“Beautiful Child of the Tree”
- Allegiance: The Tinkerers
- Home Sector: The Aphelion
- Powers: Gizmo Creation
Mina Holly is a young, isolated girl who has lived her entire life in the Aphelion, an advanced, still-functioning facility from the days before The Loss. It’s all she can remember; the facility, and Control, the super computer that runs and repairs the Aphelion. Mina learned from Control and the deep repositories of data stored within her data banks. She also learned from two reoccurring individuals, a young inventor and a young actress. Sometimes they were together, other times, apart, but they were a consistent presence in the recordings.
As such, Mina’s socialization remains incomplete. She does possess two well developed skills: the application of logic, and appearing as a socially competent woman. For a long time, neither of these skills seemed all that important. Mina lived alone with an A.I. However, after she’d grown a bit older, someone else found the Aphelion. Two girls, both older than Mina, wandered in search for functioning circuitry. Upon deeper inspection of the facility they found to their great surprise the younger girl. The three of them became fast friends, much to Control’s dismay.
Since then, Mina has had a chance to get to know the girls. There's Ayaka Lizzy, who comes from outside the city, and Gracelyn Bishop, who is from Elysium. Mina has no idea what any of that means, but believes they must be very special places. Every time her friends visit, they bring her presents. Generally it's some non-functional piece of technology for Mina to toy with. Recently, the girls have taken to getting Mina out of the Aphelion, despite Control’s protests. After all, Mina, and not only the girls, want to show off Mina’s new “Gizmo”. How could Control tell her no?
