mages to soar through the sky. This magic works by creating propulsion, forcefully raising a mage into the sky and maintaining balance while in the air. The standard altitude for flight mages is 6,000 feet and it's not recommended for them to propel themselves any higher using an ordinary orb due to thin oxygen and massive amounts of mana their orb has to bear to maintain flight. Surpassing these limitations need a multi-core orb. Tanya herself with her gear can reach 12,000 feet.

• Defenseive Formulas

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• • Passive Defensive Shell: Protects against small fragments, small caliber bullets and blast waves. Can be kept on indefinitely, also easy to cast together with other formulas. The biggest ordinary single shot it can defend against in a direct hit is 12.7 mm, but in a saturation attack, even infantry small arms can weaken and penetrate it.
  • Active Defensive Barrier: Increasing the density of the shell in one part to create a shield that can withstand machine gun fire. Whether it provides adequate protection depends on the mage's skill. Ordinary, if concentrate on defense and funnel more mana, it can withstand up to about 40 mm.

• Offensive Formulas

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• • Enchanted Rounds: Sealing formulas inside bullets or grenades to activate as required. Formulas can be activated with minimal mana, but the rounds need to be prepared.
    • Penetration Formula: As implied in the name, enhancing penetrating power of the rounds.
    • Homing Cluster Shot: Any bullets that imbued with this formula will split into several homing projectiles upon reaching a certain range and will seek out the target.
    • Artillery Shots: Any bullets that are imbued with this formula will have its firepower enhanced to be comparable to artillery shots. It needs several layers control equation to converge the power. With Type 95, Tanya can shoot the magic bombardment that has similar power to 28 cm gun.
    • Long-Range Sniping Formula: A major attack made up of multiple formulas. Normally, anyone leisurely launching this in the middle of a battlefield would end up pummeled by anti-magic artillery.

• Optical Formulas: Emits a straight heat beam. Skilled mages can refract it to change its course. Noted to be the favored formula of Republican mage for their volley of fire doctrine. In the Movie, instead of attacking with magically enhanced bullets, she instead uses "Optical-type spells"; powerful pink lasers that can destroy dozens of streets and buildings with a single beam, of which she can rapidly fire.

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• Explosive Formulas: Explosive Formulas: Creates an explosion at any coordinate. Converted to gunpowder, the power of Heavy Explosion Formulas are 150 kilos at most.

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• Guided Interference Formulas: Directing a formula's trajectory, could be used for offensive and defensive purposes. It also could be used to interfere with radio signals.

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• Combustion Formulas
  • Napalm-Type: A large-scale formula that usually used in trench and unconventional war. It will cause strong mana signal, fire, huge explosion and blast. It isn't efficient in encounter battles or high-maneuver warfare.
  • Explosive Vaporization: A practical combustion formula when attacking the target in buildings.

• Detection/Support Formulas
  • Optical Decoy Forumla: Creates an illusion that will interfere with the visual senses of those around the user when cast. Skilled mages can easily differentiate between what is real and the illusion, especially since this formula is inclusively targeting sight and nothing else.
  • Observation Formula: Processes data of a Mage's surroundings, uses vary from locking on target coordinates, detecting observational waves, and analyzing an enemy's mana signature. In the anime, this formula takes the form of a holographic screen while in the manga it's akin to a halo above the user.
  • Heat Detection Formula: An impractical formula that is hard to handle even for Tanya. In volume 2, she once considered shoot the enemy bombers with the attack formula paralleling this one.

• Other Formula
  • Analgesic Formula: Doping up the target with it. It can improve the target's reaction time, increase instantaneous strength, and work as analgesic.
  • Medical Formula: Easing the pain and curing light wounds. With more advanced magic treatment, it can cure the serious injury by gunshot as well.
  • Magic Interference: The spread of high-density mana that can cause the noise and jamming to the radio equipment and haze the video with static. That basically makes communication units on the battlefield where mages involve in get paralyzed or perform electronic countermeasures.
  • Magic Communication: The radio communication between mages. While using a special format with directional waves via orbs, the high density of magic remaining will create ear-piercing noise to the radio messages.
  • Dehydration Formula: In manga chapter 30, Weiss once threatened the recruits to turn them into dry fishes by this formula.
  • Voice Amplification Formula: Increasing the volume of the user.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Mary will fly around and fire at the opponent from far or close distances.

Weaknesses: Her rage mode makes her lose control of movement and reason. Her most powerful artillery spells drain a high amount of mana. She is heavily inexperienced, if another protected by miracles battles her, they will negate her miracles granted (in-universe only weakness). Defensive formula shells have two variants: Passive and Active. The Passive shell covers the entire body but is much weaker, protecting only from shrapnel, bullets, and blast waves. The Active shell is much stronger, capable of stopping multiple artillery rounds, but it requires high concentration to utilize and is mostly focused towards one direction, heavily depending on the mage's skill and amount of mana. This makes maintaining an active shell highly impractical, leading most mages to swap between the two to conserve magic, though this doesn't fully apply to Mary Sue due to her large mana pool.

Note: While Faster Than Light may seem weird as a big thing in the verse of Youjo Senki is characters being in battles with bullets constantly being shot at them, the bullets are actually consistently amplified in power and speed, thus bullets give no real contradiction. Optic Formulas are also all light attacks, with any reason for their explosions or bending is due to the wielder bending or causing them to explode with their magic. Thus there is no contradiction with the Light Dodging Feats requirements.

Note 2: While it's also heavily implied they cannot react to moving at 300 kmh along with moving at Mach 1.5, these two are contradicted by the fact that to hit mage units, characters need to amplifiy the speed of their bullets, which wouldn't make sense if they cannot reach Mach 0.37 in speed.

Note 3: The manga, light novel, and anime are all essentially canon to each other with the most minor contradictions and changes to the point that they are essentially seen as all the same canon. Even with the minor contradictions in the way they can simply be ignored as they do not mess with the overall flow of the story and thus all material from the anime, manga, and light novel can be used on this profile. The web novel however, is not canon as it is the official draft made by Carlo Zen before the original LN published to the public.

Note 4: Mary Sue's negation ability realistically should negate any immortality (outside of the obvious one's that are more potent or she can't reach), as it negates anything viewed as a miracle or a blessing, even one's naturally innate physiology should be negated by Mary allowing her to affect them.

Note 5: Mary Sue's miracles negations can affect the miracles of all the gods such as Being X, who exists in the realm of the gods, a realm beyond all perceptions where the gods attempt to have the humans transcend to a higher plane of existence to be near this state of existence, being beyond reality.

Trivia

• Her name "Mary Sue" or "Mary Sioux" comes from the trope Mary Sue.
• She is the only person who can match Tanya von Degurechaff in many battles.

Gallery

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  Mary in the anime

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  Mary Sue in US Uniform

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  Full View of Mary Sue

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  Mary in the photo

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  Mary hugs Anson

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  Mary's farewell to Anson

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  Mary of US and Tanya of Empire

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  Tanya vs Mary 1

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  Tanya vs Mary 2

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  Movie 2nd Visual

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  Movie 3rd Visual

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  First Battle of Mary and Tanya

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  Mary in her Speech in US

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  Mary in Rage Mode

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  Mary in the Light Novel-01

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  Mary in the Light Novel-02

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  Mary in the Light Novel-03

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  Younger Mary and her mother

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  Mary Profile Smile

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  Mary's Beautiful Smile

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  Mary looking at her Father's Hat

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  Mary Sue in Volume 9

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