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Maya Bir Sinvala
Maya Bir Sinvala
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Name: Maya Bir Sinvala
Species: Sephi
Home Planet: Thustra
Faction: Sith Empire
Rank: Sith Apprentice
Occupation: AspiringsingerWitch
Age: 86
Height: 5'5"
Build: Delightful
Hair Colour: Purple
Eye Colour: Red due to darkside corruption
Skin: Pale/White due to darkside corruption
Force Sensitivity: Yes, Dark
Ships: Not yet
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Maya was born into the prestigious Sinvala family whose claim to fame and curse could be neatly tied around her older sister
Sakadi Marathi Sinvala
. The famous opera singer turned tragedy of fate had helped her family rise to new heights of wealth and honor. Growing up with her as Maya's older sister would highlight a fact that would become entrenched into Maya's mind. She was living in her older sister's shadow. Sakadi was the jewel, the darling, the diamond that gave prestige and while she was just there, a small runt that seemed to get barely any attention from her parents as they poured so much time into managing Sakadi's opera career and training regiments. Maya would constantly try to do everything she could to get her parents attention and perhaps be given even a slight chance of feeling loved only for it to constantly blotted out by the sun that was Sakadi.
Still Maya made the decision to train in music much like Sakadi and had actually found quite a bit of solace and joy in learning. She too had quite the singing voice and while she didn't possess the raw talent of her sister she was having a sense of personal discovery as she explored different genres and styles. The irony being that she had much more freedom to just be herself being in the shadow. Something that perhaps Sakadi may have envied but would be lost to Maya, as all she could see was the attention and 'love' that Sakadi received. Planting the seeds of jealousy into her that would grow over time. Despite all the praise that her music teachers had given, the ovations she may have received at her performances none of it felt genuine. It was not the same as if her parents were the ones praising her, or if they were ones giving her applause. She just wished for a chance at that.
Her wish would tragically come true when Sakadi would lose her vocal chord in an incident that was burned into her mind. Something that shocked her to her core as the ongoing drama of her sister's life hanging in the balance unfolded. A silent hope that she would recover, she could continue on. Maya didn't want to pay this price she didn't want to see Sakadi fall off the stage, just for a chance to share it. Sakadi would live but as a mute now everything changed. She could tell something had shifted in her parents and soon she was seeing the way they had stopped caring for Sakadi and it felt like a spike driven into her heart. Maya would try to be there for Sakadi but felt like she failed when her sister abandoned them.
During that time Maya's parents discovered the talent their daughter had and something ignited in them. An their opportunism took hold. Eager to rebuild the fortune they lost trying to save Sakadi, they would try to prey on Maya's musical talents. Soon they tied strings around her and began to puppeteer her life. A grueling years long process where they tried to take the unique Maya and remold her into another Sakadi. Soon everything she practiced and every genre she wanted to play fell by the wayside in favor of the opera. Grueling sessions would commence where she would be forced to sing the same sections and notes ad nauseum while her performance was meticulously picked apart piece by piece as they were painstakingly compared to recordings of her older sister.
Her freedom was gone as she had to run everything by her parents, who ran her life with an obsessive iron fist. Stress began to mount and build as she felt trapped in a pressure cooker and a few instances she would momentarily lose her voice and be put on doctor mandated breaks. Soon sleep began to disappear and for many days getting out of bed was a challenge. Even her mind felt violated as it felt like her parents had taken over her thoughts and now all she could hear was the voices of them telling her all the ways she wasn't her sister.
A deep pit of anger began to stir within her and in it, two targets of all the pain and neglect began to form. Her parents and Sakadi. She started to grow a temper and became increasingly neurotic, soon family pets began to disappear frequently, and Maya would get into bigger and bigger spats with her parents. With each day that pit would get more powerful and have more sway as unbeknownst to the young Sephi something dark was manifesting in her. Her skinning growing more pale with each day.
Eventually she snapped and abandoned everything. Satisfied in being free once more but the damage remained. Her parents voices would always hover over each failure and she struggled on her own. Before being discovered by a Sith. Sensing the immense amount of darkness that had brewed in her, they offered her a chance to hone that darkness into a sharp knife. A chance to make her own spotlight, and a chance perhaps at revenge. To her it sounded like the sweetest thing in the world.
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Maya was once someone that was beautiful noted for her soft lavender complexion and soft smile. Unfortunately that has now faded due to darkside corruption. Her skin is paler and her teeth have grown noticeably sharper and more menacing. Her face is quite expressive even if some find her smile unsettling now. Maya typically wears Gothic dresses and corsets and her cane is something that she always carries with her to round out her ensemble. She'll often use said cane to accentuate her dancing or singing.
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Strengths and Weaknesses
Musical -Maya is by all accounts a talented musician and singer being versed in many different instruments. She still finds joy in singing and is prone to breaking out into song frequently. Often times she'll use her singing as a way to help manifest and use the force, other times she uses the force to enhance her performances.
Astute student -Maya is attentive and studious, having discovered her new found powers she feels like she unlocked an unlimited well of possibilities, as a result she eagerly will snap at any chance to learn more about the force and broaden her abilities.
Vindictive in the Dark Arts -Maya finds herself gravitating to Sith magic and the art of illusions curious to try to explore things such as alchemy, incantations, and tricks. She's also working on improving her mentalist capabilities so she can play and pluck at the minds of her foes like her parents did with her heart.
Co-opted inner critic -Maya can be quite harsh on herself often having to hearing the voices of her parents play in the back of her head at any moment of failure. Mistakes eat at the poor Sith and can devour her.
Craves praise and attention -Maya is hungry and desperate for a figure in life that can give her genuine praise and is constantly on the hunt for it. Often times she finds that she needs any good will she can get to hold back the negative thoughts that eat away at her, and hold back the emotional wounds her parents had inflicted on her.
Never was a duelist -Maya was never a master with the Saber or really any kind of combat what so ever. As a result she is wholly reliant on the force to survive in combat and if cut off from it would be rendered pretty defenseless.
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