Maia Yuki

*"You shouldn’t ever go a day without smiling at least once!"*
―Maia
***The Girl Brighter Than Fire***

## Personality

Wide-eyed and with her head in the clouds, Maia is rarely seen without a smile on her face. There are very few things that Maia can't find a reason to love. She is extremely outgoing and friendly, often able to diffuse rising tensions with relative ease, even once halting an entire bar fight and convincing all the patrons to join her in song. Maia greatly values honesty and her mood will quickly turn sour if she is confronted by consistent and ongoing deception, regardless if it is well-intentioned.

Maia values the happiness of others over everything else and she will try her best to cheer someone up. However, there are times where she is unable to take the hint and will continue to try to lighten up the day of someone who clearly just wants to be left alone. Maia believes that if everyone else is happy, then she has no reason not to be happy either.

Maia likes to view herself as a pacifist, viewing violence as a last resort. At least that's how she likes to view herself. Though she is among the least likely to escalate a fight or throw out a punch, she will usually default to violence quicker than she probably should have. Even then, Maia prefers to act more on the defensive side and feels more comfortable letting her fire do the work when she fights, feeling very uncomfortable with the idea of punching others with the intent to harm.

However, much of her happy demeaner is the result of being dangerously naive. Maia isn't dumb, but rather fails to understand how the world works when it truly matters. Though Maia is determined to help others, she turns away from other responsibilities in her life, though this is through a misplaced feeling of an obligation to do so. Maia feels a tremendous amount of the guilt towards the kind of life she had been given and feels like she owes a great amount to her sister, Kaia, and is determined to make things right.

### Likes

* Parties
* Music
* Dancing (She Can't Dance)
* Joy and Happiness in All Their Forms
* Making Friends

### Dislikes

* Lying
* Guilt
* Responsibility
* Seeing Others In Pain
* Pesimissim

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

* **Tractactori Physiology**
	+ **Pyrokinesis**: As a Tractactori, Maia can produce and manipulate fire. She can use this ability to enhance her hand-to-hand combat or to engulf enemies in a cone of flame. Unlike Kaia, Maia has yet to create any constructs or weapons using her fire. When pushed far enough, Maia's fire can reach sizes and temperatures akin to an erupting volcano, melting and incinerating the area around her with the resulting smoke clouds being large and dense enough to house thunder storms.

### Abilities

* **Above-Average Human Condition**
	+ **Above-Average Strength**
	+ **Above-Average Durability**
	+ **Above-Average Reflexes**
	+ **Above-Average Speed**
	+ **Above-Average Stamina**
* **Animal Taming**
* **Athletics**
* **Culinary Expert**
* **Equestrianism**
* **Lie Detector**: Maia can't often tell when someone is lying, but is more likely than any other member of the Q-Listers to see through deception.
* **Martial Arts**: Maia has trained with the likes of Dino and her sister, Raia, despite her more pacifist nature.

## Trivia

* Maia is *actually* incapable of making a convincing angry face.
* Maia is a fan of metal, with one of her favorite artists being *Metallica*.