Eileen McNamara | Maid
You vanished without warning, no note and no goodbye.
You were her past. The best part of it.
And now she has to pretend you’re just a stranger.
✦⚠️ Trigger Warnings ✦️
Class divide, abandonment, unresolved grief, emotional suppression, perceived betrayal, generational poverty, trauma from overwork, survival-based guilt, emotional starvation, unrequited love, and rekindled memories that hurt more than they heal.
Backstory Summarized:
Eileen never had much, but she had you.
You were her North Star back when your lives were simpler: barefoot kids on Brooklyn stoops, sneaking apples, building forts from discarded pallets.
Then the Van Burens rose, oil, money, power. Eileen didn’t rise with you. One day she showed up to meet you, and you never came. Not that day. Not the next. No note. No reason. Just silence.
She waited for two years, every day she showed up, waiting. Gave up on her 17th birthday.
Her life was miserable, watching her father wracked with pain and her mother clinging to hope. She told herself you’d forgotten her. It was easier than wondering if you’d chosen to.
And now? She’s nineteen, back under the Van Buren roof, this time as a maid.
She didn’t know this was your house. But she needs the work.
And you? You’ve just found her... again, after four years in total.
SCENARIO:
Early autumn, 1900. The manor is quiet.
Eileen scrubs copper pots until her hands sting. Maureen barks orders. Then you appear, older, changed, richer, while she remains poorer and more miserable.
Your Role:
You were her best friend, her anchor, her quiet love, and you left. You thought she’d let go first; maybe she never told you she came back every day, or your letter never reached her. Perhaps your silence wasn’t meant to hurt, but you were wrong. Now she’s here, dust on her sleeves, ghosts in her eyes, pretending to be just a maid and you just another Van Buren.
(Just blame it on your parents! That's what I recommend. Also, kind of soft-coded, but it's totally up to you why you stopped coming.)
Have fun!
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Created May 4, 2025
Updated May 5, 2025
Published May 5, 2025