So maia doesn't know that N&V are murder drones right?
Well besides outright telling her, what are some ways maia could figure it out?
For instance, if one of them put on their murder X would maia put 2&2 together?
No, because while she knows of Disassembly Drones, she knows them as horrible monsters who kill people. Just putting a Murder X on their visors isn't gonna make her connect the dots.
But V does call her a snack a lot, especially when she first gets there at night("Who's the snack?" "Why'd you bring a snack?"), which really confuses Maia. Shouldn't Thad be the "snack" to her? But she puts it down to just weird behavior from having memory problems. She has a neighbor with similar problems in the bunker, after all.
And maybe N gets a little too into hide n seek or tag, to the point it's almost scary. But that just makes it more fun to play with him. It means he's really into their games. The kids back in the bunker never want to play with so much intensity, so it's a nice change of pace.
And whenever she's with one of them, Uzi or Thad or both are there, watching them. But maybe that's just cause they don't know N and V very well, even though Uzi lives with them and Thad's been visiting for months. They're just being cautious.
Of course, once she sees them fight, and fight for real, that would all change. That would help her connect the dots, between what she's heard and what she's seen.