History

The People’s Princess

Brooke was born on May 10, 1999, to Quinn and Monica Maddox, in Lakewood. Quinn, at this point, was serving on the Lakewood town council, having won a decisive victory in the 1994 midterm elections in the immediate aftermath of the Brandon James killings.

The Maddoxes lived in a lakefront mansion that was built on the foundation of the plantation house Quinn’s great-great grandfather had built over 150 years previously. Despite this posh atmosphere, Brooke’s home life was acrimonious, and she was exposed at an early age to the realities of her parents’ fraying marriage, often being kept up at night by their arguing.

Despite this, Quinn and Monica were enamored of their daughter and showered her with gifts and whatever affection they could manage. Monica got Brooke a kitten for her fifth birthday but Brooke, not good with animals, lost it shortly after in what became an early shock to her system, informing a later complex that she didn’t have what it took to look after living things.

Quinn made various efforts to ingratiate Brooke with the “right” type of people. He enrolled her in an exclusive playgroup before she started school, intending that she befriend the children of other high profile local families, including Terrance Smith, the son of Quinn’s best friend (and most enthusiastic booster) Fitz Ulick Kasper Smith. Despite these efforts, Brooke didn’t click with Terrance and found her first friends elsewhere.

When Brooke was a toddler, the overwhelmed Monica sought out an au pair for her daughter, and found one in the form of Adeline Belmont, a farmwife who, with her husband Clint, maintained a sizable tract of land outside town. Monica was impressed enough by Adeline’s services that she recommended them to Carmen Fitzgerald, a friend of hers whose high-powered job as the head of a boutique fashion label left her with little time to look after her young son Jake.

Brooke, Jake, and the Belmonts’ son Will spent long summers on the farm, forging a close bond. Brooke, a girls’ girl in most aspects of her life, nonetheless derived an undisguised glee from bossing around the two boys, who she came to see as rambunctious, occasionally irritating brothers. Adeline Belmont likewise became a surrogate mother figure for Brooke, as Monica’s presence in her life shrank.

Among Brooke’s childhood adventures with Will and Jake was an incident wherein the boys soiled one of Brooke’s Prada tops with her own makeup. Jake attempted to machine wash the damage away, oblivious to the fact that the top was line dry only. Will had a crisis of conscience and confessed the truth to Brooke, who was not above bringing this up to Jake years later in service of a point.¹

Daddy’s Little Girl

Throughout Brooke’s childhood, Monica suffered from substance abuse issues, which worsened as the years passed, necessitating she spend increasingly long stints of time at luxury rehab facilities on Quinn’s dollar. By the time Brooke was in middle school, her mother was rarely home, and Brooke had become accustomed to going months without so much as a phone call.

Brooke’s relationship with her father became tumultuous as a result. In the spring of 2011, Quinn launched a much-anticipated campaign for mayor. Brooke, already feeling neglected by her father, saw this escalation of his political ambitions as a vanity project.

Tensions boiled over in the immediate wake of Quinn’s campaign launch, and Brooke ran away from home. She didn’t get far and had no delusions about roughing it, instead checking into her mother’s standing suite at the New Orleans Ritz, where she remained until the maid she’d tipped to keep quiet alerted her father to come collect her.

Brooke eventually mellowed out on her father’s campaign, and even became grudgingly supportive of it, helping Quinn with debate prep in the weeks leading up to Election Day. Quinn went on to secure the mayorship, winning in a landslide. Quinn’s victory would be the last truly happy time between father and daughter, and Brooke’s emotional estrangement from her father returned in full force as he became consumed by the duties of his new office.

This alienation from her father, compounded by the unique privilege afforded both by her family’s wealth and Quinn’s position, contributed to Brooke’s desire to grow up quickly. She began reinventing herself in middle school, projecting an image of herself as a mature young woman instead of a child. This reinvention led to certain reckless choices: she began drinking at the age of 14, and began admiring the catty, often cruel behavior of older, popular girls in her orbit, especially Nina Patterson, who was in the year ahead of her in school and had cultivated a reputation as a mean queen.

Emulating Nina, Brooke became something of a bully herself, deploying crude, catty comments at soft, acceptable targets like Noah Foster, a nerdy boy in her class. At Garfield Middle School’s seventh grade dance, Brooke and Nina were among several people who taunted Noah over local gossip about his father eloping with a waitress.

Queen in Waiting

Brooke started high school fully intending to become the next Nina Patterson. This campaign wasn’t perfect and had several false starts, but in the process, Brooke began building a friend group of her own, becoming close with Riley Marra, a transfer student, and with Zach Henderson, a rising star on the football team whose father had been friends with hers in their youth.

Brooke was still close with Jake and Will, both of whom joined the basketball team. Will in particular sparked some jealousy in Brooke when Nina began taking an interest in him, presumably owing to his athletic prowess and his ensuing fast track to popularity. Will had also begun dating somebody: a pretty but soft-spoken girl named Emma Duval, who had often faded into the background during their childhoods. Despite initial apprehension, Brooke found herself warming up to Emma, finding her down-to-earth approach to life refreshing.

Brooke’s growing fondness for Emma created a speed bump in her ascent of GW High’s social ladder. Midway through her freshman year, Brooke discovered that Will had agreed to a bet from Nina, wherein he had to have sex with Emma before her birthday. Appalled, Brooke stood up to Nina for the first time, telling her to call the whole thing off. Nina accused Brooke of only getting involved because of her own unresolved feelings for Will. Wounded, Brooke neither confirmed nor denied the allegation, and backed off, worried Nina would tell the others.

Will went on to take Emma’s virginity, and their relationship continued with Emma none the wiser to the game she’d been a pawn in.

Teacher’s Pet

By the start of her sophomore year, Brooke was more than ready to take the world by the horns. Tired of Nina’s mercurial and manipulative nature, she had begun privately fantasizing about supplanting her position in their clique’s hierarchy.

At the same time, she was ready to grow up in other ways. Over Labor Day weekend, Brooke caught the eye of Seth Branson, the new English teacher at GW High. He spotted her struggling with The Outsiders, a book she’d been assigned on her summer reading list and had procrastinated starting. Not identifying himself, he offered her some help with her study questions, before revealing he was the one who’d assigned the book and would be her teacher in a few days. Charmed, Brooke recanted her many complaints about her English teacher, and expressed a desire for more study help during the year.

Student and teacher began a clandestine affair within a few weeks of school started, meeting during free periods and after school under the guise of “study sessions”. Brooke was thoroughly convinced that she had seduced the older man through sheer force of will, and the relationship gave her a significant power kick.

Brooke’s Big Beautiful Bash

On October 17, 2015, Brooke was hanging out with the rest of the in-crowd at the Wren Lake Overlook.² Emma recognized the car of her childhood best friend Audrey Jensen pulling up at the opposite side of the summit. Audrey, unaware she was being watched, began making out with another girl. Emma’s shocked reaction drew the notice of the others, who responded with scandalized glee.

Nina, in particular, took a venomous pleasure in this bit of gossip, whipping out her phone and recording the girls’ intimate moment. Emma, offended on her old friend’s behalf, told Nina to delete the video. Nina promised to “take it off her phone”, and honored this exact words defense by deleting it from her phone, after uploading it to YouTube the next day, where it rapidly went locally viral.^{3 4}

Brooke was not immediately aware of this, being preoccupied as a hostess. That same evening, she was throwing a house party called Brooke’s Big Beautiful Bash, ostensibly to celebrate the Harvest Moon, but really to compensate for being unable to throw a party at the end of summer for fear of clashing with Nina’s Labor Day weekend bash. The party was a huge affair, Brooke going so far as to bribe the city council to meet on a Sunday evening just to get her father out of the way.⁵

Audrey crashed the party and confronted Emma at Brooke’s pool, having already concluded she and her friends were behind the video. Drawn by the commotion, Brooke came between the girls and nearly got attacked by Audrey herself, before Audrey’s friends Noah Foster and Amanda Steele showed up to bail her out.⁶ Brooke brought Emma into the house, where Emma brought her up to speed on what Nina had done. Brooke was sympathetic but unsurprised, and pointed out that Emma should’ve known Nina would do whatever she wanted.⁷

The girls’ heart-to-heart was interrupted, typically, by male stupidity. Outside, Jake and Tyler had come to blows, splashing down into the swimming pool. Disgusted, Brooke charged onto the scene and ripped into the guys. The surly Tyler paid her little mind, grabbing a monogrammed Maddox towel and sulking off, leaving Jake to get the full force of Brooke’s wrath. Her temper wasn’t improving when she learned the origin of the fight: Amanda’s insinuation that Jake and Nina were hooking up again. Disgusted, Brooke called the party off, ordering Jake and all her other guests to leave.

Brooke realized that, while Audrey and Amanda had vanished in the confusion, Noah was still hanging around. Riley interjected before Brooke could lay into him, offering to show Noah out herself.⁸ Brooke set herself to cleaning up, wary of leaving a mess for Terrie, the housekeeper and perpetual thorn in her side, to hold over her. She wasn’t alone: Emma, Riley, and Zach stuck around to help her clear up and, it turned out, a very drunk Jake had been unable to leave when ordered, having lost the keys to his “Behemoth” in the pool.

Before the keys could be retrieved, Zach got word from his mother that something terrible had happened: Stacy Winters, his neighbor, had been murdered, along with her boyfriend, Brock Carmichael. Zach’s Mom had found the bodies.⁹

Dalliances

The murders were the talk of the school by next morning, utterly wiping Brooke’s party from the cultural memory, not that Brooke complained about it openly. Brooke, not inclined to morbid gossip, was nonetheless fenced in by her friends’ fascination. She had even less patience for Noah’s butting into their conversation to opine about the bystander effect, though Riley didn’t mind.

In English class, Brooke got her first glimpse of Kieran Wilcox, a transfer student from Atlanta. Intrigued by the tall, handsome young man, she offered him the vacant desk beside her…Will’s, over Jake’s objections. Class itself was derailed by Noah who, as it happened, had written his Great Gatsby paper on themes shared between the novel and the 1994 Brandon James murders, a creepily salient topic in the wake of the recent violence.

Brooke had no choice but to sit captive as Noah treated them all to a wide-ranging discourse on the murders and his essay’s hypothesis, eventually rankling Emma (whose father was the sole survivor of the 1994 killings) to the point she lashed out, to Brooke’s undisguised approval.¹⁰

Brooke lingered after class for some one-on-one time with Mr. B, who’d graded her assignment (a saucy selfie) less than she’d expected. Seth tacitly suggested they refrain from their “study sessions” for the time being, given the increased police presence at school. Brooke bristled at the notion, reminding him she was accustomed to having her way and letting him know she’d be seeing him tonight, at the time and place of her choosing.¹¹

Affirmed in her evening rendezvous, Brooke spent lunch shopping for more flapper attire on Amazon, soliciting opinions from the oblivious Riley, who assumed she was looking for Halloween costumes. Brooke was gleefully indifferent to Jake and Zach’s ongoing pickup basketball game, but was cognizant to Emma’s absence, which everybody (but Jake) immediately chalked up to continued resentment for how they’d handled the kissing video. Brooke agreed with Jake that it wasn’t their fault Nina had uploaded the video, and was miffed at Riley’s insinuation they could probably have done more to stop it. Brooke declared Will was well placed to cheer Emma up.

The conversation was interrupted by the arrival of a furious Tyler, who pulled Jake aside to speak to him. Brooke, like the others, assumed he was still rankled over the Nina/Jake allegations, though the details of their altercation were conducted away from their prying ears.¹²

Brooke had her own drama to deal with, however. She arranged a rendezvous with Seth over text, renting out a room at the Crescent Palms Motel, where she waited that evening, dressed in full flapper regalia. Brooke sat up waiting, watching through her father’s fluffy press conference on the state of the murder investigation and, by the time it was over, concluded she’d been stood up.

Leaving in a huff, Brooke didn’t look where she was going and ended up walking into another motel guest, a bushy haired bespectacled woman whose glasses fell off at the impact. Brooke handed them back and found this act of kindness rewarded with excessive gushiness from the stranger, who praised her outfit, assuming she was headed to a costume party. Brooke tersely pointed the guest to the ice machine and, on being asked her name, provided the first that came to mind: Daisy.¹³

Appearance

Brooke is a petite young woman, measuring about five feet.¹⁴ She’s fairly complected, with long blonde hair and honey brown eyes.

Wardrobe

Brooke is a fashionista. Her family’s money means she’s always dressed according to the latest trends. Whether or not this translates to taste is debatable.

Brooke prefers acrylic nails over gel tips.¹⁵

For her Big Beautiful Bash, Brooke wore stacked statement bangles¹⁶ and strappy heels.¹⁷

For her aborted rendezvous with Seth at the Crescent Palms, Brooke wore a themed flapper outfit, complete with a faux-peacock feathered fascinator.¹⁸

Personality

Brooke is vivacious but catty, with an acid tongue she freely deploys against anybody who crosses her. She’s pragmatic and ambitious, unafraid of making waves if it’s helpful to her. That said, she’s fiercely loyal to those she believes are deserving of it. The way she sees it, she wants to plant her flag at the top of the mountain, but it won’t be as fun if her people aren’t there with her.

Skills

BDSM: Brooke used her relationship with Seth Branson to acquaint herself with the ins and outs of kink.¹⁹

Development

Brooke was a main character throughout Scream the TV Series and consequently has been part of the Scream Roleplay Universe since its inception. Since 2015, she has been portrayed by only two people.

In the 2015 Season 1 AU, Brooke was portrayed by ZacTy2010, who was the only writer for that forum not to join the May 2016 Season 2 AU. ThePlotMurderer took over the role of Brooke with that game, and has portrayed her ever since.

In the May 2016 Season 2 AU, OC Holly Winchester jokes that if Brooke and Jake aren’t careful in their relationship, Brooke may end up on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant. Brooke quips “that trash show would never. I’m 17 next month”. From this, Brooke’s birthday was reckoned as being in May when The Story so Far Appendix was compiled in 2020/21.

Other Interpretations

Season 1 AU

In the Season 1 AU, Brooke is portrayed as far more level-headed and measured than her canon counterpart was during the period covered by the game (roughly the first fifth of the season). She disapproves of Nina’s antics²⁰ and displays a genuine concern and compassion for her friends, stopping Emma from leaving her party early in her debut scene.²¹

Trivia

ThePlotMurderer has been portraying Brooke since May 2016. Noah Foster is the only other canonical character to claim such a consistent tenure. Fittingly, the romance plot between Brooke and Noah is one of the oldest continuing narrative threads in the SRU.

Brooke enjoys pop music. She’s a One Direction fan (if not a stan) and told Emma she “surrendered” Liam Payne to Nina early in their friendship.²²

Brooke’s “study help” with Mr. Branson wasn’t all fun and games. She has a decent working knowledge of literary devices, and isn’t humble about showing off.²³

Brooke’s faceclaim, Carlson Young, is shared by her ancestor, antebellum belle Marianne Maddox, in Big Trouble in Little Lakewood: 1846.

Quotes

Someone call for a harpy bitch?

Brooke to Audrey

Sweetie, I wear acrylics. I’d happily recommend my stylist, but from what I hear, young ladies of your persuasion prefer to keep them short for better access…

Brooke to Audrey

Well, two wrongs don’t right a right.

Brooke to Emma, about Audrey

Did we out her? Because, not to trip on any land mines, but I don’t think she was fooling anyone.

Brooke to Emma, about Audrey

It’s no skin off my nose if the preacher’s daughter lezzes out in her free time. I’m super sex positive.

Brooke to Emma, about Audrey

They say trouble comes in threes. I’m cutting us off at two.

Brooke cuts her Big Beautiful Bash short

Maddoxes always get what we want…and we’re so good at getting that the givers don’t even mind. We’re just quirky like that.

Brooke offers Seth a family truism

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