Zea Misra

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name	Zea Misra
birthdate (birthplace)	Prior to the start of Spring. (Adela.)
current residence	Suna, Thanatos
occupation	Priestess, Researcher
family	Quinn Simon (mother)
race	Human
physical description	Zea's skin is a warm golden-tan completely unblemished by... well, blemishes, because scars and freckles are for people who aren't flesh sculptors. She has very large dark brown eyes and high cheekbones with a sharply pointed chin. Her skin is quite pointedly and ostentatiously blank, both of body modifications and evidence of unruly experiments. Generally she wears her hair short, around chin length, and if she isn't going to be sloshing or splatting around in anything messy, she lets it go curly.
personality	Zea is driven, curious, and capable of prioritizing to the point of discarding priorities (or people) that others might value. It's not that she doesn't care; it's that she has a finite amount of Care and her life's work needs as much of it as possible or she might not succeed in the limited time available to her. She prefers to explore the absolute outer bounds of what most people think Inima wants everybody doing. After all, if Inima wants them to understand things, and wants them to spend a lot of time getting familiar with death, what if the natural outcome of a full understanding is the ability to step outside of mortality itself? What if the natural outcome is to release oneself from reincarnation by just declining to accept deaths? Traditional forms of undead are obviously disappointing failures, which is particularly tragic for the sapient ones. So many, vampires, liches, flesh-eating zombies... they all require some external source of energy which they typically get by preying on the living. Unacceptable. What if something better were possible? The best outcome would be to pull the dead out of the food chain entirely. There are a limited number of ways to approach this, but Zea thinks she has some good ones. Unfortunately so many other true explorers of the far frontiers of mortality are antisocial conquerors who have little interest in sharing their findings for the benefit of the world. In this Zea agrees with more orthodox church members: they must either be brought into line or eliminated. They're in her way the way of progress.
religious beliefs	Priestess of Inima. Definitely a believer.
drunk type	Exuberant, dropping to moody.
affiliations	Thanati Temple

History

Zea's mother Quinn was actually not native to Thanatos, but knew early on that they would understand things about her daughter that nobody else would. At bare minimum, they wouldn't be deeply upset by them. While Zea was still a baby surrounded by a cloud of obsessive ghosts, Quinn did a series of things to help.

First, she changed the infant's name to try and keep the ghosts from following her.

Second, she took the girl to Thanatos.

When she sought Temple assistance, they recommended Zea spend most of her time around temples and the more jaded of Inima's devotees. Zea took to the environment quickly, and Quinn took to the liberal romantic sensibilities of her new home. Zea's focus on learning more about her own situation--and how to avoid making it worse--narrowed and intensified until her quest mattered more to her than anything else. She'd say it mattered more to her than even herself or her loved ones, but in this she is giving herself a little too much credit. One cannot be a researcher without also being a person, no matter how much she might wish it were otherwise.

Threads Part One: Thanatos

Throw Some Shade if You Look Good (Avery) - Zea's never seen a mouth like this one.

Matters of Knowledge (Dro Thinh) - A demon tries to make a deal with Zea and ends up having to wipe Zea's memory of the entire incident.

A Good Going-Over (Oblirin) - Dig around in a dragon? Yeah!

You Tapped the Wrong Barrel, Guys (Oblirin) - Some people just shouldn't be allowed to do science without Zea's direct supervision.

Building is Better but Breaking is Easy (Phears) - There are no failed experiments! You always learn something, right? Even if afterwards you still need to figure out what to do with the body. Trigger Warning for discussion of sexual assault.

And She Also Made False Teeth (Fang Ruan) - People can be so self-centered. Ugh. Why do they have to go peopling all over while Zea's trying to work?

Imperfection (Xala) - Zea unmade and remade a thing that now might make a suitable pet, so she needs to get rid of it as soon as possible before it starts needing things.

Threads Part Two: The Meeting Place

The Secret in the Woods (Kilarhas) - Zea needs to find a river. Except she's already in a river, and isn't Zea. Oh well. It'll all work out somehow.

Threads Part Three: (pending)

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