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OOC:

Player Name: Maru
Age: 20+
Contact: PM char journal

IC:

Name: Tuan Kirie
Canon: Harmony (Project Itoh)
Canon Point: After Tuan graduates from high school
Age: 18

Spoken language(s): Japanese, English
Username: kirie
To the Mods: Tuan doesn't have any specific needs, but she does have a Mediport like device grafted onto her chest for ease of delivering medication.

History:
General background
The story of Harmony begins fifty or so years after an apocalyptic nuclear war known as the Maelstrom that wiped out virtually all of humanity. In the years following this catastrophic event the survivors are taught that life is to be valued above all else in what becomes the principle of "Lifeism." Harmony takes this to extremes where Admedistrations are set up to ensure the health of each citizen via nanotechnology (called WatchMe) that are implanted into people at adulthood. WatchMe acts as surveillance robots that provide medical care on a cellular level such that diseases like cancer no longer exist. However, the technology as well as the information they provide are remotely controlled by Admedistrations, which leaves everyone at the mercy of the intentions of a faceless bureaucracy.

tl;dr The Japan of Harmony is a technologically advanced state that uses medical technology and government propaganda (Lifeism) on the importance of healthy living to create a surveillance state. This and all the dangers associated with this form the plot of Harmony.

For Tuan's history specifically please note that there will be a couple of mentions of suicide.

Tuan is born and raised in Japan. Her father, Nuada Kirie, abandons the family while Tuan is fairly young. Throughout her life, Tuan never feels as though she fits into society. By the time she's a teenager and she comes all the closer to adulthood (and thus WatchMe-hood), she's fairly suicidal. She makes a suicidal gesture, but is unsuccessful. In high school, she meets Miach Mihie and Cian Reikado, both of whom feel similarly alienated and suffocated by societal expectations.

Where Tuan simply felt a passive emptiness and resentment about the future as well as society, Miach is passionate about her hatred of society and speaks seditiously about her desire to see it destroyed. Tuan is enraptured by Miach, believing her to be the most insightful and incisive person she has ever met. Naturally when Miach suggests that the three of them commit suicide together as a form of rebellion against the Admedistration, Tuan readily agrees.

Before they are able to carry out their suicide pact, Cian tells her parents what they are planning, thus alerting Tuan's and Miach's families of the imminent danger. Tuan's life is saved by this intervention, however it's believed that MIach has died. Tuan is sent to rehabilitation for emergency ethics treatment, and she is released from the hospital several months later. Upon release, Tuan's entire attitude changes and she goes from being a mediocre disengaged student to the top student in her school. For this game, I'll be taking Tuan after she graduates from high school just a few years after this failed suicide attempt.

After a thirteen year time skip, we see that Tuan works as an accomplished Helix agent for the World Health Organization and has left Japan to go work abroad in war zones and engages in illegal trades for contraband (tobacco, booze) in exchange for medical supplies.

After getting caught with contraband, she is forced to return to Japan and reunites with her friend Cian. As the two eat together, Cian begins acting strangely and commits suicide in front of Tuan. It becomes apparent that an unknown terrorist group has managed to hijack the programming of the medicues to force people to commit suicide en masse. As the plot progresses it becomes apparent that Miach is the terrorist behind this incident and Tuan takes on the job of stopping her. As she journies across the globe, she reunites with her father who reveals that Miach was kept alive in a research facility and became unwillingly instrumental in developing "Harmony" -- a code developed in total secrecy to delete human "consciousness" should humanity ever reach the brink of another catastrophe in order to restore order and peace.

Consciousness, as described by Project Itoh, is what you'd classically attribute to the human soul -- emotional processing, feelings, individuality etc. Tuan learns from her father that Miach was born without a consciousness and when she was chemically induced into a state of no consciousness, MIach described the experience as "ecstasy." From this, Tuan was able to piece together that MIach's plan was to create enough chaos in the world to force the Admedistration to unleash "Harmony" on humanity in order to save it from destroying itself. Shortly after this infodump, Miach has Tuan's father murdered.

Realizing that Miach wants to meet in private, Tuan travels to Chechnya to confront her former friend. There, Miach explains her vision of a world living in "Harmony" and explains that she truly believes this enforced conformity is the salvation that was the answer all along. Tuan demands to know why Cian and her father had to die, and when Miach replies with sophistry, Tuan shoots and kills her former friend. However, she does nothing to stop the implementation of Harmony.

Personality:
♞ DISILLUSIONED
Born and raised in a utopian dystopia that has been engineered in every sense of the word to be sterilized of conflict and negativity, Tuan resents the expectations pressed on her to be kind and courteous without thought and to value life as sacrosanct. Unable to internalize the expectations of her society and unable to do anything to combat her grievances with inevitable adulthood head on, Tuan has a very jaundiced view of life where she believes most people are cogs in a machine.

♞ SKEPTICAL
As a result of the compulsory doctrine of compassion, Tuan has a hard time accepting kindness and altruism at face value. She believes it to be mindless and unwanted at best and a grotesque perversion of human nature at worst. She respects and admires those who think for themselves and question dogma. This is a standard she holds herself to as well as she proves herself to be a meticulous investigator in her later career who is always questioning the intents of higher ups. This does mean, however, that people who don't meet Tuan's minimum standards of respectability are treated with a cold indifference. especially when she doesn't actually stand to gain anything from the interaction. Rather unsurprisingly then, Tuan comes off somewhat cold and reclusive in her exchanges with other people. She makes no attempts to be friendly or likable, adopting a fairly strict "take it or leave it" approach with company. While she doesn't go out of her way to be unkind for the sake of being unkind, she is fairly blunt and has a habit of retorting with sarcastic quips. Though she can be a little difficult to befriend, she does genuinely care about those she considers kindred spirits and allies.

♞ DYSPHORIC
Underneath Tuan's tough no nonsense exterior, she carries an intense amount of survivor's guilt for having failed to follow through on her end of the suicide pact. At the core she believes she's a coward and a failure who is too scared to either fight for or die for her ideological principles. She hates herself for this and spends the remainder of her life trying to escape in some form or another. This applies not only to her life environment, as demonstrated by her leaving Japan, but also on a more existential level. Following the loss of Miach, Tuan forces herself to change and embody more of Miach's rebellious nature while simultaneously berating herself for failing to live up to Miach's expectations. In short, Tuan has a poor grasp of her own emotions as they tend to be overwhelming for her to process and accept. Tuan would rather repress her feelings and act as though they're insignificant rather than deal with any kind of emotional pain or fallout.

♞ RESOURCEFUL
But despite the fact that Tuan is her own worst critic, she's actually more competent than she gives herself credit for. While Tuan may not be willing to put her life on the line for a lofty ideological purpose, when her goals are more personal in nature she proves to be a determined individual who won't take no for an answer. No matter what challenges are thrown her way, once Tuan puts her mind to accomplishing a task for herself she rises to the occasion with courageousness and a sharp mind.

Abilities/Skills: Tuan doesn't have any superhuman abilities. By human standards, she's smart and athletic. She has basic proficiency with computer coding.

Samples:
Network sample:
I don't trust a word that's been said about this place. What about you lot? Will you be complicit with their demands or will you resist them to your last breath? Or will you choose yet a different path?

Me... I'm biding my time. I'm in no rush to go back to the hellhole I came from.


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