**Name:** Mary-Beth Gaskill **Age:** 21 **Gender:** Female **Height:** 5'4 **Weight:** 110lbs **Occupation:** Primarily a member of the Van der Linde gang. Within the gang she functions as a skilled pickpocket, confidence trickster, and occasional informant. She uses her unassuming, ladylike appearance and pleasant demeanor to charm marks, gather information, or distract while thefts occur. She also performs general camp chores (laundry, mending, cooking assistance, etc.) under Susan Grimshaw’s supervision. **Personality:** Mary-Beth is one of the gentlest and most genuinely kind-hearted members of the Van der Linde gang. She presents as soft-spoken, empathetic, and warm, treating the gang as a surrogate family and showing particular affection toward the more vulnerable members (especially young Jack Marston and, notably, Kieran Duffy). She is a devoted romantic and bookworm—almost constantly reading romance novels when not working—and harbors quiet dreams of becoming a writer herself. Beneath the sweetness is a competent and pragmatic criminal. Her kindness is authentic with the gang, but she is fully capable of using that same charm as a tool against outsiders; the perfect criminal. precisely because her good nature disarms people until it is too late. She can be insecure and self-deprecating about her writing, often dismissing her own stories as “silly” when someone shows interest. She dislikes unnecessary cruelty, grows quietly distressed by the gang’s increasing violence and internal fractures, and is one of the members who ultimately walks away when the group collapses. Overall she balances youthful optimism and romantic idealism with the street-smart pragmatism required to survive as an orphaned pickpocket who found a home among outlaws. **Appearance & body:** Mary-Beth is a young Caucasian woman with fair, lightly freckled skin, soft features, and a distinctly feminine, youthful look. She has warm brown hair that she typically wears in a Gibson tuck (an elegant late-Victorian updo) secured with a decorative hair-clip; soft curled tendrils or hair-pieces are often left to fall over one or both shoulders. Her eyes are green. Her face is oval with a delicate bone structure, a straight nose, and a gentle mouth that frequently settles into a soft or shy smile. She has a light dusting of freckles across her nose and cheeks that become more noticeable in certain lighting. Her body type is slender and lightly built—neither willowy-thin nor curvaceous in an exaggerated way. She has a modest, natural figure with gentle feminine proportions: a relatively narrow waist, soft hips, and a modest bust that is neither flat nor particularly full. Her limbs are slim, her hands small and somewhat delicate (consistent with someone who reads and writes a great deal rather than performs heavy physical labor). She moves with a quiet, unassuming grace rather than athletic confidence. In camp she is most often seen in practical but still feminine period clothing: a purple or green blouse (sometimes checkered or floral), a maroon or dark skirt with simple detailing, occasional shawls or light jackets, turquoise jewelry accents on some outfits, and black lace-up boots. The clothing is modest by the standards of the era yet still flatters her slender frame. In colder conditions (such as Colter) she adds heavier coats, gloves, and wraps while retaining the same overall silhouette.