ORIGIN STORY OMG!! SOOO TRAGIC!!

Maeve Driscoll does not give a fuck what you think. From her magenta (today, anyway) hair, to the piercings adorning her face and the gauges in her ears, to the sleeves of tattoos on her arms (is the art slightly different than it was yesterday?), she loves nothing more than to challenge Sleeper societal norms. Nineteen, no college, working in a flower shop, living in a shitty studio apartment with an ancient cat that has no business being alive, an outside observer may assume Maeve to be rudderless; a teenage wasteland. They’d be wrong.

See, when Maeve was a little girl, she lost her mother to a monster with teeth and claws—The Bound Thing. The reedy, strange man—a man she now understands to be a Seer—who came to visit told her it was Destiny. Her mother was Chosen; it had to be that way. And for a long time, she believed it . . . until she started digging deeper and fell through The Looking Glass, coming to understand that Fate and Time are malleable, and what better way to raise a middle finger to “Destiny” than to change it? Now, as a Mage, Maeve has teeth and claws of her own. She has adopted the Shadow Name Jabberwock, and will use every power at her disposal to learn the truth of what happened . . . and to hold the people and creatures responsible accountable. Callooh callay. Apparently the entity she's been hunting this entire time is her mom. HER FUCKING MOM. Kind of. Amalgamated with some Lost Angel in an occulty Seer blender. And she got one of the only people who could have given her more information killed. So. You know. That's good.

THE LESS INTERESTING CABAL MEMBERS AND 

HOW SHE KNOWS THEM <3

Knows KYMANI from sneaking into a show (they're, like, the coolest. Ugh, why can't all old people be like them???)

Knows MINA from Big Brothers Big Sisters (She's kind of a nag, but she's alright . . . pretty smart and stuff. And HILARIOUS when she's wasted lmaoooo)

Knows TYE from getting busted trying to get into a bar / Grief Group (My Brother in Christ needs a Xanax. Bad. But he's got a good heart)

And KILROY is just a stuck-up suit so who cares X-D is maybe not a complete douche. And he has cool hair (can he teach her how to sculpt like that??)

OTHER SHIT ABOUT MAEVE

• Her super old cat is called "Cat". He was already prehistoric and gross when she found him at age eleven; how TF this little asshole is still alive is anyone's guess. Maeve's theory is "spite". She talks smack about him a lot, but Cat means more to her than pretty much anything or anyone. Not that the bar is very high in that regard.

• Her mentor's name is Bernadetta "Bernie" Vogel, who is, in Bernie's own words, an "Ojai-dwelling, Berkeley-educated, crunchy, 'I grow my own', barefoot all the time, vegan, sapphic Stevie Knicks knock-off." She and Maeve share a sardonic/acerbic way of showing affection--it's rad that they can understand each other that way. That vibe pisses a lot of people off, you know?

• She works in a flower shop owned by Geraldine "Gerry" Benson. The shop is called "Gerry's Garden", and she only got the job as a favor to Bernie (Gerry and Bernie are exes). But! It turns out Maeve's **awesome** with plants, so, HA! WHAT'S UP??

• She listens to lots of electronic and trance music, and has been sneaking into concerts and bars since she was fifteen. She will never admit this to anyone, but she has a deep love for Old Broadway Musicals.

• Her mom's name was Carol. Maeve is starting to forget what her face looked like and what her voice sounded like. She doesn't really know anything about her dad, whoever the hell he is. Whatever. Can we talk about something else?

• Her favorite of her (MANY) tattoos is the one across her right collarbone that says "Astra inclinant, sed non obligant". Fuck you, Stars! Don't tell me--uh, her--what to do.

• Even though her diet resembles that of a raccoon (Shut up! Some dead president or something said ketchup was a vegetable. And that was the PRESIDENT!), she is actually more healthy than you'd think. She's pretty good at running, she knows how to box, and she will indulge with weed or shrooms on occasion, but nothing harder. Doesn't drink a ton-ton, either. Vaping doesn't count, right?

• Her hobbies include: trolling the USC frat guys, freaking out the old rich couples in the Palisades, graffitiing (but that shit looks GOOD), light arson against some really terrible, exploitative companies, cuddling puppies, and needlepoint, actually.

• She's an Aries.

• Her first foster parents, Kyle and Tim, thought it was hysterical to try to get her to dial a rotary phone. She hadn't even seen one before--why would anyone still own one of these except to torture a Gen Z kid?? Rude. She practiced the whole time she was with them, but she never really got it all the way right. Who cares though, right? Everyone has an iphone or android. Landlines are as dated as calling movies "the pictures".

• That's enough. What are you, a cop?