Maeve

## Overall Information:

Maeve is as a secondary character in the series, acting as Ron's romantic interest.

## Backstory:

### Pre-War era:

Maeve was born in the small Ukait independent state of planet Shelens 6. The young girl was always a huge piano fan, attending musical school alongside many other extracurricular activities such as rock climbing and swimming. During her childhood years, Maeve was an ordinary, playful, innocent child with the dreams such as becoming president of Ukait during her early teens. However every hope and dream the girl ever had was soon to be turned into ashes with the Ustoll Republic's invasion of Laddmer. With the small state of Ukait being located right between the two, the attack of the larger nation against their neighboring state had devastating impacts on Ukait as well leaving behind thousands of casualties, including both of Maeve's parents.

### Ymber experiments era:

With the attacks of Ustoll spilling into Ukait's territory, the state joined the war in an mutual defense alliance with Laddmer. The now orphan Maeve was conscripted to join the united army of the states Ukait and Laddmer, as martial law obliged every young person above 16 to be drafted into the army and sent on the fronts. However, Maeve, and number of few other people were secretly assigned to an experimental program led privately by the Kingdom of Laddmer, unbeknownst to the government of Ukait. The program ought to create the perfect warriors, through a series of brutal fighting techniques, physical and psychological abuse, and injecting its subjects with a substance known as Ymber. Maeve was one of the few surviving victims of the secret experiments, being subjected to torture, dangerously high amounts of Ymber, and brutal fights ending up in hundreds of deaths for the timespan of an entire year. With the experiments proving to be too risky and costly, the project was closed, and all surviving patients were ready to go on the frontlines.

### Laddmer era:

A now psychologically damaged, yet extremely powerful Maeve was assigned to be the leader of her own private troop consisting of all the other individuals that were experimented on. Maeve's troop was decided to work together alongside Team Esmond, a Laddmerian division deployed at Ukait southern border. During the joint operations of the two armies, Maeve met a soldier going by the name of Ron, she noticed his admiration for music, starting to have brief conversations with him from time to time. The joint divisions conducted many successful operations, Maeve started to admire Ron and his positive outlook despite their sombre surroundings. However things would change when one night she and her team were commanded to assassinate Laddmerian leader Inurs Broot, an action that meant war between the two allied nations of Ukait and Laddmer. The assassination was part of a range of attacks led by the Ukait government against the Kingdom of Laddmer due to extensive secretive betrayal and political disagreements between the two nations, with Laddmer even having conducted an unsuccessful mission to annex the nation of Ukait. Following these events, the nations of Ukait and Ustoll signed an armistice and became allied, now fighting united against Laddmer.

### Ustoll era:

Hearing about all of this Maeve became furious. She was not keen on working alongside her former enemies, nor fighting her former allies, but she had no choice but to obey. Following the next few months, the war shifted in Ustoll's favour, with the nation's army now having entered the core of Laddmer, destroying and taking over lots of big cities inside the nation. Maeve was assigned to infiltrate into the Laddmerian military base known as Tozan, and seize control of it. As the majority of the Laddmerian army was fighting a long distance from the base, Tozan was weakly defended by a small group of soldiers, including Ron. On her way to the military base, Maeve came across Ron himself, who was guarding the outskirts of Tozan. With them now being considered enemies, a bloody showdown between the two ensued, although both were hesitant on killing each other. The showdown ended in Maeve impaling herself in the stomach with a metal rod, falling down before an exhausted Ron. He picked up the now slowly dying Maeve in his arms, having a final dialogue together. Maeve told Ron about her plans of winning the war, her admiration for him and the dreams of exploring the world after it was all over, finishing with warning Ron about the Ustolle army's next move, before dying in his hands.

## Personality:

Maeve is calm, calculated and quiet. The past trauma and neglect inflicted on her brought Maeve a rather nihilistic outlook on the world, but despite that, she genuinely tries to see the world through a more realistic light, being conscious that while negative things happen, there are just as many positive ones.

## Trivia:

* Although it was never directly stated in the series, it is strongly implied that Maeve did have a romantic attraction towards Ron.