Miria

Miria is Claymore No. 6 of Clare's generation. Her great speed leaves after-images of herself in battle, confusing the opponent, thus earning herself the nickname, "Phantom Miria."

She is also skilled at teamwork and tactics.

Etymology
"Miria" is a transliteration of the Japanese "Miria" (ミリア).

In the West, "Miria" is a form of "Miriam," Hebrew for either "bitter" or "rebellion," which is suggestive of the Claymore character's attitudes toward the Organizaion.

Miria's Japanese nickname is usually translated as "Phantom Miria," leaving out the irony in her nickname—幻影のミリア or "Gen'ei no Miria" literally means "Miria's Illusion." This meaning can go either way, as Scene 107 shows.

Appearance
Miria has long pale blondish-brown hair and silver eyes. After the Northern Campaign, she sometimes ties it in a ponytail.

Height: 175cm (5ft 8.89in).

Personality
Miria has superior leadership qualities and cares deeply about her comrades. She is also very humble since she only improved her technique on recommendation by Hilda. She takes the deaths of her friends very personally, always distraught when they die. She would do anything to keep them safe: breaking the Organization's rules and keeping dangerous information from them.

She is also intelligent. She is able to formulate successful plans and distrusts the Organization greatly since the death of Hilda.

Phantom Mirage
Miria's trademark technique. A split-second burst of yoki enhances her speed to the point that she leaves an after-image, making a phantom-like impression. It decoys adversaries, used either to avoid or launch an attack.

Limits on yoki use and supply limits Miria's use of this Special Attack. During the seven years in hiding, Miria developed a "New Mirage" that relied on her base strength as opposed to her yoki release. The result is a technique that, although slower than the original, is capable of more subtle movements, and can be used an unlimited amount of times.

Yoki Suppression
Having spent seven years in the northern mountains Miria had learned to completely suppress her yoki in order to remain hidden from the Organization.

Leadership
Miria is rated A+ by the Organization for Leadership. It is also said that Miria is better than the No. 1 in groups. She is also very skilled at teamwork and tactics, shown with her excellent leadership skills during the Northern Campaign and after the seven year timeskip.

Organization Rating
From Claymore Databook 2.


 * Yoki: B+


 * Agility: A+


 * Muscular Strength: C


 * Spirit: B


 * Perception: C


 * Leadership: A+

Employment as a Claymore
Miria joins the Organization together with her friend Hilda. Miria starts as as Claymore No.17. She meets Hilda (No. 6) at an Awakened Being Hunting Party. Hilda's encouragement leads Miria to the Phantom technique.

The two promise to work together again. Unknown to Miria, Hilda is awakening. On a second hunt, Ermita and Ophelia watch Miria in action. He says Miria's team exceed that of No. 1. Miria is promoted No. 8 and earns the nickname "Phantom Miria."

Ophelia
Miria joins a third hunting party. But she gets Ophelia instead of Hilda. Ophelia says she met a Claymore who gave her a Black Card to give to another Claymore. But Ophelia tore it up. Miria is shocked. Then their target appears.

Ophelia almost alone takes down the Awakened Being, but lets Miria cut off its head. But as the head comes off, Miria recognizes Hilda. She despairs that Hilda did not identify herself. Miria awakens, but somehow comes back.

Opheiia reports Miria to Rubel. He does not inform the Organization, but insteads sends Miria on the Paburo Hunting Party.

Eventually, Miriia is promoted to No. 6.

Toriro Hunting Party
At Toriro, Miria leads a hunting party. But she discovers that Clare on her own fought Yoma, despite the possible presence of Awakened Beings. She chastised Clare for disobeying orders. This bad first impression stays with Miria, even after she and Clare are friends. Seven years after the Northern Campaign, Miria still assigns others to "babysit" Clare.

Paburo Hunting Party
At an unnamed town, Miria meets again meets Clare, who is assigned to Miria's hunting party, along with Helen and Deneve. Miria is surprised at Clare's rank of No. 47.

Later that night in the Paburo Mountains, Miria engages Clare in sparring and apparently won.

The next morning, a stranger meets the party, claiming to come from Lido. But Miria recognizes the Awakened Being. Miria immediately suspects the Organization of misinforming them of the creature's strength.

The man morphs into a monster. During the fight, three Claymores go down. Despite Miria's Phantom technique, she goes over her limit. Miria goes down.

Somehow, Clare gets up and cuts off five of the Being's legs. Then Miria gets up and joins Clarre in finishing off the creature.

Afterward, the party compare notes. Miria hypothesizes that the Organization might be trying to get rid of them, because everyone is half-Awakened. Before separating, she advises everyone to conform and not raise suspicions, till Miria gathers more evidence. She draws the symbols of the top five Claymores—warning everyone to stay away from them.

The four bond together, taking a sword oath of honor.

The Northern Campaign
Miria was next encountered as the commander of the Northern Campaign, due to having the highest rank. She demonstrated her tactical skills by the way she organized the task force into small teams that would allow them to gain experience in fighting with Awakened Beings with minimal loss of life. Miria directly led the following Claymores: Queenie (No. 20), Tabitha (No. 31) and Yuma (No. 40). She met with Clare, Helen, Deneve and later Jean after the meeting.

She said that she had heard (probably from Rubel) that Clare had deserted the Organization for a brief period and also confided in them her low expectations of the Campaign.

First Battle
When the first battle came, she organized the troups and managed to defeat an Awakened Being without gaining any injuries, though this success was not reflected in her teammates (Yuma lost an arm). She was then asked probing questions by Undine about her risky battle plans. Miria could not answer them and Flora had to, which Deneve saw as a bad thing.

After the first battle, she came up with a plan for everyone to swallow half a Yoki suppression pill so, when the Claymores fell unconscious, they would be able to play dead since their Yoki would be suppressed. Afterward, they would be able to desert the Organization. Though she apologized and told everyone it was the best she could come up with, this plan was met with approval and was carried forth.

Second Battle
In the second battle, she fought bravely against the Awakened Beings and encountered some success until Rigardo appeared. While the other captains fell, she managed to put up a brave fight against him with the help of Clare, Helen and Deneve. She was almost killed by Rigardo until Clare awakened her legs. During the battle that ensured, she was protected by Helen.

After Rigardo was killed, she aided in the final stand and ultimately fell. Whether she was the last is unknown. However, her plan worked and she survived the battle, along with Deneve, Helen, Cynthia, Tabitha, Yuma and Clare. Despite this, she was extremely upset that everyone else died.

Seven Year Time-Skip
While in seclusion, she developed a new way to greatly increase her normal speed without needing the yoki bursts. Deneve describes the technique as "a new kind of mirage" and although it's slower than her former technique, this is actually considered superior because there are no limits to how many times she can use this ability, as opposed to the short Yoki bursts needed for her mirages.

With this new technique she's also able to achieve more precise movements. She serves as the leader of the survivors, the Seven Ghosts: herself, Cynthia, Deneve, Helen, Tabitha, Yuma and Clare. She stayed with them for seven years, training furiously with the others with the aid of more yoki suppressing pills. She was only swayed to return south by Clare, who discovered signs of Raki's survival.

Audrey's Hunting Party
This was met with approval by the other members and all seven of them went south. When they left the North, Miria accompanied Helen, Deneve and Clare in saving Audrey and Rachel's team from Riful. She rescued Rachel and left quickly. After questioning Audrey, Miria finds out that neither Rafaela or Galatea are with the Organization.

Agatha
When they arrived in Rabona, they found Agatha threatening the city. Miria saved Galatea and destroyed one of Agatha's legs and also helped the other six to finish her quickly.

After the battle, she advised Clarice and Miata to desert the Organization and stated their intention to destroy the Organization. She then told everyone all she knew about the real reason for the Claymore and yoma creation; everything except who told her about it. Then, she arranged with Father Vincent to keep Clarice, Miata and Galatea in Rabona. After a talk with the other six about clearing up any regrets, she arranged that Clare would search for Raki with Cynthia and Yuma, Helen and Deneve would visit the South to Helen's home town and she would remain at Rabona with Tabitha.

Dietrich's Visit
She later attacks a shadowy figure who appeared outside Rabona. The figure turns out to be Dietrich, who informs her of Isley's defeat and Helen and Deneve heading West to find Clare's group. She realizes that Alicia, Beth and the Abyss Feeders will be heading West to attack Riful and that the others may be in danger.

After Dietrich gives her report, Miria attacks Tabitha, immobalizing her. Miria then dons her original claymore outfit and leaves the Holy City of Rabona going after the Organization. When Tabitha came to, Galatea explained to her why Miria attacked her and left, saying that she had something more than any of the other survivors had.

Staff
Miria reaches the Organization and quickly dispatches the remaining warriors including the current Number 3 Audrey and Number 5 Rachel. The observers then sent out a set of twin warriors who can alternate between Awakened and Controllers, the prodagies of Alicia and Beth.

As she fought with the twins, she found herself struggling more and more. After slicing off one of the twin's arms, she came to the realization that she could not kill any warrior or any person after all, contradicting Galatea's expectations. Right when she was about to immobilize the other twin, she dodged Miria's attack and cut deep into her right arm.

The Organization then brought out their No 10, Raftela, to control not only the twins' yoki control, but to also confuse Miria by bringing out her deepest desires of her revenge during the battle. As the battle intensified and the other twin reparied her arm, she confused one of the twins to be Hilda (due to Raftela), the reason for her wanting to destroy the Organization in the first place.

She started crying happily about how she was alive, forgetting that she saw her death. The twin cut deep into Miria, while she was falling further and further into the illusion. Miria was then severely weakened, with the twin's sword sticking through her chest. As she fell down, the other warriors that she immobilized earlier got up and started towards her.

Still believing that the twin was Hilda, she held out her hand, still happily crying and asking for them both to fight again. The other warriors approached her, slicing off her hand while, presumibly slaughtering her. Although there has been no conclusive evidence of her death.

Following the assault on Rabona by the Awakened Beings the Ghosts set out to find out what fate has befallen Miria.

Hilda
Miria first met Hilda when she was put on an Awakened Being hunt led by Hilda. The two warriors became very close and it was Hilda who persuaded Miria to hone her Phantom Move. Miria attributes her promotion to a single-digit to her friend.

Miria saw Hilda as a mentor and a best friend holding her in great esteem, love would not be an inappropriate word. Miria unwittingly killed Hilda post-awakening realizing only afterward discovering who the being was.

She took the death of Hilda very personally and came close to awakening because she was so distraught. She distrusted the Organization from that time on and covertly began investigating the heirarchy and its methods.

Ophelia
Miria holds great hatred for Ophelia ever since she tore up Hilda's Black Card. She attributes that fact that she came back from the brink of awakening because she did not want to give Ophelia the satisfaction. However, she also fears Ophelia's power and bloodlust. She gives Helen, Deneve and Clare special warning against her.

Clare
Miria's first impression of Clare was that she is the strongest of the Claymores and is very surprised when she finds that Clare is actually the weakest. She is the only person of the first Awakened Being hunt not to ridicule her for her low number. She is in awe of Clare's strange powers though and fights beside her, disregarding her number. She keeps an eye on Clare due to Clare's perchant of doing things alone without telling anyone and sometimes orders other members of their team to do the same.

After the time-skip, both she and Clare are nearly equal in battle strength, so much so that Miria feels comfortable with heading back South together with just Clare. They are almost complete opposites in terms of personality, methods, and behavior but despite that, they respect each other for their abilities and have a good working relationship.

Deneve and Helen
Miria continually chastises Deneve and Helen for ridiculing Clare in the first Awakened Being hunt. She is more concern about Helen being reckless than Deneve, who is less confrontational.

Cynthia, Tabitha and Yuma
Miria regards the Cynthia, Tabitha and Yuma as her close comrades and respects them for their talents, using them successfully whenever she can. She governs them proficiently and counts each one of them as useful.

Behind the Scenes

 * Miria's song on Claymore Intimate Persona is "Gen'ei", meaning "Phantom."
 * In the anime, Miria accompanies Helen and Deneve when they follow Clare to Priscilla. When Miria was injured, she tried her best to fight Priscilla but was nearly killed. She deserted the Organization after the battle on her own.