Mary Jane’s Apartment

Aliases: none Status: Major

The second home base. Mary Jane’s apartment is where bodies get swapped, where tequila turns Homeboy into Homegirl, and where the group plans and coordinates between disasters. It would be a cozy recurring set if Dos Santos hadn’t attacked it and left a hostage note — which is exactly what earns it this page. It is not Chino’s Apartment; the two are separate locations with separate functions, and the wiki keeps them that way.

Description

Mary Jane’s home functions across Volume 2 as the group’s second base of operations: preparation and coordination happen here between the action set pieces, and the supernatural business of the volume keeps finding its way through her front door. The text doesn’t inventory the rooms, and the page doesn’t either. What the text establishes is function — this is where the group gathers when it isn’t at Chino’s, where transformations are managed, and where plans get made.

It is a home first and a headquarters second, which is what makes its later violation land. A base of operations is expected to see action. Somebody’s apartment is not.

Role in Volume 02

• El Duende: first appearance. The apartment is already doing quiet work as the group’s planning and coordination site while the Duende business unfolds.
• The Joint of Azathoth: the body-swap story. The apartment is where the swap and its reversal are managed — the practical headquarters for the volume’s strangest logistics problem.
• Tequila Homegirl: the tequila transformations. Homeboy and Homegirl change back and forth with tequila as the identified trigger, and the apartment is where the group rides out the changes.
• The Man of Iga: preparation and coordination ahead of the Man of Iga business; the apartment does what it does best and holds the planning end.
• The Return of Dos Santos: Dos Santos attacks the apartment and leaves a hostage note. The place stops being just a base and starts being a crime scene — the moment that gives the location consequences beyond any domestic scene.

Relationships

• Mary Jane: host and owner — and the person whose home keeps getting drafted into other people’s wars.
• Chino and Homeboy / Homegirl: the reason the apartment is a base and not just a residence. Their transformations and their planning both run through her rooms.
• Dos Santos: the reason the apartment has consequences. His attack and his hostage note are what separate this page from a floor plan.

Notes

• “Mary Jane’s Apartment” is a source descriptive label, not a coined name.
• This page is separate from Chino’s Apartment, the primary home base. The two locations have distinct functions and are never the same place.
• The first-appearance assignment (El Duende) is inferred: the earliest evidence range clusters with El Duende-era evidence (Rawr’s name-tag and King Taco ranges), and El Duende is Volume 2’s second story. The story assignments for the middle evidence ranges (Tequila Homegirl, The Man of Iga) are likewise inferred from evidence-line clustering against the known story order, not stated outright by the brief.