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Maria Campbell is the protagonist of a fictional otome game called Fortune Lover, and one of the major characters and love interests from the My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! franchise, which is about a teenaged otaku who reincarnates into the Fortune Lover world as the antagonist, Katarina Claes.

Maria is about 15-17 depending on her canon point. She's a student at the magic academy of the Kingdom of Sorcier, and the first commoner to be admitted in about ten years, due to her not only having magic (something extremely rare outside of the nobility) but her elemental affinity being light, which is the rarest element of all. Befitting her status as an otome game heroine, Maria is genuinely sweet, gentle, and hardworking, but a bit passive for her own good.

There are three timelines/canon 'verses that Maria can be taken from. While Maria's basic personality and backstory before attending the magic academy alter very little between 'verses, her relationships with the other characters, particularly Katarina Claes, are very different.

Hamefura Timeline/Main Timeline
This is the 'main' timeline that the primary manga, the anime, and the light novels all center around. In this version, Katarina Claes hits her head about eight years before she would normally meet Maria, and recovers her past life memories of being an otaku who was playing through the Fortune Lover game.

This means that the Katarina that Maria meets in the main timeline is a good-natured idiot who becomes friends with Maria and protects her from being bullied by the other noble girls. Maria is deeply in love with Katarina and through Katarina has become good friends with the other members of the student council, despite the other members also being love rivals for Katarina's affections.

Fortune Lover Timeline
This timeline isn't directly shown anywhere but the audience learns a great deal about it from Katarina's narration. In this timeline, Katarina Claes is a spoiled and selfish young woman who severely bullies Maria out of a mixture of jealousy and contempt for Maria's commoner origins. Maria has up to five potential love interests (including the Princes Geordo and Alan Stuart) but does not seem to have many friends due to being ostracized by Katarina and her social circle.

Verge of Destruction Timeline
This timeline is the focus of a spinoff manga series ~~which got cut kind of short but that's beside the point~~. Here, things play out much like they do in the Fortune Lover timeline until, during the middle of harassing Maria, Katarina trips, hits her head, and regains her past life memories.

As a result, Katarina's personality goes through a serious shift. She apologizes to Maria, stops bullying her, and begins to go out of her way to befriend and protect Maria from the other noblewomen. While Maria is initially wary, she warms up to Katarina over time and the two of them become genuine friends, although Maria does not seem to develop the romantic interest she has in the main timeline.

It’s a nice day at the Sorcier kingdom’s academy- it usually is, what with the small army of servants who keep the walled community looking like something out of a picture book both inside and out. There’s a slight chill in the air though, warning of the approach of winter.

The school year is well underway, and it’s an unusual time of year for new arrivals. However, this latest arrival has unusual circumstances, or so Maria has been told. Held captive by the tyrannical Zaibach empire for ten years, Lady Schezar not only has a great deal of socialization and education to catch up on, but she is doubtless suffering from having spent so long under such traumatic circumstances.

Since a new environment could prove overwhelming, even if Lady Schezar’s enrollment is not guaranteed, Maria Campbell has volunteered, as a representative of the student council, to guide her around campus. The rest of the student council, unfortunately, is unavailable to help, because:

President Sirius Dieke and Vice-President Nicol Ascart are genuinely busy; Prince Geordo is only slightly less busy and considered it more diplomatically beneficial to keep his distance from the young lady; Prince Alan cannot be bothered; Sir Keith Claes cannot be trusted around young ladies, especially ones as fragile as Lady Schezar is likely to be; Lady Mary Hunt would be a perfectly fine choice except the situation with Lady Schezar was sudden and Lady Hunt had a prior engagement; and Lady Sophia Ascart would rather burst into flames than have to deal with a social situation without her older brother.

So. The duty of escorting Lady Schezar falls to Maria Campbell.

Currently, she awaits her duty in a classroom near the administrative offices, empty except for the professor, who is preparing the lesson plan for tomorrow. Maria is sitting quietly at one of the desks near the front, reading through a geography book, and absorbing very little. She keeps glancing at the door, and the moment it opens she stands up, more hastily than is doubtless proper for a young lady.

Maria drops into an equally hasty curtsy. She dearly hopes Lady Schezar will be nice. Or at least not offended that a commoner will be escorting her.

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