Michiko "Blythe/Wraith" Hiramuya

Michiko "Blythe" Hiramura
Portrayed By	Mika Nakashima
Gender	Female
Birthday	October 31st
Age	26
Zodiac Sign	Scorpio
Aliases	Wraith
Place of Birth	Takayama, Gifu prefecture Japan
Current Location	NYC
Occupation	Thief, Musician
Known Relatives	Mika Hiramuya(Mother), Yami Hiramuya(Father), Shiro Hiramuya(Brother)
Significant Other	N/A
Identity	Variable/Depends on a day
Known Abilities	Manipulation of the states of matter of Oxygen on a Molecular level

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History

Early History:

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Michiko was born to the Hiramuya family of Takayama in the Gifu Prefecture of Japan. The Hiramuya family was indeed very poor, and were in the employ of the wealthy and somewhat superstitious Yamairo family.
The Yamairo family was big business through and through. Michiko's family lived in servant’s quarters on the grounds of the Yamairo estate. Because the Hiramuya family was often called upon to tend to business associates and other powerful businessmen, they were required to be well trained. Michiko was consequently schooled in many things that would make her presentable to the upper echelons of society.

Michiko lived there until around the age of 12. Around this time, the eldest son of the Yamairo family, Shin, was ready to move to the United States to open an American branch of the family business. Since Shin would only have himself and his wife with him, it was determined that it would not be necessary for him to bring just 1 of the Hiramuya
family members. About a year later, when all preparations were complete, Michiko's parents, of course, seeing this as an opportunity for their young daughter sent her to live with Shin and his wife Yumi in the US.
For the next couple years Michiko lived comfortably with the Yamairo's who were never bad to the girl despite her oddities, but didn't actually pay her so much as give her a place to stay, and school her in English so that she may better associate with Shin's new American business partners.

Power Manifestation:

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It was at the age of 14 that Michiko’s powers first manifested. When a business party went bad one evening, and far too many drinks were served hell started to break loose.
Michiko became took the brunt of lewd jokes, harsh commentary and threatening and sexual gestures. Despite her
position in the household this level of exploitative treatment became far too much for the young woman. As her anger at their behavior came to a head her retaliation was swift unexpected. Several of the men were sent sprawling away from the girl by a wave of pressure. It happened so quickly, however the event left only one person unconsious, Michiko herself.
After the event the businessmen, scared and furious, held a stance that they would not deal with a mutant lover. Scarcely able to believe the situation himself Shin Yamairo, cursed the young girl who’d he’d taken care of and taught, the freak. Enraged he tried to rouse the girl. Michiko regained consciousness in a daze and full of fear. The onset of her powers had painfully blinded her. Her eyes wouldn’t open, only a red-tinged vitreous ooze leaked from between her closed lids.

Shin, filled suddenly with a fear of his own, screamed at her, demeaning her, as he'd never done before and cast her out of his home.
Michiko, for a week, could see nothing. She was blind and wandering, sitting in New York wasting away inalleys. She was lucky, at this time that she was found by an older homeless man who took pity on the poor girl and brought her food and water. He kept her alive despite her oddities and her powers fluxing in and out of effect. This was the first person Michiko had ever
called a friend. Though Michiko had assumed that she’d never open her eyes again, one day her eyes fluttered open once morewhen she woke, completely changed. There was no true eyeball left anymore. , only a pair of deep sockets. Despite this her eyelids maintained their shape due to the thick membrane that now lined the socket. Her way of seeing was forever altered.

Life on the Streets:

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At first things weren’t much better. In time, though, she would learn to read the world in a new way. Hungry, desperate, and angry she felt no qualms about using her knowledge of her old 'employers' schedule and habits to go about pilfering several articles from the home while they were away. One could say that this was luck, luck that the majority of the staff of the building was unaware of her departure, and when she asked for a key it was granted. Lucky, even more perhaps, that they'd not found anyone else to be their servant in that week of passage. Michiko made off with enough to sustain herself for quite some time. Although her life was by no means glamorous, having taken to staying in any abandoned building she could find and learning the best ways to use her abilities to frighten off those who would intrude. The child of luxurious servitude became a child of the streets.

By the time she was 17 she was calling herself Blythe to remain disconnected from her past and was living in a small apartment, paying the bills with pick pocketing, and burglary. Pressure sensitive alarms were little to no problem for Blythe, nor were lock or door alarms. Only once did she actively attack an innocent person only for the sake of money. She would never do it again.

Life up until now:

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It wasn't uncommon for her to get into scrapes on the street; early on it left her bloody and bruised, and sometimes lucky to be alive. As she grew, however, she fought back unafraid to use her abilities to best advantage even if it did cause lasting cripling harm or death to some one; she grew cold to that idea. Having no official combat training of any sort Michiko is at the very least a fearless brawler but facing anyone with any form of proper training she is at a major disadvantage (even with her abilities) and she relies heavily on being quiet and unseen (and even unscented for that matter).

By the time she was 19 she was performing musically, singing and playing guitar. This brought her in a more consistent, though meager fund. However, it wasn't long before Michiko began feeling that her life was lacking. The loneliness and boredom of not allowing anyone near her, of people being literally uncomfortable around her was setting in.
Michiko took to wandering once more. Trying to find something better.

PERSONALITY:

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If Michiko weren’t so confused (and unstable)perhaps she'd be a much more likable being, as it were. However, there’s a part of her that’s very much a loner and yet more of her that would love to be around more people, even if some of that is to slake her incorrigible mischievous streak. She tends to be a very calm, aloof, and on occasion very polite, though there’s that charming
sarcasm that pops through more often in recent years. Unfortunately, her mental instability makes it a sure thing that you can not be too sure how she's going to act.

MISCELLANEOUS:
Michiko is a creative being; this lends itself well to her powers, better than she perhaps knows. She loves tricks and pranks and scaring and surprising people. She has a real knack for music and enjoys going to concerts as much as performing them.
Because of her unique way of seeing, she's gotten somewhat adept at predicting what the weather is going to do, but she doesn’t depend on it. While she can’t play video games she enjoys things that challenge her reflexes and simply beasts wack-a-mole style games.

Timeline

• May 13th - Meets Deadpool in a bar; the two hit it off swimmingly. Both get kicked out of the bar.
• May 14th - Meets Keith in the park; finds that her very existance pisses off the elemental spirit of air.

Quotes

Trivia

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· Why is your character in New York?
Michiko has been present in NYC since she was brought over to the States with the Yamairo Family to serve as an in home servant and hostess, in 1992.

· What does your character do now (job, school, etc)?
Michiko is, in short, a thief. She tends to steal from Drug dealers, disrupting drug deals to turn a profit. It can be assumed that living so far below her means she’s stashed and saved quite a bit of funds. Her eye condition dictates that she has a money sorter to make herself functional.
For a long time she’s wanted to perform music, but it is looking that that possibility is more and more limited as time goes on.

· What is your character's general outlook on life (optimistic, pessimistic, realist, idealist, etc)?
The idea that Michiko has any one particular outlook is rather odd. Michiko has a tendency to bounce around often. While realist is a solid description, there’s a good dose of optimism and idealism born of the detachment that she has to the world around her.

· What is your character's basic personality?
Michiko is, in short, unstable and typically confused on some level. She’s mischievous and cares very little for most things.
Even before she gained her powers and lost her she dealt with mental disorders. She suffered even then from Schizotypal Disorder; and was Bi-Polar (which she was medicated for, and notably is not, nowadays). During this time of her life,she did as she was told and was a lover of beautiful things. She may not have been an artist, but she was a lover of art, and music.

· What are your character's hobbies?
Michiko is very attached to her ill-gotten black Gibson SG. The girl sees music in a way most can’t imagine, and is very attached to it. Music is the vent that keeps her sane (kind of).
When she’s not fiddling with her guitar, singing, or listening to music. Blythe enjoys being a trickster she is able to perform some impressive close up magic as a result.

INTERMEDIATE

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· How does your character feel about his or her hometown? Why?
There is a kind of sad nostalgia for Blythe where Takayama and Japan in general is concerned. Her likelihood of getting a plane ticket is next to impossible. Making ever visiting a problem. She’s never tried. When her powers manifested, she took it hard and was never quite the same. Things changed, she died, and Japan was another lifetime.

· What sort of relationship does your character have with each member of his or her family? Why?
Michiko was a loving daughter, for her instability and quirks. Her brother was only 4 when she departed for the states and she doesn’t have many memories of him. With her mother and father, she had a very clean happy straightforward family-life.

· How does your character feel about New York? Why?
Having gotten it into her head that there’s not much before New York; Blythe views it, almost as her life-long home, her stomping-grounds. She’s never been outside of the city, and despite her problems with visual acuity has achieved an understanding of location and workings over the years, and even if she does get ‘misplaced’ she can often, eventually, find her way to someplace she knows.

· Does your character enjoy his or her job? Why or why not?
Blythe cannot imagine having any other job. The adrenaline junkie quality she has about her is more than a little bit prominent in this area. It’s all one big game to her, and while she’s careful, rarely has she ever thought about not doing it one day. Part of her would love to play in a band. She’s played small live houses, and for a time made a decent living at that, though meager compared to her gains as a thief.

· What is your character's goal in life?
Existence, and entertainment. She has no really higher goal. She moves through life toward nothing, toward eventual death. Her goal is to enjoy it when and where she can.

· How did your character's goals develop? Why does he or she want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or an actress?
Michiko’s lack of goals developed not long after her powers manifested. The loss of her sight, and the aura around her made mundane jobs next to impossible. She turned to stealing out of desperation and the couple times she was nearly caught, her abilities saw her through. Unfortunately, there was not much beyond this that she ever hoped to be able to achieve as she found out that she was particularly noticeable. Aside from the eyes, at first, she figured she must have been disfigured somehow, as she was now unable to see herself.

· What types of movies does your character love? What does he or she like about them?
When Blythe was able to appreciate films, she enjoyed Japanese horror movies, and anime, but had a soft spot for the romantic comedies that her mother used to watch, and bad soap opera acting.

· What types of books does your character read? What does he or she like about them?
Mystery novels were her favorite; there was enough information in them to allow her brain to bounce from one thing to another. She was good at figuring them out, for better or worse.

· What type of music does your character listen to? Why?
Blythe is a sucker for all types of music, though she leans heavily to heavier rock. Classical, however, paints beautiful pictures to her now.

· What sorts of things does your character dislike? What does he or she find particularly annoying?
It takes a lot to annoy Blythe. Being detached as she is, most things serve to amuse her. For something to truly anger her, it has to be directed against her own personal morals, or truths, or agreements. Some of this goes back to her training in politeness. While she may not follow things heavily herself, a lack of courtesy does, at the very least disturb her. Please note that her definition of courtesy is rather convoluted.

· If your character is a mutant, how has he or she developed, tested, or ignored the powers? What does he or she know about their extent or limitations?
Blythe has no technical knowledge or understanding of /exactly/ what it is that her power does. She simply knows that she reaches out and bends the particles around her into shapes, fields, and various densities. Her time in the streets has forced her to use her abilities to survive; and she is adept at using them. There are several potential effects she is unaware of, this is also true of the extent to which her powers function.

· What are your character's morals? How does he or she feel about stealing, lying, cheating, murder, etc? Why?
Detachment is the key word here. Her world is like one big game of make pretend. It’s what keeps her from being a depressed pile of goo. Deep down its her acknowledgement that the world is still real that has kept her out of the spotlight, and out of being a known criminal due to caution. She has no qualms about stealing, injuring people, or even potentially killing if the need arose.

· How does your character feel about mutants? About humans? Why?
Someone who has been an obvious mutant for a good portion of her life, she remained blissfully uncaring of the state of the world.

· What type of guy/girl is your character usually attracted to? What type does he or she avoid? Why?
Particularly since her blindness, Blythe has never dedicated a part of her brain to even noticing the opposite sex in that way as with the way she sees it is a concentrated effort anyways. She’d become a freak. While this started out a bit depressing to the girl it was eventually justified. Blythe decided that there was no place in her lifestyle for people or relationships anyways, too much connection and distraction. As detachment set in, and she got lost more within her own fantasies this was no longer a particularly lonely prospect.
As ‘Blythe’, Michiko seems to believe that she’s a good deal beyond what anyone would like anyways mainly due to her questionable and sometimes violent lifestyle, as well as her known dysfunctions (though some of these are blown out of proportion by her own behavioral choices). IN addition, while she’s detached herself heavily from her appearance and the appearance of others, on the surface; she does assume herself to be more disturbing looking than she actually is, by a very broad margin.

She finds herself drawn to those who share unsavory habits, those who are intriguingly odd in other ways, and those who simply don’t care.

ADVANCED

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· Who has been most influential in your character's life and the way he or she views the world? How has that person influenced your character?
Michiko’s parents were very influential to her in her early years, having instilled good morals, and a lot of tolerance for the world in her.
In a lot of ways what she’s become over the years is the antithesis of how she was raised. Having had a breakdown after her power manifested, she rebuilt herself mentally. This person was someone who could handle herself in the conditions she was placed in.
Since that point in time, she still has her little Michiko voice poke through on occasion and tell her things that she shouldn’t be doing. To this day she’s never smoked, and she doesn’t understand promiscuity at all. Though the number of things that she does that she ignores the voice on, more than make up for it. Because of this she is often conflicted, though only when she’s wholly sober. Whiskey is wonderful for keeping thoughts blissfully quieted.

· If your character were in emotional pain, what would he or she do? Who might your character talk to? How might they react?
Blythe would remain wholly quiet in regards to talking to others, but she holds a simple ask and you shall receive policy in most cases. Blythe doesn’t handle emotional pain well as someone who doesn’t often feel it. It usually leads her to fall more into her ‘nothing is real’ fantasy and clouds her underlying cautiousness. This leads her to do things that are generally far more reckless and dangerous to her anonymity.

· What or who would your character make serious sacrifices for, if anything or anyone?
Blythe has never made a serious sacrifice for anyone. And there’s no one yet who she would do so for.

· What was the worst moment of your character's life? Why?
The onset of mutancy – the loss of her vision.
· What was the best moment of your character's life? Why?
She doesn’t have anything she views as a best moment, same old same old. Blythe suffers from an amazing lack of fulfillment in her life.

· What does your character like most about himself? What does your character dislike most about himself?
Because most self likes and dislikes are measured against others, Blythe doesn’t typically think about such things. She likes herself and her personality, who she is, on a level removed of what she’s become. She hates the fact that she’s an obvious mutant and more than that, that she’s eyeless and ‘freaky-looking’.

POWERS
Blythe possesses a very specific form of telekinesis which manifests as the ability to manipulate oxygen and attached particles on a molecular level, provided that the base form is not heavier than a gas (ie. Not water, even though it is H20). This results in an ability to manipulate the density of the air by eliminating the space between particles causing them to pull closer together (henceforth referred to as eliminating), or by slowing down the motion of particles themselves causing them to cool and condense much like ice (henceforth referred to as slowing).

With this ability she can produce anything from waves of blunt force, to a high pressure field capable of potentially causing N2 narcosis, or the bends (ailments that a deep sea diver may encounter); to an field of air with the consistency of liquid or gel that she can use to 'swim' in the air, cushion falls, silence footsteps etc.; to solid objects of varying density weight, and mass.

Though these fields do not directly effect the content of oxygen in an area, being within one of a higher density makes it proportionately more difficult to breath due to the heavy density of the area.
The range potential is a 20ft radius/height around her or 40ft line with 20ft depth in any one direction, or a smaller up to 10x10x10 area up to 15ft away from her.
Pressure manipulation can also be used to create pressure waves at a range of 10ft radius.
At high pressures and densities breathing becomes next to impossible unless you are content to breathe liquid oxygen. As the density increases so, too does the visibility of the area of effect, ranging from a slight distortion in the air, to a mirage like area of refracted light even to a light blue. This visibility is also true of her solid air objects.

As well, a rapid increase in pressure is a lot like getting very heavy objects dropped on you. A crushing force. This is a much more difficult use for Blythe and generally not most practical.
The phenomenon also known as the bends can occur from decompression from her pressure fields. Though it is not quite so severe as it typically would be. Unless someone steps out of the area of effect on his or her own accord its unlikely to cause any severe damage. Unlike in a scuba situation the air that is available does have nitrogen in it so there is ability for the body to equalize the problem and have less of an impact to begin with. The potential for damage far less severe.

Because she can produce these effects two ways the results of each are slightly different.
At present she can only minorly dabble in her potential. Nowadays when she condenses the air, both methods, slowing, and eliminating, are in effect at the same time, to varying degrees; although she is not consciously aware of the difference between them despite her adequate use of the effects. However, she can learn to use these different manipulations to different effect independent of one another.

Slowing and eliminating together are capable of producing the most solid of objects that continue to exist and persist regardless of the attention Blythe is paying to it, when the object is created it simply is unless acted upon by an extreme force of heat (increases speed of particles and shakes her objects apart), or electricity (which fuses air into ozone and therefor breaks her creations.
These two also have the added side effect of producing items that are incredibly cold. With the potential of reaching liquid nitrogen temperatures when the density is incredibly high. When this is the case, the objects, which are typically invisible, or mirage like, show up as a faint crystallike white-blue color that is translucent.

Slowing is what produces the strange heavy nimbus of cold air around blythe, and is an involuntary side effect, aside of its usage with the elimination ability, it does very little else.

Eliminating is an ability that Blythe is not aware is usable without slowing at the same time (although this is what she uses to produce pressure waves). Eliminating is potentially volatile. What happens is the area between the particles is eliminated drawing them close enough together to pack them densely enough to create an almost liquid field. Objects produced from only elimination are far too unstable to ever be completely solid due to the frantic motion of the particles which still vibrate although they were in a gaseous state. This causes the area to heat up from the friction of the particles and boil. This has the potential to create globs of napalm like ooze or small but superheated areas. Again easily broken by fire or electricity. (ie. If something combusts from the heat of the area, the area will also dissipate).

In addition her body is very in tune with its element; as she had lost her eyes there is the distinct possibility she could entirely lose her typical physical body under certain circumstances (will cross this bridge when we get to it)

SIGHT
Blythes eyes are obvious. There is no glassy wet surface to her eyes to reflect any light. They are black holes. The inside of her eye sockets and lids are actually lined with a membrane is receptive to depth and densities in her area. Because she once saw normally her mind makes assumptions and helps her create complete pictures of what she sees. Unfortunately they are not always accurate. Learning to sort out this strange vision has been a problem, making many jobs and forms of entertainment rather impossible. She is incapable of driving or riding any vehicle. Blythe is blind, she does not see in color, she does not see detail very easily, and she cannot see anything written on a flat service, she also cannot see through any surface that is a solid or and liquid produces muddle images. While she may not see everything going on around her with great clarity unless it is extensively focused on she is, at the very least functional.
There are several perks to this detriment however. She is capable of seeing the movement of sound and vibrations, and light and dark have no bearing on her, she can see smells and oddities in the air, and changes in temperature by the density. This also allows her to keep track of her areas of effect. She is very easily blinded by loud or layered sounds and heavy winds or fast movement, in these conditions she can only see the motion of particles and nothing else. Shes learned to find beauty in these movements and it only furthers her love of music, as it has become a visual experience for her as well.

PERSISTANT SIDE EFFECTS
Due to her power there is a persistent nimbus density floating around her. It is uncomfortable. Within approximately 7 feet of her the area begins to feel at first as though the air was heavy with humidity, as proximity increases so does the density and chill in the air. Standing shoulder to shoulder with her is like breathing in a steam-room through a straw and the temp averages 5-10 degrees cooler than the surrounding area. Chilly and oppressive but harmless and quite uncomfortable is the best description. When upset or nervous or high strung the effects of this aura increases.

POWER RESISTANCES
She is immune to high and low pressure environments to an extreme. Her body requires very little oxygen to function and is therefore has no problems related the high pressure or depressurization issues that are caused by nitrogen build up. This is also notably not immune to any hot or cold that her abilities may produce.

FLAWS
Unfortunately a side effect of high pressure areas is an over abundance of air in one place. Because of this, Blythe has a tendency to make fires burn much brighter than they otherwise would in per prescense. High pressure areas are also consequently more conductive of electricity.
IN addition, Blythe is not immune to cold. While she has gotten used to it, she's just as susceptible to hypothermia as the next person. Her aura warrants her dressing warmer than most people for the majority of the year. Using her powers in the winter to form fields around herself, could most certainly be detrimental to her.

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