Kara

**Kara is an OC created by Seraphim8core.**

Kara is a 9 tailed fox spirit in Seraphim8core's upcoming graphic novel *Istos*. In the story, Kara teaches her monster students how to live alongside the humans while avoiding the wrath of the exorcists and the Seraph. She has frequent mood swings but is overall very protective and attached to her close ones. Kara is about 700 years old and stands around 6 ft 2 in (not counting ears). Kara is capable of transformation, but whatever she transforms into has to retain her ears, tails, and pupil appearance.
Kara's 2012 human form looks somewhere between age 20 and 24, with bright orange eyes and silver hair. She wears a loose orange graphic tee of a fox eating a slice of pizza. She also wears navy leggings with either a navy/denim skirt (length varies) or fuzzy jean shorts. Her shoes are sneaker-like boots that go up to her tibia. She is also infrequently seen wearing office attire or a pink and cyan workout outfit. (see reference image, "alternate outfits.")

Kara's fox form is her true and original form. Here she takes the appearance of a 2.5 ft tall white fox.

-Fox form (sealed)

Around 1700 AD, Kara was cursed by a powerful exorcist. Because the exorcists couldn't kill her, they had to attach a volcano curse to her that constantly drained her magical energy. This kept her dormant for around 12 years.

-Silly form (*non-canon to Istos*)

technically a possible transformation of Kara (minus the green eye), currently one of Seraphim8core's layout avatars

**Abilities:**

fire magic

lightning magic

transformation

-Kara can transform into any other organic being, as long as her transformation retains her eye color, ears, and tails

levitation

-her boots allow very limited levitation (it's basically just a party trick)

strength

-Kara can hold up ~30 tons, but only when she isn't using other magic simultaneously.

Wind magic

-not very strong, but can create short gusts strong enough to blow over a chair

**Lore (somehow this is the "quick summary" version):**

Kara was "born" around 1300 AD in Korea. She lived with a friendly group of monsters and spirits for about 4 years, until some local exorcists caught them and dissipated them. Furious, Kara leveled the exorcists' hometown and began a journey to destroy all exorcists. By 1600, Kara had eliminated every Korean exorcist and had decided to move onto Japan and through China to continue her goal. In Japan, she began mercilessly eliminating their forces, until she met a single exorcist that she could not kill. Kara challenged this man to duels daily, but could never defeat him, and he spared her every time. Fed up, she hastily attacked a nearby monastery, in which some exorcists caught her by surprise and placed the volcano curse on her. Weakened and unable to maintain her human form, Kara hid and ate scraps from the streets. During this time, the man found Kara and recognized her (although in fox form.) he offered her food and a place to stay, to which she refused. Over time the man's nagging kindness ate away at Kara, and she gave in and accepted his offers, and eventually became his betrothed (after removal of seal). She lived alongside him in peace for ten years, until she returned one day from a walk to find that his village had executed him for living with a monster. In that moment Kara would have leveled another town had one of her presumed dead monster friends see sentence 2 not stopped her and subsided her rage. (*many skipped details here because too lengthy*) That other monster was Para, and the two took a blood ritual and became sisters. The two worked together to create an institution for future generations of monsters, to teach them responsibility and ways to integrate with humans, so that there would never be a repeat of Kara again.

**Trivia:**

Kara is the 7th most powerful character in *Istos* (out of 47)

Kara has never lost a game of dodgeball

Kara is not related by blood to Para, they look similar because Kara chose a similar form to Para out of admiration for her.

Kara's malicious behavior in the past single-handedly gave all kitsune and kumiho a bad reputation

Kara is over-enthusiastic about human culture, specifically the holidays (much to her students' dismay)