Mira

Mira is a female Homo sapien who was enslaved by a mysterious group of Vikings, but escaped and soon encountered Spear and Fang who became her companions. She is the tritagonist of Primal.

Appearance

Being an adult Homo sapien, Mira stands significantly taller than Spear, a Neanderthal, and possesses a slender, hairless, lean body. She is seen wearing a tattered dress-like garment. Her head is shaved, and she has a burn mark in the shape of a scorpion-like symbol on the back of her head.

After being captured and enslaved once more by Ima, Mira is dressed in a dancer outfit that all her female slaves wear. She wears an orange crop top with a black border, V-shaped briefs, and an orange veil loincloth skirt. She also has hoop earrings. Mira also now has some makeup as her eyelashes are now more pronounced.

Before she was a slave, she wore a pattered yellow and red dress and wore a headwear and gold earrings. Her hair is black, styled into an afro. By the end of season 2, her hair had finally grown back.

Personality

When first encountered by Spear and Fang, Mira was understandably anxious and distressed. When calm, she displays a trusting and generous nature, offering to share food with Spear and even making several attempts to start conversation, despite the cultural advancement gap between the two.

When freed from her shackles, a grateful Mira begins to actively contribute to the group. She crafts a bow and begins helping with hunting, and even helps coax Fang up a cliff side when the dinosaur was too nervous to make the trek upwards. She also grows closer to Spear, explaining (to the best of her ability) her backstory to him.

After reuniting with Spear, Mira refuses to abandon her fellow slaves, showing strong empathy. During the escape from the Viking village, Mira helps lead her people to freedom. She does show an aggressive side, being ready to fight and kill a Viking and his bear without hesitation. However, she did not revel in killing one of her captors and even dropped the bloodied axe with a look of revulsion. This shows that Mira is willing to kill in self defense but takes no pleasure in bloodshed.

Mira is also shown to be nurturing, as she is shown tending to Spear and Fang's wounds in Vidarr.

Though Mira is usually the most level headed of the group, she can go into a rage as shown by how her attacks became more vicious after Kamau inadvertently killed one of Fang’s eggs.

History

Mira hails from a peaceful farming civilization across the sea. She and her moon-worshiping people had advanced far enough to develop craftsmanship and agriculture.

However, when the Vikings attacked, she, along with the other people of her town, was taken captive and enslaved. While being transported by ship, she managed to slip overboard and swam to the nearest land mass, which happened to be the home of Spear and Fang.

Mira is first seen bursting up from underwater in a panic in an initially peaceful cove, with a Liopleurodon in hot pursuit. She runs past Spear and Fang into the safety of a nearby forest. After defeating the Liopleurodon, Spear runs after her. After being cornered by the caveman and his dinosaur, Mira stops running and huddles by a campfire hastily made by Spear. Spear, curious, decides to stay the night and watch Mira, and sleeps nearby with Fang. During the night, Mira awakens and praises the moon, much to Spear's curiosity.

The next day, Spear and Fang awaken and resume their travels, with Mira deciding to follow. During the day, Spear and Fang hunt for food, bringing down a prehistoric deer and sharing the meat amongst themselves. Disgusted by the raw meat, Mira collects several roots and berries nearby, combining the ingredients in a turtle shell and creating a meat stew. She cooks it over the fire, again grabbing Spear and Fang's interest. She offers some to Spear, who tries it but spits it out, preferring raw meat instead. At night, Mira praises the moon again while Spear and Fang sleep nearby.

The next morning, Mira awakens with painful cramps in her neck and wrists due to her wooden neck collar and shackles. Spear notices this and has Fang bite off the wooden collar, while he smashes off the shackles with a stone. Mira is grateful and tells them her name, but they do not understand what she means. Mira decides to continue following the duo. During their travels, Mira collects several resources along the way, crafting herself a bow. She later uses this bow to help kill an Anzu that Fang had been chasing, essentially catching Spear and Fang's dinner. While eating, with Spear even gaining a liking for cooked meat, Spear carves the scorpion symbol on the back of Mira's head into the dirt, asking what it means. Mira explains her backstory: slavers had raided her village and kidnapped her people. While being taken back to the slaver's warlord, Mira jumped overboard and escaped, eventually meeting up with Spear and Fang. Spear looks bitterly at the drawing of the warlord

The next day, the trio continues traveling. By this point, Spear trusts Mira to the point that he allows her to ride on Fang, something the dinosaur agrees with. After a long day of travel, the trio try rest in a cave. Fang is nervous climbing up to the cave, so Mira adapts and temps her with grubs to get the dinosaur to follow. The next day, Spear and Fang awaken to find Mira being kidnapped by ape-men. Despite easily cutting down dozens of the primates, Spear and Fang are too late as the slavers have returned, slaughtering the rest of the ape-men and recapturing Mira. From the shore, Spear and Fang somberly watch on as the slaver's ship sails away with Mira, with Spear uttering Mira's name as his first true word. ("Slave of the Scorpion")

Mira was taken by her Viking captors to a village and held in a shed with other slaves. Eventually Spear and Fang, who had travelled across the ocean to save her, discover the village. Spear enters the shed and begins asking the startled slaves where Mira is with his limited vocabulary. She recognizes his voice and pushes to the front of the crowd to reunite with and embrace Spear. She is pleasantly surprised that he learned to say her name. Spear tries to leave with Mira, but she refuses to abandon her people, and Spear eventually agrees to help all of them escape.

Spear and Mira lead the slaves to sneak out of the village. Though they do manage to go undetected, Spear hears growling of bears in the fog, signalling there are enemies approaching. (“Dawn of Man”)

Vikings and their bear mounts appear through the fog and stop the group. The slaves, sans Mira, immediately bow out of fear. She reluctantly follows soon afterward and tries to get Spear to stand down since she worries he cannot fight so many armed enemies. The arrival of Fang and the ensuing fight provides a distraction, and Mira tells her fellow slaves to run.

During the chaos, Mira is confronted by a Viking and his bear and dodges the attack. She climbs to the roof of a building and spots a clearing in the forest. She tells the other slaves to run to the clearing and arms herself with a spear from the Vikings’ arsenal.

A Viking and his bear chase after Mira, and she turns and stabs the bear in the mouth with her spear. She manages to use her spear in a Tai Chi-esque style to flip the bear and its rider over herself and onto the ground. Before the Viking can get up, Mira quickly grabs his axe and decapitates him.

After the village is slaughtered, Mira leads the bloodied and injured Spear and Fang to the harbour and escapes in a boat with them. (“The Red Mist”)

Mira tends to the wounded Spear and Fang on the boat after they escaped the Viking village. After some time, the Chieftain and his son managed to find them and ram their own boat into the group’s.

Relationships

Other Slaves

She cares deeply for the other slaves. After being freed by Spear, she manages to usher them out into the forest for safety and to find their way back home, while fighting back against one of the Vikings.

Spear

At first, Mira was afraid of Spear, but due to their curiosity for each other, she starts to befriend him, and eventually the two became close, later having her teach him and coax Fang. In Dawn of Man, happy to see him again, she hugs Spear in delight that he came to free her and her people. After saving her people from the Chieftain, Mira soon mated with Spear shortly before his death. Years after Spear's battle, it is revealed that Mira gave birth to a daughter who would follow in her father's footsteps in order for his legacy to live on.

Fang

Mira was visibly horrified at Fang, even having been suspected for something. Overtime the two ended up being on good terms as Mira won Fang over with her cooking, hunting skills, and patience.

Fang's Offspring

To be written

Amal

To be written

Abilities

• Intelligence: Mira's sapient-level intelligence grants her the ability to perform complex rational thinking and problem-solving, making it a useful asset while traveling with Spear and Fang. By observation from Spear's social cues, Mira could understand that the duo were not a threat, and later found a solution to overcoming their language barrier with drawings to communicate. Mira has also demonstrated improvisational resourcefulness, from understanding that her new environment required adaptation, and as such collected items she would eventually use to craft weapons and overcome various challenges.
  • Culinary Knowledge: Mira has displayed some culinary knowledge, being able to gather spices, plants, and other items in the forest, start a fire in order to make a stew from the raw meat.
  • Helmsmanship: Mira has been shown to be able to steer a boat and can avoid obstacles in a rapid river.
  • Carpentry Skills: Mira has enough knowledge to repair a hole in the side of a boat.
  • Master Archer: Mira is shown to be a skilled archer and bowyer, capable of crafting herself a bow and arrows from sticks and stone. Mira successfully shot and killed a fleeing Anzu in seconds, whereas Spear and Fang initially had trouble capturing the dinosaur even with weapons.
• Exceptional Athleticism: Alongside her exceptional intelligence, Mira has shown that she is capable of moving with great agility and balance.

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Trivia

• The name Mira means "ocean/sea" in (Sanskrit) "fate" (Greek), "(little) princess", "good", "nice" (Arabic) and "princess" (Kurdish). Given that she speaks Arabic, the latter two meanings are more likely.
• She is the first character in the series to ever speak on screen. Specifically, she speaks entirely in Arabic
• Based on the cultural themes shown in Echoes of Eternity, her people are most likely based on South Pacific Aborigines, West Africans and Arabs.
• Mira is the third character that allied with Spear and Fang, with the first being the Monkey-looking cavemen, and the second being Lula.
• Judging by her reaction, her kind must have not had coexisted with the dinosaurs (or any previous form of humans), although aware of animals, she is frightened by the new species she had encountered.
• Mira shows signs/semblance of religion and religious beliefs, as she is shown praying to the moon at one point.
• She is the only one of her people to wear white cloth, calm them down, and stay back. This brings in some implication about her status.
  • In the finale it has been confirmed she's the daughter of a tribe leader.
• Mira's name is the only word Spear ever spoke.
• At the end of Echoes of Eternity, Mira's hair had eventually grown back.