Maize

### Likes

Her family, traveling, freedom, flowers, romance, magic, exploring, adventures, Enchanted Pup stories, elemental spirits, helping others

### Dislikes

Her father's death, her family in danger, Wolfgang, being stuck in the castle, living without magic, having no freedom or fun, not being able to travel

## Family information

### Parents

Amber (mother)
Milo † (father)
Hansel (stepfather)

### Other relatives

King Theron (maternal step grandfather)
Queen Sadie (maternal grandmother)
Cerberus (maternal step uncle)
Robert Pup (paternal step grandfather)
Lady Giselle (paternal step grandmother)
Charles (paternal step uncle)
Dwayne (paternal step uncle)
Sierra (paternal step aunt)
Kirby (paternal step uncle)
Ralph (paternal step cousin)
Wolfgang † (paternal step-granduncle)
King Blacktail † (paternal step granduncle)
Queen Dalila † (paternal step grandaunt)
Bloodmoon (paternal step granduncle)
Burnskin (paternal step granduncle)
Sebastian (paternal step cousin)
Adam (paternal step cousin)
Ace (paternal step cousin)
Timmy (paternal step cousin)
Runt (paternal step cousin)
Martin (paternal step cousin)
Abigail (paternal step cousin)
Karen (paternal step cousin)
Eddie (paternal step granduncle)
Angel † (paternal step grandaunt)
Archibald (paternal step cousin)
Brodi (paternal step cousin)
Artie (paternal step cousin)
Stella (paternal step cousin)

“*She certainly takes after her mother*”
―Sadie describing her granddaughter

**Maize** is a major character in the animated feature film, *The Enchanted Pup.* She is the second born and only daughter of Queen Amber and the late King Milo and the younger sister of Prince Yukon. She was born with the ability to control and grow flowers just like her mother. When the kingdom was threatened by Wolfgang, Maize tags along with the Enchanted Pup to battle against the forces of evil and restore EverRealm. Once Wolfgang was defeated, Maize becomes the new princess of EverRealm after her mother married the Enchanted Pup. As EverRealm's princess, she could finally make her dream come true by someday ruling the planet as queen.

## Background

Maize was born into the royal family of Elkwood as the second child of Queen Amber and her late husband, King Milo. She resided in the palace with her older brother, maternal uncle and grandparents. Maize was born with flower magic like her mother. Like Amber did with her mother, Maize would play with her magic by decorating the palace halls for special occasions. Sometime during Maize's childhood, magic was banned by Wolfgang, the king of EverRealm. Milo protested against Wolfgang's cruel law but this resulted in his tragic death. Having suffered two tragedies, Maize held on tightly to her family, especially her brother, Yukon who took their father's death, the hardest.

### Personality

Unlike her brother, Maize is cheerful, bubbly, happy, energetic, rambunctious and eternally optimistic. Her grandmother describes her by saying that she takes after her mother meaning that she shares a lot in common with her mother besides her appearance. Maize was born with the power to control and create flowers and plants and has a great sense for decorating the castle, her bedroom and anything else depending on the mood like for a birthday, anniversary or just when she's happy. After her father's murder, Maize felt a little lost but just like her mother, she would handle her grief herself but remained close with her family. She helped Yukon with coping with Milo's death as she was aware that they were close. By growing into a teenager, Maize continued to live her life optimistically despite living under Wolfgang's tyrannical rule and not being able to use magic. Stories about the Enchanted Pup made Maize's hope stronger knowing that Wolfgang's no magic law won't last forever.

Maize is a romantic admirer. When her mother fell in love with the Enchanted Pup, Maize couldn't help but swoon at the romantic display. She also dreams of romance herself which is later shown in the animated series. Maize's dream involves her someday finding her true love, a dream similar to her mother's. Maize just wants to be just like her mother when she grows up. As a pup, Maize would play in the throne room and imagine herself sitting on the throne ruling as queen. Throughout the franchise, Maize is given several opportunities to rule EverRealm when her parents are absent. As a result of Maize's leadership skills, she rules the planet as a successful, responsible and happy princess.

As a result of Wolfgang's anti-magic law, Maize was restricted to the castle and kingdom for her own safety thus she couldn't travel and explore the kingdoms that surrounds EverRealm. Her goal in the film was to explore EverRealm and the universe. However, Maize feared that her travels wouldn't be what she hoped for it to be. After experiencing her mother traveling with the Enchanted Pup through the galaxy in one night, Maize realized that there's nothing to worry about traveling around the world as long as she traveled with her family.

### Physical appearance

Maize is a slender Golden Retriever puppy with a marigold flower in her left ear symbolizing her ability to control flowers and plants and her desire to be just like her mother when she grows up.

In the original film, Maize's clothes corresponds with the flower in her ear. When she introduced herself to the Enchanted Pup during the royal dinner, Maize wore a red dress with a red rose in her ear. For the rest of the film, Maize just simply wore a yellow dress which corresponds with the yellow marigold flower in her ear.

When Maize was crowned the princess of EverRealm, Hansel put a snowflake in her ear. When it touches her fur, snowflakes are magically added to her dress, symbolizing her becoming an addition to her stepfather's family.

Throughout the series, Maize's dress continues to correspond with the flowers she puts in her hair but with there being magic in the kingdom, Maize has decided to decorate her dress using her flower magic and imagination.

### Powers and abilities

* **Dog Physiology:** Maize is an anthropomorphic dog.
* **Flower magic:** Maize was born with the ability to control and grow flowers, a magical ability she inherited from her mother. Just like Yukon, Maize initially struggled to control her powers, however, she didn't find that as a problem because she knew she could gain complete control over her powers if she continued to train. During the climax, Maize could summon gigantic weeds to defend herself from the Growlers' attacks and could use her magic to decorate her clothing.

## Appearances

### *The Enchanted Pup*

Maize is first seen in the palace trying to revive a dead plant but to no success. Her mother enters the room and notices that her daughter is straining to get the plant to come back to life. She suggests that Maize shouldn't strain to get the flower to regrow because plants are living things and living things need love and attention. Once her mother leaves the room, Maize stares at the flower and immediately grabs a book and begins to read about flowers having feelings. A few hours later, Amber storms into Maize's room to tell her to help the servants with decorating the castle for a special guest who is coming to dinner. Maize asks her mother who the special guest is and Amber replies "It's a surprise." As Maize walks out of her room, she notices that Yukon is also curious to what was going and why their mother is very excited.

Later that evening, Maize is trying to choose between two dresses for the dinner. Her grandmother, Sadie walks by the opened door and notices her granddaughter is trying to choose a dress to wear. Sadie kindly discards the two dresses and takes out a purple dress for Maize to wear, saying that purple symbolizes royalty. While Sadie helps Maize get dressed for the dinner, she expresses her wish to make her dream of traveling around the world but fears that it may not be like she imagined. Sadie tells Maize the story of how Amber was scared of adjusting to her new lifestyle after her father died and she remarried Theron but managed to adapt with help with her family. Once Maize was in her dress, she excitedly ran downstairs to see who the mysterious guest was. It was the Enchanted Pup, Hansel. Maize properly bows to show respect to the Enchanted Pup and he replies that he is charmed by her gesture. While enjoying dinner, Maize watches happily as her mother falls in love with the Enchanted Pup. Once the dinner was over, Sadie escorted Maize and Yukon to the kitchen, so Amber could have some privacy with Hansel.

Once Maize was done cleaning up the kitchen, she ran upstairs to her room to watch Amber and Hansel fall in love with each other. She then witnesses Hansel taking Amber on a trip through the galaxy as an attempt to win her over. This proves to be successful as Amber asks Hansel to come back to the castle for a second date to which he happily accepts much to Maize and Yukon's delight. However, the next day, Hansel had to cancel because he had to battle against Jordan, ruler of the Twin Paw. Amber wonders why Hansel was late for his second date, so she, her children and Cerberus head over to Windy Holm via transportation through a magical root to find out. Once arriving, the Golds see that Hansel is exercising and training himself to be ready for his battle against Jordan. Amber supports Hansel with his training while Yukon and Maize cheer for him. In a few days, Hansel was ready for his battle against Jordan. The next morning, the fight was taking place at Pawpaw River in the forest. Once the fight began, Hansel not only battled Jordan successfully but ended up saving his former foe from falling to his death with help from the Water Spirit. Grateful for Hansel's heroic actions, Jordan and the Paws cheers for Hansel as their hero.

Meanwhile, Wolfgang learns from Derek, Billy and David that his plan of having Hansel killed failed, prompting Wolfgang to unleash the ruthless Smogtaur. The Smogtaur attacks the Holm, forcing the Pups to retreat back to the castle in Elkwood. In the palace, Amber tells Hansel about her late first husband, Milo who was executed by Wolfgang as punishment for protesting against him. Milo's execution impacted Maize's life as she not only lost her father but her faith in her dreams as Wolfgang took that away by restricting magic and Amber having to restrict Elkwites to the kingdom. Fortunately, stories about the Enchanted Pup helped restore Maize's faith and dreams of having her freedom back. The Smogtaur eventually located the Pups at the Elkwood Palace where it rampages through the capital forcing the Pups to evacuate to Lakeville, Buzzy's hometown. There, the town's leader, King Buttons initially doesn't let Hansel and his family enter the town when he learns that the Enchanted Pup rescued his friend, Buzzy, Buttons changes his attitude and welcomes the Pups into his kingdom.

He welcomes Hansel, Amber, Yukon, Maize, Buzzy and Cerberus into his palace and gives them, a tour. He tells them that Wolfgang's reign has ruined the peace in Lakeville after the murder of his father, the king of Lakeville. Meanwhile, Wolfgang hypnotized the kingdom's guards into attacking the Golds, forcing Hansel to fight back by using his powers. Wanting to help, Yukon used his magic to subdue the guards by freezing their legs to the ground, allowing the gang to escape to the forest not before taking Buttons with them. The Earth Spirit was leaving behind a path for the Pups and Golds to follow. By following the path and later a sign up to the mountain, the gang discover that there's nothing at the top. Believing that Hansel is running a wild goose chase, Charles angrily berates him for endangering their lives just for the fun of an adventure. Hansel tries to defend himself but to no success as Charles continues to argue. Hansel wishes for Charles to listen to him while Charles replies by disowning Hansel as his brother. Everyone is left shocked. Before Hansel could say anything, Wolfgang, the guards and the Smogtaur came up to the mountain. Wolfgang revealed that the sign directing the gang to the mountain was a phony.

Not wanting Hansel to interfere with his plans, Wolfgang sedates him and throws him off the mountain to his presumed death, to the horror of Maize and the others. Afterwards, the Pups and Golds are taken back to the palace to be imprisoned. Meanwhile, Hansel survived the fall thanks to Bradley and Buzzy, who managed to escape custody. The trio then decides to proceed to the elementals' true residence, the Gold Volcano. In there, Hansel meets the royal council and learns that Wolfgang murdered Dalila and Blacktail and claimed the throne as king after their murders. The council even tells Hansel that Wolfgang has plans to dominate the universe with an-all powerful army which is why he must be stopped before it's too late. Now knowing the truth about Wolfgang, Hansel, Buzzy, Bradley and the council heads back to the kingdom to rescue Amber and the others.

In the palace's dungeon, Maize is seen cuddling with her mother and brother as she mourns the apparent death of the Enchanted Pup. Amber comforts both of her children. Fortunately, the Pups' tears of sorrow turns to tears of joy when Hansel reveals himself to the Pups who all happily embrace once he frees them from the dungeon cell. He reveals Wolfgang's crimes against the royal family and plans to overtake Mount Olympus and the cosmos. By using Marley's spaceship, the gang flies over to Mount Olympus where Wolfgang has taken the gods prisoners, drained them of their divinity and orders Valanche, an earth demon to eat Zeus. Fortunately, Hansel soars through the sky and rescues Zeus and a final battle starts. During the battle, Thawe attempts to freeze some Olympian citizens but Maize protects them by placing a gigantic weed over them, protecting them in the process. Maize, Yukon and Amber are almost killed by the tornado demon, Ozone but Zephyr rescues them and Ozone ends up being frozen solid by Hansel. The other Growlers are defeated and the Smogtaur is tamed by Hansel's ice powers. Enraged by Hansel ruining his plans, Wolfgang lungs at Hansel, moving the battle into the Olympian palace. Inside the palace with help from Buzzy, Hansel defeats Wolfgang, stripping him of his cosmic authority in the process, restoring power to Mount Olympus and allowing Zeus to revive Jordan. With Wolfgang gone for good, Robert and Giselle were able to return home to EverRealm.

Back on EverRealm, Hansel is crowned the new king of EverRealm with Amber as his queen as well as his wife, thus making Yukon and Maize, his stepchildren and the prince and princess of EverRealm. As Hansel's first act as king, he abolishes the anti-magic law, thus allowing EverRealmians to use their magic now and forever. Maize is happy now that she has her freedom back, she can use her powers again and that she has the Enchanted Pup for a father.

### *The Enchanted Pup 2*

Taking one year after the events of the previous film, Maize has happily adjusted to her new lifestyle in the castle along with her brother. Meanwhile, Hansel is struggling to rule EverRealm as he's having nightmares about the kingdom falling into chaos again. Desperate to keep his kingdom in safety, Hansel journeys to a village in a Nepali kingdom to find someone capable of protecting the planet in the future. During Hansel's absence, Maize stays behind to help her mother govern the kingdom. A few days later, Hansel returns to EverRealm with Brodi, Archibald, Artie, Stella and Eddie, members of the Mastiff Family. Maize and the other Pups take an immediate liking to the Mastiffs but they later had to leave. Hansel later has to go back to Woolsville after realizing that Brodi and his family are in danger. Despite Hansel's orders, the Pups and Prowlers follow him to Wolf Town to help him battle Wolfsbane and his men. Wolfsbane is defeated and the conflict between the wolves and sheep finally comes to an end. The Mastiffs goes back to EverRealm with the Pups as it turns out that they're related to the Pups thus they're royalty. Maize gives the Mastiffs a warm welcome as they take residence in the palace.

### *The North Pup*

When her father and uncle goes missing, Maize helps her mother mount a search party. When Hansel and Cerberus eventually returns to EverRealm, they ask the family to help them battle against Professor Whiskers, an enemy of the North Winds. This is successful and in an attempt to award the North Winds for their heroic services in the kingdom, Hansel welcomes them into the capital.

### *Animal Planet*

Maize joins her family on an adventure to a kingdom known as Basel's Garden to help the royal family when an enemy threatens the safety of the capital.

### *Robin Hood*

Maize journeys with her family to the kingdom of Nottingham to help restore justice to the town.

### *The Fox and the Pooch*

One of Maize's duties involves her helping her family with protecting Foxwood and Wayne from the evil Bonetown king, Chief.

### *The Enchanted Pup: The Series*

Maize is one of the main characters in the animated series. She usually tags along with her father on his adventures or stays behind to attend to her routine duties as the princess.