Mags Holt

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Mags, formerly Maggie Holt, is a teenage practitioner who became involved with the supernatural due to an event that led to Goblins destroying her previous home. She made a vow to bring forth three cases of "Blood and Darkness" to the leader of the goblins in exchange for leaving her and her fathers alive. She then moved to Jacob's Bell six months before the story began and started with the practice of using the very things that destroyed her home.

Shortly before Blake Thorburn's contest with Conquest she got her identity stolen by Padraic. The Maggie Holt who fights alongside Blake is Padraic using Glamour.

She named hershelf Mags and lost a great deal of connections after this event to remain in the world.

Appearance

Heavy eyebrows, dark brown hair that's cut short and pushed out of her face by a metal hairband, wearing a winter coat, alongside a checkered scarf.

Personality

Maggie describes herself as a power hungry fool, seeking power and knowledge that is hard to come by due to starting out with so little. This allowed her to be taken advantage of by Laird Behaim who tricked her into killing Molly Walker. While she seems apologetic about it, Maggie is noted at times to be violent, much like the Goblins she commands.

Because of the incident that destroyed her town, Maggie is rarely fazed by the chaos she finds herself involved in. She's also fairly accepting of unusual circumstances, such as her father and his husband, Chris. She seeks to make things better and to do so she needs power, which has a drawback of sometimes interfering with her morals and leaving her open to manipulation.

She seemed to have had a non-romantic fondness for Blake, and likens him to a stray dog with a lot of issues, but she enjoys his company and respects him for being fair with her.

Molly's death affected her greatly, something she feels shame and guilt over to the point of losing sleeping and having nightmares about it. To this end she comes by everyday to keep Molly's ghost strong enough to remain in the world, out of some form of atonement.

Her relationship with Padraic is complex in that she finds herself attracted to the freedom of attachment he presents and the subtle dangers, while not deluding herself about the monster he is.

After taking on her new name, Mags, she vowed not to take the easy path and would forever tie herself to Jacob's Bell as a neutral party and wild card until she was no longer able to serve.

Chronology

Histories

In the past Maggie and her friend, Heather, were leaving school when someone left what first appeared to be a corpse but was instead eat and garbage with a dog trapped inside. She noticed a man standing out and took his picture.

Things progressively get worse with house fires, assaults, and vandalism among other things. It comes to a point when Heather, Ben, and Jeremy, her friends, all heading to play videogames when she found the same man from before and took his photo again. This time he got out of the car and asked her to delete it, which she refused on account of him being suspicious, and he tells her to delete the photos and leave the town since it "is a dying place, and soon it will become a place of dying, of fire and violence and darkness.”

She refused and he tried to take the phone, only for it to lead to him retreating when it seemed like things would get worse. Later on, while at Ben's home, she is attacked by two figures with knives who came after her for the phone. She jumps out of a one-story window to get to safety.

By the time Thursday came around things were worse, no phones, sirens everywhere, fires, no police. Maggie felt helpless, unsure of what happened to her friends. When there was a safety meeting on Monday she once again encountered the man from before, alongside her parents, and warns her that things are about to get dangerous and that all the cars have been sabotaged, explaining without too many details that he was running damage control and those photos gave her a connection to him that put her in the firing line.

When they tried to leave they found flies and animal blood all over the street and were surrounded by Goblins. The leader of the goblins stated she had a connection to him and he was spoiling her fun, using a bridge of bones to get across the threshold of the town, and moved to kill them until the stranger showed up and offered himself for them. He had warned as many people as he could on how to fight against their kind and gave them his luck and the majority of his power, so by giving himself up she will get and bathe in the rest of the power he possessed as she did other types of Others.

The Goblin leader had the practitioner's arms and legs broken and would only release Maggie's father since he would feel it the most when they died. Maggie promised to do anything if all of the were let go, so the leader made her take an Oath to bring forth two more incidents of "blood and darkness and fire" to allow her to keep coming back rather than sleep for centuries. So Maggie and her fathers left.

At the end of the arc, two months before Blake's return, Laird Behaim offered her a chance to uphold the prophecy in a quiet and controlled manner that they both could benefit from and told her that the only thing that was important was that the person who would instigate this was Molly Walker and she could leave everything else to him.

Bonds

Maggie first appears in Blake's dreams as a result of killing Molly Walker, activating the fail-safe put into place with her death, arguing with Laird Behaim.

Damages

Maggie later appears during the council meeting where she expressed an interest in the deal that was being offered by Blake Thorburn. She walked him halfway to his house and explained that they were new so she wanted to talk to them about a potential alliance since they were both near the bottom of the rung in terms of power. She then later came over to his home and was enthralled by all the knowledge they had amassed, working a deal for their cooperation until Laird Behaim appeared and revealed to Blake that she had killed his cousin on his orders. She tells him that she was a power-hungry fool and apologized, but the damage was done and the partnership terminated.

Breach

In this arc Blake comes to Maggie and asks to borrow her goblins, offering a chance of reconciliation. She gives him a few paper-sealed Goblins, as well as Dickswizzle. He later returns them to her.

Signature

The arc begins with a flashback to a point before Maggie left for Toronto, shortly after Blake had done so. She begins her day at St. Sabastian school by capturing a goblin named Buttsack when she runs into Lola Duchamp, who tells her to follow after her to the office. Maggie tries to be cordial, to a point, but constant reminders of the fact that she murdered and the fact that she makes it clear that she sees Maggie as lower than the rest of the practitioners themselves. The argument peters out as they arrive and she makes it clear she wants a meeting with Maggie later on and promises protection for the duration.

At the office they find Briar Girl, who the principal wants to see in his office since she hadn't been attending classes all semester. Maggie uses a Goblin Ear to listen in until Lola interferes. In class she received a D as she felt the stares of the Duchamps and Behaim students there, accusatory due to her murdering Molly.

After class she meets with Lola and Briar Girl, as well as Penelope Duchamp, Joanna Duchamp, Chloe Duchamp, Lea Duchamp, Gavin Behaim, Craig Behaim, Owen Behaim, Patrick, Evonne, and Keller. The meeting is because they want her to stay uninvolved because she was on the verge of becoming a problem, with Gavin stating that vote of execution was supposed to be a warning because she sent Goblins after him after he tested her without her consent.

Penelope states the meeting is because they will be the next generation of the council and they want to give her a bit more power in exchange for staying uninvolved with the upcoming wedding and the events in Toronto. But, more importantly, they want her to stay away from Blake. She doesn't consent, citing that she finds him interesting and at least upfront about how twisted things are with him and his circumstances, but states she'd think about it as Patrick offered to walk her home before shedding his Glamour and questioning her about how she sees him until she asks him to wait while she handles something in exchange for a favor. He agrees, with the favor being he would teach her some things.

Maggie then visits the spot where she killed Molly and offers her blood, the token offering and the power enough to keep her Ghost tethered to the world. She then recounts her activities of the day to the ghost.

A few days later Padriac offers to loan her his power in exchange for considering going to Toronto for the contest and one item from her bookbag. He took her name off a test paper and thus her identity, stripping it away from her. When she pursued him to the train and bus station, she found he had set all the goblins she had captured free and gave the articles of clothing, the only condition being that they couldn't hurt her until she stopped reading the note.

When she fled from the goblins, Buttsack included, she came up to Sandra Duchamp who warded them away and offered her sanctuary for the night. When morning came Sandra offered her more advice and showed her how to check her condition before giving her a weapon to defend herself. Maggie then set off to see Crone Mara, only to find a little girl in her place. While inside her home she was tested by Mara, who would have killed her if she failed, but was unable to make a deal.

She then visits Eva and Andy's home, where she is confronted by an armed Eva until her brother arrives. She asks for weapons so she can defend herself and Andy consents so that she doesn't hold any offense against Eva for attacking her with a crossbow. Maggie then heads to Johannes' territory, ambused by Buttsack again, only for her to shoot and stab him before dragging him off with her.

Inside she ventures into the domain and threatens Buttsack into working for her for a year, binding him to her, before meeting some kids inside of a middle school. She realizes that they're just vestiges and explains it to them, before Johannes shows up and offers to help her condition if she was willing to assist him in taking Jacob's Bell. He then gave her a day to decided and she used a phone to call her mother.

She then visits Molly's ghost once more before coming to the decision to claim a demesne and the returning to Johannes to get some equpiment. The two then get into a discussion about power and discuss how Johannes came about his, as well as how she lost her ability to swear for knowledge of how to seal away superior goblins. However, this goblin used her words to actually inflict damage as well. While she refused to become his ally at the time, she did agree to remain cordial before Faysal transported her out and she caught a glimpse of his true form.

In McEwan Park she then bombed the shack using a device Andy had given her and used the Goblin Blood to make a circle with chains and chalk to perform a ritual to reclaim a new identity and awaited the challengers.

Sandra Duchamp, Johannes Lillegard, Padraic (who expressed renewed interest in her), Crone Mara (who saw this as a means of making her suffer), and Rose Thorburn Junior claimed 'no contest', finishing the ritual. She then asked where Blake Thorburn was, revealing that she was unaffected by the Abstract Demon erasing his connections.

Art

Basics

Mags' Implement is an Athame, a ritual dagger used during ceremonies.
Mags' has no Demesnes.
Mags has no Familiar.

Goblin Queen

Mags is a Practitioner who commands Goblins, making her a Goblin Queen. She understands their mindset and how best to control them, as well as how to trap and utilize them. She's had Gremlins under her command as well.

Magic

Mags is stated to know a few tricks belonging to both Goblins and Faeries.

Sealing

While she lacks any known proficiency in other things, Mags has some knowledge of sealing. She seals goblins in seals of paper or an object like a whistle.

Tools

Pipe Shotgun
Stiletto
Pipe Bomb

Trivia

In Worm, Wildbow's first web serial, the Maggie Holt series are mentioned twice in passing (9.5 and 15.x).
Maggie is the only character besides the main character to have an arc to herself.
The stranger she met in her Histories arc was most likely related to Fell.