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Player Information:
Name or Handle: Sipp
LJ: dr_sipp
Email: wiremouse@gmail.com
AIM/ MSN / Plurk name: Sippycup @ Plurk (PM for AIM!)
Any current characters here?: N/A
Character Information:
Character Name: Maya Fey
Age: 17
Canon: Ace Attorney
Appearance: Shoooort, oh so short, and skinny, Maya’s got dark eyes and long black hair pinned up in a topknot (but don’t call it that to her face). Her gettup’s what stands out more. Beads in her hair and around her neck (along with a magatama), permanently wearing and her acolyte uniform (which looks something like a kimono, sash and robe and whatnot) How she doesn’t freeze in the winter is beyond me. Also, purple.
Personality:
Maya Fey is the original (and obligatory!) perky, quirky, teenage girl sidekick of Phoenix Wright. Usually found eating ridiculous amounts of food for someone so tiny, fangirling children’s TV shows, tagging along with Phoenix as a sidekick of sorts, jumping into situations headfirst, touching strange objects without hesitation, and generally getting into mischief.
A first glimpse at the chipper girl gives you an impression of childish excitement and naivety. She’s upbeat, friendly, unrepentantly optimistic and carries with her a sense of wonder and excitement that you’d usually attribute to a child. She’s the kind of person who will look at something mundane and see something amazing, and that applies to people just as much as anything else.
When tagging along with Phoenix outside of court, she’ll spend more time getting into mischief and poking at weird objects (or just taking things without permission, tsk tsk) than much else, sometimes landing Phoenix in trouble. On the flip side, however, she’s usually the one talking to the prosecutors and witnesses, nudging them for information and succeeding.
She's something of an oddball. Her trains of thought tend to end up in very… interesting places. Having been raised in a secluded environment like Kurain, (and she naturally has an overactive imagination and weird thought processes) Maya is naive and not very technologically savvy - but she isn't stupid by any means. While she is very trusting, sometimes overly so, she also has common moments of perceptiveness, is very good at picking up on the emotions of people around her even if they disguise them well, and can usually tell when someone’s lying. The only thing is that her train of thought is easily derailed. And when derailed, it usually ends up somewhere farfetched.
In court, she plays a supportive role to Phoenix - but that’s also where a good deal of her perceptiveness comes into play. She’ll often pinpoint and comment on things even Phoenix misses, and keeps him on track and the nudges him in the right direction or gives him the basis for theories that end up being his stance in court. Her tenacity and sheer determination are assets as well. Even when things look hopeless, Maya refuses to give up or let Phoenix give up.
Although she may seem like a naïve ditz most of the time, she’s capable of great maturity and strength - that shows consistently through all of the games. Although the worst is yet to come for this little spirit medium (as I’m taking her from an early canon point), already she has shown great tenacity, weathered brutal circumstances and hardships, including the pillar of her life being murdered, and kept on smiling throughout all of it. Although she may not act it, she takes her responsibilities as future Master of Kurain and Phoenix’s assistant very seriously, putting on a brave face and keeping him on track and from giving up even after her sister died. When it comes to serious matters, she consistently puts other people’s needs before her own, smiles for their sake, and does her best to look after them (especially her important people) in her own little way, while leaving her own (real) needs ignored. Underneath that quirky exterior is a very caring young lady who would never turn her back on anyone in need, and she’ll often go out of her way to cheer people up (although her successes are more attributed to the fact that she’s so weird people are amused by her by anything else, but a victory is a victory).
Although clumsy with her own emotions and extremely unlikely to ever express the way she feels about the people she cares about (instead teasing them or just getting them into wacky antics), she is very, very, very, very, very loyal, pushes herself to the limits for those people who win her loyalty, and always puts on a brave face for them as well. She may be an easily intimidated little girl who can jump at the smallest thing, but where it counts, she won’t back down. If someone she cares about is in danger, she’ll throw her life on the line with zero hesitation or thought for her well-being to protect them. (IE: Jumping between Phoenix and a 600,000 volt taser)
Being an orphan primarily raised by her older sister (and her aunt, but that’s barely touched upon and said aunt is actually plotting to kill her), Maya came to idolize, adore, depend on, and look up to Mia in every way possible. This combined with some major self-esteem issues create something of an inferiority complex. At this point, she has trouble accepting that she has her unique strengths that are just as valid as her sister’s, and often feels inferior and as if Phoenix would be better off with Mia around instead of her. When unable to channel Mia to help him with a dire case, she beats herself up to ridiculous degrees.
Although Maya doesn’t let herself get down about the various hardships in her life, she does take her own failures very hard. She is very harsh on herself and will beat herself up, sometimes to ridiculous degrees, if she feels like she’s failed someone or if she’s being a burden. She holds herself to very high and often unrealistic expectations, (Ie: Going as far as to wish she was dead when she failed to stop an armed man twice her size from overpowering Phoenix and stealing his evidence), and won’t accept any excuses for herself. She hates feeling useless or like a burden more than anything else, and will get very down on herself if she feels like being one (followed by working herself very hard to get better, but not always in a healthy way)
Although she has a very strong sense of morality and justice, her moral compass can be a little… skewed. She doesn’t seem to have an issue with breaking and entering, taking things from a crime scene, or going through an accused criminal’s belongings. This usually ends with her finding the most crucial evidence (but sometimes also with a few little knick-knacks from crime scenes going missing. Oh dear). It also bears noting that she has really horrible luck and is quite the trouble magnet, although the worst is yet to come for her canon-wise.
At the end of the day, Maya Fey is an excitable, cheerful, quirky, mischievous little girl determined to stay smiling, optimistic, and strong no matter what life throws at her, who may act like a ditz but is genuinely caring and insightful, and who will always charge whole-heartedly into everything, whether it’s a silly pet project, serious murder case, or her self-imposed responsibility to take care of people and keep them happy.
Background:
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away…
ACE ATTORNEY: SPIRIT MEDIUM
Canon point:
Right after Turnabout Goodbyes in Ace Attorney. I’d like to play from there as she’s more formative and impressionable, and I think it’ll be interesting to see how her character would take direction in CS.
Special Abilities:
Unsure if this is adaptable, but Maya's able to call the spirit of a deceased person into her body, essentially channeling them. Her body shifts to match the body of the dead person - that is, several of her physical characteristics change to match theirs. Her physique changes to match the spirit she’s channeling. She grows taller/shorter (although she’s pretty small already sooo) and her body adopts the general shape of the spirit. Her face changes as well, but her hair stays mostly the same.
Reference:
Maya hugging her older sister, who is being channelled by Pearl
Maya channelling her older sister
(Other reference Normal, channelling Mia.
She's unable to control her body during this time, and has no recollection of whatever goes on while the spirit is in her. The duration seems to depend on her spiritual power. As soon as the channelling ends, Maya is left feeling weak and can sometimes collapse if overexerted.
NOTE: At her current canon point, she isn’t able to channel anyone due to having neglected her training, and would have to train intensely to be able to do it again (hopefully there are waterfalls in space! … Maybe?)
Sect:
Civilian.
Job:
Unsure
Samples:
First Person:
[WHACK.]
[WHACK.]
[That would be the sound of the datapad being smacked against a table, yep. Quickly followed by the voice of a girl-]
Where’s the power switch on this thing? This has gotta be some kind of phone to the kidnapper, right? Or… maybe I can use it to somehow get out of here…
[WHACK. … She doesn’t seem to realize it’s on]
Ugh, if only it would turn on! What kind of kidnapper only leaves someone in their underwear, anyway!? It’d better not be some creep who wants me to model or something, ‘cause if it is I’m going to object so loud even Nick would be speechless!
[She pauses in her technology abuse, briefly, and her voice deflates]
… Nick… You won’t even notice I’m missing, will you? How am I supposed to…
[--But then it’s picking up right away!]
No, I have to stay positive! I’ll find a way out of this mess somehow! [And then she resumes the hitting with extra gusto, causing the transmission to cut off. Well done, Maya.]
Third Person:
Honestly, Maya didn’t understand what the fuss was about the ladder. Ladder or step-ladder, they did the same thing, they looked the same, and therefore they were practically the same thing. Nick sure did have a habit of getting hung up on details, didn’t he? She watched him as he shifted through the paperwork for tomorrow’s case, muttering “stepladder” under his breath, and rolled her eyes.
“You’re gonna get all wrinkly if you stress so much about details, Nick.”
He didn’t deign that with a response, just gave her a sardonic look and went back to his papers. (As always, though, his face was an open book; she could tell he was thinking something especially sarcastic.)
But if he wanted to sulk about ladders (she knew she was right, they were practically the same thing no matter what kind of fuss he kicked up about it), well, she wasn’t going to stop him. And it was better than him dwelling on how hopeless tomorrow’s case looked at this point, or how lost he felt without Mia around. No, as long as his mind was kept off of those things (and she was more than happy to keep his mind off of them… partially because that would keep her mind off of them), he could sulk and make faces and be sarcastic about ladders all he liked. The important thing was to keep him going (and to keep herself going, if she stopped and thought about it. But she didn’t), everything else would follow.
Well, it wasn’t as if this case was any different from their others; piles of evidence against their client, a prosecutor with a grudge and a serious attitude problem, and uncooperative witnesses who made fun of their respective hairdos rather than offer information. They’d have to muddle through all of this plus all the lies that were bound to pop up somehow. Usually with Nick this involved a lot of yelling, banging on tables, and making things up on the fly, but they’d always managed to reach the truth in the end no matter what kind of crazy curveballs came their way.
This time wouldn’t be any different. … Just as long as he still wasn’t hung up on ladders come tomorrow’s trial.
Anything Else:
Waterfalls in space?!
Name or Handle: Sipp
LJ: dr_sipp
Email: wiremouse@gmail.com
AIM/ MSN / Plurk name: Sippycup @ Plurk (PM for AIM!)
Any current characters here?: N/A
Character Information:
Character Name: Maya Fey
Age: 17
Canon: Ace Attorney
Appearance: Shoooort, oh so short, and skinny, Maya’s got dark eyes and long black hair pinned up in a topknot (but don’t call it that to her face). Her gettup’s what stands out more. Beads in her hair and around her neck (along with a magatama), permanently wearing and her acolyte uniform (which looks something like a kimono, sash and robe and whatnot) How she doesn’t freeze in the winter is beyond me. Also, purple.
Personality:
Maya Fey is the original (and obligatory!) perky, quirky, teenage girl sidekick of Phoenix Wright. Usually found eating ridiculous amounts of food for someone so tiny, fangirling children’s TV shows, tagging along with Phoenix as a sidekick of sorts, jumping into situations headfirst, touching strange objects without hesitation, and generally getting into mischief.
A first glimpse at the chipper girl gives you an impression of childish excitement and naivety. She’s upbeat, friendly, unrepentantly optimistic and carries with her a sense of wonder and excitement that you’d usually attribute to a child. She’s the kind of person who will look at something mundane and see something amazing, and that applies to people just as much as anything else.
When tagging along with Phoenix outside of court, she’ll spend more time getting into mischief and poking at weird objects (or just taking things without permission, tsk tsk) than much else, sometimes landing Phoenix in trouble. On the flip side, however, she’s usually the one talking to the prosecutors and witnesses, nudging them for information and succeeding.
She's something of an oddball. Her trains of thought tend to end up in very… interesting places. Having been raised in a secluded environment like Kurain, (and she naturally has an overactive imagination and weird thought processes) Maya is naive and not very technologically savvy - but she isn't stupid by any means. While she is very trusting, sometimes overly so, she also has common moments of perceptiveness, is very good at picking up on the emotions of people around her even if they disguise them well, and can usually tell when someone’s lying. The only thing is that her train of thought is easily derailed. And when derailed, it usually ends up somewhere farfetched.
In court, she plays a supportive role to Phoenix - but that’s also where a good deal of her perceptiveness comes into play. She’ll often pinpoint and comment on things even Phoenix misses, and keeps him on track and the nudges him in the right direction or gives him the basis for theories that end up being his stance in court. Her tenacity and sheer determination are assets as well. Even when things look hopeless, Maya refuses to give up or let Phoenix give up.
Although she may seem like a naïve ditz most of the time, she’s capable of great maturity and strength - that shows consistently through all of the games. Although the worst is yet to come for this little spirit medium (as I’m taking her from an early canon point), already she has shown great tenacity, weathered brutal circumstances and hardships, including the pillar of her life being murdered, and kept on smiling throughout all of it. Although she may not act it, she takes her responsibilities as future Master of Kurain and Phoenix’s assistant very seriously, putting on a brave face and keeping him on track and from giving up even after her sister died. When it comes to serious matters, she consistently puts other people’s needs before her own, smiles for their sake, and does her best to look after them (especially her important people) in her own little way, while leaving her own (real) needs ignored. Underneath that quirky exterior is a very caring young lady who would never turn her back on anyone in need, and she’ll often go out of her way to cheer people up (although her successes are more attributed to the fact that she’s so weird people are amused by her by anything else, but a victory is a victory).
Although clumsy with her own emotions and extremely unlikely to ever express the way she feels about the people she cares about (instead teasing them or just getting them into wacky antics), she is very, very, very, very, very loyal, pushes herself to the limits for those people who win her loyalty, and always puts on a brave face for them as well. She may be an easily intimidated little girl who can jump at the smallest thing, but where it counts, she won’t back down. If someone she cares about is in danger, she’ll throw her life on the line with zero hesitation or thought for her well-being to protect them. (IE: Jumping between Phoenix and a 600,000 volt taser)
Being an orphan primarily raised by her older sister (and her aunt, but that’s barely touched upon and said aunt is actually plotting to kill her), Maya came to idolize, adore, depend on, and look up to Mia in every way possible. This combined with some major self-esteem issues create something of an inferiority complex. At this point, she has trouble accepting that she has her unique strengths that are just as valid as her sister’s, and often feels inferior and as if Phoenix would be better off with Mia around instead of her. When unable to channel Mia to help him with a dire case, she beats herself up to ridiculous degrees.
Although Maya doesn’t let herself get down about the various hardships in her life, she does take her own failures very hard. She is very harsh on herself and will beat herself up, sometimes to ridiculous degrees, if she feels like she’s failed someone or if she’s being a burden. She holds herself to very high and often unrealistic expectations, (Ie: Going as far as to wish she was dead when she failed to stop an armed man twice her size from overpowering Phoenix and stealing his evidence), and won’t accept any excuses for herself. She hates feeling useless or like a burden more than anything else, and will get very down on herself if she feels like being one (followed by working herself very hard to get better, but not always in a healthy way)
Although she has a very strong sense of morality and justice, her moral compass can be a little… skewed. She doesn’t seem to have an issue with breaking and entering, taking things from a crime scene, or going through an accused criminal’s belongings. This usually ends with her finding the most crucial evidence (but sometimes also with a few little knick-knacks from crime scenes going missing. Oh dear). It also bears noting that she has really horrible luck and is quite the trouble magnet, although the worst is yet to come for her canon-wise.
At the end of the day, Maya Fey is an excitable, cheerful, quirky, mischievous little girl determined to stay smiling, optimistic, and strong no matter what life throws at her, who may act like a ditz but is genuinely caring and insightful, and who will always charge whole-heartedly into everything, whether it’s a silly pet project, serious murder case, or her self-imposed responsibility to take care of people and keep them happy.
Background:
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away…
ACE ATTORNEY: SPIRIT MEDIUM
Canon point:
Right after Turnabout Goodbyes in Ace Attorney. I’d like to play from there as she’s more formative and impressionable, and I think it’ll be interesting to see how her character would take direction in CS.
Special Abilities:
Unsure if this is adaptable, but Maya's able to call the spirit of a deceased person into her body, essentially channeling them. Her body shifts to match the body of the dead person - that is, several of her physical characteristics change to match theirs. Her physique changes to match the spirit she’s channeling. She grows taller/shorter (although she’s pretty small already sooo) and her body adopts the general shape of the spirit. Her face changes as well, but her hair stays mostly the same.
Reference:
Maya hugging her older sister, who is being channelled by Pearl
Maya channelling her older sister
(Other reference Normal, channelling Mia.
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She's unable to control her body during this time, and has no recollection of whatever goes on while the spirit is in her. The duration seems to depend on her spiritual power. As soon as the channelling ends, Maya is left feeling weak and can sometimes collapse if overexerted.
NOTE: At her current canon point, she isn’t able to channel anyone due to having neglected her training, and would have to train intensely to be able to do it again (hopefully there are waterfalls in space! … Maybe?)
Sect:
Civilian.
Job:
Unsure
Samples:
First Person:
[WHACK.]
[WHACK.]
[That would be the sound of the datapad being smacked against a table, yep. Quickly followed by the voice of a girl-]
Where’s the power switch on this thing? This has gotta be some kind of phone to the kidnapper, right? Or… maybe I can use it to somehow get out of here…
[WHACK. … She doesn’t seem to realize it’s on]
Ugh, if only it would turn on! What kind of kidnapper only leaves someone in their underwear, anyway!? It’d better not be some creep who wants me to model or something, ‘cause if it is I’m going to object so loud even Nick would be speechless!
[She pauses in her technology abuse, briefly, and her voice deflates]
… Nick… You won’t even notice I’m missing, will you? How am I supposed to…
[--But then it’s picking up right away!]
No, I have to stay positive! I’ll find a way out of this mess somehow! [And then she resumes the hitting with extra gusto, causing the transmission to cut off. Well done, Maya.]
Third Person:
Honestly, Maya didn’t understand what the fuss was about the ladder. Ladder or step-ladder, they did the same thing, they looked the same, and therefore they were practically the same thing. Nick sure did have a habit of getting hung up on details, didn’t he? She watched him as he shifted through the paperwork for tomorrow’s case, muttering “stepladder” under his breath, and rolled her eyes.
“You’re gonna get all wrinkly if you stress so much about details, Nick.”
He didn’t deign that with a response, just gave her a sardonic look and went back to his papers. (As always, though, his face was an open book; she could tell he was thinking something especially sarcastic.)
But if he wanted to sulk about ladders (she knew she was right, they were practically the same thing no matter what kind of fuss he kicked up about it), well, she wasn’t going to stop him. And it was better than him dwelling on how hopeless tomorrow’s case looked at this point, or how lost he felt without Mia around. No, as long as his mind was kept off of those things (and she was more than happy to keep his mind off of them… partially because that would keep her mind off of them), he could sulk and make faces and be sarcastic about ladders all he liked. The important thing was to keep him going (and to keep herself going, if she stopped and thought about it. But she didn’t), everything else would follow.
Well, it wasn’t as if this case was any different from their others; piles of evidence against their client, a prosecutor with a grudge and a serious attitude problem, and uncooperative witnesses who made fun of their respective hairdos rather than offer information. They’d have to muddle through all of this plus all the lies that were bound to pop up somehow. Usually with Nick this involved a lot of yelling, banging on tables, and making things up on the fly, but they’d always managed to reach the truth in the end no matter what kind of crazy curveballs came their way.
This time wouldn’t be any different. … Just as long as he still wasn’t hung up on ladders come tomorrow’s trial.
Anything Else:
Waterfalls in space?!