Maddie VanPelt

**“The minute you think about giving up, think of the reason you held on for so long.” Maddie - Andi**

**Personality**

Maddie can be a little much. She is known to be feisty, snarky, but can be very adviceful. Maddie cares and has a good heart but she can be overprotective and smothering. Maddie comes off as intimidating and is scary when you’ve wronged someone she cares about.

**Childhood**

For the first four years of her life, Maddie was raised by both of her parents. She loved them both, although she knew her father favoured her little sister over her. As a small child, Maddie was a sweet charismatic little girl who was known to throw the occasional tantrum when inpatient or not getting what she wanted. At this age, Maddie didn’t know she was a witch or that she came from a magical family, she didn’t know that her cousin Emma and aunt Maria had magic. At age four, Maddie’s life changed. Maddie came into her magic during a tantrum over a cookie and the results terrified her mortal father into abandoning her and her sister. At the time, Maddie didn’t understand much about what had happened but grew up believing it was her fault her father wasn’t around anymore.

Since then, Maddie was raised solely by her mother who spoiled her and gave her anything she wanted, still, Maddie was a sweet loving girl most of the time though became more and more ungrateful the older she got. She grew up being the main caregiver to her mentally challenged sister Sophie.

Alongside her cousin Emma, Maddie started her magic training and education at the Academy in September 2000 and graduated four years later. She then moved on to High school at Iridium high in August of 2004. Maddie joined the cheer-squad and made captain. Maddie was somewhat popular but most of her classmates were intimidated by her. Also in grade 9, Maddie started dating Diego. In March of 2005, Maddie decided she was ready to be a mother, and she was a month shy of her fifteenth birthday. She talked Diego into having a baby with her but it took months of trying to get pregnant before it happened.

According to Emma, Maddie planning a pregnancy at 15 wasn’t too surprising. Maddie was a highly-sexed rebellious spoiled teenager and believed she was all grown up. As expected, her mother was not happy to find out she was pregnant, especially since her sister was pregnant too and both girls told her on the same day at the same time. Maddie didn’t care that her mother disapproved and didn’t care how many people thought she was too young. Maddie stayed happy and strong throughout her pregnancy and warmly welcomed her daughter Emily in April of 2006, only six days after her sixteenth birthday.

**Parenting**

Overall, Maddie turned out to be a really loving mother. She adored her little girl and was very unhappy to learn she couldn’t convince anymore children. (Birth complications involving her magic genes getting tangled up in her reproductive genes.) Maddie ended up adopting but this wasn’t an easy path. Everything was fine until the daughter she was planning on adopting (Melanie) went missing for six years. More on this later. The biggest problem was Maddie always had to be involved in everything going on in her daughters’ lives and she was very overprotective. Maddie meant well but she was suffocating and hovered over her daughters too much, more so with Emily than with Melanie.

Unlike everyone else, Maddie was happy to learn Emily was pregnant even though Emily was only thirteen-years-old. However, when she learned the situation surrounding Emily’s pregnancy, Maddie was pissed like everyone else. At first, Maddie took over. She kept making doctor appointments and arranging parenting classes that Emily didn’t want. She pressured Emily into finding out the baby’s gender. Again, Maddie meant well and was only trying to help, but she just went overboard with her need to be involved in Emily’s life. This drove Emily to move out of her parent’s house and Maddie wasn’t happy because she felt she’d miss out on too much.