Maria

Maria is the second protagonist of the Giana Sisters series. She is known to be Giana's sister and being the "damsel-in-distress" in Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams.
==History==
In The Great Giana Sisters, Maria is used as a second player option for the multiplayer mode. However, in Giana Sisters DS, she's notably absent.At the beginning of Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, she is pulled into the dream world and abducted by Gurglewocky. Giana follows her sister through the portal and sees Gurglewocky eat Maria whole. Inside Gurglewocky's bowel, she met a passive owl, which will help her to find the diamond for going home. Upon finding it, she gets captured by tentacles, preventing her to leave by herself with the owl. The owl later meet her sister, Giana, which explains what happened to Maria. Giana went looking for the red dragon. In the lair beneath the dragon keep, Giana defeats the dragon and retrieves her sister from the depths of Gurglewocky's bowels and returning home with their diamonds.
As of the storybook of Giana Sisters: Dream Runners, Maria is currently portrayed as the older sister of Giana.
==Appearance==
Maria is identical to Giana, but with different color scheme. She has short green hair, just reaching her shoulders. She wears a pink dress with a white under-dress, a red belt and wears red wrist bands. She wears white and magenta shoes.
As of the Dream Runners Storybook and the Owltimate Edition, she is now taller than Giana and has a ponytail with a green node.
In her Steam trading card, she has Punk Giana's clothes but with a different color scheme. She wears a sweater with a variety of red stockings and a blue skirt with a skull. She has black and red-magenta shoes. Her ponytail is bigger and her node is red and bigger too. However, that design is probably her punk form, since she use the same style as Punk Giana. Or maybe it's a redesign planned for the future.
==Personalities==
Maria is the older sister of Giana eversince the storybook. She shares commonalities with her sister, though it's not officially made clear. Like her sister, she's courageous, has shown in two cutscenes from the Owltimate Edition when she saved a owl and tried to escape Gurglewocky's bowel. Maria is not very familiar to the dream world so she's distrustful what's around her. Unlike her sister's Cute persona (only in Twisted Dreams), she's more nicer to owls and especially the passive ones.
Maria also cares a lot about Giana, she even protected her from their father. Whenever Giana feels sad, she comforts her.
==Relatives==
*Giana : Maria's sister. Not much known about their relationship, other than they care about each other a lot. In Twisted Dreams, Maria was saved by Giana from Gurglewocky.
*Giana's Father : Not much known about their relationship either. However, Maria protects Giana when he's abusive to them.
==Trivia==
*Unlike Giana, she doesn't have any abilities.
*In Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, Giana and Maria are both voiced by Katie Leigh, who is famous for voicing cartoon characters.
*According to Alexander Pierschel, since Giana Sisters DS lacks a multiplayer mode, Giana's sister Maria couldn't be playable or even appear in the game, and revealed that Punk Giana took her place.Comment on Giana by Pikomi - DeviantArt
*Maria is one of the character to have a lot of different designs with minor tweaks, yet her signature green hair and red dress/cloth are very mostly kept. Giana on the other side, has mostly major tweaks due to her concept arts for Giana Sisters 2.
*Maria has an unused punk counterpart texture left in Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams game's files. It is a recolor of Punk Giana, having red eyes, blue and green hair, a green sweater and a blue skirt. Its purpose remains unknown, though it possibly could have been meant for a co-op multiplayer mode or a scrapped cutsceneGiana Sisters: Twisted Dreams/Expansion Packs — The Cutting Room Floor
**Besides the unused Punk form, she has an unique unused voice clip of her giggling, meant to be used after Giana saved her.Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams — The Cutting Room Floor It was reused for another unused cutscene audio clip meant for Owltimate Edition, specifically the ending cutscene.
*For an unexplained reason, Maria appears to have the same height as her sister Giana in the Dream World, like if they were twins.
*It is speculated Giana's green and purple side in Dream Runners share traits to Maria and her possibly existing Punk persona.
==Gallery==
index.jpg|Punk Maria? (Probably a redesign for her Cute form that was made after Twisted Dreams release. Surprisingly it wasn't added in the Owltimate Edition).
2018-06-28_194154.png|Maria after being rescued.
MariaInGameEndingCheering.png|Ditto, but jumping from joy.
mariacutscene.png|Maria in a cutscene from the Owltimate Edition.
MariaEndingCutscene.png|Maria in the real world.
Creditsgems.png|Giana and Maria with their diamonds (without background).
IMG_0548.PNG|Unused textures of Punk Maria. 
Category:The Great Giana Sisters
Category:Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Category:Characters
Category:Protagonists