Maia

**Maia** is a Murder Mystery player and host. She first debuted as a player in Murder Mystery 1: Murder! at the Beach. Her first time hosting was Murder Mystery 4: South Pole Shenanigans. She has played 14 games and hosted 3 games.

### Notable Characters

Maia has 15 notable characters.

* Cate Sunderland (MM1, MM26, MM32 NPC)
* Bianca Tate (MM2)
* Lise Valen (MM3)
* Tessa Donovan (MM5, SMM21, SMM23)
* Alessandra Spagnolli (MM6)
* Iulia Montonero (MM17, SMM22)
* Gavril Senkevich (MM18)
* Lucile Astor (MM23)
* Samantha Wilde (MM24, MM30 kinda?)
* Melissa Cawthorn (MM26)
* Leto Euriptis (MM27)
* Jen Marsden (MM28)
* Fedora Grigorieva (MM30)
* Belinda Kyle (MM31)
* Leah Hansen (MM29 NPC)

### Games Played

Maia has played 14 main games, as well as 6 speed games. She has gained the maximum number of points in just 1 game, MM17. This is clearly because she is very bad at solving murder mysteries.

Maia has been murderer 3 times: Cate Sunderland in Murder Mystery 1: Murder! at the Beach, in which she was caught; Lise Valen in Murder Mystery 3: Murder on the Not-Orient Express, in which she escaped with zero guesses; and Jen Marsden in Murder Mystery 28: The Penthouse, in which she was caught, though her character escaped during the endgame nonetheless.

### Games Hosted

Maia has hosted 4 games: Murder Mystery 4: South Pole Shenanigans, Murder Mystery 9: The Most Noble and Divine House of Gramont de Éteignière-Dubois, Murder Mystery 29: Théâtre-Corbignois and Murder Mystery 32: Blainestown, Nebraska. She has also hosted one speed game, The Incident at Kea Pass.

Maia's hosting style is somewhat freeform, containing a moderate amount of investigation that is often adapted or outright created mid-game. This style may on occasion present problems when the ideal method of investigation is not clearly communicated as a result. Her games often contain large numbers of channels that may not serve any strict purpose, other than as a setting for roleplaying, and have also been known to contain large investigative red herrings, though this aspect has become less prominent in her hosting. Maia is also notable as the primary host of the historical-themed Corbigny sub-series. In addition to Murder Mystery 9 and Murder Mystery 29, she also conceived and initially intended to host Murder Mystery 19: The Everlasting Peace of Gayton-Thorpe, but withdrew due to personal commitments before the game's start.

### Other Information

* Maia's favourite game is generally held to be Murder Mystery 17: North Pole Shenanigans, largely due to the richness of the character interactions rather than any aspect of the lore. Her favourite character is Princess/Queen Marguerite Gramont de Éteignière-Dubois.
* Of the 5 still-active founding Murder Mystery players, Maia holds the record for the lowest number of games played.
* In addition to being the first ever murderer, Maia is also the only murderer to have not been aware of this. This is because in Murder Mystery 1, players were not informed whether they were murderer or not. As such, she submitted a guess for murderer like any other player, in which she guessed herself as the murderer, the only such instance in all of Murder Mystery.
* Maia was the first player to have been the murderer multiple times, playing the serial killer Lise Valen in Murder Mystery 3: Murder on the Not-Orient Express just two games after playing Cate Sunderland in Murder Mystery 1: Murder! at the Beach.
* Maia is the only player to apply for a game under an explicit understanding with the host that they are to be killed. Prior to the start of Murder Mystery 23: The Dalton-Ingram Academy, while still on hiatus, she was approached by Leia with the request that she apply in order to fill the role of the first murder victim. She agreed, and created the character Lucile Astor with this agreement in mind.