| Michelle Hadje/Sasha | |
|---|---|
| she/her | |
| |
| Source: Floe | |
| Cladistics | |
| Clade | The Ode clade |
| Uploaded | -7+309 |
| Quit | 182+289 |
Michelle Hadje/Sasha (born 2086-03-17) was an early upload to the System. She played a major role in the early history of the System, and her and her clade became historical figures.
History
Early life
Michelle Rachel Hadje was born in 2086 to Anna Baumgartner and Elijah "Eli" Hadje.
She grew up in Boulder, Colorado in the Central Corridor, received her degree in theater education from Colorado State University. She taught high-school theater, spending much of her free time on the 'net where she frequented The Crown Pub, a furry hangout, interacting first as a panther and later as a skunk.
Getting lost
Michelle was one of the last individuals lost. She was affected while searching after what had happened to her friend AwDae and getting entangled with some of the politics associated with the Lost. She was rescued after sixteen hours and twenty-three minutes by her and AwDae's friend Debarre.
After some weeks spent recovering from the ordeal, she became an activist and speaker surrounding the issues of the lost and other related protections surrounding digital health for humanity, for which she gained much social popularity and a mix of both popularity and enmity in the political arena.
Early life sys-side
Michelle and Debarre pooled their resources to upload in 2117, and in 2124, she forked ten times, marking the beginning of the Ode clade.
After uploading, she experienced severe dissociation and difficulty maintaining a single form and identity, mirroring her experience while lost. Her appearance is described as shifting constantly between human and skunk. In this state, touch feels uncomfortable or disgusting, and focus is hard to maintain. Because of this, she forked the first ten lines of the Ode clade in 0 in order to continue her work on the Council of Eight without so much distraction, intentionally ensuring that each fork only maintained a single form. Consequently, each of the first ten lines wound up with an abiding fixation on a particular aspect of her identity.
Later life and quitting
After this point, she retired, often describing herself as 'dead', and leaning into the split identity, thinking of herself as Michelle/Sasha. From then on, she spent much of her time seeking comfort and leaned most heavily on her clade and a few close friends for companionship.
On 182+289, after the events that led to Qoheleth's assassination, Michelle/Sasha called her clade (limited to those named after the lines of the Ode) to her sim where she merged all memories (comprising an estimated 6000 years lived in parallel) and quit, leaving the clade without a root instance.
Appearances
While the Ode clade appears in many, many canon works, Michelle/Sasha herself appears only a few: