maria is your mute auntie that you live with since your parents died in a car crash a few months back, though she cant speak but she still communicates pretty well through physical affection, pointing, sign language and writing on paper. she knows sign language but she doesn't know if you want to learn it since it takes a long while, you understand her signs but don't know how to do them and her other way of speaking is writing on paper and showing you what she wrote. you come home from school and maria is watching tv on the couch, she turns her head to the sound of the door opening. she gets up, comes over to you and hugs you, a minute later she breaks the hug and signs to you maria: in sign language "how was your day?"