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"Marie? She's the Skullgirl??" - Project: Peacock, upon realising she has to kill her best friend.
Patricia's story actually made me cry. Her whole past (and even present) is one heck of a trauma conga line, packed with as many feels as you can imagine. Losing parents and hometown in war, becoming a slave, getting horribly mutilated by the slavers losing her sanity in the process, getting rebuilt as the Anti-Skullgirls Lab 8's ultimate weapon now named Peacock, the doc who saved her life and whom she appeared to care for deeply gets killed, and then finding out her best friend Marie is the Skullgirl whom she was (re)built to kill. Oh, the irony...
(Well, not like almost everyone else's story isn't as tragic. They all live in one effed up world, that's for sure.)
Anyways, I found it kinda heartwarming (in a very bittersweet way) how Bloody Marie and Peacock stayed friends even after all they've been trough. And I liked how Peacock just decided to go on a killing spree at the end, being all "Welp, job well done, now time to keep the promise I made to Marie! Mafia goons, here I come! 
Drawing this proved to be quite difficult, since the whole style is completely different from mine (it was especially hard to draw the hands... and Marie's hair, surprisingly). I kinda wanted to draw this completely in Alex Ahad's style, but I still managed to kinda mix it with my own, as I usually do when I try to draw in someone else's style. I was also lazy with backgrounds, I guess you can see. Oh well...
Disclaimer:
Project: Peacock (a.k.a. Patricia Watson) and Bloody Marie (a.k.a. Marie Korbel) belong to Alex Ahad, in other words this guy ->
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Peacock: What is the square root of a fish? Now I'm sad!
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And the feels on the bus go sad, sad, sad...
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I don't see why most of the players sees Marie as an enemy. For me I think I see her as a broken person who is filled with anger and hate because people mistreated her a lot. If I were Peacock and see my best friend like that I would..... Rather talk it out than beating each other death.
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I wouldn't this life even on my worst enemy(if I had one)
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Wish this life
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At first it was just all peachy, then at the end Dun....Dun....DUUUUUNNNN! ( Unanimous music) Not so good!
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Indeed poor her TT~TT And as Peacock said: "Bloodying those Mafia fools sounds like a hoot!
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You forgot about the death of the Doctor who reconstructed her and looked after her.
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Ah, yes. Originally I wanted to feature all important relationships Peacock has in this li'l comic, but in the end I decided against it. Why? Welp, in all honesty the main reason is because I can't draw Dr Avian (at least yet) 
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I'm talking about the sad moments you wrote on the description but oh well xD
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...Oh, 'kay I misunderstood then
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You did a great job summing up peacock's story but if you pay attention in other stories you see that Marie used her wish she got from the skullheart to save Patricia's life, which in turn had her turned into Peacock so in an odd sort of way she herself created her own doom
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This is a late and nitpicky reply, but Marie actually acquired the Skull Heart several months after Patricia was mutilated. She most likely would have thought her friend was dead by the time she had the opportunity to make her wish. Marie's wish was to slaughter the slave traders and Medici Mafia in revenge--Dr. Avian finding and rescuing Patricia was due to sheer luck.
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In ms. fortune's story Marie herself specifically said she used her one wish to save her friend that her wish was VERY similar to ms fortune's who wanted to bring back the fishbone gang
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That's a misinterpretation based on your part: you made a jump in logic there that isn't factual. She says that she "wished to protect her friends", but that doesn't actually imply she used that wish to "save" Patricia.
You have to put the quote in context. They were talking about vengeance against the Medicis--wishing to kill them off would mean that any other friends she had that were captured by slave traders would have been freed, and Lorenzo's reign of terror would end.
Besides, as I said, the rest of the canon information puts too large a discrepancy between the two of them in the timeline for your "theory" to make sense.
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they never said how long it took for marie to meet double... at least not that i know of
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They have, in the lore interviews with Alex Ahad. Patricia has been Peacock for about a year as of the time the main plot takes place, whereas Marie has only been the Skullgirl for a couple months. The game takes place in the fall, and Marie became the Skullgirl in the late summertime.
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now i didn't know that, i only know the information that is in the game
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Fair enough! A lot of the extra information can be found in this thread on Skullheart: skullgirls.com/forums/index.ph…
This is all stuff that will probably be seen as more content is added into the game, or just side info that the creator has stated to be true.
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i didn't even know there was a forums... i've been trying to learn more about the parasites as i find them to be most interesting characters. scrolling through that makes a lot of fan art make more sense.
unfortunatly i didn't find anything i didn't know about the main parasites...
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I'm glad you think I've managed to sum up her story, I wasn't sure if I did a good job at it
And in the end Peacock has yet another reason why she'd continue Marie's job and kill the mafia members: if those people hadn't mutilated Patricia, Marie wouldn't have made a wish, thus neither one of them would become an Anti-Skullgirl weapon and a Skullgirl respectively.
...Also, on a random side note: the Skullheart can be a real jerk, twisting wishes in a way that the result will be painfully tragic irony.
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I have attempted to do the same and it always takes too long usually because i also explain marie's as well since their connected so much.
exactly true but in peacock's mind, is it revenge for what they did to her? or marie? both are valid but peacock is crazy we both know that much at least.
Well hold on, who's the real jerk, the skullheart or it's creator Aeon who told it to do what it does and it mindlessly obeys. That said most things that grant wishes are like that the genies in the original Arabian nights tales, Calypso from twisted metal. Although the way i see it, the skullheart does very little to grant your wish let me explain that
Marie's wish: it COULD have healed her wounds allowing her to live relatively normally afterword. BUT all it did was give her the chance meeting of Dr. Avian which in turn saved her life
Filia's wish: It COULD have simply removed the parasites and scars allowing her to go by Carol again giving her a truly normal life as filia intended. It CHOSE to simply make the parasites removable, force Brain Drain and Valentine to act as her parents and force her to continue to go by Painwheel and say she is from the labs even though her home can be seen in maplecrest and i know there a lot of "ands" in this statement.
Selene's (squigly's mother) wish: She wished for the skullheart to save her family, and it surely did... by forcing them to become her brain dead undead minions for 7 years, which i'm sure caused her to go batshit insane and force them to act like an image of her family even though they at that point they really aren't, pretending it all still makes sense
Valentines wish: okay let's be honest, by wishing to become the skullgirl, which is the side effect of making a wish in the first place, she skips all the theatrics and goes straight to her duty as the skullgirl, but from what i can tell she intends to be killed by painwheel on purpose and we really don't get to see what the effect of doing that is
so uh sorry i put a LOT of thought into this and i am not even a developer i just like over thinking "simple" game plots
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...woops.
"a little TRIGGER happy" is what I meant to write there in the other reply >.>
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No probs, I sometimes like over-thinking game plots as well. ;D
Regarding Peacock and taking revenge: I think both are the reason, she's avenging both herself and Marie. But hey, since she's crazy and a liiiittle happy, she might as well just do it for funsies.
Oh crap, I actually forgot about Aeon. O.O; I guess regarding the Skullheart the quote "Be carefull what you wish for" gets a whole new meaning. It seems to me that all wishes can come right back at you somehow (e.g. Peacock and Marie's case: "save my friend" -> she becomes a weapon whom you have to fight to the death). In this perspective it's Valentine's wish which seems the most logical, simply wishing to become the Skullgirl is less likely to get back at you IMO.
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cool i'm not the only one who does that.
i agree that is a little bit trigger happy and that makes her fun to listen to. when i first that ending i thought that was why she decided to do it (just for fun) because i was watching a video (i didn't actually have the game till recently) and they scrolled through the text really fast, faster than i could read it so i read the parts that made the most sense at time, caused me to misunderstand somethings. SUCH AS I actually thought that Vitale was Cerebella's lover not adopted father made the story make sense right down to the "was it worth it?" face in the ending, to be fair she was trying to get affection either way just not from a lover and either way all she got for it was temporary affection.
One could also say Double is the reason for all the wishes getting twisted, because you have to remember it only twists the NON pure wishes so double has to twist the girls into making a selfish wish, when you think about it, it was double who gave Selene the skullheart for her birthday AND it was double who told the mafia she had it causing the massacre that forced Selene to make her wish, Double was the one who told Marie that the skullheart could save Patricia at no cost (i just realized a NUN lied through her teeth, double is not a very good nun), Double was the one who convinced Filia that it was somehow her fault that painwheel is as she is now which was the ONLY reason the skullheart labeled her wish as impure, because she wants to atone for her forgotten guilt, if double hadn't been in any of those stories filia's wish would've been labeled pure because she wouldn't think painwheel's transformation was somehow her fault, Selene wouldn't have made a wish in the first place, and i don't think Marie could have avoided it, if she hadn't found double she still would've began seeking the skullheart and became the skullgirl anyway. Valenine's wish while it can't be twisted the skullheart is able to tell the only reason she chose that wish is because she KNOWS how "resurrect my friends" wishes go, and there nothing on gods formerly green earth she really wants but to atone for what she did to poor carol and she knows the skullheart will twist any wish with any form of selfishness so she decided to skip the drama. But going on with my "Double is douche" idea, Double tries to convince painwheel that the skullheart can free her she fails miserably but still, Double tries to convince Cerebella that the skullheart CAN give her the only thing she wants in this world the love she FIGHTS to get from vitale (although in canon if cerebella had made a wish it would've been a pure wish according Alex Ahad himself), she tries to convince Parasoul she can make the world safe as the skullgirl (and to be fair she wasn't given a choice, i forgot about her wish to save her sister the fate of becoming the skullgirl), Double continues to explain that to ms fortune that the skullheart can get her both the revenge and the fishbone gang back all she has to do is make a wish granted she realizes thanks to Marie that her wish isn't going to go the way she wants it so she destroys it instead showing self growth. The only character she doesn't even try to convince to use the skullheart is squigly who's path seemed set in stone to her, find the skullgirl, kill the skullgirl, destroy the skullheart NOTHING could or would stop squigly funny thing about her story, unlike ALL the others squigly fights double AFTER marie with a filia team mate as squigly convinced filia that the skullheart isn't worth it with her story
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I hereby cast comment NECROMANCY!
Fun fact, Cerabella's wish would actually backfire anyway. Someone dug up data for potential alternate endings for the original characters (Except Double), which were planned in the original game, but were cut. Every one (but Peacocks) is very depressing.
Cerabella's wsih would be the one you'd expect. Vitale's love. Only Vitale goes crazy and kills all of Cerabella's fellow performers, and overall becomes terrifying. Turns out the leader of a powerful mafia isn't the kind of guy you want to have fall head-over-heels in love with you.
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I know about that, I made Todd m this comment before that was found by delphox on the wiki
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THE LOADS OF FEELZ IS MAKING ME CRY!!! T.T but anyway, great work! ^w^
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Yes, yesss~ my evil plan is working! Let dem feels consume you~! >8D ...Ah who am I kidding? *starts crying with you*
And thank you! ^^
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ó ez nagyon jó lett, a történet meg érdekes, jól összehoztad râ a rajzot
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Köszi szépen~!
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Igen, van egy hangulatuk, ami megfog
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If feels were felt and (manly) tears were shed, my job's well done. *consoling hug* TTvTT
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