Maria Malaya Meiyo's References:
Original || Werewolf || 2 Years Later || 2020 (NSFW) || Dalisay and Sakura (Nude SFW // NSFW)

Note: I've made changes to Maria and her past. You may check her previous references above

Note (As of December 2023): Maria has been redesigned to make her look more appealing and muscular

Name: Maria Malaya Meiyo
Age: 20 (2 YR Later set in 2018) / 22 (as of 2020)
Height: 6’/1.83m tall
Species: Artic Fox

DESCRIPTION:
An artic vixen was born, in Sapporo in an island of Hokkaido, in a Filipino-Japanese family whose one member is said to have contested connections to a defecting branch of a crime syndicate running in Japan. Having lost his relatives including his parents to gangsters in numerous ambushes, Malaya (at age of 14), her older brother Dalisay and her younger sister Sakura opted to leave Japan and head to the Philippines. However, they were also followed by the Yakuza in assistance of a triad in Manila, forcing themselves into rejoining their relative who was hiding in Quezon City and still a member of a defecting gang.

Dalisay decided to take arms in gunfights by training with pistols and rifles, Maria was given a different field of training in form of ninja-like attacks (which actually suited her interests inspired by some anime), and Sakura had to be homeschooled in the gang's headquarters, where the three would have to remain for years to come. Consequently, Dalisay became ruthless yet easily stressed as he became the head of his own siblings (minus their relative), Maria became calm but dangerous in certain situations, and Sakura remained optimistic yet naive as she was shielded from outside the HQ.

A year later would Maria end up in a serious destruction of the HQ, separated from her siblings and cornered by the Yakuza. Despite killing dozens of gangsters with throwing stars and arrows, she was pinned down by a gas tanker explosion at the building. Unbeknownst to everyone in the scenario, a young, muscular brown fox barged in, and killed the remaining gangsters and brought Maria to safety. From heat and stress, the two managed to escape and end up at a police station where only her siblings were saved from the destroyed HQ. As the brown fox helped Maria stand up, she gave him a kiss on their lips. Initially shocked, the brown fox went on to plant his right hand on Maria's cheek and make out with her. Only for the short time however, as the brown fox thanked the Artic fox and left the scene, without even giving her a chance to know him.

When the said attack in Quezon City was revealed, the Japanese government was forced to hunt down the Yakuza to prevent them from committing crimes abroad. The head of the Yakuza had no choice but to reconcile with the defecting branch of Hokkaido, but in condition that one relative had to cut ties with Maria and her siblings, as attacking family members of a single gangster had gained international scrutiny against the Yakuza. Maria's relative on the other hand decided to make up for his actions by spending most of his savings to send Maria and her siblings to America, believing it was a much safer place for them. It was a emotional departure for both the Meiyo family and the defecting gang, as they actually made friends with each other for a whole year.

A day later, Maria and her siblings settled in a local city in California named Santo Tomas, specifically in a low-rise aparment in Skyblue Heights. Dalisay ventured off as a businessman in Chinatown and Maria worked as a barista in a local cafe she enjoyed the most in Founding Island, all to make a decent living while Sakura was enrolled in high school in University District.

At age of 18, she remained working as a barista in the same cafe, but the sight of one customer in form of a muscular brown fox brought her to memories of her past encounter back in Quezon City. This caused her to almost lose her cool whenever he interacted with her, although he was fine with it as he was more concerned about satisfying himself on cold or hot drinks. A week later, the same fox came back to the cafe but this time got some time to know Maria. He introduced himself to be Timothy Soro, and as he shook hands with her, he was also brought back memories with some girl in white. Despite being uncertain with their past memories, Timothy agreed to join Maria in a cafe-like staffroom on the upper floor. After a 10-minute chat, Maria began recalling her past life, including how she struggled to make a peaceful living due to her relative being a member of the gang, and expressed in a lovestruck for some guy who saved her and made out with her. Maria's love story somehow aroused Timothy and the look on her eyes cleared up his blurry memory: A girl in white was no one other than Maria. He decided to confirm his own assumption by undressing his shirt in front of the Artic fox, revealing his defined chest including his good-sized pecs and 8-packed abs. This also made Maria aroused and helped her see a clearer resemblance of Timothy, prompting her to say "Timothy, were you the one I made out with? You look similar." Timothy confirmed her savior to be him. Both surprised and overwhelmingly aroused, Maria and Timothy gave each other a seductive smile, locked the staffroom door to prevent interference, made out with each other, and opened themselves with no restraints. Few days later, Maria somehow became Timothy's girlfriend.

Two years later, Maria had developed super strength, improved her agility, and muscles were formed on her body thanks to her new boyfriend's influence. Timothy's influence also helped her workplace (the cafe) flourish in business and earn more workers to take her place in absence, as well as helped her older brother shape to be a better head of the family and her younger sister learn self-defense martial arts. In return, she also became more involved with Timothy's friends and their shenanigans, hoping to get along with them in the end.

Nowadays, she and her siblings remain in the same low-rise apartment but give themselves the positive outlook past their tradegy. With no enemies abroad coming after them, they're considering engaging more in community events and projects with whatever they have.

PERSONALITY:
Maria happens to be the calmest of the Meiyo siblings. While her older brother is also calm but easily tends to snap when stressed and her younger sister is still kind-hearted yet naive, Maria remains strict and stoic, creating herself a cynical image. She also tends to glare in deep anger at anyone who dares to hurt her siblings or anyone close to her. And despite being the calmest however, while she is very hard to lose her temper, she is also very aggressive if she is barely pushed enough past her stone-hard patience.

Ever since her ninja-like training, she is a silent but clever fighter, allowing herself to calculate where things go and how her plans will execute. It also allows her to go to heavily restricted places through any available spots she finds, especially through what others call "parkour". Sometimes she does so out of curiosity.

However, despite her cynicism, she is often a friendly chatter who longs to feel like any normal person contributing to a good community. She tends to open up to anyone when fun moments come up, in which times she tends to be happy with something she enjoys. She sometimes engages in community events, such as street clean-up and assisting farmers during harvest. However, she is not an activist, she doesn't like persuading or even forcing anyone to participate any event, especially one that is deemed counterproductive. Hence, she has amicable relations with dozens of people, including her coworkers and her boss in the cafe, even before meeting Timothy.

Since her two long-time romantic encounters with Timothy, she willingly fell into his influence. So much so she is now a moderate bodybuilder yet a more agile fighter than her boyfriend. It also makes her tend to be energetic yet arrogant whenever she wants to. Also because of Timothy's influence, she tends to be seductive towards someone in a similar age regardless of gender, despite being Timothy's girlfriend, although that brown fox doesn't mind that either.

LIKES:
- Coffee and Coffeemaking: She grew addicted to coffee when she and her siblings moved to America; She loves it so much that she ends up working in the cafe
- Muscles and Bodybuilding: She wouldn't even end up muscular, hadn't Timothy come around to be with her; However, she has limits, preferring moderate muscles
- Japanese Culture and History: She grew up loving the Japanese culture, as well as its history, despite tragedy coming to bite her multiple times
- Going into places: She is adventurous, feeling like there's more in the world for her to see; Plus, her agility often helps this case
ABILITIES:
- Martial Arts (Karate and Aikido): Initially, she would train in such martial arts simply out of enjoyment in its culture; Family tradegy forced her hand to become a better fighter, but less so than her boyfriend
- Archery: She learns archery in an adept level, but she is also well-calculated in throwing projectiles like shuriken or plates
- Agility and Stealth: She was required to learn how to hide in the shadows in almost every operation as a temporary gang member back in the time
- Super Strength: Becoming muscular also comes to strengthening them hard enough for her to lift something heavy, albeit also less so than Timothy
SPECIAL:
- Influenced by her boyfriend Timothy Soro
- Calmest of her siblings
- 2018 Reference and Symbol redesigned: She hasn't had any reference in 2019-2020, despite few appearances in my artworks
- Super Persona: Iced Coffee (yet to be seen)