Callista

### Relationships

Silverlight (ally, friend), Lucan (enemy), Ferren Jones (former partner, rumored)

## Other Information

### Debut

The Arctic War

Callista is a fictional character created by Alejandro Pineda. She was a major character in The Arctic War and a secondary antagonist in The Realm Chronicles.

## Appearance

Callista is a young woman of somewhat tall stature, with a slender, yet muscular build. She has long, wavy, dyed purple hair that reaches down to her lower back, light skin, amber eyes, a freckled face, and a notable dark red tattoo of a four-leaved flower around her left eye, the symbol of her time as an assassin. She also has a black tattoo on her arm of several disconnected branch-like shapes. She wears a sleeveless black outfit with a slightly darker-shaded hexagon design on the chest and a dark red arrow shape on the abdomen, as well as black pants and combat boots. She also wears solver-lined fingerless gloves that reach to her elbows. Callista is described as rather attractive and intimidating.

## Personality

Callista has a headstrong and very confident personality, often showing to be rather prideful and arrogant. She is notorious for being rather taunting and never turning down the opportunity for a good kill, making her reckless and almost sadistic. According to Lucan, she is also known for being ruthless, which likely came from being an assassin in her world. She has shown time and time again to have no regard for harming or killing, earning a very dangerous disposition. Callista's extensive ego is a result of her incredible talent for weaponry, close combat, archery, and above all, running. However, she did show some redeeming qualities with Lucan, showing that she truly does wish to make a name for herself and has an uncontrollable addiction to killing, feeling almost jealous of those who can truly enjoy emotion.

## Abilities

**Skilled Acrobat**: due to her flexibility and speed, Callista is talented in acrobatics. This allows her to perform incredible stunts while creating slashes and sweeps with a sword. She was capable of escaping several consecutive explosions by twisting her body in mid-air to lessen the impact.

**Immense Speed and Reflexes**: Callista's strongest ability yet is her unpredictable and seemingly unmatched speed, making her arguably the fastest woman in the world. Her running speed is said to be superior to that of Achillean Kyber's, who was the record holder until her arrival, and has since been bested in person. It was even enough to outrun and even blitz Lucan, who is especially known for their remarkable speed, unnoticed. Callista is also incredibly agile, being very hard to keep up with visually in a fight and appearing to almost teleport due to her immense reflexes and starting velocity.

**Immense Stamina and Endurance**: Callista possesses inhuman stamina and endurance from her training, being able to fight for hours on end without tiring out or even feeling fatigue. She was even able to continue her fight with Lucan after he stabbed several times, showing little-to-no sign of pain even when she was being harmed despite being impaled to a wall through her shoulder.

**Immense Strength**: Another advantage of her running capacity is Callista's incredible leg strength and durability, being able to use sheer force to increase the potency of her own attacks and even incorporating it into them. She was capable of launching Lucan several feet into the air with her **Surface Splitter** technique as well as create a flurry of shockwaves simply by kicking her axe repeatedly.

**Enhanced Flexibility**: Callista possesses a great amount of flexibility from conditioning as an assassin, being able to bend her body in more ways than most are able to. She incorporates this ability into her fighting style, using her legs to propel both herself and her attacks.

**Inhuman Regeneration and Resistance**: Callista is almost completely immune to the effects of poison, wounds, and cold climate. She is able to break down and completely negate the effects of harmful potions with her bodily tolerance, and survive her own usually-deadly attacks with ice and frost due to her lungs being able to take the cold temperatures without negative effects. She is also able to survive seemingly-lethal wounds like stabs to her shoulder, side, and leg that would subsequently cause Lucan to bleed out. This all comes from her conditioning as a killer and combatant, and is enhanced by experimentation, which also gave her an unusually high speed for healing from received wounds as well as the capacity for minimal blood loss because of them.

**Weapon Versatility**: Callista is skilled with many different types of weapons, including a sword, axe, bow, and even a pair of boots with the Frostwalker enchantment, an item she has taken a liking to. This combined makes her an incredibly dangerous opponent due to her unpredictable style and constantly changing attacks.

**Keen Intellect**: Callista is very observant, being able to tell certain details about opponents simply by reading visible signs or expressions. Her heightened perception allows her the ability to anticipate any movement a person makes within a fraction of a second, and her extensive knowledge of combat provides her with plenty of different strategies for outsmarting enemies. She is also quite creative in battle, using very unusual tactics in her style such as incorporating ice and fishing rod techniques.

## Fighting Style

**Master Combatant**: Callista’s training as both an assassin and a rebel have given her a great amount of skill in combat, especially in tactical flexibility, and make her the only person to possess knowledge of several self-created combat styles. Her unmatched speed combined with sharp agility alone make her a very dangerous opponent, and due to being capable of moving at such speeds, her reflexes have been sharpened significantly. Her style consists of pairing slashes, sweeps, and fishing-rod maneuvers with the effects of the Frostwalker enchantment, which she uses to create an icy mist deadly enough to cut and freeze the lungs of anyone around her. Because of the ice formed, she can also break the surrounding material and create large shards out of it to protect her in battles, giving her something resemblant of artificial Cryokinesis.

**Techniques:**

* **Rushing Cyclone Tunnel**: the user rushes forward while slashing at their air around their body, creating a large funnel-shaped slash.

* **Clover Slash**: a series of large, winding sword sweeps in the form of a clover to essentially attack the opponent from several angles.

* **Surface Splitter**: a rising axe into the user's weapon, increasing the impact and creating a large shockwave with the motion as it strikes the target.
* **Dual Aggressive Counter Slice**: a series large slashes performed around the user to defend from and react to attacks instantaneously.
* **Rising Frozen Breeze**: the user moves their blade in a circular formation while performing a powerful upward slash.

* **Winding Wheel Slash**: a massive sweep through the air that utilizes a circular motion and finishes with the user switching to an axe and kicking their blade upwards into the opponent.

## Equipment

**Quicklash**: an iron knife kept by Callista throughout her time as an assassin. Because of the intense battles that she usually participated in, she rarely used it in the Arctic War. During her final battle with Korvus Keeth, he stabbed her in the cheek with it before she killed him.

**Diamond Sword**: Callista carries a standard diamond sword for combat and protection, which she kept throughout her time in both her own world and in the Skylands. It is implied that she used it mostly to perform the sweep effect.

## Trivia

* Callista's name means "most beautiful" in Greek, and was inspired by Jupiter's moon, Callisto.
* Callista's design was inspired by Domino from the Marvel universe as well as Tengen Uzui from Kimetsu No Yaiba, as both were assassins and sported facial tattoos around one eye.
* Achillean is around the same age as her, being a little over a month older.
* Callista is lesbian.
* It is stated by the author that sheis the fastest running fighter in the Kyber Realm, being the only person to beat Achillean Kyber in a footrace.
* Her knife Quicklash was meant for a different book series that was never finished, but the name was kept.
* She and Lucan knew each other prior to their encounter, though it is unknown how they met.
* Callista was rumored to have slept with Katie Adams at some point, which was hinted at by Rylan when he stated that "Cali wasn't her best choice for a one-night-stand." She and Alex also began a relationship during their time in the Kyber Realm, though it was presumably brief because of her leaving the world.
* She was ranked 1st in a footrace between the Kyber Realm's strongest fighters.
* Callista possesses an incredible amount of physical strength that is seemingly surprising for her build, being tied for 4th place in an arm wrestling match with Danny Herrera, Mara Moran, Achillean Kyber, and Jason Dorn.