Kimura Miyu

Kimura Miyu (木村美由 Kimura Miyu) is one of the Cures in the fanseries Diverse Connections Pretty Cure!.

Appearance
As per her Japanese heritage, Miyu has dark brown hair and eyes. She is at an average height for someone 15, and always wears a black headband.

Personality
Miyu tends to repel those around her, likely due to the fact that she often assumes them to be idiots - a message written in her expression. It doesn't feel as though it's her fault that she's a gifted musician way ahead of everyone, but rather it's everyone else's fault for not being able to keep in perfect harmony with her flute or let her move ahead in to the harder piece in the band program. A lack of sleep may also be a factor in her angry facade, as Miyu tends to push her abilities in other subjects so that any possible classmates talented in that area will "deal with one less idiot".

But when the turmoil of talented classmates against idiotic classmates disappears, Miyu can be found enjoying her music, the music of others and/or other kinds of art. Family and Miyu's puppy Staccato will also bring out a smile on her worn face after a school day of frowning. If neither will suffice, then a little time pacing back and forth will help regain focus and happiness.

Miyu generally uses appropriate honorifics and polite language out of habit and to keep from getting in trouble with teachers. She refers to herself using the genderless pronoun watashi.

Early Life
Miyu was born in Tokyo and lived there in her early childhood. From the age of three, Miyu had taken up the flute like her dad, who taught her. Mom, on the other hand, would help Miyu's ability to play and keep track of a different part at the same time with her ability to play the clarinet - and so the little girl and her parents enjoyed the music they made together. Everything was a little louder, so the music could be heard more clearly and that made it all good, despite Mom and Dad's fears that sounds might be overwhelming. But besides that concern, both Mom and Dad warned Miyu continuously that some musicians would be slower than others. What was that supposed to mean?

Elementary school taught her what that was supposed to mean. Even though little focus was put on the flute and more of it was put on singing and xylophone skills, Miyu found that she could memorize half the song while her classmates would struggle with the first verse. The frustration and exasperation built up for the rest of the year, until in grade 1 Miyu cried out. She was about to punch something or someone she hadn't already hit until the teacher stopped her. Parents were called and friends were lost, so to avoid another similar situation all feelings of the sort were bottled up. In the meantime, Miyu began to expect less and less of her classmates' musical ability, preferring to be impressed rather than disappointed.

And then Mom had to get a job in Hamaki, the growing beachside town the series takes place in. Miyu wasn't disappointed at all; she had heard of the boarding school Hamaki--Rosa. There would be new students from all over, and they might have musical skill and know the flute - or even another instrument that would totally compliment a flute player's! Sadly enough most students weren't like that, but at least there was one hope: she wasn't the only kid far ahead of others. There were some classmates Miyu quickly identified as the ones who got ahead really quickly and always needed a new assignment - could they be dealing with idiots as well? Would it help if one less idiot had to be dealt with? Miyu thinks so. At least there could be someone feeling a similar exasperation, and that's enough.

Becoming Cure Artistry
Someone in the band program had overblown a trumpet during practice. What an idiot, and to top it all off, Miyu's eardrums hurt! She went off somewhere to calm her nerves, maybe pace a bit or play the flute. Silence wouldn't help. The sound of footsteps or flute would help, but the sound Miyu heard didn't help at all.

A figure was standing above her, chuckling. It looked like an upperclassman, sneering at her. "Why do you have to have sound to calm down? It's weird. It's like you crave it. Wouldn't the world be a lot better without a weirdo like you?" The upperclassman had a weird air about him. It seemed inhuman. He seized her wrist, saying that she could be cured of her differences for her own good - but Miyu said no. Yanking her hand away, Miyu dashed away from the scene, flute in hand, running until she got outside and dived into a bush. There was a compass in it, and before Miyu could use it as a knock-out projectile, she transformed into Cure Artistry, the Cure of creative flow and talent.

Miyu returned to class completely frazzled yet unharmed.