Thread:MMYP999/@comment-27109830-20190416183520/@comment-27416494-20190531142831

Both are resistance group leaders with polar opposite personalities who also serve as their game's secondary protagonists (though Maria arguably becomes more important than Fayt by the time she's properly introduced), despite joining the party during the tail ends of the first parts of their stories. This is largely due to the supernatural powers they were unwittingly granted at differing points in their lives. For all the trouble these powers have caused them, they would prove to be absolutely integral in their party's efforts to save the world. With Rinoa's transformation into a Sorceress and Maria's power of Alteration respectively, both girls are capable of utilizing a wide berth of potent magical abilities, which naturally go hand in hand with the ranged weapons they prefer to use in combat. They can also serve as the primary love interests of their game's main protagonists, though this is entirely optional Maria's case.