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| Portrayed by Julia Jones |
| Statistics |
| Full Name |
Maya Lopez |
| Age |
24 |
| Height |
5'9" |
| Build |
Athletic |
| Eyes |
Brown |
| Hair |
Black |
| Skin |
Tanned/Latina |
| Factions |
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Claim to Fame
Maya is by no means in Olympic shape, but she is in excellent health at the equivalent of a woman her age who regularly engages in intense physical exercise. She's stronger than most women, faster than most women, and has more stamina than most women who do not regularly train.
Reputation
Maya is by no means in Olympic shape, but she is in excellent health at the equivalent of a woman her age who regularly engages in intense physical exercise. She's stronger than most women, faster than most women, and has more stamina than most women who do not regularly train.
Biography
- Maya Lopez was born on the Tohono O'odham reservation in southwestern Arizona. At a young age, her father, Willie "Crazy Horse" Lincon took Maya from her mother and relocated to Hell's Kitchen, New York.
- Born deaf, her father began working for the mob to provide the extra funds needed for her specialty schooling. It was identified early that Maya was 'gifted', finding it easy to reproduce skills of older students as early as pre-school.
- Maya's father was ordered murdered by a high ranking mob boss. Hiding in her room at the time of the shooting, her father's last ack was to reach for her face, leaving a bloody handprint in its place.
- Maya was taken in by an influential crime figure. With the courts in his pocket, he sent Maya to the best schools money could buy. Maya received a Class-A education at a boarding school for girls, and by the time she graduated, she was so talented in dance and in piano, that she was considering auditioning for the Russian Ballet. Instead, she attended three years of college at Empire State.
- The mob, instead, offered Maya grand sums of money and praise to study cell phone footage of various heroes and masked villains. She trained in a penthouse dojo in NYC, practicing their moves, preparing for a plot to be used against the heroes as an assassin.
- Maya was lied to and told that a vigilante against 'the families' killed her father. She began to train to find the responsible party, but in the process of her investigation she learned that the mob had targeted her father in a hit. The resulting firefight and street battle in her escape made the evening news, and soon became silent.
- Under the vigilante identity of 'Echo' (A name selected for her ability to Echo the fighting styles of others), began to stalk the crime syndicates of New York and unknowingly came across a lair for the Hand. After hours spent watching their training and memorizing faces through a camera lens, she was discovered. The Hand failed to capture her, but the chase nearly killed Maya Lopez.
Character Details
Quiet and intuitive. Thoughtful and spiritual. Maya has never known much but silence, and she speaks more with her hands than her mouth, when able. A fire burns within her for the vengeance she seeks for her father's death, but the silence is lined in a thin veil of sadness. Being deaf, as she is, the world is muted in ways that most don't understand, and in result, Maya watches more than she admits.
| Photographic Reflexes |
Maya was born with the ability to duplicate any physical action, movement, or series of movements with perfection after only seeing it once. There is no given explanation as to why she was born with this ability, and is considered her natural state. This ability can be used to reproduce martial arts fighting styles, forms of dance and other artistic medium, acrobatics, and even learning to read, write, and speak languages by watching others do so.
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| Expert Pianist |
| While Maya cannot hear music, she can feel the vibrations through a piano. After watching many virtuoso pianists perform, she has gained the ability to play the piano at a 'Concert Level' |
| Dancer |
| Having watched hours of footage, Maya is an excellent dancer in many dances, ranging from club dance, to ballroom dancing, to ballet. |
| Martial Artist |
| Maya has worked her way through the greats: Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Donnie Yen, and has studied instructional video from a wide range of martial arts sources. She's watched tape of many heroes and famous villains, as well as witnessed the Hand in training. Because of this, her capacity for the martial arts is at a Master Level, but is also highly adaptable due to the assortment of styles she has in her repertoire. |
| Master Acrobat |
| Maya has studied parkour, obstacle course running, field gymnastics, and acrobatics. After watching promotional videos and performances by some of the 'greats', she has stolen their skillset, and is a Master Level acrobat. |
| Marksmanship |
| Maya specializes in the use of firearms and throwing weapons, after watching tape of multiple assassins at work. She's an expert sharpshooter and has topped out her human ability to throw with accuracy. |
| Multilingual |
| Maya has gathered a wide array of languages from around the world after watching news broadcasts, videos, and long afternoons spent in foreign restaurants. She can understand people by reading their lips and the movement of their tongues, and can speak over twenty languages…and the number is growing the farther she travels in the world. |
| Weapons Training |
| After watching tapes from martial artists, actors, various heroes, and criminal organizations, Maya has become quite dangerous with any kind of weapon she's seen used with expertise before. Her personal favorites are clubs and batons(single or double), swords (single or double), knives (single or double), and nunchaku(single…or double). She's comfortable with a weapon in each hand. |
| Highly Athetlic |
| Maya is by no means in Olympic shape, but she is in excellent health at the equivalent of a woman her age who regularly engages in intense physical exercise. She's stronger than most women, faster than most women, and has more stamina than most women who do not regularly train. |
| Enrolled |
| Maya Lopez is an enrolled member of the Tohono O'odham tribe. Their lands are located in Southwestern Arizona near the Mexican border. Everyone has a place to call home, and Maya has a tribe, with its own needs, culture, and social aspects. It is by no means a place she could hide forever, but it is a place where strangers looking for her wouldn't go unnoticed. |
| Equipment |
| Maya has at her disposal an arsenal consisting of multiple sets of escrima sticks and batons, katana and ninja-to swords, nunchaku, knives, kusarigama, pistols, and one high-end sniper rifle. She has a personally owned jeep at her disposal that she rarely drives due to her deafness, and small bank account she's amassed over the years with her 'takings' from mobsters. |
| Deaf |
| Maya was born entirely deaf. She relies greatly on her eyesight to be able to defend herself and to move about, thus, in total darkness she is at her most vulnerable. Due to her deafness being a birth defect, there is no currently existing science to overcome it. |
| Mob Ties |
| Maya's father was a former mafia enforcer who worked for one of the many gangs tied to the Kingpin. After his ordered execution by the Kingpin, she was drawn further into the life and was raised around many dangerous members of the mafia. |
| Hunted |
| Maya is hunted by the ancient organization known as 'The Hand'. Maya's investigations into the mob led her to the Hand's doorstep. After seeing too much and learning their martial arts style by proxy, she has become a hunted element by their organization. |
| Vendetta |
| Maya often paints her face with a white handprint to signify the bloody handprint her father left upon her face. She'd discovered her father in his last, dying moments, and the handprint is a symbol of her vendetta against criminal organizations. They destroy lives. She is not opposed to crumbling their regimes. |
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