Mayahuel Stroi

'Mayahuel'

Played by: Mayahuel

INFORMATION

Bee, F, Thirtysomething

Aliases: none
Nationality: Mexico/USA
Residence: London
Employer: Sun & Moon, Inc.
Function: Partner
Twitter: @mayahuelb

• Past, Present, Future •

• The Secret War •

• From TSW to SWL •

• Known Associates/Affiliations •

• Special Notes •

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Maya may seem familiar to you, but you can't ever quite place where you've seen her before. She is shy but friendly, definitely a woman who is more comfortable observing others than having the attention focused on her. She lives near the park in a small cottage with her querido Berry Hewes. They also keep an apartment upstairs from their gallery--Sun & Moon, Inc.--in Ealdwic. She carries herself with the quiet gracefulness of a woman who is beloved and content. Most would never guess by looking at her the dark years she suffered through to finally find her bright place in this secret world. Those who get glimpses of her true fierceness are usually friend or foe. The latter rarely survive. If you take the time to get to know her there will be that moment--the one where she smiles at you and all you can think of is how you never noticed before how beautiful she really is. She'll break your heart a little in all the best ways.

When she left Seoul, she barely knew her name. It's a story she keeps mostly to herself--the story of who she was when they tried to convince her she wasn't anyone at all. The story she will be pleased to tell you now is one of unexpected magic, the sort that happens without planning or persuasion. She will tell you how they never expected to fall in love but they did--and now they can't imagine not being together. They are an odd pairing that works in spite of the thousand or so years age difference. The two of them together will make you believe in happy endings even in this secretive cynical age.

Those who find themselves in need of their services come to them not just for art and design. There are those others who know Sun & Moon, Inc. is where you go when you have a problem that needs to be solved...permanently. Perhaps you come to them through a reference who already knew of Berry and his reputation as a consummate old school professional. Perhaps you heard rumors of a certain couple who can handle particularly tough assignments that fall outside normal faction business. Maybe you let someone know what you needed and they quietly slipped you a card with a number. Whatever your story--whether you have a vacation home you need decorated, an art commission you'd like to discuss, or a petty tyrant who needs dispatching--they are in business of taking care of business. And business is good...very, very good.

Mayahuel Bailey is the daughter of two Templars-James Bailey (deceased) and Perlita Garcia. Mayahuel’s mother was identified in the normal course of business as being descended from a goddess by the name of Tlazolteotl, a fierce and beautiful little goddess who had many talents. Tlazolteotl was also known as the Filth-Eater--something of little interest to anyone even after the filth surge began. The factions had been grudgingly working together for years on various projects to train progeny of the old gods for various ends. Before Maya was even born, agreements had been put into place as to her fate if she ever showed any promise related to her maternal bloodline.

Maya’s young childhood was spent mostly with in London with her father. Her mother returned to Mexico when she was still quite small. They saw each other rarely until Maya moved to the southwestern U.S. to live with her grandmother when she was fifteen. Once Maya came of age she returned to London with the expectation that she would begin her training with the Templars just as her parents had before her. While in London, she fell in love with a promising young guard named Jeremiah Clarke. Jeremy and Maya were blissfully happy until Jeremy became ill upon his return from an archaeological expedition to Egypt.

He was immediately whisked away to a secret location underneath London. Maya was determined to find him. She somehow managed to bypass the security measures and broke into the infirmary, completely disregarding the quarantine. She locked herself in with him, crawling into his bed and whispering to him in a language the Templars had never heard for hours until the dawn. When the Securi-Med teams finally got back into the room with the likely intention of dispatching both Mayahuel and her young guard, they were shocked to see the both of them curled together sleeping as if nothing had happened.

Whatever it was--the power of love, the will of a little demi-goddess, or a scientific anomaly--he was cured. Clean. In spite of attempts to keep the incident secret, the Templars received word shortly thereafter that it was time to honor the bargain made with the Dragon years prior. She was simply brought into one of the Templar offices, sedated and handed over to the Dragon. The "training" she endured there was part of what later became known among the factions as The Ablution Project. Regardless of any protocols tried, Maya was never able to replicate what had occurred in London. This did not keep her handlers from pushing her to breaking points again and again. It was a brutal experience, one that left her with no memory or connection with anyone when she was finally allowed to leave. There was much struggle and heartache before she finally found her way to the person she is now. In the end, love was what saved her and love is the only thing that she still believes in with her whole heart.

Project Ablution was deemed a failure except for a minor success at an obscure site several hours from Mexico City that none of the factions thought worth the trouble to try repeating. Mayahuel left the Dragon with the uneasy but respectful understanding that she can still come and go as she pleases when in Seoul.

She presently lives in London with her beloved Berry, keeping busy with Sun & Moon, Inc. The small gallery next to the Rackham theater is where they do a tidy business in fine art and fair trade imports from different locations, offering products to large and small design companies around the globe. The more clandestine business that Sun & Moon engages in is known only to a select few who engage their services regularly or are referred in special circumstances.

Mayahuel existed in TSW and the transition to SWL is of no consequence to her story. She did not "reset" and her life is moving forward into SWL seamlessly. She simply engages in stories as they arise with little fuss about a strict timeline--something that is fairly easy for her since her own personal story was not attached in any significant temporal ways to events in the earlier game.

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