Mitsuko Hiramori

❥ Character Information

Character Name: Mitsuko Hiramori
Character Age: Adult (Depicted as 21+ but unstated in show)
Character Species: Flatwoods Monster Alien (3 meters alien) 
Current Health: Alive
Outfit: Her Flatwoods monster suit which gives her ability to fly and turn into a chair. It does have giant claws but Mitsuko naturally has super-alien strength, so I'm happy for her to give them up if she can't have the claws due to the no-weapons clause.
Character Canon: Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!!
Link to History: Only the first 13 episodes are depicted here. 

Mitsuko is a minor character who is established in the first 13 episodes as a loyal minion of Zwijo. After that, she and Zwijo go underground where she tends to Zwijo's injuries. Mitsuko reappears in episode 24 where she's been working undercover at the Badloon Castle to steal the Rovian Bandits' secrets for Zwijo. After stumbling into Yudias (the protagonist) who has returned to his t-shirt form (don't worry about it), she gives him up Zwijo. Together the two go and restore Yudias back to normal using residue Earthdamar Kawai Tell has and have him deliver Yudias with the rest of the protagonists' laundry.

Later it's revealed that she and Zwijo have secretly started a bakery: the Boiled Bagel Requiem, which makes and sells delicious curry bread. Mitsuko bribes Yuamu with a collectable plate that she wants in order to keep their bakery a secret.

A LOT happens in Go Rush before Mitsuko is next involved (Episode 30 -> Episode 41), including Zwijo acquiring the power of Negativity (specifically boredom and mediocrity) and vanishing so he can prepare for war at the Velgear Star Cluster. Upon encountering Zwijo's supposedly right-hand woman, Dinois, Mitsuko challenges her to a fight and challenges her to a duel to find out Zwijo's location. During the duel, Mitsuko discovers that Zwijo has left her and was not returning, contrary to what she though. Since Zwijo 'played with her emotions' and was 'two-timing her with a half-pint', Mitsuko joins the protagonists in fighting Zwijo. Ultimately the protagonists defeat him, though it ends with Yudias joining the war and everyone else (including Mitsuko) returning for earth.

There is a two year timeskip between the last episode of Season 1 and Season 2. We don't know what Mitsuko did but apparently she stayed at the bakery maintaining it until MIK (basically the Men in Black) forces all other aliens (including Mitsuko) underground.

Mitsuko joins Asana's strikeforce to liberate aliens and take back the surface but is ultimately defeated by Energy Copyko and turned into a card. Like all other people turned into a card, Mitsuko is trapped in a cat's body in the spirit world until she's freed by Yudias defeating the MIK's commander in a Duel.

Zwijo doesn't meet Mitsuko at all since returning from the war, so Mitsuko (rightly) assumes that Zwijo has been giving her the cold shoulder. As a result, she joins the Galaxy Cup and reaches the Top 10 so she can pin Zwijo down and make him pay. I'm taking her after this duel where she loses and is last seen falling down a hole, cursing Zwijo's name.

Canon Point: Episode 72 
Canon Iteration: Original canon 
Canon Iteration Explanation: N/A
 

❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes

Skills: 

Role: Myth
Role Qualities/Attributes: Horns, long ears, a thick tail, claws on her hands and feet, fangs and spikes down her back. Additionally, dark sight, fast-reflexes and resistances to gases. She'll get very lizard-esque attributes to match her deck, Secret Investigator, in canon. 
Why are you picking this role for your character? What are your general plans concerning this?
Mitsuko is inherently a selfish person. All of her heroics stem from one thing: her desire for vengeance. She wants nothing more than to make 'the bastard who stole my space romance' pay. She helps the protagonists because she wants Zwijo to suffer for breaking her heart - something that taints all her actions. I think Myth fits for Mitsuko because she is selfishly motivated, she can be very arrogant, and she is very inconsiderate to others thoughts (to the point to deluding herself to thinking Zwijo ever loved her and then blaming him when he is apathetic to her). Additionally, Mitsuko tends to be a lone wolf after leaving Zwijo with very few exceptions (She knew Tamako before meeting Zwijo).

My plan is making Mitsuko more independent. She's always been following Zwijo or trying to directly oppose him. I really want her to embrace individualism and herself - she is the Flatwoods Monster who loves to scare and terrorise people. And I want her to make herself everyone else's problem (and maybe give her some self-love in the process).

❥ Personality

• What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them?

"Even the patience of a saint can run out!"

Mitsuko's most traumatic experience was when she finally realised her lord and love, Zwijo zir Velgear, left her. Zwijo was very much aware that Mitsuko was in love with him, he just didn't care. Mitsuko deluded herself into thinking Zwijo loved her back. When Mitsuko was telling him that she was making beef meatball soup for dinner, he said that he was leaving (so he could go and complete his plans) and when she said that 'she would keep his soup warm for him', all he said was 'Goodbye, Mitsuko.' She kept that pot of soup warm for weeks. She meticulously stirred it every couple of minutes to stop it from burning, waiting for Zwijo to return to the bakery they started together.

"I'll send you down the River Styx thrice!"

And when Zwijo's right-hand woman told her that Zwijo took her out for soft-serve ice cream and said he was never coming back, Mitsuko snaps. Her yandere arc begins right there and then. From being demure, sweet, and willing to follow Zwijo's every beck and call, she becomes bent on revenge and making Zwijo pay for abandoning her and giving her the cold shoulder. 

• What is the most important and defining relationship(s) in your character's life and why?

Zwijo, for better or for worse, is the one who flipped Mitsuko's life upside down and turned it around. Mitsuko was just your regular Three Meter Alien, running around late for Flatwoods Monster Meeting (complete with a giant loaf of bread in her mouth) when she literally runs into Zwijo's invisible ship. And when she bumped into him, she took one look at his bread-framed face and absolutely misinterpreted his apology to her as 'want to crash/live with me?'. From that day on, she left her life on the Flatwoods Alien Planet and served as Zwijo's devoted follower, committing crimes for him such as: experimenting on other aliens, endangering children and stealing the trade secrets of a band of bandits.

Zwijo's presence made Mitsuko feel safe, loved, and happy to stay outside her suit. With Zwijo, Mitsuko tended to be quiet and more serious instead of being a cackling maniac. When he broke his heart and Mitsuko snapped, Mitsuko became much more emotionally charged and determined to make Zwijo pay no matter what, siding with her former enemies at times just so she could get back at Zwijo. Mitsuko's delusions and love for Zwijo cannot be understated with how much he's changed her life. Even after leaving for two years to fight in a war, Mitsuko lived in their bakery and even made curry bread until he came back.

• Which Taylor Swift era is your character going through right now and why?
  

Reputation era. Specifically because half of the album is all about anger, vengeance and drama. Mitsuko feels like she's been slighted and betrayed by Zwijo and all of the songs in that album can be warped to fit hers and Zwijo's relationship: either 1) her absolute devotion to him and finding a place to belong 2) Wanting to be Zwijo's one and only woman 3) him leaving her for another woman and her feeling betrayed and 4) being ready to take him down...

"Love makes me crazy" - Don't Blame Me

She hasn't quite reached the part where she finds solace, love and escapism like in the album but she's still going through the era.

• Is your character capable of forgiveness or will they hold a grudge until they die? Would anything ever make them change their mind?

The thing is, she is capable. In episode 98, she does put her feelings aside for Dinois and Zwijo and helps hold Zwijo up so he can defeat Yudias. Despite never getting full closure with Zwijo and sharing her feelings, she does forgive him in her own way. However, she comes to the conclusion of forgiveness through her own delusions (she thinks that her friend, Tamako, is telling her to take the first step and confess her feelings for her own sake opposed to Tamako saying [Tamako] wants to eat dango).

However, before this there is no indication she will forgive him. Instead, she makes it very clear she wants to tear Zwijo in half. As soon as she hears that Zwijo 'loves her and thinks she did well' in her head, he tells her he doesn't even remember how they met and when she swears vengeance she's ejected from the arena. She'll change her mind once she realises Zwijo isn't all that bad and she has to do things for herself. Probably.

• What would your character sacrifice to get what they want or to reach their potential? What have they sacrificed already?

Mitsuko is a scary sort of delusional. It's very important to stress that Zwijo didn't manipulate Mitsuko - he just let her do what she wanted. Mitsuko gave up her life on the Three Meter Planet because Zwijo just ran into her in his invisible spaceship and when he apologised Mitsuko misinterpreted 'sorry' for 'come crash/live with me'.

She'll get arrested if it helps Zwijo's plans. She'll experiment on the soul of a child that another alien extracted so Zwijo can get closer to his goal. She'll eat curry bread for Zwijo for three weeks in a row because he doesn't like curry bread and that's the only food they have!!!! Mitsuko is the sort to sacrifice everything for someone for weirder or worse.

❥ Player Information

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