Mika

### Aliases

"Papa" (Piolla, Melyonen, Amaryllis)"Master Mika" (Opef, Ital, Etyo, Aka)"Subject 01 of Experiment 28" (Various I-folk)"Lathyrus" (True Name)

### Relatives

Melyonen (Oldest child)Amaryllis (Second oldest child)Piolla (Youngest child)

Myosen (Older sister)

## Physical description

### Appearance

Mika is a 20-40 year old modified human.

He has unkempt, medium-length black hair and a stubbly corporate beard. His eyes are black and described as "dead" with massive dark marks circling underneath each eye. He has a fair olive skintone. He has a muscular, lean build. On his lower stomach is a horizontal c-section scar. There is a small amount of body hair on his sternum. His hands are covered in various callouses and cuts.

His only article of clothing is a brown and slightly torn hospital gown, slid down from his shoulders to reveal his chest or entire upper body. Otherwise, he wears a neon hospital bracelet on his right hand.

### Personality

Mika is very quiet. He rarely communicates verbally, opting for a device that speaks for him. He is also shown to constantly be spaced out, whether due to administered drugs, grief, or shock. Overall, he is very neutral and dull.

He suffers from chronic pain caused by the pregnancies, leaving him bedridden for months at a time. The pregnancy postpartums also caused permanent shock in his brain as he nearly died during both, explaining his light-headedness.

He is not necessarily rude, but is quite ignorant of others. He only seems to visibly show affection to his children (Excluding Piolla).

While not visibly seen, he is a passionate and artistic man who is easily determined. For example, he is determined to have a living child to follow up on succeeding in the family experiment only moments after his stillbirths.

### Relationships

#### Piolla

Piolla is Mika's youngest and only living daughter.

After the premature stillbirths of his first two children, Mika decided to secretly impregnate himself once more to succeed in having a living child, possibly due to grief. During the pregnancy Mika is affectionate, giving her the name "Astill" and doing the same for her as he did for the twins (creating various clothing and toys for when she would be born). Along with this, he also painted a portrait of what a traveling psychic told him she would look like. This portrait of her is almost identical to her actual self, excluding the color of her hair and the lack of birth defects.

Her birth was the most disastrous of his children for numerous reasons, such as the fact that he was still recovering from the previous birth, the pregnancy was holistic, and that his body was not suited for giving birth without medical assistance. Barely managing to survive with last-minute assistance from the I-folk in the research base, Mika underwent a powerful state of shock that wiped most of his memories of Astill. It was only thanks to the portrait he had hung on the front wall that he was aware of her existence.

When Astill was born, she was far different from what Mika had anticipated. Covered head to toe in birth defects, particularly the ones on her head, Mika thought that she had been cursed by the God of Flowers as a result of his poor faith. She also had many medical issues upon birth, making Mika further believe that she was cursed. Eventually, Astill's heart stopped beating and his final daughter is taken from him by the I-folk, while still a baby.

In order to deal with the grief and shame of losing his third child, Mika has Etyo bury the painting deep underground, along with her placenta, to atone to the God of Flowers for his sins. Due to complications during his second c-section recovery, Mika is placed in a medically-induced coma.

By some miracle, Astill was not truly dead. Thanks to a life-saving surgery, Astill's medical conditions were eased, and artificial implants were placed in her organs for portable life support. The I-folk were not aware of Astill's name, choosing to hastily name her Piolla after the I-folks' birthgrounds instead. During Mika's coma, they would place Piolla in his arms, attempting to bond the two beyond sleep.

What the I-folk were not aware of were the many nightmares that Mika had experienced during his coma, often of the God of Flowers tormenting him with his unborn children. The imagery of Piolla's birth defects was scarred into his mind, and when Piolla was placed into his unconcious arms, dream and reality would merge, leading to even worse psychological torment.

When he finally awoke, he could not see Piolla as a daughter but as a remnant of the God of Flowers' torture, thinking that she was an apparition that transcended his dreams. Due to this belief, he would neglect her for the first 6 years of her life, unable to come to terms with her presumed death.

##### Post Great Quake

Due to the great quake, Mika can finally hold his first two children; but realizes, after denying it for so long, that they truly were dead. He then notices the top half of the potrait of Astill he had painted so long ago and reaches for it desperately, gently setting the preserved bodies of the twins onto the ground. He realizes that his third child is missing, and begins to search for her.

He digs through the rubble, desperate to find his third, only to find a tiny, dismembered hand. He picks up the hand and notices a trail of blood that leads to it, tracing it to another pile of rubble. He digs through it, and finds Piolla, bleeding out and missing a hand.

He lifts her out of the rubble and rips off a part of his gown to dress her wound. He hugs her tightly, caressing the face he once couldn't bear to see. He apologizes for neglecting her for seven years straight, and finally recognizes her as his final daughter, calling her name for the very first time.

#### The Twins (Amaryllis & Melyonen)

In order for the experiment to succeed, Mika had two eggs implanted into his abdominal cavity, along with a synthetic placenta for each which were connected to him through external wires. With the help of artificial hormones and other various drugs, Mika's body was able to create a membrane which to keep the fetuses growing in.

As a side effect of the hormones, Mika grew more and more emotionally bonded to his unborn children.

### Gifts

#### Sowing

Mika is a natural-born seamster, effortlessly able to create beautiful dresses and toys from nothing. He worships the god Aiseil,