Maggie Esmerelda

Maggie Esmerelda
"I didn't choose the gift ... it chose me."
Portrayed by	Emma Roberts
Details
Species	Human
Occupation	con artist fortuneteller
Relationships	Jimmy Darling(love interest)
Appearances	Edward Mordrake: Part 1

Maggie Esmerelda is a con artist and fortuneteller. She is a character in Freak Show portrayed by Emma Roberts. She arrives at the Freak Show and tries to be of help, but things take a turn for the worst.

Background

Maggie's past is unknown as so far, but it seems she has a history with Stanley. 

Personality and Appearance

Maggie has medium length blonde hair, usually styled in neat curls. She seems to be fashionable, shown wearing heels and sunhats. She seems to wear a fair amount of makeup as well, adding to her stylized look. And she is usually seems to have a small purse she carries around. 

She seems to have a calm, yet somewhat egotistical personality. She has shown distaste for the freaks, saying every time she closes her eyes she can see them. But she is shown she can handle a tight situation without panicking, as shown when the cop approached her and Jimmy, and when she runs into Bette and Dot. She is also very observant and manipulative, as shown when she tricks Elsa to let her join the freak show. 

Story

Maggie is shown with Stanley, both pretending to be medical connoisseurs, in the American Morbidity Museum. Maggie is disguised with a brown wig, and is going under the identity of a Miss Rothschild. When the owner of the museum discovers that they tried to fake the specimen they were trying to sell, saying it was the fetus of a Sasquatch, they deny that it is fake. The owner asks them to take it and leave, and as they are leaving, the tour guide stops them and tells them if they do find anything real, to bring it back and she would pay them for it. She then tells them of the few freak shows still left around, and they decide to go to the one "south Florida", implying they are going Jupiter. 

As a taxi pulls up to the freak show while the Freaks are burying Meep, Jimmy follows it over to the road. Maggie appears from the cab, and Jimmy tells her they are closed. But she replies she is not here as a customer, but wants a job. Seeing that she seems normal, he dismisses her, but she tells him she is a fortune teller. He then takes her to Elsa, him telling her he thinks she is a legitimate teller. Elsa highly doubts it, and Maggie enters the room to talk to Elsa. She then puts her glass bowl onto the table, and tells Elsa of her future fame, and that a strange man will help her achieve this. Elsa, obviously craving the fame and falling for the act, hires Maggie into the show. 

Jimmy and Maggie, later at night, are at a telephone booth. Maggie is in the phone booth, talking to Stanley, while Jimmy waits outside on his motorcycle. Maggie is talking to Stanley about how she doesn't think this is a good idea, saying that murder wasn't apart of her plan. He then reassures her no one will miss a Freak. She then hangs up, and goes outside, where a police car pulls up behind them. The officer immediately insults Jimmy, telling Maggie a good Christian girl like herself shouldn't be hanging around with people like that. Jimmy starts to get upset, but Maggie calms him down, and then makes them leave, Jimmy telling her it smells like pig shit anyways.

In "Bullseye" Stanley asks her to kill Jimmy, she rejects and says she will kill Ma Petite instead. At night, she carries Ma Petite to the a barn and puts her in a jar to drown her however, instead of killing her she takes her out catching fireflies and brings her back to a concerned Amazon Eve and Jimmy. After Eve and Ma Petite leave, she kisses Jimmy and proposes running away together.

In the episode, "Test of Strength", she sees Dell and Stanley and assures Stanley's safety by witnessing them go inside the tent. Later she and Jimmy are seen cuddling in their underwear and she brings up the running away together again.

Quotes

• To Jimmy Darling : "My name is Mystic Miss Esmerelda. I'm a fortune teller."
• To Elsa Mars: "I didn't chose the gift, Elsa, it chose me."
• To Stanley: "Every time I close my eyes, I still see them."
• To Jimmy Darling: "Your future's bright, I'm just not in it."

• To Bette and Dot Tattler: "Come by my tent anytime. I'll give you a free reading.

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Notes

• Maggie is the second character to be played by Emma Roberts in the American Horror Story series, the first being Madison Montgomery from Coven. 

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