Mae Borowski

OOC

Name: Kasu
Plurk: kaosblaze
Age: 24
Current Roster: N/A

IC

Name: Margaret "Mae" Borowski
Canon: Night in the Woods
Canon Point: After the first divergent event (Ft. Lucenne or "Crimes") and her first musician's nightmare

Canon reference: NITW Wikia

Details: Mae Borowski is a mess.

Okay, that's probably not enough to describe her. Mae Borowski is a 20-year old college dropout who is also a cat, a complete mess of a young adult that tries to hide her declining mental health with enthusiasm, sarcasm, and confidence. While back in her hometown of Possum Springs, she does her best to try and reconnect with her family and friends, while dealing with unexplained nightmares, a cult conspiracy, and meetings with eldritch beings that are either supernatural or hallucinations. It's not super clear.

While back in Possum Springs, Mae shows a surprising athletic ability, being able to jump onto roofs and balance on tightropes/power lines with minimal effort, and showing some competence with a baseball bat as a weapon. She's also pretty musically talented (until that gets taken away by Gacha Hell), playing bass with her friends in a garage band.

So, to reiterate, Mae Borowski is a giant mess. Her relationships are falling apart, her one home sanctuary is changing before her eyes, all her friends are moving away (and maybe one is dead???), her parents are crumbling under the financial stress of her constant screw ups, and she's not emotionally ready enough to face her insecurities when they're rushing at her head on. Most of the game involves trying (and failing) to distract herself from her issues, still acting like a high schooler even though she's 20 years old, and dragging everybody down with her to try and make herself feel better. Surely, she'll do great in Gacha Hell.

Memory Loss Level: Minimum

Regains:
Baseball Bat (Item) - It's a baseball bat. You can smash windows, cars, fluorescent lightbulbs, or menacing statues with it.

Bass Guitar (Item) - A shitty beat-up well-loved electric bass, all strung up and ready to go. Amps and ability not included.

Shitty Laptop (Item) - A modern-day laptop that looks like it's seen better days. It has Demontower Part IV: Slaughter of the Blood Thief loaded on it, but also a ton of viruses and adware. Maybe you should see someone who can clean it up.

Witchdagger Outfit (Item) - An old Halloween costume that consists of a red cloak and a red pointed hat with a star on it... and a fake plastic dagger stuck through the top. It's meant to be intimidating but it just kinda looks silly. Hopefully, you can make it work.

Animatronic Frog Head (Item) - The head of an old grocery store mascot costume. It's decaying and the wires are frayed. This thing is creepy...

An Arm (Item) - An actual right arm severed at the shoulder. It's not bloody or anything. There's a diamond tattoo on the wrist. Why do you have this?

Bassist (Ability) - Congratulations, you can now be the most underrated member in a garage band. Electric bass not included.

"A Night in the Woods" (Memory) - This memory is of a party that you forced coerced your former best friend to drive you to in the middle of the woods, where a bunch of shitty college-age losers hung out and got drunk on watered down beer. You vaguely remember getting up on a tree stump and humiliating yourself in front of everybody. And also getting completely, completely wasted.

"Bandit Queens of Fort Lucenne" (Memory) - This memory is of you and your best friend from school, Bea Santello (who is an alligator), wandering into the Fort Lucenne mall years after ever having been there, stealing (and then un-stealing) a belt buckle from a Hot Topic-a-like, and then messing with the central fountain display to douse unfortunate passersby with water while jokingly proclaiming yourself a god.

"Crimes? Crimes." (Memory) - This memory is of you and your best friend from school, Gregg Lee (who is a fox), breaking into an abandoned grocery store with that asshole Steve Scriggins (who can eat your ENTIRE ASS) to pilfer an old abandoned animatronic frog head from the back room. You have no idea where that frog head ended up.

"Die Anywhere Else" (Memory) - This memory is of you and your old band getting together after you came back home from dropping out of college and doing a pretty competent job of jamming even though you didn't know the song.

SPOILERS - "The Incident" (Memory) - Back in high school, there was a moment where something... snapped. Hard. On the softball field, while you and your classmates were just playing around, everything around you dissolved into shapes. This had happened once before, but it wasn't this bad. When everything stopped just being shapes, you were on the ground beating Andy Cullen into the dirt with a baseball bat. You had to be pulled off of him and restrained, and that got you a few things: the nickname "Killer", a journaling assignment from Dr. Hank, and life-long disrespect from the citizens of Possum Springs.

SPOILERS - "Dropout" (Memory) - There's a reason why you left college so early. The journal that Dr. Hank gave you for your dissociative episodes weren't keeping you grounded anymore. You weren't making friends; you were reduced to staying in your dorm room, skipping classes, and drinking cough syrup to try to numb the pain. Everything was turning into shapes, dead shapes that meant nothing to you, especially the statue of the founder of the college. It always pointed down at you, taunted you, stared at you through your window. The whole reason you went back to Possum Springs is because you couldn't take it anymore.


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