be careful around MAGGIE WU (NATASHA LIU BORDIZZO) !! SHE might look innocent, but she’s been in town for 25 YEARS. people say she’s ADVENTUROUS & RIDE-OR-DIE but can be a bit IRRESPONSIBLE, but if you want to find out for yourself, you can find the 25 YEAR OLD working at HIDEAWAYS as a BARTENDER. upon getting to know her, you’ll realize she reminds you of THE CHEERING THAT FOLLOWS A DRINKING CONTEST, AN EYE-ROLL ALONGSIDE AN ADORING SMILE, A LINGERING TASTE OF CINNAMON AFTER A KISS.
hello hello !! my name is maeby and i’m so stoked to be here ♡ i’m 24, out here in the pst, and use she/they pronouns. i can’t even tell you how excited i am to be bringing you my sweetheart, maggie ! she’s still fresh and new, so i’m way excited to plot & dig a little deeper into her character! without further ado...
STATS
given name: magnolia wu preferred name: maggie other nicknames: mags, wu hometown: coyote point, nv orientation: bisexual, biromantic alignment: chaotic neutral loyalty: reapers civilian/neutral playlist: click to listen on spotify! hobbies: roadtrips, music festivals, throwing out of control parties, skateboarding, inventing new mixed drinks, making music, joyrides, never slowing down favorites: tequila and sprite, breakfast food, pizza with pineapple, romy and michele's high school reunion (1997), cinnamon lattes at loose leaf, people who tip well
BIOGRAPHY
tw: violence, death of a grandparent, parental neglect, alcoholism
who’s the girl who pranked the clown at her eighth birthday party and made him cry while the other kids cheered? maggie wu, that’s who.
who’s the girl who fought for melanie jones when the popular girls ganged up on her to make fun of her gap teeth? maggie wu, that’s who.
who’s the girl who threw the biggest rager her block had ever seen and convinced the cops nothing was amiss at only seventeen? maggie wu, that’s who.
maggie wu has been throwing caution to the wind and doing whatever sounds like the most fun since she could walk. she swears she learned how to run from consequences before she could talk. and as soon as she learned to talk, she figured out how to talk her way out of them. this was a girl who hung with the boys and stood up for the girls, and would get in the middle of a fight before she could think to herself ‘is this a good idea?’ every time she came home with a detention slip or a black eye, her parents were less and less surprised. when they had to use her college savings as bail twice before she graduated high school, they hardly had any surprise left in them.
maggie’s parents were perfectly respectable people – her mother a doctor at st. jude’s emergency medical center and her father a history teacher at the local high school – who fought through maggie’s entire life to stay out of coyote point’s seedy underbelly. they tried everything they could to keep her out of trouble; music lessons, sunday school, after-school activities. maggie’s mother was born and raised in coyote point and met maggie’s father in college out of state, yet convinced him to live in coyote point’s neutral zone under the admirable cause of making the town a better place to live. that hope would be dashed by the time maggie was in elementary school, when they realized that there was no saving coyote point. maggie’s grandfather owed money to the reapers that he was still paying off when he died and suddenly, there was no choice but to choose sides. it took them a few more years to figure out that there was no saving maggie. maggie was able to stay out of fight for control of the town, even as she gained a reputation as a troublemaker and the life of the party, until high school.
by the time high school rolled around, maggie had a gaggle of friends who didn’t play for either team in town and a crappy garage band she played guitar with, and no love from her parents. they constantly made their disappointment in maggie known to her, eventually in screaming matches between maggie and her mother. they treated her as if she was already on her own and she pretended that was just fine. none of it mattered when she turned seventeen and met her real best friend. they were two peas in a pod, always ready to laugh at their misfortunes and the qualities that made other people think of them as fuck ups rather than belabor them. maggie felt most herself with him and from day one, it was clear to anybody who took even one look at her that she would ride or die for this kid. while she had always sworn up and down that she would never get in the middle of the war between the two gangs she grew up hearing about – believing that her own family was starkly neutral and safely out from any group’s thumb – she had an unshakable loyalty to her best friend. when she found his skull tattoo and uncovered his loyalty, a decision had to be made and her heart made it for her before her head could have any say in the matter. she wasn’t loyal to the reapers, but she sure as hell was loyal to her friend.
when maggie graduated high school, a litany of misdemeanors under her belt but no direct ties to either gang, she was hit with another surprise. her parents, after bailing her out too many times and having given up on her years before, had decided to use the rest of her college fund to finish paying off her grandfather’s debt and leave town. her father’s hometown was a sleepy little burg on the east coast and with maggie’s younger brothers entering high school, they had no choice but to flee and cut off the temptation to join the struggle between the gangs before it could gain any traction in the young boys’ lives. maggie was faced with yet another decision: follow her family east and turn over a new leaf or stay in coyote point with people and places she knew and loved. yet again, her heart made the choice for her and logic had no part in the decision. the people who actually cared for her were right here in coyote point. her family moved to new york and maggie stayed in nevada.
her part-time job at stranger’s diner, where she’d been working since she was sixteen and in need of pocket money, turned into a full-time and overtime affair, and she moved into a rinky-dink little apartment with the bassist from her band. joining the rat race right out of high school was a difficult life to live, scrimping by and running into trouble at every turn with very little outside support, but maggie swore she would make it on her own; if only to prove people wrong. the rest of her bandmates left the city or got involved with either the vipers or the reapers, so maggie started playing on her own, but it wasn’t anything like the dream she’d once had. her one saving grace was her best friend, who was also on his own and could commiserate with maggie better than anyone. when maggie felt regret about her decisions creeping up on her, she turned to her friend for a reminder of why she stayed and he never failed to deliver. turning a blind eye and looking the other way when it came to his affiliation and dealings with the reapers became second nature to maggie, and as time went on, it only got worse and worse.
when maggie turned twenty-one, a position opened up at hideaways, the reapers’ bar, and with the promise of a pay raise, there was no way she could turn the opportunity down. bartending was much more maggie’s speed than waitressing and she took to it like a duck to water. her laughter was infectious, her daring attitude was always a hit, and there was little more she liked to do than party. free drinks at the bar led her down a slippery slope, but it was one she chose willingly. her willingness – and, in fact, insistence – on looking the other way to the owner’s crimes and business made her an asset and for years, maggie ignored every shady deal that went on at the bar and the fighting that happened in the back. as time went on, her indifference was taken for compliance and eventually, she was asked to do more and more for the owner of the bar. with her job and lifestyle at stake, what could she possibly do but comply? before she knew what was happening, she found herself involved in the very organization she’d spent the last decade trying to keep her loved ones away from.
who’s the girl who turned her back on her family to sink into a life of partying with her friends and got herself caught in the crossfire between the town’s gangs on the way down? maggie wu, that’s who.
WANTED CONNECTIONS
regulars at hideaways, where maggie works and honestly spends most of her time! // other natives of coyote point and people she went to school with! // someone for maggie to play music with! (she plays guitar and has taken up singing since her last band broke up) // flings, crushes, exes, fwbs! // anybody who needs a friendly face to distract them from life in coyote point! // people who really don’t get along with maggie (not everyone can, right?) // anything under the sun!
