MAUDE GOTHEL is a TEMPORARILY IMMORTAL HUMAN based on MOTHER GOTHEL from TANGLED. She is a PLASTIC SURGEON with NO POWERS. She uses SHE/HER pronouns, and most of her memories are intact.
Maude was born in the 1600s. She lived in China for the first part of her life, only traveling to find immortality. She was in her sixties when she did, and would take trips back to America every few years to rejuvenate, until the immigration bill was passed and she was finally able to move countries and become a citizen.
Some may think that Maude didn't have a loving family growing up. That is simply not true. While strict, from an entirely different time, her parents were very loving. Her mother was a kind, doting lady and she was the apple of her father’s eye. They were as understanding as they could be. She would probably miss them, but 400 years is a fairly long time to get through the mourning stage.
Opera was her first love. She fell in love with the stage, the applause, and eventually became involved with it herself. While she moved onto Broadway and the big screen, it was opera that lit that fire in her. That drive for success. That need to be seen and adored.
Maude doesn’t see herself as a villain. She is doing nothing but putting her needs first, and can’t fathom what is so wrong with that. Selfish, yes, but she’s not heartless! She loves herself plenty.
Maude was arranged to marry young. Strangely enough, her husband to be fell ill and died before their wedding night, and she was able to be an unmarried widow to his family.
Maude Gothel is not her birth name. Changing it made breaking into show-biz easier.
You’ll rarely catch Maude without gloves. While she does love the aesthetic, the reason she keeps them on is so she doesn’t have to see her own wrinkled skin.
She cared about Rapunzel as much as she could. More than her own biological daughter. But Maude is all about Maude and wouldn’t hesitate to push her out a window if she benefited from it.
She isn’t afraid of dying so much as she is aging.
Red is her favorite color.
She will never understand the elderly that are stuck in their ways. Look how long she’s been around, from before television was invented to the social media wave, and she’s had no trouble moving with the changes.
The Marilyn Monroe era was her favorite. The riches, the simplicity, the fans. She’d consider it her prime.
She has no experience with plastic surgery, she just flubbed some papers to get the green light. Luckily there isn’t a big market for nose jobs in Evermore. Even living the lavish lifestyle she has plenty of funds saved from her family’s money and her glory days. The job is only a cover, and if anyone ever makes an appointment, well, she’ll just have to do the best she can.
