Marsha Catley

Marsha Catley is a minor character in My Next Life as a Villainess! All Routes Lead to Doom!. She is an antagonistic noblewoman who appeared briefly in Volume 5.

Appearance
Marsha is a beautiful girl with flaxen hair and green eyes. She is noted to be on par to Mary and Sophia in terms of beauty.

Personality
Marsha is an intelligent women who loves to work and scheme in order to get things in her favor. Despite being intelligent, she is very unperceptive about the events around her, and only believes what she wants. She is very mindful of the etiquettes of high society, and always talk in deep noblewoman speech. She continues to be very possessive, spoiled and self-centered even after her family's exile.

Background
Marsha is the daughter of Marquess Catley. At the age of 8 years old, she fell in love with Prince Geordo and became adamant in using her father's influence to earn herself the position as his fiancée. When she found out the identity of the person who was instead chosen to be the prince's fiancée, Katarina Claes, she did everything she could to try to ruin Katarina's reputation, which unknown to her caused her and her entire family to be relocated into the far-off countryside near the border to Sorcier, under the guise of reforming territories in the kingdom.

When she reached 15 years old, she was able to return to the capital due to her obligation to enroll in the Magic Academy. She attempted to concoct a new scheme that would help her seize Prince Geordo for herself. The plan failed, but thinking she was saved from a terrible fate by Katarina, she is last seen kindly and anonymously offering food to Katarina at a ball.

Marquess Catley
Marquess Catley doted on his daughter in her younger years, but has since become cold towards to her. He considers her behavior the reason that he was practically exiled into the borderlands of the country, though technically, he was punished for his own shady acts, and Marsha's actions only served to motivate Geordo to convince the authorities to chose that moment to deal with him and the shady acts they were already aware of that he had committed. Geordo informed the marquess that he and his daughter should leave Katarina alone, but either the marquess chose to never give Marsha the full truth, or never brought it up in a way Marsha properly listened to. Marsha's ignorance about the reason for their exile led her to act the same way toward her father; constantly pestering him about wanting to go back to the capital and wanting to see Prince Geordo. Marquess Catley allowed her to return to the capital early for her mandatory enrollment in the Magic Academy, with the condition that she "lay low and do nothing problematic", with no deeper explanation.

Katarina Claes
Katarina is Marsha's self-proclaimed rival in love. Marsha hates Katarina for claiming Prince Geordo as her fiancée just as she had planned to become a princess candidate. After returning to the capital after her family's exile, hearing the rumors about the circumstances of Katarina and Geordo's engagement fueled the fire of Marsha's hatred even further. When Marsha confronted Katarina about renouncing her engagement, she became angry at her rival's silence, assuming she was being belittled (in reality, Katarina could not understand the deep noblewoman speech she was using).

Believing that Katarina is forcing Geordo and Keith to her side in shackles, Marsha schemed a plan to publicly humiliate Katarina in order to ruin her reputation in high society and end her engagement. After Marsha's plan failed, she was confronted by Geordo and Mary, who was about to punish her until Katarina stopped them herself and ushered Marsha to retreat (in reality, Katarina was merely voicing the dream she was having while under the effects of Marsha's drug). Marsha was touched by Katarina's mercy despite her own initial intentions against her, leading her to treat the duke's daughter kindly afterwards and is seen to offer her favorite food whenever they are both at a ball with a buffet.

Geordo Stuart
Marsha immediately fell in love with Geordo due to his outwardly princely appearance and nature, and she became obsessed with securing him as her own. She continued to be madly in love with him even after being unable to see him for seven years. She is convinced that the prince feels the same way for her, which further motivated her to ruin Katarina's engagement.

As Marsha's plan to humiliate Katarina failed, Prince Geordo decided to confront her about his feelings for his fiancée and the truth about her family's exile, leading to all of her beliefs and fantasies about the "perfect prince of her destiny" to crumble into the ground. After the event, she began to fear the sadistic prince, calling him a "prince who turned out to be a devil". Presently, she will run away in fear as soon as she sees him.

Lilia Hunt
Marsha and Lilia had been acquainted, and eventually became good friends before the Catley's exile. After moving to the countryside, she had seemingly lost touch with Lilia.

Magic
Marsha has magical aptitude, meaning that she is able to use magic. According to her, she has a high aptitude for magic.

Trivia

 * On both occasions that she sees Katarina eat before her scheme falling through, she is convinced that she is hallucinating, unable to believe that a duke's daughter would stuff her mouth with food. When she sees it happening a second time, she gets a feeling of deja vu, but doesn't remember the first time, having suppressed it from her memory.
 * The reason why Marsha offers Katarina food during balls after the event, whether it is admiration, gratitude or love, is unclear and is open for interpretation.