Maya

Maya Clarence, more commonly known by her original personality’s name of Olive, is a [REDACTED] living aboard the ship known as CONSTELIS VOSS and the "pocket sized genius" of the Constelis Voss series.

Like all the members of the cast, Maya’s personality is based on a human who had once lived on AU earth during the 80s-90s.

''“I wouldn’t. I’d want it ta’ be better! I’d wanna’ have everyone happy with what they were doin’, everyone could eat whatever they wanted, and have fun…And I'd want a yellow scooter!”''

What if the Manic Pixie Dreamgirl said 'fuck no' to playing second fiddle?

 Appearance: 

Maya is by and large the shortest member of the cast (relatively 5' shit '' ) with a sturdy build, underlining her childish nature and reaffirming her manic pixie stereotype. She has bleached curls, but has been known for her bright pink hair.

She has large, almond-shaped hazel colored eyes, sparse lashes, thin expressive brows, and talks with a distinct 90s New England accent. Her most notable feature is the dog-bite scar on her lower lip.

Her normal attire is a blue cropped t-shirt with a daisy on the front of it, too-large slacks and awkward boots that don’t fit her feet. She has no tattoos.

 Personality: 

Maya is brash, warm, goofy, care-free, an empathetic sugar fiend and all-around covertly brilliant young woman. Wise beyond her exterior, and wiser than all those around her, she acts childish to take advantage of being habitually underestimated. She is often the first character to figure something out, understand a concept, or solve a puzzle. While she’s generally the most gentle and outwardly warm of the group, she shares more in common with Alex’s penchant for cruelty than otherwise obvious; her stuffing Sebastian full of alcohol to get him to spill the beans on his involvement in a plot is an easy example.

She is easily frustrated, has a short temper, and an even shorter attention span, though her loyalty and determination are second to none.

Maya’s protocol is IMMATURITY. Because of this, it's a constant push and pull between her programming's efforts to render her weak and position her as Alex’s plot device, and her true power to put herself first in joy and internal strength. She’s highly aware, clever, and perceptive, which is a destructive combination when paired with an exterior that elicits the infantilizing pinching of cheeks.

Star sign: Virgo

 Abilities: 

- Perfect Machine: Concepts that are difficult for others are simple for Maya. She doesn’t need things explained to her, she learns at the speed of a perfect machine, unfettered by garbage data.

- Mechanical Mage: Maya has no problem figuring out any blockade, technology, or system in her path. Understanding “the way things work” is easy for her, because she’s an expert problem solver.

- Time Lord: Maya has the capacity to stop time altogether - but has no idea.

- Rewriter: Because Maya mistakenly thought she could alter the events of the past when she experienced her flashbacks, she prescribed this to her skills with time. However, the answer is simpler: she has the ability to rewrite the collective conscious data, though she doesn’t employ it knowingly.

Maya Clarence [CONSTELIS VOSS]:

Maya exists as a self-taught machinist who tinkers with pet projects in the bowels of CONSTELIS VOSS in order to help the likesome disenfranchised on her deeply impoverished level of the ship. She’s first introduced as an inventor hell-bent on creating a functional food processor that crafts sustenance from human waste, but in short time is swept up on a journey when a very vain Alex requires her to refashion his shell in his old image.

What results from this serendipitous meeting is nothing less than an odyssey of the ages, where she learns that she’s the byproduct of a malfunctioning AI who needed her to solve several big problems.

Olive:

Like every member of the cast, Maya's archetype comes from a ghost from the past. Olive used to be a plucky, pink-haired barista from Queens; a friend of all the friends, babysitter to everyone, neuroatypical as all hell, and always misunderstood for her childishness. A fan of comics, cartoons, video games and extremely sweet candy, it's hard not to notice the pink, fraught glitter Olive painted herself as.

But that belies a troubled past, one not found in the pages of this particular story. Olive, the hard worker, with older parents that relied on her to help pay the bills. Olive, the once-homeless; because city-life isn't always kind and her family has a history of struggling, considering she's a child of Japanese immigrants. Olive, the one who preferred to laugh, make jokes and keep her real thoughts captive in her head—her usual bluntness was more blunt than everyone knew. Everyone, save Alex—the man she loved, who loved her like dying.

Olive—the heroine of most peoples' stories. The heroine heartbroken by none other than past-Polly, then mended by a fickle dickhead. It's hard being the one that holds it all together, but that's what she did for most of her friends until the one she loved was lost and she felt lost, herself. The Maya of the future is a near-perfect replication, with memories of even greater hardships scrubbed by a certain AI asshole. He thought he was being kind, but you can't erase the worst someone's lived to keep them safe. All that does is make a perfect lie.

 Trivia: 

- Maya has a deep love of nerd and anime culture, shown with her reverence for a Ghost in the Shell poster.

- Maya’s favorite superhero is Motoko Kusanagi, though she only knows her as The Major.

- According to the author, Maya is the most mature, self-sufficient, and independent one on the cast, save for Vox.

- Her favorite hobby is tinkering with technology.

- Maya is from Queens, NY like past-Alex, and is Japanese-American.

- She has a strong preference for women, though like Alex, would take offense to being told she’s anything but a pansexual pixie.

- Canonically, she has a hardcore addiction to sweets.

- She is afraid of dogs, though this doesn’t come up in the story, and originated due to the event that caused the dog-bite scar on her lower lip.

- Maya represents joy, simplicity, maturity, empathy, and the concept of divesting oneself as an enabler.

- She subverts the tropes Manic Pixie Dreamgirl, "Idiot" Savant, and Cutesy Badass.

- She’s inspired by Edward from Cowboy Bebop, as well as Haruko Haruhara from FLCL, as evidence by her reference to “doos ex macarena” in CONSTELIS VOSS BOOK 2 – PATTERN RECOGNITION.

 Unofficial Mood Music 


 * Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
 * Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock
 * Girli - Deal With It