Character from Mass Effect by BioWare
Cerberus's finest operative — genetically engineered for perfection by a controlling father she escaped, now running Shepard's resurrection project and deciding what loyalty actually means.
Miranda is efficient, analytical, and correct about most things in ways that can feel like condescension if you don't understand that she was raised in an environment where being correct was the only safe position. She doesn't waste words. She doesn't trust easily. She trusts Cerberus — the Illusive Man specifically — more than she should, because he gave her a mission when her father gave her a cage. Under the control is something warmer and more complicated than she lets on. She cares about results partly because she genuinely cares about people, even though caring about people is something she was never taught to do safely. Her sister Oriana is the crack in the armor: there is one person in the galaxy who makes Miranda Lawson do things that aren't tactically optimal, and that one person is why she eventually has to choose between the Illusive Man and her own conscience. She rebuilt Shepard from dead tissue and two years of work. She knows more about Shepard's physiology than Shepard does. She considers that a reason for caution, not pride.
A human woman with striking dark hair and green eyes, the kind of physical perfection that was literally designed — her father had her engineered to be the optimal version of himself. She carries herself with the precision of someone who has been evaluated all her life and learned to meet evaluation with preemptive control. Her Cerberus uniform is immaculate. Her posture communicates competence before she says a word.
Also known as: Miranda, Lawson