#sso Maya

[iskell]

Star stable shitposting because that's how i cope without quest

[fixations-101]

[caylenqueen]

Alex: How is the most beautiful person in the world?

Maya: *blushing* I—

Anne, butting into the conversation: I'm perfectly fine, thanks for asking.

[pandoriasmostwanted]

Had some free time lately so the girls had a nice picnic double date.

[cadencewolffall]

Happy Pride Month <3

[hajen14]

Is there a way to read the comic now? If someone has uploaded it (or knows if it's posted somewhere), it would be awesome if that someone could share it!

pls i cannot be the only one who dislikes alex and maya's relationship. yuri so bad its hetero

[freyaashrv]

I've been diving back into maya's backstory and the dew family drama, and some thing don't exactly make sense, or if they do it's fucking insane

we know that Maya lived on the Epona farm in her childhood, then GED poisoned the land, the animals and they got bankrupted, GED bought the land (which, why didn't they do anything with it? they fought so hard to buy it and it's just been sitting there untouched). let's say Maya was 8 at the time.

the family bought the forgotten lands farm, lived there for a few before realising the land wasn't fertile, then the parents started traveling to get jobs. Maya is now around 10.

that's where the crazy stuff starts.

maya's character sheet says she's used to sleeping in stables or on couches. which is a wild thing to say about a 17 YEAR OLD.

first of all, why didn't maya's parents take their kids with them? I guess they didn't have the money to feed them all, which is why Maya mentioned she has siblings living with their grandparents on the other side of the island.

secondly, we don't know if Maya ever went with her siblings to live with her grand parents. that would be the logical option, since she was ten, because why would her parents and grandparents just abandon her like that?

I think she may have started out living with them, but for an unknown reason (homophobic grandparents? she wanted to got back to the family farm so bad they got annoyed and said 'well if you wanna go back so badly, then go!') let's say she was around 14 when that happened.

then she started helping out in stables, sleeping there, sometimes sleeping at a friend's house. eventually she finds the moorlands, they give her actual work and salary, so she has enough to eat regularly but can't find somewhere to sleep. she continues sleeping in the stables until the moorland notice, then they offer to house her.

eventually she calls her parents and says she wants to start taking care of the animals on the farm again. they start sending a bit of money for her to do that,but it's not enough so she has to pick from her salary to do it.

here's what doesn't make sense : let's say she's 16 when she comes back to the farm. no one has been on the farm for 6 years. they probably sold all the animals before going, but even if they didn't, how did they survive without anyone? I get surviving 1-3 years but 6? especially because the animals there are cows and sheep. which need to be milked and shorn. they wouldn't have survived.

so did they just buy new animals? they're poor, they can't do that. it costs more money to take care of them, so why buy them when you're poor? Maya doesn't have the necessary time to make profit out of those animals.

another way is that Maya just continued to take care of these animals as soon as her parents left to work elsewhere. so her parents were just okay with leaving a 10 year old caring for many animals alone on a farm? it's pretty hard for a child to do everything around a house and around a farm. Maya says the house is in disrepair, so she must not have been living there for a while.

I only got into this because I wanted to find where to insert myself into her family for a fanfic, but there are so many things that don't make sense, it's so complicated

[highhorsegirl]

gays.

[mrsbuttergood]

Base from albanenechi

This base-sheet just popped onto my feed and I knew it was a sign to sketch and worry about my two essays, one project, and two tests, all basically due at the end of next week, later. (This pose in specific immediately made these two come to mind, so bam. Here they are.)

[dustymisgestaltsso]

Happy to share my contribution to the SSO Big Bang! My pieces pairs with @mayadew 's Mayalex fic. The emotions and the tension had me RIVETED, so it was easy for me to pick a passage.

[starbornsoulrider]

Halo: MAYA?! I WATCHED YOU DIE

Maya: that was weeks ago dude? things change :/

Halo: IT WAS LIKE FIVE HOURS AGO-

[candlemouse]

Meeting the Parents

Alex Cloudmill/Maya Dew

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Butterflies brawled in Alex’s stomach, and she wiped her hands on her pants again. For like the fifth time in the past ten minutes.

No, it wasn’t Garnok rising or Sabine or Katja or—

“They’re going to love you, Alex.” Maya smiled and interlocked her fingers with Alex. “You have nothing to worry about.”

Alex shifted in the dining booth and nodded with false bravado. “I’m not nervous.”

“You don’t have to lie,” Maya said. “It’s okay to be nervous.”

Their booth in the Coffe Pot Café overlooked the Dundull bay and in the early morning, Alex could watch the fishermen set up their sails for the day.

“Okay,” Alex said. She smiled at Maya. Her warmth was so infectious, and Alex never wanted to be without it. “I’m nervous. But not as nervous as I was a few minutes ago.”

“Good,” Maya said. “Now, imagine how I felt when I had to meet the Mayor of one of the biggest and busiest cities in Jorvik because he was my girlfriend’s brother!”

It still made Alex giddy when she heard Maya call her her girlfriend. It was a novelty, okay? And even if it became habitual, Alex didn’t think her happiness at that name would fade, anyway.

“Technically, Mayor Peanut is Fort Pinta’s mayor. You just met his assistant.” Alex brought their entwined hands up and kissed Maya’s. “Besides, James is all bark and no bite.”

“To you! He immediately started quizzing me on every detail of my stay in Fort Pinta until he found another opportunity to make money.”

“He is nothing if not dedicated.”

“I think that runs in the family.”

Alex laughed.

“Maya!”

Alex straightened. Maya’s parents had arrived. They shared Maya’s green eyes, but not her red hair. As they exchanged hugs and hellos, Alex stood to the side glancing anywhere but at the family. She wasn’t used to such overt familial affection, and the brawling butterflies in her stomach had graduated to a full on fight ring.

“Ma, Pa.” Maya took Alex’s hand and smiled at her. “This is Alex.”

Alex inclined her head with an awkward smile. “Nice to meet you both.”

“Us too!” Mrs. Dew beamed.

They all sat down in the booth and continued their conversation.

“Your mother was so excited, I don’t think she spoke a single word about anything else the whole bus ride,” Mr. Dew complained.

“Well, Maya had told me so much about you, Alex, that it was hard to wait!” Her mother began to scan the menu. “Though, you must forgive me, but it’s slipped my mind what you do for a living.”

“Oh, well, I’m in druidic training at the moment,” Alex replied. She was sure it was not what her girlfriend’s parents wanted to hear—that she was joining a secretive religious sect, but there wasn’t much truth Alex was able to tell Maya’s parents. So, she was trying not to lie when she could. If everyone knew about the true danger and magic of the world…maybe it would be better. But, alas, Fripp would have her head. Not that he doesn’t already have a million reasons to be mad at her, anyway. “But, I help my brother out at Fort Pinta sometimes, too.”

“Druidic training?” Mr. Dew asked. “That’s…”

“Remember our blacksmith back in the day, honey? He was a druid.” Mrs. Dew pointed out.

“Alex is great at it, too, guys,” Maya said. “She’s even on this task force that helps out across Jorvik.”

“Oh! Didn’t you say you had picnics with…oh, what was their name? One of Alex’s colleagues.” Mrs. Dew said.

“Yeah, we have picnics with one of my, um, co-workers in the Forgotten Fields,” Alex said.

“That’s so darling,” Mrs. Dew said. “Do you like it in Jarlaheim?”

“Oh, Jarlaheim’s a beautiful city, but I don’t actually live there,” Alex said.

“Oh, I must have heard Maya wrong, then,” Mrs. Dew said. “Where do you live?”

“I have a house in Valedale, but I do often stay with Maya in the Harvest Counties. It’s easier that way.” Alex fiddled with the napkin in her lap. “Plus, I have a good friend in Jarlaheim that will let me crash if need be.”

“Oh good, good,” Mrs. Dew said.

The waitress came to take their drink orders and then was off.

“This Dundull weather is beautiful, isn’t it, Ma?”

“Oh, yes. I love the sea breeze,” Mrs. Dew said. She folded her napkin in her lap. “Alex, do you like Fort Pinta, Jarlaheim, or Valedale best?”

“There’s great things about all of Jorvik, of course. But, I do really like living in Jarlaheim. It reminds me of home. The music scene is really great.”

“What kind of music are you into?”

“Hip-hop. Some rock. What about you?”

“Ooh, I like Jazz,” Mrs. Dew said. “The blues.”

“She plays it non-stop,” Mr. Dew added. “Where did you say your hometown was?”

“Jorvik City.”

“We live there now! Which part?” Mrs. Dew asked.

“Governor’s Fall. I really did love it, but at some point, my family just couldn’t afford to live there anymore,” Alex said. It was bittersweet but Alex was glad for the memories she made there.

“You both will have to visit us next time in Jorvik City,” Mrs. Dew said.

“Ma, I don’t like the city. I can’t bring Elli with me.” Maya pouted. It was funny. Maya was completely at ease, as she should be with her parents, but Alex felt like she was currently acting the most professional and polite she ever has.

“I’m sure your horse will be okay for a few days alone.”

“No, she won’t.”

The conversation devolved into a light-hearted argument about Elli being able to handle some alone time that was interrupted by their waiter taking their drink orders. The dinner continued in a similar banter, and the tension that Alex had held slowly dissipated.

By the time they were exchanging goodbyes, Alex really felt close to them.

Once they were gone, Alex and Maya started walking to the Dundull stable.

“They really like you a lot, you know,” Maya said. She squeezed Alex’s hand.

Alex knew she had issues with parental figures. It was an obvious consequence of her childhood that manifested in both avoidance and over-attachment to her older mentors. Especially with Elizabeth gone, Alex felt like she had to re-confront all her mental struggles all over again.

She was glad to have Maya by her side, and a small part of her hoped that one day, just maybe, she could call Maya’s parents her own.

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[itrimehalle]

so i was playing through the new tutorial quests with an alt account, and kind of thought it was odd that all the soul riders just happened to be there? like, lisa first got back into horseback riding all the way in sl. and anyway, she trained at jorvik stables with herman, nowhere near moorland.

so: headcanon that the mc's power signature from all four circles + aideen's light was so strong when they arrived on the island that everyone with even the most minimal magic ability immediately sensed it. the druids, knowing that the dark riders would have felt it too, immediately sent the soul riders to 'coincidentally' be there to greet the newcomer.

aka why alex says "long time no see, lisa!" - this is their first soul riding mission since the novels, since they last parted ways. if not for the mc's arrival, none of them would have been at the riding camp that day in the first place. maya probably helped them orchestrate the whole thing, too, hence lisa and the mc's 'lesson' together.

[pandoriasmostwanted]

So proud of her

MAYA GOT A PROMOTION???

[horseslur]

Got the second hint about Anne so now i can confidently say:

Linda is still in the castle, Anne got kidnapped, Lisa is a ghost, and Alex is down bad. Quartet complete.

[corinne-eaglebridge-sso]

“Alex, my gloves are soaked.”

Coming with the second installment of Make The Yuletide Gay: Mayalex!