Character Name: Maggie Kilmartin

Age: 24

Description: Maggie is a slight woman. Thin from either years of tiring work or starvation, possibly both. Her dark hair often tied back in a plait with what seems to be an old piece of cloth compliments Maggie’s sea-blue eyes, not uncommon of women from the West of Ireland. Despite her face being slightly tired and freckled from the sun, her eyes are what allow her steadfast joy to come through. Her clothes are anything but fine, simply made, obviously worn in. She wears a small cross around her neck as her only jewelry but there’s a thin pale line on her left hand that would suggest a past hidden away, hoping to be forgotten.

List your FIVE Skills & Powers: Farming tasks, cooking, shopkeeping, fishing, singing

Weakness: Wary of strangers, gun handling/hunting, tunnel vision when it comes to protecting her family

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Character History: Maggie was born in Sligo (Sligeach), Ireland. She is the eldest of 4 children having 3 younger brothers, of which only her brother Darragh, nearest in age to her, survives. Born in the midst of the Great Famine, Maggie is no stranger to perseverance. The Great Famine and its aftermath were hard on her family, her youngest siblings dying of starvation or illness. Maggie’s father Padraig was arrested for theft, trying to save the family he had left, and was consequently sent to Australia to serve his sentence. Convinced she would never see her husband alive again, Maggie’s mother Bridget sold everything left to their family and boarded a boat to America with her two surviving children, only 12 and 11 at the time, in hopes to create a better life. However, the time spent crossing the Atlantic would prove to be fatal for Bridget, leaving Maggie and Darragh to brave their new life on their own.

Through the years, Maggie and Darragh were given their share of troubles and triumphs. For some time, Maggie and her brother were able to find work as hands on a farm in Connecticut. But, before Maggie’s 17th birthday, Darragh was caught in a scandal with the farmer’s daughter forcing them to flee the town and the home they had known for the past 5 years. The siblings relocated to New York City where Darragh took on work as a shopkeeper’s errand boy and Maggie found work with a fishmonger. Although they worked to make end’s meet in the city, they lived happily again for a time.

Having been focused on caring for her brother for so long, Maggie had not thought much of marriage, nor had it been a keen desire of hers. Sure, like any young woman, she enjoyed being swung around by a man during a reel or the tickle of flattery whispered in her ear during a night at the pub. But, if she were to marry, she’d either have to be madly in love or in a business arrangement. Still, her primary concern had always been her brother. Darragh’s employer, also an Irishman, had grown fond of Maggie. Being a widower with no children, he’d considered marrying again and made an offer to Maggie under the condition that her brother would receive a promotion. She liked the man enough and, if it secured health and safety for both her and Darragh, Maggie was obliged to marry the man. Over the course of two years, her seemingly pleasant marriage soured. Maggie had difficulty bearing children, miscarrying both children conceived during her marriage, nearly losing her own life. Her husband soon blamed Maggie, either taking the anger to the pub or out on Maggie. Wanting to protect her brother’s position in her husband’s shop, Maggie never disclosed the trouble she was in to anyone. One evening, Darragh coming to collect his hat he’d forgotten at the shop, walked in seeing her husband’s fist raised towards Maggie. In defense of his sister, Darragh struck the man, killing him.

Since then, her brother has been on the run, presumed to have head west. Having received a small inheritance from her late husband, Maggie sold whatever she could to pay for passage west, in search of freedom from her haunted past...and her brother.