Maude Gallagher

"*In the end you can't really escape it. One way or another, family finds you.*"
— Maude
**Maude Gallagher** is an inmate at San Hill.

## **Appearance**

Maude is the oldest inmate in San Hill. She is small in stature and frame, and always has her ALT approved cane with her to assist with making her way around the prison. She has vibrant green eyes and short white hair. She wears reading glasses on occasion, and a sweater over her jumpsuit.

## **Personality**

Maude is a spitfire, despite her age, and shows that she is not intimidated by any other inmates. She gives the aura of a person well lived and highly educated, as well as cunning and strong willed. She dislikes receiving pity because of her age, though she will not turn down offers for assistance, and accepted many years back that "pity wasn't the enemy, pity was a tool" for an inmate her age.

## **Life in San Hill**

##### Season One

Maude was a transfer to San Hill along with Regicide Rollinstar and Sunny Phoenix, though she has a particular disdain for the two of them, as she lived through the 1960's and 1970's as a member of the "Silent Generation", and had to experience the hippie movement in her actual life-time.

Maude had been incarcerated for over 12 years in Edwards Facility by the time she arrived in San Hill, being transferred due to her relatively healthy nature and the over-abundance of more feeble elderly inmates at prisons dedicated to that sort of care. Prior to that, she had been an M.I.T. graduate who opened her own engineering firm in Boston in 1970. Because of legality of the '60's and 70's, her former fiancé had to open accounts and acquire the loan for her to open the business. She is familiar with electrical work and chemical engineering, though her specialty was civil engineering and mechanical works.

Despite his rough nature, Maude's former cellmate Sprinkles has also shown to have a soft spot for her, though he initially was apprehensive about how to handle sharing his space with someone of her age. She also met Armando Alighieri on intake day, who was immediately protective of her, even going so far as to attempt to speak to Odysseus about repairing the elevator to help her move about the prison easier. Despite that request being denied, Maude was appreciative of his attempt. She would later meet Jason Zharkov during her first few days at San Hill. He had been sick with a cold, which prompted Maude to become upset with him. While their first meeting did not go well, they have since become more amicable with each other. Maude had also met Blaze early on in her stay, with Blaze forming a bond with her quickly.

Maude was assigned to work in the greenhouse when Sanders broke his hand, despite having no knowledge of how to garden. There she met Grey McCorduck, and the two would spark a friendship over their collective struggle of trying to get the greenhouse up and running. During that time she would also encounter William McCaffrey, who she grew to dislike due to what she perceived was the man's blotted ego and incompetence. Maude remained unaware of both the tool cabinet being unlocked and the brewing of alcohol, too preoccupied with studying, trying to obtain growable seeds, and other tools to help grow some of the plants. However, she became aware of the unlocked tool cabinet when Grey mentioned it to her. She advised him to use the tools as intended in order to convince the guards that they could be responsible enough with them.

Maude contracted food poisoning when the freezer broke down. Both Maxie Tanaka and Grey McCorduck helped Maude back to her cell and would continue to look after her until she regained her health. A week later, Maude became an integral part of the freezer incident, where she, along with the assistance of both Sunny Phoenix and Reggie Rollinstar, repaired the kitchen's freezer.

#### Season Two

Maude's relationship with Reggie Rollinstar became slightly strained after he visited her cell, asking for help with filling out forms. Maude believed that Reggie didn't want to work in maintenance due to his work ethic. In reality, Reggie did in fact want to learn, but had a few medical conditions that made it difficult for him to read, write, and pay attention. He was ultimately disappointed that Maude insinuated that he couldn't preform at his job. Maude became regretful of her words.

After the greenhouse was visited by Marcel O'Brien, who inquired about missing tools, Grey McCorduck reveled where the alcohol was being brewed to Maude. He did not give her anymore relevant information about the alcohol, leading Maude to speculate that Sanders may have also been involved. After chastising Grey, Maude went back to her usual routine, though was on the lookout for Sanders to give him a similar talking to.

Maude became aware of the Greenhouse Incident, in which Sanders was attacked by Astor Neils, only after visiting an injured Sanders in his cell. Maude grew more suspicious of Sanders, however, after he insinuated that he believed that Grey McCorduck was responsible for the attack. Despite this, she was still thankful that Sanders was alive. She later informed Maxie Tanaka to keep an eye out for Grey, as Maude's suspicions and worry grew. Some time later, Maude became aware of Grey's mental condition after catching both Grey and Maxie conversing in the library. Moving to Maude's cell, the three began piecing together the events after the Greenhouse Incident and the Chicken Murders. While Maude got incredibly close to the truth, Grey proceeded to lie to her about his involvement with the alcohol in order to protect numerous people, causing Maude to doubt both Grey and Sanders. Currently, Maxie and Maude are still trying to piece things together in order to help Grey in any way they can.

Maude became sick once more, due to allergies, making it difficult to interact with the rest of the prison for a while. Grey McCorduck would visit her and inform her of the second dead chicken. Maude would become increasingly more worried for Grey, as she now believed someone was purposefully targeting him.

After another incident involving inmates attacking each other, and a cell sweep, Sprinkles would be moved out of the cell he shared with Maude and moved to Block E. Sunny Phoenix would come to replace him as Maude's new cellmate.

She would, again, receive a visit from Grey McCorduck and Maxie Tanaka, offering her peas that they had grown in the Greenhouse. While Maude was concerned that Grey was breaking into the Greenhouse, Grey quickly informed her that the peas had been grown outside. Knowing that gardening was important to Grey, and after going to a yoga class held by Korbyn Mendoza, Maude started to devise a proposal to bring up to the warden.

After a conversation with Korbyn Mendoza, Maude became aware that the maintenance and electrical staff were severely under qualified and under trained. She would visit Warden Soren White a few days later to discuss the matter, along with proposing that gardening be a group activity. Soren would allow Maude to train the maintenance and electrical staff, however, was adamant on not allowing the Greenhouse to remain. He told Maude that he'd consider the proposal but gave no promises.

## **Relationships**

### Family

* Jamison Longfellow (lover)
* Minerva "Minnie" Edwards (Goddaughter)
* Sebastian "Dink" Camball (Soon-to-be Live-in assistant)
* Bobby DeLuca (protégé)

### Allies

* Blaze
* Sprinkles
* Armando Alighieri
* Grey McCorduck
* Maxie Tanaka
* Sunny Phoenix
* Reggie Rollinstar

### Neutral

* Sanders (former workmate)
* Jason Zharkov
* Marcel O'Brien
* Syrus Norwood
* Ilya Luzhkov

### Enemies

* Astor Neils
* William McCaffrey
* Chicken Murderer (Identity unknown)

## Trivia

* Maude is fluent in French and is currently learning Mandarin and ASL.
* Maude lived in Paris from 1964 to 1969. Consequently, she was around during the May 68 riots.
* Maude left her engineering firm to Bobby DeLuca, and most of her finances to Longfellow. He always consults her before making big purchases or financial decisions.
* Maude’s daily medications consist of Hydrocodone, Amlodipine Besylate, Calcium supplements, Iron supplements, Vitamin B12, and Vitamin D.
* At the age of 73, Maude had a total hip replacement on her right hip, forcing her to use a cane to move around.
* Maude requires reading glasses.