Michi Akechi

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Background
Michi is a formerly mysterious character who entered Starcross shortly before the Starcross Tourney started. She used to be a sentient shadow (thanks to Aster), from the Midnight Channel. She accidentally got herself involved in the plot by befriending some of the contestants of the first tournament. As a member of the Misfit Thieves, she changes the hearts of corrupt individuals and works to save every other shadow. After just nearly a year of being in Starcross, she’s changed drastically, now being a god-slaying Android.

Pre-Death
Michi was seemingly a very optimistic girl, wanting to act as a light of hope for others, being a manifestation of Michi Nisenaki’s positivity. Despite that, though, she couldn’t bring hope to herself, as explained during her rank ten scene with Yu. Typically, she puts on an act of false stupidity and happiness, so she can easily continue on with her plans. It’s well-known that she’s prone to saying unusually violent things, whether she means to or not. As a sinner of envy, she gets jealous of others easily, secretly being very resentful. It’s her envy and rebellion against all rules that’ve allowed her to not only survive this long, but to save others as well. Her hope extends to “knowing” when others still have hope or not. When she sees absolutely no hope in someone, she can show a freakishly spiteful side of herself. Her beliefs of hopelessness mainly apply to those she sees as traitors, caused by her trauma from several betrayals. Despite everything, she really does care for her close friends and love them, even if it means she would die for them- and she did.

Post-Death
Now she’s a seemingly calm android who doesn’t outwardly show her feelings too often. She may not smile too much, but she’s not emotionless or anything, just friendlier and more relaxed in a non-expressive way. She may be chill, but when things get serious, she’s getting the job done and no one’s stopping her. It’s not that this new personality came out of nowhere or anything; it’s just part of her true self deep down before her death, combined with finally having mental stability. Although she’s done pretending to be stupid, she’s not afraid to have a good bit of fun here and there. A lot of her previous traits were maintained too, including her spite and selfishness. Doesn’t stop her from being a damn good hero.

Story in Starcross
Michi is a shadow who used to live in the Midnight Channel. She was created by the remaining love, hope, and will to live of a normal human, Michi Nisenaki. Their connection was severed when the human died from a slice to the neck, leaving the shadow all alone. Michi waited in the Midnight Channel for nine years before finally deciding to leave, and that’s how she ended up here.

In Starcross, Michi made her first main appearance at the tournament ceremony, befriending Game & Watch, Sans, and Krabs. Since the beginning, she felt that the whole event was sketchy. After round two of the tourney began, Michi began helping Oszust recruit the fighters of the tournament for the rebellion against Vegeta.

When Madotsuki (NT) left everyone behind and unleashed Dark Raven after losing to Dante in the final round of the tournament, Michi lost control over herself and awakened her true form. The other members of the team theorized that Mado was her human self, but it was soon revealed that it happened because she reminded Michi too much of the death of her other self. Just a day later, she ran away with Dante to escape from the Subspace Army unleashed by Mia and Esorta. They used Skyworld as a hiding place, while they ran around Starcross and saved whoever they could find. Thanks to Meloetta, the location of their base was leaked to Mia, and they relocated to Dreamland, which had also been put in a pocket dimension. About a day after that, Akechi took Michi to Mementos and helped her return to her normal form, awakening Scylla, with Leuqar and Raz there for safety measures. A few days later on Valentine’s Day, she was caught by Mia and forced to watch G&W get vesseled. Shortly afterwards, she was fell to the same fate. In the finale, Michi and Yin were unvesseled at the same time with the help of Akechi. A day later, after the detective prince found out what really happened to her human self, that ended up finalizing his decision to adopt her after a while of consideration.

Taking her time to get used to having an actual family member, she later met up with Leuqar again, who had recruited Vi onto her team at this point. After hearing Leu’s cat Naivatco talk with no one else understanding him, she decided to follow them to their next Mementos trip...just to give them a little scare and show Vi that she already had a Persona before meeting them. She was then accepted as the third member of the Misfit Thieves, with the codename Shade.

Abilities and Gear
Michi is armed with a multitude of weapons, mainly sticking to guns and swords, all acquired during her time in Starcross. Her firepower isn’t restricted to the Onyx Roses, as her Persona, Rán, is able to use the strongest of gun skills. With some teachings from Akechi, Michi learned how to manipulate water to dangerous degrees with Rán’s hydro skills. As an android, she can fly with no effort, and speed herself up or slow herself down at will. Her elemental power isn’t just restricted to water; shortly after her death, she was given the ability to use Iori’s god-killing flames. The best for last, she possesses the power of a tainted soul, Call of Chaos.

Allies

 * Mr. Game and Watch
 * Goro Akechi
 * Molly Akechi
 * Yu Narukami
 * Darkter Mario
 * Stocking Anarchy
 * Oszust
 * Invader
 * Yosuke Hanamura
 * Cactus
 * Leuqar Kurusu
 * Ribbon
 * Lumia
 * Vera Genesis
 * Genny Rolfe
 * Etoz Wick
 * Vi
 * Susan
 * Sho Minazuki
 * Iori Yagami
 * Melody
 * The Void Entity
 * Aster

Enemies

 * Masayoshi Shido
 * Yharim
 * Sho Minamimoto
 * Delirium
 * Izanami
 * Ulric
 * Dogma
 * Brody Foxx
 * Monaca and Monokuma

Trivia

 * Michi possesses the Hope Arcana, and has a completed social link with Yu Narukami, which is how she awakened Viviane.
 * Scylla was her initial Persona. Then she had Viviane, until she awakened Rán.
 * Her appearance used to be exactly the same as her human self, but after Aster gave her true sentience, it slowly changed.
 * Michi’s would-be classpect is Prince of Rage.
 * The human’s date of death is October 4th, 2011, during the events of Persona 4.
 * In her unused concept art, her clothing was red instead of purple. This concept was later reused for Ichi.
 * She was originally drawn and created as a joke. The design that was decided on was heavily inspired by Waluigi, Lancer, and Mr. L.