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What does Marie think of the patients? Are there any that she is friends with? Any she can’t stand?
"Friends" is a bit much to describe anyone Marie is seen with. Mostly, if anyone considers them to be friends with her, that's great! Lovely, even. However, the sentiment will undoubtedly be one-sided and Marie would find the implication a little funny.
Overall, Marie sees the patients as levels, as Rhythm Challenges for her to overcome with extreme perfection lest she be ousted and flung from her pedestal. So what if she has to redo their care a good 20 times? So what if they get a bad feeling whenever she appears "for the first time" that they can't completely place? It'll all get done all the same anyways.
The unfortunate part comes when said patients are so endlessly grateful to her for having saved their lives without making a single mistake. Cole wants to make her listen to so many of his debatably good songs, Nicole wants to have a smoke with her and talk about life, the Stevensons want to discuss how they got together and how they've managed to stay in love for all these years. Goodness, don't get her started on the children... Annoying little miscreants, endlessly glad she was never like them.
And yet, all of them have nothing but kind words to say about the woman despite all this... A little icy and rough on the outside, but she must care about them to listen in the way she does.
... Marie doesn't understand why any of this is, but it must be because they're hoping to get something from her. Gifts, maybe? Or maybe they're hoping that being nice will prevent her from making mistakes in any future operations. A kind of moral binding of sorts. Interesting...
As for a patient she couldn't stand, weeeelll... Ignoring Crystal because their feelings are complicated, Marie absolutely LOATHES Richard. She hates him, despises him, actively wishes to cause him harm and actively has done so. You do NOT belittle her and her accomplishments, you do NOT insult her fashion, you do NOT imply that she and her entire line of work is worth nothing while actively demanding they they provide you with aid at the same time. She has deliberately either refused to defib Richard correctly or has actively held the button down as hard as she could the entirety of the song. Of course, she still had to reset and S+ his level, but that catharsis of just doing whatever she wishes to him without consequence will forever have been worth it to her. Fucking capitalist pig...
Ahem, to summarize... Marie tolerates the presence of the grand majority of the patients. Some more than others.