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madetodoevil Character: Vera Misham
Age: 19
Canon: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Case 4
Canon Point: After she wakes up from her coma and is visited by Apollo and Trucy.
Background: Wiki entry
Personality:
Vera Misham is described by character Ema Skye as "sickly," and that is a good summary of how most people would describe her upon meeting her.
There are many reasons people's first impression of her is "sickly." For starters, she does not do well with communicating with others. She is extremely reserved and shy, owing to a severe anxiety disorder, her sheltered upbringing, and her fear of strangers and the outdoors. As a result of this, she is selectively mute. She rarely talks or emotes to people she doesn't trust, greatly preferring to communicate using drawings of various objects and facial expressions (while her own expression remains completely blank).
Her severe anxiety disorder manifests in not only her selective muteness, but is also crippling in her daily life. For instance, one way this manifests is her tendency to bite her nails when nervous, which is what led to her getting poisoned. Rather than meeting people or talking to them, she hides, and when she's afraid of anything, she hides. This gets to the point where most people don't realize she's there, such as when she hides in the Detention Center from Apollo and Trucy. These behaviors have been with her ever since childhood and continued into her adulthood, and will likely lead to her struggling to perform basic tasks that involve interacting with others.
Her sheltered upbringing means that, even when she does communicate with people, she's oblivious to many things and can sometimes be immature. She lived seven years being unaware that her making forgeries was a crime, and only realizes that what she did was a "bad thing" after her father dies and her role as a forger is revealed. Her immaturity can also be seen in how she believes, even as a 19-year old, in a "lucky charm" (a bottle of nail polish) that will protect her from "bad people."
Her fear of strangers and the outdoors are extremely severe phobias resulting from when she was nearly kidnapped as a child. They are so severe that Ema Skye recalls her screaming that she'd "die if they took her outside" without her "lucky charm." Her reaction to most social situations, and being outside, is often extreme fear - resulting in disasters, no doubt, for the world of Empatheias.
However, there is more to Vera than her being "sickly." One aspect of this, both as a child and as an adult, is her special interests - magicians, particularly the Gramaryes, a famous magician troupe. When talked to about these subjects, she opens up considerably and reveals another side completely to her personality. Rather than shy and reserved, she becomes happy and excited, trusting of others, and can talk for hours on end.
Even more importantly than this is her potential for her personality to grow and develop. Although her initial personality will be most of what people see of her, and that will the case for a long time, she has the ability to learn to trust others and become more social and less afraid. This is exemplified by the end of Apollo Justice, where after she wakes from her coma, she shows a rare smile on her face and is able to talk freely and without fear to Apollo and Trucy. Slowly, over time, as she gains friends and allies, her personality will likely develop so that she is like this around other people - potentially even strangers.
In short, I would describe her personality as "stereotypically autistic-coded," stemming from her special interests, difficulty communicating with others, anxiety disorders and phobias, selective muteness, and her rare displaying of emotion. But I believe she has more depth than a stereotype and that her personality is well worth studying and exploring in further detail, particularly in a setting where she has plenty of time to grow and develop.
Abilities:
Vera has no explicitly supernatural abilities, but she is a child prodigy at painting, able to create perfect forgeries at just twelve years old. Because of this, she is gifted with not just incredible artistic abilities, but also incredible perception - the ability to detect things down to the smallest detail, the slightest imperfection.
Other than that, she is an average 19-year old in every way.
Alignment: Thras. Her fears, her phobias, are a key aspect of her personality and development, and she will have to work through these in order to be brave.
Other: N/A
General Sample:
Meeting Iris
Naruhodou and Twinkies
Sushi with Eikichi
Emotion Sample:
Vera melts rocks out of fear
Top-level with Vera almost causing a tornado
Questions:
Can Vera keep her art supplies? Her sketchook and mechanical pencil are how she communicates to people she doesn't trust.