Min is one of the two playable protagonists and the point of view the story opens on. She is the only child of Sheji and Bo Liu, raised inside the Liu residence under an intense, carefully managed education. Bright, mechanically gifted, and badly under-socialized, she has spent most of her life learning the city secondhand through tutors, devices, and her mother's work.
That insulation becomes the engine of her arc. When Sheji disappears just before Min's twelfth birthday, Min stops being a protected observer and starts following the traces her mother left behind. Daphne makes her the first character in the story who can actually act on those traces at the grid layer, but it does not make her a born mystic or a chosen one. What Min contributes is curiosity, nerve, judgment, and the social access that comes from being Sheji's daughter.
When Min enters grid mode, she is working through Daphne's operator layer over the city's mote-compatible substrate. At the start of the story that power is effectively hers because Daphne is with her. But Daphne is the transferable piece. Once Max has motes installed, he can use the same layer while Daphne is with him, and the point of view shifts accordingly.
