WtHQM:Maple
A PC in Welcome to Holy Question Mark, a campaign set in the Amberverse using modified Lords of Gossamer and Shadow rules.
Maple Charlevoix MacAlistair, apart from 'that girl with the really unfortunate name,' is probably best known as the art director for the school paper (a position she somehow weaseled her way into despite it normally going to a senior) and the camera she carries around like a badge of office. Her stint as the guiding force behind the paper's look has been a bit...avant guard. The poor Editor's constant exasperation seems to endlessly amuse her.
Maple attends The Socinian institute on an mix of academic and artistic scholarships. She's bright, though not exceptionally so, and honestly her grades would probably be better if she didn't pour so much of her free time into an unending stream of ever-changing artistic endeavors.
Unless you've given her a reason to be otherwise Maple is very friendly, though has a tendency to be forgetful and often comes off as a little spacey. Highly curious, she'll try just about anything at least once. Maple does not always exercise the best judgement in these scenarios...
Maple hails from the neighborhood of Woodside in the borough of Queens, where her painfully Irish father's family has lived since the early 1900s. Her mother, Elsinore, is a social worker in Child Protective Services and her father, Flannery, does educational outreach for a local art museum (mostly after school and summer art classes for children.) She is the middle of three children; her older sister, Magnolia, just started college and her younger sister, Willow, is a high school freshman. The family hovers around the boarder between working class and middle class. In 7th grade Maple earned a spot in a summer arts program for gifted students and the scholarship offer to Holy Question Mark came shortly after, blindsiding the whole family, who otherwise never would have been able to afford even a fraction of the tuition. Maple feels a bit guilty getting an opportunity like this where her sisters didn't, and is determined not to take it for granted.
