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timeinherhands) wrote2012-12-08 11:39 pm
timeinherhands) wrote2012-12-08 11:39 pm
[OOC] AU Backstory for Marvel Canonswap (event)
Alternate Background Story for Marvel Canonswap:
Miranda was born in a tiny village in Germany of Hopps in the year 1869. She was orphaned at the age of four when her parents died in an epidemic that swept through the countryside. She was placed in an orphanage, but due to her shy nature was often bullied and mocked by the other children. When she tried to do things, she was clumsy and uncoordinated, always dropping things, running into them, or feeling like she was frozen in place. It was as if time in her mind could not keep up with how fast the world moved.
When she was 10 years old her favorite doll was torn apart by a wild dog another child had brought into the schoolyard and was so damaged she wasn't capable of fixing it. But miraculously right in her hands the doll began to mend itself, reforming back to the way it looked before the dog had gotten to it. Many of the children saw this and began bringing her other things to fix, broken toys, clothes, and even a dead cat. In order to impress them she focused as hard as she could and managed to fix all of them, but when she went to bed that night all the items were broken again and one of the children woke up to the dead cat in their bed.
The children blamed Miranda for this and began to throw things at her and shouting loud enough to catch the attention of Sister Agatha, one of the primary nuns who took care of them. They told her what had happened and Agatha believed this to be the work of the devil. She had Miranda locked in a room in the cellar for six months while she called upon priests to exercise whatever evil demon she may have had in her. When she was allowed back around the other children whatever power she may have displayed before was gone and the children were even crueler to her.
This got better as she got older, but not by much. She was eventually made to leave the orphanage at 16 and spent the next ten years living in poverty to stretch the meager earnings she could make despite being fired from countless jobs around the village. After being fired from her hundreth job, she was finally used the last of her money to get herself drunk and cried that she wished "tomorrow would never come."
And it didn't for almost 100 years. The little village of Hopps seemingly disappeared from all maps, anything who went to where it was said to be located promptly found their way right back out of the small area with no memory of how they came to be there. The area became a legend for superstitions and dark tales to scare children at night. But within the village that same day repeated itself for one hundred years. Miranda's powers had lost control and she didn't know how to fix it.
It wasn't until the year 2004 that the Black Order managed to find a mutant with energy compatible enough to break through the barrier that had erected itself around the entire village, Allen Walker. He and Lenalee Lee traveled to Germany and found that everything in the village was the same as it had been that fateful day. Miranda was the only one locked outside of it, although she herself looked unchanged--unless one counted the extreme precariousness of her sanity. Unlike when she was a child, when she fell asleep her powers activated themselves and rewound time to make the village relive the same day over and over. Nothing she had attempted had worked in stopping them.
Allen and Lenalee believed that for Miranda's powers to turn off they needed to help her conquer the fears that had opened them up after 26 years in the first place.
The events within the "Rewinding Town" happen very similar to the events that occur within the D.Gray-man canon, even down to Road staking Miranda to her own grandfather's clock (something she had salvaged when a shopkeeper in her village had been planning to shatter it for firewood).
The only difference is that once her powers were finally stopped, the time that had been kept at bay for the last hundred years overwhelmed the village of Hopps aging the people rapidly and then turning them to dust, the surrounding nature took control of the village, building became old and dilapidated, gardens overgrown and wild. Everyone who lived in the village died, except Miranda. She was left with what was nothing more than an abandoned ghost town.
With nowhere else to go, she agreed to be escorted back to the Order's headquarters and trained on how to use her abilities. It was there that they confirmed that she was indeed a mutant and she decided that she would work for the Order as a way to atone for essentially massacring her entire hometown. It's been almost a year since then and she's managed to become proficient in English (although with a distinct accent), and still has trouble using many of today's modern technologies (primarily due to her clumsiness with them).
There are other mutant groups in the world, such as the X-men and Miranda has heard of them, and seen a lot of their actions on the news, but she hasn't met any of them herself. The Black Order is secretive, especially after M-Day and the loss of majority of the mutant population. It has not been easy to keep the mutant members of the Order hidden from detection.
Personality:
Miranda's personality has not differed a great deal from what it is in canon. She's naive and emotional, still shy around people she doesn't know, and reacts very poorly to criticism or mockery, although she's gotten better at standing up for herself (the one time she did this in the Rewinding Town, she was actually chased and beaten by a group of villagers who thought she should be tried for Witchcraft and burned at the stake, so she never tried it again there). And despite all the cruelty she felt from people as a child she does not blame humanity, but believes there is something wrong inside of her instead, just as the Sisters and children at the orphanage did.
At the same time, she also is less mentally stable as her being trapped witihin time for almost 120 years has made her more eccentric in her actions. To relieve herself of boredom she did many different things, including perfecting her sewing technique, learning how to cook without burning it, spending fifteen years as a alcoholic, read every book in the town that she could get her hands on at least twenty times, and even sleeping years away, and so should she get an idea into her head, she's more likely to go through with it than to debate with herself or ask permissions because he's very used to not having to ask anyone to do anything. This has caused some trouble in the teamwork area, but she's gotten much better at being a teamplayer due to her need to please others.
She's still clumsy, having never been able to cure herself of her lack of hand-and-eye coordination, but she's learned to compensate better for it with better reflexes. Some of her sensibilities that seem quite normal for someone in the 19th Century are somewhat outdated in the 21st Century, although she has really quite enjoyed getting to wear pants instead of long skirts that she normally trips over.
Abilities:
Miranda's mutant ability is that she can alter the perception and reality of time. When she does this she literally takes the time into herself, as if it were a physical or spiritual item that exists inside of her until she releases it. She is constantly aware of anyone or anything that she has done this to and anything that happens to them after they are under the effect of her powers. Her powers allow her to rewind time on people and items (even to the point she accidentally turned someone into a child once), but once her powers turn off they revert back to their natural state.
She is also capable of creating a time barrier that she calls "Time Out," which creates a force field of frozen time around her (and others). "Time Out" prevents Time from moving forward to affect anything within the barrier, as if they have been removed from the time stream until she deactivates it and anything that does occur to them is immediately reversed within the barrier or once they enter it. If you are within Time Out you have been literally removed from time and shall revert back to condition you were at when you were first touched by Time Out's effects. Because of Miranda's problems processing how time works in her mind, The Order designed a tool called "Time Record" in order to keep her abilities from going out of control again. It also allows her to digitally keep track of everything under the effect of her abilities and to keep track of how long she can maintain her powers for before it becomes a strain on her own life-force. They believe that if her powers were opened to their fullest extent she might be capable of altering time permanently, hence the use of Time Record as a limiter.
Miranda's aging is something of a mystery for the Order as she was left un-aged even when she managed to deactivate her abilities. The Order is not sure whether this was still an effect of her abilities or not, but they theorize that she maybe be capable of subconsciously stalling her own internal time to maintain a certain age. It will take more time to see whether she will age normally or not (and the Order has not mentioned their suspicions to her about this).
Miranda was born in a tiny village in Germany of Hopps in the year 1869. She was orphaned at the age of four when her parents died in an epidemic that swept through the countryside. She was placed in an orphanage, but due to her shy nature was often bullied and mocked by the other children. When she tried to do things, she was clumsy and uncoordinated, always dropping things, running into them, or feeling like she was frozen in place. It was as if time in her mind could not keep up with how fast the world moved.
When she was 10 years old her favorite doll was torn apart by a wild dog another child had brought into the schoolyard and was so damaged she wasn't capable of fixing it. But miraculously right in her hands the doll began to mend itself, reforming back to the way it looked before the dog had gotten to it. Many of the children saw this and began bringing her other things to fix, broken toys, clothes, and even a dead cat. In order to impress them she focused as hard as she could and managed to fix all of them, but when she went to bed that night all the items were broken again and one of the children woke up to the dead cat in their bed.
The children blamed Miranda for this and began to throw things at her and shouting loud enough to catch the attention of Sister Agatha, one of the primary nuns who took care of them. They told her what had happened and Agatha believed this to be the work of the devil. She had Miranda locked in a room in the cellar for six months while she called upon priests to exercise whatever evil demon she may have had in her. When she was allowed back around the other children whatever power she may have displayed before was gone and the children were even crueler to her.
This got better as she got older, but not by much. She was eventually made to leave the orphanage at 16 and spent the next ten years living in poverty to stretch the meager earnings she could make despite being fired from countless jobs around the village. After being fired from her hundreth job, she was finally used the last of her money to get herself drunk and cried that she wished "tomorrow would never come."
And it didn't for almost 100 years. The little village of Hopps seemingly disappeared from all maps, anything who went to where it was said to be located promptly found their way right back out of the small area with no memory of how they came to be there. The area became a legend for superstitions and dark tales to scare children at night. But within the village that same day repeated itself for one hundred years. Miranda's powers had lost control and she didn't know how to fix it.
It wasn't until the year 2004 that the Black Order managed to find a mutant with energy compatible enough to break through the barrier that had erected itself around the entire village, Allen Walker. He and Lenalee Lee traveled to Germany and found that everything in the village was the same as it had been that fateful day. Miranda was the only one locked outside of it, although she herself looked unchanged--unless one counted the extreme precariousness of her sanity. Unlike when she was a child, when she fell asleep her powers activated themselves and rewound time to make the village relive the same day over and over. Nothing she had attempted had worked in stopping them.
Allen and Lenalee believed that for Miranda's powers to turn off they needed to help her conquer the fears that had opened them up after 26 years in the first place.
The events within the "Rewinding Town" happen very similar to the events that occur within the D.Gray-man canon, even down to Road staking Miranda to her own grandfather's clock (something she had salvaged when a shopkeeper in her village had been planning to shatter it for firewood).
The only difference is that once her powers were finally stopped, the time that had been kept at bay for the last hundred years overwhelmed the village of Hopps aging the people rapidly and then turning them to dust, the surrounding nature took control of the village, building became old and dilapidated, gardens overgrown and wild. Everyone who lived in the village died, except Miranda. She was left with what was nothing more than an abandoned ghost town.
With nowhere else to go, she agreed to be escorted back to the Order's headquarters and trained on how to use her abilities. It was there that they confirmed that she was indeed a mutant and she decided that she would work for the Order as a way to atone for essentially massacring her entire hometown. It's been almost a year since then and she's managed to become proficient in English (although with a distinct accent), and still has trouble using many of today's modern technologies (primarily due to her clumsiness with them).
There are other mutant groups in the world, such as the X-men and Miranda has heard of them, and seen a lot of their actions on the news, but she hasn't met any of them herself. The Black Order is secretive, especially after M-Day and the loss of majority of the mutant population. It has not been easy to keep the mutant members of the Order hidden from detection.
Personality:
Miranda's personality has not differed a great deal from what it is in canon. She's naive and emotional, still shy around people she doesn't know, and reacts very poorly to criticism or mockery, although she's gotten better at standing up for herself (the one time she did this in the Rewinding Town, she was actually chased and beaten by a group of villagers who thought she should be tried for Witchcraft and burned at the stake, so she never tried it again there). And despite all the cruelty she felt from people as a child she does not blame humanity, but believes there is something wrong inside of her instead, just as the Sisters and children at the orphanage did.
At the same time, she also is less mentally stable as her being trapped witihin time for almost 120 years has made her more eccentric in her actions. To relieve herself of boredom she did many different things, including perfecting her sewing technique, learning how to cook without burning it, spending fifteen years as a alcoholic, read every book in the town that she could get her hands on at least twenty times, and even sleeping years away, and so should she get an idea into her head, she's more likely to go through with it than to debate with herself or ask permissions because he's very used to not having to ask anyone to do anything. This has caused some trouble in the teamwork area, but she's gotten much better at being a teamplayer due to her need to please others.
She's still clumsy, having never been able to cure herself of her lack of hand-and-eye coordination, but she's learned to compensate better for it with better reflexes. Some of her sensibilities that seem quite normal for someone in the 19th Century are somewhat outdated in the 21st Century, although she has really quite enjoyed getting to wear pants instead of long skirts that she normally trips over.
Abilities:
Miranda's mutant ability is that she can alter the perception and reality of time. When she does this she literally takes the time into herself, as if it were a physical or spiritual item that exists inside of her until she releases it. She is constantly aware of anyone or anything that she has done this to and anything that happens to them after they are under the effect of her powers. Her powers allow her to rewind time on people and items (even to the point she accidentally turned someone into a child once), but once her powers turn off they revert back to their natural state.
She is also capable of creating a time barrier that she calls "Time Out," which creates a force field of frozen time around her (and others). "Time Out" prevents Time from moving forward to affect anything within the barrier, as if they have been removed from the time stream until she deactivates it and anything that does occur to them is immediately reversed within the barrier or once they enter it. If you are within Time Out you have been literally removed from time and shall revert back to condition you were at when you were first touched by Time Out's effects. Because of Miranda's problems processing how time works in her mind, The Order designed a tool called "Time Record" in order to keep her abilities from going out of control again. It also allows her to digitally keep track of everything under the effect of her abilities and to keep track of how long she can maintain her powers for before it becomes a strain on her own life-force. They believe that if her powers were opened to their fullest extent she might be capable of altering time permanently, hence the use of Time Record as a limiter.
Miranda's aging is something of a mystery for the Order as she was left un-aged even when she managed to deactivate her abilities. The Order is not sure whether this was still an effect of her abilities or not, but they theorize that she maybe be capable of subconsciously stalling her own internal time to maintain a certain age. It will take more time to see whether she will age normally or not (and the Order has not mentioned their suspicions to her about this).