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Ming Numara || Lost Odyssey || Unreserved
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Character
Name: Ming Numara
Series: Lost Odyssey
Timeline: Post-game
Canon Resource Links: Ming's Canon Wiki Page. But as it's little more than her description from the instruction manual copied over, I've fleshed out some major points below.
Ming Numara is a powerful Sorceress, known in her word for being the Queen and founder of the Free Ocean State of Numara. She is also an Immortal and has ruled Numara (mostly alone) for the past 1000+ years. She existed at first in a place called The Shining World, as a being of pure energy, before her world began to die. She and four others were sent through a magical gate to another world, one which existed directly connected to her own. There, she lost all memories of The Shining World and was reformed into a human body. She was separated from her companions and came to live in a small coastal village. She knew only she had been sent here, and she was to live among the native peoples of this world and study their magical energy.
Unfortunately, her powers of healing marked her a witch, and the villagers she had healed and cared for turned against her. When she wouldn't die at their hands, they tossed her into the sea. Eventually she washed up on a barren group of islands. The people there were poor and unable to coax much life from the rocky soil and sweltering climate. But they didn't fear Ming. Rather they welcomed her with open arms and cared for her. In turn, she used her gifts to transform the barren islands into the flourishing paradise now known as Numara, and has ruled it ever since.
She instituted an isolationist policy, to ensure that her own country would always be a place of peace. And it was, until the sorcerer and fellow Immortal Gongora set great monsters to destroy Numara, chaining Ming and offering her an ultimatum: either he destroyed her beloved people, or she sealed away her own memories of who she was and why she was here. She sealed her memories and was a puppet ruler, used by her general, for thirty years. By then, Gongora had caused enough trouble that plenty of other people were looking into him. Ming ended up reuniting with her Immortal companions, though none of them had their memories - only a vague sense they knew each other.
Together they set out to bring down Gongora and recover their own memories, something that took two years. During that time, Ming fell in love with a mortal man, saw more of the world than she ever had before, and regained her memories of the last thousand years before Gongora was finally defeated. It all came to a head in a magic tower that connected both worlds, in which Ming's closest friend was lost in the final battle. Ming returned home to Numara, and eventually wed the human mage she'd fallen in love with on her journey. She returned to ruling Numara and offering her help in rebuilding all that had been destroyed over the last two years, no longer as content to sit and rule in isolation for all eternity.
Personality: Ming Numara is at her heart a patient, gentle and kind woman who is ruled by her emotions. She spent a thousand years keeping herself closed off from people, not allowing anyone close or beneath her calm public mask. She was known sometimes as the Melancholy Queen, and it was oft remarked there was an air of quiet sadness about her. But in her mind, it was better this way. A dull, constant small sadness was much better than the grief and pain that came from betrayal and loss. This thousand year span of self isolation has had a great effect on her personality. She still struggles with connecting honestly with people, and forming close bonds. She still instinctively keeps herself emotionally closed from other people, despite her depth of feeling for others.
She turned all the love and kindness in her heart to her people as a whole. A thousand years of meditating and studying pacifistic religions has given Ming a sense of calm and peace within her.
She's remarkably difficult to anger, and tries to see all sides of any given problem. She believes fully in giving the benefit of the doubt, and tends to think the best of people. Unless, of course, she's been given a reason different. Even then, she hopes and often waits too long before taking action. There was a general she was fond of, and one day she saw in his eyes the capacity to betray her. Rather than dealing with the problem then and there, Ming decided to wait and allow the general to make his own choice when the time came. But, as tended to happen, he attempted to take power from her and she was forced to execute him as a traitor - the only crime in Numara that carries that particular penalty.
Due to Ming's incredibly optimistic and kind nature, and her habit of not getting deeply close with others, she can be a poor judge of character and blindly defend people she really shouldn't. Most of her knowledge comes from books and entertainment and watching her own people - who's lifestyle and culture she herself carefully influenced and shaped to suit what she believes is 'best'.
She's easily charmed and can be taken advantage of before she even realizes she should be suspicious.
Due to the fact she kept herself away from people and out of social situations (or anything that wasn't being a priestess mage queen), she tends to have an almost childlike sense of wonder and excitement. New things amaze her, and she has an ability to find goodness and beauty in everything. She's very inquisitive, and loves to listen to the stories of other people. Having so few adventures of her own, the adventures of others are her favorite sort of things to hear. She can listen for hours and hours, content to not say a word, only nod and lose herself in the exciting lives of others. And now that she's moved beyond her crippling fear of emotional involvement of any sort, she takes great pleasure in meeting people and gathering new stories and new experiences from them.
Despite her pacifistic stance, Ming is more than willing to get her own hands dirty if she or her people are threatened. When her temper is finally roused, Ming's anger is swift and cold. It takes an extreme event to rouse that anger, however, or break through her calm kindness. Hurt a child or animal, or threaten her loved ones however, and the wrath of Ming is a terrible thing.
She executes justice (she'd never think to call it vengeance. A queen's vengeance is justice, as far as she's concerned) clinically and quickly, with little fanfare. She justifies this hypocrisy with her nature - with her abilities and immortality, she can't be bound by conventional rules of humanity. Ming does sometimes fully believe that she has the 'right' to make life or death decisions of a grand scale, moreso than others.
Ming can get frustrated and exasperated when she isn't getting her ideas across, or when she feels unnecessarily challenged. As the only female monarch in her world, she fears not being taken seriously or dismissed due to her gender. She's easily put out if she isn't afforded what she considers respect or common courtesy.
But as long as she's being given what she considers her polite due, she treats everyone with the same manner of respect and amicability. Unless given a very good reason to dislike someone, Ming typically doesn't.
She has a rather girlish sense of humor, and is quite easily amused - though she's not at all good at making jokes herself, and she often struggles with picking up sarcasm, though she's perfectly familiar with the concept.
Even though Ming enjoys new experiences, she fears losing control of herself or having her wits addled. She doesn't like to drink - she's had two drinks in her entire life, both of which knocked her out immediately - and won't knowingly touch anything that could possibly muddle her senses. At first it was due to not wanting to slip up and accidentally get close to someone, these days it's lingering fear from when her memories were scrambled and she wasn't herself.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths - Ming keeps a very calm and level head in a crisis or among highly charged emotions. She's often the voice of reason, and is skilled in mediation. She tends to be a very calming presence in general, and uses that.
She's a highly competent leader, ruling her country prosperously and peacefully single-handedly for a thousand years.
She's an exceptionally gifted musician and artist. She's skilled with the harp and her voice, and with three dimensional art.
Ming is a skilled healer, not only magically but through herbal remedies and first aide. In conjunction with this, she has quite the green thumb.
Ming has great organizational skills.
Weaknesses - Ming is entirely too trusting. She let a man she'd just met essentially kidnap her to no consequence because he seemed nice, and that's just one indecent.
She's so terrified of losing people that she's very hesitant to get close to others. She finds it easier to isolate herself rather than risk the pain that can come from emotional bonds.
Ming refuses to drink any alcohol, or take anything that will alter her senses even the slightest. She has deep paranoia over not being in complete control of her actions.
When she does form a deep emotional bond with someone, she can become dependent and obsessive to the point of blind selfishness. She was perfectly willing to risk her original world dying, just to stay with the man she'd fallen in love with.
Living almost all of her existence as a magic goddess queen, Ming doesn't really know how to take care of herself down to even some simple levels. It's been over a thousand years since she even dressed herself.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Lapras
Password: Cherries, strudel
Samples
First Person Sample:
[If nothing else, this sort of broadcasting and storage and communication device isn't entirely unfamiliar to Ming. But everything else certainly is. First and foremost her own body. Where's the pulsing thrum of her magical energy? Even the mark on her chest is dull and decorative. It's a frightening thing to see. She can feel the passage of time, something only once felt briefly. And terrifyingly. The seconds are moving by her, taking her with them.]
[She realizes she can't feel any any magical energy. Not in the atmosphere, not in the earth, not in the large creature that follows her. It's an unfamiliar beast, but one that looks as though it would be right at home on the paradisaical beaches of her island kingdom.]
[If this is a kidnapping, it's a frightfully strange one. She's nowhere near Numara. This place isn't familiar at all! But she's not restrained. Quite the opposite. She's made it to a bench in the little village she awoke in, and then that overwhelming feeling that threatens to steal her consciousness slips upon her and she sits, shaking and confused, to fiddle with the portable teleson.]
What...what is this place?
[There's a high note of fear and confusion in Ming's lightly accented voice.]
Something's wrong...something's terribly wrong...what's been done to me?
What's going to happen to me?
[Without her magical energy, what is she? Her magic is her soul, her consciousness, her very being! She's never felt so tied to this human shaped shell in all of her existence. She's certain she can feel the decay and dying of mortal cells. Is this dying?]
Could someone please...I'm in desperate need of assistance...
[It doesn't occur to her to explain further - there's not a single sentient thing in her world that doesn't know her face and who she is. What she is.]
[Surely someone can aide her!]
Third Person Sample:
It was growing more and more difficult to stay calm. That pressing sensation of time and existence was squeezing her! She felt it in every fiber of her being, each biological part of her sloughing off useless bits as her body aged second by second. It wasn't stopping.
She reached for her energy but it was an empty well. Even the ancient sides were bone dry. It was like being blind and deaf all of a sudden, her most relied upon senses ripped away from her. Even her crystals appeared to be simply pretty bits of colored glass now.
What had been done to her? She'd never experienced true mortality before, only that terrible moment in the light of the magic mirrors. It was the only reason she understood the sensations she was feeling now. But how could this be? There was no existence that didn't radiate with magical energy. Even if its use was beyond the scope of mortals, the trees and rocks and earth itself radiated it naturally!
A frightening thought occurred to her. What if there was energy all around her, but she had simply been robbed of all ability to sense it? It seemed an impossible idea, but less impossible than the alternative.
"Oh goodness." The mild curse slipped from her lips in a nervous breath. How long could she survive without her energy? She already felt trapped and limited in this body. She was suffocating in her own skin!
Ming tried to take a few deep breaths. The creature that had seemed to latch onto her brushed its head against her gently and made a soft, musical sound. Her expression softened slightly. It reminded her somehow of Holy Beast, though the two didn't share much physical resemblance. She rested a hand on the beast's neck, taking comfort in what she assumed was a friend. It had such kind eyes.
"This is quite the predicament, I'm afraid." Perhaps verbalizing things would help her find her way to calming her mind. At least she could be certain that if she'd been abducted somehow, Jansen would come for her. If she could stay alive long enough!
"Perhaps we can find some help."
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