Medea Vardi

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> ### Name
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> Medea Yashoda Vardi
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> ### Alias
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> * Dea (nickname)
> * Raven-Haired Queen of Destruction
> * Red Queen
> * Medea Vardi-Sapienti (birth name)
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> ### Birth
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> October 23rd, 1995 in Neo Nova, Avalon
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> * 22 (as of 2017)
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> ### Gender
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> Female
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> Black
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> Hazel
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> AB-
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> ### Height
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> 5'3" ft
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> ### Relative(s)
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> * Circe Vardi (mother) †
> * Jack Sapienti (father) †
> * Angelos Vardi (oldest son) †
> * Orcus Vardi (second son) †
> * Lysandra Silverthorne (oldest daughter)
> * Rhea Silverthorne (youngest daughter)
> * Hermes Silverthorne (youngest son)
> * Pasiphaë Vardi (younger sister)
> * Monte Sarafyan (foster brother/ward)
> * Agamede Vardi (second younger sister)
> * Ariadne Vardi (third younger sister)
> * Mars Vardi (niece)
> * Silena Samaha (niece)
> * Damien Samaha (nephew)
> * Asterie Vardi (fourth younger sister)
> * Leo Kim (nephew)
> * Isadora Mochizuki (niece)
> * Zen Mochizuki (nephew)
> * Hekate Vardi (maternal grandmother) †
> * Asterion Vardi (maternal uncle - unknown)
> * Isis Vardi (maternal great-aunt)
> * Diana Vardi (maternal great-aunt)
> * Morgan Ambrosius (paternal grandmother) †
> * Jacopo Sapienti II (paternal grandfather) †
> * Mordred Ambrosius (paternal great-uncle) †
> * Malvolio Ambrosius (paternal great-grandfather) †
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> ### Significant Other(s)
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> * Zagreus Silverthorne (boyfriend - husband)
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> “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.”
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> ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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**Medea Yashoda Vardi (**born *Vardi-Sapienti***)** is the oldest child and daughter between Circe Vardi and Jack Sapienti, and is the older sister to Pasiphaë and the triplets Agamede, Ariadne and Asterie.

Medea has mothered three children, two daughters named Lysandra and Rhea and one son named Hermes with her eventual husband Zagreus Silverthorne. Before her marriage Medea was pregnant with twins that she lost.

## Appearance

Medea has several piercings: one in her right nostril, three in right ear, four in her left and her belly button.

### Tattoos

* On her right collarbone Medea has *Ἄγγελος* and her left collarbone she has *όρκους*, for her deceased sons Angelos and Orcus.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Enhanced Human Condition** - Medea has achieved peak human condition through training, her strength and speed are comparable to enraged bear, and like her sister Ariadne she is Olympic-class gymnasts despite not having any training, she is also extremely flexible and honed reflexes.
	+ **Flowmotion** - Ariadne can use the environment to her advantage, allowing them to perform feats such as kicking off almost any surface, air dashing, swinging around lampposts, grinding along rails, and battling enemies with speed and style.

* **Mystiokinesis** - Medea is a halfblooded hereditary witch. Despite her young age, Medea is very powerful and feared for her powers and ferocious nature.
	+ **Life Magic** - Medea's true mana flow is manipulating pure life-force allowing her to manipulate nature itself as well as allowing the Ariadne to create and/or rapidly accelerate the growth of plants; this can be done to rather minuscule plants on the ground, or on her own body. This Magic can also be used to slow down, and halt, desertification.
		- **Thorn Magic** - Medea possesses a very unique and strange magical ability which revolves around thorns but whereas Medea can cast spells involving normal thorns and also thorns that are so sharp that can pierce the sound barrier and create shockwaves.
	+ **Animal Transformation** - Medea possesses the ability to transform into a falcon.
	+ **Zoolingualism** - Like members of her family, Medea can speak to animals.
	+ **Mediumship** - Medea since she was a child could see, communicate and interact with spirts and the unseen by non-magical individuals even if they have possessed inanimate objects or people. They are able to repel and run spirits away from an area, compel to employ an armada of ghosts, and may even view a visual conception of a spirit world in a trance if desired. This is a unique trait common in only a few families.
* **Familiar Contracts** - Medea has three familiars named Euler, Antoinette and Meliore who are Imp Demons.
* **Antique Specialist** - Medea is knowledgeable in antiques from ancient archeology to a Yankee baseball card. She can examine an artifact and easily recognize it either as a real object or a fake.

### Possessions

* **Wands** - Medea has two wands named Skandini and Carmenta. Skandini is her true wand which is 141/2" inches and carved from campion oak possessing the fang of a basilisk as its core. Her second wand and the one on her record is Carmenta which is 13" inches, carved from snake wood and possessing the claws of the Makara as its core.
* **Lunula** - Medea's lunula in the shape of pig and carved from the sycamore wood. The pig is painted red with lily of the valley markings. The beads are white, green and violet.

## Etymology

* Medea is from Greek *Μήδεια (Medeia)*, derived from *μήδεα (medea)* meaning "plans, counsel, cunning". In Greek mythology Medea was a sorceress from Colchis (modern Georgia) who helped Jason gain the Golden Fleece. They were married, but eventually Jason left her for another woman. For revenge Medea slew Jason's new lover and also had her own children by Jason killed.
* Yashoda is made up of यश (*yash*) meaning "fame" or "glory" and दा (*da*) meaning "one who is giver".
* Vardi is derived from Vered which means "rose" in Hebrew, originally a borrowing from an Iranian language.
* Sapienti means "wise, learned" in Italian.

## Trivia

* Medea is associated with the number "2" which is in reference to the High Priestess.
	+ She is also associated with the Queen of Pentacles.
* She is of Sephardi Jewish, South Asian, Italian, French and English descent.
* Medea is associated with the color blue.
* Her hobbies are hunting people, riding horses, and playing sports.
* She is allergic to cinnamon.
* Medea's favorite meal is grilled fish with mashed pumpkin and miso soup.
	+ Her second favorite meal is agedashi dōfu with sweet corn porridge.
* Her favorite artists are Björk, Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, B\*Witched and the Cure.
* She is also a fan of opera music and gay Disco anthems.
* She hasn't said I love you to anyone since the death of her mother as it was the last thing she said.
* Like her mother, Medea wears Cartier perfume.
* She is an excellent cook.
* She has metal screws in her ankle after breaking it when she was seven.
* Medea has killed a bear with her bare hands.