Maria Skye

* Maria
* Iron Maiden

> *"Dad always said technology should be used to help humanity... this is my way of doing so" - Maria to Lana*
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Better known as the Iron Maiden, Maria is a scientist at Skye Industries and head of the Nanotech Division. She's the younger sister of Lana Skye, the company's CEO. With her knowledge she created a suit of armor made entirely of nanomachines and vibranium, becoming the Iron Maiden in the process.

The suit itself is able to shrink into a simple wristwatch, allowing Maria to carry it with her at all times.

## Powers, Abilities, and Skills

* Nanotech Suit
* Technology Expertise
* Genius-level Intellect

### Stats

* +4 Intelligence/Technology
* +4 Offense
* +3 Speed
* +3 Strength
* -3 Counter
* -3 Defense
* Autofails Stealth

## Bio

The second and younger daughter of Susan and Joseph Skye. Ever since she was little she always showed a proficiency with technology and engineering, she would always take apart all her toys and then use the parts to build new more advanced ones.

Along with her sister she showed interest in her father's work ever since she was a child, running around in his underground lab in Skye Tower and observing him whenever he worked on something.

She lived a relatively sheltered life with access to high education, typically what you'd expect from a rich billionaire family. Despite this however she never liked formalities and was considered a bit "tomboyish" during her teenage years, even going as far as learning and practicing martial arts.

Growing up Maria was never able to from any true friendship with any of her peers in school, as people around her only truly cared about her wealth and her father. As such Maria grew to despise the importance people give to one's status, preferring to be judged on her own merits.

At age 19 she built her first project with nanotech: a bicycle that could morph into a motorbike. While the project's design was faulty due to not being able to actually store any fuel, she was quite proud of it and to this day she still shows it to people to demonstrate what nanotech can do.

She earned her first PhD at age 20.

When her father passed away, she let her sister take over the company, preferring not to handle such a big responsibility. Instead working on her research on nanotechnology, her field of expertise.

Seeing the current events unfolding in NYC, she decided to create a combat enhancing nano suit called “Iron Maiden”. Pretty much becoming one of the city's "heroes" in the process.

The suit is made of vibranium, a special metal that was discovered by Joseph Skye in his late years and is currently a top secret. With only a few people knowing of its existance and properties.

## Personality

Maria can be rather sarcastic and wisecracking but overall she can be described as a kind woman of integrity. Her interests in protecting people are genuine and not born from a desire of fame or power.

Maria is also very generous, almost to a fault. Due to growing up in a sheltered rich environment she doesn't quite understand the value of money, leading her to donate large sums to people she sympathizes with or even building complex expensive machinery for free, if requested.

Maria is also always concerned about the safey and wellbeing of Skye Industries employees. She put her life on the line to save them from the villain known as "Beast". When one of the hostages, Dr Skype, told Maria to just let her die as she could be replaced, Maria absolutely refused stating "that's not how Skye Industries operates".

One of Maria's biggest faults is her impulsiveness, a glaring example is that PR nightmare she caused when she made that statement against The Daily Bugle, without even consulting Lana first.

Maria can also be very stubborn and prideful. That could be observed during her argument with Samantha Price where she refused to concede some of the good points the Chief made.

Maria is also too nice, making her very easy to be taken advantage of.

While ultimately Maria is a kindhearted person who genuinely wants to help, some of her kindness and generosity could be interpreted as a desperate desire to be appreciated. This desire stems from being unable to truly form any meaningful connection with anyone outside her family as she was growing up, since all her "friends" in school only truly cared about her wealth and never judged Maria on her own merits and flaws.

## Storyline

She first debuted against Tower of Grey and the Spider Aberration, ever since then she's been involved in defending NYC from all sorts of threats. Ranging from demonic mutants to simple robbers. She was forced to act out as a vigilante at first due to not having any actual legal means to help people.

Even though she was technically wanted by the police, she decided to supply them with Skye Industries technology. Simply because she firsthand saw how the NYPD isn't properly equipped to deal with the new threats popping up.

She eventually founded a team called The Guardians, with her becoming the de-facto leader.

Immediately after, following Arthur Rose's proposal, she offically joined the NYPD as a Consultant. Leading her to publicly reveal herself as the Iron Maiden in a live TV conference.

She was then busy handling the aftermath of the giant mutant known as Aoi Asahina. After taking her brother to her, she learned that Aoi is from another timeline where the conflicts between Humans and Mutants led to a full blown war causing NYC to be completely devastated. Aoi then offered Maria to create a proper organization called "S.H.I.E.L.D.", to prevent said events to repeat themselves in this current timeline.

Before Maria could ask for more information, she was paid a visit by a Mysterious Businessman who froze her in time and warned her that such info comes with a big price to pay later on and to prepare herself for "unforseen consequences".

Maria would then run into the same Businessman in the aftermath of the Contradiction incident. When she tried to tell Lana about him, the seemingly supernatural man in a suit showed up to stop her, scaring her into keeping quiet.

As the Guardians kept growing bigger, Maria would face additional challenges. Such as her second-in-command at the Nanotech Division going insane following a failed experiment and becoming a threat known as the Evil Magistrate. One other notable event was Spinel's attack on Skye Tower. When Maria refused to press charges on Vera, conspiracy theories on the internet started to circulate about Skye Tower secretely experimenting on mutants to take over the city, this led to riots just outside of the building.

Maria was then contacted by a mysterious caller who warned her about Shogun Tetsuma, telling her that he's an impostor and is leaking everything to Dr. Solis. The caller also revealed all the shady activities Shogun was involved with in the past, this prompted Maria to ask Hansel and Akechi to look into him.

But that would end up being shortlived, as Shogun perished soon after in a car accident. An event that caused Maria to feel distraught as she blamed herself for the events leading up to his death.

After that many more events filled Maria's life. Such as successfully getting Aoi acquitted in court, kicking out Naoto from the Guardians for her irresponsible conduct, forming a proper structure for the Guardians by promoting Jess Collins as her personal assistant and overall recruiting more Guardians. But most importantly, she officially formed a romantic realtionship with Kamina.

In a public debate at Flushing Meadows Park, Maria made her pro-power stance clear, stating that a much better system would be a license to use powers in public. Those events were followed by the Evil Magistrate's attack on the Statue of Liberty, an event that made Maria almost want to reveal to the world that the maniac supervillain used to be a Skye employee.

Maria also later created an Android called Miaya that was simply meant to act like a Guardian, that Android however ended up having a childlike personality and started referring to Maria as her mother. Maria in turn quickly started seeing her as her daughter.

She recently came into contact with her cousin Ema. Who she hadn't seen in a decade. Ema revealed herself to be a mutant with a Stand and declared to have moved to NYC to be a forensics detective on the Evil Magistrate case. Unfortunately the reunion was very awkward, as Ema herself was distant and cold to her cousins.

## Relationships

**Lana -** Her elder sister. Loves her very much and is always afraid to damage her hard work.

**Jarvis -** An AI made in memory of the Skye family's late British butler. Maria considers him an invaluable assistant and friend.

**Shogun -** Despite all the trouble he caused, Maria kinda saw him as the little brother she never had. Blamed herself for his apparent death.

**NYPD -** Her current "bosses". Working with them has been more demanding than expected.

**Samantha Price -** After an argument, she doesn't like her. Thinking her to be unfit for her position and to care more about her ego than keeping the peace.

**The Loremaster -** Her self-proclaimed "rival". Despite this, Maria feels sympathy towards her and even offered her to take her in.

**Vera -** Maria is sympathetic towards her and is currently giving her a place to stay at Skye Tower.

**Kamina -** Maria's bond with him became closer when he told her that he just sees her as Maria, without all the other titles. They started unofficially dating after that and as time passed, became an official couple. Maria sees him as a lovable cool dork.

**Hansel -** Maria sees him as the most trustworthy officer in the force that isn't also part of the Guardians.

**Aoi Asahina -** The giant mutant from another universe. Maria worked on a device that would actually allow her to control her size and then paid for her legal battle in court. She hopes to be able to form SHIELD with her.

**The Guardians -** Maria's team, she trusts all of them and is grateful for what they do.

**Katelyn Sevilla -** Initially disliked Maria due to her rich status, after Naoto's betrayal the two bonded and ended up becoming friends. Maria is also aware that she's the vigilante known as Memento Mori.

**Miaya Skye -** An Android that ended up becoming Maria's surrogate daughter, even taking on the Skye name. Maria acts like a mother towards her and loves her very much.

**Kokonoe Mercury -** An antisocial genius scientist who randomly decided to become an ally to Skye Industries. Maria sees her as a trustworthy ally and friend, always enjoying working on projects with her.

**Jess Collins -** Used to be a Chief Designer at Skye Industries, due to her nononsense behavior and good judgement skills Maria decided to promote her to her personal assistant and coordinator for the Guardians. Maria sees her as invaluable and is grateful for all her work.

**Ema Skye -** Maria's cousin. When they were young they were very close and always spent a lot of time playing or "doing science" together. Following an incident that caused her dad, Caesar Skye, to die she became distant and cold. Not even showing up to Joseph Skye's funeral. Currently Maria is trying to reconnect with her.

## Fun facts/Trivia

* Maria's FC is Mia Fey from Ace Attorney. The Iron Maiden instead was at first Phoenix Ranger Featherman F from the Persona series. It was then changed to Ironheart's suit from Marvel.
* Maria is actually originally from another RP universe with its own extensive lore. In that universe, Maria eventually becomes a Deity, more specifically the Goddess of Justice.
* In said RP universe, the Iron Maiden suit is the result of combining magic with technology. The suit is summoned by a device she created called "Aetherialix". Shaped like a wristwatch, the Aetherialix is able to shape the Aether in the area into a suit of armor. While the suit was first named Iron Maiden, she later on changes it to "Diamond Empress".
* Maria's favorite food is strawberries. She always makes sure to have a fresh basket of them on her desk whenever she's working on something.
* Maria's total networth is around 100 Billion dollars.
* Before becoming the Iron Maiden, Maria rarely left Skye Tower.
* Maria hates wearing "feminine clothing" such as dresses and heels. She is willing to make exceptions for Kamina, however.

## Gallery

Iron Maiden preparing to attack.The suit's vibranium easily deflecting bullets.Talking in comms.