midway through season 2's episode 4, jordan and cate find a body in cipher's secret room. towards the end of season 2's episode 4, cipher says it is his father's body and we also find out that cipher's power is possession. this makes me believe that the body is being kept alive because it is cipher's original body. the cipher we see prancing around (refer to the picture) is actually someone being possessed by the body in the secret room and thus why marie was unable to detect compound v in his system

in season 1 of gen v, we find out that that marie and victoria have both the same powers and lived a pretty much identical routine whilst at red river. originally, this led me to believe that marie would be some sort of sidekick/replacement in the boys’ season 4/5, but now that neuman is dead, i have a different theory!

i think the parallel will turn from similar to vastly different as in victoria being the killed and marie being the killer. here are my reasons:

i believe the odessa project was an attempt at recreating other supes' powers. it could have been genetically predisposed that marie, when injected with compound v, would get the blood powers. of course, we don't really have a reason as to how supes get assigned their powers, so this could mean that victoria, being a part of vought, had some of her dna put into marie. that is also supported by marie being conceived in a lab instead of traditionally

we see emma trying to join the starlighters on campus. marie was also personally contacted by annie. also, daniel being killed and marie finding out + pointing out she knew him. this leads me to believe that, by the end of season 2, marie will have joined the starlighters in some way. maybe not officially, but kind of as an alliance.

if marie were to join the starlighters, this would ultimately lead to her finding out how victoria died. i believe this would escalate into her killing butcher because of confronting him about it. i also believe her killing butcher will be accidental. so far, in this season, we have seen most of the godolkin guardins lose control over their powers. (i.e. cate being damaged and losing her touch powers, jordan having much more strength in their powers than before, emma being unable to get bigger despite cheering herself up, sam lashing out, and stacey spitting honey regularly) which makes me think marie will, undoubtly, have the same fate

something else to support that dna (and neurotransmitters) matters in supe powers is that when cate cracked her skull open, her powers evolved from physical touch influence to downright possesion. also, sam and emma (maybe cate too) being under so much stress could be causing their powers to malfunction. at the end of the day, compound v is ultimately a modification of the human body, so it makes sense it could be recreated and altered if there are major changes when being conceived or in the amount of chemicals being produced in your brain (i.e, an excess of dopamine can cause hallucinations and another neurotransmitter could be in charge of regulating compound v; this also explains why jordan has suddenly gained so much strength). plus, the tears happening in thomas and andre further supports that there can be very human issues caused by compound v

however, marie wasn't to join the starlighters, i believe it would still have the outcome of butcher being killed:

annie, after finding out marie is odessa, no longer has interest in the project, but now solely on recruiting her. since odessa is a weapon, annie believes marie is the key to stopping vought. still, marie would have killed butcher accidentally