Mirtala Aquato

Mirtala Aquato is a minor character in Psychonauts 2. She is an acrobat in the Aquato Family Circus and the second-youngest Aquato sibling.

Appearance
Mirtala is a petite little girl with yellow skin, a rounded bulbous head, large blue eyes, and freckles. Her red hair is tied into two thick braids looped above either side of her head, wrapped in purple ribbons and adorned with large silver bells. She wears a silver tiara beset with blue and purple jewels. Over her standard blue-and-white striped Aquato Family Circus jumpsuit, she wears blue shorts, blue leg warmers tied with purple ribbons, and navy blue ballet slippers.

Personality
Mirtala loves her family, especially her Nona, whom she is eager to impress. She is energetic, athletic, and vibrant, even as she receives complicated, emotional information.

Notable Psi-Powers and Skills
Mirtala possesses no psychic abilities.

Non-Psychic Abilities

As an acrobat, Mirtala has exceptional strength, agility, and balance. She takes the spot at the top of the Devil's Firehose stunt. Her braids hold her entire weight when she stands on her head.

Major Relationships
Nona Aquato

Mirtala is very close to her grandma, Nona. As the Aquato family prepared to send Raz into the final battle against Maligula, Mirtala was the only one to ask Raz to relay a message to Nona from her. After the family learns of Nona's true identity, Mirtala remains insistent that Nona is still their grandmother.

Frazie Aquato

Mirtala's older sister Frazie treats her with respect despite her age, taking time in the postgame to patiently explain the Aquatos' newly-complicated family tree to her.

Backstory
Mirtala was the fourth child born to Augustus and Donatella Aquato. Growing up, her father terrified her and her siblings with stories of evil "fortune-tellers" in hopes that they would learn to fear and avoid psychics.

Roles
Psychonauts

Mirtala appeared in a memory vault, performing and training with her family. In the performance that attracted the mysterious stranger's attention, Raz upset Mirtala by using telekinesis to levitate her tiara off her head. She was present when Augustus destroyed Raz's Whispering Rock Summer Camp pamphlet, which caused Raz to run away from home.

Psychonauts 2

Mirtala joined her family in visiting the Motherlobe to support Raz in his new job as a Psychonaut. As her family performed for for an unamused Hollis Forsythe, Mirtala played atop the Pelican and used Raz as a jump-rope with Queepie. The Aquatos subsequently set up camp in the Questionable Area, the campgrounds beyond the Motherlobe.

After the collapse of the first demonstration of the Devil's Firehose, Mirtala practiced her acrobatics under Nona's supervision. She hoped to impress Nona with a balancing trick and was delighted when Raz informed her that she had.

During Maligula's rampage, Mirtala joined the family in comforting her father after Augustus's psychically-buried memories returned, and used the Devil's Firehose to propel Raz into battle. At the top of the Firehose, Mirtala personally took Raz's hands and flung him into the eye of the storm, asking him to "say hi to Nona" for her.

In the postgame, Mirtala is found with Frazie at the Aquatos' camp. As Frazie attempts to explain the intricate Aquato-Galochio family tree to her little sister, Mirtala wonders if "the old bacon guy" is their grandpa, and insists that Nona is still their Nona no matter what.

Behind the Scenes
Mirtala is voiced by Amber Hood, who also voiced the Moth in Bob's Bottles, a Rainbow Squirt in Milkman Conspiracy, and young Morceau Oleander in Meat Circus.

Concept art and trailers for Psychonauts 2 depicted Mirtala wearing a brown tutu, a silky blue cape fastened at her wrists, and a blue shawl similar to Frazie's. These accessories were unused in the final game.