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|Name=Maya

|Game={{Dragon Quest IV}}

|Image=[[File:DQIV Maya DS.png|325px]]

|Sprite=[[File:Dq4mara-sprite-NES.gif|16px]] [[File:DQ4-NDS-MAYA.PNG]]<br>[[File:Maya mimic transparent.png|100px]]

|Roumaji=Mānya

|Title=Dramatic Dancer (''IX'')<br>The Flying Fan-Dancer (''Heroes'')

|Race=[[Human]]

|Family={{Meena}} (sister)<br>[[Mahabala]] (father)

|Voice Actor=[[Michie Tomizawa]] (Japanese, [[Dragon Quest IV CD Theater|CD Theater]])<br>[[Miyuki Sawashiro]] (Japanese, ''Heroes'' onward)<br>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2165929/ Anjli Mohindra] (English)

{{quote|style=1|quote='''''Arey, all I am needing is to see a stage, and I am wanting to be on it! I was born to dance!'''''|source=Maya|console=|align=center|bgcolor=b742d6}}

Maya is very similar in appearance to her younger sister Meena, but Maya wears next to nothing to better show off her body to her audience when she dances. Maya has long purple hair with bangs/fringe decorated with a silver hairpiece with green gems. She wears a silver brassiere, a long orange loincloth decorated with silver, and tan sandals. She also decorates her body with various silver accessories, such as a choker, bracelets, anklets, and an armband on her right upper arm.

Maya's outfit has remained consistent throughout her appearances in the series, with some additional accessories being added in the ''Heroes'' duology, but her design was changed slightly in some games such as ''Dragon Quest Treasures'' and ''Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince'' to avoid increasing the game's age rating in Japan. Maya's outfit is made less revealing by having her wear a triangular orange top under her metal bra and purple shorts under her loincloth.

 

Though during the game she is still grieving the death of her father, Maya is generally a very outgoing and playful, if slightly scatterbrained, person. Her occasional spells of ditziness are the main source of the sibling friction between the girls. One example is Maya referring to a cow in [[Aubout du Monde]] as "Moona". Oftentimes Maya will be distracted by the luxuries a town or castle has to offer, prompting Meena to remind her sister the true purpose of their travels. As shown in her activities in [[Endor]], Maya is overly frivolous with her and Meena's money. Combined with her addiction to gambling, Maya disastrously spends all their money on the slots, much to her sister's chagrin.

When Maya dances, she does so without inhibition, every movement filled with energy and freedom. This trait shows through in everything else she does as well, reflecting her impulsive and unrestrained nature. She has a noted gambling problem, a possible result of this trait. She finds towns without casinos or any kind of nightlife boring. Maya detests being in caves, contrary to her sister who has an affinity for them. However, she does love high places and states that she was very good at climbing trees when she was young.

Maya also has a flirtatious and playful side to her personality, and is seen to be appreciative of both [[Luceus]] and [[Aurora]]'s physical attractiveness in the ''Heroes'' series of games. She enjoys playfully teasing the normally serious Luceus. Despite her own coquettishness, Maya herself easily gets fed up with "eve-teasing men" as she puts it, and sympathises with dancers who work in bars. Maya seems to be have a preference for bad boys, as seen with [[Psaro (Character)|Psaro]] and [[Terry]], much to her sister's chagrin.

==Appearances==

{{spoiler|start}}{{DQ4 Chapter 4}} is set with Maya and Meena performing at [[Laissez Fayre|a town populated almost entirely by entertainers and tourists]]. They use their job as a cover and the town as a base to investigate the murder of their father, a prominent alchemist. Though they suspect his apprentice [[Balzack]] had killed him in order to steal the [[Secret of Evolution]], they have nothing to back up their claim and keep it to themselves for the time being.

After following the trail through several towns across the entire country along with their father's other apprentice [[Oojam]], they finally confront the murderer at his castle. Unfortunately, after his defeat [[Marquis de Léon]] appears and soundly trounces them in battle before throwing them into the castle dungeon. Luckily, its only other occupant points them to a secret exit and gives them the [[List of items in Dragon Quest IV#Key Items|Boarding pass]]. The jailbreak is noticed by guards however, causing Oojam to hold them off while the sisters flee directly to [[Endor]].

In {{DQ4 Chapter 5}}, Meena is attempting to continue her fortune-telling business but Maya blows all of the gold they had earned on their journey at the [[Casino]], leaving them fairly stranded in the city. Luckily, the {{Hero 4}} has been told to seek out his destined allies, and locates Meena and Maya in short order. Maya swears never to gamble again and the two sisters join the player's party for the remainder of the game.

Much further into Chapter 5, the party confronts Balzack at Castle [[Zamoksva]]. He has used an imperfect version of the Secret of Evolution to become Baalzack, but the party is still able to kill him, thus avenging the death of the sisters' father.{{spoiler|end}}

====Abilities====

As a dancer, Maya is physically frail, possessing very low Strength, and the lowest {{Resilience}} and max {{HP}} for much of the game. The tradeoff is that she has fantastic {{Agility}}, good {{Wisdom}}, and a great deal of {{MP}}. She has a very strong set of spells, including debilitating spells like [[Sap]], strong damage-dealers like [[Sizzle]] and [[Frizzle]], and oddities like [[Puff!]] where she can transform into a dragon. Her weapons are mostly [[Knife (weapon type)|knives]] and [[Wand (weapon type)|wands]], but she is also able to equip the [[Cobra claw]] and [[Gringham whip]] in remake versions. Her selection of armour is limited to clothing, robes, and hats. The only shield she is able to equip is the [[Liquid metal shield]].

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|Explosión

|[[Kasizz|Kasizzle]]

|Dracon

|[[Kafrizz|Kafrizzle]]

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==={{DQM3}}===

Maya, along with the rest of the Chosen Ones, appears in the Upper Echelon of the [[Circle of Conquest]] near the end of the game. The group intervenes when Psaro's elder half-brother [[Dolph]] summons his horde of underlings to attack, fending the mass of monsters off so that the family business can be settled. Not missing an opportunity to flirt, Maya declares that Psaro's isn't half-bad now that she's seen him up close. Maya departs with the Hero when he declares that the time isn't right for his battle to the death with Psaro.

==={{DQMBR}}===

==={{DQH}}===

{{quote|style=1|quote='''''I'm hot stuff, huh?'''''|source=Maya, getting ready to perform her High Tension attack.|console=|align=center|bgcolor=b742d6}}

Maya is one of the thirteen playable characters. She appears to have been mysteriously teleported to the land of Arba and is found at [[the Shrine of Scales]]. The party encounters her during a dance performance and is approached by her friends [[Kiryl]] and [[Alena]], who is overjoyed to see her. Maya is captivated by either [[Luceus]] or [[Aurora]], depending on who the player picked at the beginning of the game, and believes them to be a strong, handsome, rich hero. She will join the party after the story quest "Strangers in the Shrine" and is the last character to automatically join.

 

Maya joins at level 31 and with 139 skill points to freely allocate. Her fighting style lets her rack up combo hits very quickly, allowing her to hover once she lands 100 hits or more. She uses [[Fan (weapon type)|fans]] as her weapon of choice and she is able to cast the [[Sizz]] series of spells. Her Coup-de-Grâce is Puff!, which transforms her into a mighty fire-breathing dragon, and is one of the spells she could learn in her original game.

| [[Sizz]] || 4 || 5 || An ancient incantation that fires forth a racing pillar of flame.||None

 

| Flying Fan Dango || 8 || Allows you to unleash Fan Dango in mid-air. || Fan Dango

| Sultry Dance Extender || 5 || Extends the area of effect of Sultry Dance.|| Sultry Dance

 

 

 

In game Maya is given the title “The Flying Fan-Dancer” and she maintains the same weapon and gameplay style from the previous game where she is capable of aerial combat which becomes stronger should she maintain a large combo counter. Additionally she was given new techniques in the form of [[Pink Typhoon]] and [[Sword Dance]] that compliment her dance-like fighting style.

 

| [[Sword Dance]] || 10 || 15 || A swirling, whirling onslaught of slicing that assails all nearby enemies.|| Reach Lv. 24

 

Maya can acquire the following attributes through skill points.

 

| 1 || [[Fan Dango]] || 8||  A fabulous dance that deals damage to unlucky onlookers.

| 4 ||Deftness +10 with Fans || – || Increases deftness by ten points when wielding fans.

 

Maya appears as a S-rank member of the [[Hero family]] as part of the ''True Dragon Quest IV'' event, appearing on her own banner alongside [[Pickeerer]]. She can participate in [[Healie|Healie's]] Battle Road as a party member.

|lperk1=Raises Frizz-type potency of all Hero allies, including herself, by 20% in a 5x5 square around her.

 

Maya is a name found in several languages, ranging from Sanskrit to Spanish and Japanese. The name Maya means "illusion, magic" in Sanskrit. It is also another name used for the Hindu goddess [[Wikipedia:Durga|Durga]], who is a mother goddess associated with strength, protection, motherhood, and wars.

*There is a pair of sisters encountered in [[Greenthumb Gardens]] in {{Dragon Quest VII}} who are a reference to Maya and Meena.

*From June 10th to July 10th, 2016, a dessert called the "Manya Tea Parfait" was available at the real-life [[Patty's Party Planning Place|Luida's Bar]] in Tokyo to promote the release of ''Dragon Quest Heroes II''. Designed to look like Maya, it contains chocolate, milk tea pudding, black sesame marshmallows and is topped with silver confectionery candy. There was also a parfait based on Meena, as well.

*In the ''[[Dragon Quest Live Spectacle Tour]]'' that ran from July 22nd, 2016 to August 31st, 2016, Maya was played by professional dancer Mion Yamane.

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File:Maya Famicom art.png|{{Famicom}} art

File:DQIV Maya Kasizzle.png|Using [[Kasizzle]].

File:Meena and Maya EXP.png|[[Experience Points]]

File:Maya Dance.png|Maya entertaining.

File:DQIV Meena and Maya.png

File:DQIV Hero Alena and Maya.png|With the {{Hero 4}} and [[Alena]].

File:DQIV Golden Tiara.png|Maya wearing the [[Golden tiara]].

File:Mayas Iron Fan.png|Maya's [[Iron fan]].

File:Dancers Costume and Leather Armour.png|Maya wearing the [[Dancer's costume]].

File:DQIV Pink Leotard.png|Maya wearing the [[Pink leotard]].

File:DQIV Maya.jpg|{{PlayStation}} art.

File:DQIV DS Meena and Maya.png|Nintendo DS art with Meena.

File:DQ4 Maya.jpg

File:DQ4 Alena, Kiryl, Maya.jpg

File:ISP Meena and Maya.png|''Itadaki Street Portable''.

File:ISP Meena Trode and Maya.png|''Itadaki Street Portable''.

File:DQMB Maya.png|''Dragon Quest: Monster Battle'' card.

File:DQ Heroes Maya.png|''Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below''.

File:DQH Maya fans.jpg|Maya fighting [[skeleton]]s with her fans.

File:DQH Maya Kasizz.jpg|Maya casting [[Kasizz]].

File:DQH Maya HighTension.jpg|Maya preparing to use Puff!.

File:DQH Maya Puff.jpg|Maya's dragon form.

File:DQH Maya Meena.jpg|Maya with her sister in ''Dragon Quest Heroes II''.

File:DQH Archdemon fans.jpg|Maya holding the [[Archdemon]] Arcs.

File:Manya tea parfait.jpg|The Manya Tea Parfait from Luida's Bar.

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