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Maya's ability is a personification of the bubonic plague, or the Black Death. None + In the episode commentary for The Kindness of Strangers, Tim Kring says that Maya emits "a plague ... that makes people sick". The Black Death was a devastating plague in the 14th and 15th century that killed off 50% of the European population.

+ The fact that Maya cries black tears could be an allusion to the Black Death.
+ A curandera said that what Maya carried inside her was "black", which could be an allusion to the Black Death. (Lizards)
Maya's ability could literally be the Black Death, except with drastically different symptoms.

Maya has another ability which is similar to Alejandro's, a power that can "cure" any illness. None + Maya and Alejandro are twins and therefore genetically similar.
- Maya and Alejandro are fraternal twins, and therefore are not genetically identical.
Genetically similar, not identical.

+ The poison that she releases is not infectious, which may have been weakened by this power.


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