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TAKAMIYA MIO
from Date A Live
by JasonVox
Mio Takamiya (崇宮 澪) is a mysterious woman connected to both Shido and Mana’s past. She is also known as the Spirit of Origin (始原の精霊) due to her existence as the source for the appearance of other Spirits.
The First Spirit was the first Spirit to ever make an appearance on Earth. 30 years before the beginning of the events in Date A Live, she was summoned into the world by Sir Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott, Ellen Mira Mathers, and Elliot Baldwin Woodman through the Spirit Formula gathering all the world’s mana into a single point.
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However, her birth also caused the first Spacequake in history at some point of the frontier between China and Mongolia, killing over 150 million people and starting a chain of similar disasters around the world that would last approximately six months.

The First Spirit was born on Christmas when Sir Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott, Elliot Baldwin Woodman, and Ellen Mira Mathers used the Spirit Formula to gather all of the world’s mana in a single location. However, her birth also caused the first Spacequake to happen, which destroyed a huge part of Eurasia. After her birth, the First Spirit continuously fluctuated between reality and another dimension that was created as a result of her birth. Because of this, smaller Spacequakes would happen every time she appeared in the world, which would ravage the world a few months after her birth.

Mio then informed Kurumi about her identity as the First Spirit and her plan to purify the Qlipha Crystals into Sephira Crystals by using humans as sacrifices. However, Mio hesitated when asked about her motives. She apologizes and states that she had no ill will towards Kurumi, but she cannot stop until she had entrusted her power to those chosen among humanity. Afterwards, she thanked Kurumi for all of the work she has done so far and told her to get some rest before causing Kurumi to blackout, erasing all of Kurumi’s memories except for the knowledge of how to use her Angel.
In her attempt to bring back Shinji, Mio is even willing to sacrifice the Spirits, despite viewing them as her daughters, and even erase Shido’s identity. However, she openly acknowledges the selfishness of her actions. Deep down, she understands that Shido cannot truly replace Shinji and hoped to create someone powerful enough to put her out of her misery. After coming to terms with this, Mio becomes determined to protect her remaining loved ones, even at the cost of her own life.
Ain Soph Aur
Known as the Angel of Death, it is a huge flower containing a statue of Mayuri at the center of the petals. the flower constantly emits particles of light that instantly kills everyone that comes in contact with it, even shutting off the functions of inorganic targets like Bandersnatch and warships.
Ain Soph
Called the Angel of Laws, the tree is decorated with flowers and branches that pierces the sky and reshapes the surrounding landscape, giving it a monochrome, chessboard-like appearance.
Ain
Ain can instantly illuminates the entire world with light before erasing whomever or whatever she desires from reality.
Henet
Summons a small palm size flower bud that releases a concentrated energy beam of particles from Ain Soph Aur. Anything that comes in contact with the energy beam will instantly die regardless of any defense.
Anaph
Manifests a branch of Ain Soph to serve as a sharpened blade.
Sephira Creation
Mio was even able to divide her own power between ten Qlipha Crystals, which she later purified into Sephira Crystals by cycling them through sacrificial hosts, and bestow them onto those she had chosen within humanity.