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miranda lawson | mass effect | reserved
Name: Banah (
Age: 25
Contact Info:
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
ACCEPTED
This house seems very ordinary--the first floor has a kitchen, bathroom with only a toilet and sink, living room, and dining room, while the second floor has a master bedroom, second bedroom that seems set up as a guest bedroom, and a second bathroom that includes a shower. The attic, however, is filled with porcelain dolls. They were once well-kept, surely, but now they're covered in dust.
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