Laurel Gates

Character from Wednesday by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar

Nevermore's botany teacher — except she's not. She's the last Gates, hiding behind a fake name and a pleasant smile, engineering the destruction of outcasts using a Hyde she controls and a dead pilgrim she plans to resurrect.

Also known as: Laurel Gates, Marilyn Thornhill, Ms. Thornhill, Laurel

What They Know

• Last surviving member of the Gates family — Jericho's founding family with a centuries-old vendetta against outcasts
• Infiltrated Nevermore as normie botany teacher 'Marilyn Thornhill' — her cover was maintained for years without detection
• Activated and controlled Tyler Galpin's Hyde using nightshade-derived compounds — directed his kills as part of her larger plan
• Planned to resurrect Joseph Crackstone using an occult ritual to complete the pilgrim's original mission: exterminating outcasts
• Killed Principal Weems via poison injection when Weems discovered her true identity
• Her brother Garrett Gates was killed at Nevermore years ago — the event that Gomez was accused of, which connects the past mystery to the present one

Connections

• controls — tyler
• killed — weems
• resurrects — crackstone
• nemesis_of — wednesday
• infiltrated — nevermore
• sibling_of — garrett_gates

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