I've been thinking about my boat show (shocking, I know), and some facts about Maura that I like to linger on occasionally that make me want to scream cry and throw up when put in the context of her and Eyk together.
Maura is a character that is so obviously terrified of losing her mind. She is more afraid of losing her sanity than losing her life, which is understandable. We can see that the moment we meet her. She's standing in front of a mirror, trying to convince herself she isn't crazy.
The best representation of this is when she's standing in front of a literal firing squad and she doesn't care. Some of these people had just thrown a boy of the railing into the ocean, she knows very well they're going to shoot. But she needs answers. Something strange is happening, and she needs answers. When time stops, she's questioning that, she's questioning Elliot, but she's completely unfazed by the fact that a dozen people had just shot at her.
And then comes Eyk. From the moment the two of them meet, he's never once doubted her judgment. He's turning a blind eye on her rule breaking. He lets her come with the crew to inspect the Prometheus because she asks. He seeks her out and wants her opinion on Ada's death. And when he starts losing it, he doubts his own mind, but never hers. He wants her thoughts, her expertise, her opinion. He wants her to tell him that he isn't going crazy. Even when he thinks she's hiding something after he finds the passenger list, in spite of being angry, he never completely loses that trust in her.
All throughout the insane things happening on the ship, they stick together. They seek each other, and they always turn to one another.
The hallway scene in episode 6 isn't just important because of the loaded moment they share that makes us lose our minds every time. That scene is my roman empire exactly because of the things I'm talking about here. Before this, Maura had told Eyk everything. She told him about her father, her brother, her potential insanity, everything. She literally told him she used to be locked up in a mental institution. And what happened? He's still here.
Only a dozen people of the whole ship survived, none of it makes any sense, but he's still there with her. She thanks him for not thinking she's crazy. Because for her, her mind is something she can't lose, and she had just spent every single moment on this ship doubting it, but this man in front of her has never once doubted it. Not for a second. We see that again, in the same episode, when they're in the asylum. She begins losing all hope, actually starting to believe she's gone mad. What does he do? He stops her, he reassures her that it isn't over, that they should keep searching for answers.
When Daniel tells her the story, she becomes even more confused because he never really gives her any true answers.
In the end, when everything starts falling apart, when everyone leaves because they think she's talking nonesense, Eyk is the only one who stays. He stays with her until the very end. And when he loses hope, she's the one trying to stop him from despair this time.
Then we also have Eyk's questionable at best, insane decisions at least, and her defending him every step of the way. Like nothing he would ever do would make her not choose his side. When she hears the words from Franz "He's not the man you think he is.", she doesn't hesitate for a single second to talk back to him in defense of Eyk.
He never let her lose what she was most afraid of losing. She never hesitated in defending him to everyone's face and justifying his questionable behavior. Whatever this means for them in the real world, that is poetic fucking cinema.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go scream into the pillow because it's just one of the reasons why I will never be able to free myself from the chokehold that is mauraeyk.
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