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[b][color=AD3A3A]Miriam Grâce “Maya” Desrosiers[/color]
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[color=GRAY] Female [/COLOR] | [color=GRAY] 24 [/COLOR] | [color=GRAY] [color=fff200]Veradis[/color], née [color=662d91]Doumerc[/color]
Scion of[/COLOR] [color=6628B3][b]Gravity[/b][/color][/CENTER][CENTER][SUP]_______________________________________________[/SUP]
[color=GRAY][i]“Did you see Scion Maya’s Instagram story?”[/i][/color]
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[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqbQpES7cUo][i]Baby, you got something special
Your body is a work of art
But we got a little issue

I feel your chest, but I can't find your heart[/i][/url][/CENTER]
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[center][h3][i][color=AD3A3A]“Let me guess: the bishop wants to see me.”[/color][/i][/h3][/center]
[b][color=gray]Holy Sigil Location[/color][/b]
[indent]Maya’s Holy Sigil appears on her eyes. While she is not the first Scion to present this way, this has been of interest to the Church as it has historically been the only known Sigil presentation to produce two symmetrical marks rather than one.[/indent]
[b][color=GRAY]Appearance[/color][/b]
[color=FFFFFF][indent]Maya is average height for a woman at 5'5", though she's usually boosted a bit taller with heels. She has a slim but shapely build, fair skin, and long, straight black hair, fairly typical of her Doumercène heritage. She typically dresses business casual, preferring skirts, stockings, and blouses in various styles. Her eyes are the colour of dark red wine, and her face, conventionally pretty, is often slack with boredom and mild contempt. When the cameras are on, however, her crowd-pleasing smile is second to none. [/indent][/color]
[b][color=gray]Personality[/color][/b]
[indent]Maya is a fan favourite among the current Scions, and for good reason: in interviews, public appearances, and most notably on social media, her contemporary style, openness with media and bubbly attitude have made an otherwise distant and intimidating ecclesial figure approachable and relatable to the younger generation. There is no journalist or camera she turns away, and by striking a careful balance between zoomer fun, modern sophistication, and girl-next-door charm, the Scion of Gravity has become a widely appealing and entirely inoffensive public figure that just about anyone can look to and find something to identify with.

It’s really a shame that it’s all an act. 

In private, those close to Maya know her to be high maintenance, stubborn, self-centered, manipulative, and prone to temper when things don’t go her way. She has a vindictive mean streak that the more pious of her friends would call her deadliest temptation, to which she often surrenders; when someone rubs her the wrong way, she just can’t help herself. Often unreadable and rarely saying what she means, she keeps those around her walking on eggshells - until they realize that her bark is usually worse than her bite. Fortunately for her, most retreat before they ever get that far. [/indent]
[b][color=gray]Biography[/color][/b]
[indent]Maya was born in one of Doumerc’s smaller cities, an ancient settlement called Rivière-de-Larme located on one bank of a wide river forming part of Doumerc’s historically contested border with Kaudus. One of the last remaining border settlements in Doumerc (after the rest were gradually abandoned in a diplomatic effort to ease tensions with Kaudus), tensions in Rivière-de-Larme often run high, and the settlement is closely monitored by the Doumercène military, a rare sight in the rest of the country. However, being situated on a vital trade route both out to sea and inland to Rodion, Doumerc has yet to concede the town to Kaudus’ posturing from across the river. 

For Maya’s part, she was born into some privilege; while they had no claims to noble lineage, her family was fortunate as Rivière residents went. They owned a family business of some repute running cargo barges up and down the river, and while their contracts weren’t huge, they were consistent, and with hard work they made enough to live comfortably, a luxury not all in their town could afford. 

Maya herself was a difficult child, prone to stubbornness and temper, but she performed well in school; so well, in fact, that by the time she finished high school, she had earned herself a scholarship studying physics at a university in the nearest city. It wasn’t ivy league - it was an open secret that one needed lofty connections to get into one of those - but a degree from any Doumerc university would all but guarantee Maya a life much easier than the one her parents had worked for, and they were elated.  

Unfortunately, Maya’s scholarship worked more against her parents’ interests than in their favour. In her time away, Maya grew haughty, acquiring a taste for the sophistication and style of “big city” life and learning to look down upon the small-time border town and kitschy cargo business that raised her. Her summers home felt like prison, and even her advanced physics homework appealed to her more than helping out with the family business. 

But books still needed balancing, and cargo still needed checking, so Maya was unable to escape helping her parents out on the barges. One interesting bonus of the business was that, as a cargo carrier, the Desrosiers company was one of very few civilian companies with authorization to cross the river into Kaudus. With foreign relations strained as they were, they never had Kaudian clients, but the passport was necessary to get through checkpoints and to secure some limited protection in case docking on Kaudian shores was necessary. 

As it happened, one of the summer days that Maya’s father could drag her out to help with inventory was one such occasion, their barge suffering engine difficulties and a rudder failure that forced them to make landfall in Kaudus. An unscheduled landing in waters as well-traveled as the Larme would raise tensions anywhere, but a Doumercène ship in Kaudus doubly so; as such, tensions ran high as Maya, for once, stayed dutifully inside the bridge while her father attempted to explain the situation to the Kaudian authorities. However, while her father struggled to communicate in broken Kaudian, armed men from the shore boarded and began sweeping the ship.

Then physics rolled over, and they fell into the sky.

Things moved pretty quickly after that, and after narrowly avoiding several Kaudian attempts to kill her, Maya and her father were secured by the Doumercène military and shortly thereafter, taken under the care of the Church. It was determined after a short investigation that Maya had undergone a miracle and become the new Scion of Gravity, following the widely published death of her predecessor two months prior. Maya was 22 years old at the time. 

It was jointly decided by the Church and Maya’s family (albeit strenuously objected to by Parliament) that, for her safety, Maya would leave Doumerc and reside in Veradis, at least for the time being. Maya, who had never been strongly religious and was loath to be told what to do, chafed under the Church’s tutelage at first, and to this day hasn’t abandoned her stubborn streak, but you will never hear her complain about the accommodations: The Holy City of Juniperus is as far a cry from backwater Rivière-de-Larme as one can get. On top of that, there is nowhere in the world where a Scion enjoys as much doting attention, and in the few years since inheriting her gift, Maya has become a darling of the media - maybe a little [i]too[/i] chummy with them, if her bishop has anything to say about it.[/indent]
[b][color=GRAY]Weapon of Choice[/color][/b]
[indent]In circumstances where she's been approved for blatant uses of Gravity magic, Maya uses a blade-backed custom [url=https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/d363dedc-36b2-49c4-82eb-6bf4ef86aaa5.png]hammer.[/url] Otherwise, she carries a concealed handgun on her person at all times.[/indent]
[b][color=GRAY]Misc.[/color][/b]
[list][*]Maya has been a scion for ~2 years. 
[*]Maya has one of the biggest Instagram followings in the Federation, but there is a hot debate on the platform as to whether she should be included in popularity rankings at all. 
[*]Doumerc is still trying to entice Maya to return to her homeland. However, the events in Kaudus at her awakening (referred to by the government as “the Larme Incident”) sparked elevated border tensions that have yet to calm down, and as a result Maya claims to be uncomfortable living anywhere inside Doumerc’s borders. 
[*]By the Church and the faithful, the Larme Incident has also been called the Miracle at the Larme, and is a common topic of Maya’s interviews.[/list]
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