Special Investigator Minerva Park

Special Investigator Minerva Park Minerva Slaughter
IRIS agent
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also known as	Minerva Slaughter (birth name)
race	Detective
pronouns	she/her/hers
age	What a rude question!
residence	undisclosed (presumably Wormwood, Edge City)
relatives	Nyx Slaughter (sister, deceased) Khan Mann (brother-in-law, deceased) Hybris (niece)
affiliations	Blue Rose Academy (graduate) IRIS (investigator)

• Minerva: Don't underestimate me, kid! I'll have you know my IQ is in the top 98%!

• Madison: Most people's are.

• Minerva: ...What?

• Madison: Nothing. Never mind.

Minerva Park (birth name Minerva Slaughter) is a special investigator with the Intelligence, Research, and Investigations Service (IRIS).

Early years

Minerva, age 13, at the Blue Rose Academy picrew

Minerva Slaughter was born in Sterling Township in the Zeor state of Lakeland, where she grew up alongside her sister, 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 Lenni case

Minerva's current assignment, under the direct supervision of Edge City governor Andrew S. Stanton, is to find and apprehend Rido Lenni, the teenage boy who acquired psychic powers after inadvertently wandering into an IRIS experiment at Leawood Memorial Hospital.