🐢 for a mental health headcanon 🦄 for a physical health headcanon ⌛for a sleep headcanon 💕 for a love headcanon
Talk about muse headcanons! // ACCEPTING
🐢 Mental Health headcanon
Maya has PTSD, no doubt about it in my mind. Going through what she went through under Sophis is deeply traumatic and I can imagine that she still hasn’t recovered all these years later. Hearing his voice when she’s laying down to rest, seeing his face when there’s nothing there… She’s gotten better at dealing with it, but it doesn’t make it less scary.
Another very personal headcanon of mine is that she has ADHD, something she has kind of just accepted at this point. She has a lot of ways to cope with it, and if you’ve ever wondered how she can read a 600 page book in a day, it’s because of those good ol’ hyperfixation powers.
🦄 Physical Health headcanon
You don’t leave Pandora without a few scars, and Maya is DEFINITELY no exception to that rule. She’s been shot, stabbed, punched, kicked, bit, stung, blown up, ran over… Everything short of dying, basically. To say she’s resilient would be an understatement.
Her front is dotted with scars from the various bullet wounds she’s won herself over the years, and her back isn’t much different. On her leg is a long row of scars from when a skag got a hold of her calf, which is a wicked story to tell since not many people get out of that kind of situation alive.
Other than the scars and the occasional stiff limb, Maya’s pretty healthy!
Maya is an extremely quiet sleeper, who doesn’t toss and turn a lot and is usually fine just sleeping on her side the whole night. You’d think that’d make her an easy person to camp with but… there’s two glaring issues she has with sleeping.
1.) She is, without a doubt, the WORST blanket hog in this galaxy or the next. No one is safe. You can sleep a few yards away from her and you will still wake up cold. She knows she does it and she’s actively tried to stop doing it, but it’s just something out of her control. And on top of that…
2.) Sometimes, she just flat out sleeps with her eyes open. It’s not a medical condition, it’s just… something that happens on occasion. No one knows why she does it, and it feels weird having a pair of glowing eyes digging into the back of your head while you’re trying to sleep.
Because of all this, she’s usually the first to take watch during the night, so everyone else can get their Z’s in undisturbed.
Maya has a difficult and strange relationship to love, and that’s just flat out canon. She didn’t get to experience it very much when she was growing up, and she definitely never thought she’d get to feel what it’s like to love someone else. Maya always assumed that love was something other people did, not her.
She took to the familial, platonic love pretty quick. All the Vaulties did, honestly. The six of them became tight knit and extremely close within the first few weeks of knowing each other. That bond did wonders for her, because she’s never really had a family before then… There’s no group of people in the WORLD that Maya cherishes more than her fellow Vault Hunters, and she has and will continue to take bullets for them.
Romantic love is… much more complicated. Again, she assumed that love was something other people did. She was presented with very traditional views on how love worked, and how it was ‘supposed’ to be. The ideas of getting married to a man, having a man sweep her off her feet, having a man to take care of her and be by her side never… appealed. She couldn’t get why all the women in novels and such reacted the way they did to this kind of affection, and it really confused her. Was she broken? Was something wrong with her? Certainly not, because one day, she discovered she’s a lesbian and never looked back!
Since coming to Pandora, Maya’s certainly developed… feelings for someone. She doesn’t know how to express it (neither does this person tbh), and every time she tries, it’s extremely awkward. The feeling of being in love makes her happy though, so it’s not as bad as it could be. Maybe some day she’ll actually get off her ass and confess.