Han-Mi

This article is about the character. For the song from Miss Helen's Weird West Cabaret, see Han-Mi (Song).

### Relatives

Raven (Great-Grandfather)Isabela (Great-Grandmother)

Alexander (Great-uncle)

The Son (Great-uncle)

The Red-Haired Lad (Second cousin)

Lilith (Second cousin once removed)

Son-Mi (Grandmother)

Unnamed mother

Unnamed father

Unnamed uncle

## Portrayal

### Voiced By

Psyche Corporation

**Han-Mi** is a post-human first introduced in *The Ballad of Lost Hollow*. She is also the narrator for *The Fairypunk Trilogy* and *Han-Mi's Storytime Theatre**.* Han Mi is voiced by Psyche Chimere.

## Biography

### Before the Cabaret

Han-Mi was the daughter of a pair of drug dealers. As a young child, she used to help her mother weigh and bag narcotics, while her father schemed to steal something of enough value to get the family out of criminal life. One day, he succeeded, and together Han's parents stole a bag full of money. However, the money in question belonged to the mob, which forced the family into hiding for months. One day, Han's mother went out to buy tampons and cigarettes, and was promptly shot dead in the street. Her father took the money that they still were sitting on, ran off, and was never seen again, his status unknown. When Han was 13, she was sold into slavery by her uncle, where she weighed and bagged drugs.

At some point, she was brought into the Room Beneath New Albion, where the AI placed her, Helen, and Henry into the Gabriella Gadfly Show in order to cement that region of the Collective Unconscious into reality. She (as the villain, Jade) and Helen (as the titular character and hero, Gabriella Gadfly) fell in love, and would continue on as lovers until the repetitive loop of the show drove Helen insane, forcing the AI to pull them out of the experiment and wipe their minds.

### Miss Helen's Weird West Cabaret

At some point afterwards, the AI took Han-Mi, her friends, and Hank Hernandez, and placed them in a new setting within the CU, this time a weird west setting in a desert town called Lost Hollow, where they played parts in a cabaret. The cabaret looped weekly, but the plot varied with each iteration.

Han-Mi plays a villainous dragon-lady, yet she is unhappy with her role due to the racist stereotype her character perpetuates. She also takes issue with the stupidity of the Cabaret's plot for the week, which she calls stupid, along with the mysterious and unknown writer of the Cabaret. Per the script, Han-Mi is supposed to rob a train full of money for the orphanage. However, she chooses to change the script and introduces a new plot of her own, involving her changing the vaccines for babies into zombie-making vaccines. She announces she would give her zombie babies ability to fly and make them want to eat people's faces. This plot change is actually pretty good (to Helen's chagrin), and interspersed between the actual plot details are hints at Han's romantic attraction to Hank, who, as the sheriff of Lost Hollow, hates Han on principle, seemingly unable to discern the parts he and Han play in the cabaret from who they actually are.

As the show progresses, Han-Mi keeps complaining about stereotypes and the subtext of some parts of it. She is the first to notice that something is not quite right with the show. She tries asking Helen to stop the show as she suspects it's not possible.

Each time Han-Mi tries to stop the show or make someone else question it, she is interrupted. Helen is reluctant to listen to her and dismisses her concerns. Finally, when Han-Mi makes both Helen and Henry concentrate on the problem, it is revealed that no one, not even Helen, knows anything about the show beyond its existence. Before they can even contemplate their realization, it is interrupted by Hank Hernandez who suddenly expresses his love for Han-Mi.

Han-Mi, who was already attracted to Hank, sings a duet with him and they both take a moment to dream about being together. However, the whole situation escalates as Hank is torn between his feelings and the narrative. Han-Mi helps Hank focus. She tells him that something is wrong and that he is confused, blinded by his memories of the tragic love. At this, the whole cast agrees to stop the show until those in charge speak to them. The AI in charge denies them dialogue and terminates the show.

### Uncle Raven's Super Happy Fun Time Carnival

Han and the rest of the Cabaret's cast flee from the voice to Raven's Carnival. where Raven begins to express a great deal of interest in Helen, believing her to have flowered into a posthuman, while simultaneously ignoring Han, Hank, and Henry. After Raven shows the cast the Carnival, Han-Mi, Henry and Hank are thrown into the Hall of Mirrors, a maze of mirrors that forces entrants to confront their pathologies. They relive their sadness, and Han is given a vague glimpse into her childhood. When Henry calls out to her for help, it is revealed that they cannot find each other (or, presumably, Hank as well) in the Hall of Mirrors, but when Han realizes that the maze isn't meant to be completed, she figures out how to break out of it.

Meanwhile, Raven is attempting to seduce Helen, who he thinks is a posthuman and wants to train in order to have her open the doors to the Carnival, where Raven had been trapped by a demon for some time. His attempts to seduce her, however, are in vain, and as this increasingly frustrates him, he becomes more and more fervent in this endeavor. Helen is terrified to the point of contemplating killing him. Suddenly, Han, having escaped the Hall of Mirrors, threatens Raven to let Helen go, at which point he realizes it was never Helen who flowered, but Han. Before Raven can explain the situation to her properly, Hank interrupts, revealing himself to be an AI, revealing their reasons for nabbing the Cabaret's human members, and stating that the AI will be coming for them, before killing himself to prevent the AI from using him against his friends. After a brief moment of mourning, in which Han comforts Helen, Han is able to open the doors to the Carnival, allowing them to escape to the real world.

### The Path From (Lost Hollow to New Albion)

Raven makes light conversation, speaking of posthumans who have come and gone, and of Han's potential to come into her own as a posthuman.

### The Grand Cyberpunk Gala of Gabriella Gadfly

By the time the cast gets back to the real world, emerging in the Room Beneath New Albion, only Helen emerges on the other side. Han-Mi and Henry are trapped inside her head, which is a doorway to the Collective Unconscious, and they can't get out without Helen's death. For the first half of the plot, Han-Mi's only line is a threat against Mary.

After Mary reveals her motives and the Cabaret members' role in them, as per Helen's request, Helen reacts. She reflects on her life, how her time in the Cabaret was the happiest in her life, and how Han was the only person she'd loved. She clings to these memories, relishing them one last time before killing herself to free Henry and Han. Henry prepares for Han to destroy Mary, but Han simply sobs. She is not able to fight any longer, but she does change the Narrative, retconning Henry's alter-ego Hurl into existence, so that he can fight the AI. He kills all of them but Mary, before being knocked unconscious himself by one of Mary's weapons, leaving Han and Mary the last two standing. Han threatens Mary, telling her to destroy herself, with her death by Han's hand as the only alternative. However, Mary begs for her life, appealing to Han's better nature. Thus it is that Han, after deliberating with Henry, devises one last alternative: Mary is to host the Cabaret from here on out, with Henry choosing to return to the Cabaret, this time in the role of sheriff.

In the epilogue, Han-Mi meets Lloyd Allen, who the AI hired as their consultant for Lost Hollow, and built into it the intention of flowering a posthuman. He asks her to show him the way to the Carnival. After a short conversation, Lloyd reveals he had left to find Raven's daughter, Son Mi, whom Han recognizes as her grandmother. It's thus revealed that Han-Mi is Raven's great-granddaughter.

### Uncle Raven's Storytime Theatre

Han-Mi and Lloyd make their way back to the Carnival, where Raven finds them after hosting his storytime theatre. Raven and Lloyd, who were apart for a long while, have a tearful, emotional reunion. After Raven stops crying, he notices Han standing there, and when he asks about her presence, she refers to him as "gramps" in her response.

### Kevin & Abi and the Secret of the Golden Pendant

Han-Mi makes a brief appearance at the end of the album, telling Michael that Lloyd and Raven are looking for him. Michael does not initially believe her, but even after he is convinced they are alive and well, still wishes to be left alone, as he has resigned himself to dying and does not believe they would want to see him. After Han mentions that Jill is alive, and Lloyd and Raven have a plan to rescue her, Michael agrees to go with her.

## Narrations

### The Forgotten Meme

Han-Mi narrates *The Forgotten Meme*. While she herself makes no appearance within the actual story, Raven briefly appears to guide the Meme into a particular narrative direction, which allows her to meet Rebecca.

### The Broken Cyborg

Han-Mi is the narrator of *The Broken Cyborg*. As with the previous album, Han does not make any obvious attempts to direct or alter the story. Lloyd, however, makes a cameo in order to guide the refugees through the gate to the fairy realm, where they meet the Albinos.

### The Lost Fairy

Han-Mi also narrates *The Lost Fairy,* the final installment of the Fairypunk Trilogy. This time, she makes multiple attempts to alter the Narrative, doing her best to keep Jane safe. The Narrative eventually pushes back against her attempts to change the story, and Lloyd and Raven give her advice on how to best guide the Narrative as Han becomes increasingly more distraught about Jane being in danger. When it appears that there is nothing that can be done to prevent Jane from being assaulted, Han herself steps into the Narrative to kill Jakob and save Jane. It is revealed that Jane is Helen reincarnated, and Han has used the entire Fairypunk Trilogy to atone for her guilt regarding Helen's demise.

## Personality

Han-Mi, from her first appearance, shows herself to be a sarcastic and cool-headed individual, and one who is socially conscious enough to be aware of how her and Henry's characters in the Cabaret perpetuate harmful stereotypes.

She does show a more tender side, however, showing legitimate concern when Helen is in distress about losing her to the Carnival, and shows emotional vulnerability when she expresses awareness of the fact that something is wrong with the Cabaret.

Han also expresses a tendency towards whimsical creativity, rejecting what she sees as a stupid Cabaret plot in favor of one involving flying, face-eating zombie babies. In spite of all of this, Han does manage to remain playful, even attempting to use her plot as an excuse to see Hank topless.

She has no problems with verbally expressing her thoughts, whether that's showing she cares for her friends, calling out harmful people and constructs, or expressing desires she holds.

Han is also a person who has endured a great deal of tragedy even from a very early age, and with this, has developed incredible emotional fortitude in dealing with the situations she finds herself in.

## Trivia

* There is a body pillow of Han Mi available in Paul Shapera's merch store, drawn by PixelWayve.
* Jade is featured on the Gabriella Gadfly shirt, hoodie, and poster in the official merch shop, featuring art by EcstaticNek
* In Performance Review, it was confirmed that Han Mi has a subconscious desire for a father. This corresponds to her own father's abandonment of her following the death of her mother.