Mikel - XERES LIVE!

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Basic Information

Full Name

Mikel Nelch

Nickname

None

Race (Grade)

Human (F)

Class

Coffee Expert

Height

5'6"

Birthday

Sunspeak 2, 1285

Age

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Birthsign

The Radiant Treant

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Bloodline Ability

🔮 Unknown

This Bloodline ability has not yet been unveiled to you.

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Physical Description

Mikel Nelch, Owner of Sundollar

Appearance

Mikel is barely into her twenties and dresses like she already knows it won't stay true forever, favoring rich, formal gowns and a delicate circlet that make her look more like Market Street royalty than a coffee-shop owner, deep green and gold silk, warm auburn hair worn long and loose in waves down past her waist. Her smile is quick and genuine, the kind that puts a room at ease before she's said a word, which makes the moment she pulls her hand back from an offered handshake all the more noticeable. She keeps a small vial of cleaning tonic on a chain at her hip, tucked among her jewelry so it barely reads as anything but decoration.

Unique Characteristics

Mikel will not shake hands, not once, not for anyone, and has an entire repertoire of alternatives ready before you can finish extending yours: a small bow, a raised cup in toast, a wave, whatever gets the moment past without contact. She wipes down every surface she's about to work at before she'll touch it, a habit so automatic she does it to tables in other people's homes without appearing to notice she's doing it.

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Personality & Temperament

Positive Traits

Speaks her mind, no matter who's listening
Fiercely knowledgeable about wounds and illness
Genuinely warm despite an aversion to touch
Keeps Sundollar spotless, welcoming, and calm

Challenging Traits

Visibly recoils from any sign of sickness
Will not shake hands, even when it offends
Blunt to a fault, tact isn't her strong suit
Judges cleanliness harshly, sometimes unfairly

I'll pour you the best cup of coffee in Goodberry. I will not, however, be shaking your hand to celebrate that fact.

You've had that cough for three days and you're only mentioning it now? You probably have Schistosomiasis. Gross. Come here, let me see...

I say what I think because someone in this conversation should, and it's clearly not going to be you.

Likes

A perfectly clean countertop before opening
Cake pops shaped like little suns
Diagnosing an ailment before the healer does
Honest reactions, even when they sting a little

Dislikes

Handshakes, hugs, or any surprise touch
Visible illness left untreated in public
Vague answers when she asks a direct question
Dontaru most days

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Background & History

What the Sickness Taught Her

Mikel spent a long stretch of her teenage years nursing a sick parent through an illness that dragged on far longer than anyone expected, learning wound care and remedy-craft out of sheer necessity, one worried night at a time. She came out the other side of it fiercely capable and just as fiercely unwilling to be caught unprepared by illness again. The knowledge stayed. So did the wariness of anything that might carry sickness into a room she cares about.

Four Friends, One Road

Mikel just turned twenty-one, and left home for Goodberry with three close friends, Hibo, Jessifer, and Dontaru, chasing a fresh start together rather than apart. Several of them have already opened businesses on Market Street, Hibo's Gacha Covered a few doors down among them, and Mikel counts it as no coincidence that a city known for diversity, kindness, fairness, and safety was the one that finally felt worth staying in.

Sundollar Opens

Sundollar serves artisanal coffee, tea, and pastries, most famously a rotating menu of cake pops, out of a bright, spotless storefront on Market Street, and it has already become something of a phenomenon with the ladies of Goodberry. Mikel runs it exactly the way she runs everything else: warmly, bluntly, and with an almost obsessive standard of cleanliness that regulars have come to find charming rather than off-putting. She still won't shake a customer's hand on their way out, no matter how good a first impression they've made.

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Goals & Aspirations

The Gathering Place

Mikel wants Sundollar to become the place Goodberry's newcomers and old friends both gravitate toward, the way her own friend group gravitated toward each other before any of them had a shop to their name. A full room of regulars matters to her more than a full coin box.

Steady Hands, Eventually

Privately, Mikel wants to get better at actually treating people, not just diagnosing them from a careful distance. Her knowledge is real and it's saved trouble more than once, but her own aversion to touch and mess still stops her short of doing the hands-on work a real healer would. She hasn't told anyone she's working on it. She's just started keeping cleaner bandages behind the counter, just in case.

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Current Status & Relationships

Residence

Goodberry

Role

Coffee Shop Proprietor

Relationships

Hibo Robaga

Old Friend, Fellow Shop Owner

Jessifer Kettlewick Fairweather Crowe

Old Friend, Owner of Nomekop!

Dontaru

Old Friend, Now in Silmarithil

ATTENTION!

Mikel will not shake your hand, will say exactly what she's thinking whether or not you asked, and will visibly recoil if you walk into Sundollar with so much as a sniffle. None of it is unkind, she genuinely means well and knows more about treating an injury than most people expect from a coffee-shop owner, but newcomers should be warned before they take the bluntness or the flinch personally.