drankthekoolaid | Amat Info: Maggie (Falling Skies)

STATS
» NAME: Maggie/Margaret
» FANDOM: Falling Skies
» CANON POINT: Season 2, Episode 8: After telling Hal about her past.
» AGE: 26
» GENDER: Female
» ORIENTATION: Straight
» COLLAR: Strips of leather knotted together to look like barbed wire. See here.

KINKS
» YES: Pretty open on this front.
» MAYBE: See above and below
» NO: Romance, Spending the night, committment. (Seriously though, I'm fine with pretty much anything).
» PAIRING PREFERENCES: Maggie/Hal, wide open to anything really, cross canon etc.

EXTENDED PROFILE
» APPEARANCE: Maggie has (at least) three tattoos. Taking up her whole back is a giant Phoenix rising (In color), on her right sleeve she has Kali (in black) and on her left upper sleeve is a Black Dahlia (Flower). Standing at 5ft4 1/2 she may not be particularly tall, but she's hardly a slight or cowering figure. Maggie has long, naturally golden blond, wavy hair that falls down to the middle of her back and is rarely pulled back from her face. She has a leather biker jacket that she is almost never seen without and prefers jeans and tank tops. This isn't the kind of woman you are likely to see in a dress. Her style seems to suggest a preference for comfort and durability.

» PERSONALITY: Maggie is a survivor, the kind of person that finds a way to make it through no matter what situation she is in and yet it is what she has survived over the years that has hardened this woman. She's not overly trusting of others, using a combination of sarcasm and a hard demeanor to keep people at arms length. She's reluctant to let anyone get too close and is likely to push before ever allowing them to see the real Maggie as we see her do with Hal. There is that softer side and we see that in the way she supports Sarah through her pregnancy, even if she claims she's only hanging around the woman to get seconds at meal time, as if Maggie doesn't want anyone to see the good in her.

Maggie's sordid past, though something she tries not to discuss continues to drag her down. She often feels that she isn't good enough, doesn't fit in and though the alien attacks theoretically allowed her to reinvent herself, Maggie acts as though she will always be the drug addict who had a child in prison. This part of her shouldn't define her but at least in her mind, it does. It is the very thing that she cannot escape and though it may have been a result of a series of bad decisions and not because she is by nature, a bad person, the guilt that she carries continues to drag her down. One could argue that it was why she was able to get through the three months she spent with Pope's Gang; Because in her mind she didn't deserve any better than what they did to her.

Maggie is however somebody who wants to make up for her mistakes and it shows in all that she does to support the 2nd Mass. Her determination to do the right thing by these people, threatening Pope on more than one occasion that she will take him down if he tries to cross them shows that whether she realises it or not, she has not given up hope of having a better life, nor is she as terrible as she believes she is.

She herself admits that she doesn't know when to quit, pushing peoples buttons or broaching subjects that are better left ignored. It never seems like she does it to intentionally hurt the other person but is perhaps just another example of how Maggie keeps people at arms length, though she has proven her ability to recognise her faults and will attempt to apologise if she believes one is owing.

Maggie likes to be self-sufficient and has proven an ability to take care of herself when it comes to wielding a gun or dealing with the more unsavoury people of the world, (Pope case in point). She has a great deal of empathy towards others, something that isn't readily apparent but can be seen in the way she helps Anne Glass learn to fire a gun so that she never has to feel vulnerable again, and in the way she tries to get Hal to ease up on Ben on numerous occasions. When she sees herself in other people she feels the need to help them in the ways that nobody ever helped her before.

From seeing how Maggie tries to look out for Jimmy at the end of Season 1, how she tries to shield Lourdes from what happened to her during her time with Pope's and and how she looks out for Ben you get the impression that she has a protective streak, especially when it comes to those who are younger. She will attempt to put them at ease and even champion them when she sees others are attacking them or putting them down. This protectiveness may be subtle but it is a recurring scene with Maggie throughout seasons one and two.

Though you wouldn't say that she has completely given up on life, couldn't say that given the choices she has made in recent months (joining the 2nd Mass, fighting alongside them, even allowing them to get close to her), she herself says that after beating the cancer that nearly took her life when she was sixteen, she never completely recovered. She turned to drugs after she went into remission which suggests she's trying to rediscover that spark even if her means aren't the best kind. Maggie is clearly somebody who wants to live, not just get by but to enjoy life again, she just doesn't seem to know how to do it.

Maggie is the kind of person who would rather ignore, avoid or even downright run away when faced with an awkward or uncomfortable situation. When avoiding Hal after he confesses his feelings for her fails, she admits to putting in for a transfer to another unit, as if taking herself out of Hal's life will make the so called problem go away. This incident also suggests that Maggie is not one to follow her heart, but make decisions based on what she thinks is best. It becomes apparent later that she does have feelings for Hal but is willing to ignore them because she logically believes it's best they don't get involved, or perhaps as Karen points out, because Maggie believes she isn't good enough for him.

In dealing with her in a one on one situations, she comes across not only as standoffish but in the right circumstances, downright aggressive. She projects an air of "don't fuck with me", not only to keep people emotionally distant but to make sure they know she is not a weak and willing victim. She doesn't appear to be taken in by arrogance, (once again, her dealings with Pope) and you get the impression from how she interacts with Hal that she cannot be so easily charmed. She does however warm up to people over time but will still fall back on sarcasm and light and easy banter in order to avoid more serious topics coming up.

The two most significant canon relationships couldn't be more different if they tried. First we have the antagonistic relationship between Maggie and Pope. Though little has been revealed about the three months Maggie spent with Pope's gang, we know that he saved her and are given the impression that the life Maggie led back then is very different to the one she is leading now. Maggie is somebody who isn't afraid to call Pope on his bullshit and yet, she won't turn him in either even though there are times when she could have gotten him in trouble. You get the idea that despite an intense dislike, she feels that she owes him in some way, even if she thinks he is little more than a degenerate asshole. It could be argued that Pope reminds Maggie too much of the person that she used to be, which is in part why she can't stand him. For whatever reason, Pope knows a great deal about the life that Maggie led before the aliens attacked.

On the flip side we have Maggie's growing relationship with Hal. You couldn't go so far as to say that she is in love with him yet but Hal appears to be the first person who is able to break down the walls she has surrounding her. She seems to adopt an almost youthful persona around him and is more honest with him than she is with other people, even if she tries to lie to him at first. Hal is good for Maggie as he isn't afraid to call her on her lies and he forces her to confront the very parts of herself that she tries to keep hidden.

» BACKGROUND: Before The Attacks: Maggie was diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 16. Three operations and two years later she found herself in remission but turned down a path of injecting drugs and robbing houses to support her habit. Maggie was caught, prosecuted and spent an undisclosed amount of time in a medium security prison where she had a child that was given up for adoption.

After The Attacks: Little is known about Maggie's time post invasion. She was rescued by Pope and his gang and spent three horrendous months living with them where she survived, but only barely. In the end she betrayed Pope, killing his brother and one of the other members of the gang to save members of the 2nd Mass and joined up with them as a resistance fighter.

N.B: In Falling Skies Canon, Earth was invaded by an alien race that destroyed 90% of the world's population. Maggie is one of the few survivors fighting the alien threat.

» OTHER: Maggie doesn't drink or take drugs and will try and avoid being around both when she can, especially the latter.

Maggie is always armed, whether that's apparent or not.

She has a strong disdain for hospitals and will refuse going to one if she can help it, if not, she will insist on getting out of there as fast as possible.

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