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NGL I wanted to throw that kid off a fucking cliff - Maya's death is essentially the start, with Ava's insistence that she "help" directly leading to Maya having to sacrifice herself to save Ava. If that was the start of some sort of personal growth plot I wouldn't have minded, but for most (all?) of the remainder of the game, Ava is completely useless as an NPC, just being there to blame you and Lilith for Maya's death.

As a reward for sulking and blaming you, she eventually gets Siren powers, which she can instantly weild as competently as someone who's had them their whole life. As a reward for doing literally nothing else in the story, Lilith then makes her king of Sanctuary because she's a siren I guess? Any other member of the crew would have made more sense to me. Fucking Marcus has more relevent experience and motivation. She's also literally still a child and has not matured in any way since her first appearance - I assume that happens in a DLC, spin off game, or supplementary comic book, but I never saw it.

Borderlands characters aren't exactly the most deep and complex, but she gave off the most Mary Sue vibes in a series filled with Mary Sues, being a generic annoying child that's inexplicably put on a pedestal and labelled as Very Important and Powerful and Cool.