- Mar 9, 2019
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You know I've seen this sentiment being announced by several different members. At first, I thought it was just a joke, but seeing the discourse happening now I think y'all are serious. I realize I'm replying to you Geralt but my reply is more to everyone having this conversation.It is clear that from Maya these feelings are not mutual, at this moment for sure.
If everything is obvious with Josy, then Maya seems to have cooled off towards MC and perceives him as a friend. I don't even know how DPC intends to build Maya's solo outside of the group.
Maya's feelings haven't grown shallower for the MC so much as her feelings towards her own uncertain future are simply overshadowing them. Many have already pointed out her character traits and how they define her behaviour. Knowing this it only makes sense that her, frankly, hatchling relationship with Fuckface is not taking precedence over trying to identify a path she can walk on steady ground.
If she can have that and have the MC and/or Josy with her; great! If she can have those things and a great college experience; splendid. If she can have all that and still have a relationship with her family; fucking miraculous! But at this point in the narrative, that all seems like a fantasy, and she's not like Josy who likes to live in dreams and imagine that everything will just work out if she just has her loved ones around her. Maya is more focused on finding real solutions and having grown up with negativity from most of her loved ones her view of the world has developed to show her she can't have those things until she has security.
Maya rarely got security and support from her loved ones whereas Josy more commonly did so she does what many introverted neglected young adults learn to do: compartmentalize and grow a tunnel vision. Focus on one thing at a time and keep emotions to a minimum until you've achieved your goal. It's harder for those individuals to embrace their emotions, especially the strongest emotions like love and fear.
Maya's love of horror movies portrays her disconnection from her fears; it's not that she doesn't feel fear but she disassociates from them regularly to avoid feeling overwhelmed by them, and watching horror movies is great practice to do so. That's just one example I could give many more but I grow tired and today is my day off. There is a great deal extra explanation I wished to provide but meh I'll just let it rot in my brain.
Hopefully, my brain allows me to sleep but if not I'll just keep watching movies on Netflix until I do. Let me post this before I completely lose the plot though.
Cheers bub.