i know i've been talking a lot about spike lately but surprise i still can't stop thinking about maya fey

first of all: it's fuckin fun to say "maya fey" all the time instead of just maya. like, it's a declaration. maya fey, superior maya

second of all i love that she's like

a big dork about her hobbies

first of all she has the hime bang haircut to trick you into thinking she's a WHOLE OTHER CHARACTER ARCHETYPE

i'm saying this about maya WHILE getting distracted by shit Spike do cos we have bebop on

anyway

then second Maya is obviously this mountain gal from a traditionalist family

but then loves shit like watching wrestling on TV and superhero comics like the Steel Samurai

and IN the steel samurai she really likes the villain and the fact taht the steel samurai has a cool enough villain worth fighting

she's a compassionate person with many faults but she's such a bleeding heart that she would defend the person who killed her mother because she wanted to see him as someone who did it for the reason of protecting her, or at least protecting her sister through her

she makes quick judgements about people she thinks are scary in the game but then upon hearing their stories becomes so ready to defend them

begs Phoenix to defend people he's not really sure are innocent

it makes her a great character for playign cross canon anything with

she just... is so open, she'll give so many people more chances than she really should

but that allows her to open up to characters who are traditionally seen as terrible by those around them, and they in turn tend to get protective of her and be kind to her in ways that others aren't bc they like

they fall for her act, you know?

She puts up this idea that she's happy and never struggles and doesn't have a sad past and a lot of people just take it att face value because she's so good at it

it's usually the darker characters that end up going "you can't POSSIBLY just be like this all the time, what's the catch"