Maia Brancaleone

Kleo Brancaleone (older brother)

Adamantine Orsini (maternal mother) †

Nikolas Zicari (maternal first cousin)

Narcisa Zicari (maternal first cousin)

Nox Zicari (maternal first cousin)

Nadia Zicari (maternal first cousin)

Manfredi Brancaleone (paternal uncle)

Apollodora Brancaleone (paternal first cousin)

Marcus Brancaleone (paternal first cousin)

Leopold Brancaleone (paternal first cousin)

**Maia Brancaleone** is the youngest child and only daughter between nobles Paolo Brancaleone and his wife Ammiana Orsini, and is the younger sister of Kleo. She is a noblewomen and a Peacekeeper of the Sun Dragons after being transferred from the Horned Hares.

As a member of the Sun Dragons she is partnered with Klaus Verret and Pallas d'Aureville.

## Personality

Maia is a polite and king young girl who always smiles when speaking to others but she is often blunt to the point of rudeness and cruelty at times those moments are few in between. She is different from other nobles and royals who like belittling others below them in social class, Maia tends to look deeper than those nobles and royals and appreciate others who work hard, such as her cousin and milk sister Nadia Zicari whom she has a deep loving respect despite the others due to looking down on Nadia for her lack of magical control and her later affections and budding love for Mars and seeing them as people she wants to become like.

Maia is also a rather clumsy person, especially during her childhood when she would trip over air which Nadia gave her the nickname *Maia the Clumsy*.

## Appearance

Maia is a young beautiful noblewomen with a voluptuous build. She has long bright red hair that reaches her waist and yellowish green eyes. She wears her bangs in a long braid that reaches her collarbone.

While on duty she wears a cream chemise that reaches her mid-thighs with short puffy sleeves and a dark brown waist clincher with golden strings. Her footwear is thick brown leather boots that reach her knees with over the knee socks that are wool and dark green. As a member of the Sun Dragons she wears her squad signature robe on top of her attire. The robe also has a pair of teal ropes coming out of its left-hand side in which connect to the button on the right-hand side along with a light green scarf. Additionally, the squad's insignia is positioned at the left-hand side of the robe. She also wears a dark yellow collar with frills.

While not on duty she wears a off the shoulder white satin dress with frilled and pale rose lace with chunky gold jewellry that show off her wealth. The dress also has a large red bow on the front. She wears dark pink slippers with roses on them. While off duty she arranges her braids into two braids into a long french braid in the back.

## Abilities & Powers

### Magic

* **Plant Magic** - Maia uses this magic attribute to generate and manipulate plants. She mostly uses this magic for supplementary type spells; however, she has been developing offensive spells. Maia can also use *Creation* and *Reinforcement Magic*, in which increase her use over this power.
* **Healing Magic** - Mimosa uses this form of magic for recovery purposes and she's described as talented as a healer mage.

## Etymology

* Maia is from Greek μαῖα (maia) meaning "good mother, dame, foster mother", perhaps in origin a nursery form of μήτηρ (meter). In Greek and Roman mythology she was the eldest of the Pleiades, the group of seven stars in the constellation Taurus, who were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. It can also means "greater" in Latin.
* Brancaleone either means "a lion's paw" or "he who captures the lion" in Italian. In the case of the former meaning, the name is derived from Italian *branca* meaning "paw, claw" combined with Italian *leone* meaning "lion". In the case of the latter meaning, the first element of the name is derived from *brancare*, a dialectal form of the Italian verb *abbrancare* meaning "to grasp, to seize". The second element of the name is the same as with the first meaning. With that said: the first meaning given is probably the most likely one, since a lion's paw was often used as a charge in heraldry - to such a degree that brancaleone had even become part of heraldry jargon. In other words: the use of Brancaleone as a given name must have been inspired by heraldry.

## Trivia

* She is a Christian.
* She owns a pet monkey that she takes with her often named Amparo.
* Her favorite foods are sweets with black tea, she dislikes spicy food.
* She resembles her ancestor Helia Monteverdi in personality and appearance.
* Her hobbies are gardening and planting plants, learning more about herbs, and going on walks.
* She enjoys horseback riding more then riding a broom.