Kisa Vardi

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> ### Full Name
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> Kisagotami Vardi
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> ### Alias
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> * Kisa (nickname)
> * Reaper
> * Queen of Thorns
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> ### Birth
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> August 11th, 2786 in Marici City, Sāgara(Shraavana, 2786)
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> ### Homeworld
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> Sāgara
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> ### Species
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> Human - Esper
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> Female
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> Black
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> Gold
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> ### Height
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> 5'8" ft
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> E+
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> ### Relative(s)
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> * Catei Vardi (mother) †
> * Mirabai Vardi (younger sister)
> * Sarada Vardi (younger sister)
> * Anandi Vardi (youngest sister)
> * Adonis Margaryan (adopted younger brother/maternal first cousin)
> * Electryo Vardi (maternal grandmother)
> * Eliyah Vardi (maternal great-grandfather) †
> * Anbar (maternal great-grandmother) †
> * Azula (maternal great-grandaunt) †
> * Joseph Vardi (adopted maternal great-great-grandfather) †
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> * Mikael Resheph (ex-boyfriend)
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> "Though one should live a hundred years without seeing the Deathless State, yet better indeed, is a single day's life of one who sees the Deathless State."
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> ― A verse from the Dhammapada believed to be about Kisagotami
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**Kisagotami Vardi** is the oldest daughter of Catei Vardi, and is the older sister to Mirabai, Sarada and Anandi. She is also the adopted sister and surrogate mother to Adonis.

## Appearance

Kisa's mutations as an Esper are her golden eyes with slit-like pupils and her wings. Her silver and copper wings are described as metallic with each feather sharp like a precision blade. Each feather/blade has the top part copper with the hairs or fibers sticking out of the sides, while the end or blade itself is silver.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Esper Physiology** - Kisa like her siblings is a fourth generation and a legacy Esper and is classified as a Manipulator-type.
	+ **Shockwave Manipulation** - Kisa can create, shape, move, control, and manipulate shockwaves, a powerful compression wave produced by the movement of a body through a medium at a velocity greater than the local speed of sound. Shockwaves typically originate from explosions and sonic booms, resulting in users being able to thrive in situations or locations where those are present. Otherwise, they will be able to generate shockwaves through their power or through other sources. In terms of offensive capabilities, Kisa would be able to increase a shockwaves power from a miniscule vibration to titanic tremors capable of tearing down buildings to pulverizing continents. Shockwaves can extend the range of melee attacks greatly, like punches and kicks. In terms of defensive capabilities, Kisa can use shockwaves to defend from oncoming physical attacks by deflecting or outright destroying them.
	+ **Flight via Wings** - Kisa used to be able to fly with her wings but due the significant damage her left one has endured she can no longer fly.
* **Enhanced Physical Prowess** - Despite her disability, Kisa has maintained her peak physical condition especially in her strength, speed and agility earning her fear and respect amongst her siblings and enemies.

### Possessions

* **Prosthetic Leg** - After losing her leg to save (\*&\*), she was offered a cybernetic limb but refused and instead accepted the prosthetic due to her impatience with the procedure and recover time for the cybernetic limb. As a gift from Sarada she modified the prosthetic to hide several knives that she can use in a fight situation.

## Etymology

* Kisagotami's meaning is unknown but is of Buddhism origin.
	+ In Theravada, Kisagotami Theri was an arahant. She was declared chief among women disciples with respect to the wearing of coarse robes She came from a poor family in Savatthi. Gotami was her name, but she was called Kisa because of her thinness. She was married into a rich family, by whom she was disdainfully treated; but as soon as she bore a son, she was shown respect. The boy, however, died when just old enough to run about; his mother, distraught with grief, fearful lest the dead child should be taken from her, went about with him on her hip, seeking medicine to revive his life. People laughed at her, until one wise man, realizing her condition, directed her to the Buddha. The Buddha asked her to bring him a mustard seed from a house where no one had yet died. In the course of her search for the impossible her frenzy left her, and having grasped the truth, she laid the child in the charnel field, and returning to the Master begged admission to the Order. She became a Sotapanna, and soon after, when her insight was developed, the Buddha appeared before her in a blaze of radiance and, listening to his words, she became an arahant.
	+ In Mahayana, Kisāgotamī or Mṛgajā refers to one of the three wives of the Buddha according to Vinaya of the Mūlasarvāstivādin mentioned in a footnote at the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra. Accordingly, “The Mūlasarvāstivādin Vinaya attributes three wives to him, Yaśodhara, Gopā and Mṛgajā, each surrounded by 20,000 courtesans... Seven days before his Great Deaprture, when he went to the palace, Mṛgajā, spoke the famous stanza to him: *Nibuttā nānasā mātā*; thanking her, Śākyamuni threw her his necklace; seeing this, Śuddhodana took Mṛgajā and gave her to his son”.
* Vardi means "rose" in Hebrew and derived from Vered.

## Trivia

* Kisa is associated with the plum blossom, a symbol of beauty and longevity.
* Kisa was named after Kisagotami, a disciple of the Buddha who suffered from extreme grief and abuse who with the Buddha's teaching achieved the first stage of enlightenment.
* She is left-handed.
* According to the Databook(s).
	+ Kisa's hobbies are riding horses, gardening and hunting people.
	+ She is allergic to cinnamon.
	+ Her favorite meal is homemade cold tofu topped with pickled ginger shallots, guava paste, soy sauce and spicy chili sauce.
		- Kisa's second favorite meal is blackened stinky tofu with five-colored lotus seed soup.
	+ Her least favorite kind of food is something too meaty.
	+ Her most treasures collections are her siblings and snow globes.
	+ Kisa is a fan of opera music, gay Disco anthems, post-punk and blues rock.
* Her favorite color is pink.
* She hasn't said *I love you* to anyone since the death of her mother as it was the last thing she said.
	+ Kisa even wears her mother's perfume, as a way of keeping something small of her alive.
* Kisa is an excellent cook.
* She has metal screws in her ankle after breaking it when she was seven.
* Kisa has killed a bear with her bare hands.