Mir

Jacqli (or Jakuri in the Japanese release of Ar tonelico 2) is a fictional character from the game Ar tonelico 2: Melody of Metafalica.

She is the third heroine of Ar tonelico 2 and joins the party a little before the ending of Phase 2. Even though she looks as young as a 15-year old, her true age is 382 years (at the time of Ar tonelico 2's events).

She is also reputed as the strongest Reyvateil in the world. She had waged a war against humanity and Shurelia in the past - a war that resulted with great devastation to Sol Ciel and her subsequent imprisonment.

=Jacqli's Story=

Origins
Jacqli was known as Mir in Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia. Mir is her true name and she was originally created by humans. She was created to have no emotions, as her creators believed that doing so will result in a stronger Reyvateil. However, she developed emotions over time, and created her first song, EXEC_HARMONIOUS/. Mir crafted the song to show her admiration and belief on the human race. This development displeased her creators and, in addition to throwing to the thrash it, and all of the songs she crafted that weren't for battle, she was regarded as a defective product. And not being enough with that, she was set to become the controller for the Reyvateil Control System that humans had implanted into the Silver Horn.

Angered and disillusioned, Mir began to harbor hostile feelings against the humans, until the point in which she seized the control of the Silver Horn and shut down all the outside access from it, to begin hacking the Tower. She also rescued Shurelia from an investigation facility in which she was being experimented on to strip her from her emotions and will. However, given the extreme measures she had taken in rescuing Shurelia, Mir never received any kind of gratitude for it. Instead, Shurelia, the humans, and other reyvateils who refused to defect waged war againt Mir and her forces. The ensuing battles resulted in the destruction of the known civilization and the loss of that period's knowledge and technology.

Shurelia initially started the war as an stalemate with Mir, given that both seemed to have similar power levels. However, as the war progressed, it became apparent that Shurelia didn't have any chance of defeating her, because of Mir's superior singing speed and processing power, which allowed her to be two steps forward from Shurelia.

So Shurelia finally called her old friend and current Hoshiyomi (Star Singer), Tastiella, for help, who sung a Teru song to imprison Mir inside of Grathnode crystals. However, this was not enough, given that Mir transferred all of her Soulspace to Ar tonelico, transformed it into the virus "Shadow", and continued hacking and attacking. Finally, having no other means at their disposal, Tastiella sacrificed herself to finish the construction of the magical machine "Crescent Chronicle", while the second most powerful Pureblooded Beta-type Reyvateil, Lune, sang the hymn EXEC_CHRONICLE KEY/. to imprison Mir within it. As long as a descendant of Lune (one of her clones) sung Chronicle Key, Mir would remain imprisoned.

Involvement in Ar tonelico 1
However, when the current Star Singer, Misha Arsellec Lune, was kidnapped by Bourd Rade of the Tenba Corporation, Mir began to execute her plans to kill all humans on Sol Ciel and create a utopia for Reyvateils, Reyvateilia. Her first move then was to resume her attack on the tower using viruses. While Lyner was still in the Lower World in search of the Purger, Mir awakened, and while she mocked Shurelia for still being the protector of the humans, she killed one of the captains of the Knights of Elemia, and then, she proceeded to hack the weather control system of the Tower, the Musical Corridor. This caused the fall of one of the Hexagonal Plates, and when Shurelia berated her for doing this, which would cause a climatologic disaster in Sol Ciel, Mir just mocked her again, knocked everyone around her unconscious, and then disappeared.

Mir is not seen again until the events involving the Hymn Crystal Linker, in which she appeared in Aurica's Cosmosphere under the guise of Goddess Tylia, and was one of the major driving forces on the search of said crystal. However, this was just a ruse directed by Bishop Falss, who intended to revive Mir to enslave her. However, his plans backfired: once Mir took possession of Aurica's body, she mocked Falss, and dispatched him by infecting him with her viruses. However, before she could do anything to Lyner's friends, Misha was reinstated as the Star Singer and began singing Chronicle Key again, Mir was forcefully separated from Aurica's body, and sent back into her deep sleep state. With this, it seemed that peace would return again to Sol Ciel...

However, Ayatane Michitaka revealed his true intentions and purpose once he had the chance to meet with Shurelia in the Rinkernator, and implanted Mir's consciousness into her body. Mir, now using her new faculties as the Administrator of the Tower, let loose the viruses again, and took away Lyner's father so her enemies couldn't know how to fight against her. However, she saw that this plan was failure once Lyner and the other reached the place where the FFT Divider was stored, and managed to obtain it. In response to this, she sent her ELMA-DS virus and a couple of brainwashed ELMA guardians. Lyner's party defeated them, and proceeded to continue climbing the Tower.

Once they reached the Rinkernator, Mir mocked them again, especially berated Lyner's naïveté, and then, proceeded to harm him greatly. And when Aurica/Misha tried to activate the FFT Divide to separate her from Shurelia's body, she summoned a guardian and blocked it. Then, a fierce battle began, but at the end, Mir fell defeated. Lyner and his party used to chance to try again using the FFT Divider, and this time, it managed to work. However, Mir didn't give up, and returned under the shape of the Shadow virus, and attacked them again. After her defeat, Mir announced that she was one with the Tower, and that no one would be able to defeat her while the Tower was still active. This made Shurelia decide to use the EXEC_SUSPEND/. hymn, her last resource, to stop Mir completely.

A few months later, Mir reawakened thanks to Aurica's singing of the EXEC_RE=NATION/. hymn, and with Ayatane's help, she managed to free herself from the Crescent Chronicle, though she did it partially. Then, she ordered Ayatane to destroy the Plasma Bell that sustained the Wings of Horus. However, Ayatane rebelled against this when he learned that Lyner and his companions were traveling now to find a way to save Mir from the hatred that was consuming her. This greatly enraged Mir, but since she considered Ayatane her own son, she couldn't bring herself to delete him. Instead, she permeated her consciousness into Ayatane's body as soon as they entered into the Silver Horn, and struck him unconscious with a lightning bolt, while a completed ABR guardian attacked Lyner's party.

When Lyner finally told Tastiella the answer to her question, and she opened the doors to the Crescent Chronicle, Mir revealed a gigantic, and demonic virus form, which was the ultimate manifestation of her hatred. Lyner and company defeated it, and when they offered their hands to Mir to stop fighting, she shrieked out, and began attacking them enclosed into a barrier of pure hatred. Lyner and the others then put into themselves the task of breaking up that barrier while avoiding to harm Mir. After this, Mir finally understood that not all humans were evil, and between overflowing tears, she began singing the song that was the token of her gratitude to them: EXEC_RIG=VEDA/. After this, she disappeared, only appearing briefly to tell Ayatane the feelings she was going to contribute to EXEC_PHANTASMAGORIA/.

Involvement in Ar tonelico 2
After the canonical ending of the first Ar tonelico, Mir, together with Jack, Krusche, and Spica departed for Metafalss. It would be later revealed that Mir aimed to save the world using the theories of Metafalica. Mir never revealed her name to anyone in Metafalss, and she hid herself within a robot that was called "Jacqli". The people around her began to refer to her too as Jacqli, but she never really minded it.

She became acquaintances with Laude, a native of the Third Tower, the Tower of Tyria. Although both of them back then aimed for the Heart of Gaea, Laude wanted the heart so that he would be declared as a hero in the Tower of Tyria. Mir worked with him for a while, until she took the heart for herself after Gaea was created. Unfortunately, the she deemed the heart as "too small" to suit her purposes. She returned the heart to Croix and his party, and joined them as a member.

(More details coming later...)

To aid Croix and his party in their quest to realize their dream of creating Metafalica, Mir provided them insights about their missions, especially about the technology and history of the tower. She also provided them support firepower, something which became useful in the destruction of different obstacles for the party. Her cosmosphere deals with her conflicting views on humanity based on her past, one where she wishes to Co-exist with humans and one where she wishes to create a Reyvateil only world. The problem becomes so great that she practically kills herself only to be saved by Croix. Her mind guardian is Ayatane.

In every ending of the game she asks Cocona to take the heart to the Third Tower. In the Mir ending of the game, Croix reveals he knows her real name and sings the first song he made by himself in Hymmnos, bringing her to her knees and in tears. They later depart together to her home in the first tower.

=Jacqli's Hymns and Costumes=

Hymns
EXEC_RIG=VEDA/. - Proof of her gratitude to Lyner's party for having saved her from her hatred. Has the same effects as the original version of Harmonious.

EXEC_SPHILIA/. - Allows communication between two entities, and the opening of the hearts of both.

EXEC_HARMONIOUS_FUSION/. - Calms down the hearts of the listeners, and quells negative emotions.

EXEC_DESPEDIA/. - Acts a control key for the Divine Beam that guards the power generator for the force field protecting the Viena Hymn Crystal, deep inside of the Gyro Stabilizer.

Costumes
Standard (Available by default)

Long Skirt (Received after clearing the Lv. 1 Cosmosphere)

Spirit Gunner (Received after clearing the Lv. 2 Cosmosphere)

Dorky Girl (Received after clearing the Lv. 3 Cosmosphere)

Southern Cross (Received after clearing the Lv. 4 Cosmosphere)

FunboT (Received after clearing the Lv. 5 Cosmosphere)

Lady Drape (Received after clearing the Lv. 6 Cosmosphere)

Miros (Received after clearing the Lv. 7-C Cosmosphere)

Pure Ritual (Received after clearing the Lv. 8 Cosmosphere)

Dark Rose (Received after clearing the Lv. 9 Cosmosphere)

=Trivia=


 * Jacqli's (Mir's) Hymn Code is not actually the one listed in her profile, but it's actually MIR_FEHU_EOLIA_ARTONELICO. It's just that she hacked her Hymn Code and added the new term "Teiwaz" because she couldn't stand the idea of being called a subordinate to Shurelia (the FEHU_EOLIA part roughly "translates to descendant of Eolia").


 * As Mir, she was called the "Second Coming of Goddess Tylia", and as such, she was worshipped like a Goddess. To be more precise, even the people that continue worshiping Tylia in the current times are actually worshiping Mir without them knowing about it.


 * Jacqli's name isn't actually her's, but actually, is the type name of the robot she pilots. It was a robot that was developed in Metafalss around 700 years ago; and it was called "Jakuri" (clear snake) because it had implanted an script that allowed it to change shape. Mir simply painted and outfitted it to match her tastes; and she has even said that even if she doesn't mind having "Jakuri/Jacqli" as an alias; she would have chosen a more cooler name if she had the choice. Also, this means that her ELMA-DS virus and her ELMA-DSRX robot don't have any relationship between them, sans for having similar names and shapes.

=See Also=
 * Jacqli's Song Magic