(Like... that moment alone speaks to what kind of a person Maya was, I feel. She was gonna die, better let the other guy know they should prize their victory in her stead.)
It very much does! We see so little of Maya (tallied up, I don't think she has more than 25 minutes of on-screen time in the entire show, with most of those being in the flashbacks during episodes 11, 18 and 21) and yet, even in those small glimpses we get of her, she's a remarkably well-developed character and we can get a relatively decent reading of her.
This reminds me of a peculiar trend in fandom, of almost always writing her as a sort of simplified 'Eva 2.0' in pre-canon works (usually by giving her a sharp, fearsome temper, like that of her daughter). I never say anything, because I don't want to be That "stop having fun!" Person, but that's never the reading I got of her. She always struck me as a very calm, balanced person, with a warm and playful inclination. That volcanic, mercurial temper Eva sports? Along with being compoinded by her various issues, that comes from her father, not her mother.
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It very much does! We see so little of Maya (tallied up, I don't think she has more than 25 minutes of on-screen time in the entire show, with most of those being in the flashbacks during episodes 11, 18 and 21) and yet, even in those small glimpses we get of her, she's a remarkably well-developed character and we can get a relatively decent reading of her.
This reminds me of a peculiar trend in fandom, of almost always writing her as a sort of simplified 'Eva 2.0' in pre-canon works (usually by giving her a sharp, fearsome temper, like that of her daughter). I never say anything, because I don't want to be That "stop having fun!" Person, but that's never the reading I got of her. She always struck me as a very calm, balanced person, with a warm and playful inclination. That volcanic, mercurial temper Eva sports? Along with being compoinded by her various issues, that comes from her father, not her mother.