more headcanon meme thing
MAUREEN JOHNSON:
her favorite dessert is chocolate mousse or ganache! she’s a fan of really rich foods, and chocolate is her weakness.
though school never held her interest, her best and favorite subject was art history, and psychology was a close second.
i wrote about her voice recently, here it is:
maureen speaks in a singsong way most of the time, without realizing it. when she was young, boys told her that she had an ugly voice because she was extremely loud. she has an abrasive voice and owns the fact that she’s got a big mouth, does a lot of shouting (because she’s excited or because she’s got something important to say), and even when she’s not shouting, sounds pretty much the same. on a low-high scale i’d say she’s aboooout in the middle, although… maybe you could call her voice high, if she’s genuinely excited, shrill especially when she’s upset. when she’s just trying to get people stoked, her voice stays mid-range even as it gets louder. she’s a mezzo-soprano.
her hands are average-sized, relatively feminine, and usually decorated with half a dozen fashion rings. she paints her nails; she used to love acrylics, but since she got with joanne she’s given them up (obvious reasons... lol). she thinks of herself as having fat fingers, and it’s true that they’re definitely not slender or delicate - her ring size is a 9 or 10, even though she’s on the slim side - she doesn’t have trouble fitting all those rings on her fingers. they do get stuck sometimes, though, particularly on her middle fingers.
maureen doesn’t want kids. she isn’t all that interested in them in general. my headcanon for maureen has always been that she doesn’t have a maternal bone in her body that’s not entirely focused on her cat, which suits joanne just fine. if she were tasked with caring for a kid, i think she’d do okay because she’s empathetic and kind, and in touch with her youthful side, willing to do embarrassing shit and answer questions that a lot of adults are uncomfortable answering, or don’t know how to answer... she doesn’t mind cleaning up after kids or letting them be emotional, even if they’re acting up. i think maureen might love other people’s kids - like, she’d absolutely babysit for her friends or neighbors - she just has no desire to have one of her own. (and joanne agrees.)
for breakfast, maureen would absolutely be the avocado toast kind of person. she has a lot of vegan recipes up her sleeve, her favorite of which is a vegan french toast recipe that even her friends can agree is delicious. (her friends are understandably wary of anything she makes because maureen is WEIRD and a little too experimental with her cooking)
maureen has an varied and eccentric sense of humor. she loves gay jokes and especially loves to make uptight homophobes uncomfortable with them. she used to love offensive jokes on principle as a teenager, but she’s gained a lot of perspective and has started to feel bad for it and try to make up for it in adulthood. now, maureen is more inclined to make people like benny the butt of her jokes. aside from that, she loves dirty jokes.
breaking maureen would be HARD. she’s tough as hell, and has always had a great support system. she can take losing jobs, losing material possessions, losing opportunities... she can even take losing friends, although it takes a toll on her. losing angel pushes her in a positive direction rather than a negative one. i actually think the only easy way to do it would be to take her family away - either by killing them off or taking their emotional closeness away. she’s always been a daddy’s girl and she values his support and his approval. if he ever cut ties with her for any reason, i think she’d lose her will.
her deadly sin has always been lust. i think her relationship with joanne might change that, though.
stealth is not among maureen’s skills. she’s loud and direct, at all times, including when she’s flirting. conversationally, she can’t resist taking bait when she’s trying to avoid a subject, so she’s pretty bad at keeping her own secrets and sometimes other people’s secrets, unless they’re really serious. i don’t think she’d ever make a good spy.