Maria Kintobor

For the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series' version of the character, look up "Maria Robotnik" on the "Sonic News Network" wiki page.
Maria Kintobor was a young human, the granddaughter of Professor Gerald Kintobor and the cousin of Dr. Ivo Robotnik. Born and raised on the Space Colony ARK, Maria suffered from a terminal illness that made her unable to leave her place of birth and go down to Planet Earth. To save Maria, Gerald worked on Project Shadow in hopes of finding a cure for her. Gerald's research produced Shadow the Hedgehog, who Maria became close friends with. Later on, when G.U.N. shut down the ARK, Maria was killed by a G.U.N. soldier, while trying to assist Shadow in his escape from the colony. Her passing had a big impact on Shadow's psyche and proved to be an event that would strongly influence the fate of the world in the decades that followed.
==History==
Maria Kintobor was born on the Space Colony ARK. From birth, she suffered from an illness that made her body weak. As such, she could not leave the ARK and go visit Planet Earth. Even so, Maria remained optimistic that she would recover.
During Maria's time, her grandfather, Gerald Kintobor, worked on a government project called Project Shadow. His research led to the creation of an immortal creature dubbed the "ultimate creature". His name was Shadow, and Maria became close friends with him. Living together with Shadow onboard the ARK, Maria wanted to go down to Earth with Shadow and make new friends like him. Maria also took notice of Shadow's own interest in Earth and would hear his hopes of finding the meaning behind his existence on that planet.
Eventually, Maria's peaceful existence was shattered when G.U.N. attacked the ARK in order to shut down Project Shadow and take possession of Shadow themselves. During the violent raid, Maria and Shadow escape the G.U.N. soldiers pursuing them and made it to the ARK's escape pods. There, Shadow got sealed inside one of the pods. While Maria was separated from Shadow however, she was spotted by G.U.N. soldier named Schmitz. In an attempt to escape Schmitz, Maria ran back to the escape pods, where she prepared to deploy Shadow's escape pod. However, Schmitz caught up to her and warned her not to pull a lever.Maria ignored his warnings however, prompting a desperate Schmitz to shoot her. Mortally wounded, Maria, with her last strength, begged Shadow to help bring happiness to humanity for her sake, just before Shadow's capsule was jettisoned into space and Maria herself succumbed to her wound.
=== Legacy ===
Maria's death was a jarring event that affected by Gerald and Shadow deeply. Upon learning of her death, Gerald went mad with grief and decided to take revenge on all of humanity, by wiping out the Earth with the Space Colony ARK. Shadow himself was likewise traumatized by Maria's death. In order to ensure his doomsday plan's success, Gerald brainwashed Shadow, twisting his memory of Maria's last request, so that Shadow would be motivated to seek revenge at the human race.
Her last request for Shadow was to protect the world and its people had a big impact on the hedgehog's future motivations, which Shadow made the promise to keep despite his loathing of humanity. When Shadow was reawaken nearly 50 years later though, he sought to "avenge" Maria's death (due to Gerald, manipulating his memories) by destroying the human race. During his crusade, he met Christopher Thorndyke, whom he saw Maria in. It was later thanks to Chris' persuasion that Shadow remembered Maria's dying wish, prompting him to aid Sonic the Hedgehog and his allies in stopping the very plan he had set into motion, seemingly sacrificing his life in the process.
After getting revived during the Metarex wars, Shadow once again forgot about Maria, due to amnesia. However, Rouge would remember the girl, and compared her to Molly.
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