Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 14:46:45 GMT -6
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=style,width:400px; background:#fff;] Miranda Keyes |
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Gender: Female • Birthday: May 9 (24) • Zero |
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true] Occupation | Ears | Orientation | ||
RA Partnerships Teacher | No | Bisexual |
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=style,width:400px; background:#fff;] Personality |
< Romantic;; Even though she's a Zero now, Miranda is still a strong believer in love and in the institution of unit pairs, and that is the reason she became the partnerships teacher, wanting to see as many units succeed as she can and encouraging young couples to fall in love and follow their hearts to happiness. < Dedicated;; Entirely a result of lingering guilt from having abandoned her original Fighter in order to become a Zero, Miranda is loyal to a fault, willing to do anything and everything for a loved one, unable to turn away from even an abusive relationship that tears her down piece by piece. < Easy-going;; Miranda is a very easy person to get along with and live with, the Zero lax about rules, and if there's one aspect of her life where this trait shines through stronger than anywhere else, it would have to be in her classes, where she will openly encourage anything that her students want to do provided that it has the potential to make units closer. < Supportive;; If there's one thing that some of her student might not expect, it's that Miranda won't judge them no matter what they might tell them, and if they confide in her, she's hardly going to abandon them and instead encourage them to follow their hearts and their dreams in the pursuit of happiness so that their stories don't end up in tragedy like hers seems to have. < Optimistic;; Sure, Miranda may have made a mistake and screwed up her first chance at love, abandoning her other half and becoming a Zero mostly out of spite, but she's gotten over that for the most part and instead harbors a strong hope that she'll find love, the type of person to always see the bright side of things no matter how bleak a situation may look. < Honest;; No matter what, Miranda is at heart a girl with a strong moral compass, and one of the things she strives to do is remain an upstanding individual, refusing to compromise her own integrity, and she doesn't really believe in lying to people without a very good reason to do so. > Impulsive;; Believe it or not, a fair amount of the decisions that Miranda makes are done so on a whim or based on how she feels in a particular moment, something that if she's not careful can lead her into a mess that she may not want to be in or into a situation that she will regret later on when she realizes the full meaning of her rash actions. > Emotionally driven;; A lot of Miranda's decisions are based on her emotions rather than her rational thought, and although she tries and usually succeeds to make good ones, sometimes she can make rather poor ones when she is running on negative emotions and just wants to make everything stop, such as when she decided to join the Zero Program to get back at her original Fighter. > Vindictive;; It's a rare occasion for Miranda to turn on someone, especially someone that she holds dear, but when it does happen, there are few lows to which she will not sink in order to get her revenge, petty and childish to the last so that at the end of the day she can make the other person hurt just as much as she has, if not worse. > Forgiving;; Although many would see this as a good trait, it actually screws Miranda over since she will pardon any offense against her as they stack up, and one day she'll eventually just lose it entirely and go on one huge dump where she gets revenge for every single one of those hurts that had been building up deep inside her without her knowledge. > Self-conscious;; She may seem quite confident in the way she looks and able to shrug off whatever negative things people may say to her, but in reality, Miranda is very much aware of how the numeral on her right palm is a brand, and it's not uncommon for her to try to hide it to avoid having to deal with others thinking less of her for her moment of weakness. > Neophobic;; Miranda may not seem like it with how open-minded she is to suggestions, but she actually has an acute fear of things changing on her, and it is this fear of newness that leads her to prefer to take the sacrifice position of a unit despite being able to be in either, the poor Zero too freaked out by the concept of throwing a spell around to do well there. |
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true] Positive | Negative | |
+ Romantic+ Dedicated+ Easy-going+ Supportive+ Optimistic+ Honest | - Impulsive- Emotionally driven- Vindictive- Forgiving- Self-conscious- Neophobic |
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=style,padding-top:8px; width:400px; background:#fff;] Additional Info |
> Despite being a Zero and occasionally facing criticism for advising others on how to be close to their other half when she has none herself, Miranda is Rosewood Academy's Partnerships teacher, and she takes a certain pleasure in watching a unit come together. > Long ago, when Miranda was in high school, she was the Sacrifice of the unit Devil. Her fighter, a much younger girl, generally treated her poorly, and when the other girl publicly ridiculed Miranda for remaining loyal to her in spite of the fact that all the evidence pointed to the younger being straight, something inside the elder snapped. She rashly went to the Zero Program and signed up for it, not wanting to live in that devil of a unit anymore, and it was only later that night, while staring at the zero numeral that had appeared on her right palm, that she realized she had made a mistake in becoming a zero. The fact that she can perform spells, however, usually frightens her, and as a result she often takes the sacrifice role in any partnership she might have. > Miranda's original Fighter was female, so it goes without saying that she's attracted to her own gender even if she hasn't ever dated one since becoming a Zero, the guilt over having ditched their original unit preventing her from feeling comfortable admitting that she likes girls. She has pulled back from dating a lot now that she's a teacher so that she could devote more of her attention towards coming up with new bonding exercises for the units, but when she was still insecure from being made a Zero and being a horrible Sacrifice for abandoning her Fighter, she let a guy pick her up from a bar for a one-night stand that lost her her ears, though she was so drunk she remembers nothing of the night in question and the event has not happened again since. < Miranda was born the middle of three children, and she grew up in an average house in the suburbs. Her parents got along just fine, and they were a unit pair; the Keyes children were exposed to spell battling from a young age, but unlike other parents, the adults didn't push their children to engage in the entire process. They were perfectly content with their children to be who they wanted to be, and so when Miranda's unit name appeared on her left calf when she was thirteen, they didn't freak out or congratulate her. She was still the same old Miranda she'd been even without the name, and even if she was crying because her unit name meant she was a devil, they were quick to assure her that she was still their little angel. She calmed down and eventually the name became a part of her life, nothing to be concerned about, and she actually began laughingly passing it off as a tattoo when friends would spot it when she'd go swimming. After all, she'd never had any indication to the conclusion that her other half was going to find her any time soon, and as she made her way through high school at Rosewood Academy, things were looking up for her. And then, at the age of seventeen, everything came to a screeching halt. Another girl, a first-year student and a rather immature one at that, shared her name. For the first time, the Sacrifice had a Fighter, and she tried to do best by the other girl. She would wait on her hand and foot, always there to clean up her messes, and she took the insults and taunting with a smile on her face. At home, however, she was a mess, and it wasn't an uncommon occurrence for the walls of the Keyes residence to be battered with the sound of sobbing and hopeless pleas for her to be permitted more than the few scraps of love she was tossed every now and again. Just when she didn't think things could get any worse, they did: one of the various boys that her Fighter would openly date took the younger girl's ears, and that started a long nightmare for poor Miranda as rumors shot about the school about the poor senior who was so dedicated to her Fighter even as said Fighter slept around with almost every member of the sports teams. The blonde asked her Fighter to prom, and the other girl had said yes, so she began to gather up hope that things were going to change, but instead, it was all for nothing. When the elder got to the house of her Fighter, the girl was already gone, having left with the football team's quarterback. Miranda went to school the next day and went to sit with her Fighter to give her the corsage she had bought to show her that there were no hard feelings, and then it happened. The younger girl stood up and laughed at her Sacrifice for being so naive to think that she would ever love another girl, and then snobbishly added that she might as well just stop trying since units were meant to be made of either hate or love, and theirs wasn't going to be driven by the latter. Hurt and in tears, Miranda then went to make the worst decision she had ever made in her whole eighteen years of life. She ran to the university and signed herself up for the Zero Program, just wanting to rid herself of the pain she was feeling from the repeated heartbreak. She got her wish, the name "Devil" being erased from her calf to be exchanged for a single zero numeral on her right palm, and with that change came the loss of the ability to feel anything but extreme temperature changes. She still reacted to pain, of course, but heat was nothing to her anymore. A warm day didn't make her realize it was hot and it took snow and her body to be quaking with cold for her to realize she needed to bundle up. But those costs weren't on her mind when she woke up the next day. Instead, it was the sense of abject loss and regret that she'd let her emotions get the best of her and had broken up the one thing in her life that was supposed to bring her happiness. She finished out her last year in a daze, barely aware of what was going on around her, and in fact, she was stuck in that rut for the entire first two years of her time at the university until, one day, she woke up with a pounding headache and missing her ears. There was a note on the table thanking her for the wild night and a bunch of beer bottles on the floor of the motel room, so it wasn't hard for her to figure out what had happened, and it was the shock she needed to turn her life around. She got herself together again and vowed to move on from her mistake rather than allow herself to wallow in it any longer, getting her teaching degree and taking a job as Rosewood Academy's partnerships teacher because, after all, if she could stop even one kid's story from turning out the way her own had, she'd view everything as time and effort well spent. |
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