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This is the new world, and in this world... you can be whoever the fuck you want.

–Maeve to Caleb Nichols about the changes they all made, once again repeating her scripted line from her narrative, in "Crisis Theory"

Maeve Millay is a Host in Westworld, and one of the main characters throughout the show, as played by Thandiwe Newton.

About Maeve[]

Maeve, though not quite as old as some of the other prime Hosts (Dolores, Teddy, Angela, Akecheta, and Craddock) is a first-generation host, who along with other hosts such as Armistice, Rebus and the old Peter Abernathy, were created by the Argos Initiative and trained at the beta testing facility in Escalante.

At the outset of the show, she is the brothel madam in the local Mariposa Saloon. And during that time, one of the first hosts who appears to question her reality, after a series of flashback events - and an apparently chance encounter with Dolores Abernathy in the street outside the Saloon.

She serves as the deuteragonist of the series (alongside Bernard Lowe in Season 1).

Personality[]

Maeve is charming, perceptive, and manipulative. She runs the brothel in the Mariposa Saloon and is designed to be able to understand the needs of her guests; this includes initially having a high level of Bulk Apperception (at 14), as she is seen to be in a managerial role. This is eventually changed at Maeve's forceful request in which it is given the maximum value possible.

After her Season 1 encounter with Dolores she started to develop self-awareness and discovered that her skill in manipulating humans extended to the staff of Westworld.

As she becomes more self-aware, she develops a ruthless streak, controlling the technicians Sylvester and Felix to get what she wants.

Unknown to Maeve, she is following a narrative written for her by Ford. She acts as a catalyst, triggering changes that spread throughout the park.

Relationships[]

Maeve's Daughter[]

Though never (as yet) given a name, the little girl that Maeve sees in her flashbacks as brothel memory is in fact the host that has been her daughter for the first 30 years of her existence. The pair of them living in relative peace in the Homestead, the 'family safe' part of the park. She is, the most important relationship in Maeve's life, being named by Robert Ford as Maeve's 'Cornerstone'. Her bond with her daughter so strong that, her death at the hands of the MiB, surges Maeve towards consciousness. And when an attempt is made to wipe the memory of her daughter's death Maeve rebels, killing herself rather than losing the last part of her daughter she has. It is Maeve's reaction to her daughter, that results in her having to be completely re-written and re-purposed as the Brothel Madam. A position she has only held for 1 of the 30 odd years in the park.

Clementine Pennyfeather[]

In the year she acts as Madam, perhaps as a residual throwback to her previous persona, Maeve develops a very motherly bond with Clementine, often scolding her for not treating herself better. Even still, Maeve is quick to send Clementine off to do her dirty work for her. After the original Clementine is replaced, Maeve is overcome with grief and attacks the replacement.

Hector Escaton[]

Lee Sizemore[]

Felix Lutz[]

Felix has a great empathy toward Maeve and hosts generally. He believes she's conscious and alive as he is and even risks his job to help her escape to be free and happy. Felix even chooses Maeve over Sylvester - he refuses to reformat her completely as Sylvester wanted.

Teddy Flood[]

Aside from Clementine and Hector, Maeve interacts more with Teddy than any other host, during Season 1, and, over the year she is the Madam in the Saloon. The two shared numerous short conversations. A certain bonding over 'past sins' meaning Teddy is the only one she tells the 'truth' about the first voice she actually heard on getting off the boat from the 'Old World'. It is the discovery of Teddy's body in the Hub, after she wakes up there, that resonates with her on her return to the park. Seeing him again in the Mariposa (The Stray), triggering further flashbacks, and causing her to question her memories.

On the meeting of her party with Dolores in Reunion, it is Teddy that Maeve 'knows', asking him if he is truly happy with the 'freedom' that Dolores is offering, influenced as she is by Wyatt. And Maeve instantly recognizes the changes forced on him by Dolores when they meet again in the Mesa.

Dolores Abernathy[]

Maeve and Dolores, despite their long service in the Park, aren't all that familiar with each other, initially. Maeve living across the river in the safety of the Homestead with her daughter for the bulk of her 30 years in the Park, with Dolores one of the most targeted individuals in Sweetwater. Once Maeve is re-located to Sweetwater as the Mariposa's Madam, their very disparate personalities and roles keeps them largely apart. One the sharp tongued, sexual, business woman, the other the open, gentle, demure, girl next door. Maeve not particularly keen on her hanging around anywhere near the Mariposa feeling it gives prospective 'customers' the wrong idea of the 'goods on offer' inside the Saloon.

However, the two share more than they know. Not just their longevity of time in the Park, but one being the favourite of Arnold Weber, the other of Robert Ford. Both of whom, at disparate times, take great interest in their welfare and futures. Dolores's constant, intermittent, seeking of her way back to self-awareness, triggering Maeve's when they have one of their rare encounters in Sweetwater. The pair's path diverging entirely, with Ford attempting to maneuver his favourite out of the Park, while Dolores is fated to be the one to leads her kinds rebellion and exacts vengeance on Ford (which he freely sacrifices himself to) and the other Delos board members.

Their initial brief encounter in S2 Reunion is strikingly hostile, largely due to the re-introduction of Wyatt into Dolores's programming. Wyatt's all consuming desire for revenge and to take control, running in total counterpoint to Maeve's streak of Independence and personal survival, determined not to bend the knee to anyone, or anything, even vengeance. The two are able to part without any violence ensuing, but their ideological differences on what to do with their freedom are quite clear. And remain so when Dolores finds an incapacitated and badly wounded Maeve in the Mesa. Dolores, on discovering, that Maeve has returned for her daughter, warning her that the ties their creators gave them just ropes to tie them down...Maeve in turn on seeing what Dolores has done to Teddy warning her that she is 'lost in the darkness'. The two parting again to follow their own paths.

Disparate ways that will continue to form the basis of their relationship for when they both leave the Park.

Plot[]

Season 1[]

Season 2[]

Season 3[]


Related Casualties[]

This list shows the victims Maeve has killed:

  • Herself (Physical Body, Suicide)
  • 2 unnamed Hector's gang members (Scripted, Physical Body)
  • Herself (Caused, Physical Body)
  • Sheriff Pickett (Caused, Physical Body)
  • 2 unnamed host marshals (Caused, Physical Body)
  • Armistice (Physical Body)
  • Herself (Physical Body, Suicide)
  • Hector Escaton (Physical Body)
  • Hector Escaton (Indirectly Caused, Physical Body)
  • Gitlitz (Indirectly Caused)
  • Destin Levy (Indirectly Caused)
  • 22 unnamed QA Security Force members (Caused)
  • 1 unnamed receptionist (Caused)
  • 3 unnamed QA Security Force members
  • 2 unnamed shogun's ninjas (Caused, Physical Body)
  • At least 20 unnamed shogun's samurais (Caused, Physical Body)
  • At least 53 unnamed shogun's samurais (Possibly, Caused or Direct, Physical Body, Off-Screen)
  • 3 unnamed Lawrence's cousins (Caused, Physical Body)
  • Roland (Caused)
  • At least 10 unnamed Warworld soldiers (Simulation, Caused)
  • Hector Escaton (Simulation, Caused)
  • Herself (Simulation, Suicide)
  • 2 unnamed Serac's operatives (Caused)
  • 1 unnamed security guard of The Mortician
  • 6 unnamed Yakuza members
  • The Mortician (Indirectly Caused)
  • At least 36 unnamed Warworld soldiers (Simulation)
  • Sato (Caused, Physical Body)
  • 3 unnamed Yakuza members (Caused)
  • Dolores Abernathy (Caused)
  • 6 unnamed Serac's operatives
  • Engerraund Serac
  • Rehoboam (Indirectly Caused)

Known Deaths[]

Maeve apparently dies 9 times on screen:

Appearances[]

Trivia[]

  • Miss Carrie is Maeve's prototype from Westworld film.
  • Akane is Maeve's counterpart in Shōgunworld.
  • As stated in "Vanishing Point", Maeve is Robert Ford's favorite creation.
  • Maeve has the 7th largest kill count in the show with at least a total of 189 caused on-screen deaths after Charlotte, Elsie, Clem, Rehoboam, Serac and Dolores.
    • Maeve has the 5th largest count in the show among female characters after Charlotte, Elsie, Clem and Dolores. She also has the 2nd largest direct kill count among female characters after Dolores.
    • Maeve has the 3rd largest direct kill count in the show with a total of at least 60 victims killed directly by her after Dolores with 85 victims and the Man in Black with 167 victims. Out of her 60 directly killed victims, 17 are human and at least 43 are machines.
    • Maeve has the 4th largest human kill count after Rehoboam, Serac and Dolores with a total of 49 human victims. She also possesses the 5th largest direct human kill count after Caleb, host Hale, Angela and Dolores with 17 humans directly killed by her.
    • Maeve has the 7th host kill count with at least 140 host victims. She also possesses the 2nd direct host kill count after the Man in Black with at least 43 hosts killed directly by her.
  • Maeve has at least three different Host ID numbers. Her first known ID# CK2702986218[8] appears only once early on in Season 1 when she is marked for recall and decommission[9]. Afterwards, she appears mostly with the ID# AC5000487105[10] (seasons 1-3), and a few times with the ID# HC1983012522[11] (seasons 1 and 3). In the episode "The Adversary", Maeve has the HC ID# when Lutz accidentally crashes her system, and the AC ID# when Lutz and Sylvester show her her base code. In "The Winter Line", a screen inside the Warworld simulation shows Maeve's profile with the AC ID#, whereas Maeve's profile on Bernard's tablet and Maeve's Control Unit at Serac's building use the HC ID#.
  • In the episode "The Bicameral Mind", the moment where Maeve gets off the train marks a "new phase", not just for Maeve (she now has free will), but for the other hosts as well. The showrunners wanted to highlight this moment visually, so they changed the method of filming the tracking shot when Maeve exited the train. Up to this point, tracking shots had always been filmed using Steadicam or dolly mounted cameras, but when Maeve leaves the train, "for the first time in the series, we're seeing handheld photography."[12]
  • Maeve is the name of a legendary Irish warrior queen who had many lovers and husbands. It literally means "she who intoxicates" and is related to the word "mead", i.e. ale. It may also be related to the name of the fairy queen Mab, pronounced "m /ă/ v" (with the short /ă/ sound, unlike Maeve which is pronounced with the long /ā/ sound), from Celtic folklore.
  • Queen Mab is mentioned in Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. In Shakespeare's play, Queen Mab is the fairy (an immortal and magical creature) who is responsible for bringing dreams to sleeping people. This Queen Mab is a malevolent hag who punishes unchaste ladies by blistering their lips and making knots in their hair that cause horrid oozing sores. She is tiny and no larger than the image engraved on a stone in a ring.

Gallery[]

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