To explain what happened to Maria I have to explain a little about her parents.
Maria is the daughter and only child of Andrew and Lucina Hawkins, two Nekomata who lived in a small apartment in Brooklyn New York. Sadly, her family lived just above the poverty line, because of several unfortunated events during the past. However, both of her parents had different ways to deal with the situation.
First there would be Maria’s mother Lucina, a young Nekomata who was often envied by others because of her natural beauty. She always tried to see the positive sides in even the most dire situations and gave her best to support her family. During the day she worked as a secretary in a law firm and during the night she worked as a waitress in a small diner. She used almost every single bit of her income to pay the debts and to care for her family, especially for Maria. She also saved the little bit of income left to buy Maria new clothes or toys and used the little bits of free time she had between her jobs to spend as much time with her daughter as possible. Maria was the most important part of her life and she did everything for her.
Maria’s father Andrew however was the exact opposite. While Lucina was kind and caring, Andrew was selfish and embittered. Though he wasn’t always like this. In the past he was a successful building constructor who had his own company. Sadly, he lost everything because of a certain event in the past, which caused his change of personaliy. He couldn’t find new work and instead used the hard-earned money of his wife for alcohol and gambling. However, even despite his negative character traits Lucina still loved him, because she still saw in him the person she fell in love with. Sadly he didn’t feeled the same for her, which brings us to critcal part of this story.
When Maria was around the age of eleven the gambling problem of her father got slowly out of control, to the point where he even borrowed money from a local crime syndicate. This however put him into a new predicament, because in the end he couldn’t repay the debt. He tried to get the money together but he couldn’t even get close to the demanded sum, since he already sold everything valuable in his possession to finance his addiction. However, he then noticed that there were still two valuable things in his life that could repay his debt and in the end he did the unspeakable.
To save his sorry little ass he sold both his wife and daughter to the crime syndicate to repay his debt. Of course the syndicate was more than pleased with this deal, since female non-humans, especially those with animalistic features, are in high demand on the black market and in the end, both Maria and Lucina were seperatly sold to the highest bidder. Thereafter Maria’s life turned into an endless nightmare, filled with the most unspeakable and gruesome things possible, which lasted for almost five years, until the day where she was saved by Laurence and his Hunter Unit.
After Laurence saved Maria from slavery she begged him to accept him in his Unit, so that she could find and save her mother and help those who are in the same predicament as her. Of Course Laurence couldn’t include her in his Unit, since she was still too young and unexperienced, but he also saw her determination and fighting Spirit. In the end he made her a offer. He would accept her as his trainee and would teach her the arts of combat and tactics, which he acquired during his years as a Soldier. They trained together between his missions and he taught her everything he knew. As it turned out, Maria had a talent for combat and tactics and mastered all of Laurence teachings in almost no time.
This acquired knowledge combined with her natural high physical attributes as a Nekomata turned her into the perfect fighter, who could even keep up with some of the more expirienced Hunters. Then at the age of nine-teen, after three years of constant Training and excercise, she was finally accepted as a Hunter and became, on request of Laurence, a member of Unit Alpha.
Mia and Chris joined the D.S.R. as well. They are also memebers of your team.
