Maya (Ninjago)

Maya Smith is a recurring character in LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu.
She is the former Elemental Master of Water, the wife of Ray and the mother of Kai and Nya, the latter of whom would inherit her abilities. She fought alongside the other Elemental Masters and her husband in the Serpentine War, which would see the people of Ninjago fighting the Serpentine.
==Role==
She serves as a flashback character in Season 4: Tournament of Elements, a mentioned character in Season 5: Possession and a background character in the tie-in graphic novel trilogy The Dark Island Trilogy before appearing as one of the two overarching protagonists (alongside Ray) of Season 7: The Hands of Time. She is also a major character in Season 14: Seabound and a minor character in Season 15: Crystalized.
==History==
===Dark Island Trilogy, Part 3===
Following an adventure on The Dark Island, Wu had a vision of Maya and her husband in the present, apparently being forced to forge something in a shadowy pit.
===The Hands of Time===
In the Hands of Time season revealed that Krux was forced the Ray and Maya to make armor, weapons and vehicles to Vermillion Army the cost of when they made the Time Blades. And if they did not agree, then Krux would have threatened the Kai and Nya. At first, Kai thought them as a traitor because Krux said so. But at last Kai believed that they were not traitors.
=== Seabound ===
Maya is called by Kai to come over to the Monastery of Spinjitzu, and she does along with her husband Ray. She embraces Nya and runs forward, asking Kai where Nya's room was. She woke Nya up at 6:00 a.m. and tidied up her room. Maya also cooked her seaweed and tofu pancakes for breakfast. She then tried to teach Nya a water stance but failed to do so. Later on, as Kai and Ray are busy playing games, Maya brings a plate of ham and cheese sandwiches with crispy bacon.
When Nya asks to stay at the Monastery instead of going out to sea, Wu mentions that she would have to stay with Maya, leading her to go. Later, Maya sees them out. Unbeknownst to the ninja, Maya sneaked onto the Hydro Bounty and did their chores. They realize it was Maya, with Nya realizing it first. Nya tried to make her leave, but Zane stated it would not be possible to turn around. Maya then states she would bake them muffins, with Jay and Lloyd relishing in joy.
Maya has a small chat with Nya, and Maya tries to convince her she is trying to help but to no avail. Maya then convinces Nya to let her use an APS suit. They then have another small chat before reaching the Temple of Wojira and entering it. They hide when they see Kalmaar's guards performing tests trying to awaken Wojira, but they are found out after a Storm Amulet replica does not work. They try to escape, but Maya is taken down first by Kalmaar.
== Personality ==
Maya is a very caring and amicable person. During the Serpentine War, she willingly helped to defeat the Serpentine and later the Time Twins, although it exhausted her and her husband. She seems a little confident and naive, as she believed Dr. Saunders, though he planned to betray her and Ray. She treated her children like a normal mother and tried to raise them properly, while she told Nya the story of Nyad and how she rode on the backs of whales. When she and Ray were abducted and imprisoned by Krux, she was unable to come to terms with it and called this supreme sacrifice as "that's how the cookie crumbles".
When she was rescued a few years later by her children, she tried to help them, but eventually gave up and returned to the blacksmith workshop with Ray, realizing that the children no longer needed them.
A few years later, when Kai called Maya to come and help her daughter, Maya was very happy and immediately came to the Monastery of Spinjitzu to help her daughter. Here she fully manifested her motherly nature and tried to make up for all the lost moments with Nya. Maya has also shown that she promotes a healthy lifestyle consisting of order in the room, exercise and a healthy breakfast, considering them the most important meal of the day. She treated her son a little differently, calmly giving him sandwiches, showing her love.
==Gallery==
===Images===
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Nya, Maya and Kai.png
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Ray and Maya (Ep. 73).jpg
Lloyd, Ray, Maya and Cyrus Borg (Lost in Time).png
Cole, Maya, Cyrus Borg, Samurai X and Jay.png
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==Trivia==
*Nya was originally named "Aya" before it was changed to Nya, so Mayas' name most likely comes from that, with the added letter "M" before possibly referring to mother.
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