Livia Medeiros

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**Livia Medeiros** is a supporting character in Persona Record Series. She is a Magical Girl who has arrived in Kamihama as a Puella Care (Traveling Coordinator); she's referred to as Mitama's teacher. She has traveled around the country making adjustments and conveying her adjustment techniques to talented girls who can't fight witches on their own. She has a mysterious nature and no one knows her past.

## Background

Livia is a mysterious magical girl who travels the world to making adjustments and conveying her adjustment techniques to talented girls who can't fight witches on their own. She has a mysterious nature and no one knows her past. Later, she became a teacher for Mitama Yakumo.

Even going back to her oldest memory, she can’t remember her mother’s face. When she was little, she lived with her father in an apartment in a town where you could smell the sea. He didn’t come home much because he was always out working or playing, but Livia wasn’t particularly unhappy. He would give her money for food if she asked, and praise her if she was doing well in her studies. In those days, she spent more time at the library than playing with friends; because of that, she was relatively knowledgeable and the people around her treated her kindly. There were no problems at school, either; even though she looked different from the other kids, her classmates all treated her normally, so those may have been her happiest days. If she had a problem back then, it was that she was poor. Those happy times, however, made the painful ones hurt all the worse.

Her life took a sudden turn for the worse when her teacher told her of her father’s sudden death. He was crushed in a hydraulic press at work. They let her see the body, but his face was crushed and unrecognizable, so her last memory of his face was from when he had come home drunk three days before his death. He was needy and childish and would be nice to her when he was drunk, so on some level she was glad that her last memory of his face was a happy and cute one. But now that he was gone, her real troubles began. She was placed in a facility after losing her father. They tracked down her mother, but to her she was just an old lady who doesn’t speak her language. While she did strangely feel they were connected by blood, she didn’t want to go to an unfamiliar foreign country, and after much worrying over it she decided to stay in Japan.

Looking back on it, she thinks it might have been better for her to fly to a foreign country considering how people started to treat her after that. She became keenly aware that in her early childhood she had been blessed with a good neighborhood and school. Two green teenage boys gossip about the now-teenaged herself Livia, saying that her mom refused to let her leave the country with her. This sets her off and she hits one of them, saying that she decided to stay, just like she said before. The teacher hears them, and the boy tells on Livia. The teacher says he’s full of shit, and sends everyone but Livia out of the room. Livia tells the teacher she doesn’t need the lecture, and asks her if she can just kill those guys already. The teacher says that she would only suffer more if she did that, and Livia retorts that she’s already suffering. She says that not only do those guys make fun of her constantly, they also steal peoples’ food and get violent where the teachers can’t see. She says that they do nothing but make people unhappy, so it’d be fine if they died, right? The teacher tells her that those boys are suffering in their own way. Everyone has their own unique circumstances, not just her, and she should know as well as anyone that they act tough around others but are crying when no one’s watching. With that in mind, can you please put up with them? Livia asks if she’s saying that she needs to be everyone’s punching bag because she’s a foreigner and they can look down on her for it. She calls her teacher a dumb bastard. She says she’s throwing away her human rights with that remark, and concludes that she’s just trying to use her to make herself feel better as well. After that, she hit her teacher and ran away. She thought about killing her, but then she remembered her father’s smashed corpse, and her murderous intent faded.

After that, she had nowhere to go and eventually arrived in a place downtown where many kids like her ended up. Until then, she thought she was the only person going through all this misfortune, but there she met many people with their own share of misfortune and became a little more tolerant.

A light-green girl tells Livia that she did an easy job, where all she had to do was pass a piece of paper with a message written on it to someone. Livia says she’s done jobs like that too, but she could be getting involved with some dangerous people. A light-blue girl advocates that working as a restaurant’s (sounds like a hostess club) catch is safe and tasty. It doesn’t pay much, but all you have to do is show people to the store. Livia says that sounds like being a fake lure, like in fishing. The other girls aren’t familiar with the term, but when Livia explains it, the light-green girl says that’s exactly right. They follow you to the store, but when they go inside, they get a completely different girl. Present Livia narrates that she went through life underestimating society for a while, but in the end it’s a tough world out there. A man calls out to them, and the light-green girl recognizes him as the guy who gave her her recent job. She tells him she passed the message on properly, and asks for her pay. He suddenly yells at her to cut the shit and calls her a dumbass, then hits her. Livia starts panicking as the man says she gave it to the wrong guy, and using a stupid kid was too risky after all. The man attacks the blue girl as well, planning on shutting her up. Realizing her life is in danger, she makes a run for it. She almost gets caught, but a stranger helps her hide in an alleyway and escape. Having barely escaped with her life, she felt that there must be a god who saves her, not just one who abandoned her(?). As she listened to the screams of the girls who were standing alongside her not long ago, she felt relieved that she escaped, and hated herself for it. If that was a sin she deserved to be punished for, then the punishment came not long after.

The man guides her to his home. She’s thankful he saved her, but thinks she should really be getting protection from the police. Livia is stricken with fear as the man who attacked the other two girls walks in, joking that he’s the police. The other man asks him if they’ve got all three of them; he says they do, so it’s time to take them to ‘heaven’.

After her dad died and she ran from the orphanage, a chain of misfortunes befell Livia and cursed her. She thought she had found freedom, only to be caught again. She would ask herself over and over again, “Why does this always happen to me?” “Why me?” “Why me?” but could never give herself an answer. As she continued to curse her circumstances, one woman gave her an answer.

The man who attacked her friends takes her to see an old woman in an office, then leaves the room. She begins to ask where the other two girls are, but the woman shuts her up and tells her she not to speak without permission. She says yes, and the woman smacks her for it because she wasn’t told she could speak. Well, your face and figure get passing marks at least, the woman says. Her IQ and basic subject scores are good too, and she’s fairly athletic. She asks Livia if she’s asking herself why she’s so miserable right now. Livia nods, and the woman praises her for knowing she wasn’t told to speak. She then gives her permission to speak from now on, and says she’ll tell her one reason why she’s so unhappy. She says that everyone is born as a good person or an evil person. The good can’t live among the evil, and the evil can’t live among the good. She tells Livia she lived among the good people before, but she can’t go back to them anymore. She says she’s heard about Livia’s past, and that she used to be a good kid before her dad died. She responds that she was; she was smart, athletic, and read a lot of books, and the people around her praised her for it. However, the woman reminds her, she doesn’t live in that world anymore. She asks Livia who she thinks is awful. She says there was a boy who teased her and a boy who would twist her words around. She asks her if there’s anyone she’s felt that way about since she came to this part of town. She says she hates adults with power—the violent kind, that is, those bad people…The old woman tells her that she will need to be an evil person to live here in hell, and tells her to take that teaching to heart. After all, all three of them are newly hired. Livia asks where; she won’t tell her where, but says she has the talents so she’ll get to go to a special place. An acquaintance of hers is always looking for members for their circus; they’ll probably be satisfied with her mental and physical abilities. Livia asks her what will happen to the other two girls. The woman tells her they have no abilities to speak of, so they’re being sent to a different location. Livia asks her where they are. The woman replies that everyone has one talent they are born with; when it comes time to use it, she’ll be shipped off too. Livia realizes they were planning on kidnapping them since they first told the other girl to deliver the letter. The woman says she has a good head on her shoulders, but a skilled hawk should hide its talons. Livia asks how much she will be paid as she is blindfolded, already anticipating the answer. Livestock doesn’t need to know its price, says the woman.

After they blindfolded her and knocked her out, the next thing she knew she was no longer in her hometown. As far as she can tell, the building is surrounded by nature, and she hasn’t the slightest clue where she is; she thinks she must still be in Japan, but the smell of the air coming in through the window makes her feel like she could be in a different country. Wherever it was, she was trained there to be part of a theater company as a magician and illusionist. A girl from the country of her ancestry was assigned to be her partner, and she also came to be on friendly terms with people from across the globe. She discusses a trick with her partner and practices juggling (or something to that effect) before narration resumes. She says that for a time, her life was so peaceful that she forgot the position she was in. Besides that, when she heard the stories of the other people she met, she felt the misfortunes of the world even more strongly than when she lived downtown. Her anger and hatred for her situation diminished as she came to see things from a bird’s eye view. Her partner tells her that she was kidnapped too, and she wants to go find her family she was separated from someday. Livia says that the owner of the troupe will give them a reward if they earn enough, and she hopes that she will be able to have a happy reunion someday. A boy she was practicing juggling with earlier says that he hadn’t known about his family’s connections to the underworld, and that there’s probably no place left for him on the outside. He hopes that he can just live comfortably somewhere after he gets out of here. Livia says that her situation is close to his; she has nowhere to return to either, so she may want something similar.

They spent their days like that, practicing and talking about dreams. Safety precautions were minimal there, so people would often get injured, resulting in many comings and goings. Even if you got close to someone, you would likely part with them before long because of a serious injury. As those days of partings continued, she grew more and more reticent, until one day, it was finally her turn to take the fall. She accidentally stabbed herself in the leg with a sword while practicing an illusion. She got medical treatment and went through rehab, but wasn’t able to move as well as before, which meant the time was coming for her to be relocated. She hoped for a little bit that she might get to meet her first partner again, but those hopes were quickly dashed when she learned she was being moved to an unknown facility. She saw the information when the owner left his seat for a minute; looking back now, Livia thinks he did that on purpose as some kind of sick joke. After that, it was like her batteries ran out and she stopped caring about everything.

Livia had no idea what she wanted to do. But even though she had nowhere to go home to, she wanted to return to being human. She decided to run away before they could ship her out tomorrow morning, even if it meant she would be killed. However, as if they had seen through her feelings, she woke from a deep slumber in the hospital. No, it wasn’t a hospital. It was the place where they did medical treatment. She wondered what they intended to do to her and who she would be sold to as she attempted her escape. She heard pursuers before long speaking a language she didn’t know. Having a hard time running on account of her bad leg, she hid in a nearby room. In said room, she quickly noticed a putrid stench, and saw its horrific source. She remembered the dreams of the first two friends she made in this place. There was no trace of them left here, but she felt as if they were watching her from within the huge pile of corpses in front of her. It felt as if she was being filled with an unbearable frustration and regret seeping into her eye socket as she took in the sight. All of the friends who shared their misfortune with each other, who they thought they were seeing off for relocations…she could feel all of these people who were distributed around and thrown away like objects watching her, saying to her, “live”. Livia declares that she’ll definitely escape and live for their sakes. She’ll expose the evil deeds of those who did this to them, and become human again.

Livia runs through the facility, at one point yelling in frustration that the guards aren’t speaking Japanese. She gets shot in the leg (and maybe also gets hit by stray bullets besides). Just a little bit further, she thinks…just a little bit further…

Her legs were already bad to begin with; on top of that, she’s bleeding profusely. She thinks she’s made it a long way, but she’s on the verge of collapse. Her strength is leaving her body; in her heart she’s holding on to her resolve she swore to in front of everyone else, but her arms and legs are telling her “that’s enough” .

Hey…help me…Dad…

With nothing to rest her head on as she endures the cold, she found herself longing for the nostalgic warmth of her father’s knee, when he would come home drunk after work and spoil her. She knows that those days are long gone, but she still finds herself wanting to live. She asks herself how she can survive. She remembers her conversation with the old woman. She realizes that she’s dying because she couldn’t be an evil person after all. Kyubey appears before her with the usual offer. She thinks it must really be the end for her if she’s started to hallucinate. Kyubey emphasizes that she can be healed if she makes a wish. She says that if their offer’s real, then she’ll make a wish: to become evil itself.

After making her wish, Livia destroyed the hospital-like facility. She wanted to go and destroy the theater troupe next, but she had been put to sleep and transferred to the not-hospital, which meant she had no clue where it was. She climbed a mountain and learned that she was on an island in Japan. She visited a village on the island and tried asking the villagers about the facility, but none of them had any idea what she was talking about. Her next move was to take a ferry to Honshu so she could talk to the police, but ultimately only succeeded in landing herself in a new orphanage. There, she tries looking into the people who kidnapped her: she discovers that the man who did it has been arrested, and the old woman’s already dead. She can’t find any links between them and the theater troupe.

It doesn’t take long for Livia to start butting heads with the others at the orphanage. She’s frustrated that she’s just back to being treated badly even though she finally made it back to society. One day, a woman comes to meet her at the orphanage. She gives Livia a business card; she’s from a nonprofit dedicated to supporting kids who have been caught up in the shadows of society, which Livia says seems shady. She rejects the woman’s help, but she won’t take no for an answer.

That woman, whom she took to calling her teacher, appeared before her at the time when she had suddenly returned to her normal days and nothing felt real; from the moment they met, her teacher had no intention of letting her go no matter how much she tried to push her away. Her teacher tells her that she needs to change the look in her eyes. She doesn’t realize it herself, but she has the look of someone who’s gone through carnage, and such eyes scare the orphanage staff and the other children. Livia asks if her glare is really that intimidating; she says yeah, it kinda is. Livia says that if she’s not scared of it, then she must have been through some very hard times herself, and her teacher says that’s exactly right. Livia narrates that when she returned, she had felt detached from society. Her teacher came to connect her to the world with a soft and fuzzy feeling.

One day, her teacher brings some teaching materials to help Livia get caught up academically, and Livia gets a little annoyed. Livia narrates that she heard her teacher had once been a runaway like her, who had left her home and lived on the streets. Maybe it was because of their similar backgrounds, or maybe it was because she had a similar air to the two girls who were kidnapped alongside her, but she was the first person in a very long time who she could speak honestly to. Her teacher tells Livia about her romance troubles; she’s trying dating a man because he kept pursuing her so earnestly, but she’s worried they aren’t a good match. She hasn’t lived a life worthy of praise, while he graduated from a first-rate university and works at a first-rate company. Livia says that she’s been looking out for her; she absolutely lives a praiseworthy life. She tells her that she should take her own advice and focus on the future, not the past. She admits that she may not be very good at assessing herself. Livia says that’s enough of that, it’s time for social studies. Her teacher teases that love talks are social studies, and Livia tells her to shut it. She then offers for Livia to become her assistant and mentor other children. Livia had opened up to her without realizing, and accepted the request without knowing why. She thinks now that she had come to want to expand her relationships, since she mostly only talked to her teacher. And so she started tutoring, and it was fun for a while; however, it also became the trigger that made her discover the truth about herself.

One of the kids she tutors was hospitalized for self-harm. Her teacher says he had been getting better recently, but he came into contact with his abusive family again and it triggered flashbacks. It wasn’t just this one incident, either; ever since she came to this orphanage she saw misfortunes like this come one after another to the people around her. Seeing this, a possibility began to dominate her thoughts: it was as if whenever she tried to be kind to someone or help them, something bad would happen to them. It was the same in her work as a magical girl. She uses her Coordination to strengthen another girl to help her, only asking for a single use of a Grief Seed in return, only for the girl to die in front of her. It seemed to keep happening; the stronger her feelings for the other person, the worse suffering would befall them. As she looked at the corpse of the magical girl in front of her, she became fully convinced of the nature of her unique magic. She wished to become evil itself, and so gained the power to cause misfortune when she attempts to help someone. She had become like the shitty adults she hated, who bring misery and death while putting on a kind face.

The old woman’s words are still on Livia’s mind years later. She was supposed to become evil to survive, but she ended up living among good people again. She decided to distance herself from her teacher, keeping their relationship business-like and keeping her out of her private life. She couldn’t risk showing her kindness that may cause her suffering.

A now all-grown-up Livia is congratulated by her teacher on passing the exam and getting her high school equivalent certification. However, she asks her if she’s really okay going into the workforce now. Livia says she’s been thinking about leaving the orphanage and living on her own, not meeting her teacher’s eyes. Her teacher says that she noticed that after a while she started keeping her distance from everyone. Livia says she’s imagining things, but her teacher pushes the issue. Livia claims that she doesn’t like people and is just trying to maintain a reasonable distance. She asks her teacher not to pry anymore. She agrees, and asks her if she’s moving next month. She responds that she’s already got a place lined up, she just needs to pack. Her teacher gives her her address, and tells her to contact her anytime and tell her her new address; Livia says she will if she feels like it. Her teacher says that Livia is special to her, which she responds is weird. She says it’s because Livia was the first kid she was in charge of at her job. She apologizes for talking about something so personal. In that moment, Livia really wanted to comfort her teacher and thank her for everything she’s done, but she was too afraid that something would happen to her if she did. Acting coldly and keeping her distance was her form of kindness.

After moving, she didn’t contact her teacher again. She spent her days working at a convenience store and supporting magical girls as she refined her adjustment ability. She didn’t want to be an evil person in the world of good people, so she lived her life avoiding both good and evil; a dull, boring existence.

Sometime later, Livia is contacted by her legal guardian and told that her teacher is getting married. She realized that she wanted to know her address so that she could send the invite properly. She wonders if the man is the one they they talked about way back when; she did sound fond of him. She suspects her magic may have been stopping them from getting married; they did seal the deal not long after she left, after all. If that’s the case, then her magic was already affecting her. If the effect has already activated, then it must be safe for her to go, right…? In truth, she had really wanted to go and see the happiest moment for the teacher she was indebted to, so she found herself thinking such convenient thoughts. She attended without telling anyone, watching in secret from a distance. She thought that the sight of her teacher in bridal wear in front of the chapel was truly beautiful. She thinks that she would feel horrible to interrupt their moment, which is why she’s watching from afar. As she gazes at her teacher’s happy figure, she feels like she can see her friends who were killed by the theater troupe in her mind and says to them, “I’m living my life properly”. The bride spots Livia, and starts running towards her. Livia remarks that if she runs like that, she’ll step on her dress. However, she takes that as a sign of just how happy she is to see her, and her heart feels full. As she runs across the street towards her, Livia quietly tells her teacher to live happily for herself from now on, when suddenly…

That moment felt like an eternity, as the scene burned onto the insides of her eyelids in slow motion. A tractor tire (TL Note: not entirely sure if there is a whole tractor or just a tire), which looked so huge that it made one question how something that enormous even exists in this world, flew down the road like a bullet. It plunged mercilessly into Livia’s teacher who had a big smile on her face and brought misery. Livia watched dumbfounded as her body spun and spun through the air as if she was dancing in her pure white dress before falling into the trees. As she did, a small ring landed in front of Livia. Her teacher’s wedding ring seemed to be telling her that this was her fault, that this only happened because she came here (personal Memoria “Blessing Unto You”). “I’m so happy I could die? Don’t make me laugh…” it seemed to say.

Livia leaves to a nearby park. She asks if she really can’t be forgiven for spoiling herself even a little bit. She laments how hard it would be to live like this as Kyubey appears. Kyubey points out that her Soul Gem’s looking pretty blackened, but she seems close to accepting her impending Witchification. Kyubey has no problem with her becoming a Witch, of course. Livia already know from past experience that magical girls spend the rest of their lives fighting Witches only to ultimately become them themselves. There is no salvation in their lives; they leave nothing finished and nothing behind but curses. Kyubey tells her that’s not true; they leave behind an enormous amount of energy which the Incubators collect to maintain the universe. Livia asks if they’re saying that they create magical girls for that purpose. When she was on the verge of becoming a Witch, Kyubey emerged as if anticipating it and talked plainly about leaving behind energy for the universe. When she heard that, her head was filled with a grudge against them for using human souls, but also a bright feeling of finding hope. She found a way she can live even though every move she makes causes misery. A refreshing feeling like she’d had an awakening dominated her brain. She tells Kyubey that she’s decided to live for them and the universe. If they are gathering energy, then it must be possible for them to reach their quota and magical girls will no longer be needed. If everything she does is for them, then no matter who she is kind to Kyubey will always be the target for her curse, and she can live. In fact, if Kyubey can be destroyed than that could free magical girls as well. If Kyubey could be destroyed, then magical girls could be freed from their shitty fates, and there could be meaning in her life. She’ll live enough for those who have died, and save people on their behalf too. There are many unhappy people in the world besides her, and for their sake, she’ll fight for Kyubey. If she’s right, then eventually everyone will be saved.

## Appearance

Livia is a dark-skinned woman with purple hair and purple eyes, and she wears glasses.

### Magical girl

Livia wore a white long-sleeved top over a light purple mantle with a golden pendant decorated with a black bow and a dark purple suspenders with black lace stockings and black sandals. On her forehead was a purple oval soul gem with a gold fringe. She holds a white top hat as her weapon.

## Personality

Livia was a calm, playful and intelligent person. She will be the one to inform and restore magical girls as a service provider.

## Abilities

She can summon cards from her top hat to attack enemies.

## Doppel Description

"The Doppel of duḥkha-dhātu. Its form is a tree diagram. Due to the presence of this being that represents the origin of life, the master of this emotion is painfully aware of the inescapable yoke that forces her closer to becoming one who does harm. This Doppel speaks of nothing and indicates nothing, simply growing its tree of life ever larger with the impurity it absorbs from its master. Though its form is wrapped in swaddling cloth, it is every bit as unblessed as its master, and it harms those who oppose it by maliciously scattering the impurity it gained from its birth. If another being trapped within the tree diagram were to appear, they would surely fall into a crucible of agony. Only the master can become an actual part of the tree."

## Relationship

### Mitama Yakumo

Livia served as a teacher for Mitama, imparting her transformation of power.

## Trivia

* It has been confirmed that she is Mitama Yakumo's sensei who taught her how to use her magic to adjust magical girls since she herself is an Adjuster as well.
* She is the first dark-skinned character in Series.
* Her Doppel's name is a reference to the Last Universal Common Ancestor and the fetuses represent, from left to right: mammals, reptiles, humankind, fish and birds.
	+ They also represent the four elements, with the mammal as earth, reptile as fire (lizards and salamanders are commonly associated with fire), fish as water and birds as air.
	+ It vaguely resembles a uterus without Fallopian tubes in shape. This could go along with the alternate reading of the kanji used for its nature.
* "Livia" as a name may either be derived from the Latin word *liveo* ("to be livid" or "to be envious"), or a variation of the name "Olivia" ("olive").
* The name Medeiros is derived from the Portuguese word, *medeiro*, meaning "a place where stacks of maize are gathered", or simply "a haystack".
	+ The surname may come from Celestino Medeiros, a criminal executed along two anarchist brothers for crimes in *Braintree*, Massachusetts.

## Gallery

Livia in Middle SchoolLivia meets KyubeyMagical girl formLivia's doppel (Luca)