Nora McMichael

**Nora McMichael** is a character in *JINX* who hails from Turtlehill, Burau, and the HEX of Cryo. She is an ambitious girl who dreams of working in the fields of neuroscience. Her consciousness manifests as D'vekh Sfera on the Amygdala plane.

## Profile

### Personality

Nora is bubbly and cheerful, and always looks for ways to help the people she cares about.

### Appearance

She is a stout girl with curly brown hair and round glasses. In the Material World, she usually wears a yellow collared shirt tucked into a pair of baggy shorts. On the Amygdala plane, she sports a blue bowler's hat, a gold and blue vest, and a blue patterned dress with black suede shoes.

## Biography

Eight months before the events of *JINX*, Nora met another girl online through their shared interest in a manga called *NATSUYASUMI*. This girl’s name was Tanz Azurblau, a 15-year-old from Rice Harbor. Tanz created internet videos discussing *NATSUYASUMI*, and although they garnered little views, Nora always left good comments for Tanz to see. Their interactions remained lively for the next five months, that is until Tanz’s channel disappeared out of the blue one day.

Nora tried contacting her friend on another social media platform, desperate to find an answer. An hour later, to Nora’s relief, Tanz posted something on her blog; however, it was far from what she was expecting. What she saw on her screen was Tanz’s aching desire to kill herself, and she did not respond to Nora after being asked if she needed someone to talk to. For the next three months, Tanz would switch between positive posts, then immediately transition to broadcasting her suicidal thoughts late at night. Nora sometimes refused to fall asleep so she could monitor her friend. As much as she tried to console her, nothing worked. Every night for weeks, she would find Tanz’s disturbing messages online, which would all be deleted the next morning.

Nora could not tell her family, as she was too scared of what could happen if Tanz’s meltdowns became known to the public. She did her best to stay at her computer until midnight, but all of it changed when Tanz suddenly blocked Nora from her blog. Shaken by a spike of anxiety, she logged into an alternative account to see if Tanz was okay, but she went back to posting as if Nora had never existed. After everything Nora had gone through, staying up for hours just to make sure her online friend was still alive, she felt heartbroken. As time went on, Nora did her best to let go of the situation. She realized her actions were reaching the point of obsession, and began contemplating whether it was okay to involve herself in Tanz's business.

As a result of her distress, a JINX Demon named KYRO spawned within her demiplane of the Amygdala, D'vekh Sfera, adopting the likeness of the character KYRO from *NATSUYASUMI*. Fused with Nora's confused perception of Tanz, KYRO became immensely powerful and ascended to the skies of D'vekh Sfera. She used her power to encase herself inside a gigantic sphere made of winding hallways, dubbed The Gyroscope. KYRO's emergence in D'vekh Sfera caused Nora to fixate on Tanz even more in the Material World, though all her subsequent efforts to communicate with Tanz again were for naught.

## Trivia

* Nora was one of the first three *JINX* characters created by magic\_windsock, the other two being Prism and Breen. This original incarnation of her was meant to be a young staff-wielding healer, with Maki Sonomura as her design basis.
* Before 2022, Nora was meant to follow a completely different plotline. Her mother and younger brother were taken to the Amygdala after she wished for them to be gone, but rescued them in the main story.

## Gallery

All art shown is/was drawn by magic\_windsock.

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Oliver
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Clay
Stella
Niami
Louise
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