#isoposts

most ppl there use the royal we and they/them pronouns (miru included), death isn't considered a huge deal, there's a strong focus on community and the youth over individuals and tradition, everything made there is public domain, and there's a lot of pragmatism as no one individual is more important than ensuring a happier future for the largest amount of people possible to minimize the suffering the collective must experience. their prerogative is to spend any time spent not securing a bright future on relaxation and pleasure to maximize collective lived happiness. karma is baked into existence: if you hurt someone you will experience the other side of it when you live that life, dumbass!!

this puts them at odds w some of the other nations in the campaign bc two of them have a strong tech focus which they Do Not Like bc normal tech causes pollution and expenditure of non-refundable resources for things that mostly benefit individuals and magitek they feel "entraps"/exploits the great flow of souls so while it's better than normal tech it's not by much. tensions are pretty high bc the main tech place has been doing research into souls which umineans find Extremely Sacrilegious and believe will throw off the great cycle and cause everything to collapse bc the great mysteries must be preserved and respected can't you just trust bro??

i kinda compared umine to the hivemind from pluribus which is funny bc i made them before i watched but that vibe of being incredibly nice and friendly and loving and that being genuine but also fixated on getting people to join their paradise and willing to ignore/disrespect the autonomy of individuals for what they believe is best for all and being pragmatic to this end to degrees those outside of the collective would find horrifying is Pretty Much what umine is like lmao

anyway miru is an elementalist/spiritist with a minor in weaponmaster since i'm going for cool elemental spear slapper and they're on a hunter x hunter intro-ass ship on the way to an ancient continent that recently floated out of The Hole alongside the other party members bc they want to ensure that it doesn't get exploited by Tech Land and Magitek Land and is also there to scout it out and see if it holds some connection to the many problems that have plagued the world recently and whatnot

miru is a relatively standard uminean although they have kind of an extra uncanny aura... they have a dangerous smile and keep it on while making passive-aggressive comments about how "well maybe we'll understand where you're coming from when we're you" or whatever else. looking forward to rping this lil weirdo and see how they change or not and wtf is rly going on with them at all i'm keeping things p vague on purpose since a big part of fabula ultima is being able to retroactively define things!

all that is truly concrete is that they're a weird wet creature with a cool rainbow glowy hood and also they have bad vision bc they're an abyssal creature not used to all the surface light this is how i'm excusing the 1000000000000 misses i got in our test battle lmao. although one of the few times i did hit i got a crit it was sick af there was even a persona/fire emblem cut-in and everything... the dm has so many sick fuckin mods installed for foundry it's awesome: