Maya

### Personality

Enthusiastic, upbeat, tough, loyal, proud, brave, heroic, strong, reasonable, rebellious, free-spirited, vengeful (formerly), mature, wise, brash, prideful (formerly), hot headed, arrogant (formerly), selfish (formerly), impulsive (formerly), energetic, kind, animal-loving, fiery, beautiful

### Relatives

King Teca (father)
Queen Teca (step-mother)
Lady Micte (biological mother) †
Lance, Daggers, Shield (paternal half-brothers) †
Eagle (younger paternal half-sister)
Jaguar (younger paternal half-brother)
La Muerte (maternal aunt)
Xibalba (maternal uncle-in-law)
La Noche (maternal aunt)
El Chamuco (maternal uncle-in-law)
Sartana (maternal cousin)
Eight unnamed cousins

### Pets

Chiapa
Colibrí

### Friends/Allies

Zatz †
Rico
Chimi
Picchu †
Widow Queen
Grand Bruja
Barbarian Princess
Barbarian King
Ah Puch
Camazotz †
Vucub †
Cabrakan †
Cipactli †

### Enemies

Lord Mictlan †
Acat †
Hura and Can †
Chivo †
Xtabay †
Bone and Skull †
Cabrakan (formerly)
Cipactli (formerly)
Vucub (formerly)

### Likes

Fighting, being the Eagle Warrior, her friends and family, Zatz

### Dislikes

Lord Mictlan, Zatz (formerly), Lady Micte (formerly), gods who try to kill her, being called princesa, snakes, stereotypical princess lifestyle, her family, friends, and Zatz in danger, her stepmother (formerly)

## Behind the Scenes

### Voiced by

Zoe Saldaña (English)
Sandra Echeverría (Spanish)
Mutsumi Tamura (Japanese)
Nirayu Zuhdi (Malay)
Sesilia Belliana (Indonesian)
Marie Hinze (German)
Pooja Punjabi (Hindi)

### Last appearance

*Chapter Nine: The Sun and The Moon*

**Maya** is the titular main protagonist of the miniseries Maya and the Three. She is the princess of the Kingdom of Teca. She is a warrior demigoddess, daughter of King Teca and Lady Micte, Goddess of Death and the stepdaughter of Queen Teca. Maya was destined to be the one who would slay Lord Mictlan, the God of War. To fulfil this prophecy, she journeyed to find the other purported members of the prophecy-the Rooster Wizard, the Skull Archer and the Puma Warrior. After being killed in the final battle against Lord Mictlan, Maya was resurrected as the Goddess of the Sun, due to her sacrifices and deeds.

## History

### Backstory

Maya was born to King Teca and Lady Micte. Micte initially conceived her to sacrifice her and gain enough power to become more powerful than her husband, Lord Mictlan. But after Maya was born, Micte found herself unable to do so, coming to love the child. However, Lord Mictlan was willing to sacrifice Maya while she was still an infant, as he knew that the demigod child of Death was the only thing capable of harming him. Micte however persuaded him to wait until Maya was fifteen, on the pretext that it would make her husband stronger as a result, but it was actually to save Maya's life. Mictlan gleefully agreed and Micte led Maya to her human father and wife with the help of a forest spirit to be raised by them. King Teca recognized the necklace that Maya had on her neck, which belonged to the Goddess of Death and knew that it was his daughter. Queen Teca at first was angry, after learning about her husband's affair with Lady Micte, but finally forgive him after accepting Maya as her daughter. Maya grew up in the Kingdom of Teca, believing that her mother was the Queen, although it was actually Lady Micte.

### Chapter One: Quinceañera

Maya infiltrated some illegal fights, right on the day of her coronation. Under the pseudonym "Claw of the Eagle" Maya challenged the best wrestler in the tournament, the Bear Killah, of whom she was a fervent admirer and fought against him. While they fought Maya constantly apologised to him when she landed a hit. When she defeated him, Maya was ecstatic, but the Bear Killah recovered quickly and dislocated her shoulder. When Maya rose, ready to fight till the end, Chiapa arrived at the fight, having been sent by Maya's parents to bring her back. He arrived just as Maya was hit by the Bear Killah, leaving her unconscious. Chiapa then took her back to the palace.

In the palace, Maya was laid on her bed, with a black eye and a dislocated shoulder. Her mother, Queen Teca, fixed her shoulder fixed her shoulder and told her that she had dreamt of Maya's coronation for fifteen years. However, Maya said that she did not want to be a diplomat like Queen Teca, but a warrior like her brothers. But her father, King Teca, told her that her brothers are not just warriors, but the Jaguars of the prophecy and he is the Eagle who will fight against the gods of the Underworld one day. Maya however believed that prophecy was just a story and that gods didn't exist. After her father leaves, her angry mother tells him that being a leader is more than just fighting, and that it is full of sacrifices. Maya, angered, said that it was not fair and her mother, infuriated, broke the mask that she used for her clandestine fights and forbade her from fighting again. Maya, heartbroken, blurts out that she wished Queen teca wasn't her mother but quickly felt bad and tried to apologise. Her mother however, left the room after telling a maid to prepare Maya for the coronation.

While the maid prepared Maya, she still felt bad about her words and wanted her mother to give her a chance to be a warrior. When the day of her coronation finally arrived, the other kingdoms came to Teca to honour Maya - Luna Island, the Jungle Lands and the Golden Mountains. Before Maya showed up, she decided to accept a life of diplomacy for her kingdom because she believed that her mother could be right. Right after the coronation, an unexpected, unwelcome guest arrived, interrupting the coronation. The guest was Zatz, an emissary of Lord Mictlan, the God of War. He said that he had come to take Princess Maya to the Underworld to be sacrificed and revealed that Lady Micte the Goddess of Death is her real mother, leaving Maya confused.

Maya's parents are not willing to give away their daughter, so her father and brothers decided to confront Zatz. Maya wants to help them but her mother says that they are not her places and wants her to let her father and brothers take care of it, but interrupts when Zatz blowing a trumpet calls two stone giants and Maya wishes to help her father and brothers but is stopped by the warriors. During the fight the jaguar triplets fighting against Zatz are knocked down by him and King Teca fighting against the two giants finally knocks them down, but loses an arm and Maya goes to help him. After Zatz leaves after telling Maya "to be fine and to see her soon", King and Queen Teca summon to fight the dark gods but the kingdoms do not trust that they could bring victory and leave after Maya said that they must fight for the Tecas. With her father injured Maya tells him that they will solve it but her father says that there is nothing to solve and that they are at war with the gods for her and they embrace.

### Chapter Two: The Prophecy

As Teca's warriors prepare to destroy the Divine Gate that connects to the world of the gods, Maya spies on her parents who are conversing about Maya's true origin with the help of her brothers, but she soon falls and her parents pick her up they discover. Then Maya angry with her father could have told her the truth sooner that her real mother is Lady Micte and her father says that when she was little she thought it was wrong to tell her and when she thought of telling her it had been a long time. Maya then says how he could betray his wife and asks her mother if she was mad and she says yes and that was the first time she stabbed him. Then her parents tell her the truth, when she was a baby the spirits of the forest swallowed her towards them, her father recognized her by the necklace she wore since it belonged to Lady Micte and although Queen Teca was still angry she wasn't angry with Maya since she was just an innocent baby.

Maya begins to hate her real mother for having abandoned her and because she wants to kill her, and her father for lying to her, but the queen reconciles her and tells her that although she did not give birth to her, she raised her and that she will always be her mother and part of her then the two embrace. Then Maya tells her mother "if she's a demigoddess she's invisible" and she says no. When her father, her brothers and the army of Teca prepare to leave, Maya asks her mother if she will let her go with them to see how they destroy the divine gate, but her mother asks her to stay and help protect her. the kingdom. Maya says goodbye to her brothers and her father, just before leaving, her father says to his daughter "if it should be" and she says "then it is my duty" and they leave, from a distance Maya tells them with a raised voice that she show the gods the fury of the Tecas.

While in the Kingdom of Teca, Maya waits for her father and brothers to return, but decides to sneak away so she can catch up with them. There he meets his father who is very badly wounded and who was being taken by Chiapa and also Zatz who was chasing him, Maya gets defensive and takes two arrows, and her father also takes his gun, but Zatz says he doesn't want to fight and gently places the remains of Maya's brothers' weapons on the ground and Maya falls to her knees in despair and Zatz he gives her condolences, telling her again that he will see her soon, and leaves. Then Maya tells her father what happened and he says that her brothers and Teca's army are dead and she asks him if they fought with all the gods and the king says that it was only against Lord Mictlan and they will come for Maya, she asks him promises his father to avenge his brothers.

As Maya honors her brothers, she feels a roar and asks her brothers for forgiveness, but suddenly she sees golden tears and three symbols are marked on the sculpture, a rooster, a skull and a puma, Maya says that she had seen those three symbols together, she thanks her brothers and goes to the library to investigate being there all night, when she sees a rooster engraved on the table she tries to turn it but she can't so she asks her parents for help. By turning the table and aligning each of the three symbols, three statues appear, a magician rooster, an archer skull and a warrior cougar and Maya discovers that they had misunderstood the prophecy, it was not an eagle and three jaguars, it was a rooster skull a cougar and an eagle that would unite to save the world. Along with that, the structure that they mobilized gave off a light, reflected by the sun that would serve as a guide to find those legendary warriors, the magician rooster will be on Luna Island, the archer skull in the Jungle Lands and the warrior Puma in the Mountains Golden and according to what Maya says "The sacred scrolls, the little eagle will be the one to guide them" and she realizes that it is her and then she faints.

After that, Maya makes a plan to find the three warriors showing it to her parents, first she would travel to each of the kingdoms and then she would return to Teca and they would go straight to destroy the Divine Gate with her parents in order to save the world. Queen Teca, knowing that it is a diplomatic mission, accepts that Maya has her first adventure and tells her that she must be very well dressed for the mission, but Maya thinks that she will make her wear another princess dress, but in reality she was referring to a suit of warrior, the eagle suit that the queen used when she was young, Maya thanks her and puts on the suit and her father gives her her first weapon, the Maya Eagle Claw accepts it and tells them that it will be the reason for her pride.

Then her parents tell her that Chiapa had been to all the kingdoms and for him to guide her and also give her a map that they made, because Maya is not good with locations. Maya convinces Chiapa that she needs him to find the three warriors and although he suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder after his fight with Lord Mictlan, he accepts. Before leaving, the king and the queen Teca tell Maya to just follow the map and then she leaves, when night fell she and Chiapa stopped to rest and continue tomorrow and Maya tells Chiapa that they are getting closer to Luna Island, which is your first stop. But when Maya falls asleep, a purple claw appears and burns the map and supplies and Maya realizes, that was done by Acat the Goddess of Tattoos who had been sent by Lord Mictlan to capture her along with her boyfriend Zatz.

When Maya and Chiapa woke up, starving, a rabbit appears in front of them and tries to hunt it to eat it but manages to escape and suddenly the forest spirit appears, which is a deer who brings apples for them to eat and Maya gives him the thanks, but they just hear a voice and an old lady known as Ah Puch appears.

## Physical Description

Maya is mesoamerican native, curvaceous girl with brown skin, brown eyes and short black hair, cut in an undercut buzz style. Before donning the Eagle Warrior armour, complete with a helmet and a painted red stripe, she wore standard Teca princess attire (a white with blue and red striped two piece outfit) and a more elaborate outfit for her quinceañera.

## Personality

Maya is an impulsive, energetic and arrogant girl who often speaks before she thinks. However, she is also brave, loyal, kind, and acknowledges when she crosses the line. At first she was a brash, prideful, selfish woman who at first wanted to be a eagle warrior, but after the loss of her brothers (with a certain god to thank for that) she wanted nothing more than her revenge on mictlan for her brothers sacrifice to not be in vain, and this goes to the point of lying to the friends she made. But after the death of picchu she saw the error of her ways and felt remorse for how she acted. But even before her brothers death she still cared about her family (apart from Lady Micte formerly) and would be willing to fight for them no matter what. After the loss of one of the teams members, Maya has matured into a wise leader who was willing to sacrifice her self just to save everyone she cared for.

Her energetic and brave personality is what earned her the position as goddess of the sun.

## Skills and Abilities

#### Strengths

* **Fighting**: Maya is a strong fighter who prefers to live life as an Eagle Warrior rather than a locked-in diplomat and even escapes into combat in her opening scene. Her primary weapon is an eagle-themed macuahuitl known as the Eagle Claw that lights up on occasion, especially if she's fighting a god, and is crafted from the blood of the gods. This was King Teca's first weapon.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Maya possesses divine strength that surpasses that of even gods. As a demigoddess she has divine strength that allows her to create powerful blows to opponents. She could send enemies flying and also even injuries gods.
* **Superhuman Durability**: Maya possesses tremendous resilience from injuries that could kill a normal human. She could take blows from godly beings without any injuries proving her extreme resilience. This makes her impossible to kill and injure making her a worthy opponent.
* **Superhuman Reflexes**: Maya could react to projectiles and attacks very fast allowing her to dodge and avoid the attacks of her opponents.
* **Superhuman Agility**: Maya possesses great agility allowing her to leap great heights and distances and make different acrobatic moves without any difficulty.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Maya could heal from fatal injuries far more faster than a normal human being. She is able to heal from broken bones, albeit suffering pain from her bones going back into its place.

Aside from being able to kill gods and heal from broken bones quickly (albeit painfully) and perhaps enhanced strength, Maya does not appear to have supernatural powers despite being the daughter of one of the most powerful gods in her universe.

## Relationships

### Lady Micte

Maya initially resented her biological mother for giving her up, and wishing to sacrifice her, but after the goddess of death rescued her and her friends from the underworld, she started to warm up to her mother, and is saddened when she dies after being poisoned.

### Queen Teca

Despite the queen not being her biological mother, Maya does love and respect her (albeit with some moments of conflict between them.)

### Zatz

Maya disliked Zatz at first, but came into some sort of grudging respect after he warned of an impending threat, and their mock fight on the rocks. She allowed him to join her and her friends on their quest to take down Lord Mictlan. But the plan failed, however the team managed to escape before Maya was about to be sacrificed, and they escaped with the help of Lady Micte (in the form of an owl), with the exception of Picchu, who stayed behind and gave his life to help his friends. After landing, they comforted each other, and shared their first kiss after wiping Maya's tears away. They kissed again during the final battle. After Zatz died, Maya cried while holding his rattle (from his infancy). After she too died defeating Lord Mictlan, they were both resurrected as the Sun and Moon.

## Appearances in the series

* **Chapter One: Quinceañera**: First appearance
* **Chapter Two: The Prophecy**: Appears
* **Chapter Three: The Rooster**: Appears
* **Chapter Four: The Skull**: Appears
* **Chapter Five: The Puma**: Appears
* **Chapter Six: Maya and the Three**: Appears
* **Chapter Seven: The Divine Gate**: Appears
* **Chapter Eight: The Bat and the Owl**: Appears
* **Chapter Nine: The Sun and the Moon**: Last appearance