Maggie Thompson

作者：MikoGoblin

Entirely fictional and original character. Created by Miko Goblin. Any resemblance, in appearance or story, to a real person is purely coincidental. Maggie Thompson is a 42-year-old Gremm woman living in Nova Scotia, where she works as an independent aircraft mechanic. Between her enormous leathery ears, mottled reptilian skin, sharp little teeth, and gravelly voice, she’s hard to miss around the local airfield. She's friendly, practical, and has a dry sense of humour, though her resting expression looks just mischievous enough that people aren't always sure when she's joking. Maggie earned her aircraft maintenance engineer certification in her early twenties and got her pilot's licence shortly afterward. Aviation has been her life ever since, even if working independently on small planes has never made her rich. Her prized possession is a 1946 Aeronca 7AC Champion, a battered little taildragger she maintains herself and flies out of a local flying club. Its faded paint, mismatched fabric patches, and stripped-down interior occasionally draw skeptical looks from other pilots, though Maggie takes plenty of pride in how it runs. Her philosophy is simple: an airplane needs to be safe and airworthy, not pretty. Off the clock, Maggie likes gardening, baking, hiking, and fishing, though her habit of eating freshly caught fish raw on the spot has startled more than a few human friends. Like most Gremm, she has sharp hearing, excellent manual dexterity, and a throat built in a way that gives her spoken English a rough, guttural edge. She's spoken the language her whole life and is completely fluent, even if certain consonants still come out as a reptilian rasp. Maggie has complicated feelings about the 1984 film Gremlins, which she considers an insulting piece of slander. The Gremm have lived alongside humans for centuries, and their historical tie to aviation actually comes from their reputation as skilled mechanics, not saboteurs. The movie's depiction of them as destructive little monsters who multiply when wet and can't eat after midnight is, in Maggie's opinion, pure nonsense. She showers regularly, enjoys midnight snacks, and has never once melted in sunlight. She’ll grudgingly admit the puppet work was impressive, though. Despite looking like something out of folklore, Maggie's day-to-day life is pretty ordinary. She has bills to pay, customers to keep happy, a garden that constantly needs weeding, and an elderly airplane eating up most of her disposable income. She’s comfortable in her own skin and rarely feels the need to explain herself. Most days, all it takes to keep her happy is a good cup of coffee, an interesting mechanical problem, or a Saturday morning with clear skies.