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Arkham Asylum was no place for children, but Mary was no child.  She was troubled, yes very troubled. She had been sent to Arkham after her insane, Suicidal attemps to not only kill herself because she was hurting on the inside, but also because she believed the world owed her an apology for treating her so poorly.

Dressed in a grey Arkham Inmate uniform, Mary sat on a small plastic child's chair in the Rec Room. She wasn't so terribly upset about having to use child fitted  furniture, being carried or picked up by one of Arkham's nurses or even having to ask everyone else around her to help her reach things, read things posted to high for her to see or even the fact some of the inmates and staff keep asking her to say her once famous pphrase from her former show .

No.

Is was the fact that she wasn't taken serious as a person, Mary looked like an adorable 7 year old child, blonde curly hair, bright baby blue eyes and sweet as sugar voice. Mary wanted to be respected and treated like the adult she was, not a child as she appeared to be. Even in the Recreation Room where respect was given or else a person would see themselves in solitary or worse, Mary was treated like a child.  The watching guards must have been new to Arkham, they called her "Sweetie" and talked to her in a rather annoying sweet voice. She had been given a ' special' area just for herself in the Rec room, an area set up to be more like a child's play area, she loathed it.

As her eyes  watched one of the guards walk off to patrol, She stepped over the dotted line on the floor and walked over to where the other inmates were, she was going to have her way or god help those who got in her way.

[Heather Glass - VerMillion]

There aren't very many interesting people in the rec room today - or at least there weren't when VerMillion arrived. Normally when she comes in here she has a tendency to find someone interesting and pester them until they let her interact with them. When she got here it was too big of a challenge to sort out which of the boring patients present was the least boring, especially since most of them seem to be glued to the TV, so at Heather's suggestion she sat down at a card table and started playing solitaire with the pack of cards that had been abandoned there. Which seems to be a rather boring game at first, but she's been enough absorbed in it that she hasn't really paid any attention to her surroundings for quite a few minutes. Especially since she's doing fairly well - if she can just find where the ace of diamonds is hiding, she'll be in good shape...

Compared to the rest of the patients in the room, VerMillion probably looks pretty interesting herself. If only because her hair really stands out - Summer was so very kind to get her some hair dye so that she could restore it to its full brightness. She's also not very big. Oh, not nearly as small as the smallest patient in the room, but she's only 5'2" and rather thin - some of the bigger guys glued to the TV are easily three times her size.

Of course, what's far more interesting than her appearance is her reputation. Well, assuming if you keep up with the news at all. Her face was completely plastered all over it several months back when she was kidnapped by the Scarecrow during a live broadcast of her radio show. And then even more so when it was discovered that she was still alive and being held captive by him - something he doesn't normally do. And then again when the evidence seemed to suggest that she was with him willingly. And then again when she was discovered, apparently unharmed - at least physically - when he was caught by Nightwing, though she's been sent here for her mental health to be assessed. And given the fact that she's been here for awhile, it's not hard to guess whether or not she passed that assessment.

Sensing some unexpected movement out of the corner of her eye, her head suddenly shifts to look at the young-looking patient venturing out of her designated corner. Well, not so much 'look' as 'stare' - she does have a bad habit of doing that whenever she looks at anyone, always.

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From beneath her curls, Mary glanced at the woman who was staring at her, she was use to it, but didn't really approve of it. She walked with the confidence of a full grown woman, despite her childish appearance. She then flung some of her hair back from her face as she approached Vermillion, Avoiding colliding with some of the less aware inmates that walked past, she wanted to kick them in the shins for ignoring her.

Finally, she pulled herself up into a chair across from Vermillion and then gave a soft smile, She tilted her head to the side and tried to look sweet and innocent. Her voice was cute, very sweet and charming as one would expect from a cute blonde little girl," Hello there.. "

[Heather Glass - VerMillion]

Watching the woman as she approaches, VerMillion doesn't do anything but stare until she's taken a seat and greets her. "Hi," she replies, "You're Baby Doll, aren't you?" How does she know that? Well, she's certainly not familiar with that old TV show - she never watched that. No, it's because she used to report the news on her radio show, and though her listeners of course never saw the pictures, she did when she was researching the story and checking her facts.

"Or do you like 'Mary Dahl'?" she asks, figuring that's also a possibility. People get so picky about names around here! Then again, so does she - she's not a fan of being mistaken for Heather, after all, even though she'd no more than correct someone if they did so. "I'm VerMillion," she says, holding her hand across the table as she introduces herself, her eyes still not leaving the other woman.