Maggie (Final Fantasy XIV)

Maggie is a reaper-class magitek armor with a mammet core, that acts as both a character and a mount in Final Fantasy XIV. A sentient magitek machina and a type of forgekin, Maggie was initially a regular armor belonging to the XIVth Imperial Legion that was stolen by Cid Garlond and the adventurer that would eventually be known as the Warrior of Light in the lead-up to their infiltration of Castrum Centri.
== History ==
=== Before A Realm Reborn ===
Maggie was one of many magitek armors designed and built by the Garlean Empire during their expansion through the Three Great Continents, in particular during their expansion into Eorzea. Stationed at Castrum Centri in Mor Dhona, Imperial patrols were deployed irregularly, always equipped with a reaper.
===Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn===
==== Capture and rescue ====
Maggie was initially a magitek armor held by members of the XIVth Imperial Legion within Castrum Centri. As part of their plan to rescue the Scions of the Seventh Dawn held at the castrum, the "Eikon-slaying adventurer" and Cid Garlond lured out a patrol from Castrum Centri to obtain their reaper-class magitek armor, ambushing them.
After capturing it, the duo took the armor to Biggs and Wedge of the Garlond Ironworks who discovered that the armor's servomechanism's magitek core was worn beyond use due to neglect from the Imperials. Under the direction of Wedge, the adventurer obtained a mammet heart from Serendipity, the guildmaster of the Goldsmiths' Guild in Ul'dah, which Wedge used as a replacement for the core.
Driven by the adventurer, the reaper was put through its paces, with Wedge quickly growing attached to the armor, naming it "Maggie". During this test Wedge noticed that the servomechanism was not functioning at full capacity, which he theorised was because the armor's was a mammet heart and as such had feelings. In an effort to placate these, and make her feel part of the team, Wedge insisted that the group welcomed her to their fold.
After getting everyone to do so to seemingly no result, the group was found by Imperial soldiers who attempted to destroy the armor as to not let it fall into enemy hands. After witnessing the adventurer risk their life to protect her, Maggie began to properly work with the group.
Being ridden by Wedge, Maggie, alongside the adventurer and Biggs, pretended to be a patrol in order to sneak into Castrum Centri. Upon discovering the Scions being held, the group engaged in combat with their captors and freed them. In an attempt at clearing a path for the rest of them to escape, and hopeful to both impress and ensure the safety of Tataru Taru, Wedge drove Maggie into the enemy vanguard, with the two of them becoming separated from the group. After being surrounded by Imperial forces, Wedge abandoned Maggie and retreated to the rest of the group.
Seeing the adventurer and their group backed onto a ledge, Maggie, without a rider, moved on her own to protect the adventurer, creating a distraction that allowed the group to escape in Cid's airship, the Enterprise. After this Maggie was captured and taken to Castrum Meridianum's Praetorium.
==== The Praetorium ====
Sometime later, during Operation Archon, as the adventurer chases after Gaius van Baelsar alongside their companions, the adventurer passes through the Magitek Armor hangar where the XIVth Imperial Legion kept Maggie. Upon seeing the adventurer, Maggie joyfully beeped and awoke and allowed the adventurer to ride on her, dispatching soldiers and warmachina alike, as well as a cermet bulkhead that was blocking the adventurer's way.
Upon reaching the magitek research level, Maggie and the adventurer blasted through multiple Proto Ultima Arm Units until reaching a reinforced blast door made from a special cermet alloy. With the blast door unfazed by Maggie's assault, Cid suggested diverting all the power to the magitek cannon, but warned that it could cause the armor's core to expire. Heeding Cid's words, Maggie and the adventurer blasted the blast door open, causing the armor to power down, much to the adventurer's dismay. Resolute in their quest, the adventurer continued after Gaius, leaving Maggie behind.
Maggie survived the destruction of the Praetorium and the greater Castrum Meridianum by the activation of Ultima. Reactivated, she followed the adventurer, newly christened as the Warrior of Light, as the Praetorium collapsed in flame and picked both them and the unconscious Thancred Waters, escaping the ensuing explosion by pushing herself to her limits, leaving her sparking and powered down upon reaching safety.
After the battle, the Warrior of Light kept the recovered Maggie as a mount.
==== Magiteknical difficulties ====
Some time after Operation Archon the deputy president of the Garlond Ironworks, Jessie Jaye, asked the Warrior of Light to show her Maggie, in an effort to find some inspiration from the reaper to increase the Ironworks' profits. Examining Maggie, Jessie found the use of a mammet core inspired, and discovered that the cannon's convergence modulator was burnt out after destroying the blast door in the Praetorium. 
With a , a and a , acquired from Castrum Centri by the Warrior of Light, Jessie was able to fix Maggie, allowing the adventurer the use of her magitek cannon and photon stream.
==Characteristics==
===Appearance===
Maggie is a standard reaper-class magitek armor with black plating, gold-bronze exhaust pipes and details, and purple webbed wings. Differentiating her from others is the Garlond Ironworks logo painted on her side. She has green-blue lights on her front that light up and blink when communicating through beeps.
===Personality===
Maggie, thanks to being imbued with a mammet's core, is sentient, capable of feeling and expressing emotions.
She becomes deeply attached to the adventurer after they risk their life to save her, becoming excited once she sees them and even moving on her own volition to save them, something that shocks her previous handlers.
==Gameplay==
Controlled by the player during , Maggie allows the player to use the actions and , which deal set damage to enemies struck by those abilities, bypassing the status.
As a mount, acquired from using the , Maggie is a terrestrial mount that flies by entering a new configuration, retracting its legs backwards and angling its wings down. If the player completes the quest the armor receives two cosmetic actions in the Pet Hotbar.
==Musical theme==
The theme played while riding Maggie after acquiring her as a mount is "Magiteknical Difficulties", a rearrangement of "Terra's Theme" from Final Fantasy VI.
== Behind the scenes ==
Maggie, under the name Magitek Armor was initially the only magitek armor mount available to players in the game, and to this day the only black coloured reaper. Despite this, the official video showcasing the Magitek Armor mount and accompanying music track, does not feature Maggie, instead featuring generic Garlean Empire black reapers to replicate the opening to Final Fantasy VI, from where the mount takes inspiration.
==Etymology==
Maggie, short for magitek armor, is a common short form of various female given names, such as Margaret, Magnolia, or Magdalena. It is also used as an individual given name.
Maggie does not have a given name in the Japanese script, being identified simply as a Magic Weapon or Magic Armor , the terms for Magitek Warmachina and Magitek Armor respectively. 
Category:Characters in Final Fantasy XIV