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Character Information
General
Canon Source: Toward the Terra (Terra E)
Canon Format: Anime
Character's Name: Jomy Marquis Shin
Character's Age: Physically: ~14-16 || Mentally: ~30 (32ish by the end of the anime)
What form will your character's NV take? A bigger version of this wrist-band, without the words so that the grey region can act as the screen.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Jomy is a “Type Blue” Mu - the second to come into existence. With this classification comes a wide-range of abilities, all of which are derivatives or power-ups of the Mu’s standard psionic abilities (which appear to mainly consist of telepathy & telekinesis). His abilities include, but are most likely not limited to, the following: → telepathy → from mind-reading to telepathically communicating, Jomy can do it. Due to his power levels inborn abilities, the former comes to him easier than it might to any other Mu than Blue himself. He’s able to withdraw information so quickly that he managed to pry answers out of Keith (a super human who received anti-psionic training) in canon within the instant he woke from unconsciousness. He can be blocked, but that’d take considerable amount of effort on the other party’s end and/or training specifically geared at keeping him out. It’s probably faster to tell him to stop. In addition to flat-out mind-reading, he’s also highly empathetic in that he can pick up on emotions. The stronger it is/the more someone is projecting their feelings, he’ll feel it more intensely. Mu are naturally in-tune with the thoughts and emotions of their surrounding peers - as a Type Blue Mu, this ability is, like all others, amplified in Jomy. As this is one ability that is constantly switched on, Jomy has to block himself from picking these up. But he’s so used to feeling others that it doesn’t bother him, unless a particularly strong emotion catches his attention.
The latter is almost the opposite of the former, where Jomy sends his own thoughts directly into another’s brain. This is typically used simply for communication, but if done too forcefully, it can cause psychological damage in the recipient (see: canon, during his ‘mental attack’ on Station E-1077). But most of the time, Jomy will communicate normally - that is, physically. With his voice.
→ telekinesis → Jomy does not obey the laws of physics. He can move an entire space ship and throw it at another ship with enough force to obliterate BOTH ships. When questioned if he could stop the movement of planets, his answer was that he “wouldn’t know until he’s tried.” Not to say that he can do such a thing, but it’s a good example of on what scale Jomy operates on.
→ teleportation → Instant relocation. This particular ability appears to be limited specifically to Type Blue-level Mu. There does, however, appear to be a limit on the distance, though the anime never quite reveals it.
→ flight → He can fly! It’s his travel method of choice. He can move faster than a missile when pressed for speed, so why wouldn’t he prefer it?
→ shields → Jomy can shield both/either his mind or body with a psionic shield. Of note, a physical barrier made from one Type Blue Mu can temporarily block super lasers than can destroy planets. Nine Type-Blue together can scatter that beam altogether. On a smaller scale, a Type Blue’s shield can stop bullets. Yes, this series is kind of ridiculous. Unfortunately, Jomy’s mental shields aren’t as strong as they ought to be, and when his thoughts/emotions are strong enough, psychics will feel it.
→ psionic blasts → Gathers a ball/laser/some shape of psionic energy, and throws it. Concentrated ball of psionic energy will blow up even the toughest of machines. Or if that fails, he will smash into things himself (bodily), and when he does that, things just explode. Faster than a missile, etc. He’s rammed himself into a towering super computer made of who-knows-what-type-of-metal about a thousand years into the future from the 21st century, and has only come out a little scratched and his clothes torn up a little.
→ projection → He can disassociate his spirit/thoughts from his body to have it ‘travel’ elsewhere - much, much faster than his physical body can move, which means very fast. Normal people (read: non-Mu/non-psychic/non-powered up people) cannot see Jomy in this form. It’s assumed that this leaves his physical body defenseless, however, so it’s done in moderation/during desperate times.
→ decelerated aging → Mu, as a race, can live for a long time, and it’s been stated that they can also keep their appearances young. It’s taken 300 years for some ‘older’-looking Mu to show up. Soldier Blue (the first Type Blue Mu), even after 300 years, still looks about 14. Similarly, though Jomy is in his 30’s by the time the anime ends, his physical appearance never deviates from what he looked like when he was 14 save for some more mature-looking animation tricks.
TL;DR - Jomy is ridiculously overpowered. He’s a powerful psychic that can use telepathy, telekinesis, and every other psionic ability to be brought into existence. . . and then some. But! Not once in canon has he used his strength for his own gains, and this is how he will act in-game. In fact, it’s safe to say that he will only strike back out of self-defense. The main form of his Mu ability will be in the form of empathy and telepathy - he’ll pick up on others’ emotions unconsciously, and if necessary, he’ll communicate telepathically.
Weapons: None. Why would this boy need weapons.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
IMMENSE SERIES SPOILERS BELOW
Centuries before the start of the main tale, Earth (Terra) was laid to waste such that the planet could no longer support human life, rendered incapable by humans themselves. And so, mankind left Terra in search of other habitable planets as well as introducing a new system of government: Superior Domination, which would be run by a super computer called “Grand Mother”, and its “Mother Network”.
Free will? Freedom of thought? Banish the thought - but not too worry, humans, Grand Mother would take good of you. It’ll make sure that you don’t make the same mistakes and duplicate the level of destruction that the Earth experienced. Natural reproduction is not allowed. Talking back is not allowed. Do as you’re told, and the system will make sure you have a place in the world. It will keep the human greed and foolishness in check so that humans will not repeat their past mistakes.
The year is then fast-forwarded to Superior Domination (S.D.) 280. On Altamira, one of Jupiter’s moons, a mutation within the human genome was discovered. This mutation was termed as the “Mu factor”; its manifestation in individuals granted them strange psionic abilities. The rest of humanity (by Grand Mother’s orders) began to systematically isolate and quarantine the Mu from normal humans. Then, they blew up Altamira. No, really. They fired a Death Star laser at it with the Mu still on board, trying to wipe them out in one blow. Unfortunately for mankind, it didn’t work. Guided by ‘The Origin’ (the first Mu discovered, the first Type Blue) - named, simply, as Blue - the Mu packed themselves onto a ship and managed to escape annihilation.
Fast-forward yet again, and it is now S.D. 580 (~581), and we finally meet the protagonist of our story: 14-year-old Jomy Marquis Shin. A normal boy raised by two loving (foster) parents on Artemisia, which is pretty much THE planet where children are born, raised, and readied to enter the Big Bad World. But if Jomy was ‘normal’, there wouldn’t be much of a story - and thankfully, he’s far from normal. If the ability section hadn’t spoiled that already.
Even as a Mu, he was rather unnatural. He was physically healthy, and was the second Type Blue Mu to ever come into existence. In hopes of having Jomy inherit his dreams of reaching Terra, Blue finds and spares Jomy’s memory from being wiped during the “Adulthood Exam” - a system/program run by the government in which memories of people’s childhood are wiped to leave them fresh and clean to proceed into the ‘adult world’. A secondary purpose of the adulthood exam is to place great mental stress on those receiving it; dormant Mu abilities were known to manifest when placed under such pressure. Any and all Mu was to be disposed of, no exceptions. As such, upon realizing that Jomy’s a Mu, Universal Control (the human reinforcers of Grand Mother’s will) decided that Jomy must die. The Mu prevents that, pretty much kidnaps Jomy, and take him onto their ship. And from there, after some fist-fights, puberty rage, and a lot of pain, Jomy is conducted into the Mu, as well as being named and crowned as the successor to Soldier Blue as the second Soldier (leader of the Mu).
Of course, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows after his ascension either. He’s not instantly accepted by the Mu, and to top it off, the Mu are eventually discovered by the humans due to a blunder on Jomy’s part. But not all had been in vain - deciding that that was their cue to break their centuries of stagnancy, the Mu depart from Artemisia in search of Terra to appeal for their right to exist.
S.D. 585. Soldier Shin decides that it’s a good idea to try and send a message conveying the Mu’s desire for peaceful co-existence to Terra via very strong telepathy. The humans receive it all right, but the force behind the message was so strong that it came off as a mental attack. Educational Station E-1077 received the full brunt of it, making everyone but Keith Anyan (a super human/soldier literally created and raised by computers from birth) revert back to their childhood states. Due to this message/mental attack, the students of E-1077 were labelled as contaminated by the central human government, and were subsequently disposed of. More importantly (for the Mu), the message told the humans that the Mu were still out there, making the humans double their efforts to hunt down and eliminate them.
S.D. 593. Following the disastrous consequences of his telepathic transmission eight years ago, the Mu were growing progressively weary of the continuous attacks by the humans, and their inability to find Terra. Troubled by this, Jomy asks Physis - the resident fortune-teller - where a ‘good future’ for the Mu lay. She guides him to a red planet named Silvester 7, a planet that humanity had given up trying to colonize, and had lain abandoned ever since. The Mu renamed the planet as ‘Nazca’, and decided that it wouldn’t be so bad to lead a modest life here.
Many things happen on Nazca, but one of particular importance is Jomy’s idea that the Mu should try conceiving a child via their natural biology. Woman plus man, etcetera. Seven Mu children are born naturally over the next three years, and things are generally peaceful. Other than the growing generation gap (between the younger Mu who wish to stay on Nazca, and the older Mu who wish to continue to search for Terra), things were actually good for a change.
And when too many good things accumulate, something really bad has to happen. What (re-)started the snowball of bad luck for the Mu was Grand Mother sending Sam - one of Jomy’s childhood friends - to Silvester 7. He’d been pre-brainwashed to be triggered into homicidal tendencies upon hearing the name of Jomy’s (and Sam’s) hometown. Unfortunately, this trigger occurs when Jomy and Sam meet up, hug and are in the middle of having an emotional reunion. Sam stabs Jomy, Jomy is traumatized, and his emotional outburst breaks a lot of things, including Sam’s psyche.
It’s imperative to mention that Sam was also the best friend of one (1) Keith Anyan during their days on E-1077. And so when Keith hears what happens to Sam, he gets Pissed Off. With the Grand Mother’s blessings (and orders) to eradicate the Mu, he decides to do just that.
S.D. 596. Keith finds Nazca, and, carrying out Grand Mother’s will, decides to take the Death Star laser to Nazca as well. That is, he causes the death of many, many Mu, and if that’s not enough, he blows up their planet. Awesome. Another outcome of this confrontation between Keith mankind and the Mu is the death of the Mu’s first leader - Soldier Blue. Fuelled by both Nazca’s destruction and his predecessor’s death, Jomy decides that playing it passive isn’t going to cut it anymore. He assumes his place as the leader of the Mu (properly), and orders that the Mu will not only reach Terra to plead for their rights, but they will destroy the SD system as well. In other words, it was time for war. Onward to Terra they leave, yet again.
The canon does not specify when the Mu reach Terra, but after many battles, bloods shed and spaceships obliterated, they finally do. It’s then that Keith Anyan (who, by that time, has become the chief commander of humanity’s forces against the Mu) finally agrees to negotiate with the Mu on Terra itself. After seeing that negotiations aren’t going very well, Keith takes Jomy to go see Grand Mother - the super computer of all super computers stationed deep underneath the Earth’s surface.
The confrontation between them leads to several things: after a degree of conflict and some pleading from Jomy, Keith finally admits and accepts that the SD government is an obsolete system. Though Jomy destroys Grand Mother, she reminds them that the Mother Network is, indeed, a network, and destroying one hub of it will not end the system altogether. Furthermore, both Jomy and Keith had received fatal blows in their struggle against Grand Mother. Despite this, both leaders manage to pass their mantles onto the next generation of leaders in hopes that the Mu and humans coming to terms and coexist in peace, as well as escaping the rule of the SD system.
Point in Canon: Post-series
Character Personality:
The tale of Toward the Terra follows the growth and maturation of Jomy from a snot-nosed, semi-spoiled brat into a selfless leader of the Mu. Accordingly, much of Jomy’s personality is dependent on the time and place in which scrutiny of it takes place.
In the beginning, he was like any other child. Or maybe he wasn’t. School did not challenge him, and he’d been known to hold an air of confidence-borderline-arrogance that led him easily into something of an infamy in his peers. He acted true to who he was and no one else. And so when he’d been suddenly labelled as a Mu - non-human; mutant; different - he’d reacted as anyone else in his shoes and disposition would have acted: with anger. Disbelief. Denial. That anyone would dare tell him otherwise to whom he that he was. After all, he was but a boy of fourteen.
Thankfully, with time came maturation. As a budding leader of the Mu, Jomy’s outspoken and loud confidence had become muted. Under the weight of expectations, he had become quieter. Perhaps even a little withdrawn, when directly contrasted to his childhood years. No longer was he that obnoxious boy with a strong, centralized ego; with the added responsibility of guiding and protecting the Mu, Jomy had had spread that ego to encompass an entire race of people. A little bit on the serious side with a strong desire to realize the dream of reaching Terra, it is this adult personality that dominates the rest of the tale, and it is this that will be looked at in further depth.
Jomy carries a rather strange conflict between a natural inclination to be expressive, and a learned necessity of shielding his emotions. Open displays of emotions come to him in small bursts, with his movements being especially animated with feeling when the emotion is strong enough to overwhelm his conscious state. He shouts when he’s angry, screams and cries when sad, he laughs when he’s happy, he runs around when he’s excited. Yet, at the same time, he shows many traits that would label him an introvert, preferring to keep his thoughts safe in the recesses of his own mind. In fact, beyond these outbursts (which are often strong enough to be felt by every Mu within a large radius), he comes across (physically) as reserved, subdued, and rather on the quiet. He does, however, still seem to have a rudimentary sense of humour equipped that takes form as a lighter speech pattern, and gentle teasing.
Due to the nature of his upper teenage- and early-adult years being largely filled with comparisons drawn between him and Soldier Blue, Jomy’s self-esteem is nonexistent at best. How this manifests is, not in an inability to express himself or his opinions, but in an inability to place importance in himself as an individual. What he values in his person is congruent with what he can do for the Mu. Jomy is selfless, brave, and strong-willed, readily placing himself in the frontlines of any battle. When something dangerous must be done, he habitually volunteers himself first.
The last arc of his development follows shortly after Nazca’s destruction. Though Jomy has always been driven by a strong sense of purpose, this feeling becomes amplified to the point where much of his other traits take a back-seat to a colder persona. Though this state seems to be temporary, it shows the extent that Jomy is willing to go when there are things that must be done, must be achieved. His grip on his emotions is much tighter, and he’s less willing to compromise until his (their) goal has been met and done. He becomes willing to condone violence and other questionable methods for their goal of reaching Terra. However, it’s also been said that even through the fighting, he keeps his sadness over the loss of his comrades close to him, perhaps as not to lose himself entirely.
Perhaps as a consequence of an ego centralized solely around his position as a leader, certain traits within Jomy is much pronounced and emphasized. He is incredibly idealistic, almost naïve in his thinking; strongly motivated by the desire to please his people, he often worries and wonders for a solution that can make everyone happy. His world often feels black and white, with very little dividing the area in-between for grey regions. He is open and honest with his opinions - perhaps too much so. He’s not accustomed to lying, and probably never will. However, he is not unwilling to learn and be open-minded to others’ opinions, provided that it does not conflict with his strict set of morals. For his (mental) age, and the tribulations that he’s endured, Jomy can come across as innocent, to a degree.
In the aftermath of everything that’s happened in canon, Jomy comes out as somewhat of a hybrid of his two adulthood personalities. Now that he is no longer under the stress and pressure of having to lead his people to Terra, he’s much more relaxed. He’s someone who’s fulfilled everything that they meant to in their lifetime, and draws peace from the knowledge. Though he may be more reserved and quiet than his counterpart personality prior and during his time on Nazca, he’s been able to shed much of the aloof characters of a leader and simply exist as he always has: gentle and kind, introvertive and monologue-prone with a penchant for a bit for fun from time to time. He’s an adult in a child’s body that has grown up to no social responsibility than to ensure the survival of an entire race of people.
Character Plans: After settling into his new environment, Jomy will probably remain stubbornly neutral. In reality, he’d like to do nothing else but to help the people of Siren’s Port, but he’d never be able to associate himself with either AGI or SERO. He’d be particularly against SERO’s human experimentations on people with powers (given his canon), and may accidentally (or not) show disapproval for that faction. If there’s a chance for him to get involved with people who are working to the same end as AGI or SERO (looking for a way to return people to their world) without the questionable activities, he’ll show support for that division.
Appearance/PB: Here.
General
Canon Source: Toward the Terra (Terra E)
Canon Format: Anime
Character's Name: Jomy Marquis Shin
Character's Age: Physically: ~14-16 || Mentally: ~30 (32ish by the end of the anime)
What form will your character's NV take? A bigger version of this wrist-band, without the words so that the grey region can act as the screen.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Jomy is a “Type Blue” Mu - the second to come into existence. With this classification comes a wide-range of abilities, all of which are derivatives or power-ups of the Mu’s standard psionic abilities (which appear to mainly consist of telepathy & telekinesis). His abilities include, but are most likely not limited to, the following: → telepathy → from mind-reading to telepathically communicating, Jomy can do it. Due to his power levels inborn abilities, the former comes to him easier than it might to any other Mu than Blue himself. He’s able to withdraw information so quickly that he managed to pry answers out of Keith (a super human who received anti-psionic training) in canon within the instant he woke from unconsciousness. He can be blocked, but that’d take considerable amount of effort on the other party’s end and/or training specifically geared at keeping him out. It’s probably faster to tell him to stop. In addition to flat-out mind-reading, he’s also highly empathetic in that he can pick up on emotions. The stronger it is/the more someone is projecting their feelings, he’ll feel it more intensely. Mu are naturally in-tune with the thoughts and emotions of their surrounding peers - as a Type Blue Mu, this ability is, like all others, amplified in Jomy. As this is one ability that is constantly switched on, Jomy has to block himself from picking these up. But he’s so used to feeling others that it doesn’t bother him, unless a particularly strong emotion catches his attention.
The latter is almost the opposite of the former, where Jomy sends his own thoughts directly into another’s brain. This is typically used simply for communication, but if done too forcefully, it can cause psychological damage in the recipient (see: canon, during his ‘mental attack’ on Station E-1077). But most of the time, Jomy will communicate normally - that is, physically. With his voice.
→ telekinesis → Jomy does not obey the laws of physics. He can move an entire space ship and throw it at another ship with enough force to obliterate BOTH ships. When questioned if he could stop the movement of planets, his answer was that he “wouldn’t know until he’s tried.” Not to say that he can do such a thing, but it’s a good example of on what scale Jomy operates on.
→ teleportation → Instant relocation. This particular ability appears to be limited specifically to Type Blue-level Mu. There does, however, appear to be a limit on the distance, though the anime never quite reveals it.
→ flight → He can fly! It’s his travel method of choice. He can move faster than a missile when pressed for speed, so why wouldn’t he prefer it?
→ shields → Jomy can shield both/either his mind or body with a psionic shield. Of note, a physical barrier made from one Type Blue Mu can temporarily block super lasers than can destroy planets. Nine Type-Blue together can scatter that beam altogether. On a smaller scale, a Type Blue’s shield can stop bullets. Yes, this series is kind of ridiculous. Unfortunately, Jomy’s mental shields aren’t as strong as they ought to be, and when his thoughts/emotions are strong enough, psychics will feel it.
→ psionic blasts → Gathers a ball/laser/some shape of psionic energy, and throws it. Concentrated ball of psionic energy will blow up even the toughest of machines. Or if that fails, he will smash into things himself (bodily), and when he does that, things just explode. Faster than a missile, etc. He’s rammed himself into a towering super computer made of who-knows-what-type-of-metal about a thousand years into the future from the 21st century, and has only come out a little scratched and his clothes torn up a little.
→ projection → He can disassociate his spirit/thoughts from his body to have it ‘travel’ elsewhere - much, much faster than his physical body can move, which means very fast. Normal people (read: non-Mu/non-psychic/non-powered up people) cannot see Jomy in this form. It’s assumed that this leaves his physical body defenseless, however, so it’s done in moderation/during desperate times.
→ decelerated aging → Mu, as a race, can live for a long time, and it’s been stated that they can also keep their appearances young. It’s taken 300 years for some ‘older’-looking Mu to show up. Soldier Blue (the first Type Blue Mu), even after 300 years, still looks about 14. Similarly, though Jomy is in his 30’s by the time the anime ends, his physical appearance never deviates from what he looked like when he was 14 save for some more mature-looking animation tricks.
TL;DR - Jomy is ridiculously overpowered. He’s a powerful psychic that can use telepathy, telekinesis, and every other psionic ability to be brought into existence. . . and then some. But! Not once in canon has he used his strength for his own gains, and this is how he will act in-game. In fact, it’s safe to say that he will only strike back out of self-defense. The main form of his Mu ability will be in the form of empathy and telepathy - he’ll pick up on others’ emotions unconsciously, and if necessary, he’ll communicate telepathically.
Weapons: None. Why would this boy need weapons.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
IMMENSE SERIES SPOILERS BELOW
Centuries before the start of the main tale, Earth (Terra) was laid to waste such that the planet could no longer support human life, rendered incapable by humans themselves. And so, mankind left Terra in search of other habitable planets as well as introducing a new system of government: Superior Domination, which would be run by a super computer called “Grand Mother”, and its “Mother Network”.
Free will? Freedom of thought? Banish the thought - but not too worry, humans, Grand Mother would take good of you. It’ll make sure that you don’t make the same mistakes and duplicate the level of destruction that the Earth experienced. Natural reproduction is not allowed. Talking back is not allowed. Do as you’re told, and the system will make sure you have a place in the world. It will keep the human greed and foolishness in check so that humans will not repeat their past mistakes.
The year is then fast-forwarded to Superior Domination (S.D.) 280. On Altamira, one of Jupiter’s moons, a mutation within the human genome was discovered. This mutation was termed as the “Mu factor”; its manifestation in individuals granted them strange psionic abilities. The rest of humanity (by Grand Mother’s orders) began to systematically isolate and quarantine the Mu from normal humans. Then, they blew up Altamira. No, really. They fired a Death Star laser at it with the Mu still on board, trying to wipe them out in one blow. Unfortunately for mankind, it didn’t work. Guided by ‘The Origin’ (the first Mu discovered, the first Type Blue) - named, simply, as Blue - the Mu packed themselves onto a ship and managed to escape annihilation.
Fast-forward yet again, and it is now S.D. 580 (~581), and we finally meet the protagonist of our story: 14-year-old Jomy Marquis Shin. A normal boy raised by two loving (foster) parents on Artemisia, which is pretty much THE planet where children are born, raised, and readied to enter the Big Bad World. But if Jomy was ‘normal’, there wouldn’t be much of a story - and thankfully, he’s far from normal. If the ability section hadn’t spoiled that already.
Even as a Mu, he was rather unnatural. He was physically healthy, and was the second Type Blue Mu to ever come into existence. In hopes of having Jomy inherit his dreams of reaching Terra, Blue finds and spares Jomy’s memory from being wiped during the “Adulthood Exam” - a system/program run by the government in which memories of people’s childhood are wiped to leave them fresh and clean to proceed into the ‘adult world’. A secondary purpose of the adulthood exam is to place great mental stress on those receiving it; dormant Mu abilities were known to manifest when placed under such pressure. Any and all Mu was to be disposed of, no exceptions. As such, upon realizing that Jomy’s a Mu, Universal Control (the human reinforcers of Grand Mother’s will) decided that Jomy must die. The Mu prevents that, pretty much kidnaps Jomy, and take him onto their ship. And from there, after some fist-fights, puberty rage, and a lot of pain, Jomy is conducted into the Mu, as well as being named and crowned as the successor to Soldier Blue as the second Soldier (leader of the Mu).
Of course, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows after his ascension either. He’s not instantly accepted by the Mu, and to top it off, the Mu are eventually discovered by the humans due to a blunder on Jomy’s part. But not all had been in vain - deciding that that was their cue to break their centuries of stagnancy, the Mu depart from Artemisia in search of Terra to appeal for their right to exist.
S.D. 585. Soldier Shin decides that it’s a good idea to try and send a message conveying the Mu’s desire for peaceful co-existence to Terra via very strong telepathy. The humans receive it all right, but the force behind the message was so strong that it came off as a mental attack. Educational Station E-1077 received the full brunt of it, making everyone but Keith Anyan (a super human/soldier literally created and raised by computers from birth) revert back to their childhood states. Due to this message/mental attack, the students of E-1077 were labelled as contaminated by the central human government, and were subsequently disposed of. More importantly (for the Mu), the message told the humans that the Mu were still out there, making the humans double their efforts to hunt down and eliminate them.
S.D. 593. Following the disastrous consequences of his telepathic transmission eight years ago, the Mu were growing progressively weary of the continuous attacks by the humans, and their inability to find Terra. Troubled by this, Jomy asks Physis - the resident fortune-teller - where a ‘good future’ for the Mu lay. She guides him to a red planet named Silvester 7, a planet that humanity had given up trying to colonize, and had lain abandoned ever since. The Mu renamed the planet as ‘Nazca’, and decided that it wouldn’t be so bad to lead a modest life here.
Many things happen on Nazca, but one of particular importance is Jomy’s idea that the Mu should try conceiving a child via their natural biology. Woman plus man, etcetera. Seven Mu children are born naturally over the next three years, and things are generally peaceful. Other than the growing generation gap (between the younger Mu who wish to stay on Nazca, and the older Mu who wish to continue to search for Terra), things were actually good for a change.
And when too many good things accumulate, something really bad has to happen. What (re-)started the snowball of bad luck for the Mu was Grand Mother sending Sam - one of Jomy’s childhood friends - to Silvester 7. He’d been pre-brainwashed to be triggered into homicidal tendencies upon hearing the name of Jomy’s (and Sam’s) hometown. Unfortunately, this trigger occurs when Jomy and Sam meet up, hug and are in the middle of having an emotional reunion. Sam stabs Jomy, Jomy is traumatized, and his emotional outburst breaks a lot of things, including Sam’s psyche.
It’s imperative to mention that Sam was also the best friend of one (1) Keith Anyan during their days on E-1077. And so when Keith hears what happens to Sam, he gets Pissed Off. With the Grand Mother’s blessings (and orders) to eradicate the Mu, he decides to do just that.
S.D. 596. Keith finds Nazca, and, carrying out Grand Mother’s will, decides to take the Death Star laser to Nazca as well. That is, he causes the death of many, many Mu, and if that’s not enough, he blows up their planet. Awesome. Another outcome of this confrontation between Keith mankind and the Mu is the death of the Mu’s first leader - Soldier Blue. Fuelled by both Nazca’s destruction and his predecessor’s death, Jomy decides that playing it passive isn’t going to cut it anymore. He assumes his place as the leader of the Mu (properly), and orders that the Mu will not only reach Terra to plead for their rights, but they will destroy the SD system as well. In other words, it was time for war. Onward to Terra they leave, yet again.
The canon does not specify when the Mu reach Terra, but after many battles, bloods shed and spaceships obliterated, they finally do. It’s then that Keith Anyan (who, by that time, has become the chief commander of humanity’s forces against the Mu) finally agrees to negotiate with the Mu on Terra itself. After seeing that negotiations aren’t going very well, Keith takes Jomy to go see Grand Mother - the super computer of all super computers stationed deep underneath the Earth’s surface.
The confrontation between them leads to several things: after a degree of conflict and some pleading from Jomy, Keith finally admits and accepts that the SD government is an obsolete system. Though Jomy destroys Grand Mother, she reminds them that the Mother Network is, indeed, a network, and destroying one hub of it will not end the system altogether. Furthermore, both Jomy and Keith had received fatal blows in their struggle against Grand Mother. Despite this, both leaders manage to pass their mantles onto the next generation of leaders in hopes that the Mu and humans coming to terms and coexist in peace, as well as escaping the rule of the SD system.
Point in Canon: Post-series
Character Personality:
The tale of Toward the Terra follows the growth and maturation of Jomy from a snot-nosed, semi-spoiled brat into a selfless leader of the Mu. Accordingly, much of Jomy’s personality is dependent on the time and place in which scrutiny of it takes place.
In the beginning, he was like any other child. Or maybe he wasn’t. School did not challenge him, and he’d been known to hold an air of confidence-borderline-arrogance that led him easily into something of an infamy in his peers. He acted true to who he was and no one else. And so when he’d been suddenly labelled as a Mu - non-human; mutant; different - he’d reacted as anyone else in his shoes and disposition would have acted: with anger. Disbelief. Denial. That anyone would dare tell him otherwise to whom he that he was. After all, he was but a boy of fourteen.
Thankfully, with time came maturation. As a budding leader of the Mu, Jomy’s outspoken and loud confidence had become muted. Under the weight of expectations, he had become quieter. Perhaps even a little withdrawn, when directly contrasted to his childhood years. No longer was he that obnoxious boy with a strong, centralized ego; with the added responsibility of guiding and protecting the Mu, Jomy had had spread that ego to encompass an entire race of people. A little bit on the serious side with a strong desire to realize the dream of reaching Terra, it is this adult personality that dominates the rest of the tale, and it is this that will be looked at in further depth.
Jomy carries a rather strange conflict between a natural inclination to be expressive, and a learned necessity of shielding his emotions. Open displays of emotions come to him in small bursts, with his movements being especially animated with feeling when the emotion is strong enough to overwhelm his conscious state. He shouts when he’s angry, screams and cries when sad, he laughs when he’s happy, he runs around when he’s excited. Yet, at the same time, he shows many traits that would label him an introvert, preferring to keep his thoughts safe in the recesses of his own mind. In fact, beyond these outbursts (which are often strong enough to be felt by every Mu within a large radius), he comes across (physically) as reserved, subdued, and rather on the quiet. He does, however, still seem to have a rudimentary sense of humour equipped that takes form as a lighter speech pattern, and gentle teasing.
Due to the nature of his upper teenage- and early-adult years being largely filled with comparisons drawn between him and Soldier Blue, Jomy’s self-esteem is nonexistent at best. How this manifests is, not in an inability to express himself or his opinions, but in an inability to place importance in himself as an individual. What he values in his person is congruent with what he can do for the Mu. Jomy is selfless, brave, and strong-willed, readily placing himself in the frontlines of any battle. When something dangerous must be done, he habitually volunteers himself first.
The last arc of his development follows shortly after Nazca’s destruction. Though Jomy has always been driven by a strong sense of purpose, this feeling becomes amplified to the point where much of his other traits take a back-seat to a colder persona. Though this state seems to be temporary, it shows the extent that Jomy is willing to go when there are things that must be done, must be achieved. His grip on his emotions is much tighter, and he’s less willing to compromise until his (their) goal has been met and done. He becomes willing to condone violence and other questionable methods for their goal of reaching Terra. However, it’s also been said that even through the fighting, he keeps his sadness over the loss of his comrades close to him, perhaps as not to lose himself entirely.
Perhaps as a consequence of an ego centralized solely around his position as a leader, certain traits within Jomy is much pronounced and emphasized. He is incredibly idealistic, almost naïve in his thinking; strongly motivated by the desire to please his people, he often worries and wonders for a solution that can make everyone happy. His world often feels black and white, with very little dividing the area in-between for grey regions. He is open and honest with his opinions - perhaps too much so. He’s not accustomed to lying, and probably never will. However, he is not unwilling to learn and be open-minded to others’ opinions, provided that it does not conflict with his strict set of morals. For his (mental) age, and the tribulations that he’s endured, Jomy can come across as innocent, to a degree.
In the aftermath of everything that’s happened in canon, Jomy comes out as somewhat of a hybrid of his two adulthood personalities. Now that he is no longer under the stress and pressure of having to lead his people to Terra, he’s much more relaxed. He’s someone who’s fulfilled everything that they meant to in their lifetime, and draws peace from the knowledge. Though he may be more reserved and quiet than his counterpart personality prior and during his time on Nazca, he’s been able to shed much of the aloof characters of a leader and simply exist as he always has: gentle and kind, introvertive and monologue-prone with a penchant for a bit for fun from time to time. He’s an adult in a child’s body that has grown up to no social responsibility than to ensure the survival of an entire race of people.
Character Plans: After settling into his new environment, Jomy will probably remain stubbornly neutral. In reality, he’d like to do nothing else but to help the people of Siren’s Port, but he’d never be able to associate himself with either AGI or SERO. He’d be particularly against SERO’s human experimentations on people with powers (given his canon), and may accidentally (or not) show disapproval for that faction. If there’s a chance for him to get involved with people who are working to the same end as AGI or SERO (looking for a way to return people to their world) without the questionable activities, he’ll show support for that division.
Appearance/PB: Here.
