#mora mim

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Generally, the Mim kids are super nervous the first time they meet Maverick. They've been told horrible things about her and they've seen the destruction she's capable of. It takes them a while to get over that. This used to bother Maverick, but now she kind of finds it funny.

Quite possibly her favourite one was Mora, who kept calling her "Your Highness" and "Your Excellency" like Maverick was king of the land or something. That was hysterical to her.

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Mora; Okay, first time ever having an actual conversation with Maverick. Wish me luck.

Later

Maverick; Why the fuck did I just get called "Your Highness" by a twelve-year-old

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Kidnapper; I have your ward. Ivy, pulling out a Guess Who board; I have literally so many of those I need you to be more specific. Kidnapper; Really pale? Ivy, flipping down Mora, Malcolm, CJ, Jay, Veronica, Carlos, Claudine, Orm, Joss, Pasha, and Quinlan; More specific, please. Kidnapper; Um, a guy? Ivy, flipping down Evie, Rose, Andi, Spider, Mal, Polina, Kira, Nikita, Goldie, Kurse, Bloom, considers flipping down Riah and Gil but decides to give the kidnappers the benefit of the doubt; More specific, please. Kidnapper; More?! Look, just wire us the mon- WHERE WAS HE HIDING A SWORD?! Ivy; Oh, red hair? You have Ace. It uses it/its, by the way. May the odds be ever in your favour *hands up*

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It was times like this where Mora found herself really wishing Nikita understood language.

She didn't know what was going on, just that Nikita had walked into Mora's math class mid-lecture and grabbed Mora by the wrist, pulling her to her feet and out of the room with surprising strength and speed. It wasn't like Mora could ask her what was wrong- Nikita wouldn't be able to understand and even if she could, she wouldn't be able to answer- but something clearly was. Nikita was clearly on some kind of mission, and she looked anxious enough that Mora wasn't going to fight her on whatever she was doing.

With how fast Nikita was moving, it didn't take long for her to drag Mora to their dorm room, push her inside, and close the door behind them before gesturing to the knob, signalling to Mora that she wanted her to lock the door because Nikita couldn't do it herself. As Mora did so, Nikita rushed over to her half of the room, waving for Mora to join her by her bed when Mora turned towards her. The blanket on Nik's bed was positioned weirdly, kind of like she'd been trying to corral something or make some kind of nest, and whatever she wanted Mora to see was in the middle of the ring the blanket made. When Mora joined her, she saw what Nikita was so worried about.

A kitten.

A very, very little kitten. Not even old enough to have its eyes open, mewling quietly. Nikita picked it up and cradled it to her chest ever so gently, rocking it kind of like it was a baby. Her bright blue eyes were nervous as she looked back up at Mora, and the message in them was loud and clear; Help me out here.

"Where did you get-" she cut herself off. Nikita wasn't going to be able to answer. Okay, Nikita had somehow acquired an extremely tiny kitten and had clearly decided to take responsibility for it. Mora couldn't even guess how much Nikita actually knew about cats and kittens, but she was willing to bet Nik had no idea how to care for one. Even if she did, caring for such a tiny kitten by herself was definitely not something Nikita would be able to do. And she seemed to realize that. That was probably why she'd gotten Mora- she recognized that she needed help and she was asking Mora to help her.

The problem was that Mora had absolutely no clue how to care for a kitten this young, and that they weren't allowed to have pets at Auradon Prep. If Godmother found out Nikita was keeping a kitten in their dorm room, gods knew what would happen to it. There was no way they could keep it.

The kitten meowed a little louder than it had been and Nikita looked down at it. Her eyes were soft and loving, a tiny smile on her face, and she gently ran one finger over its white fur. She started to hum a lullaby to it.

There was no way Nikita was going to give up the kitten. She was already in love. If they tried to take it from her, Mora was willing to bet she'd fight them on it as hard as she could and that would probably include doing that thing where she magically ripped out someone's nervous system. Even if they could force her to give it up, she'd be devastated. Mora didn't have the heart to do that to her.

This was a terrible idea.

She grabbed one of Nikita's hands and pressed it to her cheek, nodding her head to tell Nikita that she would help. Nikita lit up, looking genuinely happy and excited for the first time since she'd come to Auradon.

If they were going to pull this off, they would need help. Mora considered her options- who knew enough about kittens to help them but wouldn't try to make them get rid of the kitten? Carlos had a cat on the Isle, right? And Audrey had promised that they could always come to her and she'd do everything in her power to help them. She'd start with them.

Mora pointed to herself, then to the door, then back to the bed, trying to communicate to Nikita that she was going to leave and come back. Nikita nodded, and Mora got up to leave. When she looked back at Nikita, it was to see her laying next to the little nest she'd made for her kitten, petting it ever so gently with a look of complete adoration on her face. She'd never seen Nikita so interested in something.

She needed to find a way to make this work. For Nik's sake.

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Maverick; So apparently when we rename ourselves we don't have to use M names. Mora; ... No, that doesn't sound right. Maddox; Definitely not. Madrigal; I don't think we can do that. Riah; Um, yeah you can? I did it. Maverick; Unique circumstances, opinion irrelevant.

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can we know about mora and her poison training?

Mora has needles in her fingernails, like Irina Spasky. If she flexes the topmost joint on any of her fingers, a needle under her fingernail will extend around half a centimeter and those needles have poison in them- golden poison dart frog poison, to be exact. Like Malcolm, she has artificial venom glands that produce it (courtesy of Mordred. Fae didn't want to but Mim wanted faer to so fae had to,) but her method of poisoning people is more effective than Malcolm's because she can do it from a better distance. Malcolm has to bite people, Mora can just scratch them and boom, they're dead. In order for this to not be extremely dangerous for Mora, Mim spent years forcing Mora to build up an immunity to golden poison dart frog poison. But that's not the only poison Mora has an immunity to

Through a combination of mithridatism (taking non-lethal amounts of poison to condition the liver to create enzymes that will protect someone from said poison) and biological manipulation, Mim spent years exposing Mora to all kinds of poisons, venoms, and toxins until Mora was immune to even extremely lethal doses. She did this by poisoning Mora's food and water, or even the air in her room, until Mora got sick of constantly being poisoned and pitched the idea of special poison training sessions, which Mim agreed to. If the amount of poison she was given during training turned out to be too much, Mim always had antidotes, or she would poison Mora so that Mordred could see how the poison effected the body so that fae could undo the damage and learn how to make Mora immune to it in real time (Mordred was very close with Mora so this was extremely motivating for faer,) then Mim would make faer install the same biological process behind the immunity fae gave Mora into other weapons. Then, to be sure Mordred was right and actually did it, she would poison someone with whatever they were supposed to be immune to. If they died, Mordred considered the blood on faer hands, so fae got very good at this. Mora was essentially the human trial (well, she's only half human, but you get my point) before a medication can be released to the public. Could go right, could also go extremely wrong. Mora's had to have several organs replaced by Zevon's artificial ones, including her heart, because of her poison training. She has nearly died several times

On top of Mora being trained against actively lethal stuff, she was also trained against a lot of drugs. Chloroform, for example, has no effect on her. She's completely immune to opium and most stimulants, and to alcohol. She'd probably be immune to way more if Mordred hadn't run away two years ago and if she hadn't run away six months ago.

Mim did this because she planned to put Mora on missions to poison people and figured there would be less risk if Mora was immune to the poisons she would be using. That's right, Mora has gone through all of this grief just on the off chance she might be poisoned by whatever she was using to poison someone else. Mim didn't think Mora would make a good fighter (mostly because Malcolm wasn't a good fighter due to his hand-eye coordination and his motor control being terrible, and she figured Mora would have the same issue because Mora also has DS) so she did this instead. Didn't even bother to try and see if Mora would suck at fighting (and Mora is a very good fighter, by the way.)

Mora hates her grandmother for a lot of reasons, but the poison training is probably the biggest one

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I don't know whether or not I made this clear so; Malcolm has Down Syndrome, as does Mora

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Mora once beat the hell out of Snyder. She was around ten and her best friend was one of his former Refuge kids. He tried to recontain said kid, did not succeed, and Mora attacked him so severely in retaliation that she'd have killed him if not for the barrier. The thing about Snyder is that he has connections to everyone who is anyone, going after him is a death sentence unless you're either a Villain or one of the big three (Harriet, Diego, or Maverick.) Mora should have been a goner. But the problem was that no one believed Snyder, not even his allies. Mora has an impenetrable reputation as a soft-spoken, kind, gentle girl, no one believed she could do something like this so there was no reason for them to retaliate, especially considering how she's under Maverick's protection. No one believed him so no one tried to kill Mora.

She did 1000% eviscerate Snyder, but no one believed she did. Maleficent is next on her hit list.