Real Name || Miu Shinomiya
Age || 17
Gender || Female
Role || The Impostor
Current Location || Currently staying at a dorm around a stone's throw away from the school she's attending. The dormitory itself is rather luxurious, with it's own indoor pool and restaurant. Her room is a simple studio with air-conditioning and its own bathroom. Almost all her furniture are collapsible and are tucked in the walls when not in use, giving her some additional space when she needs it.
Appearance || Haruka is a rather fashionable individual so suffice to say, she doesn't really conform to just one consistent look. She usually styles her blonde hair in different ways depending on the day. She usually makes her own modifications to her standard school uniform, despite regulations prohibiting it. She's often seen in a variety of casual attire when outside the school. She stands at 5'6" and weighs around 49 kg. She has bright emerald eyes, which she shares with her mother and twin sister.
Vocal Theme || Recall the End - Trustrick
Instrumental Theme || New World Order - Masafumi Takada
Personality || Haruka feigns a rather bright and bubbly persona when it comes to interacting with people, acting very much like the typical teenager girl she is. She displays a happy and outgoing air and she can talk to people about almost anything under the sun. She is very energetic and is usually the first to engage in conversation with others.
That aspect of her personality though, is merely a front she uses as part of her adopted persona. In reality, she is a rather sullen and vengeful individual. She gets mad easily and is rather known for bearing grudges. When it comes to people she hates, she’s the type who’d rather get even than to forgive and forget. She’s also a good liar, making it difficult for people to doubt the things she says.
She’s very determined, to the point of being rebellious, when it comes to getting the things she wants, even reaching the point where she uses rather questionable tactics in order to get it. She follows a rather strange philosophy when it comes to secrets though. One is that she never reveals a secret once it has been willingly shared to her but if it’s something she discovered by herself, she’s not against using it as ammunition against the other party.
She’s rather resilient as well and she’s very capable of picking herself up after failing badly. It’s one of the handful of positive traits she takes pride in and despite her rather fashionable and dainty looks, she doesn’t mind getting dirty and grimy.
Likes || Gossip, Trends, Fashion, Music
Dislikes || Loud Noises, People asking a lot of questions, Traffic, Mysteries
History || The person known as Haruka Shinomiya is remembered as the daughter of two talented musicians living in a luxurious studio within urban Hanamura. She was supposedly a musical prodigy like her parents and has already started building quite a career for herself in the big world. Much of her private life was kept secret of course, and she rarely talked about her past which leads many to believe that she might be hiding some kind of secret lost in the mists of time. And she was. She's hiding the fact that this story isn't about Haruka Shinomiya.
She has a twin sister, Miu. An identical twin born around the same time that she was. They were separated at birth as Miu was given up for adoption; their parents just cannot afford to take care of both at the same time back then. So the two grew up separately: Haruka grew up with a very comfortable life while Miu had to endure the hard days of being an orphan and running wild around the urban streets.
Thanks to the difficult conditions at the orphanage, Miu grew up tough. Tougher than most kids but also a little more withdrawn and sullen. She rarely socializes with others which made it difficult for the agency to find a family who would take care of her. Eventually, someone took her in and all seemed alright for a while. Her foster family were the usual middle-class, white-collar workers that populated a huge portion of Hanamura. Problem is, her foster father had a chronic drinking habit, turning him into quite a violent man under the influence of alcohol. He would take out his anger on Miu when given the opportunity to. It rarely happens but, it has happened enough that Miu soon began to fear for her life.
Some time since she started middle school, Miu met Haruka. They attended different schools but the two schools were close enough that Haruka was able to spot someone who looks like her walking on the other side of the street. Miu also found it odd that someone looked a lot like her on so many levels. Having realized this, Haruka went home and confronted her parents. Of course, she had been discreet. Somehow, she managed to bring up the topic without alerting them that she had met Miu. Her parents did acknowledge that she had a twin sister but then they told her that her twin sister had already passed away, which struck Haruka as odd.
Nonetheless, the two became close friends afterwards. Haruka would often tell Miu stories about her life and Miu did the same. They divulged everything to each other and hid no secrets. Miu also found it odd that her own parents would deny her own existence but she didn't mind so long as she had Haruka. They eventually made up their mind to confront their parents about it once they graduated high school.
Miu bore witness to Haruka's rise to fame. Her twin sister's innate charm and talent allowed her to establish her own name in the world. Despite that though, they never lost contact with each other. Ever since Haruka became famous though, Miu had started dyeing her hair to avoid any identity mix-ups. That didn't mean they didn't use their own physical traits for some fun and games though.
On some days, the two would switch houses, just to see if their respective families would take notice. To that extent, they even started mimicking each other's quirks and habits as well. Neither of them got caught doing it. Every time Haruka would be chased down by fans, she would usually meet up with Miu and they would swap, with Miu using her athleticism to lead the crowd away and escape without getting caught. It was a very fun time for both of them. However, it wasn't meant to last. It couldn't even wait until high school graduation.
When Miu was 15, her foster father had a drunken episode that went out of control and almost reached the point where he tried to kill Miu if not for her ducking away in time and escaping through the back door. Having no one else, she immediately called Haruka for help. Haruka arrived soon after and she helped Miu escape by running to a nearby forest close to the outskirts of the city by a great river. Just when they thought they were in the clear, they heard gunshots behind them. Her foster father brought his gun along. Left with no choice, Haruka swapped clothes with Miu and ran in a different direction in an effort to lead their assailant away and save her sister's life.
Miu tried hard to forget everything that happened next. She could still hear Haruka's footsteps across the undergrowth as she ran. Then followed a single gunshot. After that, Haruka's footsteps were no more. And after a few minutes, so was her foster father's footsteps. When she found the courage to look around, her worst fears were realized. Haruka was shot. She was barely alive when Miu found her. Before she departed the world forever, she entrusted her whole life to Miu. Miu of course, readily accepted though it felt painful to do so.
She buried Haruka by the river, taking great care with the process so that nobody would just stumble upon her by accident. The painful ordeal done, she went home. Back to Haruka's home. Back to the real parents who gave her up.
News of a runaway orphan circulated around town for a while and authorities went on a lookout for a brown haired girl with emerald eyes; Miu's most recent picture circulating around town. Eventually, the anxiety died down and the case also, faded into obscurity. A small funeral was held for Miu, ironically by her foster parents. After that, life went on. No one bothered looking for Haruka. As far as everyone was concerned, she was still alive and kicking, with a small concert due next week.
What they didn't know was that Miu was still alive, living the life of another person. For the sake of everyone involved, Miu took great care in keeping the incident a secret. Besides, life worked out well for her. She was with loving, caring and well-off parents and she gets to ride on Haruka's fame. She managed to attain her dream of living in a state of material happiness. And her twin sister's life was the price she paid for it. There was just one major setback though.
The I.D.C. Hers still read as Miu Shinomiya. For the most part, no one has been asking about it but if she is to enter school and make other transactions, it has to be changed to match her new persona. So she staked out the most competent hacker she could find; the one who supposedly hounds the large shopping district most people frequent. She paid good money for him to tamper with the chip, even throwing in a little extra service for him to keep his mouth shut about the whole ordeal.
A couple of years passed. The ploy had been successful and for a while, Miu thought that things were going to go her way from now on. That is until she received the message. The message about that painful memory being in somebody else's possession and the ways in which to get it back. A game of secrets and deception. Of memories and identities. As much as she was accustomed to failing, Miu didn't want to emerge from the game as a loser.
She's paid a very heavy price to get where she is now. She wasn't going to let it all end now.
Secret || Her real identity. It would cause her a whole string of problems if it was to get out. She'll lose her current life, the agency may take her away and worse, she might be implicated in her twin sister's murder. She can't risk it getting out.
