Saturday, April 5, 2008

Michal


Michal is a shy, sweet, and very lonely girl, who is the same age as Lucia. She travels the world with her brother, Rihito, a famous orchestra conductor. Because of her poor health and the fact that she moves frequently, Michal rarely makes friends, and spends most of her time isolated at home. Michal loathes her position as a burden on her older brother, and convinces herself that Rihito must hate her for it.

Even so, Michal was generally content with her unhappy life... Until one day, fate cruelly let her taste true happiness for the first time. While living in Hawaii, Michal stumbles upon a shipwrecked boy washed up on a beach. That boy is Doumoto Kaito, and Michal selflessly devotes herself to saving Kaito's life and nursing him back to health. Kaito, in turn, is the first person who treats Michal with kindness, respect, and believe it or not, gratitude. For the first time, Michal feels as if she isn't being a burden on someone. And she is falling in love.

Unfortunately, just as Michal is unaccustomed to happiness in her life, she is also unable to handle the loss of that happiness. When Michal and Rihito return with Kaito to Japan, Kaito's accident-induced amnesia wears off, and he is re-united with the girl that he loves. Kaito gently tries to break the news to Michal, but she reacts with outright hysterics. "Kaito-kun has always been kind to me, but you never once - not ONCE - looked at me as a woman!" she screams at him, tearfully. In response to this, Kaito can only turn away from Michal. "You only love me because I'm here, you only love me because you don't really know me," Kaito tries to tell her. And still Michal won't listen. "You're wrong! For me, Kaito-kun is everything! As long as I have Kaito-kun, I don't need anything else!" Michal even offers herself sexually to Kaito, and when he still turns her down, she tells him, "If I don't have Kaito... There's no meaning left in life."

As time wears on, however, rather than more tearful hysterics, Michal settles for another coping strategy - denial. Even as Kaito spends more time with Lucia, Michal cheerfully cooks for him and hangs onto his arm as if she were his girlfriend. But when Kaito tells her to stop and reminds her that he already has a girlfriend, she holds her hands over her ears and screams, thinking to herself, No more... No more! I want to run away from this terrible world... This is the first time that Michal hears Michel's voice in her head. If you want to run away, a strange voice whispers to her, then come to me...

When Rihito confronts his sister about this latest outburst, she lashes out at him, too. "If I weren't around anymore, you could finally live freely... Everybody only gives me pity... THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT ANYBODY LOVES ME!" Michal screams, anguished. Seeing her last and only chance for romantic happiness being torn away from her, Michal turns more and more toward the strange new voice in her head, the voice that whispers, I am always with you... When you yearn for it most, I will fulfill your wish...

In Japanese, Michal's name is written as, although a scan from the character design booklet that comes with the second Pure box shows that her name is actually Michal. Michal is a feminine form of "Michael." In the Bible, Michal was the name of King Saul's daughter, who was also King David's first wife. Michal's surname, "Amagi", is written with the characters for "Heaven" and "castle".

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