====== Margi nee Thompson ====== =====AKA===== [[Bone Crossed]] * Margaret38 [[River Marked]] * Marjorie Thompson197 * Marji197 =====Physical Description===== [[Bone Crossed]] * Margi is five-foot-nothing. She’s only seventeen years older than Mercy, which means she’s not yet fifty and looks thirty9 * She’s usually blond—Mercy is pretty sure it’s her natural color—but the shade changes from year to year. This year it was strawberry gold9 * Her eyes are big and blue and innocent-looking, her nose slightly tip-tilted, and her mouth full and round9 * Dimples24 ====Injuries==== =====Appearances & Mentions===== ^ Appearances ^ |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]| |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]]| |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]]| |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #11: [[Storm Cursed]]| ^ Mentions ^ |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]]| |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]]| |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]]| |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Frost Burned]]| |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]]| |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]]| |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]]| |[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #12: [[Smoke Bitten]]| =====Classification===== [[identified_mundane_humans#margi_nee_thompson|Mundane Human]] ====Description==== [[River Marked]] * Western European- mostly German and Irish in descent164 ====Affiliation==== [[Columbia Basin Pack]] =====Residence===== Portland =====Family & Significant Other===== **Husband - [[Curt]]** **Daughters - [[Mercy Thompson]], Nan, Ruthie** =====Occupation===== =====Character Traits & Facts===== [[Moon Called]] * President of her local PTA13 * Was a rodeo groupie. She liked cowboys, any cowboys43 [[Bone Crossed]] * Has a gray four-year-old Volvo station wagon7 * Owns a pink and black Glock12 [[River Marked]] * Like the fae, she doesn't lie. Just leads you where she wants you to go willy-nilly, all for your own good34 ====Education, Work Experience & Languages==== ====Spirituality & Personality==== [[Moon Called]] * Vivacious and cheerfully flaky13 [[Bone Crossed]] * Could cuddle her children like any of the best of parents, but she knew all about the importance of standing on your own two feet10 [[River Marked]] * Her competitive instincts overruled her motherly ones38 ====Talents & Skills==== [[Moon Called]] * It's hard to keep secrets from her. She just smiles at people, and they tell her their life stories43 ====Health & Fitness==== ====Quirks==== [[Bone Crossed]] * With strangers, she sometimes plays a dumb blonde, batting her eyelashes and speaking in a breathy voice that anyone who watched old movies would recognize from Some Like It Hot or Bus Stop9 * Cute when she scowls10 [[Silver Borne]] * Had doves at her wedding26 =====Relationships===== **With Mercy** [[Moon Called]] * Was seventeen when she had Mercy, and her parents tried to talk her into an abortion, but Margi would have none of it. Then they tried to get her to put Mercy up for adoption, but she was determined to raise Mercy herself-until she was three months old, and Margi found a coyote pup in her crib43 * Came out every summer to visit44 [[Blood Bound]] * Only used Mercy's full name when she was angry with her50 [[Bone Crossed]] * Always worried that Mercy didn't have any friends23 [[Frost Burned]] * Taught Mercy to pin calves or goats when she was ten years old, and decided Mercy should follow her footsteps as a rodeo queen47 **With the Wolves** [[Moon Called]] * The wolves didn't make it easy on her when she came to visit44 [[River Marked]] * Bran owes her a hundred dollars34 * Bran had gotten her to do what he wanted her to more than she was happy about60 [[Fire Touched]] * Negotiated for visiting rights over Bran's objections216 **With the Fae** [[Bone Crossed]] * My mom didn’t like Zee. She blamed him for Mercy's decision to stay in the Tri-Cities and fix cars instead of finding a teaching job, something much more in line with the kind of work she thought Mercy should be doing38