Talk:Marcy Wu/@comment-4075764-20200816145503

I'm liking Marcy so far, but.... I'm still hesitant to fully trust her. Not until we see what she's like when Sasha and the Calamity Box are brought back into the fold. We see her with the box in the opening, and she was, if not the one who suggested stealing the box, OK with making Anne do the dirty work in stealing it. And while she acts friendly towards Anne, we might have a fake friend scenario here where she'll drop Anne the moment Sasha asks her to- remember, at Toad Tower Sasha started out being relatively nice to Anne too until circumstances and hidden agendas came up.

There's also the matter of Sprig apparently being "Anne's first true friend", according to Matt Braly. This statement would be inaccurate if Marcy is truly as friendly and trustworthy as she's being portrayed right now.

Sprig spent the whole episode being suspicious of Marcy, and typically, those kinds of episodes are resolved in one of three ways- either the person under suspicion is revealed to be bad outright, the accuser and the accused have a heart to heart where the accuser comes to realize they were wrong, or something happens that causes the accuser to drop the suspicion, and it's later revealed once the accused is alone that they really were bad.

We didn't get a resolution quite like any of these, though- Marcy saves Sprig, Sprig drops the suspicion, and that's the last we hear of it. We don't get further resolution with these two where Sprig explains "We thought Sasha was Anne's friend, but she betrayed her, so I didn't want to trust you either...". It's just never brought up in the episode again.

If I had to guess, we're on the third track- just with the reveal of Marcy's true nature being held off so it can be more shocking later. Give us some episodes of Marcy with the group so that when she ultimately does turn, it hurts even more. Maybe I'm totally off the mark here- I certainly wouldn't mind, Marcy's a fun character right now- but I can't help thinking that her being 100% friendly and good is too easy...