Appearance

Physical Description

Fairly athletic, as she goes out dancing several nights a week.

Body Features

Irish pallor, with a spritz of freckles that come out when she's been out in the sun a lot

Apparel & Accessories

Tends to dress a half step above her station, albeit in secondhand wares most of the time. Likes brightly colored blouses.

Mentality

Education

Most of a Literature degree at King's College

Accomplishments & Achievements

Had a straight-A average in college...until she was expelled.

Failures & Embarrassments

Expelled from King's College in senior year of a Literature degree

Mental Trauma

Soon enough.

Intellectual Characteristics

Very perceptive and detail oriented. Can get hyperfocused on the details, especially when working on her art. Fails to see the forest for the trees and is oblivious to anything else going on when she's working. The kind of person who gets working on a project and forgets to eat.

Morality & Philosophy

Maggie believes money corrupts, and that it is impossible to be rich and a good person. She prefers to scam people who are demonstrably bad, but "careless" is enough of a sin that she'll snip the purse string of a well to do lady coming out of the opera.

person.sexuality

Got her heart broke and never wants to go through that again.

person.gender_identity

Tomboyish female

Taboos

Cruelty to animals or children
 
Destruction of art or literature

Personality

Motivation

Adventure: Maggie loves the thrill of the con, the feeling of having put one over on some rich toff who won't miss it anyway. She wilts when things are predictable, ordinary, stable.
 
[Secondary]Arrogance/Vengeance. Money corrupts and therefore all rich people are evil if you dig deep enough.

Quotes & Catchphrases

"He'll never miss it."

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Knows a good bit about early modern printing practices and drama. Gifted at book restoration...and forgery.
 
Fair to middling at shoplifting, pickpocketing, etc. She's bad enough at it that it is always a challenge, but good enough that she very rarely gets caught.

Likes & Dislikes

Likes: Jazz, Marlowe, gin
 
Dislikes: Professors, condescending rich people.

Virtues & Personality perks

Codeswitches easily between lower class and educated speech.

Vices & Personality flaws

Bit of a kleptomaniac/adrenaline junkie.
Sometimes has a hard time concealing her contempt for the university system.

Hygiene

Her appearance always suits the situation; working in the back of the shop she's completely unselfconscious, doesn't notice if she's spilled ink or if her hair is a mess. But if she's going out in "public," she will always have her hair combed, makeup on point. Nicer clothes when dealing with clients in the shop, shabbier stuff when out on the town.

Social

Birthplace

London

Current Residence

London

Wealth & Financial state

Maggie's income fluctuates wildly from month to month, depending on how much "freelancing" she's doing. Her typesetting job had her making a relatively good living, but it was mind-numbingly boring. Her income at the Bookstore is significantly less, so she supplements with the occasional pickpocketing/shoplifting/game of "It'd be a shame if..." with Shaw.

Family Ties

Shaw Hughes - cousin
William McGill - paternal grandfather

Religious Views

Raised CoE, stopped going long ago. Ex-BF was staunchly atheist - if God exists, why would he allow suffering? - and a bit of that rubbed off.

Social Aptitude

Prefers to be invisible whenever possible, blending in to whatever situation she is in. When in her element, talking about her areas of expertise she is confident bordering on arrogance and condescension - after all, how could these people possibly know as much as she does? Has pretty major trust issues, but will have a drink and a laugh with friends.

Hobbies & Pets

Pretends the bookstore cat is annoying but loves having him curl up on her lap.

Speech

Defaults to received pronunciation, but code switches fluently to lower-class (becoming more pronounced when hanging out with Shaw).