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NAME: Caitlin
AGE: 22
JOURNAL: ”rockpet” rockpet
IM: caitlinyes
E-MAIL: caitlin.teh.artist@gmail.com
RETURNING: Nope! (well, yes, but no...)
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Miho
FANDOM: Sin City
CHRONOLOGY: Part way through Family Values
BACKGROUND:
There’s a lot people don’t know about Miho and a lot people aren’t all that inclined to ask. All that’s really known of her is this: that she is a small, silent woman of Japanese descent who is easily one of the deadliest women in Basin City’s red light district, known as Old Town. And given the nature of the ladies of Old Town, that’s saying something.
Regardless of what her past is, she serves as both enforcer and defender of the Old Town girls, working as subordinate to Gail, one of the authority figures in Old Town. While it’s never directly specified, Miho does not appear to be a prostitute herself, merely an enforcer. But again, given the nature of Old Town, where premiere surgeons and business woman are also hookers (thanks, Miller), it’s hard to tell.
At some point she was saved by Dwight McCarthy, the only person she’s ever really shown any physical affection for, after being attacked by three members of the Tong gang. Because of this, she owed him a debt of honor. He called on that debt three years later during the events of A Dame to Kill For, when he appeared in Old Town after having set up by a former lover, Ava Lord, and shot. He turns to the Old Town girls for help, to Miho and Gail in particular. Although initially reluctant (well, Gail is, Miho doesn’t really have much to say on the matter… or any matter…), the two woman agree to help him and return to wreak loud and violent havoc on the hired hands while Dwight took care of Ava. It was there that Miho made an enemy of Manute, one of Ava’s henchmen. The strongest of the men they face there, still standing after being shot six time, Miho stops him from reach Dwight and puts him down by crucifying him through the arms with her twin swords. From then on Manute harbored an intense distaste for the Old Town girls.
Following a period of quite, Miho again put her skills to use in The Big Fat Kill. After Dwight chases Jack Rafferty out of the apartment of Dwight’s sometimes lover and Jack’s sometimes girlfriend, Shelly, Jackie Boy and his drunk pack of friends burn rubber down to Old Town, looking to score a girl and take out whatever drunken frustrations they were prevented from taking out on Shelly. Dwight follows, more worried for the men than the girls. In Sin City, the cops have no power. They have an unsteady truce with the girls. The girls provide them with free entertainment at their parties and in return, the girls have the run of the red light district, keeping out the pimps and the mob. In Old Town, the girls own the streets and dispense with a justice of their own. If you’re paying, you can find any pleasure under the sun. If you make trouble, you’ll be lucky to leave it alive. Jackie Boy and his crew are looking for trouble.
After the men threaten one of the girls, Miho slaughters the whole of them. It’s after the girls and Dwight drag the bodies out of the car to strip them of their belongings that they discover the badge. Jackie Boy isn’t just a cop, he’s a hero cop. Rightly fearing a war between the cops and the Old Town girls, Dwight takes the bodies to dispose of them at the Basin City tar pits. He’s met by mercenaries hired by Herr Wallenquist, the leader of a powerful crime syndicate with his eye on Old Town. In the ensuing fight, Dwight is knocked into the tar pits and the mercenaries make off with Jackie Boy’s head.
Dwight’s deep in the tar and about given up hope, when Miho, her foot attached to a chain at the back of a car, goes in after him and pulls him out. It’s then that Dwight learns that Gail has been kidnapped. Managing to stop the mercenaries en route, Dwight and Miho retrieve the head and devise a plan. Returning to Old Town, Miho delivers a message, via an arrow fired through a window and through the stomach of a bystanding thug. Jackie Boy’s head in exchange for Gail’s life. The trade goes down in a narrow alley, where the two discover that Manute, now working for Wallenquist, was behind the kidnapping and that they had been betrayed by one of the Old Town girls, Becky, who wanted protection and out of the prostitution racket. The trade is made, but what Manute and his men don’t notice is the grenade taped into Jackie Boy’s mouth.
At least not until it’s too late. The grenade going off is a signal and the rooftops are suddenly full of Old Town girls, armed to the teeth. The plan is wholesale slaughter. To fill the alley with nothing, but bullet ridden meat so that when Wallenquist looked at his wins and losses, he would see that keeping Old Town would cost him too dearly.
After the events of The Big Fat Kill, Miho is again seen with Dwight. The two of them are looking into a recent mob hit at a little old diner. Miho serves as silent protection, lurking in the shadows as Dwight chats up a local lush. It’s revealed the hit was made by Don Magliozzi and carried out by one of his hit men and nephew, Vito. The man in question was one on Herr Wallenquist’s payroll, a man named Bruno who was responsible for the death of Don Magliozzi’s beloved niece some years earlier. The hit went against a treaty held by the Magliozzi family and Herr Wallenquist and now everyone was waiting nervously to see what Wallenquist’s move would be.
Outside the diner, Dwight is met by Vito and a few of his fellow bruisers, who kidnap him and stuff him into their car. Driving toward the Projects, Vito describes how he shot every living thing he saw the night of the hit, including a mangy stray dog outside the diner. Seeming satisfied, Dwight gives the go ahead to Miho, who had been hiding in the trunk. She kills one man and, after the car is thrown into park, toys with another who was “just making it worse” by referring to her as a “Jap slut” and “Jap slag.” Dwight meanwhile, tells Vito to shoot the other thug, who happens to be Vito’s brother, Luca.
That business taken care of, Vito drives them to Sacred Oaks, where they find the Don and several of the other Magliozzi family members. On the way in, Miho cuts effortlessly and almost playfully through the guards until they reach the room where the family sits. Just before they get there, Miho is pulled and dropped into the city.
PERSONALITY:
The best way to think of Miho’s personality is that of a house cat, the scary kind strangers tend to step around rather than over. She’s all of 4’10”, weighs 100 pounds soaking wet and is utterly silent. Much like a house cat, she loves high up places, often seen on window sills and rooftops of buildings. She also has a fondness and a ridiculous sort of knack for rollerblades, seen throughout the entirety of Family Values whizzing around on a pair. Where those in Sin City may see violence as an unfortunate necessity, Miho enjoys it. She loves fighting, she loves killing. There is nothing more boring to her than a quiet week in Old Town, with all the girls killing their assholes without her help. She has no moral compass when it comes to fighting. Those who have wronged her and those she protects deserve exactly everything she gives them. And she knows how to give it.
As Dwight once said, “you won’t feel it unless she wants you to.” Her knowledge of human anatomy is impressive and she uses all of it to cause pain. Miho’s methods tend to be cruel, exactly like a cat toying with prey. She prefers using stealth, evasion and counter attack methods rather than rushing in headlong at her opponents, which is usually the approach all of them take. She appears to be a modern day master of ninjutsu and is skilled in a number of traditional weapons. Her favorite weapon are her twin Katana swords and she uses throwing stars as projectile weapons. She’s never shown using a gun. She knows exactly how strong she is and exactly how skilled she is and she’s never been given a single reason to hold back. She’s especially cruel with those who insult her, dragging the fight out for as long as she is allowed.
Miho is very reserved in her emotions. There is nothing loud or explosive about her. Her enjoyment in things as much as her anger is a quiet air about her, usually not easily perceived. Her expressions are enough to convey whatever message she might be trying to get across. Which isn’t to say she’s completely cold. She’s loyal to a fault, but selective with the amount that she bestows. With a limited few, she even shows a level of affection. She's not a possessive or passionately romantic person. Sex is nice, but not necessary to her and it doesn't actually occur to her that she could have a relationship. Outside of her loyalties, she prefers independence, to come and go how she pleases and to associate with who she pleases.
CLASS: Questionable
SUPERHERO NAME: n/a
ALTER EGO: n/a
POWER: Shape shifting into a small black cat. Minor and needlessly convoluted telepathy in which thought bubbles with text will appear in the general vicinity. With an added voice option for the seeing impaired.
COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE:
[There's no nonsense of fussing about with controls. This is clearly a person who is familiar with the controls. Straight to text, no voice or video. Or punctuation or capitalization come to think of it.]
hi
back
robin terry are you here?
THIRD PERSON:
The rooftop was a familiar one, in a strange sort of way. She sat with her feet dangling over the edge, swinging her legs absently. The memories were a whirling mess in her head, slowly sorting themselves out into their proper places.
AGE: 22
JOURNAL: ”rockpet” rockpet
IM: caitlinyes
E-MAIL: caitlin.teh.artist@gmail.com
RETURNING: Nope! (well, yes, but no...)
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Miho
FANDOM: Sin City
CHRONOLOGY: Part way through Family Values
BACKGROUND:
There’s a lot people don’t know about Miho and a lot people aren’t all that inclined to ask. All that’s really known of her is this: that she is a small, silent woman of Japanese descent who is easily one of the deadliest women in Basin City’s red light district, known as Old Town. And given the nature of the ladies of Old Town, that’s saying something.
Regardless of what her past is, she serves as both enforcer and defender of the Old Town girls, working as subordinate to Gail, one of the authority figures in Old Town. While it’s never directly specified, Miho does not appear to be a prostitute herself, merely an enforcer. But again, given the nature of Old Town, where premiere surgeons and business woman are also hookers (thanks, Miller), it’s hard to tell.
At some point she was saved by Dwight McCarthy, the only person she’s ever really shown any physical affection for, after being attacked by three members of the Tong gang. Because of this, she owed him a debt of honor. He called on that debt three years later during the events of A Dame to Kill For, when he appeared in Old Town after having set up by a former lover, Ava Lord, and shot. He turns to the Old Town girls for help, to Miho and Gail in particular. Although initially reluctant (well, Gail is, Miho doesn’t really have much to say on the matter… or any matter…), the two woman agree to help him and return to wreak loud and violent havoc on the hired hands while Dwight took care of Ava. It was there that Miho made an enemy of Manute, one of Ava’s henchmen. The strongest of the men they face there, still standing after being shot six time, Miho stops him from reach Dwight and puts him down by crucifying him through the arms with her twin swords. From then on Manute harbored an intense distaste for the Old Town girls.
Following a period of quite, Miho again put her skills to use in The Big Fat Kill. After Dwight chases Jack Rafferty out of the apartment of Dwight’s sometimes lover and Jack’s sometimes girlfriend, Shelly, Jackie Boy and his drunk pack of friends burn rubber down to Old Town, looking to score a girl and take out whatever drunken frustrations they were prevented from taking out on Shelly. Dwight follows, more worried for the men than the girls. In Sin City, the cops have no power. They have an unsteady truce with the girls. The girls provide them with free entertainment at their parties and in return, the girls have the run of the red light district, keeping out the pimps and the mob. In Old Town, the girls own the streets and dispense with a justice of their own. If you’re paying, you can find any pleasure under the sun. If you make trouble, you’ll be lucky to leave it alive. Jackie Boy and his crew are looking for trouble.
After the men threaten one of the girls, Miho slaughters the whole of them. It’s after the girls and Dwight drag the bodies out of the car to strip them of their belongings that they discover the badge. Jackie Boy isn’t just a cop, he’s a hero cop. Rightly fearing a war between the cops and the Old Town girls, Dwight takes the bodies to dispose of them at the Basin City tar pits. He’s met by mercenaries hired by Herr Wallenquist, the leader of a powerful crime syndicate with his eye on Old Town. In the ensuing fight, Dwight is knocked into the tar pits and the mercenaries make off with Jackie Boy’s head.
Dwight’s deep in the tar and about given up hope, when Miho, her foot attached to a chain at the back of a car, goes in after him and pulls him out. It’s then that Dwight learns that Gail has been kidnapped. Managing to stop the mercenaries en route, Dwight and Miho retrieve the head and devise a plan. Returning to Old Town, Miho delivers a message, via an arrow fired through a window and through the stomach of a bystanding thug. Jackie Boy’s head in exchange for Gail’s life. The trade goes down in a narrow alley, where the two discover that Manute, now working for Wallenquist, was behind the kidnapping and that they had been betrayed by one of the Old Town girls, Becky, who wanted protection and out of the prostitution racket. The trade is made, but what Manute and his men don’t notice is the grenade taped into Jackie Boy’s mouth.
At least not until it’s too late. The grenade going off is a signal and the rooftops are suddenly full of Old Town girls, armed to the teeth. The plan is wholesale slaughter. To fill the alley with nothing, but bullet ridden meat so that when Wallenquist looked at his wins and losses, he would see that keeping Old Town would cost him too dearly.
After the events of The Big Fat Kill, Miho is again seen with Dwight. The two of them are looking into a recent mob hit at a little old diner. Miho serves as silent protection, lurking in the shadows as Dwight chats up a local lush. It’s revealed the hit was made by Don Magliozzi and carried out by one of his hit men and nephew, Vito. The man in question was one on Herr Wallenquist’s payroll, a man named Bruno who was responsible for the death of Don Magliozzi’s beloved niece some years earlier. The hit went against a treaty held by the Magliozzi family and Herr Wallenquist and now everyone was waiting nervously to see what Wallenquist’s move would be.
Outside the diner, Dwight is met by Vito and a few of his fellow bruisers, who kidnap him and stuff him into their car. Driving toward the Projects, Vito describes how he shot every living thing he saw the night of the hit, including a mangy stray dog outside the diner. Seeming satisfied, Dwight gives the go ahead to Miho, who had been hiding in the trunk. She kills one man and, after the car is thrown into park, toys with another who was “just making it worse” by referring to her as a “Jap slut” and “Jap slag.” Dwight meanwhile, tells Vito to shoot the other thug, who happens to be Vito’s brother, Luca.
That business taken care of, Vito drives them to Sacred Oaks, where they find the Don and several of the other Magliozzi family members. On the way in, Miho cuts effortlessly and almost playfully through the guards until they reach the room where the family sits. Just before they get there, Miho is pulled and dropped into the city.
PERSONALITY:
The best way to think of Miho’s personality is that of a house cat, the scary kind strangers tend to step around rather than over. She’s all of 4’10”, weighs 100 pounds soaking wet and is utterly silent. Much like a house cat, she loves high up places, often seen on window sills and rooftops of buildings. She also has a fondness and a ridiculous sort of knack for rollerblades, seen throughout the entirety of Family Values whizzing around on a pair. Where those in Sin City may see violence as an unfortunate necessity, Miho enjoys it. She loves fighting, she loves killing. There is nothing more boring to her than a quiet week in Old Town, with all the girls killing their assholes without her help. She has no moral compass when it comes to fighting. Those who have wronged her and those she protects deserve exactly everything she gives them. And she knows how to give it.
As Dwight once said, “you won’t feel it unless she wants you to.” Her knowledge of human anatomy is impressive and she uses all of it to cause pain. Miho’s methods tend to be cruel, exactly like a cat toying with prey. She prefers using stealth, evasion and counter attack methods rather than rushing in headlong at her opponents, which is usually the approach all of them take. She appears to be a modern day master of ninjutsu and is skilled in a number of traditional weapons. Her favorite weapon are her twin Katana swords and she uses throwing stars as projectile weapons. She’s never shown using a gun. She knows exactly how strong she is and exactly how skilled she is and she’s never been given a single reason to hold back. She’s especially cruel with those who insult her, dragging the fight out for as long as she is allowed.
Miho is very reserved in her emotions. There is nothing loud or explosive about her. Her enjoyment in things as much as her anger is a quiet air about her, usually not easily perceived. Her expressions are enough to convey whatever message she might be trying to get across. Which isn’t to say she’s completely cold. She’s loyal to a fault, but selective with the amount that she bestows. With a limited few, she even shows a level of affection. She's not a possessive or passionately romantic person. Sex is nice, but not necessary to her and it doesn't actually occur to her that she could have a relationship. Outside of her loyalties, she prefers independence, to come and go how she pleases and to associate with who she pleases.
CLASS: Questionable
SUPERHERO NAME: n/a
ALTER EGO: n/a
POWER: Shape shifting into a small black cat. Minor and needlessly convoluted telepathy in which thought bubbles with text will appear in the general vicinity. With an added voice option for the seeing impaired.
COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE:
[There's no nonsense of fussing about with controls. This is clearly a person who is familiar with the controls. Straight to text, no voice or video. Or punctuation or capitalization come to think of it.]
hi
back
robin terry are you here?
THIRD PERSON:
The rooftop was a familiar one, in a strange sort of way. She sat with her feet dangling over the edge, swinging her legs absently. The memories were a whirling mess in her head, slowly sorting themselves out into their proper places.