Maya (Earth-1731)

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FormerlyExtermity, Helena, Montana, Revelations, Portland, Maine, Sydney, Australia

## Creators and Appearances

### First

Sprawl #5
(March, 2016)

 We've always had a choice. Sometimes, our choices wax and wane but our choices are still there nevertheless. **Remember that.**
—Maya[src]
## History

### Early Years

The woman known as Maya was born in Sydney, Australia, and eventually joined the SAS after getting her degree in communications. She worked as a communications officer for the SAS long before Elias Chase and Woods came to her to recruit her for a specialized team. Seeing this as an opportunity to advance in her military career, she agreed.

### Black Ops

Maya underwent the Project Crusader experimentation and eventually gained powers as a result. She was given the codename Match after her pyrokinetic abilities manifested and joined Black Ops, along with Woods, Amelia, and Alexi. This group became like a family, and eventually, Amelia would start her division of the CIA called Requiem in response to the growing superhero community. Maya joined, hoping to help the world further.

### Requiem & The Superhero Community

Amelia would decree that all Requiem members needed to get involved with the superhero community, which began the animosity between Maya and Amelia. Maya believed this was a bad idea but eventually gave in and formed the Requiem-based superhero team called NextWave. While unhappy with this, she did run missions with NextWave and became a prominent member. However, her reluctance proved to be a bad thing as she fell in love with a member of NextWave named Matthew. The two would marry sometime in 2028.

### The Chicago Incident of 2029

During the Chicago Incident of 2029, Maya and Matthew were not present as they were spending their honeymoon away from their lives. However, they watched as NextWave and their other friends died tragically. When Maya and Matthew returned to the States, Amelia had shut down Requiem, and the remaining superheroes retired. Frustrated with these decisions, Maya and Matthew banded together to create the Children of the Atom to gather young Marutas (Homo perdita) to protect them from the megacorps who wanted to hunt them down.

### Dark Future

#### Echoes of Silence

During this time with Matthew, the two would rescue a handful of kids from Lazarus and other corporations, such as Belmont, Malcolm, and Simon, whom they later adopted as their daughter. Here, Maya would send an anonymous message to an old friend, Black Thought, to hire him for a protection and transportation gig for a young Maruta.

While the young maruta, Kendrick, was brought to them by Woods, Kendrick claimed her own life to stop the Lazarus onslaught on the Children of the Atom. Saddened but determined, Maya began to think of the Children of the Atom more as a team than a rescue squad.

#### The Fury Saga

Following Kendrick's death, Maya led the Children of the Atom to a new base in Las Vegas, but it was here that they encountered a time-displaced evil version of Matthew, who went by the name Fury. Forced to make a stand, Maya inspired the team to become something greater than just individuals with powers.

While it worked, they lost their first couple of matches against Fury, but it was when Madame X, Sera Ballinger, Shay Daniels, Titan, and Lana joined the team that they stood a chance. In their final confrontation with Fury in San Francisco, the Children of the Atom revealed themselves to the world as the premier team of the Dark Future, and Maya couldn't have been happier.

#### The Voices from the Edge

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## Attributes

### Powers

**Maruta Physiology:** Much like the other members of Black Ops and, eventually, a world population, Maya has an activated M-Chromosome, but for her, it was through experimentation. She, along with the rest of Black Ops, was given extraordinary abilities through dimensional energies and substances from Paradise Lost, thus granting her a handful of powers. She was classified as one of the most powerful member of Black Ops as her ability has seemingly no upper limit.

* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** A maruta's base ability is their regenerative healing factor; Maya is no exception. She has been alive since 1920 and has shown to be able to heal from virtually anything. While Maya may be older, her healing factor has diminished but only slightly and not to the point of her surrogate brother, Woods. She still heals consistently fast, and Matthew, her husband, theorized that it may be a result of her gender and her experimentation, which was less harsh than that of Woods. She still maintains the youth and physicality of someone in their prime.

* **Pyrokinesis:** Maya can conjure, manipulate, absorb, and release fire, as her codename suggests. She does not need a conduit to generate the fire as her body naturally produces an excess of thermal heat, which she can convert into chemical and radiant energy through an involuntary process. Maya can control how hot the fire is and shape it into what she wants; however, her imagination holds her back. If Maya cannot conceive of what she wants to do, she can't do it.

### Abilities

* **Capable Combatant:** Maya was trained by SAS and, eventually, Black Ops, which has allowed her to become a formidable fighter in conjunction with her powers. She has a mastery over Muay Thai and often utilizes it to engage with enemies, using kicks and jabs more than any other fighting style. Over the years, Maya naturally learned more techniques but chose to rely on Muay Thai to get the job done.

### Weaknesses

* **Techno-Organic Virus:** Much like all Marutas, Maya is highly suspectable to the Paradise Lost variant of the Techno-Organic Virus. Thankfully, it is transmutable through contact but only from that dimension so that she can interact with her husband and Woods.

## Notes

* Maya (Earth-1731), and by extension, Donuts exist outside of mainstream Marvel Universe continuity. Themselves, their stories, and other characters are unrelated and not connected to the Marvel Multiverse and exist within solely within The Donuts Multiverse.

## Trivia

* Maya is a huge fan of Nirvana.
* While Maya does hate seafood, she does like Catfish.
* Maya picked up smoking from Elias Chase, smoking his brand of American Spirits.
* Maya didn't vote for Amelia Williams. Either time.

## See Also

* 15 appearance(s) of Maya (Earth-1731)
* 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Maya (Earth-1731)
* 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Maya (Earth-1731)
* 1 quotation(s) by or about Maya (Earth-1731)

## Links and References

### References

1. ↑ Sprawl #17
2. ↑ Sprawl #8
3. ↑ Sprawl #1
4. ↑ Sprawl #5
5. ↑ Sprawl #6
6. ↑ Sprawl: Children of the Atom #2
7. ↑ Sprawl: Children of the Atom #1
8. ↑ Sprawl: Children of the Atom #3
9. ↑ Sprawl: Children of the Atom #6