Application for elnysa

[imitationsoul]

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Handle: Luna
Contact: AppleBlossoms
Over 18? Yes.
Characters Played: N/A.

Content Warnings for CSA and suicide may apply in every section of this app.

THE CHARACTER

Character Name: Miach Mihie
Series: Harmony
Canon Point: during the timeskip, when she is kept at the Dian Cécht research facility but has not experienced Harmony yet
Character Age: 18

Background: Here is the wiki-page of the Harmony movie, which is the closest thing I can get to a wiki on the novel, which I am actually playing from. Below, I have summarized Miach's backstory within the required word count, but due to the convoluted nature of the canon, I'm afraid that might not be enough? So here is a longer version, which you are free to disregard.

• In Harmony most of humanity was wiped out and societies have reformed according to a system known as Lifeism. Health has become the top value. This is enforced via nanotech within your body: a software called WatchMe measures everyone's lifestyle and cures all ailments before they show symptoms. Only few areas of the world are offline from WatchMe.
• Far from Lifeism, Miach is born in Chechnya to indigenous people who are not in contact with the outside world. Their special trait is a recessive genetic combination that results in Miach's people living without a 'consciousness'. Within Harmony canon 'consciousness' is defined as having a hyperbolic value system, which causes the need to make reflected choices between one's instinctive sense of value and logical reasoning. This conflict does not exist for Miach's people.
• Miach lives in this state until she is 8, which is when a war reaches her remote birthplace. Miach is sold into sexual slavery. During her days of torture, her brain undergoes changes. For the sake of survival, another part of Miach's brain creates an imitation consciousness.
• Miach is eventually saved and put up for adoption in the Lifeism-dominated country of Japan.
• When she is 12, the neigbour boy hangs himself, alerting Miach of a growing trend of child suicides within lifeist society. She becomes more heavily critical of Lifeism.
• Once she enters middle school, Miach starts making suicide attempts of her own.
• In high school, Miach befriends two classmates, who are both also fed up with Lifeism. She becomes their ideologue and speaks to them about how exploitable WatchMe is.
• Eventually Miach comes up with a shared suicide plan for the three of them. She thinks that since their bodies are the most important resource to current society, the best way to launch a attack on it is to die.
• One friend quits the pact and alerts adults. As a result, Miach is secretly brought to Baghdad, were she is kept within a facility called Dian Cécht and experimented on by a group of government officials. They have brought numerous suicidal children here in order to find a way to make it possible for them to exist peacefully within admedistrative system.
Though she stays there for a much longer time period, Miach will be pulled from three years into this process for the sake of El Nysa.

Personality:

Miach is a loner. Tired of the compassion-focused society around her, she has made it her mission to not play along. She purposely keeps her distance from people trying to befriend her and only talks to others when absolutely necessary. However, she will seek out those who don't seem to fit in and who don't seem like they can bring themselves to care about much besides themselves. Her friendship with Cian and Tuan was her initiation each. Other misfits appear as possible comrades in a fight against the world to Miach.

When she's with her companions, it becomes apparent that despite her loner attitude, Miach likes to talk. More than anything she likes to tell stories of society prior to Lifeism, as she has read about it in books. She's an endless chatterbox of information about the early twentieth century. But of course, she does not share this trivia for no reason. What Miach is truly getting at is always a criticism of the Lifeism society that treats humans like public property. The reason stories about privacy (a word only referring to sex anymore in Miach's time), injury and illness fascinate her is that she loathes the way her society has gotten rid of these things. Miach advocates for the right to harm yourself, let it be via unhealthy diets, self-harm, substance abuse or even prostitution. In Miach's opinion society has no right to determine what you can and can't do with your body because it is your own only. The idea of harm to herself is appealing to Miach because it's forbidden and thus a form of protest.

She believes that it's bizarre that humans are expected to regulate themselves internally. After all she saw during her time in war, Miach believes human nature is inherently barbaric and that suppressing this means breaking some part of what humans naturally are. She doesn't want to support a system that breaks people to the point of killing themselves. Thus she has declared to never grow up, never have WatchMe installed in her body, never play along.
Tuan describes Miach as an ideologue with a great charisma. In their group of three friends, Miach is the one pulling the others along and deciding what to feel and believe.

Miach's hatred of the world also takes dangerous shapes. She takes pleasure in pointing out how easily the medical system could be abused in order to kill millions of people at once. “It's just a matter of wanting to” is her favourite phrase in that regard. She doesn't have any negative feelings about the death of others. Miach thinks it's better to just think of yourself first and foremost.

For a hobby, Miach reads books. In her time this is unusual since paper books have died out. Miach used to seek out niche print shops to personally get the books she downloads from the net printed. Prior to being taken to the facility, she spent all her money on this and amassed an impressive amount of paper books from before the Maelstrom. Reading is one of the few things she has any real attachment to. In fact, before her final suicide attempt she has Tuan burn her books for her, claiming that she wouldn't be able to leave if she didn't rid herself of the things that gave her strength beforehand. She likes to say that by reading she is making herself sharper – to become a knife, to become an educated public enemy.

While these are the most important infos about Miach at her chosen canon point, it is also important to mention the direction her character can go into. Canonically, Miach does not shy down from terrorism via brainwashing thousands of people into suicide. Among them is even her own friend Cian. To reach her goals, Miach will do anything and sacrifice anyone.
It would be easy to deduce here that she just doesn't care about her friends, but that is not exactly true either. In her final breaths, she is concerned with whether or not Tuan forgives her all she's done. She may place her goals above her friends, but in her own way she cares about Tuan and Cian, demonstrating her ability to grow attachement generally.

Also important is that her attitude about the world has the potential to make a face heel turn. In canon, Miach has her consciousness temporarily removed again in Dian Cécht and this makes her see the whole world in a different light. Now thinking that a consciousness itself is what keeps humans from being able to be happy, Miach decides she loves the (now seen as salvageable) world after all and wants to save it by removing everyone's consciousness.
Though she hardly remembers her childhood prior to gaining a consciousness, Miach idealizes the state of conflict-free ease before it immensely. Her hatred of the world is directly related to the world falling short of this ideal. Once shown a way to 'fix' what is wrong with humanity once and for all, Miach's hatred disperses into nothing.
Miach is a character who exists between the extremes of idealizing a state without 'self' and desperately fighting to keep her individuality. In the Lifeism society nothing disgusts Miach more than having her autonomy taken from her, but in a no-consciousness world she perceives it as harmonic to lose her self.

Basically as long as her consciousness has to exist, she will protect her individuality with all she has, but if there's a way to rid herself of it completely then that appears ideal to Miach. She works with the conditions given in front of her.

Powers/Abilities:

Above average intelligence

Good understanding of medical drugs

Proficient with computer code

Power Nerfs (if applicable): N/A

Inventory: Simple clothes appropriate for a medical facility. Nothing else.

Incentives: Miach desires knowledge and solitude, ideally in correlation to one another. Books that she never had access to before and the space to read them in peace and quiet are a good reward for her. Even beyond the written word, Miach loves learning about societies. Though she despises being integrated into society, observing what makes it tick is her favorite pastime. So long as there's a learning opportunity, she'll thus likely put up with tasks for at least a bit.

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