Appearance: Miya is the average student at [Random Japanese School] who loves Martial Arts. In fact, she does it in her spare time. She also trains with the katana. Her black hair reaches down to her shoulders, but she rarely lets her hair down.
Personality: Miya is extremely loyal to her friends, and greatly dislikes anyone who talks bad about them, often getting into a shouting match with anyone she doesn’t like. At the moment, she She doesn’t enjoy talking about her family, which is perfectly understandable, considering. Despite going even to yelling at those who she doesn’t know, Miya doesn’t like to impose on her friends, and usually won’t pry into what they do unless they invite her. This is because she had recently moved back to Japan, and doesn’t know anybody very well. Whatever friends she has made in these short months, she is very loyal to them.
Backstory:
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Miya grew up here in Japan. Her mother was always sick. Her father lost his job, and, while Miya was still fairly young, they all moved to [somewhere in] Latin America with her mother’s uncle’s house. While there, Miya’s mother slowly got sicker and weaker, and mysteriously passed away. Things became awkward, but luckily Miya’s father got a new TOP SECRET SCIENTIST JOB in Japan. They both moved back to Japan, and Miya’s father is never at home. He is always away doing this TOP SECRET RESEARCH, which involves an organization which does research on Hollows. Miya is unaware of this, and only thinks that he does something for the government.
Her mother was, during the last war, 'called' to become a Substitute Shinigami to . She survived, obviously, got married late in life, and was already [oldish] by the time she had Maiku. (That explains why Maiku is an only child.) Maiku's father harbored a grudge against the Soul Society, for various reasons. One day, while they were still in Japan, Maiku's mother was attacked by a hollow. Unfortunately, the regular Soul Reapers arrived just a little too late. After defeating the Hollow, Maiku's mother seemed perfectly fine, but the Hollow had some ability to slowly infect its victim and slowly turn them into a Hollow. Maiku's father noticed this, but kept it hidden from the Soul Society. When it became really apparent that something was wrong with her, he took his wife and his daughter to Latin America, where she 'died' and slowly became a Hollow. He managed to keep this all a secret from his daughter, explaining that it was just an uncurable sickness. Just before she became a Hollow, she went to Hueco Mundo because she knew that she would attack her family first thing. Maiku and her father immediately went back to Japan. When Shinigami came to her father to find out what happened (they suspected that she became a hollow) to the old Substitute Shinigami, he told them that he personally killed her after she hollified. They seemed to believe him. As time went on, Maiku's father (irrationally) blamed the Soul Society for Maiku's mother's death. He found a human-based organization that does research on hollows. (I thought of this because it helps explain lots of her backstory - it explains how her mother died, it explains why her father is doing a Top Secret Hollow Research, and it explains how Maiku develops Hollow-type Spirit powers. It also gives a good early-on conflict in the Mortal Realm, with Maiku's Hollified Mother coming and attacking Maiku and anyone else nearby.)
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Scene 1: In which Hikari gets infected
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Eight years ago
Character: Miya (9 years old)
Father: Haro (57 years old)
Mother: Hikari (62 years old)
Mother's 2nd cousin: Saburo (27 years old)
Shinigami 1: Umeko
Shinigami 2: Akemi
*Note1: This all is very skimmed over. I plan on adding more as I have more time*
Hikari and Haro were sitting on their front porch, reminiscing about the "Olden Days" when Hikari used to sneak off to fight hollows, and all sorts of stuff. Miya was playing in the back of the house with dolls. Haro mentioned how he doesn't want Miya to get involved with the whole Soul Society, saying it would completely destroy her life. Hikari agrees that it's dangerous, but disagrees saying that it's helping people.
Haro doesn't think very fondly of the Soul Society because Hikari's secret Hollow-fighting life made them break up just before their wedding day when Haro always saw Hikari sneaking off, this misunderstanding delaying their wedding for several years until Haro finally found out what was actually happening (stupid and selfish reason, I know). Ever since then, he made a new hypothesis about how the world works, and, despite his dislike, worked with some Soul Reapers to make a couple of devices that benefit Soul Reapers on the mortal realm (such as pendants that can mask Spirit Energy). Being a scientist, he loves to learn new things about the universe, even though he doesn't like dealing with things "already dead and gone, like it should be", says he.
Their reminiscing is cut short when a large Hollow leaves the Spirit World, looking for a good meal, and finds Miya first, thinking she'll be easy and delicious prey. Hikari hears this, and leaves her body to be a Shinigami to fight off the Hollow. Normally, she would quickly destroy the Hollow but it was so close to Miya that Hikari had to throw herself between the two to keep the Hollow from hurting her daughter. This left an opening, which the Hollow took advantage of, getting a single attack in.
The local Shinigami, Umeko and Akemi, came just in time to see the Hollow getting cut in half by Hikari. They notice her wound, but she brushes it off saying she's had worse before, and it'll just heal up sooner or later. They left to take care of another threat, promising to come back to check up on her.
This Hollow had a unique ability similar to that one in the manga, when it takes over the Shinigami. However, instead of immediately taking over the body of the victim, it slowly corrupts the victim's spirit unless healing Shinigami stuff is used.
Haro started using some of his pseudo-science tools (like the Spirit-Energy masking pendants) on his daughter and his wife to keep them safe from further Hollow attacks. Days later, Hikari's wound made passing out become steadily more common. The two Shinigami returned, and noticed a small growth, as well. Haro noticed it as well, and said it was cancer - something "a dumb non-mortal wouldn't care about". They cut out a little sample, to run research on it back in the Spirit Realm.
Haro found out that it matched Hollow Spirit Juice, and let his own pride and stupidity take advantage of him, and he finally let his dislike for the Soul Reapers cloud his vision. He wanted to prove that he could reverse Hollowfication without the help of the Soul Society, so he masked his own Soul Energy as well, and took his now-sick wife and his daughter off to visit Saburo, a far-away relative of Hikari.
Haro managed to convince Hikari that it really was just cancer (it helped that she was blacked out most the time), while he thought he was going through breakthroughs in curing it. The Soul Energy-blocking amulet actually slowed the rate at which the infection progressed. Finally, Haro told Hikari what was actually happening, and said that he almost has a cure. Yes, she was mad, but she soon realized that if she took off the pendant (to be able to use her Shinigami abilities and go to the Soul Society), she would completely lose control of herself and turn to a Hollow there, devouring a whole lot of innocent Spirit-people before the Shinigami could stop her. So she ended up just waiting for her unthinking husband research a cure
Without the equipment and research notes he left back in Japan, he hit a huge roadblock. He realized that he wouldn't discover a cure in time without his equipment and research notes, so he instead made another alteration to the Spirit Energy-masking amulet to make a connection between the one he had and the one his wife had. This was the only way his frenzied mind could think of: send her to Hueco Mundo, him return to Japan, then use the bracelet to 'call' her, as a hollow, back to the lab after he arrives, and finish. He's fairly confident that this will work, as his wife still wasn't 100% Hollow. Probably only 74% Hollow, which he sees as a chance to get her back and prove to the Soul Society that he's better than them. Breaking two sticks with one rock.
He kept this all a secret from Miya, who still couldn't see Spirit Peoples, except maybe with a little fuzziness, like looking through bad glasses.
He let her think that her mother died peacefully, when, in fact, they both agreed (her with reservations) to send her to Hueco Mundo.
They returned to Japan, and a Shinigami by chance noticed him, despite his masked Spirit Energy. They told him that the tested growth was, in fact, emitting Hollow Juice. He said that he found that out, and personally saw to it that she was cleansed before she completely became hollowfied.
Abilities: She is good at Martial Arts, and also using the katana and other cool things of the like. I’m planning on her soon being able to see Spirits. At the
very very beginning of the story, she won’t be able to, though,
but she'll quickly gain that power