Lady Charis

## Background

### Prehistory - 300 CE: Charis

Many facts about Charis' early life (read: centuries) are not widely known. Charis is a member of the Adrastea, a group of individuals who were like the average Kherubim but had psychic powers. She also was an empath, a rare occurence in their community. The group was originally bred to be slaves but instead, became the largest crime syndicate by channeling their psionic skills into underworld activities such as espionage & assassination. Many of them remain unseen, with many Kherubims never meeting a member of thr Adrastea in their life.

One day, Charis & her friends spotted a group of Lords, the party of the Kheran High Lords & Warlords. The men were known for being in posititons of power that stand for stability & economic progress. Viewing one of them as an easy target, she & her friends followed the man to steal his weapon so they could sell it later. Her friends eventually gave up on the pursuit but not Charis. When she finally went in for the steal, she was caught but instead of being turned over, the man introduced himself as Lord Majestros. The two soon became friends & secret lovers.

Unfortunately, their relationship was frowned upon & was not allowed by the factions due to intense discrimination. So they kept their relationship a secret. But Majestros still used his posititon to get Charis in with the Coda Sisterhood. But the prejudice against her heirtage was so strong that her Coda "sisters" tried to kill her at every opportunity, being more brutal to her than they ever had. They would have her go up against multiple opponents & stack everything against her favor.

Meanwhile, Kheran politicians chose Majestros to mate with Zannah by saying it would unite the the two most powerful factions, but Majestros knew their secret intentions. Feeling it was his duty to do what was asked of him, he obliged (though the politicians threate to blackmail him if he didn't). Not willing to sit on the side, Charis ended their relationship though the love they had for one another was still there.

Eventually, word was received that a group of Kherubims were being sent to aother planet to gather intel on Dameonites. When it was a time for a member of the Coda to be chosen, their leader Zannah was chosen. In her absence, they needed a new leader & though it was clear Charis was the most competent, she was purposely skipped over for the role. Upset at losing her rightful role, Charis stowed away on the ship to Earth. Upon the ship's crash, Charis revealed herself to everyone's surprise, including Majestros. With their ship destroyed & not willing to turn down help, Lord Emp allowed Charis to accompany them on their mission. For the centuries to follow, Charis fought alongisde the other Kherubim & earned the respect that she had always deserved.

### 300 - 2010: Charis

When Zannah was given a group of female warriors to train as the new Coda, she asked for Charis to accompany her. As time went on, the new members created an alliance with a witch named Tapestry & Raven (Charis' lover & leader of the Bladesmen). Unknown to her, Raven was involved with Tapestry & had joined up to overthrow the Coda. After manipulating the women to torture Zannah & the others while Charis was away, they killed the majority of them then framed Charis for the crime. When Zannah got in contact with the other Earth-bound Kherubims, she & Majestros decided to hunt down Charis.

Now on the run, Charis swore to avenge her sisters & clear her name. What started as her main goal soon went to the back burner as Charis, now going by Nemesis, became an one woman army against the Daemonites. For the next century & a half, Chairs remained under the radar across the continents under various monikers, killing Daemonite enclaves, taking out Bladesmen assassins & encountering historical figures along the way.

### 2010 - Present: Nemesis

After a century of not seeing them, she ran into her former friends (now members of the WildCATs) just as she finished taking out a group of Blademen. Surrounded by dead bodies, the WildCATS assumed Charis was the enemy & attacked but she made quick work of the team. Charis escaped with a child that was being held by the men & managed to stay under the radar for months. But the two were founded by Daemonites, who managed to take them by surprise. She was able to hold her own for some time before Majestros arrived with the goal of taking the child & killing Nemesis. Knowing they were losing, she surrounded the three of them then blew up the building, taking out the Daemonites & saving Majestros.

Back at the Halo Corporation building, Nemesis gave the team the true story behind her "betrayal" & the child with Emp verifying it with his gadgets. The child was of mixed Kherubim ancestry, allowing her the ability to control Kherubims. The Bladesmen hoped to use her as a slave so they could dominate Earth & make it their own. Days later, the WildCATs were attacked by scimitars, Brotherhood/Shaper hybrids, living weapons born & bred to kill. Charis took on many of them but was almost cut in half before Majestros saved her. While they took on the hybrids, the child was kidnapped & taken aboard the Bladeship. After finally defeating all the schimitars, Savant worked her skills to locate the Bladeship in space. Using the Halos teleportation system, Nemesis & the WildCATs (except an injured Mjaestros) were taken on board the ship where they found the Bladesmen & the child. Raven gave them the choice to surrender or the child would die but Charis refused & attacked, buying some time for the others to fight & set the ship to self destruct.

Nemesis was able to locate the child but was attacked by a scimtar. Distracted, she was almost shot by another before Grifter took the hit for her. With most of the Bladesmen taken out, Savant tried to teleport the team back but there was not enough beacons for them all. Charis gave hers to the child & said her goodbyes then faced off Raven, the last Bladesmen standing. The two fought a lengthy battle, with Nemesis coming out as a victor & the ship badly damaged. She would have died & been sucked out into space if Majestros had not arrived to teleport her back to Halo. With the crisis averted, Majestros asked her to stay & join the WildCATs but she refused, giving him a final kiss before going out on her own armed with two indestructible blades.

Charis returned to her life of taking out Daemonites to save the world. She even ran into Majestros & slept with him several times, though one of the times was so she could steal some of his technology to help her (he was aware but did not care). She did return as a part-time member after Majestros' fall into insanity from his encounter with some dark magic. He even kidnapped his daughter Savant then blackmailed Nemesis & Jet to join him. They eventually escaped after a lengthy battle between her & her former lover. Once his mental was reset, him & Charis began seeing other officially. Months later, Majestros was mortally stabbed in the neck by a surviving Bladesmen out for revenge. As a result, his entire body & motor functions were completely paralyzed. He & Charis went to one of her secret hideouts, where they remained for weeks before Charis revealed she was pregnant. What should have been the happiest time of their lives, did not seem as such with Majestros' current state & Charis then stating that he was not fit to be a father given his paralyzed condition & she needed seek out the "man from her dreams."

## Romantic Relationships

* Raven: Lover (500s)
* Cole Cash: Brief Lover (2011)
* Majestros: On & Off (Prehistory - 400s); (2013 - 2020); Lover (2020 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Kherubim Physiology** Kherubim resemble humans in appearance, but are physically far stronger & more durable & extremely long-lived, nearly immortal. Her vocal cords are highly developed allowing a far wider range of tones than what is possible for a human being.
	+ ***Immortality***: As a Kheran, Charis possesses virtual immortality. Her race is extremely long-lived and she has been on Earth for literally the whole of human civilization & is showing no sign of growing old anytime soon.
	+ ***Accelerated Healing***: She can regenerate damaged or destroyed bodily tissue with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. She can regenerate from anything, even injured tissue, brain cells (nerves) & organs. Gunshot and stab wounds, cuts & broken bones can perfectly heal in a few minutes.
		- ***Enhanced Immunity***: Her body neutralizes all detrimental contaminants making him immune to all poisons, toxins, venom, viruses, bacteria, diseases, disorders, parasites, allergens & radiations.
	+ ***Empathy***: As an Adrastean, she has psychic powers, the strongest of these being empathy, allowing her to sense others by sensing their feelings, as well as learn their past and secret desires among others things.
	+ ***Enhanced Senses***: Charis has very high levels of senses, most notably sight & hearing. She is easily at human peak as far as her ability to note detailed objects. Her hearing, on the other hand, is very enhanced.
	+ ***Enhanced Durability***: As a Kherubim, she is very very tough & durable. A regular bullet & gun will not adequately harm her and her skin could be considered super hard & dense to a normal human.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength***: Charis can lift/press up to two tons of weight with effort & in addition to this, knows how to best apply her strength.
	+ ***Enhanced Speed*:** She is much faster than the average human.
	+ ***Telekinesis*:** She has full telekinetic powers, using it to levitate, manipulate objects, create force fields & shoot telekinetic blasts.
	+ ***Telepathy*:** Charis possesses telepathic powers, enabling her to sense, broadcast & detect the thought patterns of sentient beings. She also has some level of telepathic resistance.

* **Hand to Hand Combat**: Charis was trained as a Coda so she is a spectacular fighter in both armed & unarmed combat.
* **Stealth:** Many of the Adrasteans have remained unseen to this day. Charis is only seen when she wants to be seen.
* **Thievery:** The Adrasteans are known to be great thieves.
* **Weaponry:** Charis is one of the best Coda warriors. As a member of the Adrastea, she has mastered all the skills required to be a perfect spy & assassin.
* **Creation Engine Blades**: When fighting, Charis wields two blades forged from shards of the Creation Engine that can cut through any material in the universe.
* **Genetic Concussion Grenades**: She carries pieces of Kherubim ordinance that, once after detonation, horribly wrought ones genetic structure beyond comprehension. Agonizingly warping the recipients bodies apart as their D.N.A caustically disintegrates.
* **Pegasus**: Charis has an assault hover-bike made from the finest technologies from Khera, Daemon & Earth. It is capable of launching ranged plasma blasts or mounting pickup upon voice command.
* **Suit:** She wears a special suit, made for stealth reasons & allow her to create forcefields.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* When Charis gave her beacon to the child, she told Zealot to tell Majestros that had she not sacrificed herself, she would have showed him what he had been missing for the past century.