Mary

Personality: Sweet, compassionate, loves children, an old soul (literally)

Age: Depends on the setting. Born in the late 1890's, died in the 1920s, may still be alive any point after that

Appearance: A young woman with warm brown hair, usually curled into a fluffy bob.

Fashion Preferences: Large hats and dresses, but has to choose clothes that hide the seams where she was once cut open.

Wanted as a Child: A comfortable home with the love of her life to grow a family in

Wants Now: To help people in any way that she can, and to move on.

Backstory (cliffnotes version):

Mary spent most of her life in 1920's London, growing up under well-to-do parents and attending college studying literature as a young teenager. Through friends, she met Thomas, also attending the college--and the love of her life. She loved everything about him, his passion for projects and herself especially. They were married by the time she turned 22.

She and Thomas intended on having children together, but the war meant that Thomas was enlisted before that could happen. Mary contracted the Spanish flu while he was away, and died with her family, many of them facing the same fate.

When Thomas returned from the war to find his wife dead after watching the deaths of so many of his friends, he went mad. He became obsessed with bringing her back, and after months (years?) of work on her corpse, he succeeds.

Mary never wanted to die, but she never wanted to be resurrected, either. Following her husband's death many years later, she finally faces the opportunity to die with him like she had been meant to--and is top terrified from the first time to follow through. She runs away from their home, young as the day she died but far less human. A woman ready to die and move on but too afraid to take what she so desperately craves.