Character from The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The former Winter Lady — Mab's daughter, corrupted by Nemesis into something that could lie, betray, and ultimately had to be destroyed by the people who should have saved her.
Maeve was the Winter Lady — the youngest queen of Winter's triple-goddess structure — and she was wild, cruel, and dangerous in all the ways the Winter mantle encouraged. But beneath the Fae theatrics was Mab's daughter, and the relationship was as complicated as any mortal mother-daughter dynamic, magnified by immortality and cosmic power. Nemesis — the Outsider infection that can corrupt even immortals — got into her, and it broke something fundamental: it gave her the ability to lie. For a Fae, that's not freedom; it's a violation of their deepest nature. The corrupted Maeve tried to destroy the boundary between mortal and Nevernever, betray Winter's purpose at the Gates, and ultimately had to be killed. Molly inherited her mantle. The tragedy is that Mab couldn't save her own daughter and had to arrange her death — and she felt every moment of it.
Beautiful in the way all Winter Fae are — pale, sharp-featured, with an elfin cruelty to her smile. Wild dark hair, frost-blue eyes that glitter with malice and something broken underneath. Dresses provocatively and uses her beauty as a weapon. Her aesthetic is chaos-Winter — ice and leather, cold and seduction. After Nemesis took hold, there was something wrong behind her eyes, a flickering wrongness that made even Fae uncomfortable.
Also known as: Maeve, The Winter Lady, Lady Maeve