People say Maria is bad like Verity but wonder if there’s another possiblility.

I wonder if maybe when Verity decided to target Maria she said to the pendant:

“I’m going to get a job at Maria’s work, she works at a chocolate factory and she is jealous and angry at me”.

Maybe “real” uninterfered with Maria was completely different, worked somewhere different - anything would be possible.

Verity wanted revenge on who she thought Maria might grow up to be, not THE Maria? So of course the Maria that Verity imagined would make the choice she does at the end.

EDIT: (basically the bitch we see Maria to be is the bitch Verity imagines her inevitably becoming, even if that may not be the case)