= Special Investigator Minerva Park =
||<tablestyle="float:right;margin-left:8px;" tablebgcolor="#FFFFFF" :-2>'''Special Investigator Minerva Park'''<<BR>>~-Minerva Slaughter-~||
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||<:-2> ''[[IRIS]] agent''||
||<:-2> {{/minerva1.png||width=300}} <<BR>> ~-[[picrew:707090|picrew]]-~||
||also known as||Minerva Slaughter ~-(birth name)-~||
||race||Detective||
||pronouns||she/her/hers||
||age||What a rude question!||
||residence||undisclosed<<BR>>~-(presumably [[Wormwood]], [[Edge City]])-~||
||relatives||[[Nyx Slaughter]] ~-(sister, deceased)-~<<BR>>[[Khan Mann]] ~-(brother-in-law, deceased)-~<<BR>>[[Hybris]] ~-(niece)-~||
||affiliations||[[Blue Rose Academy]] ~-(graduate)-~<<BR>>[[IRIS]] ~-(investigator)-~||
. '''''Minerva:''' Don't underestimate me, kid! I'll have you know my IQ is in the top 98%!''
. '''''[[Madison Ravenswood|Madison]]:''' Most people's are.''
. '''''Minerva:''' ...What?''
. '''''Madison:''' Nothing. Never mind.''
'''Minerva Park''' (birth name '''Minerva Slaughter''') is a special investigator with the [[IRIS|Intelligence, Research, and Investigations Service]] (IRIS).
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== Early years ==
||<tablestyle="float:left;margin-right:8px;" tablebgcolor="#FFFFFF" :>{{/minerva_young.png||width=240}}<<BR>>~-Minerva, age 13, at the [[Blue Rose Academy]]-~<<BR>>~-[[picrew:2064672|picrew]]-~||
Minerva Slaughter was born in [[Sterling Township]] in the [[Zeor]] state of [[Lakeland]], where she grew up alongside her sister, [[Nyx Slaughter|Nyx]]. At age 13, Minerva stumbled across what she believed to be a casual anime-themed personality quiz online. To her surprise, the "quiz" was, in reality, an application for the [[Blue Rose Academy]], a prestigious private boarding school. She was accepted to the academy and became its youngest student, enrolling as a ninth grade student despite her young age.
Minerva soon learned that the Blue Rose Academy was not an ordinary private school, but a front for [[IRIS]] to recruit exceptionally intelligent children. Upon admission to the school, Minerva was inducted as an IRIS operative, assuming the name '''Minerva Park'''. (She had to ''beg'' her handlers to let her keep the same first name.)
After "graduating" from the Blue Rose Academy, Minerva devised a cover story for her family, claiming to be employed as a postal inspector in [[Edge City]]. She went so far as to fabricate a counterfeit badge, which she often wore in photos she sent to her family. "I mostly do boring stuff like investigating mail fraud," she once told Nyx.
== ''The Book of Equestrianism'' ==
One of Minerva's first investigations under IRIS was an effort to decipher the bizarre encrypted text of the ''[[Book of Equestrianism]]''. Upon noticing her work was attracting unwanted attention from dubious parties, Minerva transferred possession of the book to her sister for safekeeping. Mere days later, Nyx was found dead alongside her husband [[Khan Mann]]. The current whereabouts of the book are unknown—at least to Minerva.
Nyx's daughter, Zeor teen detective [[Hybris]], became aware of Minerva's existence after finding photos of Minerva among her late mother's possessions, but she does not know Minerva is her aunt, nor does she know of Minerva's history with the ''Book of Equestrianism'', which she found alongside the photos. Hybris has, however, deduced that Minerva is not a real postal inspector: Minerva's fake badge, as shown in the photos, features the seal of the government of Edge City, but Edge City is served by the [[Royal Post of Centralia]], and thus real postal inspector badges, even in Edge City, display the seal of the Centralian crown.
== Rido Sterling case ==
Minerva's current assignment, under the direct supervision of [[Edge City]] governor [[Andrew S. Stanton]], is to find and apprehend [[Rido Sterling]], the teenage boy who acquired psychic powers after inadvertently wandering into an IRIS experiment at [[Leawood Memorial Hospital]].
