MaoMao

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MaoMao (猫猫マオマオ, Maomao?) is the main protagonist of The Apothecary Diaries series. She is the illegitimate daughter of the La Clan and was raised in the red-light district. One day, she got kidnapped and sold by bandits, and she suddenly found herself as a servant in the Imperial Palace of Li, where she used her sense of practicality, keen deductions, and insightful knowledge of herbs and illnesses to solve the mysterious problems within the Inner and Outer Courts.

Maomao is a young girl who stands relatively short in height and possesses a petite frame. She has blue eyes and dark forest green hair, which is typically tied up and sectioned with a light blue ribbon that holds a portion of her hair back, whereas two strands of hair can be seen framing her face and are adorned with 2 beads each; the top one being red and the bottom one being sky blue. The bandage wrap seen on her left forearm hides the number of self-inflicted scars from where she had tested upon herself when experimenting with remedies and poisons.

Maomao's main outfit consists of an aoqun hanfu with a light green top and a long, burgundy skirt. The inner robe in her top is white, while the collar of her light green robe is both pale and dark green. She also wears a pair of dark green flats to accompany this outfit.

In essence of her usual wear, Maomao prefers to wear more simple and practical garments and will otherwise avoid wearing elaborate outfits and makeup unless the opportunity for her to do so arises, giving those the impression she dresses rather plainly. Despite avoiding makeup, she frequently paints freckles using clay around the bridge of her nose.

Maomao's approach to life is very practical, focused on learning to survive and thrive in whatever way her environment demands her to. She is rarely tricked or charmed by others: she is one of the few to be unaffected by Jinshi's beauty and charm. Her mindset has helped her come to terms with matters that many would find scarring; for example, she considers her near-rape, and later her kidnapping enraging situations, but also as inevitabilities of living in the red-light district. She is a very pragmatic individual who is well aware of her position in the world as someone with no status who can be considered expendable at a moment's notice. She often follows commands without outward protest and forces herself to not acknowledge (and even withhold) significant events she had witnessed in the Imperial Palace as a form of self-preservation, such as the truth behind the illness of Gyokuyou's daughter, Lishu's harassment by her ladies-in-waiting, or that Jinshi is not in fact the Emperor's brother but is in fact his son by Ah-Duo, as she is well aware that her status as a commoner means that she is easily expandable if it means to protect a noble and that her words might get someone killed. In part because of her own self-preserving attitude, she finds people who will help others to their own detriment painful to watch.

Despite her pragmatism, Maomao's insatiable curiosity often leads her to involve herself in the problems of others. It is also implied that she has a strong sense of justice, empathy, and compassion, which makes it very hard for her to ignore misdeeds and injustice once she has witnessed them. She is well-equipped to expertly navigate the inner palace, which she herself notes is more or less the same as the red light district she was raised in. She is sharp-witted, calm and mature enough to know how to read people and situations, and how to placate or intimidate aggressive colleagues or superiors without making them direct their ire at her.