Resident Evil - Mother Miranda, the journey to the impossible

     Resident Evil is a survival horror video game series that started in the 1990s and continues to produce games. It is my favorite video game series of all time. The game and character I will be focusing on in this is Mother Miranda from the eighth game Village. Mother Miranda was a poor woman in a small mountain town in the outskirts of Romania during the Spanish flu. At this time, her infant daughter contracted the disease and died. In her sadness she wandered into the tunnel system beneath the village to die, but while there she discovered something otherworldly. She called it the Megamycite, a massive heart that consumed the consciousness of everyone buried in the village. When Miranda touched it, she saw glimpses of all of these consciousness, including her daughters. With this, she found purpose once more. She began experimenting with the Megamycite. She learned how to mutate it to create parasites she could surgically put into people to mutate them. Her hope, to create the perfect vessel with which she could transfer her daughters consciousness into the body of another. So she could be with her daughter once more.

    During this time, she mutated herself, giving her immortality and abilities with which she used to control the entire village. She turned herself into a sort of religious figure, hence Mother Miranda, and began experimenting on the villagers to attempt to find her perfect vessel. She became a monster, a murderer. All of this on her journey to bring her daughter back. She ruined the lives of countless people, even separating mothers from their daughters during her reign.

    When we become so fixated on what we think is right, on the end goal of our journey, we can lose sight of what we become during that travel. Miranda started as a suicidal, grief stricken mother who would go to the ends of the earth to get her daughter back, and through her pilgrimage of grief and madness, she turned into a religious cult leader dedicated to killing anyone she needs to achieve her goal. A journey of discovery can be massively beneficial for a person, but it is important to remember who you are, why you are walking this journey, and your morals. If you become too consumed by what you want, but the light at the end of your trail, it can morph you into something you don't recognize. 

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