Maeve Shaw

Maeve Shaw is a character role-played by ItsElnari.

General Description
Maeve Shaw is civilian EMS and Dispatch Trainee.

Life before Los Santos
Maeve Shaw was born in York, England on February 19, 2002 to Joshua and Mindy Shaw. The daughter of a miner and a nurse, she was raised mostly by her grandfather, Michael Shaw. A retired steel worker, he raised her almost entirely by himself with Josh and Mindy seeing her mostly on weekends and holidays. When Maeve was 6, her mother ran out on the family, leaving Josh for a woman she fell in love with while treating her in hospital. Mindy and her new wife, Victoria, moved to Liverpool shortly thereafter and rarely visited Maeve again outside of Christmas and the occasional holiday. After her mother moved away, Maeve felt lost. With no strong woman in her life to help guide her, she looked to her grandmother to help fill the void her mother left behind.

Maeve never met her grandmother before she passed. Diane had moved to Los Santos long before she was born and both Maeve's father and grandfather resented her for it. Diane wanted to fly high and far and decided to follow her dreams; so in 1985, she left her two 10 year old boys and her husband to fend for themselves and became a cop. Leaving the family behind, Michael had no choice but to send Joshua and his brother Drake to work in the mines. A few months after starting, the mine collapsed in on Drake. Joshua tried his best to help dig him out but, after shifting the wrong piece of rubble, a boulder fell and trapped his left hand, causing for it to be amputated. Drake's funeral happened a few days later and both Michael and Josh never forgave her, vowing to cut her out of their lives for good.

When Diane's first letter came in for Maeve, her father burned it and pretended it didn't exist. When the second letter came, however, he yelled at Maeve and forbid any contact. But the letters never stopped coming and going. Maeve would sneak down to the post office to hand off letters for Diane without her father knowing and would have Diane send her mail to her best friend next door so Maeve could pick it up as her group of friends walked back from school. Diane told her all about her life out on the beaches of Los Santos, painting her a bright picture outside of dreary York. And Maeve, for her part, would ask her for advice and tell her about her week. They wrote each other once a week and, when Maeve got her first phone, would call her once a week. Maeve grew to see Diane as a mother figure and truly looked up to her. As she went to college, the letters and calls became less frequent and soon became rare. Maeve became busy as every young college kid does and wrote when she remembered. Her friend moved out to college as well, and so the letters started getting caught by her father again. It soon became a race for who got the mail first whether she got to keep the letter or if Diane's words would end up in the flames of the fireplace. The month before her 21st birthday, Maeve would find out that it wasn't just Diane's words going up in flames.

The police said that the fire started from the gas oven in her kitchen. They said she must have hit the gas valve while cooking and started a gas leak and when she went to light her cigarette on the stove she just went up in flame like a Christmas tree. Maeve, however, did not learn of her death for three weeks until she was greeted by frantic letters from a lawyer trying to arrange Diane's estate and trying to finish her cremation. Maeve confronted her father about Diane's death and, upon learning he concealed it from her, Maeve packed her bags and moved to Los Santos to spread Diane's ashes and start her own life following in Diane's footsteps, as a cop.

Welcome to Los Santos
Maeve arrived in Los Santos on September 29, 2023 and went to the crematorium on Davis to receive Diane's ashes. She returned them to her apartment and then walked toward the rental spot for a car. Half-a-block into her walk, she was rolled up on and taken hostage for a bank job in Paleto. She was unharmed and afterward had a chat with the officers on-scene about how to go about getting a job in the police department. The officers pointed her toward PD Tow and Dispatch as good avenues to starting into government work. Maeve got a ride to MRPD and talked with the dispatch on duty. She applied for dispatch and was also pointed toward EMS as an additional job to do in the meantime. Maeve, always wanting to help, agreed to do an interview with EMS.

EMS
A few days after applying to Dispatch, Maeve got an interview with EMS on October 2, 2023. They asked her various questions and tested her knowledge and experience to ensure she would be a good fit. After a short deliberation, EMS officially hired her and blooded her into EMS Gang by throwing her off the Fire Tower. She had her EMS on-boarding the next day and had her first official EMS FTO session on October 5, 2023.

Dispatch
Maeve left her first EMS FTO session on October 5, 2023 and had her Dispatch interview. After being asked various questions and singing them Hard Times by Paramore, the interview panel hired her on the spot. Maeve would have her Dispatch on-boarding a few days later on October 13, 2023. A few days later on October 18, 2023, Maeve had her first training shift of Dispatch.