#mia being 13 and maya being 3 when misty left and maya being at most 13 when mia left

[wilted-woman]

fey family brainrot strikes again

[vickyvicarious]

thinking about Mia and Maya, and how neither Diego nor Phoenix had ever met Maya despite how important they clearly were to Mia. and, yeah, plot points. but also, Mia was so much older than Maya (about a full decade) and Misty left when Maya was still a toddler (2-3 max). Morgan probably did not do much nurturing really though I’m sure she made sure they had physical needs met; I just strongly believe that Mia pretty much raised Maya, despite being only 13 or so when her mother left.

Mia loved and trusted Maya so much. she spoke with her regularly even when they were apart, asked her to hold evidence safe multiple times. she left Kurain behind but clearly never Maya.

and yet neither of the most important men in her life had ever met Maya before Mia’s death.

I think it speaks to Maya mattering so much, being so very very important to Mia, that she doesn’t want to involve her unless she knows she can trust someone fully. and of course there’s an element of not having to explain the whole spirit channeling business if she doesn’t introduce Maya (since she so obviously is from Kurain and dresses accordingly, it’d be hard to avoid). Mia never told Phoenix about the Feys, after all. but mostly, I think, it’s about protecting Maya - from someone who wouldn’t be kind to her, from someone who might not stick around (just think about Maya’s likely abandonment issues, and Mia’s worry over them worsening when she, too, left Kurain), even from very real danger once Dahlia proved that people can and will use Mia’s loved ones against her.

she’d been ready to let Phoenix meet Maya, before she died. she’d thought about it with Diego too, but hadn’t ever gotten to before he was poisoned. but even without them ever getting that introduction, Phoenix immediately put his own life on the line to protect Maya. Godot’s motivations were never as pure as he wanted them to be, but he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt how much Mia would want her sister to be safe and happy. there’s no way they couldn’t recognize how much she loved Maya.

there’s so much that’s awful about mia’s death. but yet another really tragic detail is that she never got to introduce the people who meant so much to her, to the sister that she cared about above all others. Mia would have been so delighted by Phoenix and Maya’s friendship. she would have loved Diego to tell Maya stories and try to get her to like coffee. it would have made her so, so happy to be able to share all those parts of her life instead of keeping them segregated. and she didn’t get to. she was, I think, so careful about making sure that someone was worthy of Maya, that she missed her chance every time.

of course, Phoenix and Maya became best friends, and he was able to protect her and grow with her after Mia’s death. and i’m sure she was happy about that. but she never got to be a part of it. Mia dedicated so much of her life to protecting her family, to Maya specifically (she knew so much more about the outside world than Pearl, watched cartoons and ate burgers and Mia so very clearly indulged her interests and taught her about life outside Kurain and how to be self-sufficient, and never pressured her to be a medium or anything else), and she never got to enjoy any of the results.

it just makes me sad, man.