> **“Knowledge should put one’s mind at ease, but…it usually** **hasn’t** **been that way for me. There’s *always* something you don’t know.”**
*-- Miranda*
A pink-haired young woman plagued with anxiety most of her life – fueled in no part thanks to her high levels of ESP – but is currently one of the best to help the very world she hides from. Miranda is a potent Psychic (or Psionic if one prefers) who was trained to control her powers and would have become even more potent if events hadn't taken a turn. Her long pink hair contrasts with her blue eyes, usually half-lidded in concern as few things escape her notice.
Table of Contents
1. [Backstory](#bkmrk-backstory)
2. [Personality](#bkmrk-personality)
3. [Abilities](#bkmrk-abilities-1)
4. [Skills & Stats](#bkmrk-strengths)
5. [Usage Notes](#bkmrk--8)
6. [Gallery](#bkmrk-gallery-1)
7. [Author's Notes](#bkmrk-author%27s-notes)
### Backstory
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> **"It's...certainly the truth. I didn't really get it when my mom and dad once said it when I was younger, but all of my troubles growing up came from noticing too much. Just in a way most can't."**
\-- Miranda, on the saying "Ignorance Is Bliss"
Miranda’s psychic abilities and her anxiety disorders arose at about the same time (her parents disagreed about which started first, “chicken or the egg” style) when she was a young child and unfortunately they fed into one another; her feeling something through her ESP or telepathy that others rarely acknowledged or flat out denied made her anxious and slightly paranoid that she was imagining things and her anxieties were only fed by the things she noticed through her ESP or when accidentally reading minds that she had never thought of before. The resulting anxiety attacks and panic attacks were hard for her parents to deal with – and they got particularly destructive once her telekinesis kicked in. At a loss, her parents sent her away to a school witnessed on an advertisement for those with innate abilities like hers. She was grouped with other psychics in a class called The Thinktank; Miranda was trained to better control her powers as well and finally made acquaintances that somewhat understood her troubles – two of them becoming her best friends. It was through her focus and training that she discovered a more unique aspect to her psionics while trying to shield others from one of her freakouts – an application that earned her the codename of “Panic Room” among a few other monikers.
Unfortunately, events caused the school to be shut down before more progress was made – as far as Miranda knew, the school became physically less safe to stay in on top of funding being pulled by a mysterious benefactor. To make things worse, she didn’t have a home to return to. Her anxiety wasn’t quite as under control as her parents wanted – at least not as under control as her powers were and her parents wouldn’t take her back after her last panic attack as a child ruined the house. With money given to her by one of her best friends, Yari, before he disappeared, teenage Miranda was able to gain a place to live but also quickly became a shut-in for quite a few factors – she hadn’t quite gotten used to dealing with most people outside of her teachers and friends, her parents’ rejection hit her more than she gave away and the paranoid fear that whatever caused the school to be suddenly forced to shut down was part of a grander plot to get all the students, including her, and use them for sinister ends.
When the money was running low, she reached out in small ways to make sure she could still have money to live – at first with gigs she hated like working in bars but soon settled into finding more solitary positions as well as working as a ghostwriter as an off-shoot of one of her coping measures. Miranda had no intention of using her powers in any big noticeable ways…a promise to herself that was quickly tested as she still had the will to do good and “change the world” as her old teachers hoped. She would end up making two new devoted friends through those endeavors who in turn helped her break more and more out of her shell and taught her other ways to cope. Even the reason she became a published author was due to said friends and a misunderstanding and submitting something without her knowledge) but she’s still concerned enough about conspiring forces that she still avoids widely broadcasting her psychic abilities – her anxiety and thinking about her old classmates won’t let her relax. Even if all her other concerns are all in her head as she’s frequently told, as long as there’s a chance a threat did purposefully separate her from her old friends and if it's one she can’t stop if they came after her, her other fears and minor concerns feel legitimized within its shadow…
#### *The Volatile Hearts*
Miranda’s first published work not as a ghost writer was called “The Volatile Hearts”, a work she hadn't intended to publish. She had used some short stories she wrote for herself to vent and noticed an unconsciously repeated name – *MJ Lucia*. Miranda experimented with making an in-universe written work by her, but as she continued, it ended up more Miranda's own work than anything MJ Lucia would write in-character, but the latter’s name was still listed as the author on the first page.
The story starred two opposite sex twins who were afflicted with an eldritch condition – it not only caused occasional irregularities in their heartbeats, but an elevated heart rate would negatively affect them and their environment in various ways. This disruption is ill-timed as they both recently met someone that made them question the previous trajectory of their love lives on top of the twins’ relationship with their mother.
After a bit of research, some disasters and a lot of reluctance, they pursue their latest love interests in the hopes that sharing the affliction of their titular hearts and a period of getting through it together would cure them and their briefly affected love interests. These attempts test their new relationships, but in the end, the male twin and his girlfriend survive, but the female twin refuses to put the gentle man that she loves through it and calls off the ritual, suffering through the condition alone until her death. The book ends with the male twin naming their first child after his sister’s memory.
Her new best friend, Faline, discovered the manuscript and believed it for a local contest. It wasn't, but before their relationship could come to serious harm, Miranda's piece won with the top prize being publication and a cash prize.
It wasn't quite a bestseller, but between the prize and later sales, she earned enough initial money that easily surpassed all of her past low-paying jobs. This solidified her decision to continue as a writer – specifically continuing as MJ Lucia as she didn't feel ready to more transparently advertise as herself (but used the excuse that the pseudonym was “catchier”) – though doing that meant it was harder to use more of her old vent work since MJ was an in-universe character. The pressure to match her past work with a new piece caused a bit of writer's block…up until recently.
| ##### **Miranda Cinderpointe**
The Stressed-Out Psychic
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| **Aliases/Nickname(s)**
Panic Room (former codename)
MJ Lucia (author pseudonym)
The Shield of Hysteria
Castle Pink
The Thinktank's Defense System
| ##### Profile
| **Race**
Human (Psionic)
| **Pronouns | Gender | Sex | Sexuality**
She/her | Female | Female | Demiromantic Bi-Curious Heterosexual
| **Age**
19
| **Weight | Height | Build**
135 lbs | 5’5” (with 1’ heeled boots) | Mostly straight/rectangular with a slight difference in bust
| **Hair | Eye | Skin Color**
Blush Pink (#FEC5E5) | Blue (#6495ED) | Fair (mildly pale from not going out much)
| **Distinguishing Features**
✦ Her long bright pink hair
✦ Beauty mark on the left side of her neck looking like an inverted triangle (usually slightly hidden)
| **Job/Vocation**
Author, Freelancer
| **Hobbies**
✦ Fanfiction/reading in general
✦ Horror movies
✦ Meditation
| ##### Creator
| [JadedStrayHyena](https://archive.thraelosverse.com/books/players-and-player-characters/page/jadedstrayhyena) |
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