Maya Schoppenboer | Ongezellig

Overview: Maya is the central protagonist of Ongezellig, a Dutch student (18 years old) who struggles with AD(H)D and social anxiety, which often creates inward conflict for her that sometimes manifests as outward conflict, such as a confrontation with Coco, her adoptive sister. She is also suspected to be autistic, as suggested by the other students and Vera's dossier. She has two adoptive sisters, Coco and Mymy Schoppenboer.

Appearance: Maya has fair, slightly light brown skin, slightly less pale than Coco's, with long, dark hair, stylized in a bun for a majority of her appearances, excluding scenes where she's shown alone or daydreaming about other characters, in which her hair is loose and messy. Her hair most notably falls over her face, covering nearly all of her facial features expect her nose, mouth, and right eye.

She has green eyes. She wears the same red pullover hoodie with a white tank top as an undershirt for a majority of appearances, along with thigh high socks with red and white stripes at home, or plain black leggings and red and white sneakers outside.

In terms of physical body type, Maya is fairly thin and not very curvaceous. Her height is somewhat average.

Other physical attributes: Birthdate: September 21 Birthplace: North Brabant Occupation: Student (third year highschool)

Personality: Outwardly, Maya is a shy and introverted person who hates being perceived and struggles with social interaction. She is easily distracted, exemplified by her sidetracking while she was supposed to create a presentation about the history of Belgium, to which she ended up wasting time playing internet games on the school computer. She is chronically online and consumes content such as Japanese hentai. Her poor ability at interacting socially usually manifests in somewhat dark, edgy jokes that are of poor taste. One example is when Coco asks who her favorite painter is, to which Maya replies sheepishly: "Eh...Hitler?" (context: Hitler was rejected from art school in his past). Another example that will be reused is her response to Mymy's Dutch East India Company roleplaying, which Maya says, when Mymy asks what activities she should do with a "lowly deserter", "Oh, are you going to colonize my Virgin Islands?"

Inwardly, Maya struggles with feelings of low self-worth, self-loathing, and envy towards her sister, Coco. Ever since Maya had grown up alongside Coco, she had seen the difference in their social personalities. Coco was sweet, and beloved. Maya was unpopular, and without friends. Coco was often chosen before Maya, and what started as confusion as children grew to become a quiet envy towards their young adulthood the more Maya saw Coco interacting positively with others. At the height of her envy, when Coco admits to trying to include Maya because she knows she has no friends, Maya responds with a shocked, "better no friends than no parents," a direct jab at Coco's orphaned upbringing. Although this does lead to a death threat on Coco's end, the two end up regretting their actions and find each other to apologize mere minutes later.

These negative traits create unhealthy habits for Maya, which includes her previously mentioned interest in porn. She indulges frequently in hentai (particularly involving tentacles and octopi men) and is heavily implied to be a frequent masturbator, as Mymy brashly asks Maya why "her bed is always creaking at night." Additionally, this porn addiction appears to have made Maya somewhat dirty minded, as, when Mymy goes on another one of her ultranationalist tangents and ties up Maya, Maya interprets a line from Mymy falsely and asks if she "is going to colonize her Virgin Islands", which ends up confusing Mymy, who asks why Maya would say that about her sister. Maya responds with this with a flustered, "technically we're not blood related," before inevitably just saying she was playing along with Mymy.

The inward obstacles of her struggles, however, extend beyond just a porn addiction. Maya believes that her parents adopted Coco and Mymy because they were dissatisfied with Maya's own worth as their child. She also has two imaginary friends that she pretends to talk to and hang out with to cope with her own loneliness (though she refuses to acknowledge it as loneliness). At some point, she even daydreams about jumping off a roof, but it's revealed that she was just imagining it while standing in a toilet at her school. This is another consequence of her self-isolation. She believes that she is not deserving of acknowledgement or friendship, pushing away Coco even when she means well. Despite wishing to be left alone, though, she enjoys listening/watching friendships from afar. One example is in her house when, after declining an invite from Coco to play a board game with her and Mymy, Maya listens to them through the wall and finds comfort in listening to them play.

She even struggles to accept the help of others, both out of a prideful issue and her own low self esteem. For example, she refuses genuine help from Coco for her history presentation project because she doesn't believe she needs help and she was skeptical about Coco's intentions.

During breaks at her school, she sits alone in the bathroom and imagines hanging out with her two imaginary friends.

In summary, the reasons for Maya's disposition are:

• AD(H)D’ers are generally at a disadvantage regarding social contact.
• Trauma from the loss of her cat Noga, whom she had to give up because Coco was allergic to it.
• Overshadowed by her more talented adopted sisters, whom she suspects were adopted to compensate for her.
• Views herself as unlucky, as few people in her area have the same interests as her.

Relationships: Coco Schoppenboer - Maya secretly feels overshadowed by Coco for her talents and naturally kind, positive disposition. Because of this, she often feels undeserving of her help/acknowledgement of her own problems and struggles to be 100% honest with Coco and pushes her away, such as declining the offer to play a board game with her.

On the flip side, Coco deeply cares for and loves Maya. Despite her naivety, Coco is in fact, aware of Maya's lack of friends and attempts to include Maya in activities; however, she admittedly approaches the topic with a slight lack of tact that ends up unsettling Maya and prompts her to make the previously mentioned comment about "rather no friends than no parents." This results in Coco nearly shoving Maya halfway out their school's window on the second floor and threatened her, all with a smile on her face.

The two are foils to each other: while Maya is always seen frowning, Coco is always seen smiling.

Mymy Schoppenboer - Their relationship is not as complex as Maya's relationship with Coco. However, Maya is shown to sometimes play along with Mymy's delusions (for all the wrong reasons, seen when she "roleplays" and asks Mymy if she'll colonize her "Virgin Islands."

On the flip side, Mymy shows disdain for Maya's interest in anime and other Japanese related things, despising her own Japanese heritage herself. She is quick to denounce and denote Maya's hobbies, but she also is much more unaware of Maya's problems than Coco is, which causes her to sometimes talk to Maya in an insensitive and naive manner, such as asking her "where she sits during break" and "who her friends are", not knowing about Maya's poor social life.

Despite this, it can be inferred that Mymy cares for Maya.

Speech/Accent:

• Thick Dutch accent.
• She is a quiet speaker around others because she fears saying something offensive and pushing them away.

Trivia/Traits:

• She has trouble focusing on one thing for an extended period of time because of her AD(H)D.
• Whenever she is nervous or feels shy, it's a common habit of hers to chew on the strings of her hoodie or on strands of her hair.
• She has heavy eyebags because she does not sleep properly and does not practice very good self care.
• Her father, Ravi, is half North Brabant and half Hindustani-Surinamese. Her mother, Soei, is half Moluccan and half Chinese-Indonesian. Maya is a melting pot of different ethnicities and cultures, which only heightens her struggle for identity.
• During breaks at school, she goes to hide in a cramped bathroom stall and spends time with her two imaginary friends.

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