Mai Frend

A Picrew of herself that Mai made, representing her internal appearance.

Mai is the co-host of a dissociative system she shares with Beth, the namesake of their body. She is highly interested in medicine and survival knowledge, and shares Beth's love of adventuring. While Beth tends to be the more social of the two hosts, Mai is the one who vigorously attended school and got a job as an EMT trainee in Los Santos.

## Background

Mai comes from Bowdoin, Maine, a very rural and well-known area with a lot of local fame attached to it. After witnessing the death of someone important to them in childhood, Mai became dedicated to learning all of the things she wishes she could have known to save them.

Every location her work has brought them has been carefully considered before Mai committed to it. Getting out of the small town in Maine and into more queer-accepting Boston was very intentional, as it allowed both her and Beth to be openly lesbian without nearly as much fear of negative judgement or discrimination.

Now, she's gotten a job as an EMT in a California city, and hopes she and Beth will continue to thrive in city life.

## List of Major Events

### Raid Gone Bad

Mai was on-shift when a police-raid went severely downhill, with Officer Down calls coming in with barely minutes between them. It was one of the busiest nights Pillbox has had, and one of the most strenuous. Mai assisted as a trainee, performing scans and aiding in operations as well as keeping the ORs clean and ready for use.

### Pink Camo Warriors

When Chad's family wanted to forcibly take him home with them, Los Santos witnessed what was, effectively, their first gang war. Mai was on-shift just as the chaos began, and was shocked when most of the people brought in were wearing bright pink camo. Confused, she asked Norm what had happened, and learned that it was totally unexpected that things would turn violent the way they did, with Chad's family opening fire on his friends. She assisted in some major surgeries and several scans, as well as starting a method of easily identifying patient priority and needs similar to on-field triage.

Her most interesting patient of the night was V, who in spite of having several years of medical school under her belt, got up after surgery and began to dance in the ICU. Mai scolded her, sent her to her bed, and then caught her dancing on the bed. She scolded V more severely, making clear that she was already putting herself at risk. Mai then hung a sign above V's bed warning that she was a "Dance Risk," although V didn't notice it until much later, where it resulted in a good-humored laugh as Mai informed her visiting friends why the sign was necessary. Mai was promoted to EMT the next day.

## Jobs

Mai, no longer covertly as "Beth," is an EMT. She aspires to be a Fire and Rescue Paramedic in the city and specializes in unusual/wilderness rescue situations.

## Relationships

* Mai and Beth have yet to learn how to communicate internally, but they have begun leaving each other notes and text messages. Mai calls Beth her sister.
* Gale is locked at eight years old, and as such, Mai is extremely protective of them.
* The members of GPS are all in Mai's peripheral in a positive light, as they are friends with Beth and have been good companions. She scolds Louie for every time she sees his name in a Person Down alert while on shift at Pillbox.
* River specifically has gained significant trust from Mai, as she has not only treated Gale with kindness, but encouraged them to interact with her and have fun while fronting. After River took Gale to the arcade one weekend, Mai has deemed her especially trustworthy. This trust is reinforcing the trust built when River told Beth honestly about who Gale was, revealing the system to Beth.
* Mai had been looking forward to getting to know Chase better since she became a recent trainee at the hospital, and is struggling to process her murder by Smiles.

## Trivia

* Mai needs glasses in order to see and read clearly, whereas Beth knows that she has them but rarely if ever uses them.
* Mai and Beth can sometimes be told apart by their hair, make-up, and clothes.
* Beth has a strong local Maine accent that Mai, for whatever reason, has significant trouble mimicking. Now that she no longer is covert, she has a more general, subtle, New England accent.
* Mai, along with Gale, were named by Lawrence.