THE BASICS
Name: Maisie Inez Espinosa.
Age: Forty-Two.
Gender: cis Female, She/Her, They/Them.
Occupation: Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Providence Peak University.
Birthday: February 24th, 1981.
Zodiac Sign: Pisces.
Location: University Heights, Providence Peak, Colorado.
Birthplace: Providence Peak, Colorado.
Orientation: Pansexual, Panromantic.
THE PHYSIQUE
Eye Color: Brown.
Natural Hair Color: Dark brown.
Height: 5′ 3″.
Body Type: Slim.
Allergies: None.
Dominant Hand: Right.
Scars: A few non-notable scars from small scraps with her brothers when they were younger, always insisting that she could beat them easily in a wrestling match. Most of the time she could hold her own for awhile until their parents scolded them or her brothers gave in.
Tattoos: A minimalistic rocketship near her collarbone.
Piercings: Earlobes.
THE INTRODUCTION
(death tw, loss tw, grief tw)
Maisie Inez Espinosa was born a local to Providence Peak, the fourth in line after three brothers born prior to her, her very own cavalry ready to ride into any battle and wage any war for her. That backing she needed very little of, even though tiny as she was, Maisie was scrappy and insisted that she could fight with the best of them, often insisting on wrestling her brothers for fun and often not folding until she won, whether that meant they gave in or more often the case, their parents scolding them for the mock violence they inflicted on each other. Despite being born at the tail’s end of winter, she thrived in the springtime that gave way to new life and new opportunities.
New opportunities seemed to be the theme in her life as she found herself growing up and navigating a world that wasn’t built with her in mind. A world that she didn’t just navigate with the bare minimum, but set out to change and prove wrong with everything that she did. It didn’t hurt that she had the help of her second oldest brother who, struggling just as she was, had already paved the way before she was born and despite their parents leaning toward the stricter side of parenting, they did everything they could to make sure their children were set up to be successful in life, even if society thought that being born deaf should have led to failure for Maisie.
Failure was the last thing on her mind as she worked her way through school and college falling more in love with the idea of space each day, just as she had with the planetarium she’d spent days in as a child in the local science museum in Providence Peak, and eventually graduated with a PhD in Aerospace Engineering, leaving Colorado and her family behind for the first time as she scored her dream job with NASA’s Aerospace department in Washington D.C., slowly working her way toward the stars. She was nothing short of a genius (okay, maybe a little more humble than that), but all it seemed to take was a soft look and a smile from someone at a coffee shop for her to realize that maybe the only stars in the world weren’t those that existed in space.
And for awhile, Maisie allowed herself to fall, building a whole galaxy with the person who seemed to hang stars on Earth just for her and it was good. But just like all good things, this too eventually came to an end. Her job with NASA became more demanding until she was rarely seeing the outside of their headquarters, leaving for work before dawn and sometimes not getting home until the last metro ran for the night, barely crawling into bed before she had to wake up and do it all over again. She was married to her career and it took a toll on her relationship. The stars began dimming until they all faded and all she was left with was an empty apartment and, for the first time in her life, too much space.
Paired with the untimely death of her remaining parent, Maisie decided to make the decision to leave her job in Washington D.C. and move back to Providence Peak to be closer to her family, her third brother who she was always closest to, and her nephews, not wanting to destine herself to an empty life that revolved only around work. Even though she gave up her dream job, she still found satisfaction in teaching aerospace engineering at Providence Peak University and fostering the next generation of space explorers. Ultimately thankful that she’d moved back when she did so she could be there for her nephews when her brother and his wife lost their lives in an accident, a loss she is still navigating her way through as she offers whatever help she can to, Nari Yang, the woman who stepped up to raise their shared nephews in the wake of the unforeseen tragedy.
THE HEADCANONS
Loves space more than Earth and was often jokingly told to get her head out of space by her father. She can often be found at the Planetarium at the Wonderwell Science Center and absolutely takes her classes on field trips there.
She has three older brothers, the oldest of which being roughly 55 years old and the younger of the three was around 43. Although her middle brother was the one who shared in being deaf and taught Maisie how to utilize the world around her to her advantage, she was always closest with her youngest brother and is still working her way through grieving the loss of him.
Maisie has a cat named Constellation and jokes that he’s the biggest ‘Con’ artist she’s ever met because he’ll stop at nothing to steal a bite of every meal she has.
Gender is usually an afterthought for Maisie and she happily accepts she/her or they/them as her pronouns on any given day.
Though she does primarily use ASL to communicate, she doesn’t expect everyone to be fluent in the language and therefore always has a tiny lil notebook in her pocket and a pencil behind her ear to communicate or just utilizes an app on her phone. When the opportunity arises, she will always take the time to teach someone a sign or two during their conversation.
