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MARY CRAWLEY

"I SHOULD HATE TO BE PREDICTABLE."

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This is a role play journal for Mary Crawley from the TV show Downton Abbey. Both muse and mun are over 18. If you wish to leave comments or crit for me about how I play Mary, I ask that you please do so in a respectful manner. Comments are screened.

personality

Typical canon point is at the end of S5.

Mary Crawley is the oldest of Robert, Lord Grantham's, three daughters. She lives at Downton Abbey, her family's huge manor home in Downton, Yorkshire, England. The year for her is 1924.

Mary is a relatively typical loyalist aristocrat who enjoys her life as a member of the upper class. She is extremely proper and well-mannered. At the beginning of the series, she had a tendency to look down on people who were not trained in the ways of the aristocracy (such as her distant cousin Matthew), but has mellowed as the series has continued.

Mary is stubborn and usually willing to share her opinion on something if you ask her about it. She isn't rude, but she's usually not afraid to tell someone that she disagrees with them and why. Obviously, Mary is intelligent, with a quick wit and what in those days was called a sharp tongue but today would be called sarcastic. There are times where she can be selfish. Mary is also very attractive (and knows it) and flirtatious, sometimes using this as a weapon. One time, she flirts with the man her sister Edith is interested in, only to make Edith furious.

She is probably the most conservative of her sisters (compared to Edith, who learned how to drive a car, and Sybil, who married the chauffeur). This is evidenced by her reaction after she allows herself to be seduced by a visitor to the house, only for him to end up dying in her bed. This doesn't upset her so much as the idea that she has been "ruined" has. She spends a great amount of time ruminating over this because she thinks that Matthew, the man she loves, won't accept her if he knows she's had sex before marriage. Over the course of the series, Mary has grown more open to the idea of change in society and in her family's level of importance in it, while her father remains staunchly set in his old ways. She defends Sybil's decision to marry Tom and later supports him when he wants to baptize her niece as Catholic, even when Robert is against it. She and her father frequently butt heads, though it is clear that they love each other and have good intentions, for the most part.

Her foo foo tendencies have also subsided a bit as she's gotten older, and she's proven herself willing to do hard, dirty work when it's necessary. There's an emergency with Downton's pigs and Mary is forced to clean the pen and provide them with water - all in evening wear. If she had refused though, the pigs would have died and Downton would have lost that investment. When she learns that she is to help with the running of the estate, she educates herself on farming methods so that she'll be able to add an intelligent opinion and make the right decisions.

Overall, Mary is extremely loyal to her family (even Edith), both by blood and by acquaintance. In particularly, she's close to Anna Bates, her ladies maid, and Charles Carson, the butler. Anna, being the one who helps dress and tend to her, is a strong confident of hers. When Mary learns that Anna has been sexually assaulted, she wants to do anything she can to help her. Carson has known Mary her entire life and the two have a special bond. She has asked him for advice on more than one occasion and Carson sees her as the daughter he never had.

Mary was also incredibly loyal to and changed by her husband Matthew. He brought out the best in her personality and accepted her as she was. His death was extremely hard on her, setting her into about 6 months of despair before she finally decided to move on with her life, both for herself and for her son George.

At this point in her canon, her husband Matthew is dead. She, her father, and her brother-in-law, Tom Branson have taken charge in the running of Downton, turning it into a working farm that will generate badly needed money for the family.

Mary is a strong woman for just about any time, let alone for 1920s England. She's able to go after what she wants and take charge when necessary.

Canon History: here

permissions

[ OOC ]
Backtagging: Absolutely
Threadjacking: Sure. An OOC heads up is nice though.
Fourth-Walling: I don't see why you would? But you can. She'll think your character is nuts.
Form of Address: Mary is the daughter of an Earl and is usually fairly proper about address. The correct way to address her is Lady Mary. She in turn will call people by their rank or their last name (eg. Lord Gillingham, Mr. Talbot, Miss Swire) until she knows them well enough to call them by their first name (at which point the other person can simply call her Mary).

[ IC ]
Hugging: Sure
Kissing: Sure
Flirting: Yes please.
Smut: Yes, M/F only.
Fighting: She's not really a fighter, but if you attack her she'll probably attack you back.
Injuries: Minor ok, anything more will need to be discussed.
Killing: Probably not.
Telepathy/Mind-Reading: Needs to be discussed first.

kinks

Ship Preferences: M/F only. Canon ships would be Mary/Matthew or Mary/Tom. Cross canon is wonderful. Historical AUs are my favorite.

Kinks
I'm not going to go through the entire list and divide it up into yes or no, I'm just going to post my favorites. Presume that you should ask before wanting to do anything not on this list.

• vaginal sex
• oral sex (giving and receiving)
• masturbation/handjobs/mutual masturbation
• dirty talk
• partially clothed sex
• phone sex or sexting
• light bondage
• costumes/roleplay
• toys

ooc

Name: Lauren
Age: 32
Time Zone: EST
Preferred Method of Contact: PM


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