The Phantoms of their Second Battlefield

by reminiscent-afterthought

[01/02] First they were Chosen fighting in the digital world, then their powers blossoms and they found themselves fighting phantoms in their own. But fate has a funny way of running in circles.

5. Mimi

The Phantoms of their Second Battlefield
5. Mimi

Mimi was never a nature girl before Palmon, but then there's Palmon and the crest of sincerity, and that trickles into her real world powers when fighting the phantoms and she's surrounded.

She doesn't mind it too much. It's more defensive than offensive and it means she can protect and divert without doing too much of the hurting or the muscle-work herself. It's the perfect power for her, almost.

More perfect, likely, would be no powers at all but as the years go by, she wonders if that's really too. Years on various battlefields tell her she's not the sort to stand back and do nothing. Stand back and man the defensive lines is one thing. Hide behind someone else's defences because she's powerless – and that's happened on a few occasions even in more recent times – is another thing entirely.

And her plants have interesting abilities. Koushiro has fun exploring them. Jyou even claims some of them to give to his girlfriend in the pharmaceutical department (and she's more than happy to help with that endeavour, even if not for the reasons Jyou claims them for). They work well with Hikari's healing abilities, too, and she makes sure to send a bouquet every now and then when she hears that second team's gotten in to a bit of strife. Sometimes she even lets Sora doctor it a little first. She's picked up some skill in flower arrangements from her mother, after all.

But she has to say, sometimes she misses getting her blood pumping and her hands dirty, and her plants will instead twist around monsters and bind them instead of creating pollinous barricades, and that was fine as well. They let her adapt. They play to her moods, and her strengths, and her need for power to make a change and she knows she's not the only one – in their team or outside – like that, and she might not have charisma as a special power like Taichi but she has enough of it to be a national television star some years down the track and say her piece. She's a bit of a poster girl, even, but that's fine; everyone who deals with her knows she's sincere and that's the more important thing.