Mira Anumati

Mira Anumati is a student attending  Siren Academy, the fourth member of  Team STRM , and one of the protagonists of  The Coming Storm.

Appearance
She's a short girl for her age. Standing at a bold five-foot-three, Mira Anumati has fair skin in high contrast to her bright blue eyes. and near-black hair, cut in choppy bangs and pulled back into a ponytail that reaches down past her hips.

Volumes 1, 2, and 3: During her first year and a half of school, Mira wore a light blue, thigh-length, cut-out shoulder dress with white and teal lacing along the sleeves and skirt; the underside is a light to dark blue gradient. She wears a blue sash tied on her right waist which acts as storage for her weapons. Underneath her dress she makes sure to wear a pair of black shorts for modesty's sake. Her forearms are guarded by a pair of gold cambraces bearing intricately carved designs at the tops. On her right wrist is an old and well kept bracelet with tiny blue pearls along the center, which presumably belonged to her mother. Her footwear is a pair of dark blue ankle boots with gold baby heels and stitching. The toes and the insides are colored teal. She keeps her hair held back in a low ponytail with a blue hairtie, and accentuates it with a gold charm sporting a teal colored gemstone and low-hanging beads.

Volume 4: After the city fo Xervia entered a civil war with terrorist group Cold Void, Mira traded in her old dress for an attire that paid good tribute to her deceased mother Treya. She now wears a light blue half-robe with puffy sleeves that extend down past her hands and end in petal shapes. The right sleeve is detached, and both are secured at the biceps with thick bands and three-looped chords. A leather brown garment resembling a traditional Japanese obi hugs around her waist and has two holsters on the back for her weapons, secured in place with a sturdy blue chord. The top of her lavender skirt is clasped with a thick mint-colored waistband that bears a symmetrical moon and swirl pattern all the way around; it matches the obiage wrapped just beneath her yellow tube top. Her ankle boots are a more modern selection for comfort and mobility purposes and fold over to reveal thin mint accents along the edges as well as under the heel. Since her time having first joined Siren Academy, her hair has grown out a bit, and she now secures her ponytail and the front sections of her hair with little white tube-shaped clasps.

Personality
Mira is a vivacious and energetic teenager. Having grown up in relative seclusion, she is incredibly curious about the world and its oddities and will eagerly pursue new directions, knowledge and people. Her sincere desire to learn, earnest spirit and occasionally archaic social mannerisms tend to endear or alarm others with few in-betweens. She's very capable of manners and will always use them with her elders, but tends to let them fall apart when she gets too excited and does away with them altogether when speaking to others of her age group. At this point her insistent energy overtakes her behavior, overpowering any formalities and bringing her most sociable traits to the fore.

Having grown up in a communal environment, first at the temple and later with her brother and his friends, Mira treasures closeness and familial bonds and tends to see them as one in the same. She is rarely, if ever, bothered by living in proximity with others and has in fact felt a bit lonely in the interim period until her application to Siren Academy. Having grown up with little of her parents other than stories of them, she is peculiarly detached from them save for keeping around a remaining memento or two.

Mira has a tenuous relationship with her faith and the perceived helplessness she experienced so many years ago. She puts on a bold and beaming face in order to protect herself from the idea that she can be brought so low again and bars her heart from the idea that she can feel fear. This reluctance to expose weakness churns inside of her, building up into a weight of negative motion that she tries to put out of mind. But included in that are her fears of the future and what may yet come for her--with her brother to protect the temple what is Mira to do with her new dream?

Background
Mira was born and raised outside of the cities in a small, secluded temple run by a small congregation in dedicated worship to the lunar deity, Anumati. Her parents had died just after she was born and her older brother, Rajiv, had long left the temple for Xervia in order to train as a Hunter. Mira was instead raised to become a priestess of the temple. Her family owned the establishment for quite a few hundred years, and protected it with their lives, believing it to be a sacred place, resistant against all kinds of Grimm.

When she was twelve, disaster struck. A group of people, injured and exhausted, stumbled across the temple. Far from able to turn away people in such obvious distress, the congregation took them in to tend to their wounds. They explained that they had come from a nearby, remote village. Having recently suffered a loss, the negative emotions they had experienced had drawn in the Grimm leading to an assault on their home. Very few of them had managed to escape with their lives.

The congregation was not blind to what this meant. Exchanging looks amongst themselves, they began to prepare; they gathered weapons, reinforced the doors and ceased normal operations and duties. Mira had never witnessed this behavior from the temple and, even as she was asked to comfort and look after some of the youngest survivors, she felt unsettled by what it all meant. Sure enough, the despair and horror of the survivors of the lost village drew in the Grimm: as night fell they came across the temple and launched their assault. It was with great effort and some bloodshed that the congregation managed to drive back the Grimm who approached. But it was a temporary reprieve and they well knew it. Mira, shaken but determined, asked her grandparents what was to be done. Grimly, her grandmother told her that for the time being there would be no safety at the temple and that she would be sent to her brother.

Mira went kicking and screaming. She had always been an energetic and curious child and temple life had slowly started to grate on her nerves the older she became--but she was not completely blind to what it meant that the Grimm had infiltrated a place she had thought a safe haven for so many years. They forced her onto the requested shuttle with two of the young survivors and kissed her goodbye. Mira watched as her home and family faded into the horizon.

The children had family in Xervia, and so they went to live with them. Mira, on the other hand, found her way to the older brother she had not seen in several years: Rajiv. Missions running out of Siren Academy and the special permission of the Headmaster allowed him to live off-campus away from his Team, a sacrifice he made for her sake. Mira had a lot to adjust to, not just the city but the idea of living with only one person instead of surrounded by many whom she considered her family. She didn't completely want for company, however, though Rajiv had chosen an apartment in order to live with her his Team often came through or spent the night. She became accustomed to their presence, comforted by their geniality and the way they welcomed her into their circle.

Rajiv always assured her that, as soon as he graduated, he would return to the temple and protect their family and Mira knew that her congregation was alive and well--she saw them every night they made a Scroll call. But the haunting memories of the attack stayed with her, echoing in her dreams and occupying her day-to-day life. The more she picked up in Xervia, the more she realized the scope of the Grimm problem and just how glaringly difficult and terrible the future could be for her family should something like that ever happen again. A dream borne of a nightmare began to bloom in her heart, fueled by sheer relentlessness and the desire to burn away her own helplessness. In that moment, Mira decided that she would become a Huntress—and that her brother and his friends would help her do it.

Rajiv had long expected this outcome and prepared accordingly. He warned her that she was behind, and that to enter Siren Academy she would have to train as hard as she possibly could in order to succeed. She accepted wholeheartedly, went through every minor school that could prepare her for what was to come and absorbed every lesson Rajiv and his friends gave her. By the time he finally graduated, she was fourteen.

Rajiv took his leave to return to the temple as he had promised so long ago. Before he left he asked Mira to consider what it was she wanted to do with her life and where she would end up after her training at Siren was complete—a question she couldn't quite answer. In the two-year period until she came of age to apply to Siren Academy, Mira lived in the home her brother had first bought when he took her in and continued to train. Every night her brother and temple would call her on her Scroll and her brother's Team passed through on occasion to check in on her and give her new tips. For the most part, however, she lived on her own and did her best to build a community with her neighborhood instead to some degree of success.

Inevitably her sixteenth year dawned, and with it the last bar between herself and her goal to become a Huntress. The recommendations of her brother and his Team pushed her through the application process, but the physical exam would be a challenge all her own. The training she had been put through showed its colors—Mira could move quickly and efficiently and, though still in the process of making her Semblance her own, proved she could use it well. All went well until her partner, Roheline, broke his ankle, and then instead of turning sideways everything got better. Mira, far from reluctant when Roheline pressed on, was thrilled by the plan he hatched and her part in it. And she was, of course, even more delighted when it worked! With his help she passed with flying colors and the unrelenting desire to know even more about the new things she could learn from him.

Weapon
thumb|260px|link=Name: Chandr Kalaen {translation: Moon Phases}

Also known as Chandr Kala when referring to a single gun Primary Type: Short-Range

Modeled After: The flintlock pepperbox pistol

Capabilities: Mira's two Chandr Kalen are small but pack a powerful hit with some serious recoil. They have six barrels on them, all of which are able to rotate when firing rounds. There are six capsules, one for each kind of Dust she loads into the gun, and with six kinds of Dust loaded into the chambers she can fire thirty-six shots before needing to reload. Thankfully she carries custom capsule rolls (much like quarter rolls) she can quickly unwrap and empty into the respective slots.

The hammers on the back of the Chandr Kalaen are for pulling back the chambers so Mira can reload, but the button on the side is pressed to transform the guns into their secondary state. This is a detached form in which the barrels and the chamber are launched from their base and can be swung around like a pair of flails. Mira uses this form primarily for clubbing purposes. The button underneath the hammer is to retract the detached pieces back to the base with the strong chains they're connected to.

The third form of the Chandr Kalaen is activated by pressing the nodules on the sides of the stocks in a certain pattern. Doing this will compact the gun barrels into a singular barrel or pipe. The result also reveals the compacted blades hidden inside the stocks of the weapons, which are magnetized to the barrels to form a pair of chain scythes. Then pressing the button on the side will launch them from their base, though the chambers do not get propelled with them. Pressing the button to retract the barrel will also demagnetize the blades and allow them to swing back into the stock.

 Semblance Miras' Semblance is called Wind Dance, and its primary function is wind creation. By moving her body in certain patterns, Mira can create gusts of wind around her. They can be used for a number of purposes, such as directing the swing of her weapons, giving her a quick speed boost, redirecting certain projectiles, or briefly flipping herself up into the air to avoid attacks. The gusts vary in strength based on the arc of her movements. Smaller gestures generate smaller gusts, whereas wider and sharper movements can create larger and stronger winds. The fastest recorded gust of wind reached 50 mph.
 * The only drawback to Wind Dance is the lack of control. Mira can make the winds fast and strong, but she can't fix the fact that they only last a few short seconds. She's also been known to involuntarily generate the winds when in intense emotional states, such as anger or fear.

Relationships
Saige Cristallo: Pending

Tara Rhys: Pending

Roheline Shiba: After his performance at the entrance exam, Mira has become completely fascinated with Roheline. Much like her brother and his friends before him, she is invested in learning everything she can from him.

Canaan Vogel: Pending

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Ringo Alexander: Pending

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Shark Zabka: Pending

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Evelyn Scarborough: Pending

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Anya and Mani Anumati: They took the place of mother and father in her life in a way that, were she to speak it aloud, would no doubt sadden as much as hearten them. She loves them dearly and treasures them with all her heart. Since the attack on the temple Mira has been fighting against a deep-rooted fear of losing them, something only slightly assuaged by her talented brother's return. She regularly speaks with them via Scroll in order to check in and see how they're doing.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Rajiv Anumati: Mira's older brother, five years her senior. Two years had passed until they were reunited in-person, upon which he bought an apartment so they could spend the rest of his time at Siren Academy together. The sense of comfort that came with having a piece of her family stayed with her even after his departure, assuaging the loneliness that came of not living in the community she had known for most of her life. Rajiv challenges Mira to think about her future and what she may actually want for herself versus what she does out of fear.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Treya Anumati: Mira knows through tales what kind of person her mother was and her reputation as a Huntress, but she is curiously disconnected from her mother by time and family. She holds onto her bracelet as a memento of her and prays that she is experiencing great things in her next life.

Trivia
<p style="font-weight:normal;">Mira's name means 'sea' or 'ocean' in Sanskrit. It was also the name of a 16th century Indian princess who chose to dedicate her life to Krishna.
 * Mira doesn't have an actual surname, instead taking the name of the temple god as her own. A more appropriate denomination would be 'Mira of Anumati.'
 * Anumati means "moon," and refers to the Indian goddess of the same name.
 * Her color is moonstone blue.
 * Her Greek mythology origin is Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt, and the child of Zeus and Leto.
 * When it comes to her team's theme of natural disasters, hers is the tornado.
 * She was originally going to be a Faunus, possibly part chipmunk or flying squirrel.
 * Her theme song is Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) by Florence + The Machine.