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☽༓･⁺˚⁺‧͙ 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓐𝓬𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓼 ‧͙⁺˚⁺･༓☾

❝ 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝑔𝓊𝒾𝓈𝑒. ❞

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✶ 𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 ✶
Muli Zhao

✶ 𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄(𝐒) ✶
She goes by 'Mulie' at the moment

✶ 𝐀𝐆𝐄 ✶
19

✶ 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐒 ✶
All too human

✶ 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 ✶
September 1st, 2270

✶ 𝐙𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐂 ✶
Leo

✶ 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄 ✶
Shanghai, China

✶ 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒 ✶
N/A, besides Shanghai. She's lived there her entire life.

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☽༓･⁺˚⁺‧͙ 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓼 ‧͙⁺˚⁺･༓☾

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .☽ . :☆ﾟ. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

✶ 𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐄(𝐒) ✶
........... .As far as anyone knows, Mulie Zhao is nothing more than a super rich, super annoying full-time acting student ........... .
aboard 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔼𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕟𝕠𝕩.

✶ 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒 ✶
........... .Even though Muli is pretending to be an actress, she has no real interest in acting, like, at all. She's quite a dab hand at ........... .
handling tiny electronic parts and sewing/mending, though.

✶ 𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐒 ✶
........... .An extremely hard-worker; can function with very little sleep/no breaks if needed (sure isn't pleasant, though); has always ........... .
........... . been a dab hand at sewing and mending, mostly because she had to learn; spent the better part of her life handling tiny ........... .
........... .microchips and electronic parts, giving her very steady and very precise hands and extremely nimble fingers (helps when it ........... .
........... .comes to applying make-up!); staying under the radar; somehow getting a tiny amount of money to last the entire week-she's ........... .
........... .extremely frugal, plus she's damn good at taking advantage of coupons/sales and budgeting; can whip up something edible ........... .
........... .from the barest minimum of ingredients; planning things out to the T; very good at memorizing things, be it names and faces, ........... .
........... .lines, or numbers and figures ........... .

✶ 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐒 ✶
........... .Literally throw a rock at her and she'd probably go down, ezpz-she's got no athletic/combative prowess to speak of; probably ........... .
........... .has a ton of not-so-good things in her body that'll give her cancer when she's older, thanks to living by a toxic waste dump her ........... .
........... .entire life; has always been a bit of a pushover; gets flustered pretty easily; not the greatest liar ever, though one could argue ........... .
........... .that she's been doing a great job of lying her ass off so far; tends to over-work herself; always puts her family first, no matter ........... .
........... .what; has never experienced life beyond Shanghai and is severely lacking in worldly experience; not the most familiar with rules ........... .
and customs of the upper class/places other than Shanghai

✶ 𝐏𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 ✶
........... .I mean, it could be better, but could also be worse. She's lived her entire life near a toxic waste dump, which is probably ........... .
........... .concerning but like....she ain't dead yet, which has to count for something, right? ........... .

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☽༓･⁺˚⁺‧͙ 𝓐 𝓒𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓻 𝓛𝓸𝓸𝓴 ‧͙⁺˚⁺･༓☾

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .☽ . :☆ﾟ. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

✶ 𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 ✶
........... .Okay-ish? I mean, besides the fact that she's constantly exhausted and misses her family so much that it aches and is terrified ........... .
........... .that someone will find out the truth, she's fine. Yep. A-okay.

✶ 𝐆𝐎𝐀𝐋𝐒 / 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐒 ✶
.............Honestly, just being in a stable financial situation and making sure her sisters don't have to pull this kind of crazy stunt in order .............
.............to make a better life for themselves. Is that too much to ask???? .............

✶ 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐑𝐊𝐒 / 𝐇𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐒 ✶
.............According to some gossip magazine, the actress Mulie likes chewing bubblegum and twirling her hair, so there's that? Muli herself .............
.............is prone to chewing her bottom lip when she's worried and tying her hair back whenever she needs to do something hands-on. .............

✶ 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 ✶
.............As Muli the poor girl from Shanghai-quiet, tired, and overworked
.............As Mulie the tween sensation- super pink, petty, probably a little passive-aggressive and/or bitchy, a bit ditzy

✶ 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐎𝐏𝐇𝐘 ✶
.............Self-sacrifice, for the good of the group/community. Strangely enough, Confucian 'family first' values have seen a .............
.............resurgence in mainland China, ever since the climate crises began in earnest.

✶ 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 ✶
.............Her sewing kit. Aside from being the only thing she has that connects her to home, it's also pretty useful for quickly patching .............
.............stuff up as needed.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .☽ . :☆ﾟ. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

☽༓･⁺˚⁺‧͙ 𝓐𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮 ‧͙⁺˚⁺･༓☾

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .☽ . :☆ﾟ. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

✶ 𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 ✶
.............Five feet, one inch (the actress she's impersonating is a couple inches taller than her, meaning that she has to wear .............
.............crazy-high heels basically 24/7. It's...a struggle)

✶ 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 ✶
.............A warm brown color. Muli's eyes are naturally nowhere near as, well, large as actress Mulie's (an effect that the actress .............
.............most likely achieved through plastic surgery), but Muli's found a set of contacts that make her eyes look like weird cross .............
.............between early 21st-century anime girls and Barbie doll eyes. So far, nobody's said anything about any slight differences in .............
.............eye shape between Muli's look and actress Mulie, so....

✶ 𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑 ✶
.............A sleek black color; falls halfway down her back. Muli's natural hair, thankfully (though she did go get it fixed up before .............
.............boarding, for the sake of mimicking actress Mulie's hairstyle)

✶ 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐎𝐍 ✶
.............Naturally, she's quite tan, but for the sake of impersonating actress Mulie, Muli dedicated a good bit of time to skin-whitening .............
.............procedures. They were probably dangerous, despite the assurances of the lady at the salon, but.....oh well?

✶ 𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃 ✶
.............Slim, more so because food wasn't always readily available for her when she was a child than because she gives that much .............
............. of a shit about what she looks like. She's gained a few pounds since boarding the ship, though, so now it's more of a healthy .............
.............slim than an emaciated/skeletal look. Good thing that the actress she's pretending to be has a similar frame.

✶ 𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐒 ✶
.............Well, actress Mulie's most defining feature were her huge Barbie doll bug-eyes, so they've now become Muli's. Before, .............
.............though, Muli's most defining feature was probably the unnaturally dark color of her lips. Something something, toxic .............
.............waste dump, something something, chemicals and pollution, according to everyone in her area. Muli doesn't really .............
.............know-something something harmless discoloration, something something. They looked like this, though she got them.............
............."fixed" to a natural lip color with a rather sketchy cosmetic procedure.

✶ 𝐒𝐓𝐘𝐋𝐄 ✶
.............As Muli: the girl from Shanghai, she favors practical, easy to mend, and durable fabrics, usually in dull/drab colors; she .............
.............never had the luxury of being able to afford pretty clothes. As Mulie: the actress, however, she's constantly decked out in .............
.............pink bows and layers of ruffles and obnoxious neon glitter.

✶ 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐂𝐇 ✶
.............Mulie, as in the actress she's impersonating, talks in a breathless, slightly high-pitched voice that makes her sound like a .............
.............ditzy airhead character from a 1990's TV show, so Muli does her best to emulate that when she's pretending to be her. Muli .............
.............herself is rather soft-spoken, her words gentle but firm in situations where she needs to take charge.

✶ 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 ✶
.............Muli does her absolute best to flounce when she's pretending to be Mulie the actress. She doesn't think she's perfected .............
............. it quite yet. As herself, however, Muli's movements usually hold a certain lethargy to them, as if she never gets enough sleep. .............
.............Which is certainly not wrong, to be fair.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .☽ . :☆ﾟ. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

☽༓･⁺˚⁺‧͙ 𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓽𝔂 ‧͙⁺˚⁺･༓☾

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.............Muli has been quiet, diligent, and hard-working ever since she was a child. Muli is generally rather calm, no matter what .............
.............the situation, and if she says she will do something, she will always make sure that she makes her best effort to follow .............
.............through. She is gentle and quietly caring, if a bit on the reserved side, and she doesn't really like drawing attention to .............
.............herself or being in the limelight. Muli is definitely a bit of a pushover, and more of a follower than a leader; she works the .............
.............best operating behind the scenes, rather than on the podium, front-and-center. A dutiful daughter through-and-through, .............
.............Muli has always had to put the good of her family before her own individual desires; more than anything, she wants her mom .............
.............and dad to be able to send her two younger sisters to school, so that they would have the opportunities that Muli herself .............
.............never had. Is that really so much to ask???

.............Muli is loyal, compassionate, and rather empathetic, and it has been ingrained into her to keep her head down and never complain..............
.............She is very patient, and was an exceptionally studious and meticulous student when she still had the luxury of going to school. .............
.............Muli usually won't retaliate if she's pushed around, though she will 100% take action if something or someone is threatening her .............
.............parents or her siblings. She is very caring and loves deeply, and without prejudice. She is open, accepting, and non-judgmental, .............
.............and she's been told that she's a very good listener. .............

.............While she is pretending to be Mulie the actress, Muli tries to be the catty drama queen that most tabloids and trashy gossip .............
............. magazines claim that the actress is. They say she’s petty, passive-aggressive, and a total back-stabbing bitch who only cares .............
.............about herself. Muli has taken this characterization of the actress and tried to emulate it the best as possible, though suffice .............
............. to say, it’s a persona that has very little to do with who she actually is. Still, Muli thinks that she does an alright job. If there's .............
.............one thing she’s good at, it’s memorization-and Muli has memorized every single tiny detail she could possibly dig up about .............
.............a certain Mulie Zhao. .............

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☽༓･⁺˚⁺‧͙ 𝓑𝓲𝓸𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓱𝔂 ‧͙⁺˚⁺･༓☾

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.............Muli was born in the slums of Shanghai, a city that had already been ravaged by over a hundred years of sea-level rise, .............
.............thanks to an unprecedented spike in anthropogenic climate change in the 21st and 22nd centuries. Still, though, Shanghai .............
.............remained one of China's most important cities, despite the weather- and environment-related crises. .............

.............With the ocean literally on their doorstep, the Shanghai elite that had risen in the 21st and 22nd centuries relocated into the .............
.............more inland areas of the city, leaving poorer people to fend for themselves near the encroaching coastline. And that is .............
.............where Muli and her family make their home, in a run-down apartment building near the coast; a veritable beachfront .............
.............property, for all intents and purposes.

.............Muli is the oldest sibling. Her two sisters are twins, and seven years younger than she is. She remembers, so clearly, .............
.............the night that her mother found out that she was pregnant with the twins; her parents spent hours arguing in the kitchen, .............
.............with their voices low so as to not wake Muli (who heard everything from the hallway, anyway). Her mother wanting an .............
.............abortion, because even though she wanted to keep the babies, they just couldn't afford it. Her father doing his best to .............
.............convince her that they could make it work, that the two of them could earn enough money to keep them from getting .............
.............evicted. And round and round in circles they went. .............

.............Muli doesn't know what came of that argument. All that she knows is that a few months later, she had two baby sisters. .............

━━━ ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .☽ . :☆ﾟ. ━━━

.............Muli grew up helping her mother with the chores and watching her sisters when her parents were at work. She managed to .............
.............finish middle school, but that summer, her mother grew gravely ill (everyone in the community knew it was because there .............
.............was a toxic waste dump literally one block down, but there was nothing they could really do about it). Fortunately, her mother .............
.............managed to recover, but it left her as weak as a newborn baby. She was unable to continue working at the electronics factory .............
.............that both she and Muli's father worked at, so Muli made the decision to drop out of school and take her place. She was only .............
.............thirteen at the time, making it technically illegal for her to be a full-time worker, but the company that owned the factory .............
.............was willing to take her own for a reduced wage. .............

.............For the next few years of her life, Muli would spend her days hunched over the tiny electronic parts. At home, her mother .............
.............took out their old sewing machine and made clothes in an effort to make up for the wage that the factory wasn't paying Muli. .............
.............And so they scraped by, always teetering on the brink of being evicted from their shabby apartment. .............

.............But Muli's sisters are about to go to high school. They've taken the Senior High School Entrance Examination and picked .............
.............a school. And after high school comes the National Higher Education Entrance Examination, and Muli knows that her parents .............
.............desperately want her sisters to score well and go to a good school...which requires money. And Muli doesn't know if they'll .............
.............be able to do it. .............

━━━ ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .☽ . :☆ﾟ. ━━━

.............One fateful day, Muli was getting the mail before heading upstairs when she spotted a fancy cream-colored envelope, mixed .............
.............in with all the bills and rent notices. Upon further investigation, Muli learned that it was a letter saying that her application to the .............
.............space-faring division of The Hesperus Academy had been...accepted? Muli automatically assumed that it was a message for Mulie .............
.............Zhao, a tween sensation whose name was basically the same as Muli's (they'd gotten a few pieces of fan-mail intended for the .............
.............actress in the past) and moved to throw it away, when the word 'scholarship' caught her attention. She sat down, read through .............
.............the entire letter, and began to think..............

.............From what Muli could tell, it was a full scholarship to the Academy, all expenses paid. A quick Google search told her about .............
.............𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔼𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕟𝕠𝕩, which was set to take off in a year. And Muli wondered, what if she used Mulie's name to get on board and found .............
.............herself a job aboard the ship?.............

.............She kept the idea from her parents, of course. They didn't want any trouble with anyone. They wouldn't want to risk losing their .............
.............oldest daughter. So instead she told them that she'd applied for a job aboard the ship already, and had been accepted. As Muli had .............
.............expected, her parents were against the idea at first, but when Muli told them how much money she'd make, they relented..............

.............Muli spent the greater part of the next year perfecting her impersonation of the actress. She worked over-time at the factory .............
.............in order to be able to afford expensive cosmetic procedures, mainly for her discolored lips and her skin. She learned how Mulie did .............
.............her make-up, how she wore her hair, how she walked, how she talked, how she held herself. What clothes she liked to wear, .............
.............what foods she liked to eat, anything and everything that Muli could get her hands on. She spent her free time perusing online .............
.............gossip columns and watching video clips of her again, and again, and again. The final product is...not perfect, by any means, but .............
.............Muli thinks that she did okay. Hopefully, she'll be able to trick the people aboard the spaceship. .............

.............Her original intention was to ditch the Mulie disguise as quickly as possible and find a job onboard in order to start sending money .............
.............back home, but Muli certainly did not anticipate the thorough background checks for potential applicants. She's stuck as a fake Mulie .............
.............Zhao for now, but Muli's determined to make the best of it. She's already gotten a couple PR promotion things-designer bags, .............
.............shoes, whatever. Her current plan is just to....bullshit her way through this academy and semi-legally 'acquire' things that she .............
.............can sell online for money to send to her parents. It's not a great plan, in all honesty, but Muli dug herself into this hole. Might as .............
.............well make the best of it. .............

━━━ ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .☽ . :☆ﾟ. ━━━

.............As for the actual Mulie Zhao? Well, she disappeared off social media at around the same time that Muli boarded the ship. .............
.............It's definitely too convenient to be just a coincidence (spoiler: it really isn't), but Muli isn't really social media-savvy and hasn't .............
.............figured it out yet. For now, what the real Mulie Zhao is doing is up in the air..............

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☽༓･⁺˚⁺‧͙ 𝓞𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻‧͙⁺˚⁺･༓☾

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