Aya Kaliv

* Token
* Casual
* Disguised

> "It's tradition, trust me!"
>
> - Aya Kaliv, trying to defend her alcoholism

**Aya Kaliv** is one of the main protagonists of Scourge of Society. She is the youngest member of Ford's Strike Team, a maven, as well as the heir apparent to the former Kalivian Throne.

Aya was born in the Kingdom of Kalivia to Nakius Kaliv and Sonia Nevari and raised as an only child. She lived a life of luxury and comfort until the Great Capital Ash Incident orchestrated by her father caused her to go on the run.

During her time in Wrefdale, Aya has endured many emotional and physical hardships, such as having her left arm dismembered by Nova, uncovering the truth about her family line and Carol Nevari, having a near death experience against her father, and the death of her pseudo-sister Bella.

## Description

### Appearance

Aya, being a native Kalivian human, has a fair complexion. She weighs around 80 pounds and stands at 4 feet tall. Aya has blonde hair, which she prefers to keep long and usually fairly unkept. She dons a black ribbon in her hair that was gifted by Aya's mother.

In *Bella's Playdate*, Aya was gifted one of Bella's white ribbons as a sign of their friendship. Since her death, Aya has vowed to keep her ribbon as a reminder of their bond.

During the battle with *Nova*, Aya's left arm had been dismembered from a critical hit by the apostle. Unfortunately, the cut was too severe to reattach, leaving Aya with only her right arm.

### Personality

Aya hosts the lowest intelligence in the party, which has proven to hinder the group's efforts at times. However, she more than makes up for it with her incredible strength and usually lighthearted innocent nature. Prior to learning about her *family's secrets*, Aya was almost always extremely trusting to others due to not completely understanding the situation. Even despite her confronting hostiles, she was always willing to try diplomacy first while maintaining good manners - of which, she explains in her *journal* that her mother raised her to be "perfect" in governance.

Throughout the campaign, Aya has shown a need for connection with others, due to the severance of her family. This has resulted in her making rash decisions in the effort to gain approval of others. Despite that, she isn't above enacting her own sense of fairness when she deems it necessary.

Between Session \_ and Session \_, Aya had developed a severe depression due to the overwhelming amount of information she'd uncovered, along with her feud with her family and friends. Her once overly trusting nature turned into one full of skepticism and distrust. Although constantly on edge, she is able to somewhat convincingly seem happy to please others.

Aya is also known to drink heavily, usually to the point of unconsciousness. As admitted to Chro Maqui by Aya herself, she drinks to "forget the bad things and feel good again."

## Biography

### Pre-Campaign

#### Early Childhood

Aya was born on March 7th, 3040 to the King of Kalivia, Nakius Kaliv, and his wife, a *Salithian* princess Sonia Nevari. Growing up, Aya never received a formal education, instead being homeschooled by her parents - mostly her mother. Her education, aside from mainly consisting of languages (of which she learnt 4), math, and other typical subjects, had a heavy focus on governance, etiquette, and honing her PSI abilities. She was heavily coddled by her mother, to prime her for *her plot* against Nakius. Aya knew nothing of her plot, but noted in her *journal* that "she made sure that I practiced my *PSI* every day to strengthen my *Alis Regis* and myself."

As Aya found her mother's overbearingness too much, she found more comfort from her father. She idolized her father, writing "*Father is the smartest person I know. He knows all there is about government, money, math, science, history - if I were to list off everything, this section would span longer than the Kalivian coastline!*" Her father, when not busy with ruling, would play with Aya and teach her first hand how to rule a country. Along with this, he'd also teach Aya basic combat as playful exercise.

One moment of her early years that Aya holds dear, is when an orchestra which her family was planning to be in attendance to in *Theatrica* was brutally killed in a traffic accident. As she was looking forward to the performance, Nakius used *his PSI abilities* to put on a performance just for her.

#### Nakius' Decent

Shortly after Aya turned 7, Nakius uncovered *Sonia's affair* and the existence his half-sister daughter, Carol Nevari*.* At this time, Aya's home life became very unstable as frequent yelling matches between her mother and father would surface, however Aya was never able to hear the contents of the arguments because of Nakius' *mute ability*. Aya's homeschooling had stopped, and her parent's constantly fought for control over her. One night, Aya awoke to her mother ushering her out of the *palace* onto a carriage headed to *Salith.* Sonia explains to Aya that they are escaping Kalivia out of fear that Nakius would kill them. However, their time in the kingdom's capital, *Coruthynt*, was short lived. *Operatives* infiltrated the Salithian palace where Aya and Sonia were staying with her relatives. Its unclear if these operatives were sent by Nakius or Azrael. The operatives captured Aya and returned her to Kalivia.

During the next few months, Aya lived in the Kalivian palace with her father. Nakius had grown more bitter and mad as time went on, endangering Aya by taking her on military expeditions and vigorously training her combat abilities. Aya stayed and supported her father, as she saw him as "sick".

One night, Aya was awoken by the screams of the palace staff due to flames engulfing the palace. Aya, having fire resistance from the fire due to her PSI, managed to escape the palace via a secret exit and stood just outside the city outskirts. As she saw the entire city burning down, Nakius appeared in the distance slowly walking away. Aya called out to him, but Nakius didn't acknowledge her at all. All Aya could hear was Nakius muttering the name 'Carol Nevari' to himself. Exhausted, Aya collapsed on the ground and passed out, while Nakius began his rampage.

#### Nakius' Path of Destruction

Further information: Nakius' Path of Destruction
It is unclear how long Aya was unconscious for, but by the time she awoke, Nakius and his forces had destroyed the surrounding region of the Kalivian capital, along with the entirety of the Salithian Kingdom. Aya decided to follow Nakius' path of destruction to get answers as to this "Carol Nevari". It is noted that when Aya searched the remnants of the Coruthynt, the last place she saw her mother, Aya could find nothing of her mother's whereabouts.

For the next 3 years, Aya traveled across half the continent following Nakius, staying alive by hunting, theft, and scavenging from the rubble her father left behind. This was until she got a lead as to Nakius' upcoming attack on *Sefalma* in the *Republic of Sethola.* There, she was gathering intel on Nakius' plans. She quickly realized that a small creature was following her, showing no intention of leaving even sternly told. Aya, realizing that she wasn't getting rid of it and that she *did* want some kind of companion, let it follow her. Realizing the creature was not capable of normal speech and therefore could not give her a pronounceable name, she named the creature Benjamin. Aya confided with Benjamin, and sought to continue her quest with it. Benjamin also taught Aya extremely rudimentary Daybitic (although Aya didn't know Benjamin's true identity at the time or what the language was).

## Relationships

### Party

#### Chro Maqui

Almost the moment when Aya and Chro first met each other in Session 1, they both felt an instant connection. Aya saw Chro as a sort-of mother figure, and found comfort in being with her. Although at first being terrified of her when first learning Chro is undead (calling her a 'zombie'), Aya quickly got over it. When the party was drinking at the bar in Session 9, Aya noticed Chro's Kalivian Royal Tattoo on her shoulder. As Chro herself didn't know the origins of the tattoo at the time, Aya shrugged it off assuming she was a distant cousin (of which, she has many).

During Session \_, it was revealed to the party that Aya and Chro are sisters, which caused Aya to involuntarily realease her Alis Regis, Ignia, due to extreme emotional distress. Aya's mental state was worsened in *The First Kaliv* when *Kaliv of Zuina* told Aya about Chro's true identity of Carol Nevari. Upon hearing this, Aya quickly jumped up threating to kill Chro. After calming down, she was then told about her mother's affair. After hearing this, Aya promptly stormed out of the cathedral. Aya had shown extreme resentment to Chro since then, even when Chro was killed for a second time by the Crimson Contractor's aberration. Its noted that Aya seemed to lower her guard somewhat by placing the *Crowbar* into the makeshift grave. This was however overshadowed by Aya saying "She's no sister of mine".

After speaking to Nakius in *Thicker Than Water*, Aya realized the error in her ways and how Carol Nevari was innocent. It's now Aya's wish to bring back Chro and restore her to her true human form of Carol Nevari, to apologize and reconcile.

## Quotations

* "Chro, are you one of those "skit-so-feren-ics" my mom used to talk about?"
* "Sure, he doesn't talk much, and he's green.. and slimy.. and.. uh......... um, what was I- ah, forget it. Funny frog, woop woop" *(Aya writing about Kaeru in her journal)*
* **Aya:** *(responding to Chro trying to confiscate the gun Arthur gave to her)* "Chro, we never do anything fun! We always, like, end up almost dying."
**Chro:** "You don’t think that’s fun?"
**Aya:** "Not particularly, I like killing people, not me dying."
**Chro:** "Same, uh, I like both."
**Aya:** "Well…"
**Chro:** "I’m a- I’m a little bit of an optimist."
**Arthur:** "Aren’t you dead?"
**Chro:** "Yeah..."
**Benjamin:** "Sounds like a cope."
**Chro:** "Aya, a bullet is what killed me, I know too well; wanna see the hole in my back?"
**Benjamin:** "You can be just like Chro!"
**Aya:** "YEAH! I’m gonna live forever if I become Chro! I’m just gonna come back!"
**Chro:** *(audibly concerned)*  "Uh, huh, no you’re not-"
**Aya:** "Watch this!" *(Aya puts the gun up to her head)*