Maria Gorey

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Maria Gorey V · T · F
Occupation	Coroner
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	19th century
Documented age range (as recorded in court record profiles & case files)	19* (The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo)
Last known status	Alive
Eye color	Green
Hair color	Grey
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	Unknown
Associates
Family	Courtney Sithe (mother; arrested)
Friends	None mentioned
Affiliates	Barry Caidin
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	マリア・グーロイネ (Maria Goulloyne)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	The Return of the Great Departed Soul
Musical theme	"Doctor Sithe - Untouchable Coroner"

Maria Gorey

We open up the dead to find the truth.

— The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo

Doctor Maria Gorey is a coroner of Scotland Yard, working at the forefront of forensic science with her mother Courtney Sithe.

Early Life

Maria Gorey was born an only child. Due to the family's unusual circumstances, Gorey and Sithe have different last names. She loved to hear her mother talk about autopsies, and rumor has it she grew up with funeral songs as her lullabies.

Murder at the Great Exhibition

Main article: The Return of the Great Departed Soul

When Ryunosuke Naruhodo and Susato Mikotoba visit Courtney Sithe to discuss the autopsy results of Odie Asman, she confirms that the Asman who entered Albert Harebrayne's instantaneous kinesis machine onstage and the Asman found dead in the cage that crashed through the Crystal Tower were the same person due to fingerprint evidence, as opposed to the hypothetical that a body double was used. Maria Gorey appeared in the middle of their conversation, wearing her plague mask. She asked Sithe with great enthusiasm if she could cut Naruhodo open, having never performed an autopsy on someone from the East, but quickly lost interest upon being informed by her mother that the pair were still alive.

Helping the Heroes

Main articles: Twisted Karma and His Last Bow & The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo

Gorey later performed an autopsy on Detective Tobias Gregson. While doing so, she noticed a strange anomaly; despite the fact that the body appeared reasonably fresh, the fish and chips in Gregson's coat pocket were moldy. Maria correctly deduced that the body must have tampered with to obscure the time of death; Jigoku had frozen the body but didn't notice that the fish and chips fell from his coat when he was transporting the body in the refrigeration room. As a result, she realized she could not determine time of death with the technology available to her. However, when she told Mael Stronghart about this, the chief justice forced her to leave the time of death blank.

During their second investigation into Gregson's death, Ryunosuke, Susato, and Iris Wilson visited the Forensics Laboratory to question Maria about the Autopsy Report's lack of a time of death. When Ryunosuke points out that Maria will go out the same way as her mother if she continues following Stronghart's orders, she quickly writes out "Indeterminate" in the autopsy report, since she can't determine the time of death. While giving them more information on Sithe's autopsy on both the Professor and Klint van Zieks, Maria and the others realize that the records for the autopsy have been stolen. She then recognizes that Iris has been here before, because she and Herlock Sholmes had paid a visit two years earlier to talk about the Professor case as well. After Iris left in a suspiciously quick manner, Maria thanked Ryunosuke and Susato for coming, and that it was fun to have visitors after a while.

Two days later, after Seishiro Jigoku was revealed to be the true killer of Gregson, Yujin Mikotoba was summoned as a witness to tesitify about the autopsy of Klint van Zieks. Maria accompanied him to the stand, since she'd heard the story of the autopsy from her mother. She revealed that she took Genshin Asogi's ring from the evidence room in order to help the heroes in their quest for the truth on the Professor Killings. She knew that it was unnatural for the ring, which had very sharp claws, to not inflict internal wounds in Klint's body if he swallowed it following his fight with Genshin. It was ultimately revealed that John Wilson, the head coroner of Klint's death, placed the ring in the prosecutor's stomach and pretended to find it inside of him. Although Stronghart, who was the new judge of the trial, informed Maria that she will be punished for stealing said ring, she wasn't bothered by it, as she found her resolve to not be like her mother and hide dangerous secrets, instead choosing to find the truth.

Later, when the trial finally concluded, Maria visited her mother in prison. She was curious about if Japanese people were truly good at filleting corpses, which Sithe agreed to, albeit fish corpses at that. Maria then expressed her gratitude that her mother wasn't dead yet.

Personality

Mugshot.

Most of Maria Gorey's core personality is shaped on her respect of her mother, a legendary English coroner. According to Barry Caidin, Gorey enjoys waving her lancet around to imitate her mother. She would choose the same career path after watching her mother labor over the murder victims and hearing her mother talk about stories about her autopsies. She has a rather morbid fascination with anatomy, desiring to autopsy varied ethnicities to see how they differ from each other, and is uninterested in talking with the living outside the context of her job. Despite her dark behavior, she is not a malevolent person and wishes to do her part in the justice system to the best of her ability.

Gorey is often depicted wearing a plague doctor mask as part of her attire (even outside of her normal work), but she will take it off when she is being cooperative with others. During uncomfortable times, she will put it back on to hide her face.

After her mother's arrest, Gorey held a small grudge against Naruhodo for his role in part of her arrest. However, she later acknowledged that her mother's corruption led her down a bad path and was willing to support the defense in the final case despite potential backlash.

Name

• Her Japanese surname "Goulloyne" comes from guroi ne (グロいね), "grotesque, isn't it?".
• Her English surname is a play on "gory".
• "Maria" could be a reference to "Bloody Mary", a derogatory nickname for Queen Mary I of England.