Being a dissertation on Miadhan. Acute marks left out because LJ hates that when you reply via e-mail D: I've no clue how much of this will be familiar, since I still keep working on it intermittently and it's evolved like whoa in the intervening 12 years or so. XD
Onomastics: I think I got the name, loosely, from Liadhan in Mark of the Horse Lords by Rosemary Sutcliff, which I read part of when I was around 11 and never finished. XD The acute mark was added in about 1999 and indicates the stressed syllable. "Ni" is a particle gacked from Irish Gaelic which means "daughter of", and Mibhain, of course, is her father's name. Internally, the name is derived from the name of the Dunlean indigenes' moon-goddess.
Amazing Origin!: Gym class in 1991, during the archery unit. At 11, I thought it was a pity that there weren't enough ass-kicking female archers. XD Mia has become more of a swordswoman in the intervening years, but she began as an archer. She was originally supposed to be someone's distant ancestor who died mysteriously, but I liked her, so I kept her alive for much longer.
As for appearance: at the time, I liked black hair and green eyes, not realizing that the Mary Sues would overrun this particular coloring many years later. XD In my defense, among Mibhain's people Mia's looks are not considered particularly exotic, and just to be sure of avoiding the Sue Curse, I've also inflicted upon her small breasts, a large ass, and an, uh, extremely prominent nose.
Career Highlights, Extremely Abridged Version: When Mia was a young child, her mother and younger brother died of plague, and she was raised first by her paternal aunt and then by her father's guest-friend, one Prince Andrel. She was inseparable from young Taren Derai, with whom she tasted warfare for the first time (she had more fondness for it than he; Taren missed his calling). Married rather too young, to an eccentric and well-meaning Elf who just didn't get her; had their only child; and quickly came to find domestic life stifling, so bolted back to Evis to return to Taren. They were inseparable, as before, for another ten years until they had a falling-out, which was never resolved.
Returning to Dunlea resulted in massive upheaval: a writ of divorce (privately) and the growing civil strife due to the country's unresolved ethnic issues and political vicissitudes (publicly). When said strife erupted into out-and-out war, Mia reluctantly took up arms again and led a faction, like her father before her. Eventually, after a whole bunch of crap that I haven't got straight in my own mind, she emerged victorious, and was summarily crowned queen--not a job title she'd particularly wanted, but one she'd proven strong enough to hold. Reigned ten years, died peacefully in her sleep.
Damn, two paragraphs for a character I've had 16 years. Go me! I am the mistress of condensation! XD
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Date: 2007-10-08 02:56 am (UTC)Onomastics: I think I got the name, loosely, from Liadhan in Mark of the Horse Lords by Rosemary Sutcliff, which I read part of when I was around 11 and never finished. XD The acute mark was added in about 1999 and indicates the stressed syllable. "Ni" is a particle gacked from Irish Gaelic which means "daughter of", and Mibhain, of course, is her father's name. Internally, the name is derived from the name of the Dunlean indigenes' moon-goddess.
Amazing Origin!: Gym class in 1991, during the archery unit. At 11, I thought it was a pity that there weren't enough ass-kicking female archers. XD Mia has become more of a swordswoman in the intervening years, but she began as an archer. She was originally supposed to be someone's distant ancestor who died mysteriously, but I liked her, so I kept her alive for much longer.
As for appearance: at the time, I liked black hair and green eyes, not realizing that the Mary Sues would overrun this particular coloring many years later. XD In my defense, among Mibhain's people Mia's looks are not considered particularly exotic, and just to be sure of avoiding the Sue Curse, I've also inflicted upon her small breasts, a large ass, and an, uh, extremely prominent nose.
Career Highlights, Extremely Abridged Version: When Mia was a young child, her mother and younger brother died of plague, and she was raised first by her paternal aunt and then by her father's guest-friend, one Prince Andrel. She was inseparable from young Taren Derai, with whom she tasted warfare for the first time (she had more fondness for it than he; Taren missed his calling). Married rather too young, to an eccentric and well-meaning Elf who just didn't get her; had their only child; and quickly came to find domestic life stifling, so bolted back to Evis to return to Taren. They were inseparable, as before, for another ten years until they had a falling-out, which was never resolved.
Returning to Dunlea resulted in massive upheaval: a writ of divorce (privately) and the growing civil strife due to the country's unresolved ethnic issues and political vicissitudes (publicly). When said strife erupted into out-and-out war, Mia reluctantly took up arms again and led a faction, like her father before her. Eventually, after a whole bunch of crap that I haven't got straight in my own mind, she emerged victorious, and was summarily crowned queen--not a job title she'd particularly wanted, but one she'd proven strong enough to hold. Reigned ten years, died peacefully in her sleep.
Damn, two paragraphs for a character I've had 16 years. Go me! I am the mistress of condensation! XD