Phoenix Esther

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*"She was a sweetheart at the end of the day. That's who I'll always remember." - Kodachi Tsurugi*

## Phoenix Esther

### Aliases

* Cat
* Mangy Cat

### Affiliation

The Kingdom of Etheridge (Formerly)The Etheridgeon Rebels (Formerly)The Etheridge Collective (Formerly)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Mint green

**Phoenix Esther** was a member of Kendra's Cabinet and The Etheridgeon Rebels, a band of rebels pulled together through a grassroots movement founded on the idea of having the freedom to govern their own lives. Phoenix Esther was an adviser of Her Majesty, a role she was summoned to carry out in her early life.

Phoenix was one of the walking, talking, fighting balls of fur and fangs of the group, and served as the heart of her team of advisers in Kendra's Cabinet.

## Biography

Phoenix Esther was born in Naxera to a litter of kittens, but was rejected by her litter for being the runt of her family. She was loved and cherished by her mother, but was left all alone with no family to speak of when her mother passed from an illness. Having captured her heart, Her Majesty moved to summon Phoenix Esther to her domain when the orphan was only four years old.

She led a notable double life; in the presence of Her Majesty, she was a loyal adviser and was unquestionably compliant no matter the demand for several years. Outside of her presence, however, Phoenix enjoyed freedom in the form of secretly participating in vigilantism with a smaller band of rebels, one of which she fell in love and started a family with.

When her vigilantism was found out, she lost her friends and new family when she was locked away after being royally decreed a distraction to Her Majesty's life. During the rebellion, she had proposed the idea to her best friend, Makibishi Tsurugi, to draw away Her Majesty's power by executing someone who was officially recognized as a member of Her Majesty's Cabinet. It was then that Phoenix had allowed, and outright encouraged, Makibishi to put her down so that their friends could claim victory.

A year after Phoenix's death, it was thought that she had returned, but remained curiously quiet with a whole new personality. Instead of bubbly and carefree, she sequestered herself and was found to be a violent presence if talked to for too long or touched in any way. Nobody knew what exactly was wrong, but a few members of The Etheridge Collective had recently discovered that her Save State that Hana constructed was corrupt due to being gone for too long, and thus her personality was dominated by aggression. The younger members had even gone as far as to call Phoenix a zombie, or a primal version of herself - this primal version of herself was put down in an act of self defense when she became dangerously aggressive towards the members of the Etheridge Collective.

## Personality

Being the heart of the team of advisers and a heart of the Etheridgeon Rebels, she tended to be clingy and displayed undying loyalty towards her friends. She saw herself as the glue of the team, but was known to go into a state of depression if it turned out she functioned as nothing more than broken adhesive. She was sensitive to the wellbeing of her friends and other civilians during her time as a vigilante. She was a quick learner when it comes to fighting techniques, such as when it only took her half a day to figure out how to efficiently fight with her new wings acquired as a result of a failed experiment. She loved to engage in hand-to-hand combat and loved to defeat her enemies, but would become disheartened if she couldn't land a hit for a certain amount of time.

Phoenix's personality before her first death in summer of 2020 was that of a sensitive, fun loving, kind person. If it wasn't any of the Tsurugi triplets, it was often Phoenix that came up with the jokes first, or she'd follow one of her friends' jokes with some of her own, which varied from clever to out of place. Underneath the smile she wore, she once lived a life of trauma, such as witnessing the death of her mother from an illness, experiencing outright despair in the face of the external world struggles, and having to live under the abuse of a regime in the internal world. Despite her traumas, for each step she took in defiance, the further she stepped into a brighter future.

After she died and was reconstructed a year later by Hana Tsurugi, Phoenix's personality took a drastic turn. She was said to have been in a primal state reanimated by Nightmare Energy, something Hana didn't include in the process of reviving her. While the collective had done its best to take care of her, all Primal Phoenix could've done was eat, sleep, and stay hidden from the world. If anyone touched her, looked at her the wrong way, or talked to her for too long, she would become aggressive and attack. One such attack led to her second death in the summer of 2023.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Artificially Enhanced Neko Physiology:** Phoenix was a Neko, meaning she possessed qualities of both a cat and a human. For her human qualities, she was bipedal, could speak, and had opposable thumbs. For her feline qualities, Phoenix had a prehensile tail and retractable claws
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** She could already move like a human and still be as agile as a cat. The average cat can jump five times as high as its tail is long.
	+ **Superhuman Senses:** Being partly feline, Phoenix could already see, smell, and hear better than humanly possible. She had nearly-perfect sight in the dark (a tiger's night vision is six times better than a human's).
	+ **Claw Retraction:** As part cat, Phoenix could protrude a pair of sharp, retractable claws in place of fingernails. These claws are naturally sharper and tougher than that of normal human bone structure, allowing her to cut through most types of flesh and natural materials. Her ability to slice completely through a substance depended on the thickness of the substance and the amount of force she could exert thanks to her enhanced strength.
	+ Wing Manifestation: Her most obvious mutation was her retractable huge, bat-like wings.
		- **Flight:** Phoenix could fly at 50 mph (80 kph), but normally traveled much slower due to inexperience and her tendency to crash land if she flew too fast.
	+ **Enhanced Speed:** Despite her stature, Phoenix could run at speeds that surpass those of the average human. She could also fly at 50 mph (80 kph).