Mia Wesley

Mia Wesley is an Ethite woman known for walking unveiled, breaking Ethite touch taboos, and harassing Ethite enforcers. She has led multiple demonstrations in southwestern Ethion against enforcers taxing local Pelan businesses and farmers.

History

Let future generations look back at me and consider my entire life my ordeal

Mia is the youngest of four children, born in Mevi to Aran and Marilyn Wesley. Her father was an Allabasi man originally from Liri who moved to Mevi after marrying her mother and developed a reputation as a savvy businessman. For much of her childhood, she fought against the ant-Pelan movement, stating that it too closely resembled the struggles that her father and grandfather had faced in Liri. At the age of twenty, she denied the Ordeal of the Mirage, and moved south to be closer to her brother, also named Aran.

Protests

If they should harass our neighbors, why should we not harass them back?

Mia has led several successful protests in southwestern Nefrale, in cities such as Tsiif Iltaa against Ethite Enforcers, particularly those who try to arrest Pelan businessmen for not paying taxes. In the last decade, taxes in southeastern Ethion have risen greatly, with Pelan refugees being most heavily affected. Mia is famous for protesting by insulting Ethite enforcers, following them through the city with mocking song, and even leading other women to block the street by dancing. On occasion, they have smashed the windows of enforcer vehicles, but overall the protests have remained peaceful. Numerous Ethite women (and others) have followed her in this movement, bothering enforcers until they leave out of exhasperation.
secrets

Mia does not wear a veil because subscribes to a more traditional sect of the Ethite religion, from before the time that women wore veils. This sect also still practices cannibalism, though in secret, as it is now illegal in Ethion. Mia was not raised in this tradition, but she found an orthodox temple while trying to keep away from her abusive grandfather, and has supscribed to this version ever since.