Maeve
Power: Powerful telekinesis


Overview: Maeve hasn’t yet learned to control her powerful telekinesis well. Becoming emotional causes it to react unpredictably, cracking windows or lifting things into the air. The only way to live a normal life is to remain mostly emotionless, and her way of learning to do so has shaped who she is as a person a lot.
The reason she has to try so hard is because Maeve is actually a little short tempered and a pretty expressive person. With no other way to do so, she expresses herself through painting. She can say some deep and emotional things, even if they were delivered by a voice that appears to not care at all.

Basic Statistics

Name: Maeve
Age: 22
Nationality: American
Socioeconomic Level: Middle class
Hometown: Some big city
Current Residence: University Dorm
Talents/Skills: Very intelligent. Good at chess, schoolwork, etc. Secretly loves to paint and express the emotions she can’t show.
Relationship skills: Maeve has good intuition, but little experience with interacting with people in her attempts to stay a blank slate.
First Impression:
Personality: Brutally honest. A strange mixture of logical intelligence and irrational emotions.
What does this character like to talk about?:


Physical Characteristics:

Height: 5’10
Weight: Healthy
Race: Whatever
Eye Color: Grey
Hair Color: White
Skin color: White
Distinguishing features: White eyes
How does he/she dress?: Wears her uniform neatly. Casual wear is bright and with varied colors depending on her mood.
Mannerisms: Fairly reserved at all times. Talks with her hands held behind her back—polite posture. Expresses normal range of emotions, but not very strongly. Crosses arms when explaining/talking about smart stuff.
Habits: Distinctly does not fidget. Keeps herself on a tight leash.
Health: Stays in shape, but not very athletic.
Hobbies: Master at chess. Reads a lot (nonfiction), paints as an outlet for emotions she can’t express.
Favorite Sayings:
Speech patterns: Maeve’s manner of speaking is sharp and intelligent. Doesn’t stutter.
Disabilities: None
Style (Elegant, shabby etc.): Bright—subtly loud in expression. Maeve expresses her emotions in other ways since she can’t do it physically.
Greatest flaw: For now, it’s Maeve’s limited control of her emotions. By extension it makes her bad at confrontation and dealing with problems in a healthy way.
Best quality: Intelligence, wisdom, ability to learn from mistakes.


Emotional Characteristics


Strengths/Weaknesses: Her strengths all stem from being smart and wise as an extension of telekinesis. Her weaknesses come from secretly being short tempered and from inexperience with dealing with emotions / confrontation.
Introvert or Extrovert?: Introverted but not awkward
How does the character deal with anger? Anger is the quickest to make Maeve lose control of telekinesis. Quickly shuts out everything and tries to escape situation.
With sadness?: Tries to use logic to explain why things aren’t that bad. Gets frustrated if she can’t make it go away.
With conflict? Awful at dealing with any sort of conflict. Every moment of her life is fighting against her own powers. Does not want to use them to hurt people.
Emotional Conflict: Same as above. Often leaves problems unresolved, and leaves herself unhappy when she concedes in order to not argue.
With change?: Adapts to change well, and often capitalizes on it to come out on top.
With loss?: Depending on how painful the loss, this could be catastrophically dangerous. Maeve is a very emotional person behind her defenses.
What does the character want out of life?: Maeve wants to be a scientist! She loves space and everything about it.
What would the character like to change in his/her life?: Power related: She wants to learn to control her telekinesis. Life related: She wants others to see her as approachable despite her demeanor.
What motivates this character? Her career goals, seeing her friends, and going down in history as a famous scientist.
What frightens this character? Her own powers. Accidentally hurting someone. Clowns.
What makes this character happy? Being right. Ice cream, flowers, pretty sights.
Is the character judgmental of others? A little bit.
Is the character generous or stingy? Neutral, but never forgets a favor.
Is the character generally polite or rude? A little polite, but comes off as arrogant or terse sometimes.

Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Educational Background: University
Intelligence Level: Very high, in both intelligence and wisdom.
Any Mental Illnesses? No
Learning Experiences: Accidentally hospitalized someone she cared about once. Fiercely tries to not lose control of emotions.
Character's short-term goals in life: Master her powers, graduate, move out and/or get away from her foster parents.
Character's long-term goals in life: Maeve wants to become a world-famous scientist and/or artist.
How does Character see himself/herself?: As a really smart person, who can interact with others but could easily hurt them if she’s not careful.
How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others?: Maeve knows that people see her as cold and distant. She wishes that weren’t true.
How self-confident is the character?: Realistically confident. She doesn’t sell herself short.
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof?: A mixture of both in large amounts.
What would most embarrass this character?: Making a dumb mistake in front of people—being made look like a fool.


Backstory Questions:
Secret(s) this character has: Maeve was “released” into school earlier than the others because of her intelligence. She accidentally hospitalized/killed someone then, and got pulled back with the rest of the girls. Super embarassed/sensitive about it.
Something this character would never tell about themselves:
Something Character accomplished in the past:
Something Character failed at in the past:

How the Character is Involved in the Story

Character's role in the novel: Maeve’s route story outlines her journey of becoming a better person, similar to the others. As a side character, she’s a voice of reason who helps others at times too. Though her personality also leads to clashes.
Scene where character first appears: She appears with all the other characters, in the classroom or club.

How character is different at the end of the novel from when the novel began:
Maeve's story follows her struggles with being unable to express herself or feel distracting emotions. The goal of her route is simple: to make the reader dislike her at first, realize their initial judgements were all wrong, and to fall in love with her for the way she shines emotionally even forced to feel nothing.