Mingmei Wu
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| Mingmei Wu | |
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| Age: | 15 |
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| Hair color: | Black |
| First comic: | the Wotch on Jan 29 2003 (as Prof. Sorgaz),
the Wotch on Feb 12 2003 (as Mingmei) |
| Favorite movie: | Ranma 1/2: Nihao My Concubine |
Mingmei Wu ("Ming" to her friends) is a Japanese foreign exchange student at Tandy Gardens High, as far as most students know. In reality, she was once Professor Sorgaz, the school's economics teacher.
Ming lives with Katie McBride, and is being tutored in English by Anne Onymous.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Mingmei's origins
During "SchizophrANNEia", Anne [spoiler...]created a clone of herself manifested from her anger to take one of Prof. Sorgaz's tests in her place. However, Anger lost her temper while doing so and, realizing she could now act freely without Anne's other personality traits keeping her in check, transformed Sorgaz into a stereotypical Japanese schoolgirl. Horrified by the change, Sorgaz then ran into another one of Anne's manifested personality traits, Joy, and begged for her help. Misunderstanding the problem, Joy then cast a spell meant to make a person's mind appropriate for their body, causing Sorgaz to believe that he really is a Japanese schoolgirl named Mingmei Wu.Some time after this, Mingmei encountered Miranda West, who was able to determine what had happened to her. Since she cannot directly undo one of Anne's spells, she was unable to turn Mingmei back into Sorgaz, so instead she used her magic to flesh out Mingmei's hastily-constructed identity, giving her memories of a more complete backstory, and fabricating evidence (such as school records) that Mingmei had always existed, so that she would be able to live a normal life as Mingmei.
[...hide spoiler][edit] Mingmei's life during Season One
Mingmei originally had no memory of her past life. After Prof. Sorgaz was turned into Mingmei, she lived as a foreign exchange student of Tandy Gardens High School, living with Katie McBride, with nobody suspecting that Ming had ever been anyone else. When Ivan Bezdomny started his paranormal investigations club, Mingmei decided to join, and [spoiler...]began to show signs that her original memories might be returning. [...hide spoiler]
[edit] Mingmei's present condition
During the "Consequences" storyline, Mingmei's [spoiler...]original memories of her life as Sorgaz finally resurfaced, leading her into a massive identity crisis. When she told Anne, Robin, Jason, Katie, and Wolfie what had happened, Anne was more than willing to change her back into Sorgaz; however, after hearing her friends telling her how much they'd miss her, she gave the matter further consideration and realized that Mingmei has a happier life than Sorgaz ever did. She decided instead to remain as Mingmei and combine her two personalities into an amalgamation with the best qualities of both. Ming got to live on, and Prof. Sorgaz got to recapture the youth that he squandered.
[edit] Trivia
- "Mingmei Wu" is a combination of a Chinese family name with a Japanese given name. [spoiler...]This bizarre name has been explained by the fans with the assumption that Anne-the-character did not know Asian cultures well enough for Anne's Joy to have given Mingmei a proper, unified identity. [...hide spoiler]