Maybel Winter

Details

Maybel is a rather small woman. She is very compact and had a curvy body. She has a heart-shaped face, pale green eyes and dark and rather expressive eyebrows. She has flawless skin and a radiant smile. She has long, blonde curls that reach the small of her back. She looks a lot like her late mother, Lady Cecilia Grimaldi. Maybel is often describes as a typical Winter beauty.

Demeanour

Maybel always comes over as cheerful and jovial, with big smiles and a very chatty nature. She knows her familiar status, and she can seem a bit arrogant from here and there, but most of the time she is airy and free. She isn’t worried about a thing, knowing that she will never be in danger. She enjoys her freedom and it shows very well.

Clothing

Maybel always wears the latest fashion, but goes a bit over the top with it. Nothing can be too sparkly, too colourful, too bedazzled. She is seen wearing the most expensive dressed and jewellery. Sometimes she even looks a bit childish with big lockets and giant diamond earrings, but she likes to be noticed and flashy. She likes to wear her hair down, but it’s often set in place with sparkling pins. She also usually wears very tall heels to compensate for her short stature.

Maybel never had to work or worry a day in her life. She always gets what she wants, one way or another. She doesn’t even have to be clever about it. She just asks her dad or speaks her father’s name, and it happens. It’s like magic. Maybel has been very spoilt her whole life, so she lives in her own little bubble. She has very little sympathy for the less fortunate or the poor, because she has never experienced those kind op setbacks. She rarely ever talked with someone who didn’t live in the upper ring or in high society. This is the world as she knows it, so she can act like she is the princess that she is.

Maybel is confident, otherworldly and arrogant without even noticing it herself. She is this perfect, charming girl that always knows exactly what to say to high society to make a man swoon and a his wife laugh at the same time. She is polished around every edge and is very well mannered towards strangers. Because in the back of her mind she knows she has a reputation to uphold. But behind closed doors, she is a lot more vocal and direct. She is not scared what to say what’s on her mind, rarely having to deal with the consequences of her boldness. Every mistake she ever made, has been wiped away by her father. She just knows she can do no wrong, and she reaps every benefit from it.

Maybel can be quite guileless when the subject swerves from her comfortable bubble. She simply does not know the hardships of “normal” life. She is very naïve and thinks everybody just has a comfortable life. Although, she is curious about the world outside of hers. She is quite bold and likes to push boundaries. Her carelessness can then turn itself against her. But she rarely has been in trouble because of it yet.

Maybel is very kind, until you cross her. She can be very malicious then. She just has to snap her fingers, and her father will make the problem go away. She started to notice this power when she and her precious step-mom would have arguments. Her father would always pick her, so when someone didn’t do what she liked, she just shed some crocodile tears in her father’s lap. She has never rebelled against her father. She is the apple of his eye, and she likes to maintain it that way.

Before birth

Matthew Winter, son of the Augustus Winter, the ruling family in Ashmoor, had everything he ever wanted. Even the love of his life, Cecilia Grimaldi, of the family who rules in Dawnmire. Everything was perfect, the fairy-tale story you would want for each of your children. But some fairy-tales end tragically. And this was the case for Matthew and Cecilia’s story. Cecilia fell ill and the last thing she did was give birth to their lovechild. Maybel Madeline was born in the middle of the snow moon.

Early Childhood

Maybel grew up for the first two years of her life in Dawnmire. She knew nothing but love from her father and was a pampered little baby. When a child as young as she was, she didn’t notice that she had no mother. Her first memories of a mother figure were those of her father’s second wife: Rina. She didn’t know better than nanny’s and servants that made her life comfortable. They taught her, fed her, raised her basically. So Rina was nobody else than the next woman who was supposed to take care of her. They all were nothing compared to her father, who she loved more than anything in the world. She was glued to his leg when he was at home.

She did start to get a bit jealous when she noticed that Rina was not like every other woman that was taking care of her. She hung around her father, taking up precious time Maybel wanted to spend with him. Suddenly it was not just daddy and Maybel anymore, and she had to share him with another woman. And soon after that, Rina grew pregnant and there was another child with who she had to share the house with, little Luca.

It was around this time little Maybel learned, or more started to understand, that Rina wasn’t her mother. She started to ask questions about her own mother. Cecilia was painted as this angelic figure for her. And she started to learn to love a mother that she never knew. She started to think about her in her prayers and wished so desperately to have a mother of her own. She wanted to be her, to look like her, to sound like her. And she could never know, because even though her father liked to tell her stories about her, she also noticed it made him sad. So she eventually started to avoid the subject and just keep the picture of the woman she knew in her mind.

Early Teens

Tensions started to rise in their household. Her father and step-mother started to argue more and more. She didn’t know why they were fighting so much. She just stayed out of her step-mother’s way and spend as much time as possible with her father. She made him smile, so that made her happy. She never realized she was privileged: she just asked and she would receive. Around this time she started to learn more about high society. She learned etiquette, proper manners, a proper vocabulary. At first she wanted to learn art, but she soon grew impatient when she didn’t progress fast enough. Then she took up ballet, but it made her feet hurt. Then pianoforte, but she sucked because her hands were too small. Then she aspired to be in theater, but she didn't understand a word of poetry and metaphors. But she could learn whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted. Tutors came and went, and she noticed it annoyed Rina, as her half-brother had to study very hard every day. Maybel never put two and two together.

One day everything changed and suddenly Rina disappeared out of their life completely. She still lived in the same house, but she became more a ghost then a person. They barely talked anymore. Maybel rarely talked to Luca as well in this time. And with her father away a lot for business, she became a bit lonely. She of course had the distractions of court, her cousins to keep her company, but it was nothing compared to what used to be.

Late teens

Her stepmother died. She didn’t mourn for the woman, really, as of the last years she had barely known her. So she did her duties, accepted the condolences. But the ambiance in their household changed completely. Her father felt more like her father again. She was allowed to enjoy all her freedoms. These were really the happiest years of her life. She started to grow up, started to get more interest and reaped the benefits of being a girl. Which meant, she never had to do boring politics like her father and uncle. She just had to look pretty and rich. And oh, that she could.

Maybel never, ever, missed a party. She loved the attention she got. She loved forbidden talks behind closed doors. She plunged herself in the life of gossip and riches. And she got interested in boys. She knew they were much like her father, and she could make them do whatever she wanted. She learned how to swoon boys and men alike, twirl them around her finger and let then fall like bricks after a night. But as she was still too young, she never stepped over boundaries set for her. And otherwise her father was watching her like a hawk. Which was a bit hypocritical, because she had learned it from the best.

Early adulthood

Maybel kept up this life for a few years. She enjoyed her spoiled rotten life. She just goes with the flow, from dinner party to high-tea. She loves the balls the most, to dance with all these lords and sons of lords. She abandoned all her studies, and just lived like a princess. But her perfect world was shattered to pieces when her father announced that he would marry again. Some young bird he picked up from their social circles. Maybel remembered the first years of Rina vividly. She is older now, smarter, so she is not planning to make it Victoria so easy to steal her father away from her.