Miara
From Whatis
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| Miara | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Homeworld | |
| Birth |
18 Moon, 4 Day/December 28 2153 |
| Family |
Rachel (mother), Jaxmin (father), Taki Kensei (mate) |
| Occupation(s) |
Hair Stylist |
| Alias |
LOVELYgirl |
| Physical description | |
| Species | |
| Gender |
female |
| Hair color |
light brown |
| Height |
5'10 |
| Statistics | |
| Weapon(s) |
knife, kodachi, handgun |
| Abilities |
Touched/astralgia, fighting and self defense, haircuts/coloring, etc. |
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Character and Personality
Miara has lots of confidence and personality. She can be rather opinionated and assertive, and practices both bluntness and confrontation of others’ perceived feelings quite often. She is bold, always walks with a beat, and is used to people watching her. She is a bit spoiled, being an awaited child and having grown up with immortals, and she sometimes takes advantage of this. However, it also means she can’t extricate herself from her parents’ lives quite as easily as she’d like at times. Overall, she is a nice person, very down to earth, idealistic, and can be quite feminine. She changes her hair every few months, and often does it herself.
Miara would rather have people see her do something incredibly stupid than be alone. She’s used to being at least partly in the public spotlight. She does like to display herself (especially to new people). She’s not exactly a show off, but occasionally comes very close. She’s forward and free with her feelings and thinking. Both her affection and her wrath are easily known, but she is also quick to forgive. Whatever she thinks has a tendency to come out of her mouth.
In fur, her color is nearly the same as her natural hair color, a light brown sugar shade of brown.
Powers and Abilities
Astral
Miara is atralgia, and therefore has strong power abilities including moving things and as a weapon, has a lot of experience in the use of shared mind, and is the only person who can read Jax. She easily picks information from the minds of those around her when she doesn't know something. She is not a Speaker.
As a high level astral, she can infuse physical attacks with astral power and uses astral mapping and tracking as a matter of course during daily life. A specific gift of hers is manipulation of the astral gates the Lupa use for long distance traveling. She is able to expand and manipulate the fields to transport things from place to place without going herself. This is especially useful with the two time keys they have, which have been joined with gates.
Education
Rachel has tried to teach her as much as she can of everything she knows, including herbology, medicine, fighting and self defense, survival, and she also has the best astral teachers, which she has on top of the usual Lupa education. Raised in the Place of the Touched, she has experience in leadership roles, as well as team work and following. She can read, write, and speak fluent English. She now also speaks nearly fluent Japanese. She also got a lot of education from Rachel about Terra, and is probably the most equipped person of her entire generation to visit Terra.
Training
She is a well trained and advanced fighter in not only hand to hand combat, but is skilled with knives, a short sword, pole arms, and a handgun. She has a good enough grasp to pick up almost any weapon and use it decently. She has trained under Rachel, Jaxmin, and Altairax, and has completed the bulk of her instruction with TheHunterKiller, although they do still train on occassion.
Travels and Such
Miara first appeared at the Ten'ou House in September of 2007 for a mission involving Hunters, and returned shortly thereafter to check up on Eiry. However, she ended up taking a liking to the place and people, and has spent a significant amount of time there since then. Due to the nature of time traveling, what was a year in local time, she spread out over almost three years in her own. However, she has now moved to this time period indefinitely.
She spends most of her non-working hours traveling the globe and exploring different places, environments, peoples, and foods. She has a large map she uses to record where she's been, and has now got most of the countries and large cities marked off. She's particularly fond of Monte Roraima, Lübeck, Desert des Agriates, deserts, and green hill country.
From April 23-May 15, 2009, HunterKiller sent Miara to Africa for three weeks, where she traveled across the desert to Suleman's Berg and went through Kukuana land to Solomon's Mines. The return trip was much easier, considering the Kukuana weren't hunting her that time. It was, in actuality, a very dangerous trip, as she came close to death several times via combat or spears and arrows. HunterKiller arranged things to test almost all of her skills, and the bulk of Miara's training under her is now completed.
Currently
Miara is 30 and has been invited to attend the most current Master's Seminar (see xcheamo page for details). This is a great and nearly unheard of honor, considering her age, and she intends to make full use of the opportunity. The date her letter was written most likely makes her the youngest person ever to be invited to participate in the seminar, as she was 25 at the time. The two sessions of the seminar will have her Home in her local time, and away from her current life and Taki for spring and autumn. She will officially be back in early September, probably after Labor Day.
Miara is mated to Taki Kensei (since Febraury 16, 2009), and has taken her mother's assumed last name, Mitsuki. They live in a spacious apartment in the upper stories of a newer building near a park in Minato-ku with Taki's student and protoge, Kenshiro Tanaka. The building is home to several small names in the entertainment world. For instance, one of the two girls across the hall from Taki and Miara is Mai Watanabe of Seramyu fame.
She is working on a continuing project "suggested" to her by HK, which she has been spending most of her free time doing; however, it is difficult to work on for various reasons. While time isn't an issue, it's not going as quickly as she'd like. She hopes that her time at the Master's Seminar will be greatly beneficial to this project.
History
Miara was born in 2153 to Zaira (who goes by Rachel on Terra) and Jaxmin, two of the four Lupa Immortals after the Restoration. She spent the first few years of her life in a pack setting, and then the family moved back to the Place of the Touched, where Miara has spent the majority of her life.
Zaira began teaching her in her astral abilities while still in the womb, and while still very young began instructing her in everything she knew or did around her. She learned English at a young age, and when not being educated in various fields, spent most of her time playing.
Living at the Place of the Touched, Miara was able to receive education and training from the best practitioners of many fields, and has made many friendships with the amount of people that come and go from the place.
At the age of 12, she was placed into a pack and trained under an experienced hair stylist. However, she completed that training quickly and moved on to another pack where she learned storytelling. After this she learned dying at a weaving pack. Here she met her two best friends, Mona and Trint, who later became mates. In a fourth move, she joined one of the desert packs and spent two years learning the secrets of desert survival.
Upon leaving the desert packs, Miara traveled the continent for a while, and finally settled back at the Place of the Touched at the age of 19. She worked as a hair stylist, on the orchard crew, and was also as an instructor in both astral and fighting/self defense classes.
In her early 20s, Miara was involved with a man named Taern, and they planned to become mates. However, things did not go well and they separated rather painfully not too long after they began preparation for bonding. Although she was rather crushed at the time, she quickly saw that it was for the best.
Throughout her life, Miara has made trips to Terra, and spent quite a bit of time there on occasion. When an opportunity arose to help out, albeit in the past, she jumped at the chance. Although she broke some ribs in the process, she was healed and shortly returned to see Eiry. She was 25 at the time.
After moving to Terra, it was some time before she had a small apartment in the area of the salon.
Miara had at least one altercation with Taki's brother Ken, whom she's not always sure if she likes or not, and is decidedly more friendly with his sister, Natsumi. She has helped Taki with his work for KAT a few times, including accompanying the team on a trip to France, where they fought vampiric plants. Although she sometimes wonders why they let her come along, she's been able to use her skills to their advantage. In 2009, she was added as an official "special agent" to the group.
In early 2010, Miara's best friend, Monna, died of poisoning while hunting. Monna, her mate Trint, and Miara have been very close friends since their teenage years, and becaue of their own friendship allowed Trint to vent his feelings with her in a way that even most Lupa would find extreme. She now has claw mark scars all up and down both sides of her back from below the waist to nearly the top of her shoulders.
From sometime in 2008 through early April of 2009, Miara worked as a stylist at a salon in Meguro-ku called "Splurge." Her speciality is quick and good quality hair cuts.
Other
Partially as a result of receiving so much of her training from her mother, she is not always sure how to relate to her, since they have both a monther/daughter and mentor/student relationship. This is sometimes heightened by the fact that as immortals, neither of her parents really look old enough to be so.
Miara is rather knowledgable about plants, and enjoys carving. She likes strong, upbeat music and often plays drums with a group.
She likes to wear bright colors, casual skirts, and bracelets. Her favorite seasons are early fall and late spring, and her favorite times of day are morning and midnight. She usually sleeps after work and before sunrise.
When reading, she prefers history, legendary stories, and chick lit.
- One of Miara's earliest and favorite Terran stories/myths is Lord of the Rings, which is in Rachel's collection, and was used to help teach her English when she was little.
Some of her favorite foods include chocolate and sweets, oranges, and red meat.
Considering she's Lupa and often injured, she has a pretty good knowledge of non technology based first aid.
Her image songs, by Ayumi Hamasaki unless indicated otherwize, have been:
- "Bold & Delicious" (Stand up and watch me!)
- "Born to Be..."
- "Angel's Song"
- "Because of You"
- "EnergizE" (Don't forget you only live once)
- "Sparkle" (If you only look, nothing happens)
- "Lady Dynamite" (If you're awake, tell a better story)
Her /part line is taken from her current image song. Her own singing voice is mezzosoprano, and her delivery is rather like that of Jpop idol Nana Kitade. Although she isn't the most accomplished singer, she enjoys singing, and isn't bad to listen to.
