Mira

Mira

Information

Family:	Maya (fraternal twin)
Age:	27
Height:	Unknown
Weight:	Unknown
Alignment:	Evil
Race:	Vampire (formerly human)
Allies:	The Coven Gargos Night Guard (formerly)
Enemies:	Maya Night Guard Sabrewulf Thunder Tusk Aganos Glacius
Appears in:	Killer Instinct (Xbox One)
Voiced by:	Fryda Wolff

“	Have you confessed your sins?	„
—Mira's intro quote

Mira Fallegeros is a new character introduced in Killer Instinct Season 3. She is Maya's fraternal twin sister. She supposedly sacrificed herself to save Maya during a mission in some Siberian mountains years ago, but has returned as a bloodthirsty vampiress.

Biography

Appearance

Mira has pale-white skin, gold eyes, and tied-back black hair. She wears a red scarf draped over her shoulders while her upper torso, shoulders, and arms are clad with spiked armor, with her most notable features in that regard being claw-like gauntlets on her hands and a large, multi-spiked pauldron on her right shoulder. Underneath her armor appears to be a belted corset of some kind and thigh-high leather boots. A tattered, red cloak is tied around her waist, held in place by a slightly arrow-shaped buckle. In her hair is a ruby scarab beetle-shaped hairpiece, and on each gauntlet is a black metal scarab which latches its claws into her arms before each battle. Her magical blood is shiny and silver, heavily resembling the liquid metal mercury.

Mira's retro costume wears a black corset and a high thigh boots with purple accent, a black leather choker and long gloves. She also sports spiky red hair.

Powers & Abilities

As Mira used to be a human of the Night Guard, but once she was turned into a vampire, she began to use blood magic, thanks to the Gloves of Rasavatham which she wears - a perverse version of the Philosopher's Stone. They turn her blood into a silver liquid metal resembling mercury, which she can then eject from her body and manipulate into different attacks or weapons by hardening the liquid metal.

Story

A former member of the Night Guard, Mira Fallegeros is Maya's fraternal twin sister. The two grew up together and under their father's tutelage became the Night Guard's best team of hunters. On a mission to kill a group of vampires in the Siberian Mountains, Mira sacrifices herself to save Maya and seemingly perishes, but the vampires find her and convert her into one of their own, corrupting her and granting her a pair of gauntlets that allow her to tap into her newfound powers.

Extended Story

Main article: The Road to Ravensburg

Main article: Conflux

Gameplay

Unique Trait - Blood Magic: Mira's Medium and Heavy moves use her own metallic blood and deal immense damage - however, as she uses her blood magic, gray recoverable damage will accumulate on her health bar. This damage functions like very real normal damage. If her entire health bar is recoverable damage and she uses a blood move, she will begin to lose her recoverable damage as well. However, Mira cannot self-destruct because of this, instead simply losing the ability to use any more blood moves and turning all of her Heavy and Medium moves into Lights.

Combo Trait - Vampiric Appetite: Mira can restore portions of her recoverable damage by performing the command grabs Embrace or Shadow Embrace on her opponent - in return, Embrace and Shadow Embrace don't deal any damage.

Instinct Mode - Vicious Metamorphosis: Mira begins to automatically summon Blood Seeker bats over time, spawning a new one as each is destroyed. Additionally, she can Air Dash an unlimited number of times while midair, and the recoverable damage from Air Dashing is greatly reduced. Mira can also use Vicious Shroud (HP+HK), which sends a cloud of bloody mist forwards. If the cloud hits, it will latch onto the opponent and transfer Mira's recoverable damage to the opponent as potential damage, effectively healing Mira.

Command Attacks

• Mist Form - (3P) - Mira temporarily transforms into a cloud of bloody mist. Holding any direction will cause Mira to move a short distance while in her mist. Fully invulnerable, can be used midair, and enables a second Air Dash after a midair use. Inflicts recoverable damage. 
• Vicious Strikes - (Back+HP) - Mira performs a quick four-hit slash combo, visually similar to Maya's Savage Strikes. 
• Air Dash - (Forward-Forward or Back-Back, midair) - Mira dashes through the air on jets of blood. Inflicts recoverable damage. 
• Throw - (Forward or Back+LP+LK) - Mira grabs the opponent and slashes them away with a large blood scythe. Inflicts recoverable damage. 

Special Moves

• Blood Seekers - (QCF+P) - Mira summons bloody bats that fly forwards. Medium version tracks the opponent's current location, Heavy version tracks the opponent themselves. Bats disappear when Mira takes damage. Acts as a Wallsplat Ender.
• Embrace - (QCB+K) - Mira grabs the opponent, swirls into the air with them, and sucks their blood before dropping them. Recovers some recoverable damage, but does not deal any damage to the opponent. Medium version is an anti-air and Heavy travels further. Acts as a Recovery Ender.
• Reaping - (QCB+P) - Mira swings forwards with bloody blades. In the Light version she uses two daggers, in the Medium she uses a large scythe, and in the Heavy the second scythe hit is an overhead and recaptures. Acts as a Damage Ender.
• Trephine - (QCF+K) - Mira lunges forwards with a low corkscrew-spinning kick. Avoids projectiles. Medium version moves through the opponent, Heavy version ends with a backflip kick similar to Maya's backwards Tumble Kick. Acts as an Exchange Ender.

Shadow Moves

• Shadow Blood Seekers - (QCF+2P) - Mira summons bloody bats that fly up from underneath the opponent like a geyser. Inflicts recoverable damage.
• Shadow Embrace - (QCB+2K) - Mira grabs the opponent, swirls into the air with them, and sucks their blood before dropping them. Recovers a lot of recoverable damage, but still does not deal any damage to the opponent.
• Shadow Reaping - (QCB+2P) - Mira swings a large blood scythe upwards, hitting five times. Invulnerable on startup. Inflicts recoverable damage.
• Shadow Trephine - (QCF+2K) - Mira lunges forwards with a low corkscrew-spinning kick, hitting five times. Invulnerable to projectiles. Inflicts recoverable damage.

Ultra Combo: 26 Hits

Music

Killer Instinct Season 03 - Creating The Music For "Mira"

The theme was made by Celldweller & Atlas Plug. It consists of gothic opera similar to the Castlevania series & techno-rock music, soprano singer Jeanette Vecchione and a Russian violin choir.

When both combatants remain idle for a while using her theme in any stages, the remix of the "The Instinct" will start to play.

Quotes

“	They dug me from the rubble, the very things I came to kill. They honored me - I was worthy of their power. And oh... what power it is.	„
—Mira in her trailer.

“	I've been looking forward to this reunion, sister.	„
—Mira to Maya in her trailer.

“	Your life, my play thing.	„
—Mira's victory quote.

“	You look drained.	„
—Mira's Taunt.

Gallery

Mira's Season 3 launch reveal

Mira teaser closed up

Mira teaser

Mira's trailer reveal

Mira wallpaper

Mira wallpaper (no KI logo)

The first leaked image of Mira from the character select, revealing her name. Her pose is Maya's, used as a placeholder in that build of the game.

Second leaked image of Mira, showing her in-game model with proper model rigging.

Mira in Alchemical Lab

Sibling rivalry

Trivia

• Another vampire character was originally created for Killer Instinct 2, but the character was scrapped late into development. The name "Vampire" can still be found in the game's files. The vampire's stage theme, Bloodlust, however, was salvaged and made into the theme of Count Batula in Conker's Bad Fur Day.
• One of the costumes available to Mira is the mask and hood of the Fable character Jack of Blades, a shout-out to another Microsoft game series. One of her costumes is based on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Her 9th color of her standard skin may be a cultural reference to Jack from The Night Before Christmas or Beetlejuice, both movies directed by Tim Burton.
• Mira's "Trephine" special move is similar to Cammy of Street Fighter fame's "Spiral Arrow".
  • On a similar note, a trephine is a surgical tool with several modern day applications, such as collecting samples of bone and bone marrow, but it shares a root word with that of the ancient practice of trepanning--boring open the skull to release evil spirits.
• Following Rash, Mira doesn't have her own stage in Killer Instinct, but does have her own selectable theme for any stage. Interestingly, Mira shares Sabrewulf's Alchemical Lab as her stage in the game, likely as a placeholder in similarity to the situation with Omen sharing Shadow Tiger's Lair with Shadow Jago, and Kan-Ra sharing Forbidden Archive with Rash in Survival Mode. This makes her the third fighter in the roster who shares an arena with another combatant.
  • What's even more strange about her stage location, though its been established that Sabrewulf's stage fits more with her overall character, when playing survival mode she appears on Jago's Tiger's Lair. One could imply her body might have actually been found at the ruins of the Tiger Temple, or she was in search hunting Jago for some unexplained reason. (Possible hint of her planning to summon Gargos at the Temple where Jago lies?) Currently, both her's and Rash's stage orders have yet to be fully explained.
  • With the release of the novella, her connection to Sabrewulf's stage is clarified; her business takes her to the von Sabrewulf family manor, where she inadvertently comes to blows with Sabrewulf while in pursuit of an artifact kept within.
• Mira is the only character in Season 3 to be completely original, being neither a redesigned veteran nor a guest character from another franchise.
• Mira, as well as Maya, are also the third pair of characters who happen to be siblings among the roster, first being Jago and Orchid, and second being Thunder and Fulgore aka Eagle.
  • Interestingly, Mira has the exact same height, body shape, and degree of muscularity as Maya originally did during her appearance in Killer Instinct 2.
  • Mira also appears to share a few normal moves with Maya--the most easily recognized of which are her fierce punch and her Vicious Strikes command normal (b+HP). While possibly just recycled animations, this may also allude to her and her sister's origins as members of the Night Guard.
• With the exception of Guest characters, Mira is the only new character introduced in Season 3.
• Mira's facial traits resemble bits of Kate Beckinsale as Selene from Underworld & Rayne from Bloodrayne.

External links

Mira's gameplay profile at Infil's The Complete Killer Instinct Guide

UA Bass (Mira) vs UA GutterMagic (Tusk) - a video compilation of pro gamer matchups with Mira