Marie Herzeleid

Marie Herzeleid was a character from As the Orb Turns. She lived in Westminster, DW, Orbin Federation, but attended Wacovia High School.

Bio
Marie was born on April 4, 1974. She was baptized at age 11 and raised evangelical Protestant. It is entirely possible that her parents were converted by the wave of evangelical missionaries that entered Orb in the late 1970s and early 1980s; thus she could have been originally christened into the Church of Orb.

Little else of her life is described until she was in 10th grade, when she met Clarence Roland, and the two began dating. However, due to their vastly differing beliefs (he a Unitarian, she a Biblical literalist), their relationship was rather rocky.

Clarence often got on his father's old motorcycle and rode to Westminster to go to Bible study at her church, just to be with her.

By late 1990, Marie had become increasingly paranoid and irrational. She had become afraid to engage in any form of intimacy with Clarence, even holding hands, as she feared the fact that he was "unsaved" would contaminate her and condemn her as well. About this time, she confessed in her diary that she secretly fantasized about Clarence raping her, and did all in her power to supress them, longing to be "like the other girls at [her] church, who don't have problems like that."

Her diet consisted mainly of fish.

The last contact she and Clarence ever had was shortly after Roger Vivix became Premier in 1991. She said that her family were moving to the United States, where there were more of their kind of Protestants, and they wouldn't be harassed by the Vivix government.

Marie was never preticularly popular at Wacovia High, due to her extreme religious beliefs and the fact that she often handed out Chick Tracts, from which much of her theological beliefs seemed to come. She was convinced that Susie and Christine were witches and/or Satanists, and that she was the only student of Wacovia High who was going to heaven. However, the other members of her church were shown to be generally pleasant people, and her parents visibly loved Clarence, and thought he was perfect for their daughter.

Meta-info
Marie existed hypothetically since late 2010, when she was mentioned (but not named) in an early draft of the Aluminum Siding TV-movie "Fourever", as "Clarence's ultra-conservative girlfriend."