The Grand OC! [CONTEST XXX: HALLOWEEEEEEEEEEN]

Name: Margaret "Maggie" Neison
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Color: A borrowed shade of green

Biography: Maggie was always a well-behaved girl. She ate her vegetables without complaint, always did her homework on time, got plenty of sleep, and was never late for class. She didn't make friends with the wrong crowd, but she did help out a few friends who had problems. She dated a few boys and girls over the years, but it never went further than kissing. She just wasn't ready for more.

Nobody ever thought there was anything wrong with her. There were a few rumors when she suddenly switched her major to psychology that maybe she had a problem she didn't feel comfortable talking about, but Maggie seemed like the same old Maggie so nobody really pressed the point any further.

What she hadn't told anyone was that, for as long as she could remember, Maggie had been facing a recurring nightmare.

Every night, when she went to sleep, Maggie dreamed that she was taken away from home and entered in a battle to the death against seven other strange creatures.

The exact details varied - her opponents, where they were sent to fight, who was running the battle. She did see some of the same opponents and places in more than one dream, and they tend to be reasonably consistent when they show up.

But there was one common element to all the dreams. In every single battle, Maggie died.

Every night, she swears this dream will end differently.

What she doesn't realize is that if she dies this time, she won't be waking up.

Description: Maggie is a good-looking young woman in her early twenties. Although she's very outgoing and well-behaved in the real world, she behaves very differently in a dream. She's initially suspicious of everyone, and has no qualms about killing anyone she considers a threat - after all, they're not real. Even noncombatants are fair game if it's going to keep her alive.

Maggie is convinced that the only way out of the endless nightmare is to win one of the battles, and she'll stop at nothing to do so. She's wary of efforts to turn on the host, because she's already tried that several times, and they all ended in especially painful deaths.

Naturally, she's not likely to seek allies, except to backstab them. That said, if she does decide she needs someone's help, she's not above using her feminine charm to get it.

Weapons and Abilities: Maggie has no particular weapons or special abilities. However, she does remember all her past dreams, and when a round or contestant shows up again, they tend to be pretty consistent with whatever happened in the last dream. Maggie has often used this knowledge to set traps for her opponents or to avoid whatever killed her the last time around.

Maggie is also quite intelligent, so even if faced with an unfamiliar round, she can usually last for a while on her wits alone.