Choi Myeong-Suk “Maya” 
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"Fuck anyone that tries to control me."[ 21 | 5’2” | South Korean | She/her | 91lb ]
[Spite]
APPEARANCE
"Yes I’m pretty, no I won’t date you."At first glance Maya is on the shorter side, even though she’s of average height for a Korean woman. She’s very pretty with a delicate sort of look to her. This is very quickly destroyed by the expression on her face - often some for a disgust or displeasure. She has what many would call a resting bitch face, though unlike many it’s because she's probably internally bitching about you. She is rarely found without makeup on, with the minimum of lipstick and eyeliner at all times (but often a full face). She has a naturally defined jawline even as the rest of her facial features are rather soft.
Maya has skin of a tanned, light brown colour with yellow undertones often offset by blush across her cheeks. Her eyes are dark and delicate. Her hair falls midway down her back and is naturally black but currently dyed a lighter, more orange brown. It is naturally fairly straight but she often curls it or leaves it in braids overnight to do the job for her. Her ears are pierced at the lobe and she often wears dangling earrings of various forms.
Her body is naturally slim, with a reasonably sized chest even if she is lacking in curves elsewhere. She’s not got much weight to her, both in muscle mass and fat due to a naturally high metabolism and not exactly being the kind to work out. She’s normally found in loose, flowing dresses of pastel colours or oversized sweaters and skirts or shorts.
Maya speaks with a noticeable accent due to English being a second language to her, and only living in an English speaking country for three years (though she is fluent). She has a
sound wave sigil on the back of her neck.
PSYCHOLOGY
"I know I can be hard to get on with but I really don’t care."MAIN GOAL ⫻ Graduate University and then live the life she wants - preferably with a well paying job, loads of fun and friends to hang out with. Her other main goal is to get revenge on her ex and all the friends that turned on her. She also deep, deep down wants to be recognised by her parents.
WHAT THEY WANT OUT OF THE COVEN ⫻ First of all Maya is looking for companionship, because she’s suddenly alone and without friends. Second she’s looking for something fun tklighten up her now boring life. Third she wants to be able to get revenge on her ex and any others that might harm or control her in the future - and a group of wannabe witches seems like a pretty good place for that.
PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Live for yourself and fuck what others think. She also believes in living fast and loud, filling your life with all sorts of things you enjoy even if they’re not the best for you. She believes that you shouldn’t let others control you and should do exactly what you want with your life, even if others think its a bad decision. She’ll actively encourage people to live for themselves rather than others, but also has a bad habit of talking down those who don’t.
SECRETS ⫻ Maya hides how desperate she is for attention and companionship that she lacked growing up. It was this that led her to her previous relationship, something she also keeps a secret from others.
SEXUALITY ⫻ Pansexual, with a preference for girls. Maya isn’t fussy about gender when it comes to dating. She's incredibly open about it.
FEARS ⫻ Violence. Maya fears physical violence due to her previous relationship and will automatically flinch if someone raises a hand to her.
REPUTATION ⫻ Maya doesn’t have much of a reputation in Tampa aside from being a foreigner who hasn’t lived there long. Within her university she has a negative reputation - someone who went along with a bad crowd only to shun them all. In the Coven shes known as someone whos loud and opinionated, and likes to wind others up.
FLAWS ⫻ Maya is incredibly stubborn and spiteful and absolutely refuses to do what she’s told. She’s been controlled enough in her life, but this means often she’ll do the complete opposite of what someone asks her to do - even if that’s also negative for her. She’s also very argumentative and fairly insensitive which means that she can be quite hard to get on with, and she actively sabotages her own friendships by being a bit of a bitch. When she’s enjoying herself she’s good company but as soon as she’s bored or disagrees with someone, she’s not good to be around at all. She also has severe trust issues with men now due to her last relationship.
BACKSTORY
"Pretty standard affair until I moved over here, honestly."Maya was born in Seoul, Korea to a businessman father and a university professor mother. She was brought up in a strict, no nonsense household where “fun” was equal to educational activities and most of her time was spent raised by a nanny rather than her very absent parents. She was three when her younger sister, Eun-Ji, was born. It didn’t make many changes to her life - just even less attention from either parents.
The rest of her childhood wasn’t anything special. She went to school, made a few friends and got chewed out whenever she obtained anything short of perfect grades. She acted out a few times in an attempt to get attention from her parents only for it to fail. So instead she turned to taking it out on her younger sister, who she had a bad relationship with, and other people in her class even as her anger and dislike for her parent’s grew. But still, she kept herself top of the class with the slight hope they might recognise her. She both complied and rebelled as she grew up, neither of which had much effect on the attention she got.
It was when she reached the end of school that she finally rebelled against her parents - by getting into and accepting a place for University in Florida doing chemical physics. It was a long shot from where her parents had wanted her to go - in fact she turned down a place at Seoul National University. She didn’t particularly care about the academic credentials of where she was going, all she knew was that she wanted to get away from her parents.
So she moved to Florida, choosing to go by the English name Maya in the hope that it would further distance her from her family. Going to America gave Maya exactly the change she wanted - even if it wasn’t really good for her. She fell in with what many people would see to be the bad lot with whom she partied, drank, smoked and did a lot of drugs. Even with this she was the envy of all her new friends as she somehow managed to keep her high grades. But she was enjoying herself far more than she ever had before, even relishing in the way people outside of her group told her she was throwing her life away (and continuing to do it anyway).
It was after just over a year in America that she got her first boyfriend, Dean White. It was pretty great - they skipped class together and with their friends and had a lot of fun. However the longer they were together the more controlling Dean got. He started policing who Maya saw and hung out with, growing especially envious of her friendships with other men (which she thought was ridiculous considering she was pan). This spiralled into loud shouting matches between the two that went on and on… until they ended with violence.
From then on Dean got control he wanted through fear, because there wasn’t anything Maya could do against him when he threatened her physically. Her life was taking a sudden downwards spiral as he isolated her from the rest of the group - she only got to spend time with them when they were all together, all while he spread rumours that she didn’t actually like hanging out with them.
After months of this treatment something inside Maya finally snapped during one of Dean’s particularly violent rages, awakening and emitting an explosive burst of sound energy. This was enough to shove Dean back from him and injure him, partly from how hard he slammed into a wall. With a sudden newfound power she told a very dazed and angry Dean that she never wanted to see him again, before running away.
Now with no friends and some strange magic that she had no idea about, Maya was at a loss for what to do. It was during her time locked up in her studio flat browsing the internet that she found other people talking about Extra-Normal happenings and the talk of a Coven forming. With no one else on her side and nothing better to do, Maya decided she might as well join - maybe it could bring a little fun back into her life.
SKILLS & TALENTS
"Being at the top of my class is easy, impressing my parents isn’t."Korean ⫻ Maya is fluent in Korean, as it’s her first language and she speaks it better than she does English.
Academic Intelligence ⫻ Always top of her class growing up, Maya is incredibly academically gifted and continues to get good grades with ease. However this intelligence is only for academics (she’s certainly not street smart). She makes sure to keep her grades up to keep her parent’s happy - as much as she dislikes them, she likes the money they send her. She’s especially good at her degree field, chemical physics, and maths.
Photographic Memory ⫻ In a way coming hand in hand with her intelligence, Maya has a photographic memory meaning she only needs to see things once or twice to remember them.
ABSTRACTION
"Being noisy is pretty fun."TYPE ⫻ Awakened
ABSTRACTION ⫻ Sound Blast, the ability to release damaging blasts of sonic energy.
ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Born from her spite and constant need for arguments, Maya can emit blasts of sound waves that cause physical damage to people and objects. She is able to do this in two ways. The more powerful, but less controllable, way is a burst of sound in a radius around her emitted from her entire body itself. This is powerful enough to break materials such as wood and to badly damage (non supernatural) humans. Along with this it’s powerful enough to push back whatever it hits, as if they were hit by a “physical” force of sound waves. The other way is focused through her hands, a less powerful burst that can be targeted. This requires far more concentration and does not cause as much sheer damage or pushback but it doesn’t affect everything in a radius as the other way does.
LIMITS ⫻ The Emotional-Field around Extra-Normal beings prevents them from receiving the full brunt of the damage. They may be launched back but they'll still retain their hearing... well, they'll get it back eventually. The area of effect blasts of sound has a range of ten meters, while the focused blasts have a range of around thirty meters. However, the blasts lose damage the further out they go - so their max effective range is around half their max.
WEAKNESSES ⫻ Using the sound blasts has the side effect of killing her own hearing for a few minutes as she'll only hear ringing. The focused blasts will do it for a minute or two, while the area of effects blast will remove her hearing for quite longer. In addition, the sound blasts interfere with her sense of equilibrium and her balance will go to trash while she's using her ability. Also, the more focused sound blasts have a recoil that'll physically throw off her balance.
OTHER
"This better end up being fun."
Atrophy,
Evil Ghost Note,
Neziul,
Tesserach,
DrDistasteful,
Simply Not Real,
Cosmic,
Ohm,
VenusSundew
