History Characters / AceAttorneyWrightAnythingAgency

** To Redd White as well. He is her killer, but she is the one to take him down for good.

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* TheAce: An extremely skilled, attractive Defense Attorney; she mentored [[TheHero Phoenix Wright]] and almost ended Edgeworth's winning streak before it even began.

* InconsistentSpelling: It may be a simple typo, but press releases from E3 2013 have spelled her surname "Sykes".

* LethallyStupid: [[DownplayedTrope Not very often]] but she has her moments, like when she tested how a decorative sword would bend by ''smashing Phoenix's head with it'', or when she tested if someone can be struck on thw back of his head from the front in the same way.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It may be a simple typo, but press releases from E3 2013 have spelled her surname "Sykes".

-->'''Godot''': It would seem I've been forced to eat crow!
-->'''Maya''': I wonder what blend number crow-flavoured coffee is?

* IOweYouMyLife: "Bridge to the Turnabout", [[spoiler:Godot kills Dahlia-in-Misty's body before she's able to murderer Maya. Maya then spends her entire testimony at the end of the case trying to devoid Godot of suspicion, realizing he'd be incriminated for killing Misty, even if he saved Maya's life in the process]].

* LethallyStupid: [[DownplayedTrope Not very often]] but she has her moments, like when she tested how decorative sword would bend by ''smashing Phoenix's head with it'', or when she tested if someone can be struck on back of his head from the front in the same way.

* TheCameo: She appears in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue of "Rise from the Ashes" even though she's absent in the case proper, save for some split-second flashbacks.

!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Miyuki Kawahara (''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney OT]]''), Creator/SayakaOhara ([[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney OT]] voice drama), Creator/ChieNakamura ([[Anime/AceAttorney anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Christina Katano (''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney OT]]''), Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard ([[Anime/AceAttorney anime]])

!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Satomi Hanamura (''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice SoJ]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ProjectXZone PXZ2]]''), Mirei Kiritani (''[[VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsAceAttorney PLvAA]]''), Creator/AoiYuuki ([[Anime/AceAttorney anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/AbbyTrott (''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice SoJ]]''), Samantha Dakin (''[[VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsAceAttorney PLvAA]]''), Creator/LindsaySeidel ([[Anime/AceAttorney anime]])

!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Miyuki Sahaku (''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies DD]]''), Creator/MisakiKuno ([[Anime/AceAttorney anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/AlexisTipton ([[Anime/AceAttorney anime]])

* {{Irony}}: Pearl is the one who gave Phoenix the means to be a lie detector and in every appearance she has something to hide from him. [[spoiler:Even in ''Spirit of Justice'' where Apollo visits her instead, she hides something from him, and ends up getting perceived.]]

* {{Malaproper}}: In Case 3-5, [[spoiler:she gets confused with the final passage of Morgan's instructions; as it ended with a flowery passage basically mocking Misty Fey to Hell. Pearls reads it as: "Take the gravy from the roast dinner and cover Misty's scroll with it".]]

* NiceGirl: Pearl is a good kid who just wants the people she loves to be happy. [[spoiler:This gets abused so badly by her mother.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Morgan wants to use Pearl to regain main family status, which requires killing/discrediting Maya]]. Pearl has no clue aboout this and adores her cousin.

* ChromaticArrangement: Blue for Phoenix, red for Apollo, and yellow for Athena.

* ShoutOut: His name might be a reference to "Chuck the Plant", from Maniac Mansion, which became a running in-joke and appears in many adventure games afterwards, such as Day of the Tentacle and Enclosure.

* BuxomBeautyStandard: Played straight in case 3-3, when Maya channels her so that she can look more attractive in her waitress outfit.

Being a spirit medium, Maya's main contribution is her ability to channel spirits. Due to not being particularly well-trained, this at first means she can only channel Mia's spirit (and even then, not so reliably). She gets better over the course of the series, and is a top-notch channeler by the time of her reappearance in ''Spirit of Justice''.

* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: During her youth, she was much less social and wore heavy headphones whenever she went out in public. {{Justified}} as [[spoiler:the headphones were specially designed to protect her from SensoryOverload due to hearing the emotions of everyone around her at once]].

* SenpaiKohai: She usually refers to Apollo as "Odoroki-senpai" in the Japanese version, and openly respects and admires Apollo as an attorney, regardless of his reputation as an amateur. It does help that his skill improves immensely soon after she joins up, likely due to a boost in confidence. Athena even dislikes Phoenix acting dismissive about Apollo and can get protective when anyone dares to make fun of him (though she is occasionally guilty of it herself).

** Any moment Phoenix isn't the butt of a joke, there's a fifty-to-fifty chance Maya's on the receiving end instead.

* CoolBigSis: Pearl thinks the world of her. Justified, as Maya's the only close family Pearl has who's still around (and not in jail). This is reflected in how Pearl picks up some of her mannerisms.

* IOweYouMyLife: Implied to be why she [[spoiler:tries to cover for Godot]] in "Bridge to the Turnabout".

* PlatonicLifePartners: With Phoenix. They were attached at the hip back in the day, Phoenix risks his life for her multiple times, and are very clearly devoted to each other even after the timeskip. However, despite minor ShipTease moments, their relationship is not romantic.

* ShesAllGrownUp: Before the time skip she was a perky teenager; now she's a lovely young woman in her late twenties. Lampshaded by Larry in ''Turnabout Time Traveler'' when he says she's "all grown up and as cute as ever".

* BareYourMidriff:
** In her deckhand costume in "Turnabout Reclaimed".
** Her SailorFuku DLC costume in ''Dual Destinies'' slightly shows it off, but only from the front when she's standing straight.
** ''Spirit of Justice'' gives her a DLC costume inspired by Tokugawa Ieyasu from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''.

* GiantWaistRibbon: Part of her medium outfit.

* GiantWaistRibbon: Part of her medium outfit.

* SempaiKohai: She usually refers to Apollo as "Odoroki-senpai" in the Japanese version, and openly respects and admires Apollo as an attorney, regardless of his reputation as an amateur. It does help that his skill improves immensely soon after she joins up, likely due to a boost in confidence. Athena even dislikes Phoenix acting dismissive about Apollo and can get protective when anyone dares to make fun of him (though she is occasionally guilty of it herself).

* DudeMagnet: Seeing as she attracted a number of male admirers including Dick Gumshoe and Larry Butz, then, after death, Victor Kudo and possibly Cody Hackins. Just a photograph was enough to trigger an interest from "Director Hotti" and Luke Atmey. She also had a boyfriend named Diego Armando according to case 3-1 [[spoiler:who is shown in-game later on and is still quite concerned about her memory after her death]]. Unfortunately for her, the relationship ended after Diego was put into a coma by Dalhia's poison, and was assumed he wouldn’t come out of it any time soon.

* BuxomIsBetter: Played straight in case 3-3, when Maya channels her so that she can look more attractive in her waitress outfit.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Athena gets her fair share of slapstick sometimes, whether it's [[StaircaseTumble falling down the stairs]] or being attacked by Blackquill's hawk. Some of her reaction faces are even wackier than what ''Maya'' used to do.