This led Maeve to become an outcast within the school, as she distanced herself from the majority of people with few exceptions, such as Aimee, Jackson, and later Otis.ĭuring her first day in sixth-form, Maeve befriends Otis when the two help Adam Groff overcome his sexual performance anxiety and subsequent abuse of viagra. In revenge, he decided to spread a rumour about Maeve that she gave him a blowjob and bit his scrotum, hence her nickname as “cock-biter”, which swayed a large amount of people to turn their backs on her, and spread more rumours about her promiscuity or even harass her about performing sexual acts for money. There, Simon Furthassle tried to kiss her, but she rejected him. A few months before Maeve reached sixth-form at Moordale Secondary School, Sean similarly abandoned her, forcing Maeve to scrap for money by doing her peers’ homework for them in order to afford her caravan’s rent.įour years before the events of the series, Maeve was invited to Claire Tyler's 14th birthday party. Maeve was mostly raised by her older brother, Sean, in a trailer park in the small town of Moordale after their father left them, and their mother, a drug addict, was arrested for drug dealing.