Maya Nakamura

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Maya Nakamura** (Japanese: **中村  マーヤ** *Nakamura Māya*) is Toru Nakamura`s twin sister, and Hanako Mari`s girlfriend who died due to a severe case of cancer. After Maya passed in an attempt to drown her grief at Maya`s death, Hanako immediately started to date Tōru Oikawa later breaking up with him, after noticing that her heartbreak over Maya dying was not healing.

## **Appearance**

Maya has an average body size and shape of that of a typical teenage girl, abet somewhat slender and thin. She is a bit underweight, but looks good due to her slightly hourglass figure. She does, however, have a noticeably larger bust, with a round face, with a blunted chin, and big, sexy 'anime girl' eyes that are brownish maroon, and long eyelashes. She has reddish brown hair, with mild brown highlights, worn in a pixie/mop cut that covers her ears and forehead. She has an even beige skin tone, and an all-over creamy skin texture. She wears the school`s uniform of Acrane Academy consisting of a blouse with a fluffy bow tie, a jacket, and a red very short-hemline jumper dress with black knee high socks.

As noted by many of her classmates, she is described to be like her twin brother; Toru Nakamura in that they shared nearly the same appearance leading to the conclusion that Maya was a "cross-dressing male", however when she hit puberty and started growing more "feminine parts", she was eventually revealed to be a female. She has a tendency to wear male clothing and wrap her chest so that she appears more flat-chested. After her severe cancer problem was discovered, she was constanally in the hospital, and rarely if ever opened her eyes, they being the cause of her illness.

## **Personality**

When she was still alive, she was a humble and selfless person, who constanally worried about other people over her own personal needs and wants, neglecting her own health to aid her friends; this was implied by the doctors to be the reason why the cancer progressed so fast and how it was so remarkable that Maya survived until she was in her third year in high school, as she was predicted to die at age 10 during her childhood. She always has a kind, caring, and loving personality that openly allowed her to care for others. On the other hand, she was always shy and reserved, not wishing to interact with many people lest it go sour due to the fact that she was dying and she didn`t want to burden their hearts with regrets. She was the rock of support for her twin brother and girlfriend, and was quiet, docile and soft-spoken; all traits that her family enjoyed about her. However, she also has a trait that is very detriment to her health---she is very indecisive about many things. Most noticeable is that she can not decide how to handle the friendship of two of her closest friends, as she constanally worried over if she was doing the right thing. And sometimes, Maya's generous personality is such that she gets taken advantage of by others, without her even knowing or suspecting that anything is wrong.

## **Background**

A former member and assistant coach-in-training of Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High, she won the "Best Trainee Assistant Coach" in her prefecture during her third year at the aforementioned school. As a former upperclassmen and senior trainee coach to Tobio Kageyama, she was his "motherly-like figure" on the team and was a comforting source to him and his other teammates. She`d been cursed with severe cancer and thus she couldn`t do strenuous activities without making her illness worse.

In her final tournament of junior high, she and her team faced the Shiratorizawa team and won a set for the first time. They came in second to Shiratorizawa in the results, and it was there that Maya received the Best Trainee Coach Award. Maya later attended Acrane Academy so that she could be closer to the best medical hospital in the entire country, becoming the assistant coach, and later on main coach of the Academy`s volleyball team respectively by her third year. She would later succumb to her illness and die, sometime around the end of the first week in her third year.

## **Plot**

### **Interhigh**

She was mentioned by Oikawa and Iwaizumi who both asked how she was to Maya`s twin brother, who only froze in place and told them that Maya was fine, as she had a slight leg-sprain and that she was recovering at the hospital.