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2015-08-16 02:21 am
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Inventory

Updated 10 November (In-Game Day 55)

Wearing


  • black and white jumpsuit
  • boots
  • belt
  • nonfunctional omnitool
  • nonfunctional biotic implant
  • Norfinbury issue black jacket
  • Norfinbury issue backpack
  • Star shaped children's sunglasses
  • Child-size jacket
  • Scarf
  • Sweater
  • Tote Bag
  • mittens
  • umbrella
  • afghan

    Carrying/Backpack


    To Keep:
  • A disabled M4 Shuriken pistol
  • pink hairbrush
  • six color eyeshadow palette
  • black SD card
  • bottle of bleach
  • knitting needle
  • scissors
  • sheet
  • mascara x2
  • wine
  • toothpaste
  • exfoliating scrub
  • matches
  • hand mirror
  • Sharpie marker
  • hand towel
  • bar soap
  • body bag
  • lipstick
  • nailpolish
  • hand towel
  • perfume
  • fireplace poker
  • conditioner
  • notepad
  • cinnamon body spray
  • ammonia
  • handwipes


    To Trade:
  • packet of tissues
  • box of plastic forks
  • glue dots
  • pencil
  • knitted tablet cover
  • knitting needle
  • hand mirror
  • toothpaste
  • cloneprincess: (Default)
    2015-08-15 02:07 am

    HMD

    Anon-enabled, IP logging off. You know the drill.
    cloneprincess: (07)
    2015-08-04 03:50 pm

    Snowblind Network Stalking Opt-Out

    Miranda is a creeper.

    De-creepify yourself here.

    (please list individual characters and their journals rather than an overall "all my characters"; I'm terrible at keeping up with who plays what.)
    cloneprincess: (Default)
    2015-08-01 05:03 am

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    Player Information

    Name: Banah ([personal profile] banah)
    Age: 25
    Contact Info: [plurk.com profile] lilpocketninja
    Other Characters: Jim Hawkins

    Character Information

    Name: Miranda Lawson
    Canon: Mass Effect
    Age: 35
    Gender: Female
    Canon Point: Mass Effect 3, during Priority: Earth
    Background Link: Mass Effect Wiki and Game State info
    Inventory: A disabled M4 Shuriken pistol, nonfunctional omnitool, nonfunctional biotic implant, leather catsuit, belt, and boots.

    Personality:

    Ceberus, the organization Miranda joined as a teenager, is dedicated to protecting and advancing humanity as a species at all costs up to and including human experimentation and enslavement. Miranda occupies a high rank in Ceberus and she didn’t get her position by being nice.

    She is ruthlessly practical (in addition to being just plain ruthless.) Miranda is absolutely someone who gets the job done without stopping to ponder over questions of ethics, though she may later come to regret her course of action when given more time to reflect. Miranda has strong ideals despite her pragmatism. She believes that humans must put humanity first and seek every opportunity to better their position in the galaxy. She claims that her beliefs come not from xenophobia but from a desire to see humans on equal footing with the more powerful and established species. Because Miranda believes that her goal is a just one, she is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve it.

    Miranda is initially quite cold on a personal level. There are important things on her mind, and she doesn’t care if her peers think she’s a bitch as long as she achieves her goals. This means that she can be very blunt and callous. She likes to see herself as being above emotion, ego, and immaturity, but she isn’t when pushed positively (to do anything necessary to protect and shelter her younger sister) and negatively (to engage in immature arguments with a crew member that can endanger her mission). She’s unwilling to trust anyone - including Shepard after they’ve fallen in love - with more information than she has to. She would rather rely on herself than her allies or underlings, because she is a perfectionist and doesn’t trust anyone else to completely meet her standards.

    The belief that she is almost perfect (accepting that ‘almost’ is a part of her character in the third game) comes from being genetically engineered to be her father’s heir. He built her, body and mind, to be exactly what he wanted. This is why, despite being skilled in her chosen field as well as confident in her own abilities, Miranda dismisses the value of her own accomplishments. She sees the things she’s achieved through that perfection as worth less because of her innate genetic advantages. The only thing she claims ownership of are her failures and faults.

    Because she feels like she has no ownership over large parts of herself, Miranda seems content to be used as a tool in other people’s games. She violently rejects her father and his influence over her, but seeks out the head of Ceberus and commits to his vision for nearly twenty years. She likes having a defined set of goals and the resources to meet them. It gives her meaning in her life as long as the task allows her freedom and creativity. She admits that part of the reason she joined Ceberus was because it provided a challenge and gave her the chance to work alongside people as bright and dedicated as she is. This, alongside Ceberus’ ideals, is enough to push her into taking part in a suicide mission into an unknown part of the galaxy and taking an entire crew along with her. When she transfers her loyalties to Shepard, she does so completely by cutting off contact with Ceberus and as soon as she’s able dedicating herself to helping the Alliance war effort.

    
She doesn’t just see herself as a tool; she also sees other people that way. Shepard was initially very angry with her for her part in bringing him back to life without his consent and in order to force him into an alliance with Ceberus. She had zero qualms about this (and as mentioned above, even lobbied to give Shepard less control over the situation than he already had). For nineteen years she manipulated her sister’s life without telling the girl that she even existed. In theory, she believes mistakes can be made in manipulating people this way, but when Jack (a victim of Ceberus) is brings up the abuse she’s suffered, Miranda brushes it off. Other people are tools, and Miranda believes she’s in her rights to use them as she sees fit so long as it’s in the service of “the greater good.”

    Flavor Abilities: Miranda will glow briefly when attempting to access her biotics and in high stress survival situations.

    Suitability: Miranda has been to many hostile planets and is combat-trained. She should have no trouble surviving in Norfinbury.

    As for character direction, there are two things I’d like to explore:
    1) Miranda without a purpose, and being forced to choose her own purpose. So far, there’s no one in-game who she would dedicate herself to and she’s at a canon point where that would seem unattractive anyway. Without direct contact with the admin, she’ll initially be without purpose and have to work on developing a sense of self beyond the people whose goals have defined her.
    2) Eventually she will probably settle on the goal of protecting the best interests of the group as a whole. However, what she sees as the best interests of the group as a whole and what the group sees as their best interests may be very different (she’d jump at the chance to collaborate with the admin if available, for instance, because she’d want to use that to try and negotiate better conditions) and it’s likely to bring her into conflict with more pure-hearted characters. In the meantime, she will be playing a long con with her identity and background out of paranoia.

    RP Samples: Network Sample & TDM Prose
    cloneprincess: (02)
    2015-08-01 02:20 am
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    Snowblind: Network Sample

    VIDEO; @lawbringerSR2

    [ The video shows Miranda from the shoulders up, as if the tablet has been propped on something as she sits back to address it. She's obviously taking some care with her appearance, though she knows that nobody in this hellhole gives a damn what she looks like at the moment. There's a certain comfort in routine when comfort can't be found anywhere else. A suicide mission, Reapers laying waste to the galaxy as Ceberus crumbled and mutated, being kidnapped by an organization that refused to show itself: all bad excuses for not striving for perfection.

    The tablet's tiny light illuminates only her face as she sets up the screen. The shelter she's taken is dark and anonymous at her back though the wind can be heard rattling around the wooden frame. ]


    Today marks a Galactic Standard month that I've been here.

    It seems like far longer than that. Believe it or not, things are actually calmer here than they were back where I come from; it was a bloody mess.

    [ And that's the truth. Earth might not be exactly where she came from, but it was where they had taken her just hours after she'd watched the Citadel fall burning from the sky. The amount of work that had to be done to get society running again made Miranda's head ache. She wanted to be overseeing it, not stuck in a house containing only a primitive bathroom. ]

    But that's not what I'm posting about. I've begun to set up food depots in what can roughly be described as the northeast and southeast corners of Norfinbury - the areas furthest from the regularly restocking food supplies that we know of. With regularly maintained emergency supplies we should be able to prevent anyone from starving to death if they're stuck in those areas, but I'm only one person. If anyone would like to volunteer in helping me move as much as possible from the school to a location in the southwest, please respond to this post.

    [ After a brief hesitation, she adds with a wry smile: ] I have to warn you, though. It's slow bloody going.
    cloneprincess: (04)
    2015-07-23 08:11 pm
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    Miranda's Game State

    Miranda comes from a universe with a paragon Shepard. Her canon point is during the final assault on Earth, after saying goodbye to Shepard but prior to Shepard's final choice.

    Mass Effect:
    * Kaidan killed on Virmire
    * living Wrex
    * Council saved
    * Anderson to the Council

    Mass Effect 2:
    * Romanced
    * Loyalty mission completed, contact with Oriana made
    * All survived the Suicide Mission
    * Collector base destroyed

    Mass Effect 3
    * Romanced
    * Survived
    cloneprincess: (Default)
    2015-07-23 08:07 pm
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    Permissions

    I'm fine with anything short of killing Miranda (or doing something that will get her killed). You don't even have to ask. And if you do want to kill her, let's talk about it.

    If you do feel the need to ask about anything, though, feel free to do so here.
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    2015-07-23 08:06 pm
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    (no subject)




    Lawson. Leave a message.

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