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I know someone already asked about Crystal’s feelings, but how does Marie feel? 👀
Ah, I see you wish to ask only the richest of questions, don't you? Well, suppose I shall answer as best I can!
Ahem. She doesn't know! Alright see ya credits roll curtain call byeee-
Pfft, for real tho, she feels... a grand and volatile mess of emotions and sentiments towards Crystal. Some that make sense, some that don't, but every single one of them is overly complex. She despises her existence, she can't get enough of her. She wants to know everything she can about her, but she'd just as easily smash a radio to bits if it were discussing a competition Crystal won earlier that week. They had been friends once, they had been much more than that even, but all good things must come crashing down, being left a mangled and completely unrecognizable shell of what it had once been.
Crystal was the first and only person who really knew Marie, for better and for worse. She knows about Marie's little "gift", for example, and all the good and bad that could've come from such a thing. Which might be another aspect to explain how she feels about the woman in question being here at her place of work...
When she first saw Crystal on all the major league stuff, skating for the world to see, being talked about fondly by locals and fans alike, she could decide whether she wanted to throttle the woman or hold her tenderly in her arms one last time. Of course, she figured she'd never have to make a decision like that considering how wildly different their lives had become. Marie had remained in Paris for the majority of her adult life and Crystal was a globetrotter. The likelihood of either one of them ever seeing the other again was astronomically low, if not impossible altogether. Doubly so once she took that job at Middlesea! Now Marie's past couldn't haunt her even if it tried!
... And then it did. And then Crystal Winters appeared, in the flesh, right there in a patient room. The precious, precious little Snow Queen herself. The precious, precious little Princess of Frost. As if to mock her. As if to smile and laugh as she goes back through the unfinished business of dragging Marie down from the golden throne she rebuilt for herself. As if to spread her arms open wide and display all the success and fame she's managed after lovingly stabbing her dearest in the back. And, what's more, she's claiming that she wants to start anew between the two of them, wants to bury the hatchet and see if they can't let bygones be bygones.
How... dare she...
Marie would not be able to understand at all what Crystal's hoping to prove, to trick her with by pretending to care like this. She hates her, doesn't she? Why bother attempting to bring her guard down just to betray her once again? She can't stand it, she can't stand how any of it makes her feel. It makes her want to scream! She'd gladly leave her levels undone forevermore if it means she never has to deal with any of this crap, than you very much!
Thaaaat's about it, I think. At least as much as I'm willing to divulge, hehe. As you can see, the French are endlessly complex in their emotions and their feelings towards one another, almost to the point of a constant breakdown! Well, for one of them at least. Hope thos answers it well! Thank you for the ask!