Maria Asagi

Maria was a sweet and clean-cut girl down the street, which is a contrast of Brandon Heat's bad-boy image. Maria was adopted by Jester (Maria's uncle) who accidentally killed her family when she was a baby. Feeling guilty for what he had done, he adopted Maria and raised her strictly. Maria first met Brandon when she was attacked by by a group of thugs trying to rape her. Brandon saves her from the assault and Maria thanks him. The two began to date afterwards; Maria often worries about Brandon getting into street fights with his friends and tries to convince him to get a real job and her uncle could help him doing so, but he refuses as he saw it as "leaving and betraying his friends". Throughout the series, Maria made her feelings for Brandon very clear. When her uncle was killed by Mad Dog Ladd, Mr. Asagi introduces himself as her uncle's friend and offers her to stay in his mansion. Maria accepts Mr. Asagi's offer to live with him, Maria is unaware that she is moving into the home of Big Daddy, Boss of Millennion. Brandon follows her and joins Millennium in hopes of being close to her and for a while it works out.