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allthetimekept) wrote2034-06-11 05:00 pm
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[OOC] CRAU History Expanded
Miranda was taken from a manga canonpoint of 207th Night into the game ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
a_facility. When that game began to wind down to the end of its run (in game canon they were going to crash land on a questionably uninhabited planet), she was taken from the time before her final death in an F3 experiment to havenrpg. Then Haven was put on hiatus and by in game canon, all characters were put into storage by the scientists of the Yao Corporation. This is the point Miranda will be taken from and below is the expanded history what transpired for her in both games.
A_Facility
Miranda woke up naked in a medical ward of what she would learn was the Alpha Omega Station traveling through space, but at the time she was confused, terrified, and just wanted to know what was going on. Thankfully Lenalee was there to help explain things or else she really might have gone into a panic. They, the prisoners, had been brought there from many realities for experimentation and to be tested for some (unknown) reason by an artificial intelligence named Val. The station they were on had different areas where the “guests” were allowed to be, but also where Val could restrict them too if she wished, such as the F1 dorm-like buildings, or the F3 building which was more like a reality warping pocket dimension that could take them to any location in any universe that Val wanted.
Every week something new would happen and they would never know what the next experiment might be. There used to be an entire organization in control, but Miranda didn’t arrive until after a rebellion that had given the prisoners and Val control of the station. Even without organic captors, Val was more than strong enough to keep them trapped there, even having them fitted with collars that restricted anyone with special abilities, whether super speed, super strength, or Miranda’s own Innocence, Time Record. The technology was far more advanced than what she was used to, with much less magic and sorcery involved to keep it running. It was confusing and more than a little terrifying.
It wasn’t that long after arriving that she heard them speaking over the network about the fact that they were all actually clones of the people who existed in their own universes. It was a shock, but Miranda is used to dealing with uncomfortable truths through denial and she tried to put it out of her mind as much as she could. As long as she didn’t have to think about it, she didn’t have to consider what it meant. She had enough on her plate just learning about where they were, how to survive on the station, and everything else that came with being a “guest” of Val.
She was completely inept at using the futuristic technology around the station at first, including the Berry, which was a mobile telecommunication device that used audio, video, and text. She managed to figure it all out eventually but for a while she rarely used text just to avoid causing typos with the little keys. But Miranda was not alone because there were many other people (clones) from her world there, such as Allen, Lavi, Emilia, and Supervisor Komui. It helped her keep calm because she believed that if they could take all of this and carrying on, then she couldn’t do any less. There was also the promise of them getting off of the station by reaching a planet some distance away that they could try to inhabit, so it just meant she needed to be strong until then.
What she hadn’t expected was just how terrible the experiments could be. Yes, some of them were simple, even almost innocent, like the one that made people fall in love at first sight. Or the ones where they were transported to different locations inside the F3 sector. But there were others, like the bombs that were put in their chests and exploded if the person got too emotional. Miranda tried to save as many people as she could by staying calm and using Time Record to prevent the bombs from going off, but she tired herself out, not prepared for just how restricted her own abilities were. Within a few days she couldn’t hold it anymore and the bomb in her own chest exploded. It was the first time she would experience death and come back from it. She would learn that their bodies would be healed up as much as possible, but they would always have the scars from the event.
Another experiment forced her to confront a specter of herself from what she thought to be the future. She was desperate, angry, violent, and ready to kill everyone on the station to protect them from some horror she wouldn’t speak of but insisted was coming for them. Miranda did what she could to lock her into her room and keep her from harming anyone else, and thankfully at the end of the week she (and other specters like her) was gone, but she left Miranda pretty shaken. She did not like what she had seen in her, what it said about who she could become and wanted to do whatever she could to prevent it. She wanted to be a stronger person than that.
For months she did the best she could, making the best of the situation and getting through the different experiments unscathed for the most part. Some were terrible, others more odd and confusing, but she pushed through them. She’s always been good at getting back up after getting knocked down. She lost friends from home, like Emilia and Komui, who both died of clone sickness, but Emilia would eventually return in a renewed body. She lost other friends she had made there too, but most of them did not come back. Clone sickness ran rampant around the station, taking many lives. Not many who caught it survived.
And then there was the Nightmare on Elm Street. The “guests” on the station suffered from nightmares for the entire week and at times the effects of the dreams became reality for them when they awoke. Miranda had a nightmare about Allen turning into a Noah and stabbing out her left eye with a spiked candle, only to awaken and find her eye had been removed, leaving her bleeding everywhere. Emilia managed to help her get to the medical wing but the eye could not be recovered.
She learned to live with one eye, even though it took some time to get used to how imbalanced she felt. Some weeks later she even found one of the large mansions was now empty, save for the robots that managed it. She took the house for herself and her fellow Exorcists since it would be easier for them to stick together with so much room. Not that she had the chance to use it for long, since in a few short weeks they would be in F3 again and left on a near deserted planet with terrible monsters out to eat them all when darkness hit (night lasted for two weeks there). They needed special Torches Val provided to hold them back because the monsters hated light, but they only worked for so long until they needed more and more people to power them. It was a harrowing experience and the last thing she remembers is being killed by one of the monsters.
Haven
Miranda awoke in Haven in the apartment block that she had been assigned, #22.2. She was confused at first, assuming that this was another F3 experiment and that she had been in stasis due to dying until then. The name of the location even lent itself to that because she had heard on Alpha Omega about the ghost town of Haven that had been used more than once in the F3 facility. But it wasn't a desert ghost town and no one that she knew was anywhere to be found. Even the "berry" that she'd had was gone, replaced by a much less advanced phone that only had images, no text whatsoever. Thankfully, one of her new block mates, Vin, was able to give her some information, and she was familiar enough with the technology now that she could figure out how to use the phone to ask for help and search for people she had been missing. She was told that they were trapped in a town that was run by the Yao Corporation and for what exact purpose no one knew, but they were experimented on and tortured in various way. It wasn't so different from Alpha Omega, to her.
Unfortunately, she still could not find anyone she knew. She came to accept that she had somehow been taken from Alpha Omega and brought to this new location. She then realized that the people in this new facility with her are not clones like her, but presumably the actual individuals from their home worlds. There was some trepidation there, because Miranda worried about what it would mean if she came face to face with original version of herself but this was never something that came to pass.
She explored the town, tried to make herself useful by traveling with groups to and from Haven North for supplies, offering her services as someone with experience in repairing various items, and helped in the gardens maintained by others in the apartment spiral. Then Lenalee came back (for she had been there and gone before) and Miranda was worried and concerned because this Lenalee wasn't the one she knew on Alpha Omega (a fellow clone), she was an original version from a different universe. She was happy to have someone she knew there, but she also didn't know how Lenalee would react if she found out the truth about her being a clone.
Not that she had much time to worry because it wasn't long after that they were brainwashed into having new memories of a life in a happy little community as if they had lived there the entire time. The false memories and brainwashing led to Miranda believing she was a career counsel for the local high school and a volunteer at the group home for orphans. Lenalee was her cousin and they lived together but Lenalee's brother Komui had "moved away" (an explanation for his lack of presence despite not being in the facility). Eventually, the brainwashing deteriorated as the pills that reinforced it were replaced with placebos and then removed altogether. The people in the community found out that the rest of the group that had been trapped in Haven had been imprisoned and they needed to rescue them. They got to the prison in time to help take it down, but then had to fight their ways out as monsters chased them back the way they had come. They ended up back in the Haven they had begun in and were trapped once more, although now the barrier surrounding the town was wider with more access to the barren lands around it.
After this and how much she struggled with defending herself and others, Miranda realized she needed to train herself more physically. She offered favors in return for physical defense training and for people willing to help her train with her Innocence, Time Record. It was not easy to keep a trainer because people came and went so suddenly in Haven, but it was something she was used to from Alpha Omega and thus she worked around it as best she could.
Then the housing spiral collapsed into the ground, burying everyone who was in it underground for days and then leaving them living in a pit like deformation that had even less amenities than they had before. The plumbing and electricity they had gained were lost again. Unfortunately for Miranda, her housing block was one that was greatly damaged, split right down the middle of Miranda's room with a wall that they would eventually have to work around to access the other side of the apartment block. What they found was this was all caused by some of the people in Haven managing to permanently kill the man who had been in charge of the experiment for Yao Corporation, Doctor Kite. With his death, a spirit that had been imprisoned beneath the town broke free. It fed on humans to survive and had been broken into parts of itself by Yao Corp.
As usual, the people banded together. Miranda made friends with some who had been there far longer than herself, and tried to be helpful to new arrivals as they came in each month. After the housing spiral fell, newcomers were not bound to their housing as those before them. Miranda could not stay away from her apartment overnight of suffer terrible sickness and oncoming obsession with spirals, but new people did not suffer from this restriction. It made it easier for them to move into less damaged buildings, but Miranda didn't have that luxury. Still, she made the best with what they had and they tried to improve morale by sharing harvests and found goods every so often. Some of the people used their abilities to manipulate earth to raise the ground beneath the housing spiral and added stairwells. It wasn't perfect and they were still in the sinkhole, but it was easier to move around after that.
During the months that she was in Haven she didn't suffer from the vast number of experiments that she'd endured on Alpha Omega, which was somewhat surprising to her, but they still did occur at different intervals. At one point they forced terrible dreams on the inhabitants of the town until many of them (including Miranda) stopped sleeping to avoid them. Another time, she even lost her inhibitions which led to her slapping someone across the face for kissing her, which she wouldn't have done before. This didn't stop them from surviving either. Even when Lenalee disappeared again, Miranda couldn't let the sadness stay with her, she had to pull her own weight--what little of it was left after months with barely getting one meal a day.
Then something happened to Haven, as if the town was rewinding to a time when it was in much better condition and there were far more people in it. Inhabitants could see it as it used to be, everything affected in Haven West except the housing spiral, and there were spectres wandering around. People who had been in the town before. But they couldn't speak to them. They would walk past as if they never noticed them and trying to touch them would lead to your hands going straight through them. When she tried to call one of them on the phone, the message was more terrifying than anything, a ghost message that cut off abruptly and then left her with no other way to try again. After five days the town began to change back, reverting to how she knew it to be and still weren't quite sure what caused this effect or what it meant.
The next month was calm, more people disappearing than they were used to, but the rates had been increasing in the last few months. Then came the announcement from Yao Corporation that "cold sleep" would be coming as they renovated the town and everything in the barrier. There was nothing they could do about it. It was a shock and Miranda wasn't sure what to do, even with the warnings, all she could so was wait for the song that sent her into a deep sleep right where she stood.
a_facility. When that game began to wind down to the end of its run (in game canon they were going to crash land on a questionably uninhabited planet), she was taken from the time before her final death in an F3 experiment to havenrpg. Then Haven was put on hiatus and by in game canon, all characters were put into storage by the scientists of the Yao Corporation. This is the point Miranda will be taken from and below is the expanded history what transpired for her in both games.A_Facility
Miranda woke up naked in a medical ward of what she would learn was the Alpha Omega Station traveling through space, but at the time she was confused, terrified, and just wanted to know what was going on. Thankfully Lenalee was there to help explain things or else she really might have gone into a panic. They, the prisoners, had been brought there from many realities for experimentation and to be tested for some (unknown) reason by an artificial intelligence named Val. The station they were on had different areas where the “guests” were allowed to be, but also where Val could restrict them too if she wished, such as the F1 dorm-like buildings, or the F3 building which was more like a reality warping pocket dimension that could take them to any location in any universe that Val wanted.
Every week something new would happen and they would never know what the next experiment might be. There used to be an entire organization in control, but Miranda didn’t arrive until after a rebellion that had given the prisoners and Val control of the station. Even without organic captors, Val was more than strong enough to keep them trapped there, even having them fitted with collars that restricted anyone with special abilities, whether super speed, super strength, or Miranda’s own Innocence, Time Record. The technology was far more advanced than what she was used to, with much less magic and sorcery involved to keep it running. It was confusing and more than a little terrifying.
It wasn’t that long after arriving that she heard them speaking over the network about the fact that they were all actually clones of the people who existed in their own universes. It was a shock, but Miranda is used to dealing with uncomfortable truths through denial and she tried to put it out of her mind as much as she could. As long as she didn’t have to think about it, she didn’t have to consider what it meant. She had enough on her plate just learning about where they were, how to survive on the station, and everything else that came with being a “guest” of Val.
She was completely inept at using the futuristic technology around the station at first, including the Berry, which was a mobile telecommunication device that used audio, video, and text. She managed to figure it all out eventually but for a while she rarely used text just to avoid causing typos with the little keys. But Miranda was not alone because there were many other people (clones) from her world there, such as Allen, Lavi, Emilia, and Supervisor Komui. It helped her keep calm because she believed that if they could take all of this and carrying on, then she couldn’t do any less. There was also the promise of them getting off of the station by reaching a planet some distance away that they could try to inhabit, so it just meant she needed to be strong until then.
What she hadn’t expected was just how terrible the experiments could be. Yes, some of them were simple, even almost innocent, like the one that made people fall in love at first sight. Or the ones where they were transported to different locations inside the F3 sector. But there were others, like the bombs that were put in their chests and exploded if the person got too emotional. Miranda tried to save as many people as she could by staying calm and using Time Record to prevent the bombs from going off, but she tired herself out, not prepared for just how restricted her own abilities were. Within a few days she couldn’t hold it anymore and the bomb in her own chest exploded. It was the first time she would experience death and come back from it. She would learn that their bodies would be healed up as much as possible, but they would always have the scars from the event.
Another experiment forced her to confront a specter of herself from what she thought to be the future. She was desperate, angry, violent, and ready to kill everyone on the station to protect them from some horror she wouldn’t speak of but insisted was coming for them. Miranda did what she could to lock her into her room and keep her from harming anyone else, and thankfully at the end of the week she (and other specters like her) was gone, but she left Miranda pretty shaken. She did not like what she had seen in her, what it said about who she could become and wanted to do whatever she could to prevent it. She wanted to be a stronger person than that.
For months she did the best she could, making the best of the situation and getting through the different experiments unscathed for the most part. Some were terrible, others more odd and confusing, but she pushed through them. She’s always been good at getting back up after getting knocked down. She lost friends from home, like Emilia and Komui, who both died of clone sickness, but Emilia would eventually return in a renewed body. She lost other friends she had made there too, but most of them did not come back. Clone sickness ran rampant around the station, taking many lives. Not many who caught it survived.
And then there was the Nightmare on Elm Street. The “guests” on the station suffered from nightmares for the entire week and at times the effects of the dreams became reality for them when they awoke. Miranda had a nightmare about Allen turning into a Noah and stabbing out her left eye with a spiked candle, only to awaken and find her eye had been removed, leaving her bleeding everywhere. Emilia managed to help her get to the medical wing but the eye could not be recovered.
She learned to live with one eye, even though it took some time to get used to how imbalanced she felt. Some weeks later she even found one of the large mansions was now empty, save for the robots that managed it. She took the house for herself and her fellow Exorcists since it would be easier for them to stick together with so much room. Not that she had the chance to use it for long, since in a few short weeks they would be in F3 again and left on a near deserted planet with terrible monsters out to eat them all when darkness hit (night lasted for two weeks there). They needed special Torches Val provided to hold them back because the monsters hated light, but they only worked for so long until they needed more and more people to power them. It was a harrowing experience and the last thing she remembers is being killed by one of the monsters.
Haven
Miranda awoke in Haven in the apartment block that she had been assigned, #22.2. She was confused at first, assuming that this was another F3 experiment and that she had been in stasis due to dying until then. The name of the location even lent itself to that because she had heard on Alpha Omega about the ghost town of Haven that had been used more than once in the F3 facility. But it wasn't a desert ghost town and no one that she knew was anywhere to be found. Even the "berry" that she'd had was gone, replaced by a much less advanced phone that only had images, no text whatsoever. Thankfully, one of her new block mates, Vin, was able to give her some information, and she was familiar enough with the technology now that she could figure out how to use the phone to ask for help and search for people she had been missing. She was told that they were trapped in a town that was run by the Yao Corporation and for what exact purpose no one knew, but they were experimented on and tortured in various way. It wasn't so different from Alpha Omega, to her.
Unfortunately, she still could not find anyone she knew. She came to accept that she had somehow been taken from Alpha Omega and brought to this new location. She then realized that the people in this new facility with her are not clones like her, but presumably the actual individuals from their home worlds. There was some trepidation there, because Miranda worried about what it would mean if she came face to face with original version of herself but this was never something that came to pass.
She explored the town, tried to make herself useful by traveling with groups to and from Haven North for supplies, offering her services as someone with experience in repairing various items, and helped in the gardens maintained by others in the apartment spiral. Then Lenalee came back (for she had been there and gone before) and Miranda was worried and concerned because this Lenalee wasn't the one she knew on Alpha Omega (a fellow clone), she was an original version from a different universe. She was happy to have someone she knew there, but she also didn't know how Lenalee would react if she found out the truth about her being a clone.
Not that she had much time to worry because it wasn't long after that they were brainwashed into having new memories of a life in a happy little community as if they had lived there the entire time. The false memories and brainwashing led to Miranda believing she was a career counsel for the local high school and a volunteer at the group home for orphans. Lenalee was her cousin and they lived together but Lenalee's brother Komui had "moved away" (an explanation for his lack of presence despite not being in the facility). Eventually, the brainwashing deteriorated as the pills that reinforced it were replaced with placebos and then removed altogether. The people in the community found out that the rest of the group that had been trapped in Haven had been imprisoned and they needed to rescue them. They got to the prison in time to help take it down, but then had to fight their ways out as monsters chased them back the way they had come. They ended up back in the Haven they had begun in and were trapped once more, although now the barrier surrounding the town was wider with more access to the barren lands around it.
After this and how much she struggled with defending herself and others, Miranda realized she needed to train herself more physically. She offered favors in return for physical defense training and for people willing to help her train with her Innocence, Time Record. It was not easy to keep a trainer because people came and went so suddenly in Haven, but it was something she was used to from Alpha Omega and thus she worked around it as best she could.
Then the housing spiral collapsed into the ground, burying everyone who was in it underground for days and then leaving them living in a pit like deformation that had even less amenities than they had before. The plumbing and electricity they had gained were lost again. Unfortunately for Miranda, her housing block was one that was greatly damaged, split right down the middle of Miranda's room with a wall that they would eventually have to work around to access the other side of the apartment block. What they found was this was all caused by some of the people in Haven managing to permanently kill the man who had been in charge of the experiment for Yao Corporation, Doctor Kite. With his death, a spirit that had been imprisoned beneath the town broke free. It fed on humans to survive and had been broken into parts of itself by Yao Corp.
As usual, the people banded together. Miranda made friends with some who had been there far longer than herself, and tried to be helpful to new arrivals as they came in each month. After the housing spiral fell, newcomers were not bound to their housing as those before them. Miranda could not stay away from her apartment overnight of suffer terrible sickness and oncoming obsession with spirals, but new people did not suffer from this restriction. It made it easier for them to move into less damaged buildings, but Miranda didn't have that luxury. Still, she made the best with what they had and they tried to improve morale by sharing harvests and found goods every so often. Some of the people used their abilities to manipulate earth to raise the ground beneath the housing spiral and added stairwells. It wasn't perfect and they were still in the sinkhole, but it was easier to move around after that.
During the months that she was in Haven she didn't suffer from the vast number of experiments that she'd endured on Alpha Omega, which was somewhat surprising to her, but they still did occur at different intervals. At one point they forced terrible dreams on the inhabitants of the town until many of them (including Miranda) stopped sleeping to avoid them. Another time, she even lost her inhibitions which led to her slapping someone across the face for kissing her, which she wouldn't have done before. This didn't stop them from surviving either. Even when Lenalee disappeared again, Miranda couldn't let the sadness stay with her, she had to pull her own weight--what little of it was left after months with barely getting one meal a day.
Then something happened to Haven, as if the town was rewinding to a time when it was in much better condition and there were far more people in it. Inhabitants could see it as it used to be, everything affected in Haven West except the housing spiral, and there were spectres wandering around. People who had been in the town before. But they couldn't speak to them. They would walk past as if they never noticed them and trying to touch them would lead to your hands going straight through them. When she tried to call one of them on the phone, the message was more terrifying than anything, a ghost message that cut off abruptly and then left her with no other way to try again. After five days the town began to change back, reverting to how she knew it to be and still weren't quite sure what caused this effect or what it meant.
The next month was calm, more people disappearing than they were used to, but the rates had been increasing in the last few months. Then came the announcement from Yao Corporation that "cold sleep" would be coming as they renovated the town and everything in the barrier. There was nothing they could do about it. It was a shock and Miranda wasn't sure what to do, even with the warnings, all she could so was wait for the song that sent her into a deep sleep right where she stood.