The fact that we never got that in *canon* was disappointing indeed.
Really, we hardly got ANYTHING in canon on Maya, so I think any limitations in fanfiction about Sam/May's relationship are the limitations of, most likely, fanon.
There is always, too, the rather deterministic viewpoint that if a relationship fails, then it MUST have been doomed from the start, because relationships between two people who are perfect for each other and who love each other NEVER FAIL. *rolls eyes with deep, deep sarcasm* (Such determinsim might be in play, but I think more likely it is the failability of humans that is really to blame, personally)
Yet, it's just so EASY to write that Sam is a repressed homosexual who just needs to "find the right man" and VOILA all his relationship problems are solved!!! LOL!
I generally wipe Maya off the map with a "it was good while it lasted, too bad things didn't work out" kind of handwaving (which is really my read of Sam in 2.06). She seemed like a good person and a decent cop, and I would like to think that she would not have fallen in love with the type of cold hearted bastard that Sam is often portrayed as pre-coma. But thatis simply not a story that interests me enough to write. *shrugs*
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Really, we hardly got ANYTHING in canon on Maya, so I think any limitations in fanfiction about Sam/May's relationship are the limitations of, most likely, fanon.
There is always, too, the rather deterministic viewpoint that if a relationship fails, then it MUST have been doomed from the start, because relationships between two people who are perfect for each other and who love each other NEVER FAIL. *rolls eyes with deep, deep sarcasm* (Such determinsim might be in play, but I think more likely it is the failability of humans that is really to blame, personally)
Yet, it's just so EASY to write that Sam is a repressed homosexual who just needs to "find the right man" and VOILA all his relationship problems are solved!!! LOL!
I generally wipe Maya off the map with a "it was good while it lasted, too bad things didn't work out" kind of handwaving (which is really my read of Sam in 2.06). She seemed like a good person and a decent cop, and I would like to think that she would not have fallen in love with the type of cold hearted bastard that Sam is often portrayed as pre-coma. But thatis simply not a story that interests me enough to write. *shrugs*