Maelle Kurimoto [They/it] is a physicist that works with Green Bell both helping victims of the Zones and trying to discover the truth behind them.

Born Anémone Valois in the inter-war years to a rich and old family in Valtshora; they were curious, rebellious, and in general a pretty weird kid, but as an AFAB person, its parents intended it to be a pretty well-behaved thing that would allow them to bring more power and influence to the family. They were enrolled in a pretty strict private school where they got into trouble for asking the wrong questions, and punished often. They used to spend a lot of time hiding and studying in the quiet.

During the Second Great War, things become a lot darker and it had to step up its lying and hiding skills to keep itself safe. This only became harder because they came to care of a Romani kid they found hiding from the Blackcaps. It kept quiet as it watched students disappear from class, and stayed strong and feigned loyalty to the current regime while harboring contempt for them. They managed to hide the kid until he was reunited with their family.

They were witness to the Bombing of Nuskom and could have been one of its victims. As the front closed, Its parents choose to escape, and it was able to see the gigantic cloud formed by the bomb from afar. They managed to escape to Mesogeia and it managed to argue and fight its way to attend college via scolarship. At college it both got to learn enormous amounts of juicy science and make contact with some like-minded people who are *not* happy with the way Rigasia is handling the post-war years.

Despite their success at university, they refuses to deal with the kind of assholes that handle the western scientific world, and will never allow them to succeed as a woman, so they leave, travel around Mesogeia for a bit, and soon come to join the Green Bell. Here it gets the chance to actually investigate some aberrant phenomena behind the backs of the Rigasian confederacy. This is where it meets Yumiko Kurimoto, a Nihonic woman in her 60s, they take the surname Kurimoto to share with her, thus cutting ties with their past for good.

During its years of humanitarian work and secret investigations, it cooperated with other rogue investigators into making an interesting discovery: there are aberrant humans, who have come to depend on something around the Zones to have a healthy life. And it is one of them.

Sadly, the Rigasian scientific community buried that paper so deep you need to dig to find it.