Mary

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Mary is both the main antagonist and tritagonist in the game Ib. Even though Mary seems like an ordinary human, she is actually the last painting that Guertena ever worked on. Her goal is to exit the cursed gallery of the Fabricated World to the real world in order to make a new life for herself and make many friends, but her dream can only be reached if she manages to sacrifice the life of someone from the real gallery before jumping through the Fabricated World painting. Mary's depicted age is unknown, though, according to her, she is younger than a "grown-up." Mary's ultimate desire is to leave the Fabricated World and live as a human in the real world. During her time in the cursed gallery, she has read about a lot of things that pertain to the real world from books, such as the beach and candy, and wants more than anything to see these things. She especially seems to want to make lots of friends. She quickly grows attached to those she spends time with, already seeming to view Ib as a friend, despite knowing her less than a day. In Together, Forever, she is quick to snuggle up to Ib's parents. Mary appears to be a cheerful and innocent little girl at first glance, but she is also impatient and often misunderstands things. As the plot progresses, it becomes obvious that she has hidden motives. Mary's behavior may be the sort of behavior her painter, Guertena, had imagined her to have. While Mary's upbeat attitude may have been true to her nature, it may also have served as part of a ruse to keep Ib and Garry from becoming suspicious of her. For example, when Garry first mentioned her rose, Mary ignored Garry's tips on keeping her rose safe, exclaiming how she liked Ib's rose color. This sort of ignorant nature could have been a way of hiding her secret of being a painting and avoiding any deeper conversation about her rose so that Ib or Garry wouldn't notice anything suspicious about her.

Mha

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ib

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Ib is the silent protagonist of the horror game Ib and the first playable character in the game, preceding Garry and Mary. Ib's personality varies depending on the player's choices, but she is shown as reticent, reserved, and vacantly unreadable. She appears to have an unusual mental immunity to most surreal events that would normally result in trauma, though she may simply be too young and naïve to identify when things are out of the ordinary. However, she is truly very kind, compassionate, and emotional on the inside. When the cursed gallery's events start to ominously involve those who are significant to Ib, Ib is visibly disturbed. After certain extremely tense moments, Ib expresses her affection physically, as she hugs Garry on two separate occasions. Ib is clearly frightened of the cursed gallery during the cutscene showing her nightmare. She is also very sensitive to others, as she felt sorry for Mary when she had to leave her behind. Due to her age, Ib is rather naïve. She can't read certain words in the gallery and doesn't completely understand what is going on, although she is aware of the concept of danger. For example, in any of the endings in which Garry dies, Ib, upon seeing his body, will think that he is sleeping. Ib finds her Red Rose after she enters the cursed gallery of the Fabricated World. After she picks it up, the rose window on the interface will indicate that it only has three petals, but it can be restored to full health after placing it in the nearby vase. Unlike Garry's rose, her rose has only five petals. This may be due to their age; she is younger, and thus weaker than Garry.

Elsa

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