“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
Name: Mischa Keehl (Mimi)
Blog URL: @mlk94
Age: 21
Role/job: Friend of Everyone, Nurse.
Brief history: Mischa Keehl was born in Southern France, on December 13, 1994. Her mother and father were upper middle-class Catholics, who have her and her twin brother Mihael everything that they ever could have wanted. When they were six, their father- without warning or explanation- set their home on fire, killing himself and their mother. Mischa was sent to the hospital after inhaling smoke for too long and not being able to breathe properly, and Mihael was taken away from the house screaming for his sister.
Mischa spent a majority of her life in New York with her adoptive mother Maria, who struggled through life but gave Mischa every ounce of love in her heart. She encouraged Mischa to go to church if that’s what she felt was best, and paid for her to take classes with every penny she had. Maria and Mischa were inseparable, until Maria’s death in 2014. Believing her mom to be the victim of a Kira killing, Mischa set up a radio show protesting the widespread acceptance of Kira as a God, or someone to be looked up to.
After being reconnected with her brother, Mischa now lives at Taskforce Headquarters, where she strives to make sure that Light Yagami and Teru Mikami are treated fairly, and with the love and respect that they deserve. She can’t honestly say that she’s sad to see them imprisoned, but they have both made their way into her heart, and she cares for them as best she can.
Close relations:
Janus - Mischa and Janus have been together since December of 2015. They met at Taskforce Headquarters when L was attempting- without much success- to teach Mischa how to waltz. Janus brought the party to waltzing, and Mimi has been essentially attached to her hip since. Mimi’d do about anything for Janus, as she realized after moving to England from May to July in order to be close to her imprisoned girlfriend while L and Mimi worked on the Carver case. While she was working to prove Janus’s innocence, she considered pursuing a career in detective work, but has since decided that nursing is her true passion. Janus brings out the best in Mimi, and makes her feel like she can do anything.
L - L and Mimi met last summer, when Mello and Near found out that she was living alone in New York and asked her to come to Japan to meet her brother. L and Mimi had a rocky relationship from the start, Mischa’s kindhearted nature turning explosive when she found that L was holding Luna unjustly. In retrospect, she thinks that she may have overreacted. She didn’t speak to L for a long while after that, only coming to stay at Headquarters when Near and Mello moved away to New York. L and Mimi bonded immediately, and are now a fair bit closer that she and Mello. They bonded while drinking “fire” in L’s bed, and laughed over past relationships. Mimi considers L family, which might explain why they seem to fight like siblings. They’ll be at each other’s throats one day, and the next all will be fine. She loves L wholeheartedly.
Mello - Mello and Mimi were incredibly close when they were reunited, and have been more distant since. They will always be there for one another, as they’ve both sworn, but they seem to consistently disagree on everything else. Mello believes that Mimi is too forgiving, and Mimi finds him harsh. When they do have moments of agreement, though, the two act as one and seem unstoppable. Mimi doesn’t like to admit it, but she looks up to her brother and would hate to see anything bad happen to him. She wishes that they could more consistently see eye to eye, and that he was less busy. She doesn’t approve of his most recent delve back into the life of crime, and has recently been more prone to shout back at him when they get into arguments. More than anything, Mimi is thankful that they’re back in each other’s lives. Her brother is the only family she has.
Fun fact: Mimi feels most comfortable in shorts, but hates the summer heat.
Mun name: Kit
Mun URL: @rowbodt
Favorite case: Dodgson or Carver.
Ask Kit questions about Mischa this week!
